Chapter 8 An acquaintance commits the crime

Author: Feng Si Niang

Chapter 8 An acquaintance commits the crime

Hutou Town, Yanjiao

"This little brother, please ask you, is the old man Niu from Malya Village still living in the easternmost part of the village?"

A woman with a slightly yellow complexion, wearing a satin that country people only wear during New Years and holidays, with a pair of faintly yellow bracelets on her wrists, was asking passers-by.

The young man looked confused: "East of the village? There is no one named Niu. Maybe there were people living there before, but now it is a dilapidated thatched house."

The woman's face froze for a moment, and she took out a handkerchief from her purse. Inside the handkerchief were broken silver and scattered copper coins.

She picked up a few and gave them to her brother and then asked, "How many old people are left in the village?"

"Madam, please ask me what you want to ask. I am the leader of the village. There is nothing I don't know!"

An aunt who had been watching the two of them not far away saw the woman taking out the money and rushed up to her with a scowl on her face that made people despise her.

The little brother snorted disdainfully, Aunt Liu is here again.

Then he put the money back into the woman's hand and went to work in the fields.

The yellow-faced woman smiled nonchalantly and handed the money to the aunt in a good-natured manner:

"See, this sister is actually about the same age as me. Maybe we met when we were children. I am the only daughter of the old man from the east of the village. I married far away many years ago. After traveling thousands of miles, I may be able to come back in a lifetime.

This time, I didn’t expect that my father had already passed away..."

Aunt Liu squinted her eyes and looked at the yellow-faced woman from head to toe, and suddenly her eyes widened:

"Yellow-faced girl... no, no, Niu Yuegui! Is that you, Yuegui? I am your sister Axiang!"

When Aunt Liu was little, she didn't bother to play with that yellow-faced girl. Because her name was Yue Gui, she always encouraged others to call her yellow-faced girl. Now looking at her eager appearance, she thought the two of them were childhood sweethearts!

"Oh! It's Sister Axiang. How are you, Yueyue, Fenfen and Guizhi? We haven't seen each other for so many years. You are all parents, right? By the way, how is my mother?"

"Everything is fine. No matter how good we are, we are still not as good as you. You have become a noble person now!"

Aunt Liu smiled so hard that she couldn't see her teeth. Although she was chatting about common things, her eyes never moved away from Yue Gui's jewelry.

"My Aunt Niu, just a few years after you got married, Uncle Niu contracted lung disease. After he passed away not long after, Aunt Niu also remarried under the introduction of a relative from the next village. I heard that, too,

Married far away like you..."

When Niu Yuegui heard the last sentence, her lips moved uncontrollably, and her tears dropped down. After a while, her face was covered with tear stains.

When Aunt Liu saw her like this, she thought she was just sad that the mother and daughter could never see each other again due to some strange coincidence. She wanted to wipe Yue Gui's tears with her sleeves, but found that she was wiping her tears slowly with a handkerchief.

Aunt Liu put down her hand in embarrassment.

"That's all," Niu Yuegui continued,

"I expected that. Now that I know that grandma is still alive, I feel relieved. But fortunately, it's always good to see our sisters, isn't it?"

"Sister Axiang, regarding my piece of land, I have to talk to the village chief about selling it first. After all, I will never come back here again;

After I married a Hakka, my family got lucky for some reason and got rich when I went out to do business. Although I am not rich now, I have finally had the joy of hardship and don’t have to live like this.

The days when the loess turned its back to the sky...

By the way, Sister Axiang, I also brought some greeting gifts to the folks in the village. You can pick them up with me later;

Let me borrow your place tonight and I will be the host and go to the town to buy some cooked goods. Let us old sisters have a good get-together!"

By the time Niu Yuegui came back from town carrying her things, the news of Niu Yuegui's "return to hometown" had already spread throughout the small Malt Village.

So at the evening gathering at Liu Axiang’s house, almost half the women in the village went, and they all got more or less the gadgets Niu Yuegui brought;

No more, Niu Yuegui gave the money directly, which made many people jealous.

So later, when Niu Yuegui tactfully said that she wanted to find a wife for her son and brother-in-law who were born in southern Fujian, the women suddenly started fighting over each other.

"Yuegui, what did scholars say when we were young? Oh yes, childhood sweethearts, it would be perfect for our children to become a couple..."

"What are you talking about? That girl of yours is too lazy to cook. Yue Gui's child must be the best among people. Can she be worthy of her?

If you ask me, my daughter is better, hardworking and capable, just like Yue Gui!"

"Exactly, it's true that you are diligent and capable, but there is one thing, she looks too ugly! Can your daughter lead the way out?"

"What did you say Liu Axiang? Let me tear your mouth apart!..."

Seeing that the situation was about to start a fight, Niu Yuegui quickly stood up and said,

"Sister Axiang, Yueyue, what are you doing! You are all my good friends, and the two children must be excellent, but don't they have to look at each other?"

Then he went on to say:

"Sister Axiang, based on our friendship, since you have given your child to me, I will definitely treat this daughter-in-law as my own daughter, and I will never miss you in gifts! Yueyue, I heard people say that you

Your man is the head of the house, he loves his girl so much, can he let her marry far away?"

The aunt named Yueyue was also speechless:

What is the relationship between you and Liu Axiang? Liu Axiang has long laughed heartily in her heart, but she still despises your girl for being ugly!

Finally, Niu Yuegui said:

"I have been friends with everyone since we were young, and it doesn't matter who's girl I bring back.

Well, there are many young men from Hakka, and they all like our girls, who are beautiful and willing to work. This time I will risk my old face and introduce them to their wives in the name of my head!

The head of my family is in Baoding now. I will take the girls to show him in two days. Since he has a lot of money, I will ask him to give out all the betrothal gifts for everyone, and he will be back in ten days.

Let the girls follow me to Hakka to spend a good time with wine and meat!"

People in the neighboring villages were wondering why the people in Malt Village were so noisy and unable to sleep so late at night.

It wasn't until the next day that I found out that a woman who had returned to her hometown in fine clothes came to see the villagers, and she even took a dozen beautiful girls with her to marry them.

The people in the neighboring village were scratching their heads as if they were scratching their heads. They all secretly planned that when Mrs. Du came back in ten days, she would carry her girl along with her. They hoped that their girl would be good-looking and be favored by noble people...
Chapter completed!