"I understand, mother."
Zhou hurried back to her room to get dressed. Chunxiao was standing in the yard. "Second sister-in-law, you should go to bed first. This matter will probably continue for a while."
Zhang actually wanted to go and take a look. After all, who wouldn't be curious about such a big thing as catching a thief? But thinking of her two children at home and the dark, she thought, forget it, she could get the news tomorrow, so she nodded and went back to the house.
Zhou quickly got dressed and came out, asking Tian to look after her at home. The two of them walked to the gate to wait for Yan Dahe.
Soon, the sound of gongs and shouts of "The thief has been caught" were heard in the distance.
There were rustling noises all around, and the originally quiet winter night was now noisy with the sound of many people. Gradually, people came out with torches, and when they saw me, they asked where the thief was caught.
The village head quickly followed Yan Dahe over. Besides them, there were many people holding torches following behind them.
A group of people walked towards the end of the village in a mighty procession, talking about something as they walked. Some people all said that Yan Bingfa was very powerful as he had caught the thief in the act. Others said that the feng shui of the place at the end of the village was bad as the thief had gone there to cause trouble.
By the time everyone arrived at Chunxiao's yard, more than half an hour had passed since the thief was caught.
Yan Bangfa noticed someone coming and quickly dragged the two people tied up into the yard. Zhou, avoiding anyone, slipped to the back door to check, only to return when it was closed.
"Village head, we caught these two thieves in the act."
When everyone brought the torches closer, Chunxiao realized that her father and her elder brother had bruises on their faces.
"Isn't this Sanjiang from Uncle Qingquan's family? How could it be him?" Someone leaned in with a torch to look at the person, and saw the person lying on the ground still struggling. "Who is this one?"
"The other one is not from our village."
"Tsk tsk, I really can't believe that Sanjiang actually became a thief. A few days ago, Aunt Sun was still telling everyone that their Sanjiang had made a name for himself. So this is how he has made it." Someone laughed awkwardly.
"Has anyone from the Qingquan family come? There must be an explanation for what happened to this family member."
The village head saw Yan Sanjiang lying on the ground and twisting violently, so he asked someone to take the rag that was gagged out of his mouth and said, "I caught you red-handed today. Do you have any defense?" Another person was also struggling, but no one paid any attention to him. Everyone was looking at Yan Sanjiang.
Yan Sanjiang had just unsealed his mouth and was gasping for breath. He looked at everyone and simply sat up with his head lowered.
"If you don't tell me, I will hand you all over to the authorities." There was a thief in the village, and the head of the village felt very embarrassed.
Everyone was urging him to go, and some even shouted to send him directly to the authorities.
Although Yan Bangfa and his gang had some injuries on their faces and bodies, they were very proud when they saw the two people who were captured. "Village head, if he doesn't tell us, just go find his parents. We lost a lot of silver a few days ago. We must make up for this loss."
"Village head, things are not what you think. I am not here to steal anything." Yan Sanjiang finally spoke.
Da He sneered, "Aren't you here to steal something? Then what are you doing here in the middle of the night? Are you giving money to our Chun Xiao?"
Yan Sanjiang glanced deeply at Chunxiao beside Yan Bingfa, and suddenly sighed, "I have no choice but to say it now. Chunxiao, you have to understand me!"
Chunxiao suddenly had a bad feeling that this guy was going to do something weird.
"I came here today because I had an appointment with Chunxiao. Some time ago, I went home and found out that she was divorced and living alone, so I looked for her. I thought I was alone too, and maybe we could get together. After a few interactions, I found that she was also interested, so we ended up getting together."
What a fuck!
"You're talking nonsense!" Zhou went up and slapped him in the face. "He came to our house to steal things and now he dares to throw dirty water on Chunxiao's head. Dashan, beat him to death, beat him to death." Zhou was really furious.
Yan Dashan also stepped forward and kicked him, "I told you not to talk nonsense."
The Yan family all joined in the fight. Seeing the man being severely beaten, the village head hurriedly asked the villagers to pull him apart. He was also a little speechless, "Yan Sanjiang, don't bite people recklessly. If you really want to meet someone, why did you bring someone else with you? Do you have any special habits?"
"Village head, hurry up and send him to the authorities. I wonder if he'll still tell the truth after being beaten by the officials." Zhou was so angry that she was out of breath. Yan Bingfa stood by to calm her down.
"Village head, uncles and aunts, what I said is true. Although it was wrong for me to give and take something privately, it's not a big mistake. This person next to me is my friend who works with me in the county town. Chunxiao said that we were having a secret meeting and were afraid that people would find out, so I had no choice but to ask him to help watch over me. Who knew this woman was so vicious, turning her back on me and even having my family set a trap to catch me? I'm afraid she was divorced by her husband and wanted to extort some money from others. If I had known she was so vicious, I would never have asked her out for anything."
Yan Bingfa had been trying to persuade Zhou not to get herself hurt by anger, but after hearing Zhou's nonsense, he couldn't help but kick him. "You are worse than pigs and dogs. You are spewing shit here. You say you are old, what does my daughter want from being with you?" He wanted to kick the man again but was stopped.
"Uncle Bingfa, you can't kill me just for Chunxiao. I'd like to ask the village head to make the decision for me."
The villagers started talking again, and some women turned their eyes to Chunxiao. There were always some people who had fantasies and felt that this was not impossible.
Chun Xiao was so angry that she was speechless. This Yan Sanjiang was really shameless. "You said I was having an affair with you, so I want to ask, what do I want from you?"
Yan Sanjiang looked at her silently, "Didn't you say that you were kicked out of the Zhou family and had no one to rely on, and didn't want to live under the control of your brother and sister-in-law in the future? You also asked me to find a suitable day to propose marriage." He covered his face with his hands in pretending to be disappointed and sad, "How could you change so quickly!"
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