Chapter 5: Thieves in the middle of the night

Outside, the three bear children looked at each other.

"Second brother, what should I do...... It's about to be winter, and we'll freeze to death without a quilt......" Shen Jinchao looked at Shen Jinchao in fear, the cold wind was blowing on her face, and she couldn't help but sneeze.

"Daddy will definitely be back before winter, and the biggest problem now is that we don't have anything to eat." Shen Jin's hand reached into his pocket, and the last three copper coins looked extremely lonely.

"So what to do, I don't want to go hungry." Shen Suisui rubbed his little belly dissatisfied.

Before, this kind of thing was all thought of by the stepmother, they never worried about it, but now the burden falls on themselves, and the three little beans are beginning to worry.

Shen looked up at Nan Jiang Nan's hut where he lived alone: "That woman must still have food in her hand." ”

"But she won't give it to us." Shen Jinchao shook his head, the current stepmother is too difficult to deal with.

"If she doesn't give it, can't we rob it. This time, we were careless, and when we grabbed the food in the evening, we hid it, and she didn't have a problem even if she wanted to. Shen clenched his fists today, his eyes full of hatred.

When he snatched Nan Jiangnan's money, let Nan Jiangnan also kneel down hungry and beg him!

Midnight.

Nan Jiang Nan had already slept, but suddenly heard a sparse sound from outside the door, in the dark, a pair of sly eyes slowly opened, Nan Jiang Nan smiled brightly, and took the bait again?

Nan Jiang Nan's eyes rolled, and after getting up with his clothes, he used other clothes to concave a figure on the bed to confuse the public, and he hid behind the door.

The moonlight was bright, and the three little beans didn't dare to take a mouthful, so they secretly opened the window.

"Great, stupid woman didn't lock the window!" Finding that the windows were not locked, Shen Suisui was so excited that he couldn't wait to rush in to find something to eat.

On the side, Shen held him down cautiously: "Be quiet, don't make too much noise." ”

Shen Jinchao didn't dare to open the window and stayed at the door.

Shen Jinjin and Shen Suisui held hands with each other, and after entering the house, they went straight to the money box.

Suddenly, a rope noose fell, and then, Shen Suisui felt that he had been slapped by something, and before he could see the figure clearly, he was tied aside.

"Good sons, if you don't sleep in the middle of the night, do you miss your mother so much?" Nan Jiang Nan seemed to be smiling.

"Nan's slut, you actually arrested us!" Shen came back to his senses today and scolded, Nan Jiang Nan pulled out a rag and stuffed it into his mouth, tying the two people together: "It's a thief!" It's a thief! ”

Nan Jiang Nan shouted outside the door, turning the house into chaos.

Shen Jinchao at the door was dumbfounded, her two brothers were discovered, what should she do!

Shen Jinchao wanted to run, but the neighbors who heard the movement had already arrived with candles, and the bright lights fell on Shen Jinchao's face, which caught the little girl off guard, and she couldn't wait to dig a hole and get in.

Xia Shengsheng was the closest, the first one to run, and when he saw Shen Jinjin and Shen Suisui being tied up, with a rag in their mouths, and being looked at by a little beast, he immediately scolded: "Nan Jiangnan, what are you doing?" Is it possible to kidnap the two children and sell them to human traffickers? ”

"What to sell, this is the thief I caught in the house!" Nan Jiang Nan turned sideways, and the house was turned into a mess, "The three of you don't sleep in the middle of the night, what are you doing in my house?" ”

"We didn't do anything!" Shen is still stiff-mouthed today.

Nan Jiangnan looked at the little girl on the side and decided to use her as a breakthrough: "If I don't make this matter clear today, I will report to the official, and this is in the hands of the official, but it is not a problem that can be solved simply." ”

The child did something bad, and he was most afraid that many people would be discovered, looking at the group of people outside the door, Shen Jinchao couldn't hold back for a while, and cried: "Yes, it was the second brother who said that he was going to steal something, I, I ......" Shen Jinchao said incoherently, he didn't expect such a big child to learn to steal, and the crowd of onlookers was particularly unkind for a while.

"Nan, did you treat them harshly because they are like this?" Xia Shengsheng wrinkled his eyebrows, "Everyone knows what kind of person Brother Shen is, although a few children are rebellious, they will not do anything to steal, I am afraid that there is another hidden reason in the middle?" ”

"Shen Chonglou is a good person, but he is not at home all the year round, and it is not impossible for the child to lack education and grow crooked." Nan Jiang Nan said justifiably, and looked at Xia Shengsheng funny, "According to what you mean, if your father and mother are not good to you, you will also steal things from the house?" ”

"How could I!" When it comes to his reputation, Xia Shengsheng immediately retorted, "And my parents have always treated me very well, and I was born to my parents." ”

"So you want to blame me, the stepmother?" Nan Jiang Nan couldn't help but sneer, this Xia Shengsheng almost wrote the three big characters "green tea" on his face, "Since you said that I am not strict in discipline, then I will discipline and discipline them well this time, and when the time comes, some people will say that I don't know how to teach husbands and children." ”

"According to the law of my dynasty, theft shall be punished with twenty rods."

"But they are still children after all......" Nan Jiangnan looked at the thin bamboo in the yard.

Although this bamboo is thin, it hurts and does not leave a trace when beating people, Nan Jiang Nan took the bamboo and walked to the three of them: "Just replace it with this bamboo strip." ”

"No, don't......"

The three men were teary-eyed and frightened, but there was no one around to intercede for them.

Nan Jiang Nan raised his hand, and the bamboo strip was pumped on several people, although it did not break the flesh, but also hit their faces pale, their hearts were full of fear, and the wailing cries resounded throughout the village in the middle of the night, and the onlookers gasped, but they did not stop them.

Xia Shengsheng looked worried, and wanted to help but felt that it was inappropriate, after all, Nan Jiang Nan was the head of the Shen family, not to mention that stealing itself was a felony!

After twenty strokes, the sky was close to dawn, Nan Jiang Nan threw the bamboo strip aside, and said coldly: "I was too lenient to you before, so that you grew like this, from now on I will not be soft-hearted, I will be a strict mother." ”

Since a few bear children don't like loving mothers, she doesn't mind being a vicious stepmother.

The three of them have always been the little overlords in the village, and now they are beaten at the door of their own house, which is undoubtedly a torture for several people.

Shen Jinchao was already crying out of breath, Shen Jinjin and Shen Suisui glared at Nan Jiang Nan viciously, their eyes were as red as rabbits.

The onlookers gradually dispersed, the ropes on the three bear children were not untied, Xia Shengsheng stepped forward because of his bad position, and the three children stood outside the house in embarrassment, glaring at her resentfully, hating to tear Nan Jiangnan apart directly.

"It's been beaten, and no one is likely to intercede for you right now, so you can reflect on it in the yard."

Nan Jiang Nan said, directly ignored the murderous eyes of several children, and went back to the hut alone.

According to the calculation of days, the eldest brother of several children, Shen Niannian, should also come back.

In the late autumn, it was already freezing, and the three children shrank together, feeling someone approaching when they were drowsy, Shen opened his eyes vigilantly today, but what he saw was their eldest brother, Shen Niannian.

Shen Niannian's face is angular, unlike the other three who are still full of childishness, Shen Niannian's body already has a lot of adult demeanor.

"Big brother! You're back! ”