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Chapter 177 Things are revealed

Xu Erhu was indeed thirsty. He had sweated a lot along the way and needed to replenish water.

"Thank you, young comrade." Xu Erhu took two glasses of water from the plate, handed one to his brother and kept one for himself.

Just as he was about to drink it all, Xu Hu stopped him: "Er Hu, have you forgotten? We in the People's Liberation Army cannot take a single needle or thread from the masses. Put it down, and we'll drink it again when we get back."

After Xu Hu finished speaking, he took the cup of water from Xu Erhu and put the cup in his hand back on the plate.

"Brother, this is just a glass of water." Xu Erhu looked at his elder brother's harsh expression and asked in confusion, with a hint of grievance in his tone.

Xu Hu didn't say anything, just shook his head at his brother, turned his back to Li Jinyan and mouthed, "There may be something wrong with the water."

Li Jinyan couldn't see it, but when he saw Xu Hu put the water back in place, he was shocked and his little hands shook unconsciously.

Was his poisoning discovered?

Just then, Lan Yuqing came over with a sullen face and took away a glass of water.

"Little Black, smell it." Lan Yuqing called her pet. As soon as she finished speaking, a black snake swam out from Lan Yuqing's sleeves, put its pointed head in front of the water cup, stretched out its tongue and spit. After a moment, the black snake swung its tail hard, and the three cups of water in the plate were immediately overturned.

"Thank you, Xiao Hei." Lan Yuqing touched the little snake's head. The little snake seemed to be quite smart. It rubbed its pointed head against its master's finger and then quickly crawled into her sleeve.

Xiao Hei can accurately tell whether food or water is poisonous. Lan Yuqing started raising it three years ago. At that time, Lan Jiaojiao had already revealed her ambition to become the clan leader. Therefore, Lan Yuqing did not tell her niece about Xiao Hei's existence, let alone expose Xiao Hei's keen sense of smell. This is her secret weapon.

"Thank you for the gifts, comrades."

Lan Yuqing glanced at Li Jinyan with a warning, then turned to Xu Hu and Xu Erhu and bowed slightly, "You have worked hard. I should have invited you to dinner, but now there is an urgent matter in the clan, so I can only invite you to dinner another day."

"You're welcome, Patriarch. These are what we should do."

"Thank you." Lan Yuqing thanked again, "Thank Comrade Xinyue for me too. The gifts she chose are very practical. When I have time, I will go to the island again to thank her in person."

After saying that, Lan Yuqing found an aunt and asked her to take the two comrades to find the old comrade first, and then send the three of them out of Jingxi Mountain.

As soon as the three of them left, Li Jinyan knew that the secret had been exposed, and he crouched down and tried to escape.

However, before his short legs had taken a few steps, Lan Yuqing grabbed him by the collar and lifted him up. "Still want to run?"

"You are so young, but you have such a vicious mind. You drugged us and remained calm. Your father asked you to do this, right?" Lan Yuqing found a rope to tie up Li Jinyan and tied him to a big tree.

She didn't believe that a child could do such a thing as poisoning Lan Jiaojiao, and based on her understanding of Lan Jiaojiao, she knew that her niece would not do such a heinous thing as killing her aunt. That left Li Jian.

Lan Yuqing decided to tie Li Jinyan here and wait for Li Jian, Lan Jiaojiao and Li Jian to come.

The clan leader’s house was built high, and Lan Yuqing could see the entire Jingxi Mountain clearly when she stood outside the house.

Lan Yuqing found a long whip, held it in her hand, and stood quietly. She saw Li Jian and Lan Jiaojiao coming up stealthily, and also saw the Xu Hu brothers and Dong Guochang leaving the village.

Without outsiders around, Lan Yuqing decided to close the door and beat the dog.

"Aunt, why are you still here?" Just then, Lan Jiaojiao and Li Jian came in breathlessly. She saw Lan Yuqing standing calmly in front of the house and exclaimed.

"Why am I not dead yet?" Lan Yuqing's face was full of disappointment. "It seems that you knew that Li Jinyan wanted to poison me. Was it Li Jian who ordered it?"

Lan Yuqing suddenly swung the whip in her hand towards Li Jian.

The man is tall for nothing, but he has no skills and his body is not flexible enough.

Lan Yuqing swung the whip down, and Li Jian couldn't dodge in time. The whip hit him and he cried out in pain.

"Chief, it's not me. I don't know anything. Really. I was sleeping in at home today, and Jiaojiao suddenly showed up and asked me to come up and collect the body. I really don't know anything else."

"If it's not you, then could it be that your son who is less than seven years old came up with this idea?" Lan Yuqing whipped him again.

At this point, Lan Jiaojiao knew that the truth had been revealed, and hurriedly said, "Aunt, it was that guy who came up with this idea. He wants to kill you. He said that as long as you die, I can become the clan leader, and he will be the clan leader's son in the future and can get many treasures."

