Putting down the ladder, holding an awl in his hand, everything was ready to stop, Xiangling said to Jiang: "Mother, this person is a thief who steals cattle nine times out of ten, you go to find Lizheng, I am here to watch him and not let him escape." ”

Jiang Shi said worriedly: "No, don't worry about your mother staying by yourself, let's go and report the news together, lest this thief wake up and jump off the wall in a hurry, or have accomplices." ”

Xiangling looked left and right, and said to the Jiang family: "Mother, I'll hide it first to prevent his accomplices from discovering me." Mother, you go and deliver the letter, the cow is the lifeblood of our farmer, and the thief can't be allowed to succeed. ”

Jiang was forced out of the yard by Xiangling, Jiang turned back uneasily, and kept waving his hand to Xiangling, Xiangling understood that Jiang was asking her to hide.

In order to reassure the Jiang family, Xiangling looked around and found that the gourd seedlings in front of the wall adjacent to Chu Zhuang could hide people, so he hid in it.

As soon as the cat came in, Xiangling felt a cool breeze on her back, and when she looked back, she found a dog hole.

This wall is not an earthen wall, but a bluestone wall, how can there be a dog hole?

Xiangling tried to probe into the dog hole, and when she poked over, the end of the hole was Chu Zhuang! What catches your eye is a long verandah.

There are countless grapevines planted on both sides of the verandah, which are lush and pleasant, just enough to shade the dog's hole.

Xiangling was even more depressed in her heart, this thief was so rampant that he had built all the passages in advance!

There was a sound of footsteps, and Wang Wenqian and the little servant Chu Zhou walked over.

Xiangling hurriedly shrank her body back, if she was seen by the people of Chu Zhuang, she would not have to help others catch the thief, and she would be caught as a thief.

Wang Wenqian stood still next to the dog cave and instructed Chu Zhoudao: "I have to study in-depth if there is a strategy, you go down, and tell everyone, don't come and disturb me." ”

Chu Zhou promised and left.

There was a sudden slight sound behind him, Xiangling looked back at the entrance of the cave suspiciously, a pair of furry eyes, just like that, he was caught off guard and crashed into the girl's sight, and the young scholar actually drilled through the hole in the wall!

Almost at the same time, a man and a woman screamed.

Wang Wenqian instinctively reached out to cover Xiangling's mouth, and Xiangling flexibly retreated and rushed back to the courtyard.

Wang Wenqian followed, waved his hands in a panic, and said abruptly: "You, don't scream, I'm not a bad person." ”

The little guy sleeping on the tree was startled, and when he saw that the young master who was in his heart was under the tree, he said with a look of grievance: "Young master, why did you come out, I have been waiting for you for a day." ”

Xiangling looked at the little girl on the tree in confusion, then at Wang Wenqian, and said in surprise: "You two know each other?" ”

Both nodded at the same time.

"You two made an appointment?"

Both nodded at the same time.

Xiangling frowned, glared angrily at the little guy on the tree, and said in annoyance: "You're not a cattle thief? Why Eat Beef? Why climb up the tree and not go through the main entrance? ”

The little guy hurriedly argued: "I didn't eat beef, our young master loves beef, and I sent it; I don't go through the main gate, not because I want to do something bad, but because there is a lady's eye in the village......"

Wang Wenqian frowned and said, "Wang Le, you talk too much. ”

The little servant Wang Le immediately shut up, scratching his ears and cheeks and wanting to go down the tree, but because he was a little high from the ground, he was timid and didn't dare to jump down.

Wang Wenqian glanced sideways, and while propping the ladder on the trunk of the tree, he said to Wang Le: "What are you waiting for me to do when you go up the tree?" Just to catch turtles in the urn? ”

Wang Le got off the tree with his head bowed, and said aggrievedly: "It's not because I haven't seen the young master for a few days, I miss the young master too much!" And the young master didn't know when I was coming, so he wanted to stand on the tree and find an opportunity to summon the young master. ”

There was a sound of footsteps in the distance, and it should be Chu Li who was arriving with someone.

Wang Wenqian snatched the bag of beef jerky from Wang Le's arms, rushed into the dog hole as fast as he could, and saw Xiangling dumbfounded: It turns out that no matter how high the scholar is, he is also an authentic foodie, and he can also drill the dog hole in order to eat.

Wang Le didn't know how to explain why he appeared in the deserted courtyard at dusk, and ran out of the yard like a loach and ran in the opposite direction of Chu Li.

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Chu Lizheng saw the shadow of Wang Le running away, thinking that the cattle thief had run away, so he led people to chase down, but Wang Le ran into the woods, rode a tall horse and ran away.

Chu Lizheng was a little confused, and said in a daze: "Are the current cattle thieves so powerful?" Traveling by horse? ”

Xiangling scratched her head in disdain, she couldn't tell Chu Lizheng that this little guy was not a cattle thief, but a little guy who smuggled delicious food to Wang Wenqian, right?

