"Big brother, let's go," Yun Que'er said, then turned her head and saw the village head with a blank look on his face.
Yun Que'er was a bit surprised. When did the village head come?
It had been a while since they last saw each other. The village head seemed to have lost a lot of weight and looked haggard.
He was originally on the thinner side among middle - aged men. After these few days of turmoil, he had become emaciated. His cheeks were deeply sunken.
Since his face had strong bone structure, his eye sockets became even deeper after losing weight. But it wasn't the kind of three - dimensional features like those of Europeans. Instead, his eyeballs seemed to protrude.
Coupled with his ashen face and a blackened area between his eyebrows, looking like a man with bad luck, at first glance, one might think they were seeing a ghost in broad daylight.
Yun Que'er noticed that the village head's expression was strange. She was afraid that the deposed village head might do something crazy to Yun Fujin in his madness. So she quickly stepped forward and questioned him.
"What are you looking at us for? We're just sitting here chatting. You manage everything under the sky. Do you even have to manage what others talk about?"
When Yun Que'er was anxious, she talked like a machine gun, exactly the same as the girl in the village head's memory.
"Besides, you're not the village head anymore. What we talk about has nothing to do with you, right?"
"Little Que'er, don't be like this," Yun Fujin pulled Yun Que'er and told her to stop talking.
He looked at the village head and nodded slightly.
"If my sister did something wrong before, I apologize to you," Yun Fujin said.
"Big brother, what are you doing..." Yun Que'er pouted discontentedly.
She hadn't done anything immoral. Except for the first time when she sold the gauze, every subsequent encounter was because the village head had caused trouble on his own initiative, right?
Yun Fujin gently shook his head at Yun Que'er and then looked up at the village head again.
"You're a magnanimous person. Don't argue with a child. We Yun family members don't mean to laugh at you. We just want to live our own lives well. Let's just go our separate ways from now on."
After saying that, Yun Fujin took Yun Que'er and left.
"Big brother, why did you say those things to him?" Yun Que'er murmured, "He's just that kind of person. No matter how reasonable you are, he won't listen. Why waste your breath?"
"Little sister, you're still too young," Yun Fujin stroked Yun Que'er's head and gently held her hand. "When others are in high positions, we don't flatter them. When they fall, we shouldn't step on them either. It's their business that the villains get punished. We just need to do our own thing well."
Yun Que'er lowered her head and thought for a while. Suddenly, she felt that she might be a bit vindictive.
In fact, she didn't want to be like the village head from the bottom of her heart. But after so many confrontations, it was inevitable that she had learned his ways.
Yun Que'er suddenly realized that she needed to correct herself in time. She nodded seriously at Yun Fujin.
"Big brother, I know. I'll listen to you."
Yun Fujin laughed and promised Yun Que'er that she could order whatever she wanted for dinner tonight.
Yun Que'er jumped for joy and quickly forgot about the little episode just now. She happily followed Yun Fujin away.
The village head stared blankly at the backs of the siblings. It took him a long time to come to his senses.
The village head suddenly felt that he was so ridiculous.
It turned out that the things he had always kept in mind had never been taken seriously by them. Especially after hearing what Yun Fujin said just now, the village head just wanted to find a hole to crawl into and never come out to see anyone again.
Strangely enough, although he clearly hated the Yun family, at this moment, he couldn't hate them anymore.
Yun Fujin could analyze from his perspective why he had done those bad things, but he had never thought from the Yun family's perspective.
Now the village head finally understood what it meant to hate the wrong person.
He couldn't cry or laugh. At this moment, he clearly realized one thing.
The Yun family had never even thought of, or even disdained to, compete with him for the position of the village head.
But because of his own worries and the instigation of others, he had dug his own grave.
The village head staggered around and walked unsteadily.
In the evening, when everyone in the village was having dinner, suddenly the wailing of the village head's wife came from outside.
"Is there anyone? Help!"
The voice of the village head's wife was like a ghost's wail. People near and far were shivering in fear.
Was she crazy or stupid? Why was her cry so creepy?
Some brave and curious people went to take a look. Soon the news spread throughout the whole village.
It was said that the village head had suddenly drunk pesticide!
His wife had been ill in bed. She was suddenly woken up by hunger just ten minutes ago. Lying on the kang, she scolded the village head for a long time.
She said that this old man had even lost his official position and didn't even cook. He wanted to starve her to death.
But the village head didn't say a word. When the village head's wife turned her head, she found that the village head was lying beside her, foaming at the mouth. That's why she started shouting.
It was a pity. One saw him build his mansion, one saw him host feasts for guests, and one saw his mansion collapse.
The mansion had fallen, and he had stepped down in such an unseemly way. Now no one wanted to get involved with the village head.
Those who had disliked him were finally happy to see him reap what he had sown. They thought it served him right to die, so of course they wouldn't help him.
Those who had colluded with him before didn't dare to show up either, for fear of getting involved.
In short, the village head's wife shouted for a long time, but no one came to help.
Everyone knew that the village head's life was hanging by a thread, but every household had their doors tightly closed. They had refused her with their actions even before she came to plead.
And what Yun Que'er was waiting for was Ji Chengxuan.
"My father has gone," Ji Chengxuan said while sitting on a small stool. "So I'm here to mooch off your meal again."
Yun Fujin smelled the burnt smell on Ji Chengxuan and thought that this poor child must have been forced by Dr. Ji to hold the spatula again before he rushed away in a hurry.
It was a pity that Ji Chengxuan had no talent at all in cooking. This was already I don't know how many times he had to mooch off others' meals because Dr. Ji was busy treating patients.
Yun Fujin served Ji Chengxuan a bowl of rice and said half - jokingly.
"Otherwise, you might consider paying us some food expenses."
"Brother Yun, you're such a kind person," Ji Chengxuan flattered Yun Fujin. "I don't eat much. Brother Yun won't ask me for money, right?"
Yun Que'er snorted, "You've said everything. What else can others say? Even if they want to refuse, they have to consider your feelings, right?"
Ji Chengxuan turned to Yun Que'er and winked playfully, "You're absolutely right. That's exactly what I had in mind."