Chapter 26 A thief broke in!
Little Gu stood blankly at the kitchen door. Seeing Song Lao Er coming back, she immediately shouted, "Master, hurry up and report to the head of the village! There's a thief in our house!"
What kind of thief is this? Song Lao Er was a little confused.
Seeing that he was still stunned, little Gu supported her waist and pulled him towards the kitchen, panting and howling, "Look, look for yourself, my God! All the pots and pans in the kitchen are gone. There must be a thief."
When Song Lao Er heard this, he looked into the kitchen and was immediately shocked.
The two clay pots and the iron pot on the stove were gone, leaving only the dark stove pit, like a gap in the tooth grinning at him.
"Who did this? I'm going to skin him alive."
Song Lao Er was furious.
He turned to look at Xiao Gu and slapped her in the face: "Useless thing, you can't even guard the door at home."
With the money in hand, Song Lao Er has become more and more displeased with Xiao Gu these days.
He felt that she was neither as gentle and considerate as Chunniang in the town, nor as charming and graceful as the young widow in the next village. She couldn't even give birth to a child, and that all his years of hard work in her womb were in vain.
He was so furious at this moment that he couldn't vent his anger on his own mother, so naturally he had to scold Xiao Gu.
He had just bought a new pot for two hundred coins, but it was stolen less than a day after he bought it.
Little Gu was so heartbroken and aggrieved that she couldn't express it, so she could only cover her face and cry.
"Second brother! The flour, rice, and meat sent by the Xue family today were also stolen from the kitchen!
Oh my God, I was just standing at the gate, how could someone steal my things? Who the hell is this thief?
When she heard that Song Lao Er had returned, Mrs. Gu jumped up from the ground and cried bitterly, feeling more miserable than if her own parents had died.
Song Lao Er looked around the kitchen angrily and found that not only the pots and pans, rice and flour were stolen, but even the flint in front of the stove was missing. It was like scraping the floor three feet deep.
Suddenly, he seemed to think of something: the house was too quiet.
Without bothering to say much to the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, Song Lao Er rushed to the ear room.
The doors and windows are intact, and the rope buckle on the door latch is still there.
I leaned over and looked inside through the broken window, but it was pitch black and I couldn't see anything.
Song Laoer felt a sinking feeling in his heart. This guy was sleeping too soundly!
Since it involved money, Song Laoer did not dare to be careless. He hurried to untie the rope on the door buckle. He didn't know who tied the knot. The more anxious he was, the harder it was to untie it, so he kicked it.
With a loud bang, the door fell to the ground.
Song Laoer rushed in with one quick step, without even lighting the lamp, and reached out to touch the kang.
My heart suddenly turned cold: No one!
Before he could figure out what was going on, little Gu was already calling out from the side room: "Shui Rong, Shui Rong, what's wrong with you?"
On the other side, at the main door, Mrs. Gu was holding the door frame, and something was wrong.
The man stood there frozen, his eyes rolled back, his lips moving but no sound came out. He just raised his hand and pointed towards the room, trembling constantly, as if he was about to collapse...
Something happened, something big happened!
After a cup of tea, Xiaoshi Village, which had just quieted down, became lively again.
Song Laoer’s house was robbed!
Song Lizheng was tying his belt while running.
After sending the people to perform labor service, he returned home. Before he finished defecating, he was woken up again and told that thieves had broken into Song Laoer's house and had emptied it.
Hearing this, Song Lizheng's heart suddenly tightened. He had already prepared to wait for Song Laoer to come and report the disappearance of Yun Yatou, so why did he say that a thief had broken in first?
Yun girl just said she wanted to elope, and now there are thieves in Song Laoer's house. Don't mix these two things together.
Although Song Lizheng was nervous, he pretended to be calm and walked outside Song Laoer's yard.
Seeing that there was no one around, he thought he was the first one to arrive.
But when he entered the yard, he was so scared that he almost turned around and ran away.
By this time, the sky was already bright and I could clearly see the people in the yard.
The yard was full of people, but no one made a sound. They were either squatting or standing with their hands in their sleeves, like clay sculptures or wooden carvings. Anyone who saw them at first glance would be startled!
