Chapter 100 A Thief Breaks into the House
"Bang!"
At midnight, Liu Ye was suddenly awakened by a strange noise, which sounded like a basin falling to the ground. She quickly put on her clothes and shoes, got out of bed, grabbed a wood-chopping knife, and hid by the door.
Could it be Zhang Qiang? Could it be that Wang Tieniu was right after all?
A furtive man in the kitchen took a smoked rabbit and a smoked chicken that were hanging from the rafters and put them in his bag. He found two and a half bags of grains in the kitchen, folded the grains into one bag, and then nimbly climbed over the wall and ran away.
Hearing the commotion, Liu Ye grabbed a wood-chopping knife and chased after the man to the backyard. She only saw a dark figure, which looked like a man. It turned out he wasn't after her, but was there to steal grain. So it might not be Zhang Qiang, but it was definitely someone from the village.
She went to the kitchen, lit the oil lamp, and checked what was missing. She opened the cupboard door and found that the grains were gone, as were the smoked rabbit and smoked chicken on the roof beam. Nothing else was missing, mainly because she didn't have much in her kitchen, and the smoked chicken and smoked rabbit on the roof beam were just for show.
Before Brother Bai left, they smoked five rabbits and five chickens. She ate one smoked chicken and put the rest into her spatial storage. The rice and flour were in her room's cabinet. It was all thanks to her foresight.
She closed the cabinet door and the kitchen door, went back to her room, locked the door, took off her shoes, and got onto the kang (a heated brick bed). After being disturbed by the thief, she couldn't sleep. She never expected the thief to steal from her. It seemed that the trouble she caused by giving Li Daya grain had made the villagers have their eyes on her.
That thief was quite skilled. Their courtyard wall is over 3 meters high, yet the thief moved in and out with ease. He must be a trained fighter. Who could it be?
She didn't know many people in the village. All she knew was that Zhang Qiang and Wang Tieniu were good fighters. There must be many people like Wang Ergou in the village. After he robbed her house today and took all the grain, he probably wouldn't come back, right?
Oh right, there's the beef in the jar under her window. She quickly put on her shoes and went outside to put the frozen beef into her spatial storage. Luckily, it wasn't stolen. She'll take it out when Brother Bai comes back.
Liu Ye closed the door and went back to her room to sleep. Wang Tieniu, carrying his belongings, sneaked back to his own room. There was no mistake, the one who stole from Liu Ye's house was none other than Wang Tieniu.
Wang Tieniu hid the things in his cabinet and locked it with a padlock. Then he took off his shoes, climbed onto the kang (a heated brick bed), lay in bed, and revealed a calculating look on his face. "I see you haven't eaten or drunk anything. Do you want my things?"
Even if you have silver in your pocket, how much grain can you buy? The grain shops in town hardly have any coarse grains. It's even better if you spend your silver to buy rice and flour—I'll still steal! Once you're out of money, you'll be out of grain too. "Hmph!"
The next day arrived in the blink of an eye. Liu Ye got up early, washed up, and went to the kitchen to bake a large bowl of pancakes. She kept one pancake and put it into her space while it was still hot. She took out a piece of pork from her space and stir-fried some green peppers with pork slices. After eating, she put the rest into her space.
After finishing her meal, with nothing to do, she went back to her room to lie down. Suddenly, a question popped into her mind: would the person who stole from her be watching her? If they saw her return from buying grain, would they come to steal from her again?
She sat up from the kang (a heated brick bed). Since she had nothing better to do, she decided to conduct an experiment. She immediately put on her shoes and put the rice and flour from the cupboard into her spatial storage. She also put all the valuables into her spatial storage, as well as the scraps of cloth, clothes, and shoes that she had left outside. In case a thief saw her leave and came back to rummage through her room, it was safer to put them away.
Liu Ye went to the kitchen, picked up her basket, locked the door, and walked past Wang Dani's house into the village. Oh right, it seems to be market day today, so she decided to go. Suddenly, she remembered her cow. Surely thieves wouldn't dare steal her oxcart, right?
Forget it, a thief in broad daylight probably wouldn't dare steal it, and a cow is a living creature that can't be put into a spatial dimension, otherwise it would die.
After Liu Ye had walked away, Wang Tieniu came out of the yard with a wicked grin. She must have gone to buy grain. He strolled over to Liu Ye's backyard, looked around to make sure no one was there, and then quickly took a running start and jumped over the wall into the yard.
This time, Wang Tieniu's target was a room where people lived, but the door was locked. Wang Tieniu took out a barbed iron hook from his sleeve pocket and opened the lock in a few strokes. No one was home, so he didn't sneak around. He swaggered into Liu Ye's room and started rummaging through drawers and cabinets looking for his money bag, but he couldn't find it after searching for a long time.
He went to Bai Zilin's room again and searched through the cabinets on the kang (heated brick bed), but couldn't find the silver. He guessed that Liu Ye might have taken it. "Hmph! What a cunning little fox, but I like him!"
Wang Tieniu locked the door, quickly climbed over the wall, and returned to his home without anyone noticing.
When Liu Ye arrived in town, she went straight to the market on the back street. She spent one tael of silver to buy half a bag of potatoes and another tael of silver to buy 20 catties of soybeans. It was ridiculously expensive. She planned to plant the soybeans in her space and keep them to make soybean oil. Pancakes still need the aroma of soybean oil. The handful of soybeans she planted in her space before was too little.
She had a huge pile of pork fat in her spatial storage, but she hadn't rendered it yet. The pot in her spatial storage was too small, and rendering the oil in the kitchen outside would produce a strong smell that could be smelled throughout the village. If thieves smelled the aroma, they would be even more likely to come and steal from her.
Let's wait for her to move the big pot into the space to practice, so that no one can smell the odor. Oh, right, she also needs to buy a few clean jars to store the oil. The jars she collected are fine for pickling vegetables, but she's a bit reluctant to use them for oil.
Liu Ye wandered around the market for a long time before buying five large jars from a general store. Each jar could hold 50 jin of oil and was about half a person tall. She asked the waiter to deliver them to her in the back alley. After the waiter left, she put the jars into her spatial storage and strolled back to the village.
Once inside the village, she walked very slowly, carefully examining everyone she encountered to see if they were thieves. When she reached the door of Village Chief Wu's house, there was a large tree in front of it where a group of old women, including Granny Wu, were gathered. They whispered among themselves as soon as they saw her, and all of them curiously craned their necks to look into her basket.
"Oh dear, look at her, look at her! She's gone to town again. Oh dear, what a spendthrift woman! She really doesn't know how to manage money. Look at her basket, it's full again. Tsk tsk tsk, she must have bewitched the hunter Bai and given him all her money, otherwise she wouldn't be spending money like this!"
"You bet she is. Look at how she wiggles her hips. She's so seductive. I bet that's how she seduced the White Hunter. Hahaha, hahaha."
Liu Ye listened to their vile laughter and ignored it as nonsense. She rolled her eyes speechlessly and quickened her pace home. She didn't care who the thief was anymore. When she passed Wang Dani's house again, she suddenly had the feeling of being watched by a wolf. Her hair stood on end. It must be Wang Dani!
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