Chapter 188: Tao Daqiang uses a sack to sneak attack Xu Jianjun

Tao Construction didn't expect Daqiang to have such a big reaction. He asked suspiciously:

"What's wrong? Ma Jinbao drank a jar of loose wine and was talking nonsense there, saying... it seems it was Xu Jianjun. It seems he said he said something about you, Xu Jianjun went to dig something? Seems he didn't dig anything?"

Tao Daqiang basically determined at this moment that the one who dug open the water rat burrow he found was Xu Jianjun!

Thinking back to when they were in Xiaobaiyang Valley, Xu Jianjun didn't get along with Li Long, and along the way, he didn't say less bad things about himself.

Tao Daqiang had often been talked about by others since he was a child. Fortunately, his psychological quality was actually extremely strong, and he accepted the fact that he was stupider than others, so he didn't care about the ordinary words others said.

But this time, Xu Jianjun's behavior directly caused a trust crisis for Tao Daqiang here with Li Long, which made Tao Daqiang very angry.

Previously, because of the matter of pulling wood together, Tao Daqiang felt that he had let Li Long's trust in himself drop by one level. Now, coming again like this, although Li Long had determined and explicitly stated it had nothing to do with him, in Tao Daqiang's place, it was a thorn.

If it wasn't pulled out, it would always be painful.

However, he didn't tell Tao Construction about this matter. Tao Daqiang knew that saying it was useless. Tao Construction would inevitably be the same as Li Long, saying that the thing belonged to nature before you caught it, and whoever caught it naturally belonged to them.

But Tao Daqiang stubbornly believed that the water rats he circled were his own. This time, he lost quite a bit of money!

Now the only thing was that besides Li Long, Tao Daqiang, and Li Jianguo, others didn't know that the fur of this thing was valuable.

"Dad, is our family still eating this fish?"

"Not eating, there's still so much in the pot." Tao Construction also didn't expect that one day he would have enough fish to eat, what a sin!

"Then I'll take these fish to my brother." Tao Daqiang said, putting the fish in a basin, "His family probably hasn't eaten fish for a while either."

"Fine." Tao Construction was quite surprised and quite gratified. The two brothers, because of one of his stinky ideas, although they didn't turn against each other, they had a rift. Now Tao Daqiang was living a prosperous life following Li Long, while Tao Dayong's family was having a hard time.

His previous idea was that Tao Daqiang wasn't mixing well, at least he had an older brother who could take care of him. Now it seemed, the older brother might have to be taken care of by the younger brother.

Tao Daqiang took the fish to Tao Dayong's house. Ma Chunhong was picking wild vegetables in the courtyard. Seeing Tao Daqiang come over, she hummed, turned around, and went into the house.

Tao Dayong heard footsteps and walked out. Seeing Tao Daqiang, he was a bit surprised and asked with a smile:

"Daqiang is here, this is..."

"Caught some fish in the Little Haizi today, brought them for you, they're still alive, clean them while fresh."

"Great—yo, quite a few, must be four or five kilograms, right?"

Ma Chunhong heard the words of the two Tao brothers in the kitchen and immediately ran out. Looking at those fish, her eyes shone:

"Exactly, so many fish... big ones are also many... Daqiang, you're quite capable!"

"I caught them following Brother Long." Tao Daqiang said. He stuffed the fish basin into Tao Dayong's hand and said, "Brother, our courtyard doesn't have urea bags, do you have any extra?"

"Yes." Tao Dayong put the fish basin into Ma Chunhong's hand, and smoothly picked up a bag from the wall and said:

"Today I went to spread fertilizer with the team's tractor, just happened to get a new bag..."

"No need, no need, old bag is fine." Tao Daqiang hurriedly said, "New one is a pity."

"Just take it," Tao Dayong thought, this one bag was only a few cents, this basin of fish was quite a lot... "Can take it when spreading fertilizer tomorrow."

"Daqiang said use the old one, so you give the old one!" Ma Chunhong poked Tao Dayong with her elbow, "Just listen."

Tao Dayong went to get a semi-old bag, there was still a pile of chicken feces on it that wasn't cleaned up. He asked his younger brother:

"Is this fine?"

"Fine." Tao Daqiang took it and said: "Brother, I'm going back, you guys hurry up and clean these fish."

After Tao Daqiang left, Ma Chunhong happily took the fish basin and said:

"So many fish, we can't finish them in one meal, it's a pity for the rest, I'll take some to my mom's side?"

"Fine, take three or five, enough for one meal. Our children haven't eaten meat for a while, this fish meat is also meat..."

