Chapter 92: Village Headquarters Confrontation
“Wipe it off. Which bastard is teasing me behind my back again?” Yue Feng wiped his nose with his sleeve and said unhappily.

Today’s harvest was very good. Three rabbits were caught in the small vegetable garden early in the morning. During the whole morning, five more were caught. By around twelve o’clock in the morning, Yue Feng had caught a total of eight wild rabbits with his eagle.

After a simple meal on the mountain, Yue Feng went to Heicunzaigou again. Today he chose to go around it and started to drive the pheasants from the other side of the ditch. By four o’clock, the Big Red Eagle had caught 9 big pheasants, including four large male pheasants.

It was time to go down the mountain, and Yue Feng didn’t miss the pheasants’ calls in the distance. He took out a few more corn kernels from his pocket and symbolically scattered some at the bottom of the ditch along the way. Carrying the prey and the eagle, he headed towards the village.

When Yue Feng appeared at the entrance of the village with two satchels on his back, it was almost five o’clock. After running around in the mountains all day, Yue Feng felt a little tired. He was still thinking about delivering the goods early, then going home to have dinner and rest early.

Just as he walked to Li Yinhua’s family’s store, a familiar figure walked towards Yue Feng.

“Hey, Uncle Zhou, where are you going?” Yue Feng thought he met Zhou Jianjun by chance and greeted him casually.

Zhou Jianjun looked at the big eagle in Yue Feng’s hand, then looked at the bulging shoulder bag on Yue Feng’s shoulder, with a complicated expression on his face.

“Nephew, I was waiting for you at the entrance of the village! Our two families have always had a good relationship, why did you do such a thing to cheat me?” Zhou Jianjun went straight to the point and said that Yue Feng had cheated him.

When Yue Feng heard something wrong in the other party’s words, he knew something was wrong with the eagle.
“What’s wrong? Why am I the only one who is cheating you? I didn’t do anything.” Yue Feng scratched his head, looking confused.

“Look what this is? Xiaorui, Xiaobao!!” Zhou Jianjun shouted, and the brothers Zhou Rui and Zhou Xiaobao came out of the store, holding a snakeskin bag in their hands.

“What?”

Yue Feng looked down and found that they were the two eagles that had been sold. At this moment, the eagles were completely dead.

“Why did the eagle die? Wasn’t it fine when you took it away?” Yue Feng asked.

Zhou Jianjun said confidently: “These two eagles had problems the day they were bought from your house. I thought it was normal and didn’t take it seriously.

After we released the eagle on the mountain for another two days, it started to vomit food. I asked Wang Da Nao from the village to take a look. He said it was chicken plague and there was no hope!
Your father is recovering at home, so I won’t visit you, but I’m giving you face. Don’t let the villagers say that our Zhou family bullies others! You have to give me an explanation for this matter?”

“Chicken plague?”

“Yes, your hair is standing on end. Close your eyes and spit out whatever you’ve eaten! Wang Dabo said it was chicken plague!”

“Wang Dabo is just a barefoot doctor. He gave an injection to Wu Laosan’s daughter and broke her leg. He is not a proper veterinarian. What does he know?” Yue Feng curled his lips with disdain.

“You… I’m trying to talk to you nicely, but it doesn’t make sense, right? Fine, let’s find a place to reason! Come with me to the village office, do you dare?”

Zhou Jianjun was blocked by Yue Feng. Wang Da Nao did have the experience of getting into trouble while giving injections, but few people would talk about it openly on weekdays. After all, no one can guarantee that someone will get a headache or a fever one day.

“Okay, let’s go to the village office and reason! I’ll go home first, tie up the hawk and put my things down, and then I’ll go to the village office to find you!”

Yue Feng had already prepared himself mentally for today before selling the eagle, so he was not surprised when Zhou Jianjun came to him.

“Xiao Rui, go back with your brother Feng!”

Zhou Rui responded: “Okay!”

Yue Feng saw that the boy was afraid that he would run away, so he smiled and nodded without saying anything, then turned around and walked home.

When he got home, Yue Feng tied the eagle to the bar, went into the house and took out the sales documents signed by Zhou Jianjun that day from the cupboard. Then, without telling his parents, he turned around and went to the village office alone.

The village office is actually Wang Jian’s home. There is a separate cleaned-up house here. There is no kang, but there is a table and stools for village brigade meetings, as well as necessary equipment provided by superiors such as the village radio and telephone.

