Aunt Jiang rushed forward and tried to lift up the man who had fallen to the ground. He was face down with his hands covering his face. Tragically, one of his hands was holding a mousetrap.
"Who are you? Stop covering your face and show us your dirty face."
The man refused to speak, holding his head tightly and trying hard to protect his face.
"That's not right." Aunt Liang noticed something was wrong. "Aunt Jiang, why does he look so familiar to me? Look at the clothes he's wearing, why do they look so much like your Dazhi's clothes?"
"Don't talk nonsense! My Dazhuang can't do this. He is sleeping in the house now!" Aunt Jiang refused to admit it.
Yuan Sihai came closer, took a closer look, and said with certainty: "It's Dazhi! Aunt Jiang, this is your son!"
"Yes, yes, he was wandering around our yard for a long time this afternoon wearing this outfit. I saw it too." Daliang also spoke.
"Ah?" Aunt Jiang started to wonder, "This is impossible! My son is not wearing this kind of clothes today!"
"Oh, are you getting old and confused? How could it not be him? This is him!" Yuan Sihai shone the flashlight at Niu Dazhi, "Don't hide your face, kid. We live in the same courtyard, so we all know each other."
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"Dazhi? Is it really you? Let mom take a look!"
Aunt Jiang stepped forward and twisted the man’s head up, but it didn’t help.
Who else could it be if not her son?
But his son's face was a little scary. Blood was oozing out of his nose, two of his teeth were knocked out, blood was oozing from the corners of his mouth, and there was a bump the size of an egg on his forehead, which was purple and scary.
"Oh my! My ancestors!" Aunt Jiang sat down on the ground with a plop. "Why is it you? Why did you steal things?"
Niu Dazhi couldn't stand the pain any more. He hugged Aunt Jiang's thighs and howled, "Mom, it hurts! I'm dying of pain!"
When Ye Li saw Niu Dazhi's unlucky look, he exchanged glances with Jiang Xun, and the corners of both of their mouths slightly raised.
"It's really you?" She pretended to be ignorant. "Niu Dazhi, what did you steal from my kitchen? I thought it was a thief from outside!"
"You didn't say anything, and we didn't know it was you! Otherwise, I couldn't just throw you to the ground!" Jiang Xun added.
Niu Dazhi was speechless. His nose kept bleeding and he wiped it left and right.
"Niu Dazhi, this is where you're wrong! We're from the same compound, if you want to eat chicken you should just tell me straight away, why did you steal things secretly? Luckily I picked up a feather duster, if I had picked up a kitchen knife, you'd be dead today!" Ye Li said.
"Stop talking, stop talking. Please take out the mousetrap for me! It hurts so much!" Niu Dazhi had lost two teeth and his speech was lisp.
"Come, let me help you get it." Ye Li stepped forward to help him get the mousetrap.
Niu Dazhi felt both pain and shame: "Ye Li you are so cruel! You almost beat me to death!"
"You deserve it!" Ye Li glared at him. "Who told you to steal? It was just you. We are neighbors living in the same courtyard. If it was someone else, I would have taken you to the police station!"
After learning that it was Niu Dazhi who stole the things, the neighbors looked at him differently.
"Dazhi, this kind of thing has never happened in our compound in all these years. You said you didn't learn from the good things, so why did you learn something like this?"
"That's right, we are all neighbors. Isn't it shameful for you to do such a thing?"
Aunt Jiang felt bad when she heard her son being scolded.
"Just stop talking about him. Can't you see how miserable he is now?"
"Just protect Jiang Chunying!" Zhao Xingmei also stood up. She knew that it was Niu Dazhi who stole things. She was so angry in her heart, "He did such a shameful thing, you should educate him! He is so grown up, but he actually stole chickens! If you want to eat chickens, why don't you earn money and find a way to buy them yourself?"
Niu Dazhi was being scolded by a bunch of people. At this moment, he wanted to find a hole in the ground to crawl into: "Stop talking, I was just... confused for a moment. Ouch, my tooth hurts so much!"
"Dazhi, this is the first and last time. Next time if we catch you stealing, we won't be polite and will send you directly to the police station!" Ye Li said seriously.
Niu Dazhi nodded hurriedly: "No, no..."
"I won't pursue this with you today! Get up and have some rest, and go get those two teeth fixed tomorrow."
After Aunt Jiang calculated, she found out that she needed to have her nose done and two teeth fixed, which would cost money!
You only earn a few dollars a month, but you spend money like this. How is this acceptable?
"Ye Li, it was you two who injured the man, you have to pay compensation!" Aunt Jiang started to act like a rogue again.
"What? Aunt Jiang, did I hear it right?"
"You heard me right. You have to pay!"
"You stole things, I caught the thief! I beat him up, he deserved it, can you blame me? Who told you to steal things?"
"That's right, Aunt Jiang, you're wrong to say that! It was Dazhi who was wrong!" Aunt Liang took the opportunity to say, "It's good enough that they don't hold you accountable. What else do you want money for?"
"Jiang Chunying, you old hag, you're not tired of taking advantage of me, are you? I haven't settled the score with you yet, but you dare to ask my eldest son's wife for money! Now I suspect that it was you who asked your son to steal things!" Zhao Xingmei cursed.
"What nonsense are you talking about? Zhao Xingmei, you can't produce ivory from a dog's mouth! If I let my Dazhi steal things, I'm not a human being!" Aunt Jiang cursed angrily.
"Who said that a dog can't spit out ivory?" Zhao Xingmei rolled up her sleeves and said, "Say it to me again!"
"You, you, you! It's you!" Aunt Jiang jumped up and pointed at Zhao Xingmei.
"Mom, stop talking, I'm in so much pain, Mom..." Niu Dazhi not only had pain in his hands, teeth, forehead, and nose, but also in his butt.
Just now in the kitchen, that bastard bit my butt!
His body was covered with bruises from being beaten by Ye Li with a feather duster. The places that had been beaten were now burning hot. He looked down and saw lumps popping up one after another.
It hurts so much, it really hurts so much!
"Shut up!" Jiang Chunying was arguing with Zhao Xingmei at the moment and had no time to take care of her son.
Niu Dazhi bared his teeth and said, "Mom..."
"Mom, stop hitting me." Seeing that the two were about to fight, Jiang Xun said in a deep voice, "Let's send Niu Dazhi to the police station tomorrow to explain the situation and see what the police say."
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