Chapter Ninety-Eight: There Are Thieves
"Sleep well at night, don't think nonsense, and me, don't worry." Chang Yanzhe looked at Zhou Tiantian who came out to see them off, and whispered.
"Well, I see, Brother Yanzhe." Zhou Tiantian nodded.
In fact, she really wanted to ask why Chang Yanzhe reminded her like that. But thinking about it, if she gets to the bottom of it, she is likely to be interrogated by Chang Yanzhe.
How did she answer Chang Yanzhe? Still dreaming? It's okay to fool others with those words, but it's estimated that fooling Chang Yanzhe is enough, so forget it.
Everyone has a secret or something, if Chang Yanzhe wants to say it, he will naturally say it, there is no need to ask.
"Okay, let's go back to the house, it's cold outside, let's go now, and come back tomorrow."
Chang Yanzhe smiled at Zhou Tiantian, touched Zhou Tiantian's head, turned around and followed the Han family and the Jiang family.
"Tiantian, what did Chang Yanzhe muttered to you just now?" The guests left, and the Zhou family also turned around and went back to the house, Zhou Yanyan was curious for a while, so she asked casually.
"I'm curious, Chang Yanzhe has such a cold temperament, why did he have something to say to you?"
Zhou Yanyan was puzzled, with Chang Yanzhe's personality that everyone talks coldly, how could she take care of Zhou Tiantian's little bit?
Shouldn't you be far away? Why does Chang Yanzhe take special care of Tiantian and treat her so well? It's weird.
Zhou Tiantian was stunned and shook her head, "I don't know, second sister, you want to know, ask Brother Yanzhe to go." ”
Zhou Yanyan shrugged her shoulders and shook her head, "Ask him?" I don't want to be bored, anyway, it has nothing to do with me, I'm just curious at best. So saying, he stepped into the house.
It's not early, and everyone is tired from a busy day's work.
The old lady instructed her sons and daughters-in-law to check all the things that were needed for tomorrow's banquet, bring everything they needed tomorrow to the house, and lock everything they didn't need to the warehouse.
Everything was packed up, and then they went back to the house to sleep.
The Zhou family has five houses, and the east house has been vacated as a new house, and the family originally had a lot of people, plus Mrs. Zhou's maiden nephews and nieces also came, and there were more people.
The new house can't be empty at night, so a few young boys from the Zhou family were arranged to sleep in the east room, and the rest of them crowded on the other three kangs.
Fortunately, the Zhou family's kang is quite large, and it is no problem to squeeze seven or eight people to sleep.
The big guys were tired, so they all fell asleep after lying down for a while.
Although Zhou Tiantian has something in her heart, she is a little baby after all, and she is very tired from running around during the day, so she lies in the quilt and turns over twice, and falls asleep unconsciously.
On the 10th of January, the 27th day of the winter month of the lunar calendar, at the end of the month, there was no moonlight for a long time.
However, for the sake of convenience, the Zhou family pulled an electric lamp in front of the house, and the twenty-five-watt bulb emitted a dim light in the cold night, adding a little light to the dark night.
At about eleven o'clock, two black shadows crept over from the east courtyard, and the black shadows approached the door lightly with their waists against the wall.
Reaching out and tugging, the door didn't move, it should have been plugged in from the inside, and one of the black shadows made a gesture, turned around and moved towards the warehouse.
I didn't want to touch the barn door, but I found that there was a big iron lock hanging on the barn door.
"Damn, they're careful enough, the door is plugged in, and the barn door is locked, so how can we get in?" One of the dark shadows couldn't help but feel a little depressed.
Originally, I thought that the West Courtyard had made so many delicious foods, and when they touched it at night, how could they also pull some good things back, but what happened? I can't figure anything out.
"Don't worry, let me try, maybe I can poke this lock open."
The other shadow was not reconciled, so he took a wire from his pocket, bent it forward, and then put the wire into the keyhole, and played with it.
Not to mention, he poked like this for a while, and he didn't know which one was so inch, and the lock really opened with a click.
"It's on, it's on." The man next to him said happily.
"You keep quiet, I'm afraid people won't hear it, what's wrong?" The one who picked the lock glared at the person next to him, then took the lock and opened the door of the warehouse to enter.
"Stay out and watch me out." After speaking, he smeared and entered the warehouse, but the warehouse was pitch black, and he didn't know where the things were, so he could only grope little by little.
In the west room, Zhou Anhe and his family fell asleep, as well as Zhou Antai's family, Han Caiying slept in the middle with Zhou Tiantian in her arms, Zhou Anhe on the left, and Zhou Lili and Zhou Yanyan on the right.
Because of her sister-in-law's reminder, Han Caiying didn't dare to sleep at night, and in a daze, she heard the little girl in her arms shouting, "There is a thief, there is a thief in the house." ”
Han Caiying sat up as soon as she was excited, and subconsciously reached out to pull the lamp rope under the edge of the kang.
The light switch in these years is generally the kind of rope, and the Zhou family fixed the light rope with a small pulley under the edge of the kang, so that no matter who gets up at night, as long as he reaches out and pulls down the light rope, he doesn't have to shout that the person on the kang head turns on the light.
The lights were turned on, and Han Caiying noticed that her daughter was still sleeping with her eyes closed, and she was still muttering in her mouth and didn't know what to say, it turned out that this girl was talking in her sleep.
Han Caiying couldn't cry or laugh, it turned out to be a false alarm, but she had already woken up, so she simply got up and planned to go out to relieve herself.
As soon as Han Caiying was putting on her shoes, she heard something outside, "Anhe, hurry up, there's movement outside." ”
Han Caiying didn't care about anything else, she pulled her shoes and rushed to the outhouse, and when she opened the door, she saw a black shadow running quickly towards the east courtyard.
"Someone, our family has entered the thief, get up quickly." Han Chaeyoung hurriedly shouted.
At this time, all the people in the east and west houses heard it, and Old Man Zhou, Zhou Anbang and others all came out in clothes, "What's the matter?" ”
"I just saw a dark shadow running to the east, from near the barn, go to the barn." Han Caiying pointed in the direction of the warehouse and said loudly.
Old Man Zhou led his son straight to the warehouse, and when he went to the warehouse door, he saw that the warehouse door was open, and the lock fell to the ground.
"Grab a flashlight and see what's missing?" Old Man Zhou shouted loudly.
The people in the house heard it, and hurriedly found a flashlight to send it out, and the old man Zhou went into the warehouse with a flashlight, only to see a few baskets falling to the ground.
The lids of several large boxes containing grain, meat and other things on the shelves are tightly sealed, and the lock on the top is still there, it should be that the thief didn't have time to open the lock, and he was alarmed by Han Caiying.
"It's a good thing those boxes are locked, otherwise someone would have stolen things tonight." Old Man Zhou sighed and rejoiced.
"Dad, that black shadow is running to the east, is it someone over there who did it?" Zhou Anbang looked at the garden sticks that had been dismantled in the courtyards of the two houses, and his brows became more and more furrowed.
"Don't talk nonsense, it's your second uncle, second aunt, and An Hai's family over there, these are all serious relatives, how can you do those things like stealing chickens and dogs?"
Old Man Zhou coughed lightly twice uncomfortably, "Go everywhere and see if there are any other losses?" If not, go inside. ”