When Yue Feng arrived at Wang Jian’s house, the village office was already surrounded by people.

After all, when Zhou Jianjun stopped Yue Feng at the entrance of the village, they were right next to the grocery store, which was the information distribution center of the village. At this season, the work in the fields had been completed long ago, and there were many old ladies who had nothing to do and chatted all day long.

In order to win over more people to create pressure on the Yue family, Zhou Jianjun had already explained the whole story when he was waiting for people in the store just now.

The Zhou family was originally one of the top three oldest families in Xing’an Village. After several generations of marriage connections, many families in the village, even if they do not have the same surname as them, can be considered indirect relatives. To use an inappropriate word to describe it, they are very strong and powerful.

At this moment, including Zhou’s family and the blind date who were watching the fun, there were at least dozens of people gathered here in the village office, waiting for the village secretary to make a decision on the conflict.

“The second kid from the Yue family is here!”

Someone in the crowd shouted, and the people who were surrounding him immediately dispersed, turning around and giving Yue Feng a salutation.

Being stared at by so many people, any young man who was not strong enough would have been frightened to death long ago. However, at this moment, Yue Feng’s face showed no emotion. He simply nodded to the crowd as a greeting, then walked through the crowd and went straight towards Zhou Jianjun.

“Xiaofeng, what happened? I heard from Jianjun that the eagle he bought from you died after just a few days? Is that true?”

Wang Jianguo was relatively calm before he met the real owner, but when he saw that Yue Feng came alone, his eyebrows raised subconsciously, and then he quickly returned to normal.

“Yes! That’s true. Two eagles, four hundred dollars each. The money and goods are paid and you can take them away. There is a document!” Yue Feng nodded and said concisely.

“But there’s something wrong with your eagle! It started vomiting food as soon as you brought it home, and it kept vomiting for several days. Finally, it died of its feathers standing on end!! Now you still refuse to admit it!” Zhou Jianguo’s tone immediately rose to a higher level when he saw the real owner coming.

“Why should I admit my guilt? You brought people to buy the eagle, and you picked it yourself. I also took you to the mountain to practice with it myself, and only signed the document after I was satisfied. What does it have to do with me if it dies now?”

Yue Feng turned his head slightly to glance at Zhou Jianjun and remained very calm while speaking.

Upon hearing this, the crowd around immediately became noisy.

A falcon can definitely be considered a kind of livestock. According to the social customs at the time, once you have chosen one, you have to buy it and then leave it. Even if something goes wrong, the seller cannot be blamed.

Even though many villagers supported the Zhou family, they still felt that this deal was difficult to turn around.

“Where is the document? Show it to me!” Wang Jianguo nodded and asked.

Yue Feng took out the document from his pocket and handed it to Wang Jianguo personally.

Wang Jianguo opened it and took a careful look. It was written very clearly and there was nothing wrong with it.

“This transaction was voluntary between both of you, and they didn’t make any follow-up promises to you?” Wang Jianguo turned his head and glanced at Zhou Jianjun.

“Yes, he didn’t make any follow-up promises, but he wrote that the eagle was healthy. If the eagle he sold to me was not healthy and had problems when I got home, is that his responsibility?”

Zhou Jianjun had already made his plan before he came to cause trouble.

“The hawks I sell are all currently in flight. You picked out the two best ones, and you refused to choose another one. Now you are saying there is something wrong with the hawks!

If there was something wrong with it, why didn’t you come to see me the same day you took it home, or the next day? You said it was wrong when the eagle died.

I call you Uncle Zhou because of your generation, but you are not setting a good example for your son!”

Yue Feng glanced at Zhou Jianjun lightly and spoke sharply.

“I don’t know anything about eagles. How can I know if this little problem of spitting out food is normal or if the eagle can’t adapt to the new place? If I don’t observe and confirm that there is something wrong, I will come to you.”

“So, the eagle was killed by someone you don’t understand, and then you came to me, and then there’s something wrong with the eagle I sold?”

“You! How can you talk like that! I spent so much money to buy it, how could you deliberately harm your own eagle!”

Seeing that the argument was getting more and more heated, Wang Jianguo waved his hand and said, “Both of you stop for a moment. Let’s go through the matter as gentlemen and identify the controversial points before discussing the rest, okay? Arguing won’t solve the problem!”

Yue Feng nodded: “Okay!”

Zhou Jianjun glanced at Wang Jianguo and said, “I have no objection either!”

