The voice was a little hoarse and rough, and sounded like Guard Feng who was often with Guard Xiao.
Wei Yunlan sat up, put on his outer robe and went out.
Heiyun followed closely beside her, and Gao immediately put on her clothes and followed. As soon as the mother and daughter entered the yard, they saw Feng's men holding a man.
The man was wearing a ragged dark-colored hemp cloth, with a scarf covering his face and his arms tied behind his back. Fortunately, he struggled hard, but unfortunately, he was much weaker than Guard Feng and could not break free.
"Thief?" Gao's brows furrowed, and her first reaction was that her family was being plotted against by the villagers.
But before Guard Feng could answer, the detained "little thief" shouted, "I'm not a thief!"
"You're not a thief. Why would you dress like this and sneak into someone's yard in the middle of the night?" Feng Ping tightened his grip, "Behave yourself."
"I really didn't steal anything, I don't believe you...hiss."
Feeling the pain, the "little thief" shut up halfway through his words.
Wei Yunlan followed his gaze and saw that the door of the kitchen next door was open. Through the crack, she could vaguely see a bag of something piled against the wall.
Ningshuang came over with an oil lamp.
Wei Yunlan took the oil lamp and shone it over there, and saw clearly that there was a bulging grain bag inside.
During a famine, few families would put food at their doorsteps, let alone when they used the kitchen in the yard to boil water yesterday, they did not see such a big bag.
The only explanation is that this bag of food just appeared here.
After taking a look at the little thief who was still crying out that he was innocent, Wei Yunlan said, "Maybe he... didn't steal anything."
As soon as he finished speaking, several figures appeared in the yard one after another.
It was Qi Xu, Pei Hu and others. Each of them was holding a masked person. The last two people who fell behind each held a bag in their left and right hands.
The noise in the yard had already awakened all the sleeping people. Village Chief Han and his wife and the rest of the Wei family came to the yard. Looking at the six extra masked men, Village Chief Han patted his chest in fear. Fortunately, he let the passing family stay overnight in the village today, otherwise they would not have discovered that someone had sneaked into the village in the middle of the night!
"Who are you and why did you sneak into our village in the middle of the night?" Village Chief Han frowned. Their village was so poor, how could it be targeted by thieves?
"It's a misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding..." explained a masked man.
"We've caught the criminal red-handed, how could there be any misunderstanding?" Village Chief Han stared at the masked man who spoke.
As soon as he finished speaking, Qi Xu pointed to the extra bags of things in the yard and said, "Maybe there is a misunderstanding here. Miss Wei's guess just now is right. These people are indeed not thieves. They are not here to steal things, but to deliver things to your village."
"Ah?" Village Chief Han was completely confused by these words.
Seeing Qi Xu pointing at the large bags on the ground, he walked over, bent down, untied them and looked at them, and asked in surprise, "Food?"
"Are you saying that these people came to our village in the middle of the night with their faces covered to bring us food?"
This guy is not a thief, he is simply the reincarnation of Guanyin Bodhisattva!
"Old Han." The village chief's wife was calmer than Village Chief Han. She called her husband and reminded him, "Look at these grain bags. Do they look like... do they look like the grain used to store tax grain?"
Village Chief Han's expression changed immediately.
He borrowed the oil lamp from Wei Yunlan, squatted down and carefully checked the bags one by one, and then looked at the extra large bag of grain in his own kitchen.
He pointed at the masked men with an unpleasant expression and said, "Okay, you guys, you are the thieves who stole the county government's granary? You were the ones who stole the grain from our village before, right?"
"You hid these bags of grain in our village in the middle of the night. Are you trying to frame the Hanjia Village for the grain theft and make us take the blame for you?" Village chief Han was angry and anxious.
However, the masked men who had just been released were even more angry. The leader shouted indignantly, "Bullshit!"
"Who framed your Han Village? As long as you don't shout it out, no one will know that your village has extra food!"
"You are so shameless and don't know how to appreciate kindness! If we weren't worried that your village would run out of food, why would we make this difficult trip in the middle of the night?"
"Damn it, if we had known your village was so ungrateful, we would not have come to your Hanjia Village and would have gone directly to the neighboring Dujia Village!"
Several masked men pointed at the village head Han and his wife and cursed at them.
One of them was so excited that the mask covering his face accidentally fell off.
After seeing his exposed face, the village head's wife was startled, "You... I'm not mistaken, you are Binzi from Uncle Liu's family, right?"
Village Chief Han looked at his wife in surprise, "Isn't Uncle Liu San from your mother's village?"
Liu Bin lowered his head after being recognized.
The other masked men glared at him with disappointment and then pulled off the masks on their faces.
In addition to Liu Bin, three of the six people, including Village Chief Han and his wife, looked familiar. Although they were not from Hanjia Village, they had seen them at the market or other times. They were all from the vicinity of Xiakou County.
"What are you doing..." The village chief and his wife looked at each other.
"I'm Tang Hai from Tangjia Village. Village Chief Han should be familiar with me. I have a cousin who married in your village. I came with her when she got married last year." Among the six people, it was obviously the one who made the decision who spoke.
Then he glanced at the wide-open gate and the people with high Kung Fu skills in the yard, "Close the gate first. We can't run away anyway, so don't alert more people."
Village Chief Han looked at the Wei family members beside him as if asking questions.
After all, these people were captured by their people.
"Close the door." Wei Yunlan said.
She had already clearly understood that although the two sides had just pointed fingers at each other and cursed at each other, in fact, these six people had no ill will towards Hanjia Village.
The yard became quiet and Village Chief Han invited everyone into the main hall.
The people from Tianshu Pavilion and Liu Quan and Dong Da from the Wei family were guarding outside the house.
Tang Hai glanced outside, and gave up the idea of escaping. He said truthfully, "Yes, we stole the county government's granary."
“It’s really you!”
Village Chief Han's eyes widened. "Then the food in our village is also..."
"Your village also has food from other villages, we didn't steal it." Tang Hai interrupted him and lowered his voice.
"The grains from the villages were robbed by Magistrate Lu of Xiakou County. Where do you think the grains in the county government's granary came from?"
"Hiss, it's actually the county magistrate?"
Village chief Han and his wife took a deep breath. They had thought about who might be the one who stole the grain, but they had never thought that it was someone sent by the government.
Isn't this just pushing people to death?
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