055 Dowry
Aunt Li's grandson is married, which is not rich or shabby.
Aunt Li couldn't close her mouth and was busy telling the villagers in the village.
"Congratulations to Aunt Li for coming out." Aster squinted, grabbed a handful of nuts and handed them over.
The other party took it unceremoniously, "Yes, his father and mother went early, it is not easy for me to pull him, and now I may have a good life when I get married." ”
Her eyebrows fluttered, saying that her grandson had vowed to let her live a good life in the future, and her granddaughter-in-law was even more well-behaved and sensible, and she was full of busy work after passing the door.
Feng Chuan doesn't like to listen to these old people, they are boasting nine times out of ten, and one or two are the east family and the west family, she is used to not listening to it.
My mother always thinks that these people are not easy, and they should drink what they say.
A few days later, Aunt Li came again.
"Oh yes, I've got a thief there."
Aster shouted at Fengchuan, she puffed out her mouth, a good dream was stirred, and she was unhappy in her heart.
"Mother, what's the matter?"
"Aunt Li's family has recruited thieves."
Recruit thieves?
Although she is swaggering on weekdays, she has financial resources in her family, a few catties and a few taels, and others know it, Feng Chuan frowned and looked at each other, "What did you lose?" ”
Aunt Li's anxious face distorted and blurted out that her granddaughter-in-law's dowry was gone.
"What about the other things?"
She shook her head for a moment, but nothing else was missing.
Aster asked Fengchuan to go, she put on her clothes, pulled a few handfuls of hair with her fingers, and went to Li's house.
Aunt Li chattered all the way, snorting and scolding, this damn thief deceives people too much.
She is like this on weekdays, Feng Chuan snorted lightly.
If either the thief comes to the door, or she provokes the thief to the house.
When she arrived at her home, Feng Chuan looked at it, the door was buckled, half open, a woman sat in the courtyard wiping her tears, Aunt Li stepped forward and stroked the other party's head, "My good granddaughter-in-law, don't cry, grandma took a picture of the person, she is amazing, and she knows the direction of the thief at a glance." ”
"Aunt Li must not be sycophant, and I am not that good." She waved her hand and entered the room.
The dresser, which is placed closest to the couch, is on the old side, and the upper layer of vermilion lacquer is clearly newly painted.
Wooden benches are neatly arranged under the dresser.
The windows were closed and there were no signs of trampling around.
The house was clean and tidy, and there were no strange traces.
Where did this thief come from?
"When did you notice that something wasn't there?" Feng Chuan was curious, "What were you doing before?" Is there anything strange happening? ”
She sobbed and chattered, and went to the yard early to help her grandmother take care of the house, but she didn't see anyone come in, and when she entered the house, she found that things were missing.
"Has anyone been here in between?"
The grandfather and grandson shook their heads together.
Few people from the Li family came, and some women were just chatting at the door, but they went to the field to work today, and they did not return for a long time.
Strange, no one has moved, something flew for no reason?
Feng Chuan stared at the door, and then looked at the closed window.
A piece of silk in the window floats in the wind.
She walked over, one hand spread out, and the other handful.
"Fishing line," she muttered slowly.
Mrs. Li asked what it was, and she explained: This thing is a fishing line, which is usually used by fishermen, and it is a bit strange to appear here.
The fishing line, as thin as a sharp blade, passes through the gap in the window, gets stuck on the window, and thinks into the wood.
The line is broken, and there must be something heavy on the other end of the line.
Or rather, the thieves stole the gold and silver jewelry with this fishing line.
"Did you hear anything?"
If the woman's head was beating the drum and shaking, Mrs. Li stretched out a finger and nodded halfway, "Fengchuan, I seem to have heard something." ”
In the morning, the girl asked her to go back to the house to rest, and she went back to the house, because it was next to her grandson's house, she seemed to hear something when she closed her eyes and recuperated, she was going to get up and look, but the girl came into the house to chat with herself, and forgot about it.
"What time did you hear it in the morning?" She began to think about it.
The little girl looked at her, but cowardly said she didn't remember.
Aunt Li breathed a sigh of relief, and her mouth was slightly wronged, "I'm so old and confused, I can't remember anything, how can you be like this at such a young age?" ”
Feng Chuan couldn't get used to Aunt Li's way of speaking, so he had to turn his head.
She suddenly found a strange place, there was a candlestick on the cabinet, and the candlestick was usually placed on the table, because she was afraid of falling on the ground and smashing people, or burning other items after the wind blew, and the Li family's candlestick was placed on the cabinet.
She turned around and saw a round mark on the candlestick stand next to the dresser, its size was exactly as big as the base of the candlestick, Feng Chuan turned around and compared the candlestick, and the shape was completely matched.
"Why did this candlestick be removed?"
The girl lowered her eyes, "It's not me, it's the husband who took it." ”
"Oh? Why did he move the candlestick? ”
The girl replied one by one, but he just moved, and said nothing.
Feng Chuan turned his head, "You lie, this candlestick must have been moved by you." ”
She shuddered in denial.
"I didn't, I didn't."
Feng Chuan pointed at her and asked, "You're left-handed, right?" ”
She was surprised and asked Feng Chuan how he knew.
Feng Chuan did not hide it, and spoke naturally and realistically, "Your left hand is full of calluses, I think you must always use your left hand." And this candlestick is strange, one side of it is deflated, there are traces of impact. ”
She emphasized that this candlestick was very heavy and could only be held with two hands, so the sound she heard before may be the sound of the candlestick falling to the ground, and she hurriedly went to Aunt Li's house, just because she was afraid that all this would be discovered.
"You know this, right, your eyes were wrong at first, a woman who lost her dowry is not sitting and crying like you."
She watched Aunt Li finally kneel down, "Grandmother forgives, and the child has no choice but to do so." ”
She muttered that her younger brother was sick and had no silver, and her dowry jewelry was given by her mother, and now she wanted to get it back, but she was afraid that the Li family would look down on them, so it would be bad for her daughter.
"I'm just this one brother, so I want to save him, so I have to come up with this way and ask my grandmother for forgiveness."
Aunt Li tilted her mouth and looked at her angrily, saying that she didn't expect her to be a person who eats inside and out, and the woman is her husband's family when she enters the door, and it is a big taboo to walk around with her mother's family in private and steal her husband's things.
Feng Chuan spoke, "Aunt Li, you have to be forgiving and forgiving, you also have to be considerate of her, right?" ”
I understand her, who knows what will happen in the future?
Aster has been following, and also persuaded Feng Chuan together.
Aunt Li is not a wicked person, but she is angry with her granddaughter-in-law's actions, but her younger brother's illness is pitiful.
"My Li family doesn't have any silver, you know that it's not easy for me to be a lonely old woman, I don't have any silver for you, and I won't pursue the jewelry, but my hands and feet must be clean in the future, and you can't give the things at home to outsiders at will."
The girl nodded obediently, saying that she would never dare again.