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The matter of catching the vegetable thief was so reversed that many people were confused and did not understand why Tang Zhi and Song Yuyan were so sure that the person who stole the vegetables was Chen Erming.

Chen Erming also argued for himself: "No one in Xingxianfang knows that you, Tang Zhi, go to the Song family to catch thieves every now and then? That's because Song Yuyan went to the Tang family's vegetable garden all day to steal vegetables, and you did it with solid evidence. of!"

Hearing this, the two petty officials had a bad sensory impression of Song Yuyan.

Tang Zhi lowered his eyes and was silent for a moment, then said: "No, you are wrong, I used to scold because of my personal guess, and there is no evidence to prove that she stole it."

Chen Erming's eyes widened, he couldn't believe that Tang Zhi would defend Song Yuyan up to this point, even what Song Yuyan had done before was overthrown by her.

Song Yuyan was also a little surprised, she stared at Tang Zhi, but saw that the latter was also looking at her.The eyes of the two met for a while, and Tang Zhi moved away first.

"You—" Chen Erming found that he could no longer transfer the suspicion to Song Yuyan, so he could only ask, "Then what evidence do you have to prove that I stole these dishes?"

Tang Zhi's eyes were slightly cold: "It's very simple, just look at the soles of your shoes."

Everyone followed her words and turned their gazes to Chen Erming's feet, and Chen Erming also responded in the same way. After he lowered his head, his eyes were on his slightly blackened feet.Because he doesn't like