Chapter 52: Reparation

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The people in the village were noisy and shouting, this said and that said.

Du Ruo couldn't explain it clearly for a while, so she had to stand there silently and accept everyone's accusations, maybe this kind of thing happened too many times, and she was just a little impatient now.

Song Ju'an knew that she was not a thief, and she would also accept the matter of catching a thief, she suddenly felt lucky, he should not indiscriminately ask someone to hand her over to the government, and he would definitely investigate clearly.

For the sake of the Song family's face, he will not ignore her.

If it was someone else, regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one, in such a situation of 'everyone got all the stolen goods', she also felt reasonable to twist her to the yamen, who let her appear so coincidentally!

Soon, the onlookers made a way, and Song Ju'an helped Cai into the courtyard of the village chief's house.

As soon as Cai Shi saw Du Ruo, he opened his mouth and scolded, "Cheap hooves! You have no conscience! Why do you want to harm the Song family like this! The ability to scold without doing work is not small! Ju An has decided to divorce you! Now it's time to let you know! In the future, you will have nothing to do with the Song family! ”

The villagers all quieted down, and most of them gloated, and they all understood what Cai was thinking at this time.

Du Ruo glanced at Cai's family, chose to ignore her words, and his eyes fell on Song Ju'an's body again.

Song Ju'an's face was slightly gloomy, he let go of Cai's arm and stepped forward, without looking at Du Ruo, and said to Pang Shanye: "Since the person has been caught, I am relieved, this is the ugly thing of the Song family, and everyone has seen it as a joke, it is because I didn't discipline the Du family well, and I caused trouble to the people in the village, I am really ashamed of everyone!" ”

Du Ruo looked at him in disbelief.

Even though he slept on a wicker chair in the yard every night, he knew best whether she had sneaked out or not, right? Many times she fell asleep before he rested, and if she sneaked out of the house at night, he should be able to notice it.

Especially since he clearly said that she was not a thief.

In vain, she still had hope for him, hoping that he would find out, but she didn't expect this person to be so untrustworthy!

"Today's incident is just too much of a coincidence, I was robbed of something when I went home, I passed by the old house and went in to have a look, you can go to Zhou Ning's mother-in-law's house and ask, she gave me a jar of rice wine." Du Ruo suppressed his anger and explained to Song Ju'an.

However, Song Ju'an only glanced at her lightly, then looked at the village chief, and arched his hand: "Tomorrow, I will hand her over to someone from the yamen!" Since it was Du Shi who committed the crime, I can't cover it up, and I can punish it as much as I want. ”

"Then let's do it!" Pang Shanye sighed again, they were all from the same village, and he didn't want to see such a scene.

Du Ruo suddenly sneered a few times, and said very sarcastically: "Husband and wife are originally birds in the same forest, and they fly separately when disaster comes!" Song Ju'an, I didn't expect you to be such a despicable and shameless villain! It just so happens that if I am arrested and imprisoned, you can divorce me and marry another person, maybe this is the calculation in your heart! ”

Song Ju'an frowned and glanced at her, then turned to look at everyone, "Everyone has worked hard these days!" It just so happened that Han Liang slaughtered a pig the day before yesterday, but unfortunately business has not been good recently, and most of the remaining half is left, and he doesn't plan to sell it in the city, I discussed it with him, I gave him some silver, let him take some pork to cook, and invite everyone to eat meat and drink soup tonight, which is also to make amends for everyone! Those things that the Du family stole will also lose money in our Song family! ”

When everyone heard this, they turned from anger to excitement, and they applauded one after another, there was such a good thing, and the Song family was too good at being a person.

Du Ruo was even more angry when she heard this, she was arrested, and Song Ju'an actually invited someone to eat and drink? Flattering those villagers to dissociate themselves with her by the way?

"Village Chief, tie her up! Don't let her run! A villager suddenly pointed at Du Ruodao.

Du Ruo glared.

