Siheyuan: Sizhu starts blindly and takes a new path

People didn't go out early in the morning, and many people in the yard hurried over, ostensibly to show concern but actually to watch the fun.

I saw the second aunt holding a pickaxe in her hand, cursing: "Which little thief has stolen things from our house? He was born by his mother but not taught by his father. He steals things all day long and gets into fights and causes trouble. He is not a good person. Sooner or later, he will be put in jail and shot."

People who didn't understand just thought that Second Aunt didn't know who she was scolding, but smart people could hear that Second Aunt was hinting at something and whispered to those who didn't understand that Second Aunt was scolding a good joke.

Someone wanted to get to the bottom of it: "Second Auntie, what was missing from your house? Are you so sure it was stolen?"

The second aunt pointed to the rope hanging with a bunch of things under the eaves and said, "Huh, I made sixteen sausages before the New Year. I ate ten of them during the New Year, so there were six left. I was afraid they would go bad, so I hung them under the eaves yesterday morning. They were still there during the day, but disappeared after one night. Look, the rope hanging the sausages is still tied well, and the other garlic and chili peppers haven't fallen off. This couldn't have been done by a human. How could a cat or a dog be so delicate?"

"Did you forget to take it home?" Yan Jiecheng asked.

"I'm not senile yet, how could I not know whether I took it home or not?"

"Or maybe the brothers Guangtian and Guangfu stole the money!" Yan Jiecheng continued to stir up trouble for the Liu family.

"Yan Jiecheng, stop talking nonsense." Liu Guangtian didn't dare to bear the blame. His father would beat his brothers to death for six sausages. "Mom, I worked beside you all day yesterday and didn't have time to touch the sausages."

"Dad, I stayed in the house reading books all day yesterday. I didn't even leave the house." Liu Guangfu saw that the second uncle's eyes were becoming more and more strange, so he hurried to prove his innocence to the second uncle.

"They said he disappeared at night, but who knows if you two brothers got up and ate secretly at night." Yan Jiecheng continued to pester.

Liu Guangtian pointed at Yan Jiecheng's nose and cursed: "Yan Jiecheng, I'm going to fight you. What the hell do you mean? You just want to see my dad beat us up, right? You wicked thing. You shall not die well."

Liu Guangtian's sister-in-law Cen Lanfang helped explain: "Mom, those six sausages were raw, and Guangtian Guangfu didn't have time to cook them. You don't have to pay attention to other people's weird words."

"Thank you, sister-in-law. Your words saved us." Liu Guangtian wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. His legs were still shaking.

Second Aunt was not confused. She knew that the sausages were raw, and her two sons had no habit of stealing. She knew who the thief was. If she explained, it would be difficult to find the real thief. Now that her daughter-in-law had proved it, it was time to catch the thief. But before catching the thief, they should deal with Yan Jiecheng who was stirring up trouble. Second Aunt looked at Yan Jiecheng and asked, "You have been making trouble again and again, trying to push the blame of stealing onto my Guangtian Guangfu. Did you steal my sausages? You cooked them secretly in the front yard and I didn't know about it. Tell me, did you steal them and that's why you keep making trouble here?"

The criminals' target had changed, and Yan Jiecheng was having trouble explaining himself. The third aunt stood up to support her son, saying, "My Jiecheng has a job. He would be interested in a few sausages from your family, and he would be able to tell which end was heavier and which was lighter."

The second aunt said with a pun: "Humph, I'm afraid you are just confused for a moment and your heart is blinded by greed."

Yan Jiecheng said bluntly: "Anyway, I didn't steal, and you have no evidence to say that I stole. I won't talk nonsense with you anymore. I'm going to work quickly." After that, he turned around and left.

The second aunt glanced at the old man standing in front of the crowd and asked, "Old Yi, how should we solve this problem? Six sausages is not a lot, but it is not a small amount either. I have more than a pound of meat."

