mtl008 Chapter 178 Stealing Chili Peppers
Chapter 178 Stealing Chili Peppers
"Master, if you laugh like that, someone will be in trouble."
"Hey, how could that be? It's raining heavily, and it's not easy for them to come all the way here, so let's just invite them to enjoy the rain..."
She snorted and chuckled, bought more than ten pounds of peppers from the mall, and asked Number One to stuff them into the clothes of those people, making them look bulgy and revealing a few hints of green.
Then, she found a piece of wood and prepared to write the word "steal" on it, but the problem came, she didn't know how to write the word here.
I only wrote it out after asking Xiangxiang and learning from each stroke on the system screen.
"What next? What do we do?"
Song Anning stepped forward to check the firmness of the rope, asked Number One to stand guard nearby, and decisively turned around to go home.
"Go back to bed and watch the show tomorrow morning."
The next day, before Xiangxiang's alarm clock rang, Song An Ning was awakened by the sound of talking outside.
I opened the window and a breath of fresh air rushed in. Last night's rain washed away the dust and made the courtyard feel especially fresh.
The bluestone slabs in the yard were washed clean by the rain, and there were still some water droplets hanging on the wheel of the well, as if telling the story of last night.
"Aning, get up quickly, there are thieves in our village!"
Wang Qiuyue had just returned from outside when she saw Song Anning standing lazily by the window, squinting her eyes and looking outside.
"What? A thief broke in. Whose house did they steal?"
“Our home!
When people from our village got up early and went to work in the fields, they found people from Liujia Village tied to a tree with a lot of chili peppers in their arms.
The other families have just planted their vegetable seedlings, so these peppers can only belong to ours."
Song Anning pretended to know nothing, quickly opened the door, and asked anxiously, "Who caught him? A villager from our village?"
Before going to bed last night, she told Xiangxiang to let No. 1 come back when it was almost dawn. At this time, he was hiding in a big tree in the backyard of the Song family.
“When you get there you’ll understand what’s going on.
Come with me quickly, there are a lot of people under the banyan tree."
Before Song An Ning had time to wash her face, Wang Qiuyue pulled her under the big banyan tree. Everyone, old or young, gathered there.
The last time I saw so many people was when Pan and Wang Gener came to cause trouble.
"Aunts and uncles, please give me some way..."
There were too many people. Song Anning tried to find several gaps to squeeze into the crowd, but was pushed back every time. She could only shout loudly from the back.
Hearing Song Anning's voice, the villagers immediately found their backbone, quickly stepped aside to make way, and said to her in a flurry of voices:
"Aning, these are from Liujia Village, I recognize them.
Look at what they are holding in their arms. Those are your peppers. Your grandfather said he lost several pepper seedlings.
"I don't know who tied them up here. I think they're being punished for their evil intentions. God is helping us."
"I just went to the field to check on my pepper seedlings. Luckily they weren't lost..."
"Aning, please tell me something. What should we do?"
"..."
The people from Liujia Village have woken up. They still don't know how they were caught. They were pulling out vegetable seedlings when they saw a black shadow flash by, and that's when they woke up.
"Uncles and aunts, don't be impatient. Let's first ask these people how they found out about the pepper seedlings.
Our village is so big, how can you find my vegetable garden?"
"Yeah, how long have these peppers been grown? How did they know?"
"There's a spy in our village!"
"Tell me clearly, if you dare to come to Banyue Village to steal things, I will beat you to death."
Song Anning only said one sentence, and everyone started discussing again. More than 90% of the families in the village grew peppers, and they were afraid that the peppers would be leaked and they would not be able to make money, so they were particularly concerned about this matter.
"Stop arguing! Take the rag out of Liu San's mouth. I'll interrogate him myself."
Song Erhe had a gloomy look on his face. He had discussed this matter with Song An Ning two days ago. An Ning's suggestion was to let the villagers form a patrol team, and all the families who grew peppers would participate, and they would take turns to watch around the village for two hours.
He even wrote a list, but he didn't expect that such heavy rain could not stop them from doing evil.
"Liu San, we have known each other for so many years.
I remember your eldest son is studying in town, right? Is he planning on taking the imperial examination?
Poor kid, with a thief father, he can't become the top scholar."
There were five people from Liujia Village, and the rest were younger people, in their teens or twenties, who just followed along.
But Liu San was different. He had been a bodyguard in his early years and had spent some time outside, so he had some experience. He also had a certain prestige among the middle-aged people in Liujia Village. But how could such a person come to steal things?
It can be seen that money can move people's hearts. If they are not moved, it means that there is not enough money.
"Uncle Song, please don't report me to the police. We're from the same village, so please spare my life for the sake of our past friendship..."
Song Erhe took two steps forward, looked at Liu San coldly, and spat:
“Bah, don’t mention our past friendship.
If you had any regard for our friendship, you wouldn't have set your sights on Half Moon Village.
We all live in the village, so you should know what happens when you get caught stealing, right? "
In a village with a large population like this, if someone is caught red-handed, the villagers will handle it themselves. But if it comes from an outsider, the situation will be serious. The locals may beat the person half to death and then hand him over to the authorities.
Liu San was terrified when he heard this. If he hadn't been tied to the tree, he would have kneeled down and begged for mercy.
"We just heard that your village has a vegetable that can make a lot of money, so we thought of taking a few plants back to plant. These on me are not picked by me."
"Tsk, that's weird. Did that chili pepper grow legs and run onto you? You're saying you stole it, but you took it. How shameless!"
"Fellow villagers, this kind of bastard deserves a beating first."
"Correct!"
The people in Liujia Village were trembling with fear. They were in the wrong in this matter. No matter what Liu San said, no one would buy it. What should they do?
However, the others' mouths were blocked, and they had no chance to argue. They could only whimper and shake their heads desperately.
"Second Grandfather, you can ask them who told them that. If they tell the truth, you can avoid this beating."
Song An Ning watched the excitement for a while, walked to Song Erhe and whispered something, then continued watching the show.
After all, Second Grandpa is the head of the village, and there are so many elders offering advice, so he can't do everything by himself.
Song Erhe thought for a moment before quieting the crowd and pacing in front of Liu San with his hands behind his back.
"Just now you said someone told you that our village made a lot of money, so tell me, who told you that?
Who told you where the Song family is?"
"..."
Liu San was so anxious that he was sweating profusely. He knew in his heart that if he told it, it would help to calm down a lot of anger.
But the death penalty is inevitable, and the punishment for living crimes is inevitable, and one must still be punished.
If he told it, wouldn't that be a betrayal? People told him the method because they wanted Liujia Village to get rich together.
Just as he was struggling, Song Anning stood up and looked at him with a smile:
"Uncle, I'll count to ten.
If you explain clearly, we can avoid reporting him to the authorities and let the two village heads work out a solution so your son can continue to be a student. Otherwise, we will first cripple him and then hand him over to the authorities.
You also know that Banyue Village and Zuixianju have done some business. Not only have you delayed us from making money, but you have also blocked Zuixianju's.
If they knew... hehehe, think about it yourself.
I started counting..."
"one……"
"Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine..."
"..."