Now even Song Ju'an can't be trusted, she has to find a way to save herself. Du Ruo quietly touched the knife on his body, ready to escape when he saw the opportunity.

Su Mingyang, who was crowded in the crowd, said: "Is this equivalent to an abuse of lynching?" If you don't find someone to watch her tonight, it's up to the yamen to decide! ”

Hong Si'er, who was standing in front of him and watching the excitement, laughed evilly, turned around and teased: "I feel sorry for her? Ho! It seems that you and Du Shi are really having something to do behind their backs! ”

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Su Mingyang's face was full of embarrassment, he flicked his sleeves angrily, and stood a little farther away from Hong Si'er.

Before Pang Shanye could respond, Song Ju'an walked up to Du Ruo with a rope he didn't know where to find it, and motioned for her to stretch out her hand, "Put your hand behind your back." He said.

The corners of Du Ruo's mouth flashed with mockery, and he was about to put the knife on his neck, who knew that he whispered again: "If someone else ties it up, it won't be so cheap for you, let's be wronged tonight, anyway, what you are best at is acting." ”

Du Ruo: "?! ”

What does he mean by that?

Song Ju'an obviously had something to say, although he didn't understand what he was going to do, but Du Ruo hesitated slightly, but he still planned to believe him again, so he tied his hands behind his back.

After tying it up, she held it up, and it was really not too tight.

Han Liang, who was standing at the outermost, said to the villagers at this time: "The cauldron has been set up in the village, it is boiling, everyone should go home and get the dishes and chopsticks!" ”

When everyone heard this, they hurriedly ran home.

Cai stepped forward on crutches, and her words were held back in her stomach for a long time, "Ju'an, if you want to divorce her, this mother-in-law is not from our family, why do you want us to lose money?" Why didn't you discuss the matter of buying meat to make amends? ”

"Mother, don't be angry first, let's go home and talk, if you are tired, go back first." Song Ju'an said.

Cai Shi naturally didn't want to go back, and he was not very happy, so he glanced at Du Ruo fiercely and said, "I'll go home and get a bowl to serve some broth for your father." ”

As she spoke, she walked away with a curse in her mouth.

Du Ruo was also taken to the big pot where the meat was cooked in the village, and many people had already come at this time, adults and children were waiting next to them with bowls.

The fire in the earthen stove was blazing, and most of the village was bright, and the water and oil in the pot were boiling, and the meat and bones were tumbling in it. Although it was covered with a large cauldron lid, the smell of meat had already drifted out, and the whole village was over, and the children couldn't stop swallowing saliva and staring at the pot.

Du Ruo sat on the ground with his legs bent, leaning against a jujube tree behind him, looking at the situation in front of him, guessing what Song Ju'an was going to do.

He made such a big formation, obviously he had been prepared for a long time.

Han Liang was stirring in the pot with a long spoon, when Song Ju'an stepped forward and took the iron spoon and stirred it a few times, then threw the spoon to Han Liang, wiped his hands, and turned his head to look in the direction where she was.

After a while, Han Liang lifted the lid of the pot, scooped a spoonful of soup and tasted it, showing a satisfied look, and after saying a few words to Song Ju'an, he shouted for everyone to line up and serve them one by one.

Everyone stepped forward happily, shouting and laughing.

Du Ruo found that almost all of them were women and children, but there were not many men in the village, where did the men go?

She suddenly understood that she was caught as a thief just to make amends, and it was so lively here, Song Ju'an just wanted to create the illusion that there was no one in every household, so that the real thieves would take the opportunity to come out and steal things, and relax their vigilance, and the men in the village who were hiding in the dark and observing could catch them.

Thinking of this, she looked towards the earthen stove again, and found that Song Ju'an was no longer in the position just now, and there was no figure of him in the crowd.

Retracting her gaze, Du Ruo saw two children walking towards her with bowls, the road was uneven, and the soup in the bowls shook and spilled a lot.