After the previous matter, Tao Dayong's attitude toward his brother-in-law's family had changed. Ma Chunhong also knew she was in the wrong, restrained a bit, and would ask for Tao Dayong's opinion.

Tao Daqiang folded the urea bag, folded the side with chicken feces inside, then stuffed it behind his waistband, and walked toward the team's store.

The store opened by the team was originally a supplementary part of the supply and marketing cooperative. At the beginning of the year, the land was contracted to households, the team's assets were divided, and the store also became private.

The store itself was a side room built by Zhang Benquan's family by the big road. The door opened toward the road, selling some daily necessities, cigarettes, alcohol, sugar, and tea, and two large vats filled with vinegar and soy sauce.

In summer, maggots would grow in these large vats, especially the soy sauce vat. When Tao Daqiang fetched it, he watched Old Zhang scoop out the maggots inside before fetching.

They also sold loose wine here, sold in fifty-gram, which was one-tael, glass cups, and also sold in those white enamel basins.

There wasn't even a table at the door. Several people sat on a log there bragging, drinking loose wine from an enamel basin, taking turns, one sip after another.

Ma Jinbao was among those three or four people, bragging loudly:

"Back then my family was also rich, was a long-term worker and horse groom for a landlord surnamed An here. That An family was so rich, a three-entry courtyard, just long-term workers were over a dozen, hundreds of acres of land, so much gold and silver treasure in the family..."

"Then where did the An family go?" someone asked.

"Later, wasn't there the Wusman banditry? The An family was here, afraid, pulled away the valuable things overnight, buried the rest in the ground, used oxen to plow the land, didn't even want the courtyard, went to Anjihai... later even the courtyard became dilapidated..."

"Didn't leave any traces at all?" another person asked, "Such a big courtyard..."

"Decades, what can be left? That was over ten years ago, the Li family's eldest, Li Jianguo and the others dug up sacks of copper coins in the temple, there was a temple platform at that time, now isn't it also nothing to be seen? That broken city was originally a city, now isn't it also just broken dirt piles..."

Tao Daqiang stood in the shadow of the tree listening to Ma Jinbao bragging, a bit anxious, he wanted to hear how Ma Jinbao talked about the water rat nest.

Ma Jinbao hadn't said it yet, there were footsteps behind, Tao Daqiang immediately flashed behind the wall and tree. What surprised him was that the person who came was actually Xu Jianjun.

Xu Jianjun was also a bit annoyed. Originally he planned to dig out a water rat, then go to the acquisition station to ask how to sell it. Now he got nothing, his wife was anxious with him, so he left home to come to the store, planning to buy a pack of cigarettes, and drink a cup of loose wine to relax.

Then he saw Ma Jinbao. Xu Jianjun regretted it, encountering this big mouth, don't know what he would say.

He wanted to turn his head, but Ma Jinbao had already seen him, holding the enamel basin and pointing at Xu Jianjun:

"Jianjun, you're here, come, come, come, drink a sip—this wine is strong enough! Fifty-five degrees, Old Zhang doesn't adulterate... doesn't adulterate, come, come, come, drink a sip!"

Although Xu Jianjun was a bit unhappy, he still walked over, took the enamel basin, wiped the basin mouth with his hand, took a sip, bared his teeth, and handed the basin back.

"How is it... okay, right?" Ma Jinbao said with a smile, "What I said to you, there's nothing fake, just like the water rat yesterday, you didn't catch it, that's you didn't catch it, but I saw with my own eyes the Li family's second and Tao family's Daqiang digging there..."

"Uncle Ma, Uncle Ma, what are you saying..." Xu Jianjun saw Ma Jinbao couldn't control his mouth after drinking, everyone around was looking at him, he couldn't help but blush, hurriedly said, "Uncle Ma drink, drink!"

Previously Xu Jianjun called him Old Ma, when did he ever call him Uncle Ma? Ma Jinbao felt he had face, his heart was proud, took the enamel basin, drank a beautiful big sip, and then felt dizzy, just about to continue bragging, a burst of alcohol surged up, and he vomited directly at Xu Jianjun!

Xu Jianjun couldn't dodge, was sprayed on one shoulder, he secretly called bad luck, while wiping the stains on his body, he walked back, didn't even buy things, had to hurry home to deal with it, otherwise this was stinky to death!

Tao Daqiang heard it clearly behind the wall, it was indeed Xu Jianjun who dug it!

He was excited and nervous at this time, seeing Xu Jianjun cursing and leaving, he quietly followed.

He had almost never done any bad things, Tao Daqiang's heartbeat was very fast and very fierce, he slowly pulled out that urea bag from his waist and followed.