Wouldn't that expose the essence of Wang Wenqian, a "foodie" in Xiucai Village?

Chu Li Zhengzheng said to a few strong men behind him: "The cattle thieves have already gone to our village to collect some points, you have to wipe your eyes and never give them a chance to enter the village!" ”

Several men agreed to leave.

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Chu Lizheng looked at the decayed courtyard, and said to the Jiang family with a worried face: "Why don't you still live next to the old mansion!" This courtyard is close to the west end of the village, and it has been picked by thieves, and it is not safe for you orphans and widows. ”

Jiang was also a little hesitant, she didn't expect the safety layer, and the little fright just now made her feel safer to live in the middle of the village.

Xiangling naturally knew that there was no such thing as a "cattle thief", it was she who made a big fuss, and shook her head firmly and said: "Mother, let's go into the house and take a look, buy it when it is suitable, although it is strict to live in the old house, but it is a diaphragm with my grandmother." Moreover, my brother is already a young man, and he has to say daughter-in-law, can't we still be a family of four in one room? I don't want to sleep in a box anymore. ”

Jiang was told by Xiangling to live again.

Chu Lizheng only suggested to the Jiang family, since the mother and the two agreed to buy, he was also happy to be the middleman between the Jiang family and the Wang family in buying and selling houses.

Chu Lizheng asked the Jiang family to open the door and accompanied the two of them into the house to take a look.

Wang's house was very spacious, with four and a half rooms, a corridor in the middle, two rooms on each side, and half a house behind the corridor, which was used for kitchen cooking.

Because no one lived in it for a long time, the house was a little cold, full of dust, and there was not even a kang mat, if the Jiang family wanted to move in, they would have to clean it up for a few days.

Jiang and Xiangling both took a fancy to the house, and immediately made a decision, led Chu Lizheng home, and gave twenty taels of silver to set a fixed amount, and after the official deed came back, they would pay the rest of the silver.

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Chu Li was returning home, and Luo hurriedly asked, "The cattle thief caught it?" ”

Chu Lizheng shook his head, sat on the chair and took a sip of water, "I didn't catch it, I ran away." ”

Roche scolded angrily: "Damn cattle thief! Cattle are the lifeblood of our farmers, and they are not afraid of five thunders and disasters to their descendants! ”

Chu Lizheng was amused by his daughter-in-law's appearance, and said with a smile: "We don't know if there are five thunderstorms every day, the only thing we know is that more than a dozen villages nearby alone have lost more than 20 cows, and even if they are sold cheaply on the black market, they can get fifty or sixty taels of silver!" ”

Luo Che muttered: "I have to tell Sanzhu not to herd cattle these days, and the family can't leave anyone." ”

After Xiangling's oolong, Luo was afraid that his cattle would be stolen and decided to start captivity.

Chu Lizheng ignored his daughter-in-law's self-talk, and shouted at the outhouse: "Erzhu, come over and help you Chu Erniang write a deed!" ”

Only Erzhu has been in school for two years in the family, so everything that uses pen and ink is done by Erzhu.

"Deed?" Luo heard it, and the fox asked, "It can't be that Jiang Dalan really wants to buy the house, right?" Where did she get the extra money? ”

The second pillar of the outhouse agreed, came over with pen and ink, and wrote a simple deed according to Chu Jinsheng's request, not only to buy a house, but also to buy five acres of land.

For all the businesses in the village, the basic procedure is that Li Zheng will go to the official house to get the official deed, which is why the Wang family entrusted Li Zheng to sell the house.

After the second pillar was written, Chu Li took out four silver ingots from his arms, a full twenty taels of official silver, and solemnly said to his daughter-in-law: "The deposit has been paid, and there is still a fake?" Jiang told me that her mother's family borrowed her. Good fellow, more than forty taels of silver, I have never heard of her mother's family being so generous before. ”

Roche pouted and said, "She borrowed it from her mother's family?" I don't believe it, just her sister-in-law, who is a famous woman in ten miles and eight villages, not to mention more than forty taels of silver, it is a penny, and Jiang Dalanzi doesn't want to take it out of her,"

Luo thought of another possibility, and said in surprise: "Jin Sheng, it can't really be like what the people in the village said, it was given by Ge Changlin, right?" ”

Chu Jinsheng's eyes widened, and he said angrily to his daughter-in-law: "Don't learn from the long-tongued woman in the village to chew the root of her tongue!" You know Jiang Dalan's sister-in-law, I know Ge Changlin, his hands are like a leaky sieve, if he can save money, our family can become a landlord! ”

Luo smashed his mouth and felt that his husband was reasonable, Ge Changlin was a rough old man, he made meat and spent it when he had money, and said that he could take out more than forty taels of silver, but it was more practical to say that he could hunt tigers by himself.