The brother and sister discussed, and out of the corner of their eyes, they glanced at the merchant getting closer and closer from the entrance of the village. In order to hide people's eyes, the merchant not only carried the burden, but also wore a hat.

"Brother, I'm afraid that it's not dark yet, and he doesn't dare to climb the tree." Chen Xuejiao looked at the sky.

Chen Qi'an nodded heavily.

Speaking of the sky, Chen Xuejiao suddenly remembered a question, if the sky is dark, the merchant and Xue Miao, one is on the tree and the other is in the yard, how can the black light see each other clearly. What the two of them did was not in line with etiquette, and it was impossible to light the lamp, so it was very likely that the merchant would climb down the tree into the yard when the lights went out in the Chen family's rooms, and have a private meeting with Xue Miao and Xue Miao. In this era, there were no lights and no televisions, and they followed the sunrise and sunset, and basically slept after dark, which was very conducive to the two of them meeting in the courtyard.

Chen Xuejiao's eyes rolled, and she only felt that Chen Xuemiao and the merchant were too bold, if it was true, what would happen to the Chen family.

Chenjiamen Fengsong!

The Chen family opens the door every night to welcome their son-in-law!

The daughter of the Chen family herself told herself that it was a good family affair!

Sooner or later, these words will spread, not only will she Chen Xuemiao suffer, but the entire Chen family's portal will not be able to raise its head in Baitu Town, and it is more likely to affect future children and grandchildren.

Chen Qi'an saw that his sister's eyebrows were condensed together, and after a little thought, he also understood, his face was twisted together angrily, and he wanted to beat the merchant immediately.

"Brother should not startle the snake." Chen Xuejiao persuaded in a low voice.

The brother and sister returned to the courtyard and saw Chen Xuemiao still standing under the loofah shelf. With a face up, a pair of eyes were stupid, and his face glowed with a layer of light because he was about to see the merchant.

As soon as Chen Xuejiao looked up, she saw Cui'er. Cui'er touched Chen Xuejiao's gaze as if she had been bitten by a snake, quickly lowered her head, and said a few words to Chen Xuemiao, Chen Xuemiao's face was full of anger, Cui'er bit her lip, and had to walk away alone.

The brother and sister acted separately and gathered Xuewa, Big Egg, Second Egg, and Third Egg respectively.

“…… These days I read until midnight. I always feel that there is movement in the vegetable garden, and when I got up early this morning, I found that there was less cabbage just out of the field, I wonder if it is a bad thief" Chen Qi'an took out the words discussed with Xuejiao.

As soon as I heard that there was a thief in the yard. The big egg snow babies became nervous and shouted to sue Mr. Chen.

was stopped by Chen Xuejiao.

"I'm not sure about this yet, I don't dare to let you know... I discussed it with my brother, so let's take a closer look at it first. If it's a real thief. A few of us are notifying the adults in the family and don't let them know, if they are dazzled, they will worry in vain, not to mention anything else, even milk can't spare a few of us" Chen Xuejiao glanced at the upper room, everyone nodded knowingly, in the hearts of the grandchildren of the Chen family, Mrs. Chen's status is extremely high. Once she is pulled in, no one dares not disobey. It's not that everyone respects her and loves her. but afraid of her, afraid of her.

"Okay, Sister Xuejiao, I listen to you, there is no boy in our room, there is a thief in the family, why do I have to be a daughter in the third room." Chen Xuewa was the first to respond, and looked at the big eggs provocatively after speaking.

"I listened to Brother Qi An, I haven't seen a thief when I'm so old." Big Egg said.

The people of Maoshan Village are relatively simple, very few thieves, who lack onions, or lack of garlic, you can go to the neighbor's house to get it, and borrow things from others or lend things to others are sparse and ordinary people. Even if you hit a passer-by, go in the door to ask for a bowl of water to drink, and go to the field to pick a few fruits to eat, everyone doesn't care, and it is not considered stealing.

Therefore, Chen Xuejiao has never encountered a thief when she is so old, and the big eggs not only did not feel scared when they heard Chen Xuejiao and Chen Qi'an's words, but they felt a little excited in their hearts.

The age of the two of them is there, compared to the second and third eggs, they are much more sensible, Chen Xuejiao was afraid that the second and third eggs would leak the news, so she took out a few lotus cakes from her pocket and handed them to them: "I know no, if I say it, I will curse." ”

The second and third eggs took a bite of the lotus cake and nodded vigorously. Chen Xuejiao smiled secretly, it seems that it is still effective to borrow the reputation of Mrs. Chen at the critical moment: "Whether the thief is caught or not today, I will give everyone cakes to eat later." ”

"Brother, second sister, it's time to eat." Qi Ping pulled the door frame all over the yard and called Chen Qi'an and Chen Xuejiao to have dinner.

After discussing it again, they went back to their rooms for dinner.

Li had already put the fried eggplant on the table, and Chen Xuejiao directly pinched a piece with her hands and put it in her mouth after washing her hands. Fragrant, crispy, crispy, and tender, Li's craftsmanship is good, and today's eggplant box is more delicious than in the past, because Li listened to Xuejiao's Jianyì and added a little sweet potato powder to the minced meat, so that the fried eggplant box is more tender.

Chen Xuejiao ate three or four pieces in one go.

"Slow down, be careful, it's enough." Li smiled and nodded Xue Jiao's forehead.

