Chapter 7 Part 1 The Murder of the Village Chief (7)

Li Laoxi has been listening to the play at his daughter's house for two days.The first day I listened to "Qin Xuemei Hanging Filial Piety", and the second day I listened to "Wang Baochuan Keeping the Cold Kiln".But he didn't understand the opera, so he just sat on a chair and listened.After listening and listening, I didn't hear what it meant.His in-laws, Lao Guan, were by his side and said "the glass is crispy" and "the glass is crispy" for a while, but he didn't hear how well the glass sang.This time, his in-laws were kind to him, and specially slaughtered a sheep and a few chickens.Although Ma Village is not very big, but Li Laoxi is also a village head, and when watching a play, put chairs in front, and everyone gave way, saying:

"The village chief of Macun is here, the chief of Macun is here." The head of Niu Shi Tun Tun, surnamed Niu, sat in the front row under the stage. One day, he turned around and found him, and smiled and bowed to him: "Hey, Village Chief Li is here, to honor our village!" Li Laoxi also smiled and cupped his hands: "The head of the village is very polite. When you are free, go to the small village to have fun." Niu Tunchang said: "I must go, I must go. It's time to play on the stage, let's watch the show first!" As soon as the play ended, his in-laws Lao Guan asked him with concern:

"How about my in-laws, how is the opera singing?" Li Laoxi said: "That's right, it's a good song. It's just that this show is full of crying and crying, which is frustrating!" Lao Guan said: "That's singing, who doesn't cry when singing? Glass is the best at singing bitter operas!" His daughter and grandson are also kind to him, sitting behind him while watching a play, and handing him melon seeds to eat.The play hadn't started yet, and his grandson pestered him: "Grandpa, didn't you say to buy pear cake for me?" Li Laoxi suddenly thought of it and said with a smile:

"Grandpa forgot about it!" He took out a piece of Guangyang from his pocket and handed it to his grandson to buy.The in-laws saw it and scolded their grandson: "Why did I tell you at home! It cost your grandpa again!" Li Laoxi laughed and said: "Children, why bother talking about him!" After watching the play, when I got home, it was Samsung West.The in-laws also asked the family members to boil a pot of wine and drink with him before resting.Li Laoxi felt sorry for taking such good care of her.How many times have people come to my house, how can I have a drink in the middle of the night?So he said anxiously:

"Dear family, it doesn't matter if I'm here to listen to the play, I've disturbed you very much!" In-law Laoguan said: "Dear family, where did you go? I know you are in front of the village head, and you are usually busy with business, so you can't even invite me. This time, please come, so why not bother me!" Li Laoxi had no choice but to listen to the play with peace of mind.There is only one bad thing. When Li Laoxi first arrived here, he was a little uncomfortable. On the first night, he got up in the middle of the night and had diarrhea twice.The next morning, the sons and daughters came to deliver face wash water, and Li Laoxi said:

"Ni'er, I also listened to a play, and I have something to do at home, let me go back today!" The daughter didn't let go, and asked: "Father, what's wrong with you living here?" Li Laoxi couldn't tell his daughter that he was running out of stomach, so he had to say: "Why isn't it appropriate? I'm sorry to see your husband's family is busy!" daughter said: "What's wrong with that? Back then when his family opened an oil workshop, he even borrowed ten stones of rice from our family!" Li Laoxi laughed instead: "I still have a temper since I was a child, and I don't know how to speak! You are not allowed to speak like this in front of old people!"

So stay at ease.If Li Laoxi really went back the next day, he would have escaped the disaster of killing himself; if he was left behind by his in-laws and daughter, it would be bad luck for him.On the second night, he was listening to "Tears of Lovesickness" accompanied by his in-laws. Xu Budai and Lao Ma, three of them, were already riding on the road. When they came, the groom Lao Feng and the cook were too old to know what they were doing.Sun Laoyuan only told them to borrow something from Ganer Xu Budai.Since Lao Feng and Lao De ate Sun Laoyuan's nuclear beans, they wanted to do things for the old shopkeeper, and now they are very happy to hear that the matter has come.But when I heard that it was night and not day, I was a little puzzled and said:

