Fisherman Fubao made his fortune by fishing

Just before dinner time, Cai Chengping came back. Seeing that he looked happy, everyone guessed that everything must be right.

As expected, Cai Chengping could not wait to say, "Yu Baoer's idea is really good. The village chief called those rascals over again, and even called their parents over. At first, Mrs. Sun rolled on the ground and threw a tantrum. The village chief's wife and a few other women carried her directly to the ancestral hall. The shrew was so scared that she jumped up and hid behind Sun Baifu, not daring to make a sound.

Haven’t you seen Sun Baifu’s black donkey face? It’s so dry that it’s almost dragging on the ground.

The village chief and the clan elders first asked them again what had been said in the morning. It turned out that those guys were not honest and covered up for each other and lied. The village chief calmly had someone record their confessions and read them to them. After confirming that they were correct, he asked them to sign and seal.

Then the village chief had them taken to different rooms separately, and several clan elders personally interrogated them at the same time, and asked some villagers to go to each room to listen and testify.

When they started asking the same questions as before, they were able to give consistent answers. However, when they were asked some details, their answers were completely inconsistent and each one was different. After the questioning, the village chief asked them to sign and seal their names.

Then the village chief used the same method to ask Nao Nao and the other two, and the answers they gave were the same.

Then, the village chief took people to Ma Daqiang's house. At the beginning, Ma Daqiang was angry and said that the village chief was deliberately trying to protect his son. The villagers directly retorted him. The village chief did not care about him and let him witness with his own eyes the fact that Shanzai'er's confession was different from that of the others. Then Ma Daqiang had to believe that his son lied and deliberately framed his savior.

Ma Daqiang slapped himself several times on the spot, saying that it was all his fault and that he didn’t know how to discipline his son, and that he must seek justice from Ma Wu.

After listening to his story, everyone felt relieved.

Old Mrs. Cai was still worried and asked, "Are they going to interrogate my Yu Baoer in the future?"

Old Mrs. Cai still doesn't believe that Yu Baoer was the main culprit in the fight, and thinks she just took the opportunity to wade into the muddy water.

Cai Chengping took the warm water handed over by Zhao, drank a sip, and continued: "How could it be possible? Yesterday, under the big willow tree in the east of the village, so many people saw Yu Baoer. Who would you ask to believe that Yu Baoer beat the man?

How could an eight-year-old girl have the strength to beat a little boy like Shanzai like that? Besides, there were witnesses nearby yesterday. A family came out to fork grass for firewood and happened to see Ma Wu beating someone. In fact, the witness had already told about this in the morning. It was Grandma Sun who made a fuss and said that the man deliberately made up nonsense in order to curry favor with the village chief and that it didn't count. In the afternoon, her three grandsons failed to collude with each other and finally confessed the truth themselves. Grandma Sun still stuck her neck out and said that it was just a fight between children and they only had some scratches.

How shameless! The pool of blood under the big willow tree in the east of the village hasn't dried yet, and they actually said that it was just a slight skin scrape.

The village chief and clan elders were so angry that they scolded Sun Baifu on the spot and said that they would severely punish the three Maos in his family. Seeing that the situation was not good, that old woman Sun turned against them and started scolding Ma Wu, saying that Ma Wu was the murderer and that their child was instigated by Ma Wu and was not the mastermind.

He dared to rob people in broad daylight and almost killed people. The village chief and clan elders were furious and directly opened fire on the ancestral hall. Each of the three Maos was punished with twenty clan whips and each of the three Maos was fined five hundred coins. Because Shanzai'er was also a robber and beater, and he was not the one who did it, the money could not be given to him and had to be used directly to build the ancestral hall.

Didn’t you see that when the tribesmen took away one and a half taels from Sun Baifu, Granny Sun lay on the ground crying and screaming, as if her father had died, kicking her legs. "

"What happened to Ma Wu in the end?" asked Mr. Cai.

Speaking of Ma Wu, Cai Chengping was furious and said, "I don't know where Ma Wu has gone to hide. He is not at home. He ran away yesterday. Someone saw him leaving the town.

