As soon as Wei Yan passed, he saw a man about thirty-six or seven years old being pressed to the ground, and the person holding him was Erhu, who was dressed in a short dress, with mud on his feet, looking like he had just returned from the ground, and there was a set of kettles next to him.

"What's going on?"

Wei Yan looked at the situation in front of him, calmly asked, not worried about the stolen things at all, if earthworm breeding is so easy, just steal a few earthworms, steal a few bags of feed can be made, then he doesn't need to experiment for nearly a year to get it out, he has not mastered the real technology, no matter how much he steals, it will be in vain.

Like Wei Yan, Xie Jiu is not worried, but if someone steals to the door, he will not be happy, his face is tight, revealing a sternness. Wei Yan smiled indifferently, patted her hand, signaled her to be restless, and teased in a low voice: "It seems that it is the turn of the famous detective Wei Yan, who has seen countless reasoning, to appear, come, madam, make a cameo appearance as our beautiful assistant, right?" ”

Xie Jiubai glanced at him, Wei Yan smiled, turned to Cheng Huinan and Erhu, and looked at the guy who was caught, compared to Erhu, he was not tall and strong, he was very small, lean, wearing the clothes of the Weifu family, gritting his teeth and looking at Wei Yan.

Wei Yan was a little helpless, and he didn't even have the heart to ask, so he said directly to Erhu: "I just discussed the punishment with Cheng Lao Guogong a few days ago, and you also heard it on the side, so pull it down and practice it." ”

Erhu's chest straightened, stared at the man, and said, "Yes, master, I know what to do, take it down." ”

The second tiger pressed the people away, and Wei Yan turned to Cheng Huinan and asked, "Can you see what kind of road that girl is?" ”

Cheng Huinan was stunned for a moment, and then said with surprise on his face: "Yes." Master. From a small point of view, the number of that person's path should be a ranger, and there may not be much martial arts, but it is better than dexterity. ”

Wei Yan nodded, pondered for a while, and suddenly smiled, "Were you worried about me and my wife suspecting you newcomers just now?" ”

Cheng Huinan's face turned red, and he nodded: "Yes, there will be no accident when the little ones don't come." There was an accident in the house just a few days after I arrived, which is really worrying. ”

Wei Yan smiled, walked over, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "You are too worried about this matter." You are from Cheng Mansion, whether it is the old man of Cheng Mansion, or the brothers of Cheng Ming, you are almost a family with my Wei Mansion, and you are the people personally selected by Uncle Cheng. How could I not be at ease! I hope you don't have any doubts about this matter, do a good job, and let's figure out this sword matter. ”

"Yes, sir! Thank you for your trust. Cheng Huinan bowed and saluted, Wei Yan just smiled, asked him to excuse himself, and talked about the situation at that time.

Now is the time for spring sowing. Almost every household is busy with spring sowing, and Weifu is no exception, most of the people are transferred out to help with spring sowing, only a few people are in the house, and the two tiger brothers also went out to help because Yun Niang was pregnant. Outside the breeding room, there were only two or three people guarding it, and in view of Wei Yan's previous orders, he transferred Cheng Huinan and a few people to be on duty.

I did a day's work, while the sky was still dark. The second tiger came back to carry the water, and happened to see a guy sneakily running in the direction of the breeding room. Erhu is the old man of Weifu, he knows everyone in the house, and when he saw that the guy's back was very unfamiliar, he chased after him, ready to see who it was. And Cheng Huinan and the others just came, and the people in the Yu Mansion were not familiar with it, so they put that person in, if it wasn't for Erhu who followed behind, maybe he wouldn't be able to. I really let the girl steal the things.