"Old shopkeeper, borrow something, don't borrow it during the day, you have to take advantage of it at night!" Sun Maodan said on the side: "I am afraid that there is no one at home during the day, so I can find it at night." Lao Feng made sense when he heard it, and asked Sun Maodan: "Young master, what on earth are you borrowing, you have to go to three people?" Sun Maodan said: "Go to three people and prove that the thing you borrowed is not light. It takes three people to lift it. Budai will tell you on the road!" At night, Lao Feng and Xu Budai rode out of the village on horseback.Before leaving, the old shopkeeper pulled Xu Budai aside again and explained:

"If you don't have a chance, don't do it, and don't make trouble!" Xu Budai said: "Godfather, don't worry, go to sleep!" Three people left the village.Everyone didn't speak at first, but when they got out of the village, got on the road, hit their horses and ran away, the three of them started talking.Gotta say: "Old Feng, if you don't ride a horse and walk across the road at night, who knows how to get out in the daytime!" Old Feng said: "No! Back then, I drove a horse-drawn cart to pull bean cakes. I walked a hundred and twenty in one night. In the daytime, I couldn't get away even if I beat the horse to death!"

The old man said again: "Borrow something, the old shopkeeper has been holding back for half a year!" Old Feng said: "I don't know what to borrow!" I have to ask Xu Budai: "Young master, which village should we go to borrow things?" Xu cloth bag: "Go to Niushitun!" Old Feng said: "What do you need, do you need three people?" Xu Budai said: "Borrow a head!" Too old to laugh: "Young Master will tell jokes, it's midnight, what kind of head do you want to borrow? Whose head do you want to borrow?" Xu Budai said:

