7. The second uncle of the Jiang family
Jiang Zhen carried the knife and slowly returned to the Jiang family, and saw a large number of people gathered at the door of the Jiang family.
The villagers in Hexi Village basically build a few houses facing south as residences. They often bring a few small houses behind these houses, either as cottages or as utility rooms. There are also many children, so they build a little behind the house for their children to live in.
There are four main rooms facing south in the Jiang family, two rooms on the east, one room on the second and one room on the third and one room on the west, and the old lady Jiang lives on the west, and the second room on the west is the main hall, which is also the place where the Jiang family eats.
There is no house connected to the main hall, there is a patio, and a well is also dug. Next to this patio, there is a storage room, a kitchen, and a Guifang from Jiang Xiaomei. At the north end, there are a thatched cottage and a pigpen.
Ordinary people don’t have the money to build a large yard to fence the front and back of the house, but every household will have a drying yard, and the doors of the hall will never be closed during the day. Now, Jiang Zhen saw that there were more than a dozen uncles from the family smoking and chatting in the Jiang family’s drying yard, and some people gathered to watch the fun in the drying yard of the neighbors.
These people were probably waiting for him... Jiang Zhen knew this, but he was not afraid and still walked forward. When he approached, he found that Old Lady Jiang was crying with those uncles. In the main hall, the dishes that were knocked over to the ground by him again this afternoon were cleaned up. A Jiang family who knew a little carpenter was repairing a table with Jiang butcher Jiang.
He used a knife to chop the wooden table and kicked it hard. The wooden Eight Immortals Table was obviously too heavy to bear and was broken.
"Boy, you dare to come back!" It was probably because of the support of a group of uncles from the Jiang family. Old Mrs. Jiang forgot what she was scared before, and she became stubborn and hated Jiang Zhen so much that she was itchy.
I don’t know what happened to this debt collector. After coming back yesterday, he seemed to have become a different person. His fuss today made their family lose face... Why didn’t he be drowned a few days ago?
Thinking of what happened before, Old Mrs. Jiang's eyes were filled with resentment.
After Jiang Zhen snatched the egg and kicked the table over and went out, the rest of the Jiang family was stunned.
They were all frightened. Zhu Shufen, who had just entered the door, started crying and then shouted that she wanted to live in the county town. Jiang Chengxiang had been working in the county town. Although it took only half an hour to walk from the county town to Hexi Village, he was impatient to walk back and forth every day, so he rented a house in the county town.
When Zhu Shufen was willing to marry Jiang Chengxiang, Jiang Chengxiang agreed to the reason why the Zhu family lived alone in the county town in the future. Although the Zhu family didn't actually have much money because Zhu Xiucai wanted to study, Zhu Shufen also grew up with a cute and impatient to serve her mother-in-law in the countryside.
She was already very disliked the Jiang family's environment. Now that she saw Jiang Zhen actually wielding a knife, she wanted to live in the city immediately?
The new wife was about to leave after she got married for a day. Old Mrs. Jiang felt very embarrassed, but Zhu Shufen was determined to leave, but she couldn't stop her. She could only watch Jiang Chengxiang and Zhu Shufen packed their things and left. Zhu Shufen didn't plan to live in the countryside from the beginning. She just carried the dowry bed and bedding to the city, but there was no need to pack up much.
Old Mrs. Jiang cleaned up the dishes on the ground, sent her son and daughter-in-law away, and after discussing with Old Mr. Jiang, she called a few uncles from the Jiang family and made up her mind to teach Boss Jiang a lesson.
There are many families living in Hexi Village, and there are more than a dozen households named Jiang, who are basically related to Old Man Jiang. Old Mrs. Jiang went out to cry and talk to her, and then many people came.
Although these people learned how hateful Boss Jiang was from Mrs. Jiang, they actually didn't take it seriously. They knew what Boss Jiang was like. They were the weakest and could be bullied. They were beaten on weekdays without complaints. Several of them were the same age as Boss Jiang, and they bullied Boss Jiang a lot when they were young, such as robbing the pig grass that Boss Jiang had worked hard to cut, pushing him down the ditches, etc.
Such a boss Jiang would use a knife to his parents? Is this a joke?
Most of the table was cut by Jiang Butcher Jiang and he was furious.
These people stood in the Jiang family's drying yard and chatted, feeling relaxed until they saw Jiang Zhen walking from a distance with a knife in his arms.
The person is still the same person, but for some reason, Boss Jiang is now, and they can't help feeling scared when they see it...
"Boy to stop the evil, you are back!" A voice sounded, and accompanied by this voice, a thin old man holding a long smoke bounce came out and looked at Jiang Zhen with a frown.