Lan Jiaojiao was already afraid, and now facing Lan Yuqing's accusation, she quickly changed sides.

She was afraid of death and pain, and wanted to get herself out as soon as possible.

"Wow, woo, woo, woo, Dad, save me, save me." Li Jinyan twisted his thin body and struggled desperately on the tree trunk.

Li Jian was shocked and ran in the direction of the sound. Seeing his son tied to a big tree, he felt so distressed that he immediately untied the rope and let him down.

Lan Yuqing didn't stop them and looked at them coldly.

"You three are here. Let me ask you again, who is the mastermind?" Lan Yuqing pointed at the enamel cup lying on the ground, "Where did the poison come from?"

"Chief, please save me and my father."

Li Jinyan suddenly knelt on the ground and cried, "Chief, I was forced to do this by Lan Jiaojiao. She has long been fed up with you being the chief. When we lived at the foot of the mountain, she thought about how to kill you every day. She also forced my father to have a sister with her. She said that if she had a sister, she could take over the position of chief."

Li Jinyan's eyes rolled around. He could only blame Lan Jiaojiao for all the dirty water. He had to save his father first.

"A few days ago, you spread the word that you were going to find a son-in-law. Lan Jiaojiao was afraid that if you got married, she would lose the position of clan leader. She went down the mountain to buy rat poison and asked me to poison you."

Li Jinyan shrugged and said, "I refused. Lan Jiaojiao said that you no longer trust her and would definitely not drink the water she handed over. She insisted that I come. She also threatened me that if I didn't do it, she would beat my father to death. She also said that in the She ethnic group, it is not illegal for a woman to beat her own man to death."

Lan Jiaojiao actually said this. The status of She ethnic women is very high, and only women can abuse men.

There was once a case where a She ethnic minority woman beat her cheating husband to death and was not punished.

Li Jian's words were half true and half false, which made people believe them more.

Lan Yuqing always thought that it was Li Jian who instigated Li Jinyan. She never thought that a six-year-old child could be so vicious as to harm others.

But now seeing Li Jian's cowardly look, she felt that he was not the mastermind. In addition, Li Jinyan's words were very convincing, and Lan Yuqing began to doubt Lan Jiaojiao in her heart. Her face changed instantly, and she looked at her niece coldly and disappointedly.

"Aunt, it wasn't me. It really wasn't me. It was Li Jinyan. He wanted to harm you. I really didn't lie to you."

"He's just a child, how could he possibly think of harming me?" Lan Yuqing shook her head, completely disappointed with her own niece.

"Chief, there are really people in this world who are born bad." An old but powerful voice sounded.

The old witch doctor came over with a group of elders.

"Chief," the old witch doctor approached Lan Yuqing and whispered, "An old comrade who just came to my place told me. When he came here, his granddaughter-in-law Zhan Xinyue told him to be careful of a child named Li Jinyan."

When Dong Guochang came, Zhan Xinyue asked him to bring a message to Lan Yuqing. The old man's memory is not as good as that of the young, and he forgot it when he came to the She ethnic group.

Later, the Xu Hu brothers found him and told Dong Guochang that a child had poisoned the water, and they didn't know whether he was instructed by an adult.

Dong Guochang then remembered what Zhan Xinyue had said and immediately told the old witch doctor.

"Chief, you are too young to know. The reason why we were found by the Japanese was because a little Japanese soldier who was only about ten years old disguised himself as a dumb beggar. He was met by our kind-hearted tribesmen and brought up. Later, he tipped off the Japanese soldiers and brought them up. If the People's Liberation Army had not arrived in time, I am afraid that our She people would have been exterminated."

Thinking of the disaster that happened more than 40 years ago, the old witch doctor and the elders of the tribe all burst into tears.

The more Lan Yuqing listened, the more frightened she became, and she looked at Lan Jiaojiao and Li Jinyan.

The former was so frightened that he was sweating profusely and trembling with a pale face.

Li Jinyan, who was still very young, was also shaking, but upon closer inspection, it was obvious that this shaking was intentional, not the kind of uncontrollable shaking caused by fear.

Lan Yuqing summoned the little black snake, took it in her hand, slowly approached Lan Jiaojiao, and asked in a cold voice: "Even if Li Jinyan is the mastermind, you also acknowledged it, didn't you? Lan Jiaojiao, after I became the clan leader, I treated you well. Do you hate me so much? For the position of clan leader, you want to collude with outsiders to kill me?"

"I, I, I..." Lan Jiaojiao stepped back in fear. She could not refute this statement. When Li Jinyan took out the poison and said he wanted to poison Lan Yuqing, Lan Jiaojiao did not stop him. Instead, she hoped that things would succeed.