"Borrowed by Li Laoxi, he strangled Dian Yuan to death, let's kill him today!" Old Feng was so old that he was serious: "real?" Xu Budai took out the pig-killing knife from the back of his clothes with a "swish": "Look at this knife!" As soon as he said it was okay to look at the knife, Lao Feng was so startled that he was so frightened that he was paralyzed at the time, and fell off the horse with a "gudong". Both Xu Budai and Lao Feng stopped their horses and got up to pull him, but he collapsed on the ground and couldn't get up, saying: "The old shopkeeper didn't make it clear. He only said to borrow things, but he didn't know he was borrowing heads! I was scared to death. I didn't dare to go. I haven't killed anyone, and I don't kill people! Xu Budai went up and whipped him: "Get up! I didn't ask you to kill someone. I am the one who killed someone. Please wait for me with your horse outside the village!" Gotta say: "I'm not going to lead the horse, I can't move a step, I want to go to you two, I want to go back!" Xu Budai said: "Are you going? If you don't go, I'll kill you first!" Saying that he really cut him with a knife.I was so scared that I got old and got up: "Don't kill me, I'll go, I'll go!" The three rode away again.He was so old that he wanted to fall off the horse several times, but he looked at the knife in Xu Budai's hand and shivered while holding the saddle.At this time, Lao Feng said: "Young Master, it's really hard to kill someone when you're so old." Xu Budai said: "If you want to let me lose my temper in the team, I would have shot him! If you kill me, I will go alone, and you two will lead the horse outside the village!" Old Feng quickly said: "Okay, okay, let's lead the horse outside the village!" When they arrived outside Niushitun Village, Xu Budai really dismounted the three of them and handed over the reins of his horse to Old Feng: "You two lead the horse to wait in the wheat tree, I will go in and kill him!" Old Feng said hurriedly: "Okay, okay, we'll wait in the wheat tree!" Xu Budai flashed a bright knife at the old man's face again, turned around and ran away and disappeared.He was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground again and said: "Old Feng, the old shopkeeper told me to borrow something, but who knew it was someone's head, it scared me to death! Knowing this, I won't come here anyway!" At this time, Lao Feng was brave and said: "It turns out that the Young Master's family was strangled to death by Li Laoxi, so Li Laoxi should be killed too! The old shopkeeper didn't let us kill people, so he let us lead the horse outside the village. The murderer used someone else's cadre, I think the old shopkeeper Enough righteousness!" Gotta say: "I also know righteousness, but it's the first time I've done this, and I can't be a family with legs!" Saying that, the two led the horse and hid in the wheat tree.After waiting in the wheat tree for a while, the old man asked again: "I don't know how long it will take?" Old Feng said quite expertly: "It's quick to kill, but slow to find someone. Just wait, anyway, the cloth bag won't come back, we can't go back, otherwise what will the old shopkeeper say?" Gotta say: "May he kill quickly!" Lao Feng and Lao De had time to talk, and Xu Budai had already arrived at the stage in Niushitun.Two gas lamps hung on the stage, dazzlingly bright.At this time, Glass Crisp was singing about the little widow crying for her husband, and many people in the audience were crying.Xu Budai hid the knife and squeezed into the crowd to listen, and bought a dozen or so pear cake candies at the stall.After listening to the play for a while, eating two pear cakes, he took aim at Li Laoxi who was sitting in front.Now that he was on target, Xu Budai stopped worrying and listened to the play with peace of mind. When the play was over, everyone shouted to move the stools home, and Xu Budai followed Li Laoxi and his in-laws from afar.Li Laoxi and his in-laws walked in front, his daughter walked behind with the sleeping child, and behind them were the two guys who moved the stools.When the group of people returned home, Xu Budai also took a detour to the tiled roof of his house.Xu Budai leaned on the tiled roof, thinking that his house would soon turn off the lights and go to bed, so he could start his work, but Li Laoxi's in-laws, Laoguan, placed wine in the main room again, and drank with Li Laoxi.Looking at the two figures drinking together on the window paper, Xu Budai became angry: "I didn't want to kill him at first, but who knew he was still drinking, now I have to kill him!" Fortunately, the two of them didn't drink for a long time. The buddy brought a lantern and sent Li Laoxi to the backyard to rest.Xu Budai also walked from the tile-roofed house to the backyard.I thought it was safe now, but who knew that Li Laoxi would not be safe even when he fell asleep, the lights in the room went out for a while, and then turned on again, he fell asleep for a while, and got up again for a while.It turned out that Li Laoxi was running stomach again, and after sleeping for a while, he had to get up and go to the toilet outside the house to relieve his hand.After tossing until midnight, Xu Budai was so angry that he spit and cursed: "Today is considered unlucky, look at his dawdling!" Finally, Li Laoxi fell asleep.The lights in the house are no longer on.Xu Budai slapped his hands: "You will be honest too!" Just go down the wall.Unexpectedly, there was a kennel behind the house, and a wolf dog rushed up with a "sudden" sound, which startled Xu Budai.Just as Xu Budai was out of breath, he grabbed the neck of the pounced dog and slammed the big wolfhound to death.The big