45. Chatting up Is he your husband?
"Take the things with you and go to the mountain first," Lu Songlin didn't want to argue with the mother and daughter about whether to stay or not, "The villagers will come back from worshiping later."
There are rules for worshiping, you have to go early, and you can't go into the mountain after noon, otherwise their family won't come back early in the morning.
Lu Wan stood aside waiting for her parents and brother to pack up, thinking that it wouldn't be too late to talk about it after returning from the mountain.
The family didn't go into the village, but went straight across the ridge and walked towards the foot of the mountain in the distance.
The ancestral tomb of Qingping Village is not far away, just over a mountain. On the way, some villagers saw Lu Songlin bringing his wife and daughter back, and were surprised: "Why did you come back for the Cold Clothes Festival this year?"
There are no secrets in the village. Since Lu Songlin moved to the county town, he only brought his son back to sweep the tomb every Qingming Festival. Everyone knows it.
"Refugees could be seen everywhere in the county some time ago. Fortunately, my ancestors blessed my shop and it was not robbed," Lu Songlin said, "I'll take advantage of the Cold Clothes Festival to come back and burn some clothes and paper money for my ancestors."
The man asked casually, and after hearing what Lu Songlin said, he smiled and agreed: "We should thank our ancestors."
The two families still had a long mountain road to go together. Lu Songlin asked: "How was the village some time ago?"
Before the man opened his mouth, his wife took over the conversation, "Haven't you heard people say that after our village caught ten thieves in one night, no one dared to come to do petty thefts."
Lu Songlin blurted out: "Is it our village that caught ten thieves?" After the relief grain from the court came down, the county was no longer in a panic, and business gradually recovered. When customers came to the shop to buy things, they said that there was a village nearby that was very fierce. They caught ten thieves in one breath and broke the leg of one of them.
"Yes," the woman nodded and said with a smile, "Speaking of this, it is thanks to Shen Qian, your Lu Jiu's husband. The first to discover the thieves that night was at the west end of the village. When everyone heard the gong, they all chased the thieves with sticks and shovels. It was he who noticed something was wrong and stopped some people to guard the east end of the village. That's why they didn't fall for the thieves' trick of making a feint to the east and attacking the west, and luring the tiger away from the mountain, and they all caught the whole group of people."
Li and Lu Wan both looked indifferent. Lu Songlin couldn't see their expressions. Only Lu Wan's brother Lu Xuan heard something wrong and asked, "Why didn't everyone chase the thieves after he stopped them and stayed at the east end of the village with him?"
He grew up in the village until he was a teenager. He thought he understood the villagers' thoughts. They all beat the gong to notify that a thief had entered the village. A man who was no different from a son-in-law said something was wrong, so a group of people stopped chasing the thieves and listened to him and stayed at the east end of the village? This is impossible, unless the group of people just wanted to avoid chasing the thieves, and they were caught by chance and caught several other thieves.
"Lu Xuan, how do you talk to your Aunt Liu?" Lu Songlin said lightly.
The woman called Aunt Liu understood the meaning of Lu Xuan's words, but she didn't care, and continued: "Why don't you listen to him? Although Shen Qian has only been in our village for less than a year, he has done a lot for the village. This time when the refugees surrounded the village, he also discussed with the village chief how to arrange for everyone to be on guard. Except for the village chief and Uncle Heng, everyone only listened to him."
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