Chapter 89 Wild Man
The village head counted 78 families who were willing to plant potatoes next year, 15 of whom said they would buy wasteland. Shen Zhidu secretly admired their courage. The remaining 23 families said they would wait and see, and if the harvest was successful, they would start planting next autumn.
After the meeting, everyone clamored to help the village head harvest potatoes and see the harvest on site. It didn't matter, and 15 families said they would also plant potatoes at home.
Shen Zhi took the red deed and walked home. When he passed by Old Qin's house, Old Qin was still cursing at the door. When he saw Shen Zhi coming, he stared at Shen Zhi with gloomy eyes. Shen Zhi ignored him and went straight home.
At this time, the team that went to Shenjia Village to propose marriage had returned. Everyone was chattering and congratulating Zhuge Ling. Zhuge Ling usually looked like he didn't want to be approached by strangers, but today he was unusually cocky, and there was a sense that he deserved a beating.
Seeing Shen Zhi coming back, Zhuge Ling restrained his smug smile and thanked Shen Zhi devoutly.
"Okay, I accept your thanks, but you must be nice to my cousin in the future. If you dare to bully her, we will chase you to the ends of the earth and support you." Shen Zhi warned with a serious expression. Zhuge Ling hurriedly said yes, he would never bully her and would love her well.
The third uncle returned with the marriage proposal team, bringing with him the great grandfather and his son Shen Changlin. Now that Wang Yuanwai's troubles were solved, the great grandfather's family felt relieved. The lifelong farmers' obsession with high-yield grains made them eager to follow the third uncle to find out.
The three of them didn't even have time to rest. They just drank some water and went straight down to the ground.
Shen Zhi stayed at home and cured the bacon with Shen and the others. Two of the 18 pigs from yesterday were kept for the marriage proposal today, and the other 16 were all slaughtered. Dealing with wild boars is a big project.
Shen and her third aunt were already busy. Seeing Shen Zhi coming, she hurriedly asked Shen Zhi to use a trailer to deliver a wild boar to the village head's house. The village head had really helped Shen and her daughter a lot over the years, and Zhou and Shen had a good relationship. Now that Shen's family had something good, they also wanted to send it to the village head.
Shen Zhizheng was grateful to the head of the village for helping them buy land and build a house. Upon hearing this, he immediately dragged out a small trailer, put a wild boar on it, and sent it to the head of the village.
Along the way, the villagers took the initiative to greet Shen Zhi. When they learned that she was sending a wild boar to the head of the village, they were all envious. There is a big white tiger in Liangshan. Who dares to risk their lives to go into the mountain in recent years? Only Erya is brave enough to go into the mountain to collect herbs, make money to build a house, and hunt wild boars again and again. Last time, she gave two pounds of meat to a villager's family. The wild boar meat was delicious. This time, she actually gave the head of the village a whole wild boar. The Shen family is really generous.
"Hmph, you're being too nice to me for no reason. You must have something to ask the village head to do," Goudan's mother pouted, looking jealous.
Widow Wang also came over and said, "You may not know, there are many men living in their house. Yesterday when it was almost dark, I saw many men carrying wild boars from the mountains into their house."
"Really? I was wondering why these orphans and their widowed mother chose to build a house at the foot of the mountain. It turns out they have a group of wild men, and this desolate place is just right for them to do their business. Tsk tsk tsk." Goudan's mother looked as if she had suddenly realized something.
Aunt Zhang was knitting nearby. After hearing what they said, she frowned and said, "You two shouldn't slander others so casually. You have spread a story that has no basis in fact. Shen has been married to our village for so many years. Everyone knows her character. And Daya and Erya are so young. You are also women. How can you talk about them like this?"
Widow Wang glared at Aunt Zhang unhappily and said, "Sister Zhang, I'm not kidding. There are indeed more than a dozen men in her family. I saw it with my own eyes. If you don't believe me, you can go to her house and take a look. Don't be fooled by them. The more honest a woman is, the more flirtatious she may be behind her back."
Bang! A stone flew towards Widow Wang’s mouth.
"Ah, my teeth." Widow Wang covered her mouth and groaned. The stone broke off her two front teeth and blood flowed from the corners of her mouth.
"Widow Wang, if you keep spewing shit, you'll only lose two teeth."
Widow Wang looked carefully and found that it was Shen Zhi who had returned from delivering the wild boar to the village head's house. Shen Zhi was looking at her gloomily, as if he was looking at a hen about to be killed. Widow Wang couldn't help but feel panic.
"Why are you looking at me like that? I did see more than a dozen wild men in your house. They are not afraid of committing adultery with other people's wives and daughters. Are they afraid of being talked about by others?" said Widow Wang.
"Oh, tell me what you saw, raping someone's wife and daughter? Where did you see it?" Shen Zhi asked.
Widow Wang looked at the anger on the face of the eleven-year-old girl and felt inexplicably frightened, but she still answered with courage. "I saw them carrying wild boars to your house. They must be trying to please you so that you and your daughter would give yourself to them."
Pa, Pa, Shen Zhi slapped her twice hard on the face.
Shen Zhi angrily said, "This slap is for your nonsense insulting us mother and daughter, and the other slap is for your insult to those heroes who are staying in my house temporarily. Do you think you are noble by degrading us to the dust? Why did you go to the foot of the mountain yesterday? Do you think no one knows? Didn't you just go to the grove to be affectionate with Goudan's father? Don't think about others with your dirty heart. This matter is not over, you are dead."
"What, Widow Wang, you were having an affair with my man? No wonder he came back covered in mud yesterday. I'm going to beat you to death, you bitch." Goudan's mother had just been on the same front with Widow Wang to deal with Shen Zhi, but in an instant, she started punching and kicking Widow Wang, scratching and clawing her because of Shen Zhi's words.
"Goudan's mother, that dead girl lied to you, stop fighting." Widow Wang was petite and was no match for the burly Goudan's mother. After a few moves, she howled for mercy.
"I didn't lie to you. I saw them sneaking around in the woods yesterday when I was hunting wild boars. That widow Wang was even urging Goudan's father to divorce you and marry her. Tsk tsk tsk tsk, Goudan's father is so lucky. He has so many beauties and enjoys the pleasure of having two wives." Shen Zhi had nothing to do now, so he might as well sit down and give these two gossipy women a good beating.
"Widow Wang, you are a jinx, how dare you let my husband divorce me. I will beat you to death, you shameless thing." Goudan's mother sat on Widow Wang's belly and slapped her left and right.
No one in the crowd watching the fight tried to stop them, because these two troublemakers were always so foul-mouthed that they had offended everyone else.
"Stop it, look at what you have become." The head of the village came over with a group of officials. Shen Zhi saw that these officials were surrounding a white-haired eunuch, and the county magistrate Song Shijie was also among them.