Chapter 8 Part 1 The Murder of the Village Chief (8)

Li Wennao and Li Wenwu rushed to the funeral, got off their horses, threw themselves into the millway and cried, "Daddy" and "Daddy".Daughter Qiaozhen stamped her feet and cried: "It's all my fault. Dad said yesterday that he wanted to go back, but I didn't let him go; if he had to let him go yesterday, it would be fine!" The place where Li Laoxi slept at night was the house where his in-laws Laoguan and his uncle used to live. When Li Laoxi came to listen to the opera, Laoguan asked his uncle to move to the front yard first.When the old uncle heard that someone had been killed in his room, he was paralyzed with fright and said:

"If my in-laws don't come to the theater, then they should kill me!" Let a group of people cry in the millway, and the staff carried Li Laoxi's body to the main room.Then Zhang Luo bought him a coffin.Laoguan, my in-laws, felt very embarrassed when he saw Li Wen making trouble with Li Wenwu. He blushed and spread his hands and said: "Brother-in-law, I invited my family to come to the theater, who would have thought that something like this happened at our house, brother-in-law, I can't talk anymore!" Li Wen made a fuss and Li Wenwu was calm at this moment, bowed and said:

"Master, I can't blame you, it's my father's enemy. It's my father who was buried at your house and caused you trouble!" Lao Guan was very moved when he saw Li Wen troubled by Li Wenwu so reasonable, clapped his hands and said: "My in-laws are all dead, so why bother? I'll do my best!" At noon, Lao Guan planned to bring back a large cypress coffin and bought some new clothes for Li Laoxi.At that time, after changing clothes, the son and daughter watched the coffin, and then Laoguan sent a carriage to pull up the coffin. The daughter and grandson sat on the carriage and held the coffin. Li Wennao and Li Wenwu rode on both sides to protect the coffin. village.Just after leaving Niushi Tun, I met Lao Niu, the elder of Niushi Tun. He had just returned from delivering the Glass Brittle Troupe outside the village. When he saw Li Laoxi’s hearse, he dismounted hurriedly, saluted Li Laoxi’s hearse, and said:

"Village Chief Li is easy-going, but unexpectedly he has enemies!" Li Wennao and Li Wenwu also got off their horses in a hurry, knelt down on the ground, and kowtowed to Chief Niu. Li Laoxi took the hearse back to the village, and the Li family began to cover the door with a white cloth, set up a coffin, and held funerals.When the villagers saw that another village chief had died, they were a little scared and said: "Our village can't hold the village chief!" But they also came to send burnt paper.The deputy head of the village, Lu Heixiao, came to serve as a deacon again, standing at the door and shouting for mourning.Sun Dianyuan was strangled to death, and Li Laoxi became the village head again. Lu Heixiao was worried that he would not be able to become the deputy village head. Who knew that Li Laoxi let him be the deputy village head again, and he was also somewhat grateful to Li Laoxi.It is said that the Li family had a dispute over whether to let him be the deputy village chief.Li Wen said:

"Lu Heixiaochun just fell in love with the wind. In the past, when we were the village chief, he followed us for ten years; later, when the Sun family came to power, he followed the Sun family again; now that we are in power again, we can no longer use him. You can't fall when you see the wind!" Li Laoxi said: "What's wrong with the wind? Who doesn't lose the wind? In the past, when Guangxu was the emperor, we shouted Long Live, and now it's the Republic of China. Don't we also follow the president! The key is whether you have the ability to come to power, don't blame the common people for falling into the wind!"

