Chapter 4: The Thief

Chen Ke walked like a fly, easily avoiding a few housekeepers and maids, and soon arrived at the northeast corner of the yard, more than a dozen steps away from the house, Chen Ke smelled a smell of meat, he couldn't help but lift his spirits, and quickly touched the kitchen window. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

He put his left ear against the window, listened to the movement inside, only heard the "flickering" sound of the firewood burning, so he straightened his clothes and hat, and pushed the door in a generous way.

The kitchen is very large, the left side is the stove, the right side is placed ingredients and sundries, Chen Ke opened the lid of a large pot on the stove, the pot is a large piece of mutton that is tumbling, he picked up a chopstick, pressed on a piece of mutton, the mutton is not crispy enough.

It's better to choose a day than to hit the day, since this mutton was bumped into by yourself, of course it is your own dish, although this mutton still owes a little heat, but at this time it is not important to take care of it, it is a big deal to take it to Li Laohan's house and cook it again.

Chen Ke casually picked up an empty food box in the kitchen, this food box is very large, there are several layers, he used a spoon to put all the mutton in the pot into the food box, hum, when you encounter something delicious, of course, you have to be honest and polite.

Uncovered another cauldron, inside was freshly cooked hot rice, it seemed that Li Yuanwai's family had not eaten dinner yet. Chen Ke scooped a few large spoonfuls of rice and filled the food box to the brim.

Chen Ke was carrying the food box, and just as he was about to walk out of the kitchen, he heard a sound of footsteps outside, the footsteps were light, it should be a woman, maybe a maid.

Sure enough, a crisp female voice floated over: "Sister-in-law, the master is talking about things in the study, and he will go to the account room in a while, you let people send the food directly to the account room." ”

Chen Ke quickly took out his mobile phone, adjusted the voice changer to a middle-aged contralto, and then answered vaguely: "Yes." The maid did not suspect it, and walked away with light steps.

Accounts? Chen Ke was reminded by the maid's words, he patronized the food, but forgot the most important thing, what is he lacking the most now? It's silver. Just do it, Chen Ke decided to go to the account room again.

Chen Ke casually picked up a damp cloth from the kitchen and covered it on the food box, so that no one could smell the fragrance of mutton. Closing the door, Chen Ke quietly followed behind the maid, since the maid came to pass the word, she must have come from the study, and the study account room should not be too far apart.

The maid had not walked for a while, then she stopped, and stood far away outside a room, where the light was on, and people could be faintly heard whispering.

Through the faint moonlight, Chen Ke could tell that next to the house was the main hall, Li Yuanwai was just a small landlord, and his house was not big, so it would not have a complicated layout, Chen Ke guessed that the study and the account room should be on both sides of the main hall.

However, although he could avoid the maid's sight, it was so close that it was a quiet night, and the sound made when he pushed the door was still easy to spot. Chen Ke gently put down the food box, quietly walked around the back of the maid, stunned her in the old way, and then carried her under a tree in the corner of the yard, so as not to be discovered soon.

The account room did not lock the door, and when he entered the account room, with the light from the mobile phone screen, Chen Ke opened several drawers one after another, but he didn't see any silver. He wanted to look for it again, but he heard a sharp female voice outside: "Master, it's not good." ”

Then a deep voice reprimanded: "Is it Sister Hua?" What are you yelling about, what's going on? ”

I only heard Sister-in-law Hua's somewhat panicked voice say, "Master, I just went to relieve my hands and came back...... When I came back, I found that the mutton cooked in the pot was gone, and the rice cooked in the other pot was missing more than half. ”

"Got it, you go back to the kitchen first, I'll come over and have a look right away." The person who is called the master is naturally Li Yuanwai, he seems very calm and doesn't take it too seriously, after all, every hungry year, food theft is nothing new.

After a few seconds of silence, Li Yuanwai suddenly raised his voice and said, "What about Xiaoyan, I let her go to the kitchen, why, hasn't she come back yet?" ”

Sister-in-law Hua said: "Xiaoyan? I didn't see her. ”

Li Yuanwai finally realized that something was wrong and shouted: "Go to the kitchen first." Then he opened the door to the study.

Through the crack in the door, Chen Ke saw two men and a woman hurriedly walking out of the courtyard door and towards the kitchen, without paying attention to Xiaoyan, the unconscious maid in the corner. The female is naturally the sister-in-law, the male one is Li Yuanwai, and the other should be the person who just talked to Li Yuanwai.

Everyone is gone, and the study is empty. Chen Ke gently closed the door of the account room and entered the study directly.

The light in the study was still on, Chen Ke casually opened a drawer, and saw three ingots of silver, picked it up and checked it, one ingot was about twenty taels. There were a few pieces of broken silver next to the silver, and he didn't dislike it, so he stuffed them all into the pocket in his arms.

When it was done, Chen Ke was about to leave, when he suddenly saw the neat pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the desk, his heart moved, he picked up the brush whose ink had not dried, and wrote "The thief is here for a visit" on the white paper that had been laid out according to the traditional Chinese characters on the mobile phone. His calligraphy was originally very poor, and he used his left hand, and the writing was crooked, but fortunately, the strokes were clear, and he was not afraid that others would not understand.

With silver in his arms and a food box in his hand, Chen Ke was in a good mood, took off his cyan clothes unhurriedly, threw them into the wall, and walked towards Li Laohan's house.

As soon as Li Yuanwai came to the kitchen, he heard a family member shouting: "Master, Zhao Shu was knocked unconscious by the wall, and the clothes and pants he wore outside were gone." Li Yuanwai immediately woke up and hurriedly said: "This is not an ordinary thief, everyone hurry up and light the lights and inspect everywhere, this thief should still be in the yard." ”

The family Ding answered "yes" and was about to walk away, Li Yuanwai raised his hand again and said: "Every two people patrol together, don't be separated, so as not to be attacked, and call two more people to find Xiaoyan, she should also be knocked unconscious." ”

After being busy for a while, Li Yuanwai suppressed the anger in his heart, returned to the study, and reluctantly squeezed out a smile and said, "Master Yan, I'm really sorry, there was an accident in the house, so you can see the joke." As he spoke, he invited Master Yan to sit down, and as soon as the words fell, his face suddenly became a little ugly.

Master Yan also noticed the white paper on the table, and his buttocks hadn't sat down yet, when he stood up and stammered, "Thief...... Chivalry, how can you ...... Is it him again? ”

Seeing Master Yan so out of shape, Li Yuanwai quickly calmed down, he had never heard of the name of a thief, and asked seriously: "Master Yan, who is this thief?" He was shocked and angry at the thought that this thief had quietly stolen things and left his handwriting so rampantly.

Master Yan ignored him, and said to himself: "It's him, it must be him, besides him, who will go around from the kitchen to the study to write a few words." Last time, it was these words, and they were also crooked and slanted, and there was no discipline. ”

Li Yuanwai looked at Master Yan with a confused expression, and he didn't know what to ask for a while.