Villages all over the ten miles have heard about the strange things in Changping Village. Now, even those who have relatives in Changping Village are afraid to come and walk around.

People in the neighboring villages would rather take a detour and walk a few extra miles if they wanted to pass by Changping Village on business, rather than inflict the bad luck of Changping Village.

As the village leader, Yang Huazhong thought of many ways and eliminated two teams of courageous young men in the village.

There are one team of ten people, and two teams patrol the south end of the village and the north end of the village respectively every night, on duty.

They also asked every household to close the doors and windows at night, and try to live together in one house as a family, so that they could be taken care of for everything.

Then, he put all the native dogs raised in the village together, put them on ropes, and led them on patrol at night.

After three or five days of strict precautions, the situation seemed to have eased a bit, and no one in the village heard of anyone's poultry and livestock being bitten to death.

“I’m finally relieved now!”

After returning home from a night of squatting, Yang Huazhong took a sip of hot tea and stretched.

This period of time really exhausted him, so much so that he couldn't even go through nine baths of Duo'er's daughter, which was a gift from Mrs. Sun and Xiaohua.

Mrs. Sun came over with a basin of hot water and took a look at Yang Huazhong's bloodshot eyes and the two thick shadows under his eyes. His face was filled with distress.

"Wash your face quickly and go to sleep for a while. If you continue like this, your body will collapse." Sun said.

Yang Huazhong nodded, stood up and washed his face with hot water, feeling much better.

"Fortunately, nothing happened in the past few days. Otherwise, I would have gone to town to tell the security chief about this matter and ask the government officials above to send someone to investigate the case." Yang Huazhong said again.

Yang Huazhong went back to his house to catch up on his sleep. Mrs. Sun took a sewing basket and sat in the main room sewing.

Halfway through sewing, she suddenly remembered how Yang Huamei was begging for embroidery with her a while ago, so Mrs. Sun told Xiaohua and went to Yang Huamei's house with her sewing and dustpan in hand.

Yang Huamei was killing fish in the yard, and an old tabby cat kept at home meowed "meow" back and forth at her feet, rubbing her legs from time to time.

"Don't worry, don't worry, the fish internal organs will be yours later, and no one will snatch it from you..."

Yang Huamei has a deep affection for this cat she has raised for four or five years. This cat has a docile temperament. In winter, it likes to get into the bed and curl up in a ball at its feet. It is warm and soft.

It is also easy to feed. It eats leftovers of whatever people usually eat. When it catches up with eating fish, it is the happiest time.

"Old cats that have been raised for so many years have become spiritual. They can understand everything you say. The same goes for the twisted cat that my family used to raise. Unfortunately, that cat had a short life. He ate a poisonous snake outside and died.

Oh, oh, it makes me feel sad just thinking about it.”

When Mrs. Sun's voice sounded, people also entered the courtyard.

Seeing the third sister-in-law coming in, Yang Huamei was very happy and put the fish offal on the chopping board into the cat bowl nearby. The tabby cat swung its tail and ran to the cat bowl to eat it in small bites.

"Third sister-in-law, why are you here free? I'm killing fish right now, and my hands are dirty, so I can't pour you tea." Yang Huamei said.

Mrs. Sun smiled and said: "I came here after drinking tea at home. You are busy with your business. I just brought you embroidery patterns."

Yang Huamei was very happy, "Third sister-in-law, I want you to make a trip in person. I'll pick it up after I finish packing the fish."

There happened to be a pony next to her, and Yang Huamei asked Sun to sit down on the pony.

Sun looked at the fat-headed fish in Yang Huamei's hand and said, "This fish is good. Look at the gills. It's quite fresh. Where did you buy this?"

Yang Huamei smiled and said: "This is what Shuanzi's eldest brother-in-law brought here in the morning. They caught it from a small pond over there in their village. In addition to this fat-headed fish, there are also three pairs of crucian carp. I kept the crucian carp in the bucket.

Sister-in-law, you can take two of them away later and make soup for Xiaohua and Feng'er to drink. It will nourish them."

Mrs. Sun smiled and said: "That was sent to you by Shuanzi's brother-in-law. You can keep it for yourself and eat it slowly. There is no need to give it to us."

Yang Huamei said: "There are a lot of them. It's appropriate to give you two evenly. If you have any delicious food, we won't miss it. That's it. It's settled. Take two with you when you leave later."

Since Yang Huamei's kindness was hard to refuse, Mrs. Sun couldn't say anything, so she could only smile and nodded.

Soon Yang Huamei cleaned up the fat-headed fish and put it in the kitchen. Mrs. Sun was also called by her to go in and take a look.

There were indeed several large crucian carp in the bucket, swimming around happily.

"His eldest sister and brother-in-law probably heard that my chicken was bitten to death, so they sent some fish over to comfort them. My father-in-law said, do you want to give them a dried chicken? I refused." Yang Huamei lowered her voice.

Say this to Mr. Sun.

"Why did you refuse? Logically speaking, you are not a petty person." asked Sun.

Yang Huamei said: "Those chickens in my house were bitten to death by something unknown. Who knows if they were poisonous? I didn't even plan to get them originally, but my father-in-law was reluctant to throw them away, so he braised one for lunch that day.

.”

"It tastes quite delicious, but I don't know if it's because I'm worried or not. I always feel that it's a little different from the chicken I usually eat. Although it's been several days since the family ate chicken, everyone is doing fine.

Nothing happened, but I was always worried and still didn’t dare to give the chicken to my eldest sister’s house.”

After hearing Yang Huamei's heartfelt concerns, Mrs. Sun also felt that they were justified.

This is like when there was a chicken plague in the village in previous years. Cautious people would never dare to eat chickens that were plagued by chicken plague, but some people just didn't care.

Pull the chicken skin clean, use Sichuan peppercorns, star anise, dried chilies and other aniseed ingredients to stir-fry...

But the Sun family never dared to eat those things, even if they felt sorry for the waste.

"Third sister-in-law, let's stop talking here. Let's go and sit in the main room." Yang Huamei pulled Sun out of the kitchen and walked to the main room.

During this time, there was a lot of commotion in the village over the poultry and livestock being sucked blood. Yang Huamei did not dare to go out to inquire about the situation outside. Now that Sun was caught, she had to inquire more.

So, hot tea, melon seeds, peanuts, broad beans, all the necessary snacks for farmers were placed on the table.

"Third sister-in-law, what did my third brother say? Are you still going to catch that weird thing?" The peanut shells in Yang Huamei's hands crackled as she put her head over to ask.

Mrs. Sun was also talking about this matter while sewing in her hands.

"Your third brother is catching up on his sleep. He is so tired that he is almost out of shape. I asked him earlier what he was going to do next, and he said that he would have to keep watch at night. Although the weird thing didn't come out to harm anyone again, this day

If we haven’t been caught, everyone must still feel uneasy.”

Yang Huamei nodded repeatedly, "Third brother is right, you can only feel at ease if you catch the big guy. Just like the weird thing that killed Zhang Xiangzi and ate its internal organs, you have to watch the weird monkey being burned with your own eyes.

Only when you are gray can you feel at ease."
Chapter completed!