Wang Jianguo continued, “According to your statement just now, Zhou Jianguo brought people to your house to pick out two eagles, spent 400 yuan, and signed the sales documents. You took the eagles up the mountain and personally tested them for work. After confirming that they were correct, you took the eagles away and signed the documents. Is everything okay?”

“no problem!”

“Yes, no problem!”

Wang Jianguo: “Okay, the next controversial point is what you said, Zhou Jianjun, that the eagle spits out the food when it gets home, right?”

“Yes! Ying vomited at the first meal after arriving home. I thought he was not used to the new environment after just arriving home, so I didn’t take it too seriously!” Zhou Jianjun nodded and said.

Wang Jianguo turned his head and looked at Yue Feng: “Do you have anything to add to what Lao Zhou said?”

Yue Feng: “I have a few questions for Zhou Jianjun!”

“Okay, ask!”

Yue Feng: “From the time you took the eagle away, to the time you brought it up the mountain and brought it home to feed it, was your son Zhou Rui there the whole time? When I say there, I mean he saw everything you did and what happened in between!”

Zhou Jianjun nodded without hesitation: “All here!”

“Okay, I have a few questions now. I want to ask Zhou Rui alone. Can you go to my aunt’s room and avoid her for a while?”

Yue Feng’s logical thinking was very clear. Since the other party was sure to be there, as long as they lied and did not agree on all the details in advance, he would be able to find loopholes as long as he asked them separately.

Hearing the evasion, Zhou Jianjun’s heart skipped a beat. This was not in his plan. At this point, it was too late to make any temporary adjustments.

“Okay, I’ll go to the west room first!” Zhou Jianjun and Zhou Rui looked at each other, turned around and walked towards the west room, and soon disappeared in front of everyone.

Yue Feng glanced at the crowd and said, “Aunt Zhang, could you stand at the door of the west room for me for a while?”

This aunt from the Zhang family was Wang Jianguo’s neighbor and had no vested interest in the Zhou family. When she heard that Yue Feng was asking her for help, she immediately responded and stood at the door of the west room.

After everything was arranged, Yue Feng asked, “Zhou Rui, tell me, you bought the eagle from my house, what time did you return home, what time did you feed the eagle, what did the eagle eat, and how much did it eat! And when did you find the eagle vomiting food!”

Zhou Rui is not stupid. He knows that vomiting food when he got home is just a lie. He just casually mentioned the time, and the answers given by the father and son will be so different that he will be exposed by then.

“The eagle came home around 4 or 5 in the afternoon, and then my dad prepared food for it. I didn’t check the clock, so I’m not sure what time it ate. It was lean pork, and it ate less than 2 taels of meat, about this big piece! When the eagle vomited the food, I was so worried that I didn’t pay attention to the time!”

Zhou Rui was vague and did not give exact times for other key information except the information on which the father and son had a consensus.

When Yue Feng heard about the eagle’s vomiting food problem, he pondered it for a long time. Logically speaking, a fat and strong eagle should not vomit food no matter how much trouble it suffered on the first day, unless there was something wrong with the food.

Now when I heard what Zhou Rui said, it turned out to be pork, so everything made sense.

Yue Feng did not dwell on the other party’s ambiguity and continued to ask: “What did the eagle do after it spit out the food? Were you there at the time?”

“Yes, my dad…my dad fed the eagle meat again, and the eagle ate it, and this time he didn’t vomit!”

Zhou Rui hesitated for a moment, thinking quickly in his head, trying to be vague, but there was no way to avoid this question. He couldn’t just say that he wasn’t there and didn’t know. Logically, this was completely untenable.

“What happens next?”

“Then the eagle was back to normal the next day. Xiaobao and I went up the mountain to release the eagle. There was no problem on the first day, but the eagle started to act strange at noon on the second day. I went home and ate meat in the evening, and then vomited again!

On the fourth day, my dad fed the eagle some chicken at noon, and it vomited again. My second uncle called Wang Da Nao and said that the eagle had chicken plague, and then fed it tetracycline tablets with clean water!
Then in the evening, the eagle was in better condition, and it was fed with the meat of four sparrows, and then…”

Zhou Rui is very smart. He made everything vague about the eagle’s vomiting in the beginning, but he described the real events in great detail from beginning to end.

After listening to it, Yue Feng already figured out what happened.

