Chapter 51: The Abandoned House
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Running back and forth to Qingyang Temple to do things, I have worked hard for so long, and all the money I earned has been exposed, and I have to confiscate it. If I knew that she wouldn't get her paid first, I would take it when I left here.
Fortunately, she told Song Ju'an and Cai's that she borrowed the thirteen taels of silver from Meng Ye, and she could only wait for her to earn the silver in the embroidery village and pay it back slowly, but she didn't know when she would be able to accumulate so much.
Cai Xing may be able to be easily fooled by herself, but Song Ju'an is not so easy, she has recently felt more and more that Song Ju'an is not as 'good-natured' as he appears, on the contrary, he is smart and thoughtful.
"Hey!" She screamed in pain, and quickly put down the embroidery bandage and covered her left thumb.
I just thought that things were too obsessed, and I accidentally pricked my hand!
Du Ruo's eyes fell on the oil lamp hanging on the wall, and he didn't know when Zhou Ning's mother-in-law lit the lamp. It's not that she's focused on learning, but that she's irritable, and she wants to eat a fat man in one bite, and she memorizes all these things in her head, and she doesn't want to stop.
She put her things away and went to the kitchen to take a look, Zhou Ning's mother-in-law was cooking on the fire, and when she saw her coming, she raised her head and said, "The meal is almost ready, let's eat it here." ”
"No, mother-in-law." When she returned home later, Cai was afraid that she would scold her again.
"I made too much, I couldn't finish it, and it would be a pity to throw it away." Zhou Ning's mother-in-law saw that she didn't want to stay, so she kept again.
Du Ruo thought about it, so he had to nod and walk in to help her.
After the meal was finished and served on the table, Zhou Ning's mother-in-law looked very happy, let Du Ruo sit first, and she walked into the back room, and after a while, she came out with a jar, lifted the lid and poured it into the empty bowl in front of Du Ruo.
After pouring most of the bowl, Du Ruo lowered his head and sniffed it, and said with a smile: "It turned out to be rice wine, so fragrant." ”
"Eat!" Mother-in-law Zhou Ning sat down with a happy face.
"Mother-in-law, you eat too!"
Eating at Song's house has never been so easy, Cai's either dislikes her for eating too much, or eating too fast, or only picking good food.
Now that she is sitting here, she feels that the porridge and side dishes in front of her are particularly fragrant.
After eating a few bites of rice to cushion his stomach and drinking some rice wine, the dullness and annoyance in Du Ruo's heart dissipated a lot.
Things have to come step by step, and sooner or later she will get out of this village.
"Rulan, you are married to the right person, your family is an honest person, down-to-earth and filial, it should be good for you, right?"
Du Ruo smiled, "Not bad." ”
He has never met Du Rulan, and Song Ju'an is not an 'honest man' in other people's mouths.
"It's your mother-in-law, she has a strong temperament, she never refuses to suffer, and she takes advantage of any advantage!"
Du Ruoxin said, isn't it? Everyone in this village knows what kind of person the Cai family is, and she always dislikes Du Rulan, saying that Du Rulan has ruined the reputation of the old Song family, making her and Father Song faceless and unable to raise their heads in the village.
"It would be nice if you were my mother-in-law......" Du Ruo sighed in a low voice.
After the two finished eating, Du Ruotong drank a big bowl of rice wine, she felt that she was very conscious, but her demeanor was a little erratic.
Seeing that she likes to drink, before leaving, Zhou Ning's mother-in-law asked her to take home all the jars of rice wine, anyway, no one came to her here, she didn't drink much on weekdays.
Seeing that she refused, Zhou Ning's mother-in-law said: "It's not a valuable thing!" If you don't take it, you'll see me! ”
Du Ruoxin said, Song Ju'an always pours himself alone when he is fine, and the several jars of wine buried behind the house are almost finished, and he has to spend money to buy the wine when it is gone, so he can save a little is a little.
When did you become like this?
She took the wine jar and held it in her hand, left the sewing basket here, and prepared to come back tomorrow, and then took the oil lamp handed over by Zhou Ning's mother-in-law, and said goodbye to the direction of the Song family.
The moon is full and full, and as time passes, the moon gradually becomes fuller again.
As he walked, suddenly a gust of wind blew, the flame of the lamp flickered, and then Du Ruo's left hand was light, and the wine jar was gone.
A ragged, stinking man swept past her and took her jar of rice wine from her.
Du Ruo was stunned for a few seconds, and hurriedly shouted in the direction where the man left: "Stop!" Someone is stealing something! There are thieves! ”
However, the figure soon disappeared into the night ahead.
She was extremely angry in her heart, and her doubts deepened, that person was not from the village?
Two days ago, she suspected that the thieves who stole things were Hong Si'er and his son Hong Sheng, but the person she bumped into last night was taller and thinner than the Hong family's father and son, and the person who passed by her was not fat, and he was dressed a little sloppily, which seemed to be a little different from the person she bumped into last night.
Could it be that there are more than one thief hiding in the village?
The rice wine was snatched away, and Du Ruo had no choice but to give up and continue walking forward with an oil lamp.
As she passed an uninhabited courtyard in front of her, she heard a soft squeak of the door opening and closing.
