Chapter 229: Diverting trouble to the east
"I didn't find anyone there."
"This bastard must have gotten wind of it and ran away."
After searching Xu Yong's house, they couldn't find anyone there. They rushed into the yard and angrily surrounded Tian.
"Where's your man?"
"If you don't tell us, we won't leave your house."
"If your man doesn't come out, you have to compensate everyone for your family's belongings."
As expected of a wife who had been the village chief for so many years, Tian was not panicked at all. She stood in the middle of the yard and emphasized, "I don't know about the pesticides. My husband went to Zheng's family in Pingchuan County. If you want to find him, go to Zheng's family."
Tian thought that if Xu Yong could not escape responsibility, she would drag the Zheng family into it.
Anyway, Xu Zaohua had someone prepare this pesticide. If her man is not well, Xu Zaohua can forget about living a peaceful life as the eldest lady of the Zheng family.
Seeing that everyone didn't find Xu Yong, Liu Tielian and others believed that Xu Yong really went to Zheng's house to hide.
If Xu Yong really went to the Zheng family, I guess no one would be able to do anything to him. They wouldn't really ask Mr. Zheng for someone.
Even if he reported it to the authorities, Xu Yong might not be punished because he had the Zheng family's protection.
If Xu Yong were to argue that he prescribed the medicine for everyone's corn, and that he did not expect the medicine would destroy the corn, and that his starting point was good but the result was bad, then the government would not be able to convict him based on this starting point.
But if Xu Yong cannot be found, the angry villagers may regard the entire Qinghe Bay as their enemy, thus bringing disaster to the entire village.
This could actually happen.
There will definitely be some simple-minded villagers who will wonder why my corn is destroyed by pesticides while your corn in Qinghewan is a bumper harvest.
With an unbalanced mentality, it is easy to transform hatred towards Xu Yong into hatred towards the entire Qinghe Bay.
Liu Tielian would never allow such a thing to happen.
Xu Yong must come forward in this matter. Whether it is an apology or compensation, he must show an attitude to calm the anger of the villagers in these villages.
Thinking of this, Liu Tielian said to Tian: "Sister-in-law, since Xu Yong has gone to the Zheng family, let's ask him to come back and make amends to everyone. He should pay what he deserves and apologize what he should apologize for."
Tian angrily said to Liu Tiejian, "What kind of compensation is he offering? Their corn is wilting and they are pushing it onto my husband. Who knows whether the corn is damaged by pesticides or something else? Maybe they are here to take advantage of the situation."
This made the villagers even angrier.
They used the pesticides that Xu Yong sold to them, which caused the corn to almost die, but Xu Yong's wife turned the tables on them.
Everyone clamored to move Xu Yong's family's grain as compensation.
Tian lay across the yard, shouting that she would kill herself if anyone moved her grain.
Tian's attitude made Liu Tiejian so angry that he wanted to give up.
Originally, he felt that Xu Yong had escaped and left Tian alone to clean up the mess. Her two sons were in the mountains and not at home, so he sympathized with Tian.
Liu Tielian now feels that Tian and Xu Yong are two different people who sleep in the same bed.
They are both alike in that they will do anything for the sake of profit.
"Everyone, please stay calm. We are not here to cause trouble. We are here to seek explanation from Xu Yong." Village chief Hu of Guazhou Bay waved to his villagers.
With so many people, if everyone goes to Xu Yong's house to carry food, how much can each person carry?
The food for Xu Yong’s family must come from the villagers of Guazhou Bay.
He asked everyone not to act rashly just to confuse other villagers.
Village chief Zhang and village chief Hu of Yueliang Bay have the same idea.
Tong Huaqiong knew this very well.
Several village heads have indeed been trained through grassroots work, and you cannot say that they did anything wrong. They are definitely much better at safeguarding the interests of the villagers than Xu Yong was when he was the village head.
Their respective plans brought the situation to a temporary stalemate.
Tong Huaqiong always felt that Tian was delaying time, firstly to let Xu Yong escape, and secondly to delay until Xu Jin brought the Xu family members to come and cheer.
Although Xu Yong has lost his power in Qinghe Bay, the Xu family members are still a force that cannot be underestimated.
When others asked Tian for people, Tong Huaqiong was already prepared.
Before she went to the county town to offer the prescription early in the morning, she was still worried that Xu Yong would do something bad in secret, so she asked her stepson Gu Dahan to keep an eye on Xu Yong.
Just now when she entered Xu's house to eat melon, she met Gu Dahan, who quietly told her that Xu Yong had never left the house.
But why did the villagers in Guazhou Bay and other villages fail to find Xu Yong after searching his house thoroughly?
The pigpen, the chicken coop, the toilet... after searching everywhere, there was no sign of Xu Yong.
It is impossible for a living person like him to disappear out of thin air.
Tong Huaqiong started to think, what should he do if Xu Yong ran away from home?
It's impossible to dig a hole in the ground, you must have climbed over the wall.
The risk of climbing over the wall is quite high. The village chief Hu of Guazhou Bay is a powerful man. In order to prevent Xu Yong from escaping, he has already sent people to guard around Xu Yong's house.
Tong Huaqiong tends to believe that Xu Yong had already escaped by climbing over the wall before the villagers from other villages arrived.
When he escaped, he was not afraid of being blocked on the road by these angry villagers from other villages.
How would he escape without being seen?
Sparks instantly exploded in Tong Huaqiong's mind.
"Dahan...let our hired workers follow the road leading to Xu's thatched cottage all the way up the mountain..." Tong Huaqiong called over Gu Dahan, who was watching in the crowd, and whispered to him.
Gu Dahan nodded and quietly left the crowd.
The Xu family's yard was surrounded by wooden stakes, with only a secret path outside the toilet. The path was surrounded by corn and led directly to the mountains.
Tong Huaqiong was very sure that Xu Yong had escaped by climbing over the wall of the toilet before everyone rushed in.
If Gu Dahan could catch Xu Yong, as she expected, Xu Yong would appear in front of everyone with a surprising appearance.
Tong Huaqiong began to look forward to it just by thinking about it.
"Let your man come out."
"Don't think we can't do anything to you just because you are a woman in the front."
"If our corn doesn't grow well, your corn won't have a good harvest either."
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Tian bit Xu Yong to death when he was not at home. But killing him cannot prove that the yellowing of everyone's corn was caused by pesticides.
Tian estimated the time and Xu Yong had already escaped.
There is a chance of survival if you escape to Zheng's house.
As a grasshopper on a vine, Xu Zaohua couldn't just ignore Xu Yong.
"I told you that the pesticide recipe came from Widow Tong. How could we know that the recipe would work for the corn in Qinghe Bay but not for your corn?"
"You can't save the corn if you keep making trouble. You have more than one acre of land at home. If I were you, I would not care about the damaged corn fields, but would find ways to increase the yield of the corn fields that have not been sprayed."
Tian looked at Tong Huaqiong and hinted.
Damn it, Tong Huaqiong thought, he is trying to bring trouble to her again.
Tong Huaqiong said, "Tian Suying, stop pointing your finger at me. When you collected the money from everyone, why didn't you tell them that your prescriptions didn't work? Now that Xu Yong is not at home, shouldn't you return the money to everyone?"
Some villagers were originally willing to ask Tong Huaqiong for pesticides, but after hearing what Tong Huaqiong said, they began to feel distressed about the loss of money and began to clamor for money from Tian.
"Give way, give way."
Amid the noise, Gu Dahan, along with four strong young men, cut a path through the crowd.
Tong Huaqiong looked over and saw four people carrying someone in.
When Tian saw the person being carried sway, she almost fainted.