Chapter Twenty-Three: A Bad Year?

In the middle of the night, it's a good time to do bad things.

The three people dressed in black clothes sneakily paused in the corner of the inn, they are the famous thief trio in the county.

The three thieves looked at each other, made a gesture that only understood by each other, and then began.

The eldest is responsible for exploring the way, the second is closely behind, and the third is responsible for looking at the wind.

In the past, they relied on this division of labor method to steal invincible opponents in Nanxian County, and they believed that with the technology they had stolen for five years, they would definitely have no problem this time.

During the day, the three brothers found a rich couple living in the inn, and they bought a lot of cloth, which they heard was worth at least a hundred taels of silver.

Hundreds of taels of silver, so much silver, enough for them to go home and marry their daughters-in-law, waiting for the end of this order, they are ready to rest for a few years and then resume their old business.

The thieves and thieves smoothly began their plan to steal money, and after the eldest and the second entered the inn, the third child sat on the tree next to the wall and looked around, even if there were people, he could hide in the tree.

The reason why they chose the rich couple to start was that they were rich, second, they were outsiders who could not stay in the county to arrest them all the time, and third, the two of them looked weak and couldn't help but steal this kind of person, they were all sorry for their name as thieves!

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An Manyue looked at Ning Yongchuan in a daze, her brain slowed down for half a beat, and then she reacted, stretched out her hand to push Ning Yongchuan away, and said in a low voice: "Don't make trouble." ”

Ning Yongchuan didn't plan to attack An Manyue, after all, the sound insulation in the inn was not good, and that kind of thing was better to go home and do it.

He turned and blew out the kerosene lamp on the table.

"I have to get up early tomorrow to send the fourth child into the examination room."

Ning Yongchuan calmly got off An Manyue's body, a little helplessness slipped through his cold eyes, and his voice was as soft and clean as ever.

An Manyue looked at Ning Yongchuan with bright eyes, not at all frightened by Ning Yongchuan's actions, and asked, "Aren't you excited?" ”

Ning Yongchuan glanced at him lightly, and said helplessly: "Don't be excited." ”

An Manyue answered softly, turned around and lay down, and his eyes inadvertently fell to the window at the end of the bed, and he saw two sneaky figures.

An Manyue hurriedly sat up, pulled Ning Yongchuan's arm, and pointed to the wooden window.

"Shh Ning Yongchuan made a small motion, picked up the bench and walked towards the window.

An Manyue climbed lightly to the window, clutched the kerosene lamp in his hand, thinking that as soon as the thief came in, he would directly smash the thief unconscious.

The husband and wife stood aside and waited for the thief.

"Big brother, when are we going to go in?" The thief was a little impatient, the lights of the husband and wife were out, they must have fallen asleep, and it was not interesting for them to stay outside, and asked in a low voice.

"Wait." The thief thief boss shook his head, the couple had just blown out the lamp, and now they were afraid that they would startle the snake when they went in, and said in a low voice.

An Manyue is even less sleepy at this time, at first because she was worried about the fourth child's exam tomorrow, but now because she wants to catch those two thieves.

She pressed her ear to the wall, trying to hear what was going on outside.

What made her speechless was that the two thieves chatted in a dumb voice because the waiting time was too boring, and the two laughed when they said they were excited.

That's it?

Still stealing?

An Manyue felt that the county government's head-catching was really useless, and this kind of stupid thief couldn't be caught.

After about a quarter of an hour, the two thieves finally opened the wooden window, and the two of them stuck their heads ~ in at the same time, but they didn't see anything clearly, and the back of their heads hurt and fainted directly.

Ning Yongchuan re-lit the kerosene lamp, followed An Manyue to secretly tie up the two thieves, and went down to find the shopkeeper.

Then, the shopkeeper of the inn began to search for suspicious people everywhere, and did not forget to secretly tie the two thieves in Ning Yongchuan's house to the firewood room.

The thief who had been looking at the wind was originally riding on the wall and looking around, but when he heard the inn shouting to catch the thief, he was so frightened that his face turned pale, knowing that the boss and the second were caught, and he wanted to escape, but he was excited and jumped into the inn.

The shopkeeper was working very neatly at this time, tying up the thief and the third thief and sending it to the firewood room, but when he took off the face towel, he found that these three were the thief trio wanted by the county government.

The shopkeeper of the inn was also alarmed, and when he heard that the guest caught the thief first, he politely sent Ning Yongchuan twenty taels of silver to thank Ning Yongchuan for eliminating harm for the people and catching the thief; And because the inn did not protect the personal safety of Ning Yongchuan and his wife, Ning Yongchuan was exempted from all expenses in the inn this time.

This shopkeeper is so good at things, of course Ning Yongchuan has to accept the apology of the silver two and the shopkeeper with a smile.

After Ning Yongchuan went back to the house and closed the door and window, he walked to the bed with a kerosene lamp, and was about to talk to An Manyue, but saw that the person on the bed was already asleep.

He leaned in front of her lightly, kissed her on the lips~ flaps, showed a soft smile, and said "good night" softly.

A good night's sleep.

Early the next morning, someone from the government came, and Ning Yongchuan wanted to stay and explain to the people in the government last night, so only An Manyue sent Ning Zezhi to the examination room alone.

