Qingshu came out of Jingchen, and when she passed a small vegetable bed, she saw Ah Chen and Ah Zhen squatting on the edge of the vegetable furrow with their backs to her. She walked over, "What are you guys doing?" ”

Ah Chen and Ah Zhen seemed frightened and turned back in a panic.

Qing Shu saw their little hands stained with dirt grasping a few weeds that had just been pulled, and smiled, "It's good that you can help adults with their work." ”

Achen stared at Qing Shu with a wary face, pursed his lips and did not speak.

Ah Zhen whispered, "We didn't step on the vegetable seedlings. ”

"I know." Qing Shu bent down and looked at the vegetable furrow, "Why are you calling Aunt Jingchen Master?" And not a master? ”

Achen still didn't speak.

Ah Zhen tilted her head and replied, "It's my aunt, not my master." ”

Qing Shu wondered, could it be that they were the children of Jingchen's relatives? So he smiled and asked, "What's your last name?" ”

Ah Zhen just opened her mouth to answer, but Ah Chen covered her mouth and glared at Qing Shu fiercely, "I want you to take care of it." Then, he pulled Ah Zhen and walked away.

Actually disgusted by children, Qing Shu thought so, consciously touched his nose and stood up straight, and watched them go away. When she walked to the inner courtyard, she suddenly thought: These two children can't be the queen of the martial arts, right?

She immediately shook her head again with self-deprecation, feeling that she was thinking too much.

The next morning, when the sky was light, Qingshu asked people to pick up half of the red fruit seedlings in the vegetable furrow and load them on the cart. She personally followed the car and pulled the seedlings to the wasteland.

As soon as the seedlings arrived, Steward Zhang took the labor here to unload the truck and began to plant the red fruit seedlings in the open vegetable field. They worked in groups of six, and each group had a division of labor. One person digs the pit, one person plants the seedlings and cultivates the soil, one person follows behind to water the small pit where the seedlings are planted, and the three are responsible for diving.

Qing Shu looked at it for a while, and saw that the people Yuan Bao brought with her were distributing the seedlings to the vegetable field, so she asked Xiaojuan to call him over.

Yuan Bao wiped his sweat and walked over, "Miss, the little one has put the account book in the residence, and the little one will go get it." ”

"No, I'm going over there to have a look." Qing Shu said this, and walked in the direction of the two rows of thatched houses not far away. Although she had been here a few times, she really hadn't come to take a good look at the thatched house since it was built.

Yuan Bao hurriedly followed, and when he came to the thatched house, he pointed to the thatched house and explained to Qing Shu, "Miss, the back row is full of laborers, all of them are four people in a room." In the front row, the top three rooms also house four laborers each. Of the three rooms that came down next to it, one of them was occupied by four middle-aged laborers in charge of the stove, another by a laborer with his grandmother, and in one by two elderly women with a three-year-old boy. ”

The three old women's errands were not easy, and they were busy with laundry and sewing every day. Recently, when they have a little leisure, they will carry baskets to dig wild vegetables. Yuan Bao also pointed out one by one which room he lived, which room was where Steward Zhang and Li Tie lived, which room was the stove room, which room was where everyone ate, which room was the warehouse where the grain was stored, which room was the warehouse where the farm tools were stored, and so on.

In front of his house, Yuan Bao took the key from his body and came out to unlock it. He grabbed the lock and key in his hand, pushed the door open, and was about to invite Qing Shu in, but he heard the old woman's cry from behind the thatched house.

"Come on, come on, those naughty boys are stealing again, come on......"

When Yuan Bao heard this, he pulled his legs and ran. At the same time, three people rushed out of the stove room, one with budding grain noodles on his hands, one with firewood in his hands, and the last one with a flat pole carrying water.

Xiaojuan couldn't help but be curious, and asked Qingshu, "Miss, do you need the slave to go over and take a look at the situation?" ”

Qing Shu said no, one of the two eagle guards behind him, "You go and take a look." ”

The Eagle Guard, who was called, agreed, and chased after him to see the situation.

Suddenly, an eagle guard who stayed by Qing Shu's side suddenly spoke and reported in a low voice, "Miss, someone is hiding over there." ”

Qing Shu listened, followed the eagle guard's line of sight, and didn't see anyone.

"It's a half-grown child, and he hides on the left gable of the thatched hut at the top." Harpyguard retracted his gaze and said.

Qing Shu snorted, and when he saw that there was no one on the left and right, he understood, "Xiaojuan, Xiaoyu, come in with me." "You, try to catch him as much as you can." A group of half-sized boys stealing things, and they will actually use their voices to attack the west! Should we praise them for being smart, or should we scold them for using their cleverness in the wrong place?

Eagle Guard said, "Miss, you don't need your subordinates to take action, someone is waiting for him to take the bait." ”

Qing Shu didn't doubt the judgment of his subordinates at all, so he said, "You come in too", and he took the lead in the thatched house where Yuan Bao lived.

As Eagle Guard said, it didn't take long for the voices of half-grown children begging for mercy and the sound of ingots and their numbers coming.

Caught someone, Yuan Bao came back to report to Qing Shu.