Cheng Huinan said: "Master, please punish us, if it weren't for the carelessness of the little ones, this thief would never have been let in." ”

Wei Yan raised his hand to stop him from continuing to blame himself, and asked, "At that time. Does the thief know you? ”

Cheng Huinan is not stupid. I immediately understood, and thought about it carefully. Said: "He didn't call out my surname, but just called my eldest brother with a smile, saying that it was on the order of the old man to let me take some things over, by the way, he also greeted a few words, and asked us if we were used to staying in Zhuangzi, and the little private guess, he should know that we are all new!" ”

Wei Yan nodded and said with a smile: "In this way, the scope is narrowed. We Weifu Zhuangzi said that the defense was tight, and that was not to be talked about, but it would be interesting to let a stranger in the house and wear the clothes of the family to pretend. In the next few days, you will investigate this matter with me, and be sure to find out the whole thing and find out the black sheep of our Zhuangzi! Cheng Huinan was a little excited, and hurriedly took the order: "Yes, master, the little one will definitely do his best to assist you!" ”

Wei Yan patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said, "Maybe the second tiger can ask all the things there, wait and see." You take people to take a look near Zhuangzi first, don't alarm the villagers, let's do it quietly. ”

"Yes, sir."

Cheng Huinan took the order and left. After instructing everyone to do what they should do, Wei Yan pulled Xie Jiu back to the house, drinking warm tea, feeling good, Xie Jiu's face was full of contemplation, and he thought for a while: "I think there should be an inner **, but this inner ** will not be a person in our house." ”

Wei Yan smiled: "Please ask Madame for advice." ”

Xie Jiu glanced at him and said, "Although we didn't introduce Cheng Huinan and others to all the people in the mansion, the housekeeper has always been old, and he should have informed the people that there are ten more guards in the mansion." Even if someone has a broken mouth and says it, they won't even say their surname. The thief obviously didn't know the origin and surname of Cheng Huinan and the others, but he knew that Wei Mansion had added some newcomers, and he chose to be busy with the spring sowing season, when the big tigers and two tigers who were familiar with the situation in the house were not there, he should have some understanding of the old people in the house and was very familiar with the situation of sowing seeds on Zhuangzi. ”

Wei Yan laughed: "Madam is wise, you can be a detective." Actually, that's what I think. As long as the scope is determined, we will know when the second tiger interrogates the person. Xie Jiu bowed. The time to wait for the results was not long, after dinner, when he was about to exercise after cooking, Erhu asked the results. The situation is similar to what Wei Yan and Xie Jiu speculated, the thief is just a scoundrel in the interior of Chang'an City, and someone gave him fifty times. asked him to take advantage of the busy season of spring sowing to come to Weifu to steal things. And the person who called him to come is no stranger, he is now a model of the prodigal son in the township, a model of the prodigal son, a typical example of changing when he knows his mistakes, and the famous Qingniu children's shoes. It was the green cow who gave Ya fifty guan, asked Ya to steal things, and promised. As long as you can steal the secret of raising poultry in Weifu, Feihuang Tengda is just around the corner.

Wei Yan nodded after hearing this, and asked Erhu: "Go and see if the green cow is still there?" ”

Erhu said, "As soon as I asked, I asked people to arrest the girl, but the local people came to report, the girl said three days ago that she went to Chang'an to catch the market and never came back, and also swept away the more than ten pieces of money that her parents and daughters-in-law had worked hard to accumulate, and his father had said that he would no longer recognize the disobedient son." Master, how should this matter be handled? ”

Wei Yan frowned: "Second Tiger." What do you want to say? Say! ”

Erhu smiled honestly and said: "It's the matter of the young man's family, now Qingniu has committed an accident, his parents, wife and children are still on our Zhuangzi, how to deal with this, master, you can let it go, otherwise we will not be able to do it." ”

Wei Yan nodded. Suddenly smiled and said, "Erhu, you didn't care about these things before, who wanted you to ask?" ”

Erhu was honest and said, "It's Yun Niang." When I sent someone to Qingniu's house to find someone just now, Qingniu's parents cried and scolded, saying that they were shameless and no longer living in Zhuangzi in Weifu and wanted to move elsewhere. Yun Niang asked me to ask the master. See what the master commands, and we will do it. ”

Wei Yan didn't answer, but just smiled: "Cheng, you kid, you really married a shrewd daughter-in-law." Okay, if your daughter-in-law has anything to say, let's finish it at once. ”

Erhu said with a smile: "Yun Niang said that since Qingniu came back, their life has been getting better day by day, and Qingniu is also good to his parents, but he still beats and scolds his daughter-in-law." Scolding him that women will only lose money, they can't give him a son, they can't inherit their family's incense, and once he was drunk and said that when he was developed, he would take his parents over. or sell their wives and children to others as slaves. I also asked if anyone wanted it and could sell it cheaply. Yun Niang said. It's best to go to Qingniu's house to have a look. ”

Wei Yan was dumbfounded when he heard it, knowing that there were bastards in this world, but this was the first time he had seen it with his own eyes, and there was really no most bastard, only more bastards. Xie Jiu pursed his mouth tightly and scolded "ridiculous". Wei Yan lowered his head and thought for a while, and said, "Let's go, let's go to Qingniu's house." Would you like to go along? ”

"Let's go."