The eagle became thin and weak after eating pork. After it was chopped up, it went home and took a full crop of pork. The eagle could not digest it and its stomach became rotten. Then, after some treatment, the eagle successfully avoided all the correct steps and was choked to death by being fed a full crop of meat over and over again.

“Okay, Zhou Rui, from now on, turn around and face the wall. No matter what your dad says, you are not allowed to say a word. Can you do it?” Yue Feng asked.

“Row!”

“Okay, let Zhou Jianjun come over!!”

Zhou Jianjun came back soon and saw his son Zhou Rui with his back to him and not saying a word. He couldn’t see his expression clearly and wondered what Yue Feng was up to.

“Uncle Zhou, please tell me, when you bought the eagle from my house, what time did you return home, what time did you feed the eagle, what did it eat and how much did it eat! And when did you discover that the eagle vomited the food!” Yue Feng asked the same question again.

When Zhou Jianjun heard this question, his heart skipped a beat. The two of them had not checked this detail, and he didn’t know how his son answered just now.

For a moment, Zhou Jianjun did not answer immediately, but pondered for a few seconds and thought about it secretly.

“What? It just happened a few days ago, and you can’t remember it clearly?” Yue Feng continued to ask.

“No, the eagle came back home around four o’clock, and I fed it with meat. Then I woke up at night and found that the eagle had vomited the meat. So I fed it some more meat, and it vomited again the next day. During the day of the second day… the third day…”

Zhou Jianjun is also a seasoned man, just like his son, he didn’t mention the key time points, and responded vaguely. But the only difference is that Zhou Rui said he vomited the food and then fed it again, but this time he didn’t vomit, while Zhou Jianjun said he did vomit.

Yue Feng keenly discovered the loophole in the other party’s words: “You mean, you found that Ying vomited when you got up at night? Was your son beside you at that time and when you fed him meat later? Ying vomited again the next day. Did Zhou Rui know?”

“This… I can’t remember clearly. I was a little confused when I was sleeping…”

Zhou Jianjun didn’t dare to answer. Whether he was there or not, if what he said was different from what his son said, he would be exposed.

Yue Feng curled his lips, glanced at everyone, and finally landed on Wang Jianguo: “Uncle, I’ve finished asking questions.

Logically speaking, whoever makes the claim should provide evidence. As the defendant, I have no obligation to prove myself, but we are all from the same village, so I don’t care about it.

After listening to what I asked just now, I believe you, like everyone else, have the answer in your mind, right?

Zhou Rui said that the eagle did not vomit after eating the food, but Zhou Jianjun said that it vomited again. Who lied?

Lying to cover up what?
Was the problem with the eagle already there when I bought it, or did it develop after I bought it? What do you think?”

Wang Jianguo must have understood, and knew that there were logical loopholes in the statements of Zhou’s father and son. But this alone could not completely pick Yue Feng out.

“I was confused. Now that you mention it, I remember that I did vomit, and it was quite smelly!” At this time, Zhou Rui, who was facing the wall, immediately changed his statement.

“I must have vomited. I remember it very clearly!”

Zhou Jianjun also echoed. Although his tone was quite tough, his expression naturally showed a bit of guilt.

“This… after saying so much, there is no way to prove that the eagle was sick when it was brought back, nor can there be any proof that it was not sick! Do you have anything else to add?” Wang Jianguo continued to ask.

Yue Feng knew that Wang Jianguo’s ability to maintain a neutral stance was equivalent to speaking for him in disguise.

Yue Feng said, “Then let me continue. When you bought the eagle, did I remind you that this eagle is not like other animals and must be eaten alive to ensure its health? What did you feed it? Pork! If the eagle dies from eating pork, are you blaming me?”

“It’s lean meat! Pure lean meat!” Zhou Jianjun argued.

“Pure lean meat is also pork! I swear in the name of the mountain god that I have reminded you that eagles must be caught alive and not fed randomly. Do you, Zhou Jianjun, dare to admit it?” Yue Feng continued.

“Bullshit, you didn’t say that, you just said eagles want to eat meat!” Zhou Jianjun hurriedly denied it.

After hearing this, Yue Feng pointed at Zhou Jianjun’s nose and sneered, “Haha, if you don’t admit it, do you dare to swear in the name of the Mountain God and the Earth God?
Yue family and Zhou family, whoever of our two families lied will be struck by lightning and have no descendants!”

This time, Zhou Jianjun stopped talking.

