Chapter 52: God of War Xiao Tao
Chang Meijuan briefly explained the situation at the Yue Family's house. Xiao Tao and Li Wentong were immediately enraged upon hearing it.
"Damn it! Dad, you go back with Mom first, don't let my Grandpa and Dàniáng get taken advantage of! I'm going to the Red Pine Forest to find my Feng Ge!
Those damned Zhu family people, they've come to bully us!"
Xiao Tao's mind was very clear in such matters. He handed the hawk and satchel to his Dad, turned his head, and ran towards the Red Pine Forest.
An hour later, Yue Feng, Xiao Tao, and the Zhang family brothers all rushed back, panting heavily.
At this moment, the Yue Family courtyard was in complete chaos.
Mom Meng Yulan had a cut on her face, and his younger sister Jingjing's voice was hoarse from crying.
Yue Lei's sleeve was torn open, and Zhu Laotouer didn't get off lightly either; he had an egg-sized lump on his forehead from being hit with a cane.
"Mom!!" After Yue Feng arrived home, he didn't even bother tying the hawk to its perch and went straight to check on his Mom's injuries.
"Xiao Feng, Mom is fine!" Meng Yulan hugged her little daughter Jingjing, wiping away the child's tears.
Before Yue Feng could even figure out the situation, he saw the Zhu family's three brothers, plus Zhu family and Zhu Erhai, five strong laborers in total, carrying sticks, carrying poles, and other weapons, arriving aggressively at the Yue Family's house.
At this moment, it no longer mattered who was right or wrong based on reason!
Yue Feng shouted with a cold face: "Xiao Tao, grab a weapon!
Mom, take Jingjing inside the house!"
At the call to grab a weapon, Xiao Tao felt a surge of blood rush to his head. He snatched up a willow wood stick as thick as a child's arm from beside the storage room and charged towards the Zhu family's three brothers who had entered the Yue Family's gate.
"Damn you! How dare you come to my brother's house looking for trouble? I'll kill you bunch of scum!"
Yes, you didn't read that wrong. Xiao Tao was that fierce when fighting. He didn't care about tactics, rules, or reason. He grabbed a stick and charged into the crowd, swinging wildly.
When Li Wentong saw that Xiao Tao had started fighting, he was afraid his son would be at a disadvantage, so he also charged forward with a pickaxe handle.
Next were Yue Feng, Zhang Xiaowen, and Zhang Xiao Wu and his two brothers, who also charged forward side by side.
Five against five, in terms of numbers, they were evenly matched; neither side had an advantage.
But on Yue Feng's side, they had Xiao Tao, a fearless fighter whose eyes lit up at the sight of a brawl. From the moment the fight started, he firmly controlled the situation.
The originally evenly matched fight quickly turned into a one-sided beatdown. Within one exchange, Xiao Tao took down two of the five Zhu family members. By the time Yue Feng and the Xiao Wen and Xiao Wu brothers charged forward, the remaining three were also quickly knocked to the ground.
Just then, Village Secretary Wang Jianguo rushed back in a hurry.
"Stop it, all of you!!!"
A Secretary is a Secretary. After his shout, everyone stopped, whether they were the ones fighting or the ones being beaten.
Yue Feng pulled on the red-eyed Xiao Tao, then threw the stick in his hand onto the ground.
"What's going on? Can't you live a good life, want to spend a few days in jail??" Wang Jianguo scanned the area, then said with great authority.
In this era, if you didn't have enough prestige, you couldn't be a Village Secretary. Even the most deeply rooted old families in the village wouldn't dare to challenge the Village Secretary. If you truly offended the Secretary, he had plenty of ways to deal with you.
"The Yue Family stole my goose!! My old man and I came to get it back, and they even hit people!" Ma Pozi made the first accusation.
"That's nonsense! This goose was bought by me at the market. Xiao Tao's Mom and Meifeng can all prove it!" Meng Yulan argued forcefully.
Soon, Wang Jianguo had a rough understanding of the whole story.
"Xiao Feng's Mom, you said you bought this goose. Which village is the person who sold you the goose from? Do you know them?"
Meng Yulan frowned slightly and shook her head. She only felt the seller looked familiar but couldn't recall their name.
"It's Wang Mazi from Fang'an Village!!" Chang Meijuan spoke up at this moment.
Hearing the name Wang Mazi, Zhu Erhai, who had been hit on the head and was somewhat dazed, suddenly felt a jolt in his heart.
When his second uncle called him to come fight, he only said that his Grandpa and Dàniáng were being bullied at the Yue Family's house, but he didn't say why. Now that the Secretary asked, Zhu Erhai suddenly felt that things were not good.
"Who knows Wang Mazi's house? Ride my bicycle and call him over!" Wang Jianguo said.
"Wang Mazi should still be at the market. I'll go!" Li Wentong said.
Wang Jianguo nodded: "Alright, Old Li, you go. Everyone else waits here! Is anyone injured? If you're injured, go to Old Wang's place to get it bandaged first!"
Neither side used sharp weapons in the fight, so it was just a few blows to the head and body. At most, it was just a lump on the head, which wasn't considered an injury in this era.
After waiting for about another twenty minutes, Li Wentong arrived on a bicycle, carrying Wang Mazi.
"Old Wang, this goose that Yue Feng's Mom bought, she said she bought it from you this morning?" Wang Jianguo offered him a cigarette and asked casually.
"Yes, I sold it to her for four yuan and fifty cents! Money and goods exchanged hands; the transaction was complete!" Wang Mazi said without hesitation, very straightforwardly.
"Ma Pozi from our village said this goose is the one she lost the day before yesterday! How do you explain this? Where did you get this goose?"
"The goose was lost by Ma Pozi? I don't know! I traded this goose with Zhu Erhai for a large hawk. And it was Wang Xiaonian from your village who took him to my house!
Zhu Erhai, didn't you say the goose was yours?"
Wang Mazi saw Zhu Erhai, who had traded the goose for the hawk, standing nearby, and then asked with an unfriendly expression.
Although Wang Mazi was cunning, he had a bottom line. He had always disdained stealing. But now, the large white goose he had caught and traded for a large hawk had become stolen goods, which completely changed the nature of the matter.
Thieves are very looked down upon in the Northeast. If someone goes to jail for murder or arson, they might even be accepted or even respected by other inmates after entering prison. But thieves are the lowest status people in prison besides rapists, the kind who sleep by the urinal every day.
Zhu Erhai felt several gazes filled with intense killing intent shooting towards him. If looks could kill, he would have at least seven or eight holes in his body at this moment.
Wang Jianguo already knew what was going on after hearing Wang Mazi's words, but he didn't draw a conclusion yet. He turned to Zhu Erhai: "Erhai, is what Wang Mazi said true?"
Zhu Erhai was extremely uneasy at this moment. A beating after returning home was unavoidable.
"Yes... it's true. I took a goose from my Grandpa's house to trade for Wang Mazi's large hawk, and I forgot to tell my Grandpa!" Zhu Erhai knew it was useless to deny it and admitted it with a forced smile.
The next second, the surrounding crowd immediately became noisy. So, his own grandson stole a goose to trade for a hawk, and then Ma Pozi, who lost the goose, blamed the Yue Family for stealing her goose. This was too shameless.
Just as Wang Jianguo had clarified the whole story and was figuring out how to resolve it, Yue Feng, who had been silent, stepped forward a few steps.
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