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Xu Jianjun wiped for a long time, didn't wipe clean, and his hands were dirty. He simply took off his clothes, rolled them into a ball, wiped his hands, and planned to throw them to his wife to wash.

At this time there were no street lights, walking at night either had a flashlight, or relied entirely on the sky light. Xu Jianjun drank a sip of wine, and was smoked by the filth vomited by Ma Jinbao, feeling a bit dizzy, then he heard footsteps behind him, turned his head to look, it was dark and he didn't find anything, thought he heard wrong, and continued forward.

Tao Daqiang saw that it was almost to the Xu house after turning a corner. He knew if he didn't move now, there would be no chance, gritted his teeth, rushed out from the woods by the roadside, took the urea bag, and covered Xu Jianjun's head.

Xu Jianjun's movements were a bit slow, that bag mouth was small, and it hung on his shoulder for a while.

If it were normal, Xu Jianjun would inevitably be able to break free, but today he happened to be a bit dizzy, his reaction was slow, and when struggling, Cao Daqiang had already pulled hard and covered the urea bag down. Xu Jianjun knew it was bad, and shouted:

"Who? What are you doing?"

Tao Daqiang at this time couldn't think of anything else. He knew his reaction to doing things was slow, so he had practiced such things many times in his mind, and when he really wanted to do it, he just executed that set of "procedures."

So Xu Jianjun's shouting had no influence on him at all. He only knew that he had finished the first two steps of following and covering the bag, and the next two steps were beating people and leaving.

"Bang bang bang bang!" Tao Daqiang moved. Although he left some strength, he was taller and stronger than others, so these punches and kicks hit, Xu Jianjun immediately screamed!

The sound was muffled in the urea bag and didn't spread far, but there were still dogs from nearby families who heard it and began to bark loudly.

Tao Daqiang knew he couldn't stay long, gave Xu Jianjun another kick, pushed him to the ground, and turned to run. The direction he ran was opposite to his home, ran out more than two hundred meters, circled around to the alley on his home side, and then returned home.

Xu Jianjun screamed after falling to the ground, attracting dogs from nearby families, which then attracted these families.

This happened to be the Wang Cai family. He saw a urea bag from afar, thinking whose bag was lost here, it was quite good, just happened to pick it up.

Only when he got to the front did he find that there was a person covered in the bag, who was wiggling to get out, but was stuck and couldn't get out.

"Who are you?" Wang Cai didn't move him rashly, asked first.

"I am Xu Jianjun, Xu Jianjun!" Xu Jianjun also reacted, the person who beat him ran away, he shouted loudly, but the sound that came out was a bit muffled, "I was beaten by someone... hurry up and let me out!"

Hearing this, Wang Cai was a bit unhappy, but since he encountered it, he still pulled the bag and freed Xu Jianjun. Xu Jianjun looked around as soon as he came out, but where was the shadow of the person who beat him?

"What's wrong with you?" Wang Cai held that urea bag in his hand, pretending not to care and asked: "How did you get like this?"

"I was covered by a bag and beaten by someone!" Xu Jianjun was tearful, he touched for a long time, touched his dirty coat, at this moment wanted to fight with someone but couldn't find anyone, had to walk back, murmuring while walking:

"This matter isn't over!"

Wang Cai returned to the courtyard with a smile, smelled the bag, immediately went to fetch a basin of water, this bag was dirty, what a pity—eh? Why is there still a pile of chicken feces? Wash it, wash it!

Tao Daqiang slowed down when he reached his door, returned home, Tao Construction was sitting on the bed preparing to sleep.

"There's fish in the pot, I heated it for you, eat two bites and sleep early, have to get up early tomorrow." Tao Construction knew his son had to go retrieve nets with Li Long early every day, reminded him.

"Yeah." Tao Daqiang responded absentmindedly, went to his room, lit the kerosene lamp, casually got some food, ate while regretting.

Yes, he regretted beating Xu Jianjun a bit, what could beating him do? That water rat burrow couldn't be restored. He himself was still worried.

He suddenly doubted Li Long's motive when he said this method at that time.

But thinking about what Li Long said from beginning to end, it was all like a joke. And from the beginning, Li Long emphasized that this water rat burrow didn't belong to anyone. Although he found it first, he didn't dig it, so anyone else could dig it. 【18

It was my own stinginess.

Tao Daqiang finally reached a conclusion.

I won't do such a stupid thing again in the future.

However, thinking of Xu Jianjun's spineless appearance, Tao Daqiang still laughed.

Serves him right!

(End of chapter)