Chapter 19: Caught in the act (Small supplement) Yan Jiuru felt his eyes...
Chapter 19: Caught in the act
It was already past ten thirty in the evening when Yan Jiuru returned home.
I don’t know what’s wrong with Zhuangzhuang today, he’s inexplicably excited.
In the past, I would have eaten and gone to bed by this time of day, but today I wasn't sleepy at all. I kept my big black eyes open, kicked my legs, and kept mumbling "oh oh" to myself, but I didn't know what I was talking about.
Yan Jiuru grabbed his son's plump little feet and nibbled them twice, then gently slapped him. "Why aren't you sleeping yet?"
Chen Yin glanced at the father and son. "Who knows? He just won't sleep. He's tricked me into drinking milk twice already. And he doesn't even eat properly."
Yan Jiuru lifted her son's little feet and looked at his diaper, which was dry and clean.
Both of them are novices. It’s their first time being parents, so they really don’t understand what to do.
"I'll go ask my mother." Yan Jiuru turned around and was about to go out.
Chen Yin called back, "Don't disturb Mom so late. She's probably asleep. It looks like nothing's wrong."
Yan Jiuru disagreed and said, "It's better to do it early. What if something happens in the middle of the night? It will be more disturbing."
Yan Jiuru went to knock on his parents' door.
Upon hearing the news, Aunt Yan came over to take a look. She had given birth to several children and was very experienced.
"Touch the fur, it's not scared. Touch the ears, it's scared for a while..."
"He was still a little startled during the day, but a little yelling will do the trick. At night, be alert and let the child sleep between you two. With the protection of his parents, he should be able to sleep well."
In the past, Chen Yin would hold the child and sleep on one side, and Yan Jiuru would sleep next to Chen Yin. But tonight, the two of them sandwiched Zhuangzhuang in the middle, being very careful not to squeeze or crush him.
Maybe because his parents were both there, or maybe because they had turned off the lights, the little guy grunted twice, was gently patted a few times by his father, and then hugged by his mother, and soon fell asleep.
It’s just that I didn’t sleep well and occasionally I would suddenly shake, which had never happened before.
Yan Jiuru was indeed a demon lord. When his mother first told him about it, she was shocked and guessed that it was probably just a child's fright.
He casually drew a Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Defense Talisman and gently slapped it on his son. Although the spiritual energy was weak, it was still enough for the child.
Zhuangzhuang just twisted his head, relaxed his brows, and fell asleep peacefully.
Chen Yin naturally couldn't see it.
***
Chen Yin patted the child soothingly and asked softly, "How was the exam tonight?"
"Well, there's some clue, but we still need to make some arrangements to catch them in the act."
Chen Yin was quite happy to hear that there was some clue, "Who could it be?" Although Chen Yin was afraid, she was more curious.
"You'll never guess."
Yan Jiuru recounted the misdeeds of the old bachelor Feng Laosan and said, "Even the educated youth knew about this, so how come there was no word in the village?"
Chen Yin was silent for a moment, then said, "Back then, when the brigade was asked to build public toilets, the original intention was good, hoping that the whole village would save some manure together. But who wouldn't keep the good things within the family? How many people in the village used the public toilets? It's not like other things. It's really hard to control the defecation and urination. In the end, apart from the educated youth, the people who were sent down to the countryside used the public toilets."
Both types of people are willing to endure as much as possible and are unwilling to have conflicts with the villagers, or they are afraid of getting a bad reputation if they speak out, so they dare not say a word.
However, it is hard to say whether no one in the village saw it and neither of them said anything.
"Don't you have any explanation from the director of women's affairs?" Yan Jiuru asked.
Chen Yin was silent for a moment. "You know her. Her enthusiasm for work comes in waves. She'll do it whenever she wants. If no one asks her for help, she won't take the initiative to take care of anything. She doesn't like to listen to others' opinions. She just has a good mouth. Let's see if my father can make up his mind this time."
As for a women's director like this, it really seems like she is just occupying the toilet without doing anything.
Although it is a small brigade, the work inside is quite tedious. It is no longer popular to have one person have the final say. Except for the party branch, all other cadres are elected by the members.
"How can we set up a nursery in the village?"
"Oh? You mean like in the city, where you send your children there and there are childcare workers to look after them?" Chen Yin propped up her arms, her eyes sparkling in the darkness.