Xie Jiu's expression was grim, and he got up and went out with Wei Yan. When I arrived in the village, I saw Qingniu and his mother sitting in front of the door, crying and scolding: "You can't lay eggs, can't you see us better?" You just take your raw land to lose money and keep the goods, the two of us can't afford to lose this person, if you don't leave, let's go! ”

Qingniu's daughter-in-law and sister-in-law Guihua were hard, and insisted: "Mother-in-law, Qingniu has done such a thing, and the Weifu has treated me well, not only renting fields to us, teaching us to raise poultry, but also giving us money to build a house, giving us a comfortable and stable life." Qingniu sat down for so many wrong things, if we leave and don't repay the great kindness of the guard, we will be poked in the backbone in the future! ”

The old lady of the green cow was suffocated, simply cried and shouted, and used the trick of sprinkling, kicking her legs around on the ground, her thighs, crying and scolding, scolding and scolding is to scold the osmanthus sister-in-law for having no conscience, her son ran away, and her daughter-in-law was not filial, not only did she not raise a grandson who inherited the incense, but also gave birth to a girl who lost money, crying to throw the mother and daughter down.

Father Qingniu waited coldly for the mother and daughter of Osmanthus and said angrily: "It is precisely because Qingniu did something wrong that we are leaving the Wei family Zhuangzi, do you still have the face to continue to stay?" You don't want your face, I still want this old face, old man! ”

Sister-in-law Osmanthus was scolded with a pale face, hugged her daughter tightly, bit her lower lip, and stopped talking, the little girl snuggled tightly into her mother's arms, timidly looked at her grandparents who had never been good to her on weekdays, and was so frightened that she didn't dare to speak, and her tears didn't dare to fall in her eyes, which was very pitiful.

Wei Yan and Xie Jiu went over and didn't speak, and seeing that Yun Niang was also in the crowd of onlookers, someone called Yun Niang over, Wei Yan asked, "What's the situation?" Which one is sung?

Yun Niang glanced at Qingniu's parents coldly, and sneered: "Back to the master, depending on the concubine's body, it's just a farce, have you ever seen someone who is so guilty that he wants to move away, and he doesn't bring anything, only some soft things?" ”

Yun Niang reminded her like this, Wei Yan looked at Qingniu's parents, and indeed as Yun Niang said, Qingniu's parents did carry a burden, not big, a small bag, it is estimated that it is some soft things, and the furniture that is commonly used on weekdays is not brought.

Wei Yan swept around, but did not see any voices coming from the pigsty and poultry pens, and asked strangely, "Why don't they raise domestic animals?" Every family in our Zhuangzi relies on this subsidy to supplement their families, why do they ......?"

Yun Niang said: "Master, the concubine and Sister-in-law Osmanthus are close friends in the boudoir, and they often have dealings. Just now the front foot of the two tigers sent to arrest people just arrived, the concubine cared about the osmanthus sister-in-law, and the back foot followed, Qingniu's parents cried and shouted, crying so well that they were not sad, but they did not show any surprise, as if they had already known the general, the burden, packed up quickly, just like the appearance of early preparation, only pity the osmanthus sister-in-law, still complaining that her life is hard, she did not meet a good man, failed to give Qingniu a son to inherit the incense, and did not dare to complain that her in-laws were not good to her. ”

Yun Niangdi's tone seemed to be resentful, but it also revealed a lot of things. Wei Yan and Xie Jiu glanced at each other, Wei Yan smiled, stepped forward and said, "Okay, okay, don't cry, don't make trouble." ”

"Ah, the lord and the lady are here."

In the countryside, but in such a big place, the villagers, every household can know something, the old lady of Qingniu cried at the door for a while, gathered a lot of people, saw Wei Yan coming, and greeted one after another.