"Hiss, hiss, hiss," the little black snake raised its pointed little head and spit out its tongue towards Lan Jiaojiao.

"Ah," Lan Jiaojiao fell down because of excessive fear, and felt a sharp pain in her abdomen.

"There's blood." An elder who was close to Lan Jiaojiao exclaimed.

Lan Jiaojiao looked at the blood on her pants and murmured, "Save my child."

The old witch doctor did not move and asked Lan Yuqing: "Chief, do you want to save him?"

There is only spotting and no heavy bleeding, so the possibility of saving the baby is quite high.

"No." Lan Yuqing shook her head. The child's parents were both low-quality people, and the child would not be any better after birth. Li Jian's offspring, Li Jinyan, was a living example.

When she heard the words "no rescue", Lan Jiaojiao's eyes rolled back and she fainted.

"Okay. I'll go get the abortion pills."

The old witch doctor and an aunt carried the unconscious Lan Jiaojiao down. Over the years, Lan Jiaojiao relied on her mother and aunt's status as clan leaders to boss the tribe members around, and she even ignored the old witch doctor. In her words, if she was sick, she would go down the mountain to buy western medicine, which was a hundred times better than the black medicine made by the witch doctor.

The old witch doctor didn't dare to touch Lan Jiaojiao because of Lan Yuqing's sake, and he felt very aggrieved.

Now that Lan Yuqing no longer cares about Lan Jiaojiao and she has fallen into her hands again, the old witch doctor will definitely not miss this good opportunity for revenge.

Since she couldn't just kill the person with poison, she used some strong medicine to make Lan Jiaojiao infertile for life.

Lan Yuqing looked at Lan Jiaojiao's back, and the last bit of affection in her heart disappeared. In the past, she had been tolerant of her niece because of her elder sister's kindness, but from now on, she would let Lan Jiaojiao fend for herself.

"If a son is not taught well, the father will be to blame." Lan Yuqing turned around and looked at Li Jian, who was already scared to death.

"Your child has committed a crime, and you as a father must also be punished."

"Clan leader, it really wasn't me." At this point, Li Jinyan still wanted to argue.

"Shut up." Lan Yuqing whipped him.

"Ah." Li Jinyan's small body couldn't bear it and he was knocked to the ground, throbbing in pain.

"You will never repent." Lan Yuqing was too lazy to say more to them.

He directly released the little black snake, "Little Black, go and bite it."

The little black snake flew out immediately and bit Li Jian and Li Jinyan's hands and necks several times.

Xiao Hei's teeth are not sharp, so it doesn't hurt when he bites you.

"Okay, you are not from my She ethnic group, get out." Lan Yuqing looked at the two of them as if they were trash.

Li Jian and Li Jinyan looked at each other in disbelief, and then both of them expressed their relief at having survived the disaster.

They thought they were dead today, but they didn't expect Lan Yuqing to be all talk and no action, and let them go so easily.

The father and son were afraid that Lan Yuqing would go back on her word, so they crawled down the mountain.

Lan Yuqing sneered and thought, after the first seven days are over, they will start crying.

As soon as the two left, Lan Yuqing said to the elders with a serious expression: "My dear grandmothers, you have seen today that Lan Jiaojiao made me think she was pregnant. The clan rules also stipulate that if the clan leader does not get married and have children, he must abdicate. Lan Jiaojiao relied on the fact that she had a child and wanted to take my position. She almost killed me. Therefore, I want to abolish this clan rule today. From now on, the capable will be in power. Elections will be held every five years, so that our She people can make progress."

The elders looked at each other in bewilderment. They had lived here for decades and had never heard of anyone other than the Lan family being able to become the clan leader.

Lan Yuqing sighed, knowing that this matter could not be rushed, so she said: "You don't have to answer me right away. You can go back first. From today on, all the tribesmen will come to my place to watch TV after dinner every day."

Lan Yuqing wants to use the news to change the tribe members' perceptions.

The elders now agreed and happily went down to inform other members of the tribe.

......

Zhan Xinyue felt it was too boring to stay at home every day, so she begged her father to take her out for a walk today.

Ouyang Jie was worried that his pregnant daughter would feel uncomfortable riding the ferry, so he took her for a walk in the town and went to the department store to buy some snacks.

The town was not big, so the father and daughter bought some food, took a quick stroll, and then prepared to go home.

Just as I was about to get into the car, I heard a shrill and urgent cry: "Is there a doctor? Save my daughter, she was bitten by a sea snake. Can you save her? She is only three years old."

Zhan Xinyue looked over and saw a woman in her thirties holding a child and asking desperately. Next to her was her mother-in-law, who was trying to persuade her with tears in her eyes,

"Hai Lan, let's go back. The doctors at the health center said Yaya is hopeless. Let's go back early so that Yaya can say goodbye to her father."