The Princess of Northern Land

There was a faint noise coming from outside the wall, and then I could vaguely see someone climbing over the wall. Lin Ziyin stood at the corner of the corridor and started counting people.

...Five, six, seven, eight, no more, no less, eight people.

The only people left in the yard are the old man, Zi Ge, Chang Ting, and Guo Huiniang's mother and son. There are a lot of people in total, but unfortunately they are not very powerful in fighting. Lin Ziyin secretly thought about how to solve the problem quickly so that his family would not be shocked.

"Spread out." Under the moonlight, a masked man whispered to the people around him, "Find them all and force that bitch to reveal the recipe."

"Yes, boss." A man next to him agreed in a low voice.

Come prepared! Lin Ziyin sneered as the figure slowly approached. She stood in the corridor and suddenly revealed her figure. She asked the visitor calmly, "It seems unreasonable for you to come to the door so late as a guest, right? I don't know what you are saying. Who are you referring to?"

The masked men did not expect that Lin Ziyin would find them in the middle of the night, and they all panicked.

"Hurry and catch her, don't let her provoke others." The burly man said.

Lin Ziyin sneered as he watched the people approaching. He stretched out his hand and pulled a rope under the corridor. Suddenly, eight men either fell into the pit or were hung upside down by the rope. There was another one who was even worse. His feet were caught by iron clamps.

"Ah, help." Before Lin Ziyin could speak again, the thief opened his mouth and shouted loudly.

Following the thief's cry, candlelight soon lit up Guo Huiniang and Zige's room.

"What's going on?" The old man was the first to rush to Lin Ziyin's side, also holding a thick stick in his hand and with a very solemn expression on his face.

"It's okay. Several thieves came to the house and they were all caught." Lin Ziyin replied calmly.

"Thief? What should we do?" Guo Huiniang was a little panicked. She looked at Ziyin and the old man nervously.

"Why don't you go find Uncle Li Zheng." Zi Ge was also scared. She was just a weak woman and had never seen such a big scene.

"Grandpa, scream loudly, bang the copper basin, and stir up a commotion in the village." Lin Ziyin said, "We don't know if there are people outside to respond. None of you are allowed to go out."

"Zi Yin is right, you go into the house and get a basin and beat it." The old man spoke, but his eyes were fixed on the immobile thieves, always wary of them breaking free from the things that imprisoned them and rushing to hurt people.

Guo Huiniang and Zi Ge were not stupid. They went to the house to find a basin, pulled the two children out, knocked on the basin together, and shouted loudly, "Catch the thief, catch the thief."

"Please, let us go." When the people hanging in the tree heard the Lin family shouting, they were so frightened that they immediately begged for mercy. "As long as you let us go, we can do anything."

Neither Lin Ziyin nor the old man spoke.

The Lin family made a lot of noise. After a while, every household in the village was alerted, and the people who came all had various tools in their hands, such as forks, shovels, and poles.

"Grandpa, what's going on?" The first ones to arrive at the house were Lin Changshu and Wu Dayou. As soon as they entered the door, they found the captured thief.

"Don't panic, there are just a few thieves in the house." The old man replied calmly.

"The thieves are so daring, we can't let them off lightly." Wu Dayou said fiercely.

"I'm telling you, if you don't let me go today, it will be easier for you in the future." The person whose feet were caught by the clamps yelled in a rather aggressive tone.

Lin Ziyin looked at him with a sneer, "You broke into a house late at night as a thief with a murder weapon in your hand. You clearly wanted to kill someone and rob you. I don't know what crime the county master will give you when you get to the Yamen? I heard Prince Ling of our fiefdom has always been kind and considerate to the people, and he is decisive in his actions. If he knew that someone who committed murder and robbery appeared under his nose, what do you think he would do to you?"

"Little girl, don't talk nonsense. Who is going to kill someone? Aren't you, the Lin family, all standing here properly?" Her words were still somewhat intimidating. After the other party heard her words, someone quickly counterattacked. , the words were quite strong, but unfortunately if there was less fear in the tone, it might be more convincing.

"How did you get robbed?" At this moment, Li Zheng spoke.

"They know our Lin family. As for how to come here, you have to ask them." Lin Ziyin thought to himself. These people knew their Lin family. Someone in the village must have colluded with them to come here.

Which household in the village is the person who eats the food inside and outside the house? She has no bottom, because these days, she only focuses on improving her family's life and has no contact with people in the village at all. If we haven’t interacted with each other, we naturally won’t be familiar with each other.

"Damn girl, don't even think about spewing blood. Who is going to kill someone?" the masked thief was still shouting.

"No one was killed. Why did you climb over the wall and come in with a knife in the middle of the night?" Wu Dayou walked up to the hanging man and slapped him on the head.

The person who was hit and hung swayed in the air several times, and his momentum weakened.

The villagers who came over saw the eight thieves looking embarrassed, and they were all whispering.

There are thieves in the village, this is a big deal. Even if everyone has no brains, they all know that these people must be coming for the Lin family.

Although the thief did not come for everyone, the villagers still felt very uncomfortable. You see, there were eight thieves when they came. Didn't they clearly take the villagers of Shili Village into consideration?

Could it be that they were bullied because there was no one in Shili Village?

"Uncle Li Zheng, I think it would be better to send these people to the government." Lin Ziyin was too lazy to reason with a group of thieves and directly decided to hand the thieves over to Li Zheng.

"Yes, hand them over to the Yamen. The county magistrate will sentence them to exile." A villager said with a smile.

"No, no one is bullying us in Shili Village, right?" Another villager took over and echoed.

"It would be a pity to kill such a person."

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"You can't send us to the official. We came here after listening to Ma Erlang's idea." As soon as they heard that they were going to be exiled, some of the thieves began to beg and betrayed their companions.

"Yes, it was Ma Erlang from your village who asked us to come here." Someone recruited, and others immediately followed.

"Shut up." The boss of the thieves scolded.