So Lu Heixiao became the deputy village head.After Lu Heixiao became the deputy village chief, he also tried his best to beat the gong to hold meetings, reason and find someone to make pancakes.Now that Li Laoxi died suddenly again, Lu Hei was also a little scared in his heart, but thinking of Li Laoxi's affection for him, he also rushed over to be a deacon to call for funerals.Someone came to deliver burnt paper, and he shouted: "There is a guest banquet!" "play music!" "Burn a piece of paper!" "Send Xiaobu!" After a day of mourning, my wife and children are asleep.Lu Heixiao took off his clothes and got under the bed, when his wife suddenly crawled up to him.Lu Heixiao thought his wife was looking for happiness, so he said:

"Go to sleep, I've been crying all day, my body is paralyzed!" The wife climbed back.But when Lu Heixiao was about to fall asleep, his wife crawled over again.Lu Heixiao was a little annoyed, and wanted to get up and beat her, when his wife said: "Hei Xiao, let me tell you something!" Lu Heixiao stretched out his hand: "What's the matter, tell me!" wife said: "I know who killed Lao Xi!" Lu Heixiao "suddenly" sat up, no sleepiness at all.ask: "You know? You are a woman, how do you know? Who is it? Tell me!" wife said:

"I was stealing wheat the night before, and while I was doing it, horseshoes sounded on the road. I thought they were coming to arrest me, so I quickly hid myself in the wheat tree and didn't move. Who knew that three people came over, who do you think? They belonged to Mr. Sun Ganer Xu Budai, and his guys, Lao Feng and Lao De!" Lu Hei novel: "When you meet someone, you can't say that they killed Lao Xi!" wife said: "At first I didn't know what they were doing, but I overheard them talking on the road. Lao Feng said to borrow something, Bu Dai said to kill Lao Xi, and he was so old that he fell off his horse limply!"

Lu Hei novel: "later?" wife said: "Then they rode away again. Wasn't Lao Xi killed that night?" Lu Heixiao stopped talking, and slowly lay back down.Then I shivered all over.As soon as Li Laoxi died, he felt a little strange. Now after hearing what his wife said, he understood that the two big families started a vendetta.Vendetta for what?Lu Heixiao also understood that for the sake of a village chief, who can play a gong to call a meeting.It doesn't matter if they kill and kill, I have been the deputy village head with them and played gongs for them, so don't end up squeezing yourself into the middle and being killed by others.After thinking about it like this, I didn't fall asleep all night.The next morning I had to get up again to be a deacon.The deacon should be restless and listless.Twice, the order of mourning was called wrong, and the filial son was asked to send "filial cloth" before "burning paper".It made a group of blowers outside the door laugh softly.But at noon, another group of drinkers came.This Dianke is none other than Sun Laoyuan, the old treasurer of the Sun family.There are a few guys from the Sun family in front, carrying a big black food box.And when Sun Dianyuan died last year, Li Laoxi went to lay a stand.When Li Guy planned to take the food box and put it in front of the coffin, Sun Laoyuan wanted to go up to pay homage, and first bowed to Lu Heixiao. Lu Heixiao saw Sun Laoyuan's eyes, and immediately collapsed on the ground and passed out.He had no choice but to be framed by Guy Li, and another deacon was replaced.

The funeral has been going on for two days, and the number of diners is gradually decreasing.In the evening, when the guests dispersed, the brothers of the Li family and their daughter Qiaozhen knelt in front of Li Laoxi's coffin to watch the coffin, while discussing who killed their father.Li Wennao said to his sister Qiaozhen: "Father was killed at your house. Your father-in-law's house is also useless. The murderer went to the house, but he just didn't catch him and let him run away!" Li Wenwu excused his sister and said: "Gunsmen will fly over walls, how can they be caught?"

