Chapter 668: Building a Prosperous Pastoral 58
The night in March was still very cold, and as soon as Long Hexuan and Xi Yuexin fell asleep after falling asleep, they heard an urgent gong beating outside.
"What's going on?" Xi Yuexin sat up and asked in a daze.
"I guess I caught the thief pulling the seedlings, you sleep for a while, I'll go back." Long Hexuan replied while getting dressed.
Hearing that it was the thief who pulled out the seedlings, Xi Yuexin immediately sobered up: "I'll also go and see who is so lacking in virtue." As he spoke, he began to get dressed.
The incident happened suddenly, and after the two of them were dressed neatly, they only took a headband and hurried out.
"I've seen the prince, princess." As soon as the door opened, Hua Hong and the others were already waiting at the door.
"Leave two people at home to keep watch, and the others will come with me." Before opening the door, Long Hexuan had already tied her long hair with a hairband behind her head, and after speaking, the person also walked out, Xi Yuexin followed closely, and her hair was also tied with a hairband.
Liu Lu and Dongxue stayed very consciously, Hua Hong, Zhiqiu, and Ying Ying Yin followed closely behind Long Hexuan and Xi Yuexin, went out of the courtyard gate together, turned right and walked towards the lychee tree at the entrance of the village.
When the six masters and servants arrived, there were already a lot of people gathered under the lychee tree, but they were all men, and there were no women, even Xi Guodong's father and son also arrived, Long Hexuan and Xi Yuexin squeezed into the crowd, and saw a fat man kneeling in the middle of the crowd with his head lowered.
"Master, ma'am." Seeing Long Hexuan and Xi Yuexin, Ying Sheng hurriedly bowed his hand to the two.
"Xinxin, you are here, and you are the seedlings he pulled." Xi Guodong pointed to the man kneeling on the ground and said.
Hearing Xi Guodong shouting Xi Yuexin, the man kneeling on the ground suddenly raised his head, and Xi Yuexin also saw his appearance clearly, it turned out to be Xi Fugui, the butcher in the village.
Long Hexuan also recognized it, and said coldly: "It seems that Ying Sheng was not ruthless enough last time, so he didn't let you remember the lesson." ”
"I didn't pull out your seedlings at all, you are slandering." Xi Fugui stiffened his neck and shouted, anyway, only the stinky boy who beat him last time saw it just now, as long as he didn't admit it, see what they could do with him, so many people watched, he didn't believe that they dared to beat him.
"Oh, you said we slandered you, so what do you do when you don't sleep at night, and why do you have mud on your hands?" Long Hexuan raised his hand and asked coldly.
"This, this, I got up to relieve me, it was he who suddenly broke into my house and grabbed me, and this mud was picked up when I accidentally fell." Seeing the mud on his hands, Xi Fugui's eyes flashed, defending himself.
Just as Xi Fugui finished speaking, an obese woman hurriedly ran over with a child, and when she saw Xi Fufu, she immediately cried and shouted: "Fugui, didn't you say you went to the thatched house?" How did you get caught here? ”
The fat woman Xi Yuexin recognized that it was Xi Fugui's daughter-in-law, Lin.
Hearing Lin's words, the villagers began to discuss.
"This little brother, are you mistaken, the rich and noble daughter-in-law said that he was in the thatched house, how could he go to the field to pull the seedlings?"
"That's right, little brother, is it dark, you can't see clearly, and you mistake Fugui for a thief?"
"But it's hard to say, didn't you hear Long Gongzi say that he beat Fugui? Fugui is a person who can hold grudges, and he can do such a thing as secretly pulling out the seedlings in other people's fields in the middle of the night. There are also people in the villagers who disagree.
For a while, everyone had their own opinions, Xi Fugui had the Lin family to testify, Long Hexuan and they had Ying Sheng to catch a shape, whether Xi Fugui had pulled out the seedlings, and for a while it was really clear to people.