Some villagers had already come forward to search the bodies of the two cattle thieves.

After some searching, the two cattle thieves did not find any cash or anything of value, not even a document to prove their identity.

Some villagers began to say, "I don't know if the words of these two thieves are true or false, and I don't know if they are from Jiajia Village." ”

"Jiajia Village is more than 20 miles away from us, and we will take them to Jiajia Village early tomorrow morning."

"You can't take all of the two, you have to keep one as a hostage in our village, and take the other to Jiajia Village, so that their families can bring money to ransom people."

"Yes, that's a good idea, keep one as a hostage."

By the time the villagers had discussed, it was already around three o'clock in the morning, and there were still more than three hours before dawn.

The villagers dispersed from Li Laohan's house and went home to rest, waiting for dawn to continue.

Only Li Laohan's family was left in the yard, and there were two cattle thieves who were tied up with flowers and beaten with blue noses and swollen faces.

Li Laohan's daughter-in-law, Zhao Jinzhi, pointed to the two cattle thieves in the courtyard and said in embarrassment: "What should these two do?" Just in the yard? ”

"And they were left in the courtyard, and their hands and feet were bound so strong that they could not run."

Li Laohan and his family went back to the house to sleep.

I slept for more than an hour, and at about four o'clock in the morning, it started to wind and rain outside.

The rain on the autumn night was bitterly cold.

The two cattle thieves were leaning together, their clothes already drenched and their faces covered in rain.

The short cattle thief cried with a sad face, "Brother, I'm so cold." ”

The tall cattle thief, "Come, get closer and it won't be cold." ”

The short cow thief's body squirms, trying to get close to the tall cow thief.

My brother sighed, his face couldn't tell whether it was rain or tears, "It's all because my brother has no ability, when the thief was caught, now people are letting us lose money, how can we have money, tomorrow they will take one of us back to Jiajia Village, you go back with them, take the opportunity to escape halfway, leave me alone." ”

"Brother, what are you going to do?"

"It's okay, at most they will lock me up for a while, and they won't do anything to me, and they will let me go in the end."

Li Laohan's wife heard the sound of rain outside the window, sat up in the dark, pushed Li Laohan beside him, and said: "It's raining, why don't you put those two cattle thieves in the grass hut, where you can still shelter from the wind and rain, if you drench yourself in the yard all night, won't you get sick." ”

Li Laohan slept in a daze, and when he heard his wife say that it was raining, he responded: "Why do you pity those two cattle thieves? If the cow is really stolen by them tonight, we will be the ones who cry then. ”

"We just want them to lose money, not their lives, and besides, we have beaten two people very lightly just now, if we really get gonorrhea, in case someone dies, we will be unlucky."

Li Laohan felt that what his wife said was reasonable, so he put on his clothes, held an umbrella, and went to the yard to drag the two cattle thieves into the grass hut on the side of the yard.

After the autumn rains, the sun rises.

The villagers gathered in the courtyard of Li Laohan's house.

According to the previous discussion, a few strong men were selected from among the villagers and prepared to take one of the cattle thieves to Jiajia Village to ransom people.

In order to prevent the cattle thieves from escaping on the way to Jiajia Village, the villagers specially picked the short Jia Erniu to go with them.

After Jia Erniu was taken away, Li Laohan's family went to work in the field as usual, leaving Li Laohan's daughter-in-law to take care of the children at home, watching Jia Daniu to prevent him from escaping.

At noon, the daughter-in-law Jin Zhi made lunch while taking care of the children, and after Li Laohan and Li Jianguo came back from the field, the family ate together.

After the meal, Li Laohan's wife looked at Jia Daniu who was tied to the grass hut, was a little worried, and said to Li Laohan, "That person hasn't eaten or drunk water since last night, why don't you give him something to eat?" ”

"What are you eating? Waste food, at most give him some water to drink, don't die of thirst. ”

The Li family is headed by Li Laohan, and Li Laohan is not allowed to give the cattle thief food to eat, only to drink water, and Li Laohan's wife can only do it.

Li Laohan's wife went to the grass shed to give Jia Da Niu a bowl of water, and found that Jia Da Niu's forehead was hot and he was still in a cold sweat.

"Wife, no, that cattle thief seems to be sick, feverish, and sweating." The wife hurriedly ran back to tell Li Laohan about the situation of the cattle thief.

Li Laohan touched his forehead, "I also have a fever, I guess it's a cold, so I gave him a pack of banlan root at home to drink." ”

According to Li Laohan's instructions, Li Laohan's wife brewed a pack of hot banlan roots and went to the grass shed to feed Jia Da Niu.

In the evening, his daughter-in-law Jin Zhi killed a chicken and cooked a pot of chicken soup for Qian's family.

After dinner, Li Laohan's family waited left and right, and they didn't see the villagers bring Jia Erniu back.

Daughter-in-law Jin Zhi asked, "Jiajia Village is only a dozen miles away from our village, and it only takes half a day to go back and forth. ”

Li Jianguo also felt that something was wrong, "Dad, should we take a few more villagers to Jiajia Village to look for it?" ”

"No, wait."

The sun was setting and the sky was completely dark.

Most of the villagers in Lijia Village had dinner, and the villagers who went to Jiajia Village finally returned.

The leading villager is called Li Dazhuang, who is five big and three thick, and walked into Li Laohan's yard angrily and said, "Let that little thief run away, and I haven't found it back after looking for a day." ”

Li Laohan looked behind Li Dazhuang, and there was indeed no Jia Erniu.

"There are so many of you, why haven't you seen a cattle thief?" Li Laohan asked.

Li Dazhuang picked up a bowl of water from the stone table in the courtyard, drank it with a bang, and then began to speak, "That Jia Erniu is too slippery, on the way to Jiajia Village, he said that he was in a hurry to pee, so we asked him to get out of the car and go to the forest on the side of the road." As a result, I didn't see him, and when I went to look for him in the woods, he was gone. ”

"You didn't look around?"

"Why didn't you look for it? Found! I have searched all over the radius for three or four miles, but there are forests everywhere, and it is not easy to hide individuals? A few of us were not familiar with it, and we couldn't find it after looking for a long time. ”

"That's how you came back?"

"No, we didn't find Jia Erniu, we still went to Jiajia Village, ready to inquire about Jia Erniu and Jia Daniu, and we really heard some news."

"What's the news? Are these two cattle thieves telling the truth? ”

"They are indeed from Jiajia Village, but their reputation is already very bad in Jiajia Village, and they steal chickens and dogs all day long.

Two people lost their parents when they were young, they grew up eating hundreds of meals, and they came down to farm before finishing primary school, but the two of them didn't work hard, they went to the neighbor's house all day long to eat, and their hands and feet were not clean, and the people in the village hated them, so both of them were almost 30 years old, and they were still singles. ”

"No father, no mother, no relatives and friends, still single...... So what if you want to lose our money? ”

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