Chapter 149: Marking
The day after the little couple came back from Hexi Village, Uncle Zhang really came to the Chu family's old house again as promised, and while stacking the yellow burnt paper that had been prepared with Chu Yi on the small cart he pushed one by one, he talked to the little couple.
"After you left yesterday, I thought about it with your aunt for a long time, and the more I thought about it, the more I felt that this Xie Daqiang was weird, first not long after the Midyear Festival, once he suddenly came to the house, and asked me to come and get more yellow burnt paper later, take more back, I just thought he wanted to earn more money, so I didn't ask more and agreed! Later, he said that there was too much work, and people were a little tired and panicked, and wanted to save up for a few days and send it back to me. Speaking of it now, it's all my fault with your aunt and me, I shouldn't have listened to your aunt in the first place, pity him Xie Daqiang, otherwise it would bring you such a big loss!"
Shen Luzhu was afraid that his uncle would blame himself too much, so he hurriedly said something of relief: "Uncle, don't think about it so much, this matter is just our speculation at the moment, and even if he really did it, this matter has nothing to do with uncle and aunt!"
"How can it be okay, if we hadn't given this job to him privately, how could we have caused this disaster!"
After Chu Yima put the last stack of yellow burnt paper, he also persuaded: "Uncle took over this job to help us, no one wants to do this, how can you blame your aunt!"
Although the little couple repeatedly said that they didn't blame him and Xie, and said that this matter had nothing to do with them, the uncle of the Zhang family still blamed himself, and when he saw that the yellow burnt paper had been loaded, he thought about getting it back quickly, so he could catch Xie Daqiang as soon as possible and solve the matter: "When that guy is caught, I have to give you an explanation for what I said about this matter, you haven't told me yet, how to get this yellow burnt paper after I get it back today?"
"Uncle, these yellow burnt papers, just divide them to the other side as usual, but the finished copper coin burnt paper, uncle remember to separate our own from theirs!"
Soon, the uncle of the Zhang family left the Chu family with a small cart, and the little couple secretly calculated in their hearts that there was not much yellow burnt paper to take this time, and it should be done soon, and there would be a result in this matter within two days.
Who thought that things would go far more smoothly than they thought, only in the afternoon of the second day, Uncle Zhang pushed his small cart again and came to Chu's house, this time all the yellow burnt paper on the car was made into copper coin burnt paper.
"Xie Daqiang, that guy, I don't know which one is in a hurry, I actually think that I took back too little this time, and all the paper money was delivered to my house at noon today, but the part in my hand has not been done yet, so it is a little late, the two stacks inside are made by the Xie family, and the outside is made by me and your aunt!"
Shen Luzhu stepped forward and took out a knife from each of the two paper money, compared it carefully, and then took the two knives to burn the paper, entered the stove room with Chu Yi, and walked out after a while and said, "Sure enough, it was the Xie family who made a move, if I guessed correctly, they did it so quickly because they wanted to ask Uncle you to take more yellow burnt paper back today!"
Uncle Zhang nodded and replied, "That's right, that's right, he did say that he asked me to get more yellow burnt paper when I go back today, saying that these are too little, not enough for him to do for two days!" Luzhu, you just said that it was confirmed, is it Xie Daqiang's bad? How did you find out?"
Shen Luzhu pinched the two knives of burned paper in his hand, and then pointed to Uncle Zhang's family with his side: "I guess he stole the paper money and sold it, so he was anxious to get it back and do more!" Uncle, you see, these two knives of paper money, looking at it like this, it is obvious that one knife is thinner than the other!"
Uncle Zhang stepped forward to take a closer look, and then stretched out his hand to point to the knife in Shen Luzhu's right hand: "It's true, this knife is thinner!"
"This knife was taken out of the two stacks made by the Xie family, and my uncle didn't know it, we specially marked the yellow burnt paper this time, and all the corners of the burned paper were dotted by us, the first one was lit up, the second one was dotted with two dots, and so on. Uncle can look through these two pieces of paper money to see, in the knife you made with your aunt, from the first to the last, each one is one point more than the previous one, which means that this knife is not missing, but the other knife has a lot of broken places!"
Uncle Zhang reached out and took the two knives of burnt paper, turned them over one by one, and sure enough, he found brown dot marks in the corner, and he couldn't help but be a little shocked: "This! How did this work? When I did it, I didn't see a little bit of it!"
The little couple glanced at each other, Shen Luzhu picked up a knife of burning paper again, and said, "Uncle, come with me!"
Several people came to the stove room of the Chu family together, at this time the stove was burning on fire, Chu Yi casually took out a piece of burning paper and handed it to his wife, Shen Luzhu picked up a chopstick and dipped it in the vinegar on the stove, and then wrote it on the burning paper, but with the evaporation of water vapor, soon the words written by Shen Luzhu on the burning paper with vinegar disappeared.
After that, Shen Luzhu handed the burning paper back to Chu Yi, Chu Yi put the burning paper far away from the flame, moved left and right to bake, and after a while, the vinegar marks that had disappeared on the burning paper appeared again and turned brown!
"This! This is too godly!"
"It's just that the vinegar is more likely to be burnt!"
Uncle Zhang took the paper money and studied it for a long time, and then remembered the matter of the Xie family: "Now we can catch the scum surnamed Xie!"
"Of course we can, but we still need our uncle to cooperate with us!"
"What's this, Luzhu, you just say it!"
Several people discussed countermeasures at the Chu family, and the uncle of the Zhang family went back to his own house in Hexi Village that day, waiting for Xie Daqiang to come to the door by himself..
Sure enough, as expected by the little couple, on the second day, Xie Daqiang came to the gate of Zhang's house: "Sister! Didn't you say yesterday that you would bring back some more yellow burnt paper, why didn't you take it? Is it that you won't be allowed to take it, or what's wrong?"
Uncle Zhang pretended to be helpless and angry: "Alas! We told you about the work, but they don't do it for me now, saying they want to do it all for you! Go get this yellow burnt paper yourself!"
Xie Daqiang was a little unconvinced: "What is my sister talking about, what do you mean not to do it for you, all for me to do!" Why is that?"
"Why could it be? It's not all up to you, yesterday I was urging and urging, and I was in a hurry, but the result was that people could see that they were doing differently, you did it better, and now they let you take it all! I'm so idle, I shouldn't have given you this job, and now I've lost all my money!"
Xie Daqiang saw the state and rhetoric of Uncle Zhang's family, and finally believed most of it, and at the same time secretly rejoiced, he was going to run from time to time and make a lot of money?
"Brother, how can you blame me for this! The boss of the family naturally wants someone with good craftsmanship to do it for them, and the two of us are at the same time, and you are not as good as I do, doesn't that explain the problem?"
The eldest aunt Xie originally stayed aside and had no intention of speaking, after all, she knew that her old man was here to set up a trap for her younger brother, and the palms and backs of her hands were full of meat, so she was naturally not easy to interject, but now that she heard Xie Daqiang's words, she suddenly became angry!
The old couple didn't know how much they blamed themselves for this in the past two days, but the culprit was good: "It's not all because of you, you are embarrassed to say your sister!"
Xie Daqiang saw that Xie was angry, and thought that they were taking on the job of making money, so he had resentment in his heart, so he hurriedly followed a few sentences: "Sister, you really can't blame me for this, if you want to blame the boss, isn't he my sister's nephew and son-in-law, why don't you give my uncle this face!" Sister, tell me quickly, you are not going to take the yellow burning paper, but don't delay me in earning money, where is the shop? Shall I go by myself?"
"Silver, silver, I think you're losing money! Wait! I'll pack it up and take you there!"