Chapter 51 Bullying

After the payment and delivery were completed, Meng Yulan went home carrying the vegetable basket in one hand and the goose’s neck in the other.

We had just entered the village and had not yet reached the store when Mrs. Ma, who lived next to the small river at the entrance of the village, saw the big white goose in Meng Yulan’s hand from a distance.

For several days in a row, Mrs. Ma and her husband searched the entire front door of their house, but they didn’t find a goose, let alone a goose feather.

Mrs. Ma had originally given up, but after seeing the big goose in Meng Yulan’s hand, she rubbed her cloudy old eyes and the more she looked, the more familiar it looked.

Some people may think this is nonsense. Don’t all geese look the same? How can you recognize them?

I can say with certainty that it is not only the geese that can be recognized, but also chickens, ducks, cats and dogs. If you raise them for a long time, you can recognize them.

To give a simple example, the golden retrievers, Teddy dogs and other breeds on the street may all look the same to outsiders, but in front of their owners, even if their own dogs are among dozens or hundreds of dogs, the owners can easily recognize them.

This big white goose was raised by Mrs. Ma since it was little by little, and Mrs. Ma is sure that she will not make a mistake.

After finding her big white goose, Mrs. Ma turned around and walked towards home. A few minutes later, Old Man Zhu followed the old woman and arrived at Yue Feng’s house.

“Hey, Mr. Zhu, Mrs. Zhu, you are a rare guest, please come in quickly!!”

Meng Yulan thought that the old couple came to her house to look at the bicycles. When she saw them coming to her house, she immediately greeted them warmly.

“Jingjing’s mother! We old couple came to your house today for no reason! Just now, I saw you carrying our goose into the village, and you went home to call your old man, and followed you all the way back!”

Mrs. Ma had a stern face, not even a hint of a smile, and spoke coldly.

Hearing this, Meng Yulan was slightly stunned: “Your goose? Auntie, you must have made a mistake. I bought this goose at Wangjiazhuangzi Market this morning for four dollars and fifty cents. I’m going to use it for the wine party at home tonight!”

“We have six geese in total. A few days ago, we lost the goose that laid the most eggs. We even shouted about it on the loudspeaker at the brigade village office!”

As Mrs. Ma spoke, she leaned sideways and looked around, trying to find the big goose that Meng Yulan brought home.

Meng Yulan was quite polite to the couple at first. After all, they were elders visiting her. But when she saw Ma’s disrespectful behavior as if she had entered someone else’s home, she immediately became angry.

“What does your lost goose have to do with me? I said I bought this goose from the market for four dollars and fifty cents!” My former neighbor Chang Meijuan went to the market with me, and there were other villagers at the market who could bear witness to it!
“I don’t care. The goose you brought back is the one we lost!”

When Mrs. Ma heard the sound of geese crowed in the barn, she pushed open the door of the barn in the yard without asking Meng Yulan’s permission.

“Master, Mrs. Ma is here to cause trouble!!”

Although Meng Yulan was kind to others, she was not the kind of person who would not fight back when being bullied. She immediately started shouting towards the north room.

At this moment, Yue Lei was half lying on the kang, playing with the small pine nut tied by his son. He heard someone coming in the yard but didn’t think much about it, thinking it was a villager who came to watch the fun at home. However, when he heard his wife calling him, he immediately got off the kang with crutches.

When Yue Lei pushed open the door and came out, Mrs. Ma and Meng Yulan were already arguing with each other.

Although Mrs. Ma is old, she has worked all her life and has considerable strength in her hands. At this moment, she grabs the rope tied to the goose’s leg and wants to take the goose away.

When Meng Yulan saw that Ma Pozi was trying to snatch the goose, she refused to stop and immediately hugged the goose. The two of them were in a stalemate, neither of them letting go.

“Stop it!” Yue Lei shouted, and both Mrs. Ma and Old Man Zhu were frightened.

“This is my goose! I recognize it! There’s a curl on the fur next to its right eye!” Mrs. Ma still didn’t let go, and because of the force she used, both legs of the goose were stretched straight.

“I told you to let go, did you hear me?” Yue Lei got angry when he saw that the other party didn’t let go. “No, no! The goose is mine! You stole my goose and you still think you’re right?”

Mrs. Ma was not afraid of trouble at all. She didn’t even mention the source of the goose at this moment. She directly accused the goose of being stolen from Yue Feng’s family.

Jingjing, who was doing homework in the room, also came out. Seeing her mother fighting with Mrs. Ma over the goose, she also came over.

“Don’t be mean to my mom!”

“This goose belongs to us. It’s been lost for several days!”

Seeing that his wife couldn’t snatch the goose away, Mr. Zhu also went over to help. However, when he grabbed the goose leg, he was not careful and grabbed it into Jingjing’s chubby little hand.

Jingjing felt pain in her little hand, so she lowered her head and bit Ma Po’s hand.

With a cry of pain, Mrs. Ma pushed the little girl to the ground. Jingjing fell hard on her butt and immediately burst into tears.

Now Yue Lei is not going to do this anymore!
He came to his own door to bully and even pushed down his own precious daughter.

“You weeds, you are so used to bullying people that now you come to my house to bully me!”

Yue Lei raised the crutch in his right hand and swung it towards Ma Po’s hand that was holding the goose.

With a slight sound, Mrs. Ma’s hand that was holding the goose’s leg was hurt and she let go. Old man Zhu next to her saw that she had started fighting and picked up the handle of a broken sickle under the eaves and hit Yue Lei.

Although Yue Lei’s left leg was broken and in a cast and had not yet healed, his two hands and right leg were fine. He blocked with his crutch and then poked forward, and the leg of the crutch poked old man Zhu’s lower abdomen. Old man Zhu was directly choked and sat on the ground with a flushed face.

Seeing that he couldn’t snatch the big goose, the old man was knocked down again. Mrs. Ma sat on the ground and started to make a scene.

“Oh! Someone come, the Yue family is unreasonable, they stole my geese and beat me up!”

“Yue Lei, you are a cripple. You stole my geese. Fellow villagers, please come and judge for yourself!”

“Old man, are you okay? If anything happens to you, how can I live like this old woman?”

……

With Ma Po’s howl, the neighbors were all alarmed, and the crowd of onlookers soon gathered in Yue Feng’s yard.

The neighbor Li Wen and his wife Chang Meijuan also heard the noise of the fight in the backyard. After taking a look at the door and roughly understanding what was going on, they turned around and ran up the mountain.

The Zhu couple are well-known in the village for being unreasonable. They are nicknamed “foreign peppers” and are the kind of people who will hurt others if they get close to them.

Yue Lei and his wife are not good at speaking, so it is not easy for them to deal with such players. Moreover, none of the three sons of old man Zhu are good people. If this matter gets out of hand, Yue Lei and his wife might suffer.

In order to solve this problem, we must call back our men and Yue Feng and the others who went up the mountain to release the eagles!

Chang Meijuan was very familiar with the several ridges in front of her home. Every day before Li Wentong went out, he would tell his wife which ridge he would go to that day, so Chang Meijuan went straight to the place where her husband told her to get out of the enclosure.

After a quick jog in less than half an hour, Chang Meijuan saw from afar the father and son who were releasing hawks in the bushes near the water bubble.

“Old Li, something happened…”

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