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Pang Shanye looked at the uneven mud floor in the room, his face heavy.

All eyes fell on him, waiting for him to be the head of the village.

"Let's wait for the people from the yamen to check it out! Let's do this tonight! After speaking, Pang Shanye stood up, nodded to Cai, and walked outside.

The rest of the villagers also went out with sticks or lanterns.

Latching the door, Song Ju'an walked back, and Cai hurriedly walked up to him, "Ju'an, did that slut steal other people's things?!" When the people from the yamen came, they really found out that it was her, the thirteen taels of silver were gone, and the hooves were put in prison, and our family was going to lose adults! ”

"Mother, don't worry, she didn't do it." Song Ju'an said in a gentle voice.

Cai Shi still had palpitations, "Alas! There were so many people in the house at once, I thought something was wrong! Mother's heart is still beating suddenly! Scared to death! ”

"It's okay, mother, go to sleep, it's not early."

"Okay, you can go to sleep too."

When Song Ju'an held the oil lamp and opened the curtain and walked into the West House, he found that Du Rulan had fallen asleep, the bed tent seemed to have forgotten to put down, her half-naked shoulders were exposed under the thin quilt, and a white tender arm also stretched out from inside.

He withdrew his gaze and sat down at the desk on the other side, staring softly at the lamp.

After a while, the oil lamp crackled and blew up a few lights, and the flickering light flickered and went out.

The oil is gone.

He knew that when he poured oil into it again, the wick absorbed the oil, lit it, and it would come back to life.

In the darkness, he raised the corners of his mouth and smiled, his eyes adjusting to the darkness and seeing something clearly.

In the past, he would never pay attention to this little thing, and he would not have had any fun with it.

I think he was in a good mood tonight.

On the second day, someone came from the yamen.

A few arresters interrogated the village about the theft three times and twice, recorded it, and walked around the village a few times with knives and shelves.

I heard that there were people in the yamen, and all the villagers who had lost things at home hurriedly ran over, and angrily blocked in front of them to tell their grievances, especially Shui Ning's family, the things lost by other people's families were not as valuable as the cow, Shui Ning's mother couldn't stand on her feet crying, and was supported by a few people, and desperately knelt on the ground and begged the county lord to make the decision!

Although some of the lost things are not worth mentioning, the three catchers know that these poor villagers have to fight for every mile.

"Why are there so many burglaries in your village? What strange people are there in the village? A catcher asked impatiently with the knife on his shoulder.

Although Hong Si'er didn't lose anything at home, his mother-in-law Pan Shi also stood next to him to join in the fun, and when she heard the question, she hurriedly said loudly: "Yes, Du Rulan!" ”

"Why does this name sound so familiar?" Two of them pondered, and one of them asked, "What's suspicious about this woman?" ”

"The Song family has always been very poor, but I don't know why on the day Shui Ning lost her cow, the Du family had thirteen taels of silver on her body! Come to think of it, you poor people only earn so much silver a year when the harvest is good! Isn't it suspicious? It was she who sold the cow! Pan Cuicui even said with a gesture, there were many people around, and she was crowded outside, her voice had to be louder, and she was panting when she finished speaking.

Shui Ning and her mother cried even more fiercely, their cow has been raised for almost ten years, ploughing the fields and pulling carts, working energetically, and growing stout. Sometimes its reluctance comes up and stands in place and refuses to go, and Shui Ning's father is not even willing to fight, but it is gone!

After listening to Pan's words, they all felt that they had eyebrows, so they wiped their sweat and said to everyone: "Where does this woman live?" Take us to ask a few questions! ”

Pan's face was overjoyed, and he hurriedly pointed in a direction, and everyone also pointed in the direction of the Song family.

So he quickly picked up his knife and followed them.

When they arrived outside the door of Song's house, the three of them looked at the three dilapidated houses in front of them, the moss growing in the corners of the walls, the two wooden doors that had been beaten into gray and black by the wind and rain, and the polished and shiny knockers on the doors.

So many villagers pointed out, and even mentioned that Du Shi was resentful, and estimated that she did it.

What's more, when the poor get rich, they can't help but spend money and squander it, and when others look at it, they will notice that something is wrong.

A villager stepped forward and tapped on the door, "Du Rulan! Du Rulan! ”

After a few slaps, the wooden door was pulled open from the inside, Song Ju'an raised his feet calmly and walked out, his eyes swept slightly, and he fell on the three catchers, and saluted respectfully.

Who knew that the catcher who was still on the shelf just now saw Song Ju'an, and his face was surprised, so he hurriedly stepped forward and greeted him with a smile, "Mr. Song!" ”

"It turns out that this is Mr. Song's residence! What a coincidence! ”

"Mr. Song hasn't seen you for a long time!"

The villagers who were standing behind the catcher opened their eyes wide when they saw this, and they couldn't come back to their senses for a long time, and then their faces were full of disappointment.

They only knew that Song Ju'an had done something when the county lord was handling the case, but they didn't expect the people in the yamen to be so respectful to him, and they respectfully called him 'sir', and when they met, they were like seeing their own brothers! So where can they find justice!

"Tolerance-sama! You're up to us! A villager shouted.

When the other villagers saw that someone was up, they also hurriedly shouted, "Yes! You can't shelter the prisoners! ”

"Be the master of the small people!"

"Lord Tolerance must be business-oriented!"

At this moment, Du Ruo also walked to the door when he heard the voice, and saw a group of people standing outside, all of them looking excited, shouting words in their mouths.

