After hearing Su Qingluan's words, the woman turned her head and looked over.
The woman looked about the same age as Yang, no more than thirty years old, but there were already traces of light graying on her forehead.
As for her appearance, although it can be considered regular, with thin eyebrows, eyes, slightly thick diamond-shaped lips, and a rosy and healthy complexion, she is still a little far from being the "Xi Shi".
By the way, the woman's surname was Xi, and she sold pancakes, so everyone jokingly called this "Xi" lady "Xi Shi".
Seeing that it was Su Qingluan, the pancake-making lady laughed heartily and said, "Oh, is it the Su family's eldest lady who has returned?"
Although she had a smile on her face, she did not slacken the strength in her hands at all, as could be seen from the skinny thief's grimacing and screaming reaction.
Su Qingluan seemed to be able to hear the creaking sound of the bones in the arms of the person in the pancake beauty's arms, which made her feel a pang of pain in her teeth and stomach. She couldn't help but increase her voice with caution: "Um, Madam Xi, who is this little brother...?"
"He's a shitty brother!" Chui Pancake Xishi spat on the ground and yelled at the two men who were still wrestling, "Stop it, you two! I've caught your accomplice. Even if you beat your heads into dog heads, you won't get a penny!"
Su Qingluan only felt that the shout from Chuibing Xishi was not coming from her mouth, but from somewhere deeper - it had greater strength and impact, making her ears almost buzz. It was different from the harsh sound of ordinary people shouting.
If there is an expert here, he can hear clearly: this pancake-making beauty has some skills, so her "roar" is different from the ordinary people's shouting, it is the energy sinking into the dantian, coming from the inside out.
To an outsider like Su Qingluan, although he didn't understand the ins and outs of it, he could still tell the difference from ordinary people.
The shout was so penetrating that even the two men grappling in the midst of the noisy crowd heard it. Both froze, but how could they possibly admit it? They continued to push and shove, muttering things like, "Why are you wrongly accusing a good man?" but their demeanor weakened.
Although Su Qingluan has never been involved in the underworld, she has seen a lot of various scams and theft gangs in modern legal education programs. She has also heard of similar cases of gangs that "make a feint to the east and attack the west" this time.
So she said casually, "Madam Xi, I heard that if ordinary people catch thieves and report them to the government, there will be a reward. Let's hand this pickpocket over to the county magistrate and have him torture him. I believe he won't be able to find out who his accomplices are."
Su Qingluan naturally knew that ordinary people had no right to ask the county magistrate to use torture - let alone lynching - but she felt that according to the level of "popularization of legal knowledge" in this era, one or two street thugs should not know about such things.
Sure enough, when the pickpocket heard that he would be sent to see the authorities and would be severely punished, he was so frightened that his legs went weak and he trembled all over. He quickly confessed that the two people fighting were accomplices - there were even two lookouts!
Naturally, the thieves were taken back to the county government office by the patrolling police chief. At this time, Xishi Chui Pancake weighed the silver coins that had been stolen from the Su family and slapped them into Su Qingluan's palm: "Count them quickly, is there anything missing?"
Yang and Su Guangfu also realized that they had been tricked, and hurried forward to thank Madam Xi repeatedly.
The skinny monkey who had been watching the fun nearby couldn't help but joke, "This pancake beauty is incredible! She clamped the pickpocket in just a few moves, making him unable to move! Even the masters at home would be so scared that they would be unable to straighten their backs, right?"
As for Shou Hou'er, although he is a good person, he is sometimes not very careful with his words, so he often "talks out of trouble", such as now -
“Ah ...
Mrs. Xi stretched out her arm, and with very clever and swift movements, she extended her thumb and index finger - then she pinched the thin cheek skin of the skinny monkey, which was almost sunken, and pulled it outwards, then twisted it with her backhand, and the skinny monkey began to grimace and beg for mercy.
Unfortunately, Mrs. Xi didn't know how to use such strength that even though the skinny monkey kept struggling, he couldn't break free and could only endure the pain of "grinning".
"Brother Skinny Monkey, why are you doing this?" Su Qingluan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Mrs. Xi was doing something righteous and saved my family from financial ruin. Why are you talking to me so harshly?"
Now that's good. I've made a habit of talking nonsense, and now I've finally hit a wall.
"I'm wrong, I'm wrong!" Skinny Monkey cried out inwardly, thinking, "You're so rude!" But he had to apologize vaguely, otherwise he felt like his mouth would be torn apart.
Su Guangfu and Yang also came to persuade them, saying that the skinny monkey was so talkative and it was really outrageous, and then they begged Madam Xi to be magnanimous and not really tear his mouth.
Aunt Yang was originally standing by, fixing the cloth and watching Skinny Monkey making a fool of himself. Later, seeing that he was really being pinched and felt a little pitiful, she couldn't help but step forward and say a few words to help him.
After a few exchanges, Madam Xi sneered, "Today, for the sake of these kind neighbors, I'm not going to bother with your nagging! If I hear you gossiping again tomorrow, I'll tear your mouth off!"
Mrs. Xi raised her eyebrows when she said this, and her slender eyes, which originally looked very kind, opened wide, with a gleam like lightning, which made the skinny monkey feel guilty.
"I won't dare anymore!" Rubbing his burning cheeks, the skinny monkey timidly apologized, "Even if I had ten or eight more courage, I wouldn't dare to call you a pancake beauty!"
Oh, this woman looks inconspicuous, but the strength in her hands is really scary - Skinny Monkey muttered to himself.
The Su family of three turned around and hurriedly thanked the lady at the table. After all, if that group had succeeded, the Su family's half-month of hard work would have been in vain. Especially since that skinny pickpocket had nearly taken away a five-liang silver ingot. Su Qingluan felt a pang of pain just thinking about losing the money!
Yang enthusiastically scooped three spoonfuls of offal soup and handed it to Madam Xi. "My family's small business is nothing new. If you don't mind, why not try it?"
Although Madam Xi bought pancakes diagonally across from the Su family's stall, which was only a few dozen steps away, she had never come here to try the offal soup from the Su family's stall.
It’s not that she doesn’t want to come and try something new occasionally, but it’s because she has to be busy setting up the stall in the morning. By the time she has free time, the offal at the Su family’s stall will have been sold out.
What's more, due to her own personal reasons, Mrs. Xi was reluctant to buy and drink the offal soup even if it cost only a few cents.
She was going to refuse at first, but the spicy and fragrant taste of the offal soup was so tempting that she took the bowl unconsciously.
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