Everyone knew that the second uncle's family was not short of money. The eldest brother's wedding banquet was grand and a lot of meat was used. So his family used more than 1 jin of meat for six sausages, and no one had any objection.

The first uncle glanced at Mrs. Jia in the crowd, but didn't see Bang Geng. He knew who it was, but he couldn't say without proof, so he could only ask the third uncle beside him: "Was the door locked last night? Did you just open the door?"

The third uncle knew what the first uncle was asking, and answered, "The door was locked. I opened the door after I got up, and then I was watering the flowers. I didn't see anyone coming in or out."

"Then it was done by someone in the courtyard again." Before the old man could say anything, Hu Feng next to him made the conclusion, and everyone nodded after hearing it.

The eldest son of the old Ma family, who lived in the wing next to the He family in the middle courtyard, said, "Dad, I said last night that I smelled sausages, and they were especially delicious, but you insisted that I was dreaming and refused to believe me."

Everyone was attracted by this sentence. Guangtian pulled him to ask: "Ma Shan, you said you smelled sausage last night?"

"Yeah, it seems to smell like burning wood."

Smart Xu Damao came online and said, "Since Ma Shan has smelled the smell, the crime scene should be in the Central Courtyard. Let's go and look for it."

Mrs. Jia in the crowd now understood what the fragrance he smelled last night was, which meant that it was his beloved grandson Banggeng who stole the sausages last night. She returned home secretly without saying a word, and told Banggeng that if someone asked him about the sausages, he must not admit it. After two fights and long-term training in a work-study school, Banggeng certainly knew how to deal with it.

The people in the courtyard found traces of a fire under the Ma family's window. Ma Shan pointed at the pile of ashes and said, "See, I was right."

"Since the sausages were cooked in the Central Court, they must be someone from the Central Court. Could it be Sha Zhu?" Xu Damao finally found an opportunity to disgust Sha Zhu and he would not let it go. However, when Sha Zhu's eyes were emitting anger, he changed his words, "Impossible, Sha Zhu is now a leading cadre after all, how could he ignore his status and do something that Yan Jie Chengdu would not do? Could it be that he was blinded by lard?" Just as Sha Zhu clenched his fists and was about to swing his arms, Xu Damao finally said what most people thought, "I think the sausage thief should be a habitual offender. He didn't remove the garlic on the same rope, so he should be an old hand. Sha Zhu is impossible, so who else in our courtyard can be called an old hand at stealing?" After saying that, he looked at Sha Zhu provocatively, meaning that I disgust you, what can you do? You think you are an official, so I am afraid of you, grandma!

Sha Zhu seized the opportunity and said, "It seems that you, Xu Damao, are also an old hand at stealing."

"What nonsense are you talking about, idiot? I didn't say you were a thief. Why don't you follow the rules?"

"Why are you in such a hurry? Listen to me. You, Xu Damao, didn't steal the sausages, but you stole my heart. I heard that Qin Jingru came to the city to have a blind date with me, but you stole her away."

Qin Jingru didn't want to bring up her own scandal, so she immediately retorted: "He Yuzhu, don't talk nonsense. That didn't happen."

Sha Zhu added: "It seems that someone in my room who didn't admit it got into a fight with someone else."

The third aunt wanted to cover up for her daughter-in-law, but was stopped by the third uncle, "If you don't say it, others won't remember it. The more you say it, the clearer it will be for others."

Lao Ma also said: "Yes, yes, Qin Jingru had a fight with someone in Shazhu's house, and her hair was messed up." It can be seen that the masses have sharp eyes.

Xu Damao didn't want to be blamed for his mistakes, so he said, "Shazhu, stop talking nonsense. We are catching a thief now, and this is the main contradiction." There was a pleading look in his eyes.

Everyone was brought back to the main topic. Let's catch the thief first and talk about Xu Damao's matter later.

Xu Damao didn't dare to involve others anymore, and said with finality: "I think this little thief can't escape from the middle courtyard, it should be Banggen."