Xia Beifeng carried a travel bag and walked slowly in the village, looking left and right as he walked, as if he was looking for something. Occasionally, when he sees someone coming from the other side, he politely gives way and stands aside and smiles.

Suddenly there was a shrill roar from a room on the side of the road: "You little rabbit cub, you have stolen my things for so long, and I caught you today!" ”

A little boy who watched as he was only seven or eight years old rushed out of the room, running and looking back to see if anyone was chasing after him.

As a result, he hit Xia Beifeng's body head-on, took two steps back, and fell directly to the ground.

A middle-aged woman with a curly hair chased after him with a feather duster, rushed to the kid in two steps, grabbed him by the collar and grabbed him directly from the ground.

Xia Beifeng calmly took a step back, kept a safe distance, and looked at the two of them.

"You treat my house as a restaurant, right, you can eat whatever you want! You see that I won't break your leg today, and then show your father what you have done, and let him break your other leg too! As she spoke, the woman raised her hand to hit the child.

The kid took out a handful of fruit candy from his pocket, raised his hand, and threw it all over the ground.

The ground in this village was full of wet mud, and the handful of fruit candy fell on the ground, and after a few rolls, it was covered with mud and merged with the ground.

"I'll give it back to you, isn't it just a little bit of sugar, so stingy!" The child was carried in the air, kicked his legs desperately, and shouted back at the woman: "It's all back to you, you hurry up and put Lao Tzu down!" ”

"Say it again, who are you!" The woman didn't look at the fruit candy that rolled to the ground, but lifted the child in her hand a little higher, and a pair of eyes could breathe fire: "I see that you really have little lesson, you can steal things so justifiably, and dare to say that it is my Lao Tzu, believe it or not, I will beat you today so that you Lao Tzu can't even recognize you!" ”

"It's all back to you, what do you want!" The child was not afraid, and glared at the woman: "Hurry up and put me down, don't tear my clothes." ”

"Returned? You stole so much from me, and you returned them all! The woman said and looked up at Xia Beifeng, and said to him: "This gentleman from the city, you give a comment, this little rabbit cub has stolen things in my store for more than half a month, and today I was caught and returned the things to me. ”

Before the woman could finish speaking, she was bitten by the child she was carrying in her hand, and she cried out in pain.

She subconsciously let go of the hand that grabbed the child's collar. After the child's feet hit the ground, she didn't let go, and she bit her hand out of the blood, and then let go of her mouth and "puffed" to the ground.

"Lao Tzu took this thing, and I don't know which ghost took it before, don't splash any dirty water on Lao Tzu!"

After the kid finished speaking, he turned around and ran, and kicked Xia Beifeng by the side of him by the way.

Xia Beifeng glanced down at a mud footprint on his pants and smiled softly.

The woman was still holding her hands and snorting in pain, and the feather duster fell to the ground, and by the time she reacted, the child had already run out four or five meters away.

The boy ran two steps, then turned around and grimaced at the two adults behind him, sticking out his tongue, before turning and running on.

Xia Beifeng picked up a small stone from the ground and gently bounced it in the direction where the child was running.

The child was running happily, but suddenly felt a numbness in his ankles and a weak leg, so he fell directly to the ground.

Xia Beifeng walked over slowly, squatted beside the child, and looked at him with a smile: "Little friend, have I offended you?" ”

The child was getting up from the ground, and when he heard this, he stopped his movements and looked up at Xia Beifeng.

"Have I offended you?" Xia Beifeng closed his hands as he spoke, crossed his fingers, and shook a few times, "You said you were for no reason, why did you kick me?" ”

There was a small cracking sound between the knuckles of his fingers, which sounded very unpleasant.

The child looked at Xia Beifeng's movements and was stunned for a while.

"Wow...... Handsome! As he spoke, he quickly got up from the ground, patted the soil on his body, and hugged his fist at Xia Beifeng, "This eldest brother, the younger brother has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, and he has offended a lot just now, please forgive the eldest brother." ”

Xia Beifeng: "......"

What a mess kids are thinking about these days!

In a few moments, the woman picked up a feather duster from the ground and walked up. She glared angrily at the child and raised her feather duster in her hand.

The child hid behind Xia Beifeng in one step, lay down in Xia Beifeng's ear, and shouted loudly: "Big brother, we brothers don't know each other if we don't fight." Big brother, you look like a righteous person again, but you must save your little brother! ”

"Huh?" Xia Beifeng covered his ears and looked back at the child behind him in confusion.

