Chapter 180: Pheasant? Why does it look a bit like my own?
Chapter 180: Pheasant? Why does it look a bit like my own?
The next day, when the villagers who had gotten up early were working, they found chickens in their fields and lands. They thought they were pheasants and happily caught them: "Hey, Wang, you caught a pheasant too?"
"Yeah, you caught one too?" Another villager also held a chicken in his hand.
"I just went to the field and saw this chicken pecking and running around in my vegetable garden, so I caught it." The Wang family held up the chicken in their hands.
"The color of its fur doesn't look like a pheasant. Could it be someone's chicken that escaped?"
"I don't know. Let's catch it first and see! It has pecked all the vegetables into a mess. If someone comes to pay for it, ask it to pay for some vegetables. Otherwise, use this chicken as compensation."
The two villagers chatted for a while and then went home.
Li Ping got up, but before she had time to feed the chickens, she heard the villagers outside say that there were pheasants in the fields. So she rushed out without thinking about anything else, because she was the best at catching chickens.
"That's my land. The chickens in my land are mine. Get out of here!" Old Lady Li shouted when she saw someone standing in her land.
"Look, it's running into my field now. It's mine!" Just as Old Lady Li was rushing over, the chicken had already run into someone else's field.
Mrs. Li didn't care about that. She ran over and grabbed the chicken, and immediately changed her words: "Whoever catches it first gets it!"
"Hey, just now you said that whoever's land it is belongs to him, but you, an old woman, change your attitude faster than turning the pages of a book. Now you say that whoever catches it first owns it." The villagers looked at Old Lady Li with contempt.
"It's in my hands, what I say is what it is, huh!" Old Lady Li was very happy holding the chicken in her hand. It was a free pheasant, hahahaha, it seemed that she was born to eat chicken. She just caught one yesterday, and another one was delivered to her door today.
"There's another one over there!" someone shouted.
When Mrs. Li heard this, she ran to catch the chicken like the wind.
The village was very lively early in the morning. Everyone was catching pheasants. Old Lady Li caught three by herself and went home happily carrying the chickens.
Just when she was feeling proud, she suddenly felt that the chicken looked familiar: "Why does this chicken look so much like my own? Does a pheasant look like this too?"
Confused, she led the chicken to the chicken coop in her backyard. When she arrived in front of the chicken coop, she screamed, "Ah! My chicken!"
When she saw the empty chicken coop, she immediately realized that these were not pheasants at all, but chickens she raised at home. How could they run away for no reason?
"Mom, what are you doing so early in the morning?!" Her eldest son heard the voice, came over and asked.
"Son, something terrible has happened. Woo woo... Our chicken has run away. Go quickly and call your father and your brother to go out and get our chicken back." Old Mrs. Li was so anxious that she was jumping up and down.
"What? Our chicken ran away?"
Li Ping's family went to everyone's house and asked them to return the chickens. Some of the people who were easy to talk to returned them to her. When she arrived at Shi Yongshan's house, she shouted inside: "Shi's family, give me the chickens. The chickens you caught are mine."
Shi Yongshan opened the door and saw that the visitor was from the Li family. He was about to close the door when Old Lady Li stopped him and said, "What are you doing? Someone saw your son catch my chicken. Hurry up! Take it out!"
"My family also lost a chicken. If you say it's yours, then it's yours. What evidence do you have?!"
"That's mine. My chicken ran out last night!" Old Lady Li put her hands on her hips, looking like she was going to fight if they didn't take it out.
"When my chicken was lost, your family was eating chicken. I said you stole my chicken! Why don't you compensate me?" Shi Yongshan laughed and crossed his arms over his chest.
"you!"
"What do you mean by 'I'? Besides, didn't you just say in the field that whoever catches the pheasant first gets it? Everyone heard it clearly! This pheasant was caught by my son. It's the one that was lost in my house."
Many villagers came over to join in the fun. Everyone knew clearly that Li Ping's family had stolen the villagers' chickens, but they had no evidence and could only blame themselves for their bad luck. Today, when she heard that some wild chickens were coming down the mountain, she was so happy to grab them, but in the end, they turned out to be her own. It was really retribution.
Mrs. Li was very angry and glared at Shi Yongshan fiercely: "I don't care, the chicken is ours anyway, I will take it back even if the king of heaven comes."
After saying that, he winked at his two sons. Seeing Shi Yongshan blocking the door alone, Li Ping's two sons stepped forward and tried to break into his yard.
Shi Yongshan stretched out his hand to block the door: "What are you doing! Do you want to force your way into my house?"
Li Ping's eldest son yelled, "Those things belong to my family. It's only natural for me to take them back. Either you take them out yourself or don't blame me for being rude."
"I, Shi Yongshan, am not an unreasonable person in the village, but you, the Li family, are too much of a bully. If you dare to rob me today, you'll have to step over my body!"
"Oh my, we built the house for the Lu family a few days ago and it's already standing up. You are so arrogant! You are just like dogs, bowing to the Lu family. Today I am going to force my way in! Let's see how you can deal with me, an old woman!"
Old Lady Li relied on her two sons to arrogantly scold Shi Yongshan, spitting all over his face. This was tantamount to offending all the people in the village who helped Yao Qingnian build the house.
"Old Mrs. Li, your family is not qualified to be dogs and kowtow to me! Uncle Yongshan and the villagers worked hard to help me build the house, and I gave them money, so why should they kowtow to me? Everyone stands upright with their backs straight, unlike some people who only do petty and shady things." Yao Qingnian heard the news and came to join in the fun. After all, this matter was caused by her. But as soon as she arrived, she heard Old Mrs. Li cursing and swearing.
"Yao Qingnian, you are such a vicious woman, you have no right to speak here, go wherever you want."
"Where I go is none of your business!" Yao Qingnian replied bluntly.
"You know what happened today. Don't treat us as fools. Don't think I'm afraid of you just because you brought your two sons with you. Let me tell you, my Shi family is not easy to bully! If you dare to step into my house, you, the Li family, will never have a good life in Taoxi Village."
On weekdays, Shi Yongshan helps everyone build houses diligently. He always speaks to everyone with a smile and is amiable. However, when he speaks harshly, he sounds quite powerful, which makes people feel afraid.
"You dare!" Old Lady Li's face turned pale, and her momentum immediately weakened.
"Do you think we dare?" Shi Youhu led several brothers and uncles of the Shi family into the crowd...
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