"Almost. I'm worried about leaving children under three at home unattended. They're exposed to the wind and sun, and they're tied up. They don't act like children, but more like puppies. If there's a nursery, there's someone to look after the children and feed them regularly, which makes things easier for both the children and the adults. It can also provide a few jobs."
However, their brigade was poor and could not afford to pay wages. At most, they gave work points and some food and money at the end of the year.
"I think it's quite difficult. If conditions permit, we must build a primary school first." Their brigade doesn't even have a primary school, and the children have to go to other brigades several miles away to go to school.
***
The next morning, Aunt Yan came to ask her grandson about what happened last night.
"Mom still has a way. He just shook a few times when he fell asleep, and he's fine now." Chen Yin held Zhuangzhuang to show her mother-in-law.
Aunt Yan looked at the slightly fluttering fontanelle on her grandson's head and instructed her daughter-in-law, "Take some time to make him a small hat out of thin cloth. This fontanelle hasn't fully grown yet, so it's easily affected by the wind and easily startled."
"Yeah, I understand, mom."
When the other elderly people found out, they also came to inquire, but children in the countryside were brought up in a rough environment, so as long as the illness was not serious, it was not a big deal.
When assigning work in the morning, everyone couldn't help but ask the team leader whether there were any results from yesterday's investigation.
The young female member felt uneasy if she didn't catch this person.
The captain took a quick look and said, "How can it be so fast? We need evidence in everything. To catch a thief, we have to get the dirt.
Don't worry, the team will continue to investigate. Everyone should be more vigilant, supervise each other, and report any abnormalities in a timely manner.
Okay, okay, stop yelling and get back to work, otherwise who will be the one starving if we can't get enough food?"
Everyone thought so too. Even if someone saw it, if they didn't shout it out on the spot, what could they do if they refused to admit it?
***
Time just passed day by day.
The rice planting lasted about a month. As the rice fields were filled day by day, the peeping incident was gradually forgotten.
Every day, the members of the cooperative come home exhausted from working in the fields, dragging their legs and unable to straighten their backs. They quickly eat a bite, wash up, and go to bed. Since they are not involved in the incident, who has the extra energy to care about this?
The rice planting is almost over.
That morning, the team leader divided the work: "Finish planting the rice fields today, and harvest them tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Then we can take a short break."
The so-called break does not mean there is no work.
There is still a lot of work to be done, including planting grains, planting vegetables, weeding, fertilizing, and pest control. There are countless trivial tasks for farmers.
Leisure is only relative to the busy planting and harvesting.
The team leader looked at the exhausted members and encouraged them, "When the time comes, the team will slaughter two pigs. One will be used for the whole village to enjoy the pig-killing meal, and the other will be used to distribute the meat to each family based on their work points in the first half of the year. Everyone, work hard."
These days, what could be more motivating than eating meat?
The members who originally looked gloomy and tired became excited in a matter of minutes!
"Captain, hurry up and assign the work. Why don't we finish it tomorrow or the day after tomorrow? Let's finish it today so we can slaughter the pigs tomorrow!"
"That's right, assign work, assign work!"
***
There were two pigs hanging in front, and the members were all as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood. They wanted to finish planting the rice fields in half a day.
Chen Yin and the others who were pulling out the seedlings were also very busy. They pulled out the seedlings, bundled them, and threw them into piles, repeating the same actions over and over again. It was not until they heard a baby crying near the woods that they realized it was already past the time to feed the baby.
"Oh my god, I forgot about the child."
The three of them hurriedly greeted everyone else, washed their hands and feet, and went to feed the child.
Although the sun is not very hot in the morning, you will still sweat even if you wear a straw hat if you stay in the sun all the time.
Chen Yin comforted her son, put a towel in warm water, wiped her son and herself clean, tidied herself up, and changed them into clean diapers.
Zhuangzhuang was very hungry. As soon as his mother picked him up, he snuggled into her arms and hummed like a piglet looking for food. Chen Yin lifted her clothes to feed him milk first, and then she walked slowly with the child in her arms.
I sat there for half the morning and my legs were numb.
Sister Mingli was also strolling around with her child in her arms, not forgetting to see what she was busy with. She tutted her tongue and said, "Young people nowadays are so particular. They have two or three hand towels, buckets and basins. Only the eldest son of the Yan family doesn't mind the trouble and carries them around every day. If it were my son, even a few kicks wouldn't stop him."