It was okay to lie and make trouble for one’s own benefit, but Zhou Jianjun would not dare to swear an oath to the mountain god, let alone 400 yuan, even for 4,000 or 40,000 yuan.

Because of the explosion of the Internet, the new generation of young people are exposed to a variety of information and may not have much reverence for certain special beings. But for that generation, the status of the mountain god was very high in their minds, so high that they had no intention of blaspheming him.

For example, there is a joke I saw on the Internet, which says that a person owed someone money and refused to admit it. Then the other party asked him to swear in front of Mazu, and the person who refused to pay the debt finally admitted it.

It may seem funny to young kids, and it’s normal for them to do that, but among certain groups of people and in certain contexts, such things are common.

Seeing that Zhou Jianjun was silent, Yue Feng had no intention of letting him go, and continued, “Originally, I thought that it is better to resolve a feud than to create one, but Zhou Jianjun, you are not a man!
Since things have come to this, I might as well throw away my pride and let all the men in the village judge for themselves!
A few days ago, you lied to my dad and said that you could help me find a job in the forest farm. You took 45 yuan from my family. My dad believed you, and you put me in the forest farm, saying that I could do that first and then you would give me a formal position when there was a vacancy.

What happened? I had only worked as a temporary worker for a few days in the factory, and I didn’t provoke anyone, but I was beaten up by some inexplicable person and sent back home.

You returned 45 yuan out of the 10 yuan, but you still had a request from me and wanted to buy an eagle, so you returned it hypocritically!
35 yuan! One work point is eight cents. How hard did my parents have to work to save up this 35 yuan?

His leg is still injured, and he calls you brothers “brothers” all the time. We are all close to each other in the village. How can you have the nerve to cheat him?

Do you admit this?
Besides, regarding the matter of buying the eagle, it was you who took the initiative to come to my house to find me, right?

He also used the excuse of helping Zhou Rui’s friend, but what was the result?
The guy named Ma Kaihua was just a decoy. Were the two eagles taken to your Zhou family? Did Zhou Rui and Zhou Xiaobao each take one to hunt in the mountains?

Do you admit this?
You can take the eagle home, after all, you paid for it, but what did you do with it?
I went up the mountain to release hawks and hunt for small animals, and I sent all the game I caught to the coal mine canteen in the city to earn some hard-earned money.

What did you do? You also sent the captured chicken dragon to the same place. Do you think I don’t know?
I didn’t look for you because I was trying to save your face. We are all relatives in the village. How could you, an uncle, snatch the jobs of the younger ones in the village? Is this how you, the Zhou family, do things?
Back to the eagle, when you brought Zhou Rui and Ma Kaihua to my house, were all the eagles open for you to choose? Did I give you advice and not let you choose those two local Harriers? Did you choose them yourself?
What’s even more infuriating is that you said the eagle I sold you had chicken plague. Are you living like a dog at your forties or fifties? We all know that chicken plague is contagious. So, if it really had chicken plague, would my eagle be immune?
Do you want to come to my house now?
Look, except for the two eagles you took away, the rest are all intact and alive and well!

Finally, let’s talk about the issue of eagle food. I have emphasized several times that if you were asked to feed the eagle alive, what did you do?

Why are you reluctant to feed the birds you caught to eagles, so you take them home to feed them pork?
Isn’t it because he is calculating that he can sell Feilong and Shabanji for a high price, and he doesn’t want to feed them to the eagle?
Now that it has broken down and is dead, they are making up a lie and biting back, saying that there was a problem when they bought it.

You feel bad about the money you spent on the eagle, and want to get it back?

Don’t say there is no problem. Even if there is a problem, it’s your fault for poor eyesight. You deserve it! !
Today, in front of the village secretary and so many onlookers, this is my explanation for this matter!
Whether you want to use words or force, I, Yue Feng, will take it!

Don’t think that no one knows about the dirty things you do in private. If I make someone angry, I will expose it all for you. You can only think about the consequences!
Let me warn you first, you guy with the surname Li is an idiot!

You know who it is and what happened! “

When Yue Feng pointed at his nose and cursed at him, Zhou Jianjun did not refute, but his expression and face were still normal.

But when Yue Feng mentioned the two words “Li” and “bangchui”, Zhou Jianjun’s face turned pale instantly, as if his soul was taken away by Yue Feng’s words, and beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on his face.

Chapter 1, a long chapter with over 6,000 words, and there are two more chapters to come today

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