"Big brother, when you see that the road is uneven, draw a knife to help, big brother!" The child pointed to the middle-aged woman who was a little overwhelmed standing beside Xia Beifeng, and continued to shout: "Our brothers joined forces to make this old witch today, robbed the rich and helped the poor, and took everything in her store to divide it equally...... No, I'm seven you're three! ”

"Huh?" Xia Beifeng still looked at the child in confusion.

What is this?

Am I old?

Seeing that the child had been hiding behind Xia Beifeng, the woman also put down the feather duster in her hand and looked at Xia Beifeng with great embarrassment.

The child hid in Xia Beifeng and stretched out his hand and stuck out his tongue at her, which was very hateful.

"What did he steal from you?" Xia Beifeng stood up and asked the woman.

"He has been stealing in my store for almost twenty days, and he has only eaten bread, milk, instant noodles, ham and sausages......" The woman said to Xia Beifeng with a resentful face: "Come every night, and pick the expensive ones to take, if I hadn't been caught by me today, I would have ...... them."

"I just got some candy!" The kid stood behind Xia Beifeng and pulled his neck and shouted: "Lao Tzu is sitting up straight, I did it, I will admit it, I didn't do it, you killed me, I didn't do it!" ”

When the woman saw that he was showing his head, she raised the feather duster in her hand again.

The child immediately hugged Xia Beifeng's leg and stared at her with a wary expression.

"This kid ......" Xia Beifeng turned back to the child who was holding his thighs and said, "You can't steal things anymore, you are sitting up straight, you know?" ”

"I'm not stealing, I'm just taking!" The kid still hugged Xia Beifeng's leg and didn't let go, "Big brother, have you ever seen someone stealing something in broad daylight, I'm just ......"

The boy was halfway through his speech, when he suddenly remembered something, and suddenly stopped.

"Just what?" Xia Beifeng asked curiously.

The boy shook his head, turned his face to the side, and put out a hand over his mouth, apparently having made up his mind not to say anything.

Of course, he still held Xia Beifeng's leg with his other hand and didn't let go.

The woman opened her mouth, about to say something more. was stopped by Xia Beifeng raising his hand.

"This ...... Eldest sister...... You wait first. Xia Beifeng frowned and thought for a while, and then said to her: "I think it's better not to jump to conclusions about this matter...... In my opinion, this kid's personality really doesn't look like a habitual thief. ”

"Sir, you don't know, wow!" Seeing that Xia Beifeng seemed to be talking to the child, the woman immediately poured beans and counted the child's "great achievements": "This little cub is our little demon king of the world, and he has done everything that lacks virtue." Since he could walk, he has been a demon every day, banging gongs at the entrance of the village in the middle of the night, knocking on doors from door to door, and sticking sticks on people's backs...... Some time ago, I tied firecrackers to the horns of other people's cows, scared the cows into the field, and spoiled so many wheat seedlings......"

"But he didn't steal anything." Xia Beifeng calmly interrupted the woman's words, "He is indeed quite naughty, but he has never stolen anything." ”

"Hmph, this little rabbit cub is a naturally bad embryo, and he can't do anything!" The woman knocked the feather duster twice in the palm of her hand, and glared fiercely at the child behind Xia Beifeng, "Stealing things now, I'm afraid I'm going to go out and kill people in the future!" ”

"I didn't steal!" The kid shouted loudly again, and then looked up at Xia Beifeng expectantly, "Big brother, you believe me, right!" ”

Xia Beifeng reached out and pressed the child's head down, forcing him to bow to the woman in front of him.

"You apologize first."

"Why should I ......?"

"Apologize first, then say anything else."

The kid said perfunctorily, "I'm sorry." He began to look up vigorously.

Xia Beifeng still pressed his head and didn't let go.

"Be serious, not sincere enough." Xia Beifeng said leisurely.

The child lowered his head and thought for a while, then pretended to sigh: "Okay, for my eldest brother's sake, I will apologize to you...... But remember, I'm not really convinced! ”

After the child said this, he took the initiative to bend down and bow to the woman, and shouted word by word: "Yes, no, get up,"

"You see he apologized." Xia Beifeng let go of his hand, smiled at the woman in front of him, and raised his hand to stop her from following the words: "I guess you want to say that if the apology is useful, what should the police do, but this matter may not really be what you think...... You just said that the person who stole things before was stealing in the middle of the night, but he came here in broad daylight today! ”

"What's that?" The woman rolled her eyes, "The little rabbit is stealing, stealing, bold!" ”

"That's not necessarily, I still don't think he stole it." Xia Beifeng smiled politely, but the tone of his voice could not be refused, "Can I go to your store to have a look?" ”

"Just look at it, what other flowers can you see?" The woman said, pointing to the door of her house and saying, "It's the little supermarket over there." ”

Xia Beifeng raised his legs and walked towards the small supermarket, but the child still grabbed his legs with both hands and hung on his legs like a monkey, refusing to come down.

