novelaction Chapter 238 Finding the Murderer
Chapter 238 Finding the Murderer
His two sons went to the town to sell locusts, and they made a lot of money every day, so he couldn't give up his business in the town.
But whether it is digging ponds or clearing rivers, it is a collective job for the village. Logically, Li Dazhuang and Li Erzhuang should both do the work.
But the locust business cannot be stopped now, so as a father, he naturally has to take over.
Fortunately, his two sons have made a lot of money recently, so they went to Tongxintang to get medicine for him. He drank it for seven or eight days and his body has basically recovered. He can do some work without any problem.
Otherwise he would lie in bed unable to get up, even if he wanted to.
To be honest, he is really glad now that he did not add insult to injury when Li Ang broke his leg a while ago, but instead lent a hand to the best of his ability, which allowed his two sons to get the business of selling locusts in town.
The villagers didn't know how much money he could make by selling locusts in town, but he knew it very well.
After all, Da Zhuang and Er Zhuang would give him an account every day when they came back.
He also knew very well that the reason Li Mengyue allowed his son to sell locusts was not only because his family had a ox cart, but also because he had helped Li An before.
He never paid much attention to this and never expected that his family would benefit from it.
To be honest, he knew exactly how serious his illness was, and it would cost a lot of money to cure it.
But his family was too poor. No, it should be said that there were few wealthy families in the entire Xinghua Village. Poverty was the norm in the village, and people had to endure illnesses.
This time the illness was so severe that he thought he wouldn't be able to survive it, and he wouldn't be able to see his two sons get married or have a grandchild.
But he didn't want his son to use the only money in the family to go to the pharmacy to buy medicine for him.
You have to know that he saved that money with great difficulty to help his two sons get married.
Although he knew that his family was too poor and few girls would be interested in his son.
But people always have to have hope. Life is already so hard. If there is no hope, what is the point of living?
Just when he thought he didn't have much time left, Da Zhuang and Er Zhuang actually prescribed medicine for him.
He was worried that his son had gone astray and was unwilling to take the medicine.
However, when he heard that his son had taken over the locust business from Li Mengyue and that the fried locusts brought to the town every day were not enough to sell, he believed it and took the medicine actively.
Because even if he didn't believe his son, he knew that if it was related to Li Mengyue, it couldn't be fake.
As expected, he was not disappointed. It was estimated that it would not be long before their family would be able to build a new house.
After the house was built, he asked his wife to find a matchmaker to propose marriage to Dazhuang.
He just couldn't believe that even though his family had a new house, a bullock cart, and his son earned a lot of money, there would still be no girl willing to marry him.
As Li Laogen walked toward the river, he thought about the changes in his two sons and his family during this period, and unknowingly quickened his pace.
He had to go to the river and keep an eye on it to make sure no one destroyed Mengyue's achievements.
Just now he had made up his mind. Since he couldn't work as well as the young people, but he wanted to contribute, he decided to guard the river at night. This way he wouldn't believe that anyone would come to cause trouble.
As soon as he reached the river, Li Laogen saw the village chief with a serious face, questioning the villagers.
When Village Chief Li came to the river, he saw the waterwheel and bamboo pipes that were still in good condition yesterday lying on the ground, and he couldn't help but get angry.
I want to know who it is, who is so bold as to cut off the livelihood of the entire village.
"Li Nian, tell me, what's going on?"
"Village Chief, this is none of my business. This is what happened when I got here."
"Who said you did it? I just wanted to know if you found anything."
"Village Chief, you have stumped me. I can't see anything."
After hearing what Li Nian said, the village chief frowned, thinking that he was really angry and confused. It was obvious that everyone came here to eat breakfast and work, so they naturally didn't know who did it.
He couldn't rely on Li Nian, and he had no way to find the person. It seemed that he could only ask Yue girl to help.
"Li Nian, go to the Li family and tell Yue girl about the situation at the river."
"Yes, village chief."
The moment the village chief finished speaking, Li Nian ran quickly towards the Li family.
After a cup of tea, Li Nian ran to the door of Li Mengyue's house.
Because he ran so fast, he stood at the open door, bent over and gasping for breath.
The village head's wife, who was working, happened to turn around and saw Li Nian. She asked, "Li Nian, what's the matter?"
"Auntie Li, is Li Mengyue here? There was an accident by the river."
"What? What happened? Who is in trouble?"
When the village chief's wife heard that something had happened, she was extremely nervous and hurriedly asked who it was.
"No... not people, but water wheels and bamboo pipes."
"Oh, that scared me."
Then the village head's wife realized it belatedly and asked loudly, "What, what did you say about the waterwheel and the bamboo pipe?"
It’s no wonder she was so surprised, because the waterwheel and bamboo pipes are so important to the village.
Naturally, she couldn't stand it when she heard someone was sabotaging something.
"Li Nian, who, who broke it?"
The conversation between the village head's wife and Li Nian was naturally heard by the other women who were working.
They all reacted in the same way as the village head's wife, they were extremely angry and wanted to know who was so evil as to do such an infuriating thing.
"Auntie, it's not that I don't want to tell you, it's that I don't know. I just came here to ask Li Mengyue to see if she can find the bad guy."
When the village head's wife and the women working there heard this, they also realized the seriousness of the matter.
Li Mengyue was in the room, playing with the tiger cub. She knew it the moment Li Nian came home.
Since he didn't know Li Nian's purpose, he didn't go out. Now that he heard that the waterwheel and bamboo pipe were destroyed, how could he sit still?
"Little tiger, I have something to go out for. You stay in your room and wait for me to come back and make you something delicious."
Li Mengyue didn’t know whether the little tiger cub understood or not, but the little tiger cub, who was pulling her trouser leg, opened his mouth when he heard this.
Seeing the little tiger cub staring at her, Li Mengyue's heart was melted again. She couldn't help but touch the cute and well-behaved little tiger cub, opened the door and went out.
Li Nian saw Li Mengyue and opened his mouth to speak.
But Li Mengyue didn't wait for him to speak, and said directly: "I heard it, let's go quickly!"
Li Nian watched Li Mengyue walk past him before he realized what was happening and replied, "Oh, OK!"
Li Mengyue went to the river. Although she didn't run like Li Nian, her pace was not slow at all. It only took her a cup of tea.
When Li Nian went back, he didn't run, so naturally he couldn't catch up with Li Mengyue.
"Li Mengyue is here!"
"Shh!"
The crowd standing by the river immediately stepped back to both sides, making way, and Li Mengyue walked to the river unhindered.
The village chief, who was in deep thought, saw Li Mengyue coming and waved to her.
"Girl Yue, see if you can find any clues."
"Ok."
Li Mengyue looked at the damage to the waterwheel and bamboo pipe. The waterwheel was chopped off with an axe and most of its parts were damaged and needed major repairs.
The bamboo tube was just dropped on the ground and the joint was damaged. It can be used normally as long as a new bamboo tube is replaced.
And the bamboo tube was not damaged much. It seemed that the bad guys did not dare to go up the mountain and only damaged the part near the river.
Li Mengyue didn't find anything from the destroyed waterwheel and bamboo pipe.
However, after she had walked a few steps, she saw a footprint in an inconspicuous place not far from the waterwheel.