A group of aunties who had lost things in their private plots asked for a door-to-door search.
The brigade captain did not agree for a while. The villagers did not understand the law, but he still knew a little bit. How could he search other people's homes? This was breaking into a private house. As a cadre of the brigade, he could not condone the members to do such things.
"Calm down and listen to me. If you lose the melons on your plot, they might have been eaten by thieves. Even if they haven't been eaten, they must have been hidden. You may not be able to find them if you search them."
As soon as Captain Li finished speaking, a female comrade jumped out and said, "Captain, what do you mean? Let us suffer this loss in vain? Will the thief become more rampant in the future?"
Zhang Fengmei was not happy either, "My family loses a lot of melons. Who can eat them all at once?"
Captain Li had a headache and said helplessly: "How do you know that the melon was not stolen by the kids in the team?"
Isn't it normal for the kids on the team to get together and steal a melon?
Chen Xiuyun vowed: "It can't be a child. The melons thrown away at my house are all ripe melons that I have knocked and will be picked in two days. How can a child tell whether the melons are ripe or not?"
"What my sister-in-law said is that all the melons thrown away at my house are ripe melons!" Ma Meili followed suit.
On the other side, Li Lei knew there was a commotion here, so he took a piece of candy and coaxed the kids in the team to help him cut some pigweed.
It was rare for him to come back from vacation. Although he didn't have to work in the fields, he still had to do some odd jobs at home. Cutting pigweed was originally the job of his sister Li Xiuhua, but he took it over.
Li Lei deliberately took the children to the forest belt at the west end of the village, and then ordered the children to dig for earthworms.
"There seems to be a rabbit scurrying over there." Li Lei pointed in the direction behind Zhang Fengmei's house and said.
When all the children heard that there was a rabbit, their eyes widened and they went over there huffing and puffing.
It was impossible to find the rabbit. Instead, I saw many melons in the haystack behind the house, including round ones with long white flowers, including watermelons and cantaloupe.
"Uncle, come on, there are a lot of melons here!"
Li Lei's eldest brother's son immediately shouted excitedly and waved to Li Lei crazily.
Jiang Zhenwu from Ma Meili's house had his eyes rolling and immediately went home to tell him about his milk.
It's true that children look like adults. Jiang Zhenwu thought to himself, these melons were found near his home, so his family must take advantage of this! If he calls him milk, he will definitely get two more melons back.
Li Lei was called over by his nephew, and he hurriedly greeted his nephew and said: "If you see it, it's ours, Niu Niu, let's go, let's take all these home."
Of course Li Lei did it on purpose. If he directly asked his father to tell him that he found a bunch of melons here, then Zhang Fengmei and the others would naturally suspect him when they knew that all the things on Guizi Mountain were lost. It would be better to
Like the children, they grab the melons together and make a big fuss.
Li Lei and his nephew Niu Niu each carried a large watermelon and two cantaloupes, picked them up and walked towards the brigade.
A group of children followed suit and divided up all the melons in the pit, then ran home holding the melons in their arms.
Mrs. Li stepped in at the door and scolded: "You bastards stole our melons. I'm going to tell the captain."
There was no need for Mrs. Li to complain. When the man holding the melon headed by Li Lei passed by the crowd who were still arguing with the captain, an aunt looked at the melon in his arms and asked: "Where did you get the melon? I
Why do you think this crooked-mouthed melon looks so much like the one from my field?"
Li Lei hid the melon in his arms, "Aunt, you can't talk nonsense. We didn't go to your field to steal the melon. We picked it up in the grass nest. Niu Niu and the others couldn't catch the rabbit and found it in the pit.
These melons.”
"I am a good, upright and kind-hearted young man. Auntie, you can't accuse me of stealing melons with bare teeth!"
Li Lei hugged Gua tightly, looking wary and angry.
Zhang Fengmei only felt that something was wrong, but her family also lost a lot of melons, and her nerves became sensitive. She stepped forward to look at the melons in Niu Niu's arms, "Let me see if this melon belongs to me."
Niu Niu hid like a rabbit and said loudly: "We didn't steal your melons, we picked them from the grass nest!"
Ma Meili looked at the cantaloupes the children were holding, "Why do I think these melons look more and more like the ones from my field? I only have this whole group of small white melons in my field!"
Ma Meili's words touched the sensitive nerves of the aunts and ladies, and they also felt that the melons held in the children's arms were the melons from their own fields.
The captain put on a serious face and looked at the person holding the melon, "Put the melon down for me. Honestly, where did it come from?"
The captain looked at his third son Li Lei seriously.
Li Lei pouted and pointed at Zhang Fengmei, "In the haystack behind her house."
After Li Lei finished speaking, Mrs. Li's voice rang out, "You bastards, put down all my melons!"
The thing buried behind her house must be her melon!
The owner of the crooked melon snatched the crooked melon from Li Lei's arms and pointed at Mrs. Li fiercely, "Is this your melon? You melon thief!"
Ma Meili took the small white cantaloupe in her hand and looked at Mrs. Li, "What are you doing pulling the melon from the ground? It's not ripe yet!"
Mrs. Li was confused and said, "When did I pull the melon?"
As she said that, she muttered regardless: "This melon is behind our house, that's our melon!"
Chen Xiuyun pointed at Zhang Fengmei and shouted: "Is it you! Is it you, the pig thief? Did you steal the melons in my field?"
The female comrades turned their attention to Zhang Fengmei's heart.
Ma Meili had already gone up to beat me, "I asked you, a heartless melon-stealer, to grow some melons. My parents' family can't even eat them, so you stole them all. Why are you so shameless?"
Mrs. Li scolded from the side: "Second daughter-in-law, what are you doing? Get up quickly."
Mrs. Li cursed in her heart: Is the second daughter-in-law stupid? How could she be blamed for stealing melons on her own family?
Ma Meili looked up at her mother-in-law and asked fiercely: "It's either her or you, do you want to subsidize all the melons I have worked so hard to serve for the third family? You are so partial! If you feel so sorry for them,
Just go there with Lao San and his family!"
Ma Meili would fight anyone who dared to touch her food! She had long been fed up with Mrs. Li's secret subsidizing of Zhang Fengmei's family!
Zhang Fengmei's hair had turned into a chicken coop, and she was beaten so hard that not only Ma Meimei, but also other women who had lost their melons came up and scratched her a few times.
Zhang Fengmei felt guilty, but she said: "My melons are also lost. I didn't steal your melons."
Ma Meili pinched her hard and said, "You melon thief, you are a thief! If you dare to steal my melons, I will keep you from eating them!"