Dad, you also know that Ma Wu's family is too complicated. Degui said he was willing to compensate for all the expenses, but none of Shen Deyu's family showed up, as if they were dead. If there was something good, they would break their heads and squeeze forward, just like they shamelessly pushed Ma Wu to Degui in the beginning. "

Shen Degui is Ma Wu's adoptive father. Ma Wu's full name is Shen Qiang, and his biological father is Shen Degui's half-brother Shen Deyu.

When Shen Degui's mother gave birth to her second child, she died of complications during childbirth, leaving two lives. Less than a year later, Shen Degui's father married his widowed cousin, who later gave birth to Shen Deyu.

Shen Degui had no children after marriage. When he was 35 years old and still had no children, he discussed with his wife Du Yuehong about adopting a child.

Originally they planned to go to the dental clinic in town to buy a baby to raise, but the clan members refused to agree, saying that children from outside the family did not have the blood of the Shen family and were not qualified to be included in the Shen family genealogy, so they had to choose a child from the clan.

The couple didn't like any of the children in the clan, so they finally followed the clan's wishes and adopted the ten-year-old Ma Wu, also known as Shen Qiang.

Why didn't the clan allow Shen Degui to buy a child? Isn't it because they wanted to keep the wealth within the family and covet Shen Degui's property?

After Shen Degui's father had a second wife and a second child, he demonstrated what it meant to have a stepmother and a stepfather. He ignored Shen Degui and turned a blind eye to his stepwife's abuse of their eldest son.

After Shen Degui grew up, they didn't find him a wife or build him a house. Even the land allocated to him by the village was taken away. They treated him like an animal every day. He was not well fed or clothed, and had endless work to do. He was even more pitiful than the cabbages in autumn.

Heartbroken and desperate, Shen Degui ran away from home, taking the silver bracelet that his mother had asked him to hide before she died, and went out to make his own way.

A fourteen-year-old boy, wandering alone in a foreign land, with no one to rely on, could only find the dirtiest and most tiring jobs left over by others.

He is hardworking and never complains. He doesn't look at things he shouldn't look at and doesn't say things he shouldn't say. Finally, he meets a boss who appreciates him and takes him in as his right-hand man.

He worked on a ship with his boss, saved some money, and got married. Du Yuehong was the daughter of Uncle Du, a good friend of his on the same ship. He had known Du Yuehong for as many years as he had worked on the ship. Later, the two fell in love and got married.

After Uncle Du passed away, he was already 30 years old, so he quit his job, returned to his hometown, built a house, bought land, and lived a stable life farming.

When he returned to his hometown, his father and stepmother had both died. Finally, there was no one to put pressure on him anymore. He promised to distribute the Ding land occupied by his younger brother to the clan. Only then did the clan help Du Yuehong get included in the family tree and gave him a separate family to live on.

Old Master Cai shook his head and sighed, "Good people don't live long, but evil people live for thousands of years. Degui is such a good person, why can't he have children? And Deyu is just like his mother, full of evil, why does he have so many children? It's not fair!"

No matter how much others feel sorry for them, it cannot change the regret of Shen Degui and his wife. They were unable to have their own blood relatives, and even the adopted child was a troublesome one. There was really no peace in their family.

But these are other people's affairs. Every family has its own problems, and the Cai family also has its own difficulties to overcome at this time.

Cai Chengping said, "Don't worry. As long as we catch Ma Wu, the village chief said that we will settle all old and new scores together. This time we must follow the clan rules and Ma Wu will be beaten and put in solitary confinement. It's a pity that Degui will have to pay ten taels of silver for that rebellious son. Such an ungrateful person should be expelled from the clan and kicked out of the family."

Li Yuer had always been puzzled and asked, "Uncle, do you know why Shanzai lied?"

Cai Chengping shook his head regretfully. "He didn't say anything. He burst into tears when asked. He just said that he was sorry for you and Nao Nao. The village chief was afraid that if he asked too much at this time, it would irritate him. If the wound opened, it would be bad. He said to wait until he recovered before asking."

Li Yuer felt a little regretful when he heard this, but this was all he could do for now.