novelden Chapter 124: Getting Caught, Losing More Than Just Stealing a Chicken
Chapter 124: Getting Caught, Losing More Than Just Stealing a Chicken
When the villagers entered Yao Qingnian's yard, they saw Zhu Dafu lying on the ground, screaming "Ouch!"
"Okay, Huaijin's wife, stop fighting. If you keep fighting, someone might get killed."
Liu Shuyue stopped Yao Qingnian. She seemed to have just heard this man say that he was Zhu Dafu?
The village chief hurried over and asked, "Yao Qingnian, was your house robbed?"
"Village chief, the person is here! I was sleeping in the house just now. I heard the noise and got up. I saw this person sneaking around in our yard looking for something. Fortunately, I put glass fragments under the wall, otherwise I wouldn't know that a thief had broken in!"
"Fragments of colored glaze?" Yao Qingnian used such a valuable thing to pad the corners of the wall?
"That's it. I buried a circle in the corner to prevent thieves. He was injured in the foot, otherwise he would have run away." Yao Qingnian squatted in the corner and dug out a piece of green wine bottle fragment and showed it to everyone. This also served as a good warning to everyone that her yard was not so easy to enter.
The villagers gasped when they saw the sharp pieces of glass in Yao Qingnian's hand. It would be very painful if they had pierced their feet. But to deal with thieves, they had to fight back without any retreat. How smart!
The village chief frowned and said, "Take off the black cloth on his face. He climbed over the wall in the middle of the night to steal things. Let's see if he is from our village or from outside!"
The black cloth on his face was torn off, and we saw that he was beaten with a black eye and blood all over his face. The village chief approached with a torch and said, "Who is this? He is not from our village."
Lu Mingchuan leaned over to take a look: "Dafu, why is it you!"
"Hey, it's really Dafu. Why are you not sleeping and coming to our house in the middle of the night?!" Liu Shuyue saw the person clearly and it was really Zhu Dafu.
"Second uncle, second aunt..." He shouted while covering his swollen face.
"Is this your nephew?!"
"Village chief, Lu Hongyun brought his whole family back today and wanted Qingnian to arrange some work for them, but there was nothing suitable at the moment, so they went to live at my eldest brother's house."
Lu Mingchuan didn't expect that the thief was actually his nephew. He didn't know how Lu Hongyun taught his children, and he could steal into his own house.
The village chief looked at Zhu Dafu, who was beaten and covered in wounds, and sighed: "Let's take him to your eldest brother's house to ask."
As victims, Lu Mingchuan's family would definitely follow.
Soon, they arrived at Lu Minghai's house. The gate was closed and the villagers were banging on it. The noise was so loud in the village that Ge and the others had heard it a long time ago, but they didn't want to join in the fun. When they heard the knock on their own gate, Lu Minghai got up and asked, "Who is it in the middle of the night?"
"It's me, the village chief!" Lu Minghai opened the gate and saw everyone in the village standing at his door holding torches.
"Village leader? What happened so late at night?"
The village chief had Zhu Dafu carried in. Lu Hongyun just walked out and saw her son covered in blood. She immediately ran over and cried, "My son, who the hell beat you like this? We came back to visit our relatives, how could this happen? If anything happened to you, how would I live?"
"I did it."
"You evil woman! Why did you hit your cousin so hard? Did you want to beat him to death so that our Zhu family would have no descendants?" When Lu Hongyun heard that it was Yao Qingnian who beat her, she couldn't stand it anymore. She jumped up and cursed at her angrily. She rushed forward and wanted to slap her, but was blocked by Lu Mingchuan.
"I hit him too, are you going to hit me too?!"
"Second brother, you... Father and Mother, if you are still in heaven, please open your eyes and see how my second brother bullies me. Wuuuu... I won't live anymore! I'll come to find you right now." Lu Hongyun started crying, making a fuss, and banging his head against the wall, pretending to bang his head against the wall.
"Third sister! What are you doing?" Mrs. Ge came out and stopped her: "Second brother, we are all family. If a child makes a mistake, we, as the elders, should just bear with him. It's not a big deal."
Mrs. Ge was always being a good person, and Yao Qingnian couldn't stand it any longer: "Child? Is this a giant baby? He made a mistake and you didn't correct it, but let my father bear the consequences? Aunt, since you said so, Zhu Dafu, let me tell you, Aunt's money is hidden in..."
"Shut up!" Ge stopped Yao Qingnian in time. She was afraid that this bitch would tell her where she hid her silver and be remembered by Zhu Dafu and others.
No, how could this bitch know where my money is? She tricked me, huh!
Lu Hongyun was still hugging Zhu Dafu and crying, while Zhu Lixin stood by and didn't dare to say a word.
"Stop howling, the person is not dead. Why would he sneak into your second brother's house in the middle of the night?!" the village chief interrupted.
Lu Hongyun was speechless. She knew her son went to his second brother's house, but she just turned a blind eye. If her son succeeded, she would be blamed: "Dafu was sleeping peacefully in the house, why did he go to his second brother's house..."
Now she could only pretend to be deaf and dumb, and winked at Zhu Dafu: "I don't know either. I think I'm just going to visit my second uncle's house. We are all family, right, son?"
"Well, I just went to take a look..."
"Do you think we are fools? Going to see his uncle in the middle of the night? He can't see the light and can't go during the day?!"
Lu Hongyun thought everyone was a three-year-old child who could be easily fooled.
"He broke into our house in the middle of the night to steal things and was caught red-handed. And you still want to make excuses for him?" Lu Mingchuan looked at his third sister with disappointment.
"Second brother, please spare Dafu this time! Look, he has been beaten like this and has been punished." Lu Hongyun cried even louder.
"He did such a sneaky thing, and he can't blame anyone else for getting hurt like this!"
The villagers all shook their heads and said, "This is a crime committed by one of our own family members. If it were to be committed by someone else, they would not be so easy to deal with."
"Pack your things and go back to your Zhujia Village tomorrow!"
Finally, for Lu Mingchuan's sake, the village chief let him handle the matter himself and left with everyone.
Nothing was missing from the house, and Zhu Dafu was also beaten. Lu Mingchuan could only warn Lu Sanmei to keep a good eye on his son. If something like this happened again, don't blame him, as her brother, for turning his back on her.
After what happened, Lu Hongyun was too embarrassed to stay in the village any longer. He packed up his things early in the morning and reluctantly took Zhu Dafu home. He had thought that he could get something back this time, but he didn't expect Lu Mingchuan to be so unkind. Not only did he not get anything, but Dafu was also injured.
He also paid half a tael of silver as compensation. It turned out that Ge did not agree to let them live in her house at first. However, Lu Hongyun wanted Yao Qingnian to arrange jobs for them, so he took out the silver with a painful heart. Only then did Ge happily let them stay.
I had been thinking of looking for Lu Mingchuan again today, but who knew something like this would happen, and in the end I ended up losing more than I gained...