Chapter 87: Thief at Night
When Sang Luo was shopping in the county the next day, Li, who was carrying a basket to wash clothes, saw a few boys on the riverbank in the distance. They looked like the three from her family.
It was too far away to see clearly, so when the kids returned home at noon, she called them over.
"Did you go to Shen An and Shen Ning's house to play today?"
Shen Jin didn't even blink: "I went."
Li stared at him for a long time and asked, "You still haven't entered the yard today?"
Shen Jin pursed his lips and said, "It's not that easy. Shen An and Shen Ning are watching closely. There are many children there. How can we hide it from anyone?"
So you and dad shouldn't think about this.
Li was amused and turned to ask Shen Yin: "Xiao Yin, where were you this morning?"
Shen Yin was suddenly called, her heart pounding, she tried her best not to look at Shen Jin, and said, "Let's go, let's go to my second brother's house."
Li looked at Chen Tie, and Chen Tie simply lowered his head.
During the lunch break, Li told Shen San about this matter. She snorted, "We have three good sons, but I don't know why they are so stubborn."
Shen San glanced at her and said, "How old are they? Do you really expect them to bring you something useful? Even if they sneak into the yard and see it, what can they figure out?"
Li glared at him and said, "I can't count on my son, so how can I count on you?"
Shen San smiled.
When Li saw his expression, she became excited and asked, "Do you have a plan?"
Shen Sanle: “I didn’t think of it yesterday, but today it really made me think of a trick.”
He hooked his finger at Li, motioning her to lean over and whispered something in her ear. Li's face immediately lit up with smiles. She pushed Shen San's shoulder and said, "You are amazing!"
Chen San smiled and said, "Just wait and see. Those families started moving things before daybreak. That thing must have been made at night. Let's sneak in at midnight to see what it is. We can also figure out something. There is no family in this world that can make money alone."
As he said this, there was a smug smile on his face, and he was obviously very satisfied with himself for coming up with such an idea.
The couple got together to guess what Sang Luo had made to sell to the three companies, and at the same time imagined the future, which was simply too beautiful.
In the county town, at this time, Sang Luo had already bought four large locks, four jars, one stone of millet, two catties of cotton, and five liters of salt. As for the spices she needed to buy from the pharmacy, they had also been bought and hidden in the jars. She also bought a bag of flour, and all these were now piled on Qin Fangniang's cart.
Since it was already past noon, we simply found a wonton shop and ordered a bowl of wontons each.
Now that they have made a lot of money, they are no longer reluctant to buy something to fill their stomachs at noon like they did at the beginning. They are not like the villagers who eat breakfast in the middle of the morning and go out after dark. They are busy for several hours and do not eat at noon. Day after day, people can't stand it.
While waiting for the wontons, Qin Fangniang looked at the cart outside the shop and whispered to Sang Luo, "The price of millet has risen to 150 wen per bushel now, are you still buying it?"
If the price hadn't risen so high, it might not have been so easy for Sang Luo and her friends to buy food in the city.
Sang Luo did not advocate buying food, but just said: "It is quite expensive, but my family has no land, so I have to save some to feel at ease. I dare not buy too much, and I will stock up when I have extra money."
When several people heard this, they agreed. Without any land, they had to buy food.
After eating the wontons, they sat in the shop to rest for a while, and then they pulled the cart back. When they passed Sanli Village, Sang Luo asked Qin Fangniang and the others to wait for her for a while.
Qin Fangniang and her companions did not say a word. They parked the car outside a fellow villager's house and borrowed a bench to rest their feet. The fellow villager was polite and even brought them a few bowls of water.
Sang Luo went into the village to ask the butcher about the matter.
Qin Fangniang and the others had been waiting outside for about two quarters of an hour. They were getting a little anxious and looked towards the village frequently. Then they saw Sang Luo leading two people towards the outside of the village. They were carrying a large bamboo basket in their hands.
The Gan family members stretched their necks, and it was not until Sang Luo and the others got closer and heard the loud goose calls coming from the bamboo cage that they realized what Sang Luo was doing.
“Are you buying a goose?”
Sang Luo nodded, and Qin Fangniang hurriedly tidied up the cart to make room for the big bamboo cage. She looked inside and saw three big geese.
She looked at Sang Luo: "Why are you buying big geese? And they are all ganders."
