Chapter 169

"Who said that!" aunt Jinhua seemed to be trampled on her painful feet. She said, "who is talkative? Don't listen to her. How can I be the one who does that kind of stealing."

"Ah, aunt Jinhua, haven't you passed my garden? But others say you did?" Fang ruxiu looked disappointed and said, "I thought you would know the clue."

Hearing Fang ruxiu's words, aunt Jinhua knew that she misunderstood Fang ruxiu's meaning. It turned out that Fang ruxiu thought she would meet a thief.

"That's what you mean, niece ruxiu." aunt Jinhua turned her eyes and said, "I got up late tonight and haven't been to your garden, so the person who told you must be crazy about money. I haven't been there at all."

"Oh." Fang ruxiu nodded, stood up and turned around in front of aunt Jinhua. This is an ordinary earth brick house, but it is much better than the mud embryo house of ordinary people. At least aunt Jinhua's house is built into two floors with mud embryo, with upper and lower floors, which can generally be used to stack some sundries.

This room is very spacious and long. It is divided into two parts. In front of this room, there are tables and chairs for eating, but behind it is a stove. Because firewood is burned all year round, the second half of the room is blackened. Looking up, there are some firewood on the upstairs. It seems that Aunt Jinhua's house is fairly rich.

"Aunt Jinhua, have you been to the well this morning?" Fang ruxiu asked again.

"No, No." aunt Jinhua quickly shook her head and said she had not been there.

"Oh." Fang ruxiu went over and opened their water tank. She said, "but the water tank is full? If aunt Jinhua didn't draw water in the morning, how can the water be full?"

"I picked it up this morning." aunt Jinhua felt a little uneasy talking to the little girl Fang ruxiu.

"Oh." Fang ruxiu sat down again and looked at Aunt Jinhua and said, "I thought aunt Jinhua would see the thieves who went to our house to steal vegetables if she got up to fetch water in the morning. In this way, aunt Jinhua, you can get two liang of silver from our house."

"Oh, hehe, it seems that these two liang silver have no fate with our family." aunt Jinhua pretended to be a little disappointed and smiled.

"Aunt Jinhua, your house is one of the best in the village." Fang ruxiu said to Aunt Jinhua again and even praised her house.

"No one can compare with your family. You don't know how many people in this village envy your big house."

Aunt Jinhua was still chattering there, but Fang ruxiu had already gone to their room. She looked at the ladder leading to the second floor standing in their room and squatted down.

There's some wet under the ladder. It must be because of the snow this morning. Now as soon as the snow melts, it's wet.

At this moment, Fang ruxiu doesn't know where she is. Aunt Jinhua is the thief who stole their house.

"Aunt Jinhua, did you move this ladder this morning?" Fang ruxiu asked unintentionally.

"No." aunt Jinhua's first reaction was to shake her head.

"Oh, no, why are the two feet of the ladder wet?" Fang ruxiu stood up and pointed to the two feet of the ladder to Aunt Jinhua. However, her tone was not as good as before. She said with a smile: "aunt Jinhua, your ladder had wings this morning, and then flew into our vegetable garden."

Hearing this, aunt Jinhua's smile was a little stiff, and her face became a little stiff: "what are you talking about, niece?"

"My meaning is very clear. Aunt, where did you go this morning?" Fang ruxiu said with a smile: "early in the morning, where did you and uncle carry the ladder?"

"I didn't go anywhere, I didn't go anywhere!" aunt Jinhua still shook her head. She said angrily, "what are you talking about? You mean aunt stole your food?!"

"I didn't say anything, but aunt you said it yourself." Fang ruxiu said with a smile: "moreover, aunt, if you are brave enough, let me search your house. Maybe there are vegetables in our house under the bed now!"

Fang ruxiu rushed to the bed. Sure enough, she lifted the hanging tent. Sure enough, there was a basket of vegetables under the bed. The room was a little dark, but such a big basket of vegetables could be seen by a blind man.

"Aunt Jinhua, what do you say now?" Fang ruxiu snorted coldly and said, "if I tell the people in the village about this, I don't know what the people in the village will think of you? And it's still a small matter. The most important thing is that prison is a big deal!"

"According to the law of our Dynasty, those who steal more than two liang will be sentenced to three years!" Fang ruxiu said faintly to Aunt Jinhua: "my basket is more than two liang silver."