When they saw her, their eyes turned from begging to anger, and they all pointed at her and shouted, "That's her!" She stole it! ”

Du Ruo glanced at those people expressionlessly, as if he was accustomed to it, and nodded respectfully to the three catchers, "I've seen three people!" "She was going to report to the police today.

The three arresters saw Du Ruo and recognized her as a party in the Qingyang Temple case last time. Knowing that the villagers suspected that the woman was her, but because Song Ju'an was here, he nodded to her.

"I don't know if my sister-in-law really steals and steals ......" A catcher asked Song Juan hesitantly, but he couldn't say anything.

After all, almost everyone in the yamen knew that Song Ju'an was different from these villagers, and he was definitely a pearl buried in the sand, which made people respect him in their hearts.

Song Ju'an thought for a while, and said to the catcher and the others: "Since there are also people from the Yamen, this matter involves Rulan, so I can't ignore it." ”

The three catchers quickly heard what he said, and quickly nodded like pounding garlic, "Yes! Right! If Mr. Song can help to check, he will definitely be able to find the thief who stole as soon as possible! ”

"No! Isn't this just a thief crying out to catch a thief? His mother-in-law is a thief, how can he come to investigate? Isn't this the intention to let him cover up?! Besides, Song Ju'an is not from the Yamen! Pan stood in the crowd and said dissatisfied.

Her words successfully aroused the anger of these villagers, and they all said: "Yes! Tolerance adults! You have to be impartial! ”

"You can't let Du Rulan go!"

"This woman steals things, steals people, steals everything! Everyone wants to get rid of her! ”

The three catchers became extremely embarrassed after listening to everyone's words, is this Du's reputation so bad? Mr. Song's insider actually caused everyone to crusade unanimously.

"I want him to sue me falsely!" Du Ruo suddenly said loudly, "A few tolerance adults, I don't know how to convict others of framing and insulting others?" ”

"This, it depends on the size of the matter...... "One catcher hesitated.

"Will you be beaten by the board? Will there be a fine? Or is it going to jail and eating jail food? Du Ruo asked again, his gaze swept sharply to the villagers.

One by one, the villagers suddenly became silent.

"Three, leave this matter to me, if the villagers are dissatisfied in the future, I will go to ask Lord Wu for guilt." Song Ju'an approached and said in a low voice.

The three catchers were deeply embarrassed, and when they saw that Song Ju'an was willing to take this matter on themselves, they were naturally overjoyed, and said to the villagers: "Quiet! Listen to me, Mr. Song said that he would give everyone an explanation for this matter, everyone must cooperate with Mr. Song, and don't cause trouble, otherwise you will be arrested and sent to prison for reflection! ”

"If we learn that someone has something going on, don't ask black or white, let's hit the 20th board first! Remember, we'll be back tomorrow! ”

Threats should be given, which is also what they often do when handling cases, after all, some people make trouble and don't want to die.

Although the villagers objected again and again, they saw that it was useless, so they had to leave here with a sigh and complaint.

After the arrest was about to leave, Du Ruo saw Song Ju'an go back to the house and spread a piece of paper on the table, drawing and writing on it with a pen, thinking about something from time to time.

She rolled up a rag that had been removed from her old garment, brushed the thread again, and looked at him suspiciously.

She didn't know why Song Ju'an had nothing to do and why she should come down, the thief was not herself, and she didn't need to appreciate it.

"You said you ran into a guy last night, and you suspect he's a thief?" Song Ju'an suddenly looked up at her.

Du Ruo nodded, "That man is thin, wearing loose clothes that don't fit well, his hair is draped, his face is smeared, he can't see what he looks like, he ran away when he saw me, I chased after him for a distance and lost it." ”

Song Ju'an hadn't heard her talk in such detail yesterday, and when he saw her calmly describe it, he asked, "Aren't you afraid that he is a ghost?" ”

"I'm not afraid of ghosts." She's just afraid that someone will pretend to be a ghost.

"Such a bold man." Song Ju'an lowered his head again and continued to scribble on the paper.

"I'm going to Granny Zhou Ning's." Du Ruo said to him and walked out with a sewing basket, she wanted to take advantage of her free time now to go to Zhou Ning's mother-in-law to study in the past two days.

That night, Song Ju'an asked the village chief to organize some villagers to keep vigil as usual, but not as lively as the previous night's New Year, everyone had to find a hidden place to hide.

The villagers didn't believe Song Ju'an, but this was the village chief's request, so they had to do it.

At Zhou Ning's mother-in-law's house, Du Ruo sat on the stool with his head down, holding the embroidery bandage in one hand and the embroidery needle in the other, squinting his tired eyes slightly, carefully putting it on and putting it on.

Mother-in-law Zhou Ning sat beside her and smiled kindly, "No, no, it's not right, here to change the splitting needle, you forgot again, the needle is enough, take a closer look at whether you can divide the Qingming, compared with the one here, you can't keep embroidering with your head stuffy, you have to ...... carefully"

Du Ruo hurriedly withdrew the stitches and re-embroidered.

Xu is an old man talks more, she, a new learner, frequently makes mistakes, and Zhou Ning's mother-in-law corrects her again and again, and she is still patient.

There are so many kind and amiable old people, why can't there be one more Cai family......

After a while, Cai got up and went to the kitchen, where Du Ruo was still sitting patiently embroidering.

She has a lot on her mind today.