Wu Yingxiong, who had been severely beaten by Su Qiao and Dabao before, wanted to seek revenge on Su Qiao after he sobered up. However, he heard that all the people in the Wu family and the Hu Laoer family were beaten and chased and hacked by this crazy woman with a knife. In the end, each family paid 500 yuan in compensation before she let them go. He immediately hesitated.
In addition, his wife kept persuading him not to bother with the madman and to wait until the village chief came back to discuss everything. Only then did he give up the idea of causing trouble for Su Qiao.
On the other side, Su Qiao ran happily to the foot of the mountain with a thousand yuan in his pocket.
Fortunately, her child was very obedient. When she asked him to wait by the bamboo forest at the foot of the mountain, he really waited there without even moving from his nest.
"Have you been waiting for a long time?"
"Yeah." Dabao threw down the small charcoal stick in his hand and stood up.
Su Qiao leaned over to look at the painting on the ground. Although it was a simple painting, the clothes and long hair looked a bit like himself.
“Is this me?”
"Yeah." Dabao blinked, not showing any shyness.
"The painting is quite similar." Su Qiao felt better.
At least, this kid no longer just draws castles.
"Where have you been?" Dabao was a little confused. She said she would be here soon, but he waited for a long time and she didn't come.
Su Qiao patted his bulging pockets, smiled happily and said, "I'll go get some money and buy you new clothes and some delicious food."
"Let's go up the mountain."
"Wait, I forgot, let's go back and get a chicken."
She originally wanted to catch rabbits to eat, but in order to irritate Hu Laoer and his wife, she decided to go back.
"I'll go with you." Dabao didn't want to wait for her here anymore.
"OK."
When Wang Guizhi returned home and found that the last old hen was really gone, she almost died.
In the next few days, Su Qiao continued to take Dabao to wander around, either catching fish and shrimp by the river, or going to the mountains to barbecue and collect herbs.
As for the roasted chicken and duck, the ingredients of course came from the village. Since Hu Laoer's family had no big chickens, her evil hands began to reach out to other families in the village.
The first to be hit were Wu Ping'an's family, who had provoked her before.
Their chickens and ducks all fell into her clutches, and Su Qiao even destroyed the village chief's fish pond.
As for vegetables and watermelons, they picked them from whichever farm they could find.
He was just like a bandit. He would pick the vegetables and run away. If anyone tried to stop him, he would trample the vegetable patch into a mess and then draw his knife, making everyone angry and scared.
In just a few days, the bandit duo swept through the entire village.
When he saw a family with fat chickens and ducks, he would run to that family and grab them. He would run away as soon as he caught them. He could not be caught up with them and it was useless to scold them. When he went to the Hu family to reason with them, they also looked helpless and could not find any solution at all.
It was not until the village chief came back that everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
The villagers who had suffered greatly during this period rushed to the village chief's house to complain.
Su Qiao didn't know yet that people here were already discussing how to deal with her, and she was still playing by the river with Dabao.
*
Two young girls, about eighteen or nineteen years old, were walking on the path by the river, chattering about something along the way.
However, it can be seen from their expressions and clothes that the relationship between the two is not formal.
One of them was wearing a white court-style shirt, a pink long skirt, and delicate white sandals. She had a small crown on her bunted hair that sparkled pink in the sun. Coupled with her arrogant expression, if you didn’t know her, you would think she was a princess from some country, with the air of a superior princess.