Zuo Li Chang felt that the request of the county magistrate was really incredible, they were studying how Huang Meiyu, a big living person, did not have it, but now the county magistrate actually asked him to check the number of chickens, is it going to change from looking for a big live person to looking for a big live chicken?

But since the county magistrate asked for this, Zuo Li Chang had no choice but to go to the front yard, he found his wife, and asked her to check the number of chickens in the backyard.

Zuo Lichang's wife was also surprised, the county magistrate brought so many people to Zuo's house, and the momentum was violent, but he didn't ask anything, so he first cared about the chickens raised by the Zuo family, what does this mean?

Could it be that the county magistrate is hinting that he is going to eat chicken at my house at noon today?

Zuoli's wife didn't dare to slack off, so she hurriedly ran to the back and began to seriously count the chickens raised by the Zuo family, is there any less?

Li Rizhi then checked the fence backyard and found that there was no trace of damage to the fence backyard!

This is very normal, because if the fence wall is damaged, then the chickens in the yard will probably run out of the hole, especially the leading rooster can flutter, there is a fence wall to block and want to flutter to the wall, if there is no fence wall, then it would have flown out a long time ago to find someone else's hen.

As soon as I finished checking the fence wall, I heard the wife of the chief of the left side shouting: "Oh, our family is really missing chickens, and there are still four less, four big hens are missing!" ”

Zuo Lichang was dumbfounded, he never thought that his chickens would be lost, the Zuo family is really unfavorable, first lost the big living people, and now found that he also lost four big hens, who would steal this?

The neighbors in the village don't do this kind of thing, it's very rare!

Li Rizhi looked at the stunned Zuo Lichang and said, "Didn't you say that you never lose chickens in your village?" Now that it's lost, tell me who stole it, or will it be your big hen who ran to someone else's house to find the big rooster? ”

Zuo Li didn't know what to say, he was actually very skeptical of the county magistrate's way of doing things.

Isn't the prefectural magistrate supposed to come looking for someone?

Why did it suddenly become a big hen for his family?

If this is the case, then is this county magistrate too irresponsible, or is it implying something, the Zuo family should give him some benefits? Otherwise, he wouldn't work in the Zuo family, wouldn't find Huang Meiyu for them, or would he help the Huang Caizhu's family and repair the Zuo family well?

Li Rizhi frowned, and said to Zuo Lichang: "The official asked you to ask, you just asked, this is a very important matter, don't you know?" Well, according to this official, it is better to let your lady go, and see the reaction of the neighbors! ”

Zuo Lichang thought to himself: "How can this be a very important thing? This is a trivial matter at all, compared to Huang Meiyu's matter, it is not even trivial! ”

However, he didn't dare to talk back to Li Rizhi, he had to do whatever the county magistrate asked him to do.

But he didn't want to leave, after all, no one in the Zuo family was qualified to be by the county commander's side except him now, and he was also afraid that others would say the wrong thing in front of Li Rizhi, which would make the county magistrate unhappy, and the Zuo family was already unlucky enough, and it couldn't be more unlucky.

Zuo Li Chang had no choice but to turn around and say to his wife: "The county commander asked you to go, so you will go to all the houses in the village to ask who has more chickens, is it our big hen running over, if it is not our chickens running around, then pay attention when you ask, will anyone be very panicked, if it is very panicked, then it means that he stole our chickens!" ”

His wife had no choice but to nod and agree, which was also a helpless thing, but she herself wanted to know who dared to run to Zuo's house to steal chickens.

In the past, the Zuo family was the richest family in the village, but now there is someone in the son of the Zuo family who is the mayor, which is even more amazing.

In the countryside, the common people usually don't see the officials, and the most contact is a small person like Zuo Lichang, don't look at Zuo Lichang is already a grassroots figure who can no longer be grassroots, but in fact, if he wants to clean up anyone, no one in the village can resist it, Zuo Lichang is actually the overlord of the village, and no one in this village dares to steal Zuo's chickens.

Zuo Lichang's wife went out to question the villagers, while Li Rizhi continued to inspect the fence backyard.

At this time, Cheng Zizi also came in, he arranged the rest of the things, and then came to see Li Rizhi to investigate the scene.

Li Rizhi told Cheng Zizi about the situation he had just investigated, and then he summed up and said: "There is no hole in this fence wall, which means that it will not be the wild beasts outside the village that run in to steal the chickens to eat, so either those big hens are particularly capable of fluttering and fluttering out of the fence wall, or they are stolen by others."

If you can't find a chicken thief in the village, then it means that it is from outside the village, think about it, if the Zuo family comes in and thieves, will it have something to do with Huang Meiyu, and will it even kidnap Huang Meiyu? ”

After listening to this, Cheng Zizai nodded, and said: "This is quite possible, that Huang Meiyu, whether it is her mother-in-law or her mother's family, is quite rich, if she can be kidnapped, then she will really make a small fortune, and even sell her to human traffickers, you can also make a fortune!" ”

Li Rizhi hummed and said: "This possibility is very high, so we have to check it carefully, let the people of the Zuo family ask first, and if there is any suspicious situation, let's interrogate it well!" ”

Zuo Li Chang listened to the side, and at this time it suddenly dawned on him that the county magistrate was not meddling, but really solving the case, and because of the chicken stealing, he would deduce whether it was someone from outside the village.

This is simply a case judgment like a god, no, it can't be said that the case is like a god now, after all, Huang Meiyu has not been recovered, and his Zuo family's grievances have not been washed away!

Li Rizhi turned around the inside of the fence wall, and didn't find anything special, so he planned to come out of the fence wall, but there was no door on the fence wall, if you want to get out, you either get through the chicken's small door, which is impossible, or jump over the fence wall, which is actually very laborious, and the fence wall is almost as tall as a person!

Or just go back to the courtyard, and go out through the side door of the left house, that is, through the small door where you usually go through the kitchen and firewood room, and then go around half a circle to get back to the outside of the fence wall.

Li Rizhi and Cheng Zizi returned to the courtyard, came around the side door, and followed behind by Zuo Lichang.

He thought to himself, "I guess it's to look at the outside of the fence wall, but there is a ditch outside the wall of my house, so there really isn't much to see!" ”

Li Rizhi and Cheng Zizi walked to the backyard, and saw that outside the fence wall of Zuo's house was a small ditch three steps wide, and the small ditch extended outward, about thirty or forty steps away, there was a large puddle, the big puddle was several zhang square, and it was obviously used to store water.

Powerful rich families in the countryside sometimes build such a puddle to store water, and water the land when the weather is dry, especially for paddy fields, such puddles are even more important.

Most of the fields of the Zuo family are paddy fields, so such a large puddle is even more important!