"Yes." Jiang Zhen knew this old man, his grandfather's younger brother, Jiang Butcher's uncle, and he should call him "Second uncle". Life is rare in seventy years. The second uncle of the Jiang family is already over seventy years old. He is the oldest group of people in the village, so he takes himself seriously.
The second uncle looked at Jiang Zhen, snorted coldly, then slowly took a sip of cigarettes, and continued to ask: "Boy, did you throw your dishes into pieces? Did you cut the table? I heard that you even snatched things?"
"Uncle Second, who isn't him? There are only a few bowls in the house, and he has thrown them all over. There is also the table, and he just chopped the good table!" Old Mrs. Jiang said, pointing to the pile of broken porcelain pieces at the door.
In the countryside, there are basically only a few bowls at home. Even if one of them falls, it will be painful for a long time. Now there are many... Not to mention that Old Mrs. Jiang feels distressed, even the second uncle and others feel distressed for her as they watch.
"He also pointed the knife at us. He wanted to kill us two old people and be the leader!" Old Mrs. Jiang said again.
"Boy in the wicked boy, is your mother true?!" The second uncle looked at Jiang Zhen with a cold face. Among the younger generation of children in the village, the one he disliked the most was this Jiang. When other young people saw him, they would respectfully call him "Second uncle", but this man never called him. When he ran into him, he only lowered his head and pretended that he didn't see him. He became angry when he saw him.
Jiang Zhen felt that he still needed to explain, after all, he was a reasonable person.
"I had water set a few days ago and was thrown into the broken thatched hut in the west. I couldn't get hot. In the end, I didn't even have to drink some saliva for a few days. If someone hadn't had a kind-hearted person gave me a bowl of porridge, I would have died." Jiang Zhen said lightly about Boss Jiang's experience, and felt that the resentment in his heart became much stronger: "It's nothing, I'm used to it, but yesterday I forced myself to go home, and they didn't give me some food. I accidentally overturned the table."
Jiang Zhen’s words were plain, but they also attracted the sympathy of most people present. The village chief of Hexi Village, Jiang Ping, who is the same senior as Jiang Butcher, said: “The Jiang Laodao family is your son, and you can’t be so careless about him. If this child drowned, you actually threw him away. This is too much.”
Hexi Village is close to the county town, and the village is home to a mixed family. The village chief is not very powerful. Usually, when the villagers quarrel, they come to persuade him, but Old Mrs. Jiang doesn’t take Jiang Ping seriously.
"It's just that I fell into the water. During those days, the third brother married. I was so busy that I didn't touch the ground all day. So Is he okay if I have time? " Old Mrs. Jiang said.
Jiang Butcher Jiang has the nickname of "Old Knife" and has a bad temper. He doesn't like his eldest son at all. His actions in the past two days have made him very disgusted. He said: "This bastard doesn't take us seriously anymore. Why is it our fault in the end? He is such a big man, so do we still have to take care of food, drink, defecation and sensation?"
When Jiang Butcher and Mrs. Jiang said this, Jiang Ping was silent. Although he sympathized with Boss Jiang, this was someone else's housework and it was hard to deal with it.
The tobacco leaves in the second uncle's cigarette gun had been destroyed. He tapped the peach tree beside the house a few times, poured out the ash in the cigarette gun, and said to Jiang Zhen: "Stop the evil boy, kneel down!"
Jiang Zhen frowned and looked at him without saying anything.
"Kneel down and kowtow to your parents to apologize, and then use twenty sticks. Even if this matter is over, remember to be filial to your parents in the future!" The second uncle said again. There is no ancestral temple in Hexi Village, and no one would lynch before, but the second uncle had heard of such a thing in other villages, so he used it at this time.
Just kneel down and beat twenty sticks... What if the person is beaten? Jiang Ping frowned immediately. As for the others, some were gloating and some showed sympathy.
"That's it?" Old Mrs. Jiang still felt that it was not enough.
"So, do you want me to kneel down and kowtow?" Jiang Zhen asked suddenly.
"Yes, kneel down!" The second uncle said again, and the smoke gun in his hand hit the peach tree full of peach blossoms beside him.
Jiang Zhen sneered, walked directly towards the second uncle, grabbed his clothes and picked up the thin old man: "If you want to kneel down, just kneel down by yourself!"
As he said that, Jiang Zhen pushed him to the ground and snatched the gun from his hand.
"You, you...what do you want to do?" The second uncle lay on the ground, looking at the tall Jiang Zhen, was stunned.
"Everyone said that we should respect the elderly and love the young, and I won't hit you." Jiang Zhen stepped over the second uncle, holding a cigarette gun in one hand and the knife in the other, and walked towards the others present, smiling. For some reason, such a smile made the person standing opposite him feel cold.
Chapter completed!