Chapter 51: Bullying Comes to the Door
With the money and goods exchanged, Meng Yulan carried the vegetable basket in one hand and the goose by the neck in the other, and walked home.
As she entered the village and hadn't even reached the small store yet, Ma Pozi, who lived by the small river ditch at the head of the village, spotted the large white goose Meng Yulan was carrying from a distance.
For several days in a row, Ma Pozi and her husband had searched all over their doorstep, but let alone the large goose, they hadn't even found a single goose feather.
Ma Pozi had originally given up, but after seeing the large goose Meng Yulan was carrying, she rubbed her somewhat cloudy old eyes and the more she looked, the more familiar it seemed.
Saying this might make some people think it's nonsense, aren't all large geese the same? Can you still recognize them?
I can say with great certainty that you can recognize them. Not only large geese, but also chickens, ducks, cats, and Dogzi that have been raised for a long time, you can recognize them.
To give a simple example, street dogs of breeds like Golden Retrievers and Poodles might look the same to outsiders, but in front of their Master, even if their own Dogzi is mixed in with dozens or hundreds of other dogs, the Master can easily recognize it.
This large white goose was raised by Ma Pozi little by little from a young age. Ma Pozi was certain she wouldn't mistake it.
Having found her large white goose, Ma Pozi turned and walked towards her house. A few minutes later, Zhu Laotouer followed behind his old wife, arriving at Yue Feng's house one after the other.
"Oh, Zhu Grandpa, Dàniáng, rare guests, please come in quickly!"
Meng Yulan thought the old couple had come to see the bicycle at their house. Seeing them arrive, she immediately greeted them warmly.
"Jingjing's mom! Today, our old couple coming to your house is not without reason! Just now, I saw you carrying our family's large goose into the village. I went home, called my old man, and followed you back all the way!"
Ma Pozi's face was stern, without a hint of a smile, and she spoke coldly like this.
Hearing this, Meng Yulan was slightly taken aback: "Your family's large goose? Dàniáng, you must be mistaken? This large goose is one I bought for four yuan and five at the Market in Wang Village early this morning. It's for the banquet at home tonight!"
"Our family has a total of six geese. A few days ago, we lost a mother goose that laid the most eggs. At that time, we even announced it over the loudspeaker at the Village Department!"
As Ma Pozi spoke, she turned sideways and glanced around everywhere, trying to find the large goose Meng Yulan had brought home.
Meng Yulan was quite polite to the couple at first, as they were elders visiting, but seeing Ma Pozi's disrespectful behavior after entering someone else's house, she immediately became unhappy.
"What does your lost goose have to do with me? I said this goose was bought by me for four yuan and five from the Market! My former neighbor, Chang Meijuan, went to the Market with me, and other villagers at the Market can also testify!"
"I don't care, the goose you carried back is the one our family lost!"
Ma Pozi heard the sound of a goose honking in the storage room and, without Meng Yulan's permission, pushed open the door of the storage room in the yard.
"Husband, Ma Pozi is here to cause trouble for us!"
Although Meng Yulan was amiable, she wasn't someone who would be bullied without fighting back. She immediately shouted towards the north room.
At this moment, Yue Lei was half-lying on the heated brick bed, playing with the Xiao Song Zi'er his son had tied for him. He heard someone in the yard but didn't think much of it, assuming it was villagers who had come to watch the excitement. However, upon hearing his wife calling out, he immediately got off the heated brick bed with his crutch.
By the time Yue Lei pushed the door open and came out of the room, Ma Pozi and Meng Yulan were already wrestling.
Although Ma Pozi was old, she had worked her whole life and had considerable strength in her hands. At this moment, she was grabbing the rope tied to the large goose's leg, trying to take the large goose away.
And Meng Yulan, seeing Ma Pozi trying to snatch the goose, refused to let go and immediately hugged the large goose. The two were in a stalemate, neither letting go.
"Stop, both of you!" With Yue Lei's shout, both Ma Pozi and Zhu Laotouer were startled.
"This is our family's large goose! I recognize it! There's a swirl of feathers near its right eye!" Ma Pozi still didn't let go. Due to the force, the large goose's two legs were pulled straight.
"I told you to let go, did you hear me?" Yue Lei's temper also flared up when he saw the other party wouldn't let go.
"I won't let go, I just won't! The large goose is ours! You stole our goose and you're still being reasonable?"
Ma Pozi was not afraid of causing a scene. At this moment, she didn't even mention the source of the goose anymore, directly accusing the Yue Family of stealing the large goose.
Jingjing, who was doing her homework in the room, also came out. Seeing her mother and Ma Pozi fighting over the goose, she also joined in.
"Don't be mean to my mom!"
"This goose is ours, it's been missing for several days!"
Zhu Old head saw that his wife couldn't snatch the large goose, so he also went up to help. When he grabbed the goose's leg, he wasn't careful and grabbed Jingjing's chubby little hand.
Jingjing's little hand hurt, and she lowered her head and bit Ma Pozi's hand.
Ma Pozi cried out in pain and fiercely pushed the little girl to the ground. Jingjing fell with a solid thud on her bottom and immediately started crying loudly.
This time, Yue Lei wouldn't stand for it!
They came to his doorstep to bully him, and even pushed down his beloved daughter.
"You weeds, you're used to bullying people, now you've come to bully my family!"
Yue Lei raised the crutch in his right hand and swung it towards Ma Pozi's hand that was grabbing the large goose.
With a light sound, Ma Pozi's hand that was grabbing the large goose's leg was struck and hurt, causing her to let go. Zhu Laotouer, who was nearby, saw that a fight had broken out and grabbed a discarded sickle handle from under the eaves and swung it towards Yue Lei.
Although Yue Lei's left leg was broken and still in a cast, his two hands and one right leg were fine. He blocked with the crutch, then thrust forward, and the leg of the crutch poked Zhu Laotouer in the abdomen. Zhu Laotouer was immediately winded and sat down on the ground with a flushed face.
Seeing that they couldn't snatch the large goose and the old man had been knocked down in one move, Ma Pozi sat down on the ground and started making a scene.
"Oh dear! Help! The Yue Family is being unreasonable! They stole our goose and are hitting people!"
"Yue Lei, you cripple, you lame cripple still aren't honest! You stole our goose, neighbors, come and judge!"
"Old man, are you okay? If anything happens to you, how can I, this old woman, live!"
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As Ma Pozi wailed, the neighbors were alerted, and a crowd of onlookers quickly gathered in Yue Feng's yard.
Chang Meijuan, the wife of Li Wentong from the front neighbor's house, also heard the commotion in the backyard. After glancing at the door and roughly understanding what was happening, she turned and ran towards the mountain.
The Zhu family couple were notorious for being unreasonable in the village, earning the nickname 'Yang Lazhi' (stinging caterpillar), the type of people who hurt you if you touch them.
Yue Lei and his wife were not good with words and were not good at dealing with this type of person. Moreover, Zhu Laotouer's three sons were not good people either. If this matter escalated, Yue Lei and his wife might suffer a loss.
To solve this problem, they had to call back their husband and Yue Feng, who were on the mountain flying the hawk!
Chang Meijuan was very familiar with the ridges near her home. Every day before Li Wentong went out, he would tell his wife which mountain ridge he would be wandering around. So, Chang Meijuan headed straight for the place where her husband said he would be.
Running quickly, in less than half an hour, Chang Meijuan saw the father and son from a distance, flying the hawk in the bush area near the waterhole.
"Old Li, something happened..."
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