It’s half past the Yin hour.
Ye Meizi got up. She moved very quietly for fear of disturbing Qin Nian. She wanted Qin Nian to sleep a little longer.
Mrs. Li is old and doesn't sleep much, so she woke up early. Like Ye Meizi, she didn't even turn over to let Qin Nian sleep a little longer.
Only when Ye Meizi got up did she slowly get dressed and prepare to help Ye Meizi light a fire.
Ye Meizi made some dough last night and planned to steam buns and cook rice porridge in the morning.
The house was demolished yesterday, but the wall bricks were not all cleared out, so it will take another day today.
After Ye Meizi scooped water to wash her hands, she entered Qin Nian's house. When she came to the table, she found something wrong - where was the wash basin?
She hurriedly asked Mrs. Li who followed in, "Mrs. Li, did you move the basin last night?"
Mrs. Li shook her head: "I didn't touch the basin."
Ye Meizi's face turned pale: "The wash basin is missing, was there a thief who came in last night?"
The two men quickly checked other things and found that the jar of lard and the jar of sugar were missing.
Needless to say, it must have been a thief who came in at night.
Over the years, many villagers do not lock their doors when they go to bed at night, and do not lock their doors when they go out to chat during the day.
I have never lost anything in all these years.
Who is so useless as to steal these verbal treats?
Qin Nian was a light sleeper. When Ye Meizi and Li Pozi got up, she also got up. After coming over, she realized that she had lost something.
Qin Nian was calmer than Ye Meizi and Li Pozi. She remembered that she was the one who moved the jar of lard over when they were packing up Ye Meizi's house.
There was a pile of mud outside the yard that had been mixed and kept for use. When she walked over, her foot slipped and she almost fell.
He was so scared that he put the jar of lard on the ground, and there was some mud on the bottom of the jar.
After returning to the house, Qin Nian placed the jar on the broken grass.
The broken grass was chopped up by Geng Zhenhai with a scythe and used to make mud for laying stones and plastering walls.
The jar must have been stained with grass clippings, but the thief must not have noticed this at night and must have been in a hurry to get rid of the grass clippings.
If you search along the broken grass, you will most likely find the thief's home.
Qin Nian expressed her thoughts, and Ye Meizi, whose face turned pale with anxiety, immediately came out of the house.
Following Qin Nian, he lowered his head to look at the ground and searched outside the gate.
Mrs. Li followed the two men with a stick in her hand, muttering:
"Once I find that thief, I will definitely beat him up and discipline that beast on behalf of his parents.
God, you said you wouldn’t rain, but please send some thunder to kill those beasts on a sunny day. Then no one will dare to do evil anymore.
Even if there's no thunder, his house should be set on fire and burn him to death--"
Mrs. Li followed and cursed all the way.
After walking for a long time, we met Geng Zhenhai and his group.
Geng Feng was stunned and asked hurriedly: "Xiao Nian, what's wrong? What are you looking for?"
"Looking for a thief."
Qin Nian told the story of losing things again and also explained her method.
Geng Feng turned around and looked, then whispered, "I met Dong Biao last night and had a quarrel with him—"
Mrs. Li slapped her stick and said, "This fallen grass is going to the Dong family.
However, we cannot deny this kind of thing, we must get evidence.
Go, follow the broken grass."
The six people followed the intermittent broken grass on the ground and entered Dong Biao's yard.
Several people looked at each other and understood that the thief must be Dong Biao.
Geng Zhenhai walked in front and pushed open the door of Dong's house.
The kitchen was steaming and the water in the pot was boiling. Dong Bao's wife was on duty, steaming buns and was about to put them in the pot when the Geng family arrived.
Last night, after Dong Bao came back, he told his wife that they had gone to Geng's house to steal things.
When the woman heard that the noodles were stolen, she was delighted: "I have to work the meal shift tomorrow and get up early to steam buns. I haven't eaten buns for almost a year."
As a result, before the steamed buns were put into the pot, the Geng family came.
Mrs. Li knocked on the stove with a stick and said, "Hey, you're steaming buns. When did you start making the dough?"
Dong Bao's wife's face suddenly turned the color of liver.
Anyway, she didn't steal the things, so she didn't say anything, walked quickly to the door of the east room, and pushed it open.
While Mrs. Dong was stunned, six people from the Geng family came in.
Geng Zhenhai snorted coldly: "Something was lost in my house yesterday. Was it you, Dong Biao, who stole it?"
Mrs. Dong jumped up and said, "Geng Zhenhai, you can't afford to build a house? Are you trying to blackmail me?"
Mrs. Li hit Mrs. Dong in the chest with a stick, pushing her back several steps:
"You don't have to deny it. The dough your daughter-in-law uses to make steamed buns was stolen from my house by your son.
There is also a jar of meat oil and a can of sugar. Hurry and hand them over. I don’t want the flour, I will exchange it for one tael of silver.”
"Mrs. Li, you can't afford to be poor, can you? Go to the kitchen and take a look. Do you dare to say that the bowl where my dough rises is yours?"
When Qin Nian heard this, he immediately understood that the washbasin had been changed.
"Mrs. Dong, you are not that stupid. You even knew to change the wash basin.
We are too lazy to argue with you, so hurry up and take out the things and return them to us."
As soon as Qin Nian finished speaking, Mrs. Dong pointed at Qin Nian and cursed. Mrs. Li was furious and hit Mrs. Dong with a stick.
Dong Hu, Dong Bao, Dong Biao and Dong Feng all came over, cursing and insisting that they did not steal anything.
Geng Zhenhai, Geng Feng and Geng Tian were not the cowardly types, and when they were about to start a fight, Qin Nian hurriedly stopped them.
She looked at Geng Feng and said, "No need to do anything, this matter is easy to solve. Go find the head of the village, and invite the villagers if you meet them.
When the people come, I will give you evidence of the Dong family stealing things."
Geng Feng agreed and left in a flash.
Soon, the village head and five villagers from the west were invited to Dong Biao's house by Geng Feng.
As soon as I entered the yard, I heard a quarrel in the house.
Mrs. Li spoke the loudest: "Dong's Western Rat, you don't have to be stubborn. You are the ones who stole my things.
You don't admit it, right? When it's revealed later, you'll have to slap yourself in the face.
And Mrs. Dong, you said you are already old, but you still steal things, how shameful."
When they saw the head of the village come in, all the Dong family members jumped up and down, saying that Geng Zhenhai and Qin Nian had falsely accused them of stealing.
The head of the village knows the character of the Dong family very well.
His eyes fell on Qin Nian's face: "Xiao Nian, do you have evidence that they stole it?"
"have."
Qin Nian had stuck a lot of broken grass on her jar, and they told the story of how they found the Dong family along the broken grass:
"Village head, there was no wind last night, and the fallen grass is still on the road.
Just walk back to my house. The noodles we made last night are all in their kitchen.”
Dong Hu: "Everyone in Dawa Village knows that our Dong family's ancestors were businessmen? My family has plenty of money, but we can't afford flour?
Why do you say our noodles are from her family?"
Dong Bao: "The broken grass was thrown on the road by Qin Nian himself in order to frame my family."
......
The Dong family refused to admit it.
Qin Nian smiled and waved to Dong Bao's wife: "Come here."
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