A car accident, our family of three crossed

In the end, He Dazhu couldn't persuade his wife, so he reluctantly went up to the bamboo forest on the back mountain carrying an axe. In the afternoon, he came down the mountain carrying a bundle of bamboo.

Mu Dun was well-informed and soon found out about this. Thinking about what Song Ning had told him in the morning, he ran home and told Shuisheng the news.

"Brother, have they seen that we made money from selling chairs and want to make chairs and sell them themselves?"

Shuisheng thought about it carefully and said, "Carpentry work is not something that anyone can do well if they want to. Don't bother with them."

After saying that, he was still a little worried and reminded: "Remember to lock the door at night, don't let anyone take advantage of the opportunity."

Uncle Hengzi had asked him to keep all the twenty taels of silver from the sale of the chair. He had never held so much silver in his hands before, and he couldn't let thieves steal it.

If you are a thief all day long, you can't guard against thieves for a thousand days. Shuisheng was thinking about hiding the silver, but he didn't expect that the thief was eyeing the chair he made.

During these few days, He Dazhui and his wife visited Shuisheng's house unusually frequently. Even if there was nothing to do, they would stay for half a day and would not leave until they had time to stay in the shed where Shuisheng worked.

Just because they cut down the bamboo with full confidence, and tinkered with it at home for a few days, but couldn't make any progress, they thought of coming to Shuisheng to learn from him.

They looked at Shuisheng's new chair with envy. Shuisheng was not afraid of them looking at him. If they could learn just by looking, then everyone could become a carpenter.

Even if they really learned it, that would mean they had real skills and he wouldn't be able to defend against it even if he really wanted to.

These two men were like dog-skin plasters, shamelessly staying here and couldn't be driven away. Shuisheng had no choice but to ask Mudun to keep an eye on them and prevent them from doing anything bad.

Mudun was indignant about this and told Hang Shuheng about it. However, he was puzzled to find that Hang Shuheng's attitude was the same as his elder brother's.

"Your elder brother is right. If one can learn it just by looking at it, then everyone can become a carpenter."

Although Mudun didn't understand, he thought that since Uncle Hengzi and his elder brother said so, they must have their reasons.

He no longer felt resentful about it, but became more careful before going to bed at night.

"Mudun, what are you doing there instead of going to sleep?" Shuisheng saw him fiddling with something in the shed and walked over to take a look.

"Brother, I'm making a mechanism. It's almost done. If a thief comes to steal the chair at night, we can catch him."

I saw him tying a rattan stick to the leg of the newly made chair, and the other end of the rattan stick passed through the beam on the top of the shed and fixed to the mechanism he had made temporarily.

As long as the chair is moved and the mechanism is triggered, the net on the mechanism will fall down and cover the thief.

He used another vine to connect the mechanism to the house and tied a bell in the house. As long as the mechanism was triggered, the vine would be pulled to cause the bell in the house to ring, and they could catch the thief in the first place.

Seeing that he had done a good job, Shuisheng praised him generously: "You are quite good, little rascal."

After everything was ready, the two brothers took a shower and went to bed. They were particularly careful when opening the door and entering the house, for fear of pulling the vine and triggering the mechanism.

It was originally just to take precautionary measures, but Mu Dun didn't expect that what he worried about would come true.

It was a dark and windy night, and everything was silent. Two dark shadows sneaked to the outside of Shuisheng's yard.

The black shadows circled outside the yard, as if looking for a suitable place to climb over. After trying several times, one of the black shadows climbed in through the gate and opened it from the inside.

The two dark shadows met, pointed in the direction of the shed, and tiptoed towards that direction.

When they got to the shed, they saw that the two chairs were still there. One of them was so excited that he wanted to move them, but the other one held him back and said in a low voice, "Be careful, don't make any noise."

"Oh! I know, I know." The man said impatiently.

There were two chairs in the shed, which looked like pure silver to the two men.

After thinking it over, and for fear of making any noise and waking up the people in the house, the two decided to move the items together, first moving one out and then coming back to move the other.

The two of them moved the chair in the dark, one in front and one behind. "Be gentle, be gentle."

As soon as they picked up the chair and took a step, they felt a resistance. Before they could think about it, they heard a click above their heads. They raised their heads and looked up, and saw a black cloud covering their heads.

The sudden change made them lose their composure and they began to struggle in panic, no longer caring about the chairs.

The activation of the mechanism set off the bell in the room, and the ringing woke up the two brothers from their sleep. Mu Dun was the first to jump up from the kang and shouted, "Brother, the bell is ringing, there is a thief."

The two brothers rushed out of the door and ran to the shed without even having time to put on their coats. When they saw the black mass covered by the net, they picked up sticks and beat them up without saying a word.

Mudun waved the stick in his hand and shouted: "Catch the thief, catch the thief, a thief has entered the village..."

This loud shout was particularly loud in the silent night, and the Sun family, who lived closest to them, were the first to hear the noise.

Sun Qinglai, the second son of the Sun family, came out of the house and listened carefully in the yard to identify the direction. He recognized the sound of a wooden block and hurriedly ran to knock on the doors of his father and eldest brother.

"Dad, big brother, get up quickly, there's a thief in our village, and it sounds like he's at Shuisheng's house."

The old man of the Sun family and the eldest son, Sun Xilai, came out dressed and urged, "Quick, quick, grab your weapons and leave quickly."

The three fathers lit torches, picked up their weapons and ran towards Shuisheng's house, shouting "Catch the thief" along the way, which soon alarmed more families.

The news spread quickly, and more people joined the team to catch the thief, telling others along the way.

Even though every family has its own little calculations on weekdays, in the face of major issues, the cohesion of the village was fully demonstrated on this night.

Almost half of the households in the village were alarmed, and Hang Shuheng was no exception.

"What's going on with all the noise outside?" Song Ning asked as he stood up, putting on his clothes.

"It sounds like someone's house has been robbed. I'm going to go out and take a look. Please lock the doors and windows. Don't open the door before I come back, okay?"

While Hang Shuheng was talking, he had already put on his clothes and gave many instructions before going out and walking in the direction of the light.

The first to arrive at Shuisheng's house must have been the three people of the Sun family, father and son. At this time, the thief was begging for mercy under the sticks of Shuisheng's brothers.

"Ouch! Stop it, stop it..."

But why did the voice sound so familiar? Old Man Sun didn't think much about it. He waved his hand and asked his two sons to help.

"Big brother, hurry up, go and help, tie up the thief first."