Chapter 128: Catching the Thief

There shouldn't be rumors outside, Huo Dagui didn't count it in his heart, and it was useless.

Now everyone in the Huo family speculates that the neighbor is doing something, and when he goes out to the toilet in the middle of the night, he throws the cigarette butt over and lights the firewood stack. But because there was no evidence, Huo Dagui warned everyone not to talk nonsense.

But he was still muttering in his heart, and he always felt that this matter was not so simple. I have lived in this village for decades, and occasionally I have heard of someone whose firewood stack is on fire, and there is almost no such thing as a cigarette butt sparking. The firewood stacks are basically artificial, and they also carry a warning connotation.

Huo Dagui pondered who was warning him. Could it be that I have offended anyone by not being honest in my usual ways?

He didn't expect that it was Horu's arrogance that stimulated the self-esteem of some people.

After the firewood stack fire incident passed, everything was dull. The family gradually forgot about it, and suddenly Huo Dagui heard something on the roof in the middle of the night. There is a small warehouse next to the main house of his house, and there is a small earthen house built for Zhang Yao in the courtyard. The small mud house is useless, but the roof of the barn house is covered with tiles.

Huo Dagui listened attentively, and heard something again. He sat up suddenly, and shouted, "Horu, Horu, what are you doing?"

No one responded, and Li Cuilian opened her eyes in a daze: "In the middle of the night, if you don't sleep, what are you talking about?"

Huo Dagui didn't feel at ease to lift the quilt and get off the kang, and he didn't have time to put on his clothes and walked out with a flashlight. As soon as he opened the door and went out, he heard footsteps, Huo Dagui followed closely behind the detour room, where else did he see any figure? Only a few unclear footprints were seen on the ground, and he shook it on the roof with a flashlight. I found that the tiles on the barn had been lifted, could it be that someone wanted to burn the house this time?

Back in the house, Huo Dagui didn't speak, and Li Cuilian didn't pay attention to turning over and fell asleep. In the morning, Huo Dagui got up to work casually, and took a closer look at the front and back of the house.

In the morning, Kou Xi came over for breakfast and saw Huo Dagui looking quite worried. I couldn't help but ask, "Dad, are you okay? You didn't sleep well last night?"

"I'm afraid there was someone else who ordered our firewood stack last time!" Huo Dagui said faintly.

"That guy is doing something again?" Kou Xi blurted out.

"You guessed it, didn't you?" Huo Dagui's face showed a trace of bitterness: "Who do you say our family has offended?"

Li Cuilian looked at Huo Dagui with a frightened expression: "What do you mean?

"Didn't I get up last night? I heard movement on the roof, and I couldn't be a mouse, because a mouse can't make such a big movement. So I called Horu, and they slept so hard that they could not hear. Huo Dagui told him about the footsteps he heard and found that the tiles of the warehouse had been lifted. The whole family began to be afraid, and Li Cuilian said tremblingly: "What are you doing here?

"Probably not, I guess someone doesn't want our family to have a good time!" Kou Xi said meaningfully: "Who in our family might be causing trouble outside, or is it offending someone?"

"I work at home every day, who can I offend? When I sell things, I don't lack a pound or two, and I don't quarrel with others, how can I offend people?" Huo Dagui was quite aggrieved, and felt that it was not his fault that he was in trouble.

"What about Huo Lu, you've been wandering around on three wheels lately, aren't you ......" Kou Xi looked at Huo Lu, wondering if the gossip Wang Yazhi heard was true.

"How can I offend people?" Huo Lu pouted disapprerovingly, he looked at his mother: "Mom, you know me, I am the most honest!"

"But no, my son has never caused trouble for me since he was a child!" Li Cuilian looked at Kou Xi threateningly: "Don't rely on my son, my son is more honest than you." Maybe you're offending people out there, and you're still relying on us!"

Kou Xi rolled her eyes and decided to refuse to speak to this stupid woman.

The whole family fell into silence, and Huo Xinyu, who was eating silently on the side, whispered: "Then this person didn't succeed this time, maybe he will come next time!"

"Yes, yes, we pretend we don't know. No one said anything about it, so we stayed on guard for the next two nights to see who did it. Kou Xi looked at Huo Dagui and came up with a small idea.

"Okay, I'll see it. If I catch this kid, I'm going to have to beat him up!"

"Who, today you go to the purchasing station to buy some ribs. Generously chatting with these old ladies in the back street, let's see what has happened recently that our family doesn't know. Go out and inquire!" Huo Dagui felt that things were getting more and more strange, if he couldn't catch this bad person behind him, the whole family wouldn't want to sleep at night.

Li Cuilian didn't dare to say anything when she knew that the matter was serious, so she honestly went to the purchase station to buy half a pork rib. Carrying the whole half of the ribs very swaggering around the back street, I met the two concubines of the family and laughed for a long time.

When Kou Xi came home in the evening, he stewed a big pot with the half of the ribs. The smell of meat wafted through the entire yard when the door was open, and when the northwest wind blew, the neighbors could smell the good smell.

Huo Dagui and Kou Xi both thought of it, since some people hated their own family, they would definitely not be able to see them having a good time. Knowing that their family ate meat today, they must have been even more angry and angry in their hearts. I will come to take revenge at night, and then light a firewood to open the roof or something.

The family had a happy meal of braised pork ribs, and then played in the hall for a while with laughter and went back to sleep.

Naturally, the children really went to sleep peacefully, but the adults waited in horror for the murderer to appear for the third time.

Horu wrapped himself in a military coat and hid in the firewood stack, covering the mountain with firewood for fear that someone would come over to light it again. Huo Dagui was also wearing a thick cotton shirt and cotton pants, waiting for the time on the wall to pass ten o'clock, and he didn't dare to light the door lamp and quietly stood under the eaves. also specially found a place where the moonlight couldn't be found at all, for fear that the person would find himself when he came.

The old man's squatting legs were numb, and Huo Lu hid in the firewood stack and fell asleep in a daze.

At last the man with ulterior motives came, his steps were light, but he could still be heard very clearly in the night.

Huo Dagui squatted under the wall, for fear of catching someone by mistake, and even more afraid of not catching someone.

After a while, when the man came to their house, he first took a soak of urine on the back of the house.

Hearing the movement of the man peeing, Huo Dagui wanted to get up and was afraid that he would misunderstand others. What if it was a person who couldn't sleep in the middle of the night and came out to wander around? I heard that after the man had finished peeing, he didn't know where to get a long bamboo pole. began to lift the roof of Huo's house again, and muttered in his mouth while lifting.

Huo Dagui knew very well at this time that this was the person who made trouble, so he took out his hand and nodded and shook it on that person. He shouted, "Who, what are you doing?" Horu, Horu!"

As soon as the man saw Huo Dagui, he dropped the bamboo pole and ran away.

But he didn't want Huo Dagui to be stunned in place, and he didn't plan to catch up with him at all!

"Dad!"

"Dad!"

Huo Lu ran to Huo Dagui's side: "Who, who did it?"

"How could it be him!" Huo Dagui muttered.