An Manyue carried the food box, her palms were full of sweat, and she was very annoyed in her heart, if it wasn't for the store guy who sent the food box, she didn't know that the candidates had to stay in the examination room from the hour to the unitary time, and she didn't know that the candidates' lunch would also be solved in the examination room.

If Ning Yongchuan hadn't bought the candidate package in the inn in advance, the fourth child might have to take the test hungry for a day today, and An Manyue felt a little guilty.

She turned her head to look at Ning Zezhi, who was standing aside, and encouraged: "Fourth, don't be nervous during the exam." ”

"Mother, I'm not nervous!" Ning Zezhi smiled innocently and harmlessly, "I'm sure I'll be able to pass the exam." ”

An Manyue nodded with a smile and suppressed her nervousness, she was familiar with the exam process today, and when the fourth child took the exam the day after tomorrow, she would definitely not make a mistake.

The places where Xiucai exams are all in the county seat, and An Manyue is going to Nanshan Academy in the county seat this time, and the several necessary roads to the academy are all handled by officers and soldiers in case something happens.

This time, there were a lot of people who came to take the exam, because the exam room had not yet opened, and everyone was standing outside waiting.

Most of the people who came to the exam~ were in their teens and twenties, and there were many elderly people, but only Ning Zezhi was a child.

So everyone's eyes were on Ning Zezhi and An Manyue, who was standing beside Ning Zezhi.

The women present were very envious of An Manyue for having such a smart and clever son, but the men present had a good impression of Chu Chu's moving An Manyue, after all, everyone wanted their daughter-in-law to be young and beautiful.

An Manyue paid all her attention to the book in Ning Zezhi's hand at this time, and looked at the contents on it carefully.

Standing next to An Manyue is a couple, He Changshan is twenty-two this year, and his wife Li Xiuer is only twenty, don't look at Li Xiuer is two years younger than He Changshan, but because she works in the field on weekdays, she looks seven or eight years older than He Changshan.

He Changshan kept peeking at the slender woman beside him, if it weren't for Li Xiu'er still here, he would have gone over to ask questions a long time ago.

Li Xiu'er had already seen He Changshan's thoughts, and glared at An Manyue fiercely, and when she saw that An Manyue's clothes were just ordinary cotton cloth, the corners of her lips were slightly hooked.

Li Xiuer raised her feet and walked towards An Manyue, and when she passed by An Manyue, she hit An Manyue's shoulder hard.

An Manyue staggered, stood firm, the food box in her hand almost fell to the ground, she hurriedly grabbed the food box, opened it and took a look, seeing that the food inside was not poured out, she looked at the woman coldly, and said sharply: "This eldest sister, you will walk and look at it in the future!" ”

"Big sister?" Li Xiu'er is like a cat whose tail has been stepped on, and women always want to be young and beautiful, "You old woman, who do you call your eldest sister, obviously your old face is full of wrinkles and you are embarrassed to call others~ Eldest sister, blind!" ”

An Manyue looked at her and said with a sneer: "Are you justified if you hit someone?" ”

"Fox ~ raccoon dog ~ fine, cheap ~ goods, what a thing!" Li Xiu'er snorted at An Manyue, and said in disgust, "If you want to seduce ~ lure a man, you can go to the women's branch, and put this seduce ~ who to lure!" ”

"Smack!"

Five distinct finger prints suddenly appeared on Li Xiu'er's face, An Manyue put the food box on the ground, took out a handkerchief and wiped his hands, raised his cold eyes, and saw that Li Xiu'er was very dissatisfied, and sneered: "What, you still want to fight me?" ”

Li Xiu'er looked at An Manyue in disbelief, and her eyes were red with anger: "You, I'll fight with you." ”

To say that at the beginning, Li Xiuer was just dissatisfied because of her man's peek at An Manyue, but at this time, she really hated An Manyue, and she was slapped in public, she really couldn't swallow this breath.

He Changshan, who was standing on the side, was stunned, he stepped forward, grabbed Li Xiu'er's arm, and said angrily: "What are you messing around!" ”

"Am I messing around?" Li Xiu'er looked at He Changshan in disbelief, she was slapped by someone, she wanted to fight back now, why was it called nonsense, but Li Xiu'er quickly figured it out, her man's soul had already been hooked away by the fox ~ raccoon ~ spirit in front of her, and pushed He Changshan away, "You stay away!" ”

"Fox ~ raccoon dog ~ spirit, see if I don't kill you!" Li Xiu'er rolled up her sleeves domineeringly, and rushed towards An Manyue with her teeth and claws.

"Mother!" Ning Zezhi stood in front of An Manyue and protected An Manyue behind him, "Be careful." ”

An Manyue's heart was warm at this moment, but when she was not weak enough to let her child protect herself, she quickly moved in front of Ning Zezhi, grabbed Li Xiu'er's arm and twisted it with her backhand, simply pressed Li Xiu'er to the ground, and unloaded Li Xiu'er's two arms.

"You let go of me, you cheap ~ person, you want to seduce ~ lure me man, phew, shameless fox ~ raccoon dog ~ essence!" Li Xiu'er was so angry that her face turned red, she struggled to get up, she couldn't get up, and yelled hysterically, "Get out!" ”

An Manyue let go of his hand and stood up straight, too lazy to talk to this kind of person.

"Don't go, scratch the!" Li Xiu'er looked at An Manyue with a hideous face, and couldn't wait to tear An Manyue directly, "Heh, if you dare to beat me, I will let your child fail the test today!" ”