But aunt Jinhua was so easily bullied. She said, "what are you talking about? Your family has vegetables, but our family doesn't?! what's more, you say this dish is worth two liang, so it's worth two liang? It's just vegetables, and it's worth meat!"

At this moment, she revealed her shrewish nature. She said, "this dish is planted in our house!"

"Aunt Jinhua, are you bullying me? You stole our food, and you still have reason!" Fang ruxiu saw that she didn't repent and said, "I'm too lazy to tell you so much? If you are so naughty, I'll call people. Then I'll let the people in the village judge and the chief judge!"

Then Fang ruxiu went to the door to shout.

Just as she opened her mouth, aunt Jinhua took her hand and said, "big niece, it's my aunt's fault. It's my aunt's obsession. My aunt's fault. I'm willing to return this basket of vegetables to you!"

Fang ruxiu looked at Aunt Jinhua and said coldly, "Oh, what you said is light. I tell you, you didn't close the door after stealing the vegetables yesterday. Now five of our vegetables have been frozen to death. How do you compensate for this loss?"

Aunt Jinhua was afraid when she saw Fang ruxiu's momentum at the moment. She whispered, "compensation, compensation, we must compensate. Look at the old hen in our backyard. Catch one back? OK?"

"Do you think a big hen can compensate our family for the loss?" Fang ruxiu said coldly, "our vegetable field is more than the money of a big hen, and do you think my family will lack such a big hen?"

"No shortage, no shortage!" aunt Jinhua quickly flattered, "but our family is really poor. Even if I compensate you for the whole family, I can't afford it!"

Seeing that Fang ruxiu was a little girl, she slowly played the emotional card. She said with tears: "our family is poor. We live on three parts of this mu every year. We can't eat enough and wear warm clothes. Yesterday, children shouted to eat meat, but our family didn't have it at all. I heard that your vegetables are valuable, so she wanted to use them to exchange some meat in the county."

"Oh, you don't say meat, I don't remember. When you talk about meat, I think that this big fat pig in your backyard should be able to pay for our food!" Fang ruxiu went out the back door and saw the pigsty of aunt Jinhua's house. There was a big fat pig in it, whining.

"Absolutely not!" aunt Jinhua heard that Fang ruxiu looked at their pig and hurriedly said, "this pig is the lifeblood of our family. If you want our pig, I'd rather go to jail!"

"Anyway, I don't want you to go to jail." Fang ruxiu turned her eyes, but said, "you can't do such a thing as stealing our dishes alone. I think uncle has to participate."

Fang ruxiu's meaning is obvious. Aunt Jinhua doesn't care about herself, but she still cares about her family. At the moment, he's not at home. She's really nervous alone.

This feeling of being caught by others is really terrible. You know, the most annoying thing for people here is the thief. Some serious ones catch her and even strip him of his clothes and hang it on the tree.

"Please!" aunt Jinhua was still a little afraid. She was reluctant to give up her own pig and her own head of the family. She said, "one person does things and one person is responsible for them. I did all this, which has nothing to do with my head of the family."

"OK, I know there are two people. Now you just how do you compensate my family?" Fang ruxiu said coldly: "I still don't want you to go to jail until I have to. After all, you and I are from the same village, but you don't want to compensate for anything. It's too cheap to want to compensate a big hen. There's no such good thing in the world."

"What do you want to do?" aunt Jinhua looked at Fang ruxiu. "Just do you want to go to jail, not my big fat pig, and it doesn't affect my husband and children. You can say other conditions."

"Well, you go back with me first. I'll see what my parents do to you! And I can't tell others about it, but the chief must know!"

Fang ruxiu doesn't know where to put aunt Jinhua. She says she is a traitor and villain. She really isn't. She doesn't know whether she usually does bad things or whether she does more or less. But she knows that if she really wants to catch her and go to jail, the people in the village will be a little estranged later. After all, everyone is surnamed Fang. Take her back and let the head of the village To judge, this should be the best.

Aunt Jinhua has no reason not to agree to such conditions. Although it's a shame to let the chief know, it's better than being known by the people in the village.

Pulling out the basket of vegetables from under the bed, aunt Jinhua went to the kitchen and found a lot of straw to cover it. She covered it tightly, and then put some radishes and cabbage on it. Fang ruxiu looked funny and angry, so she followed her.