The villagers who had sent their families home did not go back to sleep. When they heard that there were thieves, they all gathered together.
As soon as they saw the head of the village, the crowd seemed to come alive and dispersed, revealing the miserable appearance of Song Laoer's family.
In the morning, his breath was already pale, but Song Lao Er was sitting on the edge of the main door with his clothes wide open, his head and face covered in sweat, panting.
Little Gu held her mother-in-law in one hand and her daughter in the other, crying in the side room: "Mother, Shuirong, wake up! Has the doctor come yet? Who can help me get the doctor over?"
Song Lizheng shouted at the crowd, "What are you all standing there for? Has anyone called a doctor?"
Someone in the crowd said slowly, "I called him. Uncle Qi's legs were a little stiff this morning, so he walked slowly. He hasn't arrived yet."
Song Lizheng frowned: None of the excuses are reliable.
He coughed and said, "Uncle Qi can't walk. You don't know how to carry yourself! Hurry up and go!"
The crowd moved a few times, and two people walked out of the door reluctantly.
Song Lizheng then walked over to Song Laoer and asked, "Laoer, I heard your house was robbed. What was lost?"
Song Laoer burst into tears: "Uncle Lizheng, you have to support me! Everything is lost, everything is lost! Chickens, pigs, silver, and fire stones!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the originally quiet courtyard became noisy.
The oldest people present were in their sixties or seventies, and the youngest was in his teens. They had heard that thieves who broke into houses usually stole things and money, but they had never seen anything like the kind of things stolen from Song Laoer's house.
The person was at home, stealing the fat pig right under his nose.
Pigs are not chickens. Normally, it takes several strong men to hold down a pig when it is slaughtered during the New Year. How can you steal it?
As for stealing the flint from the stove, everyone thought that Song Lao Er had fainted from anxiety. Who would steal that thing?
Most people wonder: Is this a thief? Or is it more like a domestic thief?
Regardless, the scene still needs to be checked.
Song Lizheng quickly looked around the yard and was also stunned.
There really was a thief in Song Laoer's house, but it didn't look like a thief.
He originally thought that Yun Yatou took a few things with her when she left, but now it seems that it is a big deal!
Everything they could eat, drink, wear, plows, winnowing baskets, hoes, and shoulder poles were taken away, almost everything that could be moved was emptied out except for the walls and the earthen kang. It would not be an exaggeration to say that they were just moving. Was this a thief breaking in?
What’s even more outrageous is that even the pile of firewood behind the yard, which was taller than the house, was gone.
Uncle Qi, the village doctor, was quickly carried into the house and first checked the condition of the person on the kang.
Mrs. Gu fainted from anger. When Uncle Qi pricked her with an injection, she woke up and started crying and clapping her hands on the ground.
Song Shuirong was sleeping soundly. No matter how much cold water was poured on her or her Ren Zhong acupoint was pinched, she would not open her eyes.
Finally, the old doctor used his ultimate move and performed "Ten Points Bleeding" to wake the man up.
Song Shuirong's ten green fingers were pierced with blood, which was painful to look at.
Now that everyone was awake, Song Lizheng remembered that the scene needed to be protected, and everyone in the yard was driven out.
Those who were quick on their feet went to the public housing in the town to report the crime, those with good eyesight looked around for clues, and then sent people to guard several exits of the village road to prevent the thieves from hiding in the village. The rest searched house by house.
Something strange happened and Song Lizheng was panicking.
Song Shuirong was obviously knocked unconscious.
Song Liyun disappeared, but Song Laoer didn't mention looking for her, he just talked about catching the thief.
Did Yun girl escape after all?
Or was it that Song Lao Er hid the person somewhere else and deliberately made the house look like a thief, hoping to deny Mr. Xue's betrothal gift?
It is hard to explain how audacious and shameless Song Laoer and his gang were.
Anyway, Song Lizheng is not the only one who has such suspicion.
Things have gone beyond Song Lizheng's expectations. Now all he can think of is to search the village first: he must find the person alive or the body dead, and even if it is a thief, he must find any clues.
(End of this chapter)
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