"Hey, this kid." Xia Beifeng looked down at the child on his lap, touched out a toffee, and shook it in front of his eyes, "Let me ask you something?" ”

"Big brother, you ask." The child stared at the toffee in Xia Beifeng's hand, swallowed his saliva, and then looked up at Xia Beifeng, "Little brother definitely knows everything, and everything is said endlessly." ”

"Do you know who in your village has a big rooster?" Xia Beifeng smiled and walked into the door of the small supermarket, "The biggest and most beautiful kind, if you help me find it, I will reward you with this candy." ”

"I know, the big rooster of the old Wang family is fat." After the child entered the supermarket, he jumped off Xia Beifeng's lap and gestured in mid-air with his hand, "It's so big, it's oily and slippery, it's the first one to call every morning, and my voice is bright...... Big brother, why are you asking this, do you want to eat chicken? ”

"Well, will you take me back?" Xia Beifeng said and threw the toffee in his hand to the child, and looked up at the shelves beside him, "There will be sugar for you then." ”

There are two piles of instant noodles on the shelf, braised beef on one side and Laotan sauerkraut on the other. Leave a whole bunch of white space in between.

"No problem, just leave it to me." The child patted his chest, tilted his head and said, "Big brother, take me one when you eat chicken." ”

"Let's talk about it." Xia Beifeng frowned and looked at the missing piece on the shelf, and reached out and touched the red instant noodle pocket on the side.

The child looked at the candy in his hand and seemed to want to tear open the package.

Xia Beifeng withdrew his hand, looked down and saw a little blood stain on his finger, and his brows furrowed even tighter.

The child hesitated for a moment, licked his lips, and firmly put the toffee in his pocket.

"The big sister." Xia Beifeng turned around and said to the woman standing at the door of the supermarket: "Your things are really not stolen by this child." ”

The woman looked at Xia Beifeng suspiciously, and came closer.

"Come and see, the shelves on your side are so high. If this kid wants to get this thing, he must move a stool. The layout of your house is the front supermarket and the back of the people, can you still hear him moving stools in the middle of the night? ”

When the woman heard this, she also frowned and thought for a while, as if she remembered something, and nodded slowly.

"What do you mean...... It seems to make some sense. The woman looked at Xia Beifeng suspiciously, "Then who comes to steal things every night?" ”

"It's hard to say, but it's definitely not a child." Xia Beifeng took another step deeper into the shelf, and saw a small footprint in the narrow gap between the shelf and the corner of the wall.

"I think so, I actually have something I want him to help me with. What this kid took today is counted as what I bought and gave to him, and you tell me how much it is. Xia Beifeng patted the shoulder of the child next to him as he spoke, and walked out the door.

"Oh, no, no...... It's just a few pieces of candy, and I'll give it to you. The woman waved her hand to Xia Beifeng and glared at the child, "You are not allowed to steal in the future, otherwise you will tell your father, did you hear it!" ”

"That's not good, or I'll let him go outside and pick up all the candy and give it back to you." Xia Beifeng lowered his head and said to the child, "What do you think? ”

"It's just a few pieces of candy, it's really not ......," the woman had barely finished speaking, when she saw the child scurry out of her in a few steps, and began to squat on the ground and pick up the candy.

"You see he's okay, so be it." Xia Beifeng smiled at the woman. He followed the child out the door.

"I listen to you, big brother!" The child shouted loudly, then stood up, walked up to the woman, and showed her a pile of dirty candy in both hands, "Fifteen pieces in total, you count it." ”

"Uh......" The woman awkwardly took the pile of candy and opened her mouth a few times, but finally said nothing.

"Then we'll go first. Sister, let's see you later. Xia Beifeng smiled and nodded to the woman, pressed the head of the child next to him, and forced him to bow to the woman again.

The kid snorted reluctantly.

"Lead the way, go see the chicken." Xia Beifeng bowed his head and said to the child.

The kid was immediately happy, trotting ahead of the summer north wind.

"Big brother, go this way."

"Hmm...... Actually, I have one more thing I want to ask you. Xia Beifeng said, taking out a handful of toffee from his backpack, "How much do you know about the family that died in your village a few days ago?" ”

The child's face immediately changed, and he sneakily looked left and right, and saw that there was no one around, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Their whole family deserves it!"