Usually, the dinner of the Chen family is relatively light, usually porridge and a few vegetarian dishes, because today Zhao Yiming stayed for dinner, and the Li family made a few more meat dishes. A dish of roasted pork with potatoes, a dish of diced spicy chicken, a dish of scrambled eggs with green peppers, and a dish of stuffed duck.

The Li family is honest, and in terms of reputation, Zhao Yiming called the Li family a master, and the Li family has always taken good care of Zhao Yiming. Thinking that their family was usually having a hard time, and they had to pay off the debts owed by their father when he was sick, they rarely could eat meat, so they put all the meat and vegetables on Zhao Yiming's side.

Qi Ping is a meatless person, when he can walk, he will slap the table and call to eat meat, and after the conditions at home are good, he can't do without meat for every meal. Every night, if you don't eat light, Li will prepare a bowl of meat, or duck, or pork ribs for him.

Chen Xiucai didn't come back for dinner today, but he was called over by the shopkeeper Han to discuss things, and now the two families are married, and they are even closer than before. "Your master won't be back today, so you don't have to wait." Li greeted Zhao Yiming with a smile.

As soon as Li's words fell, everyone took chopsticks and ate them.

After eating dinner and sitting down for a while, Zhao Yiming said goodbye and went home.

Chen Qi'an and Chen Qiping sent Zhao Yiming out, Chen Xuejiao took out a lantern carved with characters of the Three Kingdoms from the house, this lantern was brought back by Chen Xiucai from Shu, it was light and bright, and this was the first time it was taken out and used.

"Yiming, it's hard to walk when it's dark, you can hold this lamp." Chen Xuejiao followed Qi Ping and Qi An to hand the lantern to Zhao Yiming.

"No, no, the moonlight is on." Zhao Yiming resigned again and again.

"Take it." Chen Xuejiao stuffed the lantern into Zhao Yiming's hand.

After Zhao Yiming walked away with the lantern, Chen Xuejiao, Chen Qiping, and Chen Qi'an walked into the courtyard, Chen Xuejiao glanced in the direction of the vegetable garden, the loofah rack and the bean rack were empty, and under the cool moonlight, the withered vines and leaves swayed in the autumn wind. Under the corner, in the corner, the weaving and the grasshopper let out a loud cry.

"The moonshine is so nice today." Chen Xuejiao stood in the middle of the yard and pulled Chen Qi'an's sleeve to mention, "Brother, why don't we play in the yard for a while." ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw Chen Xuemiao walking out of the upper room, followed by Cui'er who probed her brain. Chen Xuemiao stood at the door of the upper room and looked around, then quietly went to the loofah shelf, while Cui'er stood outside the vegetable garden and watched the wind.

Chen Xuejiao noticed that the lights had been turned off in the upper room. Old Man Chen and Mrs. Chen went to bed early, basically turned off the lights after dinner, presumably Chen Xuemiao sneaked out quietly after the lights went out.

Chen Xuejiao gently pulled Chen Qi'an's sleeve, Chen Qi'an comprehended, took Qi Ping, and the three of them hid under the peach tree together.

Later, the big egg came out with the second and third eggs, and Xuewa also trotted from the west wing to the peach tree.

"What is Sister Xue Miao doing standing there?" Xuewa asked, pointing to the bean rack.

"Maybe it's moonlight." Xue Jiao whispered.

"Sister Xue Miao has been different since she came back from Xuzhou Mansion, smirking at the moon and loofah all day long, so I don't dare to there, the people in this city are so simple, what is there to look at the moon." Erdan bit his finger and said innocently.

"Where is the thief?" The big egg pulled La Xuejiao.

Suddenly, there was a crackling sound under the bean rack, and everyone was attracted by the sound, and when they turned their heads to look over, they saw Xue Miao hitting the bean rack with a hairpin.

Under the moonlight, Chen Xuemiao's body was hidden in the bean leaves, and if she didn't look carefully, she really couldn't tell that there were people standing there.

"Let's go down to the north wall and see, the thief may have climbed down from the plane tree." Chen Xuejiao mentions.

So, everyone followed Chen Xuejiao and Chen Qi'an out of the gate, quietly lurked under the north wall, and hid behind the wheat straw stack next to the plane tree.

Suddenly, there were a few more "da-da" sounds in the yard, and I saw a black shadow suddenly hurriedly come out of a piece of abandoned firewood, walk to the plane tree at the root of the north wall, and climb up with both hands holding the plane tree.

"What kind of person, what are you doing sneakily climbing the wall?" Chen Qi'an walked out from behind the straw stack and shouted.

The black shadow was frightened, trembling with his hands and feet, and slipped down from the trunk of the sycamore tree, and kicked his feet the ground to escape.

"It's a thief." Everyone rushed out, and picked up the sticks on the side of the straw stack and slashed them towards the black shadow.

The shadow slipped and was about to run away when he got up, but was hit on the back with a stick from the big egg.

Xue Jiao and Xue Wa chased after them, and the thief hugged his head and wailed.

"Hold him, hold him." Chen Qi'an was afraid of his life, so he went up first and pressed the arm of the black shadow, and the big eggs also followed, pressing the thighs and hugging the waist.

A few children forgot their fears, and everyone was excited.

"Sister Xuejiao, what a thief." Xuewa's excited voice changed, and she turned around and was about to go back, "Hurry up and report it to grandma." ”

"Let go of me, let go of me, I'm not a thief." The black shadow struggled hard, but he couldn't bear to struggle, so he had to shout. (To be continued......)