Sang Luo smiled: "Guarding the house."
I deliberately picked the most ferocious and powerful ones to buy.
Qin Fangniang shrank back and said, "Be careful in the meantime before it recognizes its master, or it may get bitten."
It's not fun to be bitten by a big goose. It will grab a piece of your meat and twist it in circles, and it can really draw blood.
Sang Luo smiled and nodded, saying, "When we get back later, we'll put them in cages first. I'll borrow your saw and machete to use. I'll build a fence around the wall for them to move around. I'll release them when they're well-trained."
When Qin Fangniang heard this, she said, "Okay, I'll help you this afternoon."
Gan and Feng Liuniang also expressed their opinions.
The big gander is really good at guarding the house. Not to mention anything else, living in the mountains, there is no need to be afraid of snakes and the like. They dare not approach at all, because geese are really afraid of nothing. They are fierce warriors that dare to rush up and fight if a tiger comes down.
It is perfect for a young lady like Sang Luo to live in the mountains with her two children.
In the afternoon, Qin Fangniang and several others came to help, and the men in the family naturally came as well, each bringing their own tools. Everything can be done more easily with more people. They built a circle around the wall of Sang Luo's house for the geese to move around. It can be said that except for the area in front of the gate that was not connected, the geese could run around the outside of the house.
Shen An and Shen Ning were very surprised. They personally fed and watered the geese. They were determined to build up a good relationship with the three geese so that they would recognize them as their masters as soon as possible.
Of course, because Sang Luo bought a lot of things today, whether it was the grain, salt, flour or the jar of big geese, they were all delivered through the mountain road, so the fact that Sang Luo's family had added three ferocious big white geese was known only to Sang Luo's own family and the three families of Chen, Shi and Lu.
…
It was late at night and everyone in the village was asleep. Even Sang Luo, who had to make several batches of dried bean curd and vegetarian tripe before going to bed, fell asleep with her two children under a new quilt.
On the path leading into the mountain, two figures were carrying something and sneaking up the mountain in the dark.
I had to be sneaky for fear of being discovered, and I dared not light a torch. It was completely dark, and today was the 25th day of the lunar calendar. The sky was cloudy, and the crescent moon was barely visible. Walking outside was no better than being blind, for fear of falling into the mud.
I carefully reached the halfway point of the mountain, first stepped on a stone path, and finally reached the edge of the courtyard wall, only to find a bamboo fence blocking the way.
Shen San:? ? ?
He asked Li in a suppressed voice: "What is this fence for?"
Li curled her lips and whispered, "Who knows what Sang is doing? No one is more creative than her. She shoveled the grass and paved it with stones, and dug the spring ditch into a big pool."
Bah, fake elegance, just showing off your ability.
She said, "Go in, step in first and talk about it."
Both of them had something to hide, and their minds were full of thoughts about climbing over the wall to find ways to make money, so they didn't think much about it.
The bamboo fence was half a person's height. Shen San stepped in with difficulty and moved the wooden ladder in and placed it against the wall. For safety, he held on to Li for support and brought Li in to help him hold the ladder.
The couple was careful not to make any noise, thinking they were not thieves, but no one noticed that three large white geese that were originally sleeping not far away now stretched their necks, staring dangerously in the direction where the couple was standing with their eyes shining brightly.
Suddenly there was a sound of wind in the dark night, and several white shadows fluttered over. At the same time, there were the cries of three big geese as they launched a fierce attack, which almost tore the night apart.
When Sang Luo was awakened from her sleep by the sudden cry, it was no longer just the sound of geese outside. The sound of humans was much more tragic than the geese's cry, like the howling of ghosts and wolves, comparable to the slaughter of pigs!
Chen San's butt was twisted and he ran around screaming. He knocked over the ladder, but the fence was high and solid, and he was bitten by two big geese on the left and right. He couldn't get out for a while, so he could only flee in a straight line in the goose runway, howling like a ghost!
Li was not feeling well either. Although there was only one goose against her, it was really cruel. It bit Li through her clothes and made her cry for her parents. Her flesh was about to fall off!
"Sangluo! Sangluo! Take care of your geese!!! Ah!"
"Help, ah! Help! Someone! Ahhhh!"
