Chapter 176 Listening to Gossip

The five thieves were like dead pigs, completely unconscious. Li Xiao soon threw them all back under the wall.

Then he returned to the tree he had just been standing on.

After Yin Huaixi was sure that Li Xiao was hidden well, she went back and told her daughter about it.

Upon hearing that the house was almost robbed, Jiang Wan's drowsy mind immediately became clear.

"Mother, you said that Uncle Anan helped to catch this person? Why is he here so late at night?"

"I didn't ask that. Maybe he wanted to come and see Anan."

This is the only thing that can get him down the mountain.

"Uncle Anan is not important. We have to deal with those thieves now. Remember, no matter who asks you later, don't mention Uncle Anan."

Jiang Wan nodded obediently.

Uncle Anan is from the mountains, and his identity is sensitive. It would be a shame if he didn't tell anyone about it late at night. If he told anyone about it, people's attention would no longer be on the thief.

"Mother, do you want to make a big fuss?"

"Of course. It's too much trouble to deal with it secretly. We can't kill them. Most of these people are not from the village. Let the village chief and his men deal with them."

She and her daughter were weak in the eyes of outsiders, so let those bad guys continue to think so. If they had the courage to come, she had the ability to keep them.

Yin Huaixi washed his face and started shouting to catch a thief as soon as he went out.

Suddenly someone shouted "Catch a thief" in the quiet night, and the villagers nearby who were alert got up immediately.

Yin Huaishan was also awakened. When he heard his little sister's voice, he was about to run out with his crutches. Song Wenhui was so scared that she immediately pulled him back.

"Come on, just stay home. Your leg isn't fully healed yet. What if you go out in the dark and fall again? Besides, you can't help much like this. I'll go."

Then she took the lamp and left.

The closest to Jiang Wan's family and the fastest to arrive were Lao Niu's family. Both the father and son were strong men, one holding a shoulder pole and the other holding an axe, followed by an imposing old lady.

"Doctor Yin! Where is the thief?!"

Yin Huaixi pointed to the courtyard wall.

“It seems to be all there.”

Lao Niu and his family rushed over immediately, shone the light, and found that there were five people!

"Eh? She fainted and passed out."

The father and son each picked up two thieves and dragged them to the wide roadside.

"Doctor Yin, there are five people under the courtyard wall, but they are all unconscious."

Yin Huaixi patted his chest in fear.

"Thank you, Uncle Niu. I just heard some noise on the wall but I didn't dare to go over to take a look."

As they were talking, the neighbors who heard the noise came rushing over.

There hadn't been any thefts in the village for years, and everyone wanted to see who the thief was today.

When I shone the light on them, I found that except for one person who looked familiar, I didn't recognize the other four.

"This looks like the fourth child of the Chang Geng family, right?"

"It's him! I saw his father scolding him a few days ago, scolding him for hanging out with bad people all day long."

"This brat actually brought outsiders into the village to steal Doctor Yin's house. How despicable! I'm going to call his father!"

An enthusiastic neighbor turned around and ran away before Yin Huaixi could even open his mouth to stop him.

"Little sister, are you okay?"

"It's okay. These people fainted before they could even climb over the wall."

Hearing this, the neighbors became curious.

"How come they all fainted all of a sudden?"

"I don't know about that. Wanwan and I were busy dealing with herbs today and haven't slept yet. Suddenly, we heard a few screams from the other side of the courtyard wall. It was really scary."

Yin Huaixi's frightened look was very pitiful. She now held a high position in the hearts of the villagers, and the more so, the more they hated those thieves.

Everyone was thinking about the five thieves on the ground, and for a moment no one thought about how they got dizzy.

Jiang Wan knew it best, because she was the one who inserted those bamboo thorns on the courtyard wall one by one.

The potion was prepared by A Niang. She would replenish the bamboo thorns with water every two or three days to ensure that not even a mouse could get in.

The mother and daughter had no intention of killing anyone; they only used very powerful drugs.

Fortunately, they put some medicine on the wall. Otherwise, these five people would have broken in...

It's better to be safe than sorry.

Soon the five people on the ground were tied up by the villagers. There was a commotion at the end of the path, and more villagers rushed over, including the family of one of the thieves.

Wu Changgeng took a wooden stick and after confirming which one was his son, he immediately beat him with the stick.

His son was awakened by the pain.

"You hit me again, old man!!"

Wu Xiaosi, who had just woken up, shouted angrily, and only then did he feel that he had been tied up tightly. When he looked up and saw Doctor Yin in the crowd, he remembered what he had done today.

Suddenly a cold sweat broke out.

Wu Changgeng was so angry that he gritted his teeth and wanted to hit again when suddenly a woman rushed over and hugged his waist to stop him from hitting her.

"Boss! Stop beating me! I only have one son!"

"Get out of my way!"

Wu Changgeng pushed the woman away directly, but was stopped by his eldest son again.

"Father, no matter how much trouble the fourth child causes, you have to let Doctor Yin handle it. If you kill him, you will have to pay for it yourself."

When Wu Changgeng heard what Doctor Yin said, he immediately calmed down. He turned around and apologized to Yin Huaixi without saying a word of pleading.

There was a lot of noise outside, but Jiang Wan didn't go out. She just stayed in the yard and watched the situation outside.

Xiaoman and Baozhu came with their parents. When they saw Jiang Wan alone in the yard, they came in to keep her company.

Jiang Wan looked for a while and suddenly said, "There's something weird in that thief's house."

When the woman was thrown away just now, no one came to help her. Even her son only cared about his father and didn't care about his mother or his brother.

No, that doesn't look like her son.

She just said she had only one son.

Xiaoman and Baozhu looked at each other. They didn't expect Xiaowan's eyes were so sharp.

"His family is a mess. The little thief is called Wu Ping, and he is the son of Uncle Chang Geng's wife. The way his mother married into the family was not honorable, and he didn't look like Uncle Chang Geng when he grew up, so many people said he was not Uncle Chang Geng's son."

Baozhu also knows something.

"Wu Ping's mother was very mean to her first few children. She used to beat and scold the other children whenever Uncle Chang Geng went out to sea. Later, when Uncle Chang Geng found out, he made a scene. He was about to divorce her, but she hanged herself at the door of the village chief's house, scaring him so much that he fell ill."

"Later, Wu Ping suddenly fell ill, and the divorce was put aside for the time being. After his eldest son got married, Uncle Chang Geng divided the house and took the two children from his first wife to live with his eldest son. He didn't divorce his wife, but they didn't live together either."

Jiang Wan was so engrossed in listening to the gossip that she was now more curious as to whether Wu Ping was Uncle Chang Geng's son.