Liu Aihua's child also started to eat milk, and said with a smile: "That is also necessary to be particular, because the eldest son of the Yan family is so capable.
"I heard from the police a few days ago that Jiuru helped them catch two thieves in the county town, recovering hundreds of yuan in losses for the people on the spot. Crucially, they also uncovered a major provincial criminal gang and recovered lost supplies from several state-owned factories."
"Tsk tsk, not counting the banner and the certificate, the province gave me a 300 yuan reward, the county gave me 200 yuan, and the commune gave me 50 yuan, not to mention the tickets, coupons, and other things given by the factories."
"That's right. This time, the brigade will have to get a few more pounds of meat."
Sister Mingli looked envious. "Hey, I squeezed in to see that the textile factory that lost its goods gave back several pieces of satin quilt covers. I heard they are very valuable."
Liu Aihua also said enviously: "I heard from the owner that they are more than ten yuan each."
"I also heard that a representative from that factory said that the dozen or so boxes of goods that were lost were meant to be sold to foreigners for profit. Now that they can't deliver the goods, they're going to lose a lot of foreign money and have to pay compensation."
Chen Yin listened with a smile but didn't say anything.
***
In fact, Yan Jiuru didn’t tell anyone after he caught the thief. No one knew about it, and even he himself didn’t take it seriously.
Fortunately, the thief they caught was indeed a member of the gang. The woman was a relative of a core member and knew a lot. The police then followed the clues and found the gang's lair. They also successfully intercepted the stolen goods that were about to be dispersed and transferred that night.
Rather than recovering the huge economic losses of enterprises, it is better to say that it has restored the international contract credibility of Chinese enterprises.
As a few people were talking, Chen Yin suddenly looked up, and the feeling of being spied on came back!
Without bothering to put the child down, she turned and shouted towards the woods, "Who's in the tree?"
Almost at the same time, after a sound of breaking through the air, a scream came from the woods: "Ah~"
Then, there was a "thump~" sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.
Yan Jiuru dropped the slingshot in his hand and rushed into the woods in a few steps, followed closely by the militia platoon leader, the commune police, the team leader and others.
The man was obviously injured, but driven by a strong desire to survive, he suddenly got up and ran to the other side.
It wasn't far from the woods to the mountains, but once there, searching for someone in the vast expanse of the mountains was incredibly difficult when relying solely on manpower. It wasn't like anyone would starve to death in this season, so you could hide for a few months and never know where you could escape to.
"Stop, or I'll shoot you if you run again!" The police fired a shot into the air.
The man was obviously frightened, but he was more afraid of being shot if caught, so he ran even faster.
Yan Jiuru didn't bring a gun, but there was a stone under his feet. He kicked the stone and it hit the opponent's knee, and the opponent fell to his knees with a thud.
Platoon Leader Wang and the police from the commune police station had just loaded their bullets!
“Good skills!”
“Good job!”
Two fast-running militiamen quickly stepped forward, grabbed the man, and pulled his hair, "It's you!"
Feng Laosan collapsed on the ground, an arrow still stuck in one side of his buttocks, and shouted loudly: "What are you doing? I came here to take a shit, why are you arresting me?"
The public security officer was a tall veteran. He picked up the man and prevented him from lying on the ground.
"Oh my goodness!" This made everyone see the other person's pants that had fallen down and the dirt exposed in front, which was sticky.
Several people were disgusted.
"Fuck!" The two militiamen who twisted his arms couldn't help but curse and wanted to let go, because they found that this trash's hands were also dirty, because they didn't pay attention when they grabbed him, and they were all rubbed with dirt.
Yan Jiuru felt that his eyes were polluted. If he didn't get rid of this thing today, his evil heart would be affected.
"You all turn your faces away."
He raised his hand, broke off a piece of paper at his side, and whipped it out with a "swish".
"Ah~hmm"
The extreme pain made Feng Laosan let out a long and shrill howl, and Platoon Leader Wang covered his mouth with his hand.
Why are you howling? It's so unpleasant.
The captain closed his eyes. Anyway, his balls were not exploded and he was not castrated. He just cut off a small section.
For this kind of hooliganism caught in the act, there is no other option but to be shot.
There's no point keeping it.
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