wolfdog didn't make a sound, kicked its legs wildly at first, and gradually its body turned into mud.Xu Budai threw away the wolf dog, went around to the house, went to the room where Li Laoxi slept, and opened the door.Unexpectedly, the door opened as soon as the dial was opened, and it turned out to be ajar.Xu Budai thought to himself: "He's so bold that he doesn't bark the door when he sleeps." After entering the room, he sneaked to the bed, took out the butcher's knife from the back of his clothes, figured out where the sleeping head was, and went down with the knife.Unexpectedly, the knife was cut completely, and the pillow was chopped into pieces, and there was no movement on the bed.Xu Budai was startled, and opened his eyes to look at the bed. The bed was empty, only a rolled-up quilt.It turned out that when Xu Budai was fighting the wolf dog, Li Laoxi had just fallen asleep and had diarrhea. This time he came in a hurry, and went out with his pants before the lights were on.Xu Budai had no choice but to squat at the foot of the bed and wait, saying in his heart: "I wanted to wait for him to fall asleep and send him away, but he didn't know the pain. Who knew he didn't have such a blessing, so he had to wake up to kill!" As he was talking in his heart, the door rang, and Li Laoxi walked in with his trousers lifted.Xu Budai didn't wait any longer, and rushed forward with one stride.Li Laoxi was kicking in and out of the door when he suddenly saw a dark figure rushing towards him, knowing something was wrong, he turned around and jumped out, jumped out of the room and ran.But he was so anxious for a moment that he forgot to call out in fright.When Xu Budai saw him running away, he was also anxious, so he chased after him with a knife in his hand.Li Laoxi ran to the yard and had nowhere to hide, so he got into the mill road.Xu Budai also followed into the mill road.The two circled around the mill twice, but they still haven't killed anyone.At this time, Laoguan's groom got up to feed the horses in the middle of the night, and when he heard the movement in the mill, he came over and shouted: "Who?" Hearing someone's voice, Li Laoxi remembered that he also had a mouth, so he yelled loudly: "Come on, come on, come on, someone kills me!" After finishing speaking, he fell headlong into the mill road. The groom was startled, and then jumped around in the yard: "Boss, get up quickly, I don't care, someone killed Village Chief Li!" He shouted, lights were turned on in every house, and people ran out with their pants up.Xu Budai saw that something was wrong, so he put away his knife, took advantage of the chaos and climbed onto the tiled roof and ran away. Lao Feng and Lao De were still waiting in the wheat tree, seeing that the east was turning white, it was almost dawn, and they couldn't help feeling a little anxious.Gotta say: "Why isn't Budai here yet? It's already dawn, and when it's dawn, we're still leading the horses and hiding in the wheat trees, so what's the point of being seen!" Old Feng said: "Wait a little longer, killing someone is so easy!" Just as he was talking, Xu Budai came and ran away angrily.Run to the front, step on the horse and run.Lao Feng and Lao De also hurriedly got on their horses and ran with him.After running five or six miles, the three horses gradually slowed down.At this time, I have to ask: "How about Budai, did you kill Li Laoxi?" Xu Budai didn't say a word, and started his horse again.Lao Feng quietly said to Lao De: "Looking at his silence, he must have been killed!" In this way, I arrived at Sun's house.Sun Laoyuan and Sun Maodan hadn't slept all night, and they were all waiting. When they saw them coming back, they hurriedly led them to the main room.Sun Laoyuan hurriedly asked: "Why is it taking so long, I'm so anxious, how about Budai, did you get it?" At this moment, Xu Budai had calmed down. He drank a ladle of water first, and then said: "Godfather, it's not going well this time. Old Li Xiguang has diarrhea and hasn't slept all night, so he has no one to start with. After finally squeezing him into the grinding path, I startled people again, so I had to run away!" Sun Laoyuan and Sun Maodan were taken aback.Old Feng was also taken aback.Sun Laoyuan asked: "So he's not dead?" Xu Budai said: "We didn't kill him, he's still alive! Wait until tomorrow night!" Sun Laoyuan shook his head and sighed: "You Budai, you missed your chance, you missed your chance. If you didn't kill him today, will he still be there waiting for you tomorrow night?" Waiting for Xu Budai, Lao Feng, and Lao De to go down to rest, Sun Laoyuan circled around the room anxiously, clapped his hands and said to Sun Maodan: "I said that Budai was a little reckless, and it depends on whether he was reckless. He missed such a good opportunity! Alas, it's fate, Lao Xi shouldn't die!" Sun Maodan said: "You might as well let me go!" I was so anxious until dawn, when suddenly the groom, Lao Feng, came back again, and when he entered the room, he called: "Old shopkeeper, old shopkeeper, I have a good news for you!" Sun Laoyuan said: "What good news is there at this time!" Old Feng said: "I heard from people on the street that Li Laoxi is dead!" Sun Laoyuan and Sun Maodan were taken aback: "What, he's dead, didn't Bu Dai not kill him?" Old Feng said: "The cloth bag didn't kill him, but he was squeezed into the mill and turned around twice, scaring him to death! Just now someone saw Li Wen making trouble and Li Wenwu hurried to Niushitun for the funeral!" When Sun Laoyuan heard this, he put his heart back into his stomach with a "plop", then lay down on the ground and kowtowed: "God, don't blame me, he deserves it, he deserves it!"