Farming and reading family

Li Quan seemed to be listening attentively and looked surprised, but in fact he didn't believe it at all.

He thought it was possible that the bandits were driven away by them, after all, the terrain here was high, but he would never believe it was so easy.

"So amazing?" Li Quan was full of admiration.

"Of course." Chen Jie was proud. "Not to mention the bandits, later a group of hunters came to our village, a group of them, and they brought weapons with them, and they all came to our cave."

Li Quan was really excited this time. He racked his brains to find out, but the other party just came to him.

"Is that hunter more terrifying than the bandits?" he asked nervously.

"It looks scary," Chen Jie said solemnly. "It's said that it's easier to block a gun than an arrow. They all have weapons, and the girls in our village are so pretty. What if they get tempted by their beauty?"

Li Quan nodded in agreement: "And then?"

Chen Jie frowned in thought, adding credibility to his words: "Those people are very evil. When they arrived, many monkeys came down from the mountain and almost hurt the people in our village."

Li Quan lowered his eyes. This was similar to the information he had heard before.

Previously, the news of a group of monkeys injuring people in this area had spread to He County, and the story was very mysterious.

"And those people brought monkeys with them. We thought it must be those people who attracted the monkeys, so we drove them down there." Chen Jie pointed to the flat land below the village.

Li Quan wanted to know more clearly: "You said that group of people were not simple, how did you drive them down there?"

"No matter how powerful they are, we have more people." Chen Jie said arrogantly, "We can drive away bandits with swords and horses. Who will be afraid of those who come to the open?"

"Yes, yes, yes." Li Quan nodded. "And then?"

"Then we sent people to keep an eye on them and let them leave immediately at daybreak. But... guess what happened?" Chen Jie looked mysterious.

"What's wrong?" Li Quan was really nervous.

"Just after dawn, they ate the monkey's head." Chen Jie said grimly, "The monkey was unwilling to die, so Hunhun grabbed the man's neck and strangled him to death."

Li Quan wanted to laugh. He had already found out the cause of the man's death. There were worms in his chest cavity, and he suffocated to death because the worms reached his trachea.

However, these peasants were stupid and didn't know these things. They thought they were ghosts and gods.

"The rest of the people also had sores all over their bodies, were itching unbearably, and were living a life worse than death. This is retribution," Chen Jie said solemnly.

Li Quan was moved: "Then they didn't say what retribution it was?"

"It can't be retribution." Chen Jie approached Li Quan, and Li Quan also hurried over.

"It's the mountain ghost's retribution." Chen Jie said seriously.

Li Quan almost rolled his eyes.

"Think about it, this mountain is the territory of the mountain ghost. All birds and beasts are under the control of the mountain ghost. They only eat monkey heads, which must have angered the mountain ghost." Chen Jie analyzed seriously.

At this time, someone from the village came back and greeted Chen Jie: "Are friends here?"

"My brother's classmate." Chen Jie said with a smile.

"A classmate of the scholar is also a scholar." The man came over.

The man who had been working for half a day was covered in sweat. When he sat next to Li Quan, he felt so irritated that the smile on his face almost froze.

"We are talking about that group of monkey hunters." Chen Jie said directly.

"I know all about this. I was there from the moment they arrived until they were arrested by the government," the man said excitedly.

When Li Quan heard this, he ignored the man's sweaty odor and changed the subject, asking him to ask, "Are there really mountain ghosts?"

"Really." The man also looked serious.

Then he began to tell Li Quan about those monkey hunters.

At dinner time, the villagers came back one after another and gathered around. When they heard that someone was talking about this matter, they would say a few words, and their descriptions were very detailed.

Li Quan finally found out the entire process of Pan Yifang and his companions from the time they arrived in Batou Village to the time they left, and confirmed that Pan Yifang and his companions did not say anything they should not have said.

At this time, Chen Ke returned to the Chen family from the bamboo forest. He saw a lot of people gathered around the cave at the door and was a little curious.

"What happened in the village? Why are they all gathered there?" Chen Ke saw Gao E in the yard.

"Oh, there's a guy named Li Quan, who is said to be your classmate. I can't let him in when you're not at home, so I let the third brother stay there to help." Gao E said casually.

When they heard that it was Li Quan, Chen Ke's faces looked a little ugly.

He didn't want to see Li Quan, but since the person was already at his doorstep, he couldn't refuse him entry.

"I told him you were busy." Gao E looked at Chen Ke's dark face.

Chen Ke hesitated for a moment and said, "I don't have any friendship with him, and our family has nothing to treat him to. Just say I was busy and didn't come back." As he said this, he went into the cave.

Gao E's eyes were full of smiles. It seemed that Li Quan had offended Chen Ke quite a bit at the banquet. "Okay, I don't want to see any messy people either."

When Chen Ke heard Gao E say that Li Quan was a messy person, he immediately felt in a good mood.

Li Quan was having trouble breathing surrounded by so many people. After finding out everything, he didn't want to stay for a moment: "Is your brother not back yet?"

Chen Jie laughed: "My brother is busy, who knows when he will come back? There are so many things going on in our village."

"Yes, yes, yes, we will definitely see Chen Xiucai when he comes back." The people on the side echoed.

"Then I don't want to bother Brother Chen, so I'd better visit him another day." Li Quan stood up and saluted.

"No!" Chen Jie also stood up. "Since we're here, wait a little longer. Maybe my brother will be back soon."

"Brother Chen must be very tired after coming back. How could I bear to disturb him? I came at the wrong time. I will come to apologize another day." Li Quan said as he squeezed out.

The people of Batou Village tried to keep him, and some even wanted to call Chen Ke back, but Li Quan refused politely and fled on his horse.

"Is that your second brother's classmate?" Zheng Xiaoshun looked at Chen Jie suspiciously.

"Yes." Chen Jie nodded, "It's just that the relationship is not good."

Zheng Xiaoshun felt it was strange. Why were the two of them here if they didn’t have a good relationship?

In the end, he just left without even seeing me.

He couldn't figure out what was going on, but he felt that something must be wrong.

Chen Ke was relieved to hear that Li Quan had left, but Gao E still brought the meal to Chen Ke in the cave.

"Even if he is from the city and comes to our village, we don't have to be afraid of him." Gao E wanted to know what was going on with this Li Quan.

"It's not that I'm afraid of him..." Chen Ke didn't know what to say. "You know about the quarrel between our mother and his mother in the city before?"

Gao E looked at Chen Ke a little confused.

Chen Ke remembered that he had never told Gao E about this matter: "The reason why my mother came back last time was because of this matter."

Gao E made a surprised expression: "Did my mother suffer any loss?"

"This isn't a question of whether I'm at a disadvantage or not." Chen Ke was speechless. "This matter has reached Lord He. Lord He asked me about it, and I don't know what to say."

Gao E lowered her eyes with a smile in her eyes: "What's wrong with saying this? As long as my mother is right, I'm not afraid of anyone."