Qiaozhen didn't speak for a long time.Suddenly asked: "Just wondering who hired the shooter?" At this time Li Wenwu said: "It must be the Sun family!" Li Wen asked: "How do you know it's his house?" Li Wenwu said: "What do you think, what other enemies do our family have? It must be that you killed someone's son last time, it was known by others, and now it happened!" Li Wen said: "His son was imprisoned in me, I should kill him, but how dare he kill our father!" Stand up and say: "I'll just bring a few people to pacify his house! See if he dares to kill me!" Li Wenwu said: "Brother, say you are unreasonable, you are really unreasonable, you have no proof, we are just suspicious, how can you kill people!" Li Wennao had no choice but to sit down again. Then Qiaozhen said: "It's easy to prove it, I think it's enough to find only one person!" Li Wen said: "Who are you looking for?" Qiaozhen says: "Let's find Lu Heixiao! When I was crying the day before yesterday, I found that Lu Heixiao's expression was wrong when he shouted mourning in front of him. He shouted wrongly several times. Later, when the Sun family came to sacrifice, he fainted again. There must be something wrong here. Either he killed our father, or he knew who did it, otherwise he wouldn't look like this!" Li Wenwu and Li Wennao said: "It makes sense, it makes sense." Then Li Wennao called out to his buddy: "Go and call Lu Heixiao here!" Li Wenwu added: "Just tell him to come over to discuss the funeral the day after tomorrow!" After the buddy left, Li Wen asked: "Why did you ask him when he came?" Li Wenwu said: "This is your business. After a while, I will go down with my sister, and you can ask him!" Lu Heixiao fainted at noon that day and was carried home. He didn't recover until the afternoon, and he kept muttering: "Scared me to death, scared me to death!" His wife made him a bowl of hot and sour pimple soup. After drinking it, he felt relieved.The wife glared at him: "Knowing that you are so timid, I shouldn't have told you in the first place!" Lu Hei novel: "You shouldn't have stolen the wheat that night!" And he said to himself: "The village chief is dead, and I have to change the village chief again. This time I mean nothing to be the deputy village chief!" wife said: "It doesn't matter if you're wrong, as the deputy village head, I haven't seen you earn back the Wanguan family property, sell your livestock well, farm the land well, let's live a peaceful life!" Lu Heixiao nodded again and again, determined to live a peaceful life with his wife as ordinary people.In the evening, when his wife cooks, he goes to the stove to light a fire.Wife likes it too.After eating early, the family undressed and rested.At this time, the guy from Li Laoxi's family came and shouted outside the window: "Village Chief Lu, the Young Master's family is calling for you!" Lu Heixiao clapped his hands and said: "Look, look, if you don't want to be, you can't escape!" Little Lu Hei asked: "looking for me?" guy said: "Discuss the funeral of the old shopkeeper the day after tomorrow!" Xiaocai Lu Hei was a little relieved.Get dressed and go with the guys.When I came to Li's house, there was no one around. When I entered the mourning hall, Li Wen was the only one making trouble. Lu Heixiao was still a little weird, and asked: "Wen Nao, the funeral will be held the day after tomorrow, why is there no one watching today?" Li Wennao said with a dark face in front of the coffin: "This spirit is gone, and the murderer who killed my father has been found, and it is not too late to avenge my father before burying my father!" Lu Heixiao suddenly turned pale with fright, and asked tremblingly: "You found the murderer? Who is it?" At this moment, Li Wen pulled out a pig-killing knife in a flash, and pointed the knife at Lu Hei's novel: "It's you!" He split his chest and grabbed Guo Lu Heixiao, and said to the coffin: "Father, the murderer who killed you has been found, I am here to avenge you, please close your eyes!" Then he was going to stab Lu Heixiao in the chest, scaring Lu Heixiao out of his wits, and he kept yelling: "The Young Master's life is spared, the Young Master's family is spared, I didn't kill the old treasurer!" Li Wen said: "Why didn't you kill it? Someone saw you. Guy Sun planned to report and said he saw you kill him!" Lu Hei was in a hurry: "He is the villain who sues first. I don't sue him, but he still sues me!" Li Wennao forced the knife again: "Then make it clear who killed it. If you don't know it's you, I'd better kill you first and then talk about it!" He stabbed the knife in again, piercing through a layer of cotton-padded jacket, touching the flesh. Lu Hei's eyes darkened, and he said: "Forgive me, forgive me, I say, I say!" He said what his wife told him. After speaking, Li Wen let him go.At this time Li Wenwu and Qiaozhen also came out.Li Wenwu helped