It turns out that recently, the half-grown children of Sunjia Village have come here from time to time to hang around, and they always choose when there are only old women and one or two stove house men on the thatched house. At first, they didn't think about stealing, but they didn't want them to wander around, and they often persuaded them to go home.

A few days ago, the old woman washed the clothes of the laborers and dried them one by one on the rope outside, and when she returned to the house, she washed a few more pieces and prepared to dry them, but found that three and a half children were taking the clothes on the clothesline. The old woman shouted loudly, and the three boys threw down their clothes and fled in fright. Only then did everyone realize that the few coarse cloth clothes they had lost before had been stolen by these boys.

Then, one day at noon, the four people who worked in the stove room left the stove room together after steaming the steamed buns, two of them took a flat pole to the well to fetch water, one went to fetch firewood and grass, and one went to the field to prepare to call the workers back to eat. The first to come back with water found that the lid had been shifted. They hurriedly opened the lid of the pot and took a look, and found that there were more than a dozen steamed buns missing on the top layer of steaming. They thought it was one of them who was hungry and ate it without saying hello, so they reported it to Steward Zhang. Steward Zhang summoned everyone to ask who stole the food, but no one admitted it. When this happened, the people of the stove felt that they were derelict in their duty, and from then on whatever they did, they always had to leave someone to guard the stove.

Two days later, when one of the people who remained in the stove room was squatting behind the water tank to pick wild vegetables, two and a half children crept in. With a clear goal, they went straight to the large pots full of bud flour buns on the stove. The stove room shouted what are you doing, and quickly stood up. At this time, the frightened two and a half sons escaped.

For this matter, Steward Zhang made a special trip to Sunjia Village, asking Sun Lizheng to take care of the children in his village, and warned that he would not be spared next time. After that, these boys stopped for a while, but they didn't expect to come again. A child is a child, and no matter how smart he is, he can't count an adult. The children used the trick of striking east and west, although they ran to chase the ingots, but they did not forget to leave people in the stove room just in case, so they caught an eleven-year-old boy named Sun Daniu.

Qing Shu heard this and asked Yuanbao, "What are you going to do next?" ”

Yuan Bao knew that Miss was testing him, so he was a little nervous, "The little one wants to report to Steward Zhang first, if Steward Zhang can't pull out, the little one will take the caught child to Sun Lizheng." ”

Qing Shu asked again, "What do you want to say when you see Sun Lizheng?" ”

Yuan Bao thought for a while, and said uncertainly, "Just say, next time, report directly to the official." ”

Qing Shu nodded, "First ask who the child is from, and you have to ask him to recruit accomplices." When you go to Sunjia Village, you have to bring more people, and you have to skip Sun Lizheng and find their father and mother directly. Words of admonition and warnings should be given, and remember to let them return the stolen clothes. She didn't feel sorry for a few coarse cloth clothes, but she didn't want those children to go astray. It is not magnanimous to indulge a child who makes a mistake. "Just say that I said it, and let Steward Zhang put down the matter at hand and deal with this matter personally. You also go along, you see how Steward Zhang handles it, and learn more. ”

After sending the ingots to lock the door and go on an errand, Qing Shu asked people to summon a carriage and sat in the carriage to see the water diversion project presided over by Mr. Song.

The ditch in Liangzhou has been repaired, and the construction site has now extended to the wasteland of Huizhou and Qingshu.

When the carriage came to a stop near the construction site, Qingshu looked out of the small window on the wall of the carriage for a while, and ordered the coachman to turn the horse's head and return the same way.

When the noise came into his ears, Qing Shu, who was in the moving carriage, opened his eyes, "What's the matter?" ”

Xiao Juan, who was looking out, put down the curtain of the car and replied, "Miss, I don't know what happened, a group of village women are shouting at the vegetable field for the comparison of work. ”

Qing Shu sat up straight, "Send someone over to take a look." ”

"Miss, the guards have already ridden over." Xiao Yu replied from the side.

At this time, the coachman asked Qingshu for advice and stopped the carriage.

Soon, the guards came back to report that about 20 women from Sunjia Village were scolding people with five or six half-sized children. The women said that Steward Zhang had wronged the children in their village for stealing things, and they were not convinced, they wanted justice, and they wanted Steward Zhang to apologize.

Qing Shu's face sank, "I don't know what to do." Send someone to Sunjia Village, let their men come over, and let Sun Lizheng come over. I'd like to see what they're up to. ”

No, before the people were sent out, there was the sound of a woman crying and calling her mother.

"I'm not alive anymore, I'm not alive without a face, Ga Tou, I've let the minions of big families be bullied. Mother, the daughter-in-law has no face to see people, you let go of the daughter-in-law and let the daughter-in-law die! ”

Then a group of women cursed. scolding God for injustice; scolding the people who work on the wasteland for not being a good thing; scolded Zhang for bullying them for being poor, so they bullied their children first and then bullied them. There are also swearing, how ugly and ugly the scolding is.

Steward Zhang and the others are popular enough, but they are a group of big men, how can they do it to women and children. What's even more annoying is that he understands that this group of women only dared to make trouble without fear because they couldn't do anything to women and children.

An old man in his fifties hurried over, "Shut up, shut up, a bunch of things with no eyes!" What's the fuss? What's the fuss? Hurry home and cook, so as not to be embarrassed here. ”