Shen An and Shen Ning, who were originally sleeping soundly, were startled in their sleep. When they woke up in a daze, they were frightened by the ghostly howling cries for help and had no idea where they were.
However, Sang Luo listened carefully and recognized the voices of Shen San and Li, so she threw herself on the bed, covered her mouth and laughed.
She was killed by coke.
She bought the geese and specially kept them against the courtyard wall. She was just taking precautions, but she didn't expect there would be such a big noise on the first night.
Outside, Li and Shen San were still screaming like pigs being slaughtered. Of course, they were the pigs to be slaughtered.
“Sang Luo! Sang Luo! Come out quickly, the goose is going to bite someone to death! Ah!!!!”
Shen An finally woke up, sat up with the quilt, and listened carefully: "My third aunt?"
Shen Ning: “And Uncle San.”
Sang Luo laughed: "Third uncle and third aunt, they are just thieves trying to climb over the wall."
Shen Ning also wanted to be happy, but the screams outside were too miserable, and she shuddered from time to time: “Sister-in-law, don’t care?”
Sang Luo shrugged: "It's useless. We just bought a goose and it doesn't recognize us. If we go out now, it will bite us too."
If you thief steals in the middle of the night, you deserve to be bitten to death.
She was too lazy to care.
Besides, they couldn't bite it to death. In order to ensure the happiness of the geese, well, in fact, to ensure the effectiveness of guarding the house, the bamboo fence runway was quite long. The eight adults spent more than half a day to surround the entire courtyard wall of the house, which was enough for Shen San and Li to run inside.
The couple could climb over such a high bamboo fence in the middle of the night, and no matter how badly they bit the geese, the villagers could not blame her for letting the geese commit the crime.
What's more, judging from the miserably screaming of Li and Shen San in such a shrill voice, even if Sang Luo lived far away from the village, separated from it by two or three hills, someone should have come soon based on the noise.
It was just as Sang Luo expected. Shen San and Li's screams were so terrifying that the villagers were woken up in the middle of the night. They thought that bandits had entered the village and someone's family was going to be wiped out. But when they heard the geese's cry, they realized that it was not the case.
The men from each family put on their clothes, picked up sticks, and went out, following the sound into the mountains.
Chen Youtian and others were also among them. When they heard the sound coming from the direction of Sang Luo's home in the mountains, they quickened their pace.
Sang Luo calculated the time, put on her clothes, and lit an oil lamp. When she heard faint voices, she unbolted the door and opened the gate. She and the villagers who had rushed over rushed out to the yard one after another.
The oil lamp in his hand was not very bright, and he had to hold it with his hand to prevent it from being blown out by the mountain wind, but it was enough for everyone to see the situation at the scene clearly from the flickering light.
Shen San and Li, with disheveled hair and clothes, were being held by three big male geese in the goose nest made of bamboo fence in the Shen family's main house, howling and running around. There was also a wooden ladder lying upside down in the goose nest beside the courtyard wall.
Good guy, a thief broke into his nephew’s and niece’s house in the middle of the night.
Zhou Cunzheng's face was dark as he called out to everyone, "Drag the person out first."
Sang Luo looked at the sticks in everyone's hands and said hurriedly, "Uncles, please don't use the sticks. I borrowed a goose to guard the house. If it is really injured, I have no money to pay for it."
Guarding the house, yes, they are defending it seriously.
Looking at the size of the geese, each one weighs at least 10 pounds, and three of them...
Everyone's hands holding the sticks went limp. They could not afford to fight anymore. Injuring or killing one geese would cost more than 300 coins. They immediately threw the sticks to the ground, stood outside the fence, helped to drive the geese away, and tried to catch the people with their bare hands.
Shen San pushed Li away and cried, grabbing the hands of the men in the village: "Pull me out, pull me out!"
Li was no less capable than others. She totally ignored the fact that those who stretched out their hands were all men. She grabbed Shen San and pulled him back, then she rushed forward screaming and howling.
Sang Luo held an oil lamp, stood there steadily, and looked at it with squinted eyes.
There are only these two kinds of stuff.
Sang Luo didn’t know whether souls existed in this world. If souls really existed, she really wanted to ask her original body and Shen An and Shen Ning’s parents and brothers, if their spirits were in heaven, would they feel comforted when seeing this scene?
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