"Will you invite me to soup?" Du Ruo asked cheekily.

The two children stuck out their tongues at her, picked up the small bowl and lowered their heads to take a few sips of soup, their mouths shiny with oil.

"The meat is delicious, and the soup is delicious, do you drink it?" A child asked as he took two more steps toward her.

"I guess you're not going to give me a drink." Du Ruo said.

"I'll give you all to drink!" The kid said.

Another child hurriedly stopped: "Don't give her a drink!" She's a thief! She's the bad guy! ”

The first child cracked his mouth and laughed, his eyes blinked, and Du Ruo's instinct told him that he was not at ease.

Sure enough, as soon as the thought flashed through her mind, the boy threw the broth from the bowl on her.

She hurriedly turned sideways, but the next moment the soup did not splash on her body, but someone dodged in front of her, neat and clean gray robe, tall and calm posture, it was Song Ju'an.

The two children looked up at Song Ju'an, stunned, and ran away in fright.

Song Ju'an turned around and glanced at her, and hurriedly bent down to pull his robe out, it was wet with a large piece of meat, vegetable leaves, and even dripping water, especially when the soup was just out of the pot.

It looks very embarrassing.

"Thanks, you, are you alright?" Du Ruo asked him, faintly moved in his heart, a cold and heartless person like him would actually help her block the moment just now.

"It's fine." He reluctantly twisted the hem of his robe and wrung out some water.

"It's hard to wash your clothes if they're stained with oil." Du Ruo said, and was stunned for a moment after speaking.

Song Ju'an was also stunned for a moment, but he said with a normal expression: "Be careful." With that, he left.

Du Ruo was still leaning on the jujube tree, and she watched others eat.

After a while, she saw a man in the village running over and whispering a few words in Song Ju'an's ear, Song Ju'an nodded, and the man left again.

Everyone ate and played, and the children ran to play hide and seek when they were full, chattering and laughing.

Zhao Jinbao suddenly walked towards Du Ruo mysteriously, squatting next to the jujube tree behind her, "Rulan! He screamed.

"What for?" Du Ruo asked without a good face.

"I told you a long time ago, there are no good people in the Song family! Look what I've brought you! As he spoke, he handed a piece of meat and bone to her mouth, "Eat it!" ”

Du Ruo hurriedly avoided it, looking at his greasy and dirty hands, and then watching his other hand wipe his body, the bone still had traces of being gnawed, and her stomach tumbled.

"I don't eat! Stay away from me! ”

"If you don't eat, don't eat! I haven't eaten enough! Hey! He took a bite, drooling, and stretched out his oil paw to touch Du Ruo's face obscenely.

With a 'snap', Zhao Jinbao's hand was slapped back.

Su Mingyang didn't know where to hit Zhao Jinbao and jumped out to hit Zhao Jinbao, and said with a tired face: "Zhao Jinbao, you dare to play hooligan!" Follow me to the village chief! ”

Zhao Jinbao was startled, and after listening to Su Mingyang's words, he ran out like a rabbit and ran away.

Su Mingyang also turned around and left when he saw him leaving.

"Su Mingyang!" Du Ruo stopped him.

He turned his head to look at her, "What do you want me to do?" ”

"Thank you for helping me a few times." Du Ruo said with a smile.

"Thank you, thank you! I just can't see others bullying women! With that, he ran away.

The fire in the earthen stove is still very strong, and everyone's faces are red, and everyone is dancing and singing hand in hand.

Du Ruo suddenly thought, what if they didn't catch the thief tonight? Wouldn't it be tomorrow to hand her over to the yamen?

After a while, the people got tired of playing and left in twos and threes. Gradually, the people are gone, and it is already late.

The first quarter moon hung tall in the sky, and she sat alone by the earthen stove on the ground.

She thought Song Ju'an would say something to her before leaving, but he didn't say anything.

Just hang her hands tied behind her back? Let her spend the night outside?