Turning her head, the gate of the courtyard was ajar and unlocked, and she had some impression of the house, which had never been locked before, and was dilapidated and overgrown with grass, so that no one would easily enter except for the naughty children in the village.
Maybe the wind blew the door, or maybe a cat got in through the crack in the door.
Du Ruo retracted her gaze and continued to walk forward, but before she could take two steps, she heard a slight noise from inside.
She stopped to look at the wooden door of the house a few meters away, walked over with a lamp in confusion, raised her hand and knocked on the door, and then reached out and pushed the door open, and the barren grass yard was quiet.
She raised the lamp in her hand a little higher, carefully walked in with her feet, and walked along the path where grass grew in the middle, and came to the middle of the courtyard, where she stopped.
I looked around and listened carefully, but there was no sound.
So she turned and walked out again, and closed the open door again.
As soon as she turned around, she saw a few people with lanterns not far in front of her, walking in this direction.
The people in those villages also saw the light here, and approached quickly with lanterns, and were taken aback when they saw that it was Du Rulan.
"Du, what are you doing here?!" The person at the head asked as he looked at her.
"I just passed by here and I thought something was wrong here, so I came over and took a look!" She told the truth and looked at them.
Hearing her words, the men looked at the wooden door in front of them at the same time, which was about to rot.
"What are you doing here?" Du Ruo asked strangely.
"Humph! It's not Song Ju'an yet! I'm going to let us search all over the village, where no one lives! It's so late, it's going to toss people! He's good! If you don't do anything, you don't show up, you might sleep at home! If it weren't for the village chief's instructions, who would want to come out! The other said dissatisfied.
Du Ruoxin said, could it be that Song Ju'an is suspected of stealing things in a broken house where he is hiding?
She had thought of this just now, so she had the courage to go into this mansion to take a look.
"The person who stole the things may be a stranger, not from our village, so let's look for it." Du Ruo said.
"Now that you've gone in and looked, what's in this courtyard?" One asked.
"I don't know, I just stood in the yard and listened to the movement, and I didn't look at it in the house." Du Ruo glanced back at the wooden door, she was still not so bold.
The men looked at her impatiently and dissatisfied, pushed open the door and walked straight into the courtyard.
Du Ruo stood at the door and looked, and then carefully took the lamp and walked forward.
As soon as she walked some distance, the villagers who had just met her chased after her from behind, shouting her name.
"Du Rulan! Stop! ”
"Stop!"
"Dushi, you can't go!"
When Du Ruo heard the shout, he stopped and turned to look at the few people who ran over.
When the villagers arrived, Du Ruo saw that they were all angry, gritted his teeth and looked at her, and one of them pointed at her and said, "Du, you are really pretending!" Almost fooled a few of us! ”
"You stole everything! You hid all your stolen stuff in that yard, didn't you?! ”
"What's wrong with what's wrong, the most wrong thing is you! You mother-in-law is so cunning! ”
Seeing them so angry, Du Ruo understood that they must have found something there, so he asked, "What did you find?" ”
"What did you find?! You know best! Walk! Come with us to the village chief! A man said.
"Make it clear in front of the village chief! I'll condemn you tonight! "Another humane.
Du Ruo looked at them coldly, seeing that they were angry, he couldn't allow himself to disagree, so he had to nod.
If she didn't do it, she didn't believe that everyone was black and white, and right and wrong were reversed.
Thinking about it again, what is Song Ju'an doing at this time?
When they arrived at the village chief's house, many people in the village immediately surrounded her, and everyone heard that Du Rulan had been arrested as a thief.
The village chief was eating, still holding a bowl in his hand, and when he saw them going, he handed the bowl to his daughter-in-law Zhou, looked at a few of them, his eyes fell on Du Rulan's body, and sighed: "Du, how many times have I told you!" Live a good life, just don't listen! You see, everyone hasn't wronged you! ”
"Village Chief, we found what everyone had lost from the courtyard where no one lived, including hoes, knives, a jar of rice wine, and a cowhide...... Those things were neatly placed there, and when we went, Du Shi came out and was caught by us! She can't rely on it this time! Tomorrow, as soon as the people from the Yamen come, they will send her there! One of the villagers who grabbed Du Ruo said indignantly.
Pang Shanye picked up the cigarette pouch with a heavy face and took a few puffs, walked a few steps, and waved his hand to a villager: "Go and call the people of the old Song family to come over!" ”
The other villagers standing in the courtyard gloated or gritted their teeth at Du Rulan.
Du Ruo knew that it was useless to be anxious, and explained to the village chief with a calm face: "Village chief, it was also a coincidence that I went there, I was left by Zhou Ning's mother-in-law for dinner tonight, and when I left, she gave me a jar of rice wine, and the rice wine that they saw in that room was about mine, who knew that I was robbed by a person while walking on the road......"
Before she could finish her sentence, she was interrupted by the people around her.
"Village Chief! Don't listen to her nonsense! This mother-in-law is very good-mouthed! A woman.
"Where is such a coincidence? Du Rulan, you are really talking nonsense with your eyes open, you want to be ashamed! ”
"Yes! What are you doing as a woman in a place where no one lives? ”
"Whoever goes to those shabby houses to see, don't think about playing tricks this time!"