Lu Heixiao up: "Old Lu, my brother is in a hurry, and I misunderstood you. For my father's sake, please be patient!" Only then did Lu Heixiao realize that what Li Wen was using was a trick, but he just wiped his sweat and said: "Scared me to death, scared me to death!" Qiaozhen cried at this time: "Wen and Wu, the murderer has been found, it's up to you two!" He threw himself to the coffin again and cried: "Dad, you died so badly, you scared people to death!" At this moment, Li Wennao confronted Lu Hei's novel: "Go back, don't say a word when you go out!" And compared to his own butcher's knife. Lu Hei Xiao hurriedly said: "I won't say it, I won't say it!" Then backed out, Sa Tui ran home.As soon as I got home, I passed out again.When he woke up, his wife shook his head: "What's the matter with you, what did you tell me to say?" Lu Hei jumped up and slapped his wife across the face: "×Your mother, I blame you! Don't steal things at night again!" After Lu Heixiao left, Qiaozhen went to sleep, and Li Wennao and Li Wenwu discussed revenge together.Li Wen said: "What should we do, father is dead, and we are left alone!" Li Wenwu said: "What else can we do? They killed our father, and when we send him to the ground, we will try to get revenge!" Li Wen said: "Let's find a master this time, and forget about destroying his family, so as to save trouble later!" Li Wenwu sighed and said: "Brother, I can't get rid of it. This time, not only the surname is Sun, but also Xu Budai, and the groom, Lao Feng. The cook is very old, and there are quite a lot involved!" Li Wen said: "It doesn't matter how old he is, whoever is involved will be killed!" Li Wenwu said: "How many bandits will you have to hire? Killing a few people at once is too much noise! ​​They are all scattered, and they don't gather together to wait for you to kill, how do you do it? This time is more complicated than the last time to kill Sun Dianyuan. That time it was a People, this time people don't say much, maybe they are still on guard!" Li Wen was in a hurry: "According to what you say, let's forget about killing them!" Li Wenwu thought for a while and said: "I can't not kill, and I can't kill all of them. I have to kill the main ones. I don't dare to kill our father even if I think of a groom or a cook. It's just to beat Xu Budai. , Sun Laoyuan one!" Li Wen said: "Sun Maodan can't keep it, that guy is riding a horse in the street, and when he saw me, he didn't even look at me!" Li Wenwu said: "That can only be put in the future, and the mouth can't be opened too much. It's better to kill Xu Budai and Sun Laoyuan first!" Li Wen said: "Okay, after the funeral is over, I'll hire someone! I also found the gunman last time and strangled Sun Dianyuan. He did a good job. It's just that he was given less than 20 yuan, and he seemed a little unhappy! He made up for it!" Li Wenwu also said: "Brother, according to me, don't hire anyone. We used this way to kill Sun Dianyuan, and his family also took this way to kill our father. This way can't be followed, otherwise there will be endless killings! " Li Wen said: "If we don't find the shooter, who can avenge us?" Li Wenwu said: "Let's find the old horse of the county judicial department!" Li Wennao exhaled a puff of air from his nostrils: "Old horse from the County Judicial Division? Thank you for thinking it out, look at him! Besides, if we have no relationship with him, can he help us? He imprisoned me for a few months!" Li Wenwu said: "Why did he lock you up? It's because you forced the tenant's wife to death, and there are all the stolen goods! This time, Xu Budai and the others killed our father, and we have a witness, so why not use an old horse? He just eats this bowl of food, we are The culprit, and there are witnesses, he has to arrest Xu Budai and Lao Feng no matter what he says. Let's use his hand to kill Xu Budai first! Apart from this evil, let's deal with Sun Laoyuan! In the prison, the three of them confessed, dragged Lao Yuan in, and solved Lao Yuan! We solved him without any effort, so what's wrong? Besides, we used the old horse to kill the enemy. Killed, not by us, we are just a victim, the Sun family will not hold grudges against us in the future; if we hire someone to kill them, we become murderers again, and they treat us as enemies again! There is no end to killing. If you can use an old horse, you will still use an old horse!" Li Wennao couldn't hear what Li Wenwu was saying, but he tilted his head and looked at Li Wenwu: "Brother, when did you add so much to your belly!" Li Wenwu said: "Brother, our father is dead, we will depend on us from now on, we can't be reckless when things happen. That way, we will get us in too!" Li Wen said: "You've been talking for a long time, so let's try it first! If it doesn't work, I'll hire someone later. Anyway, a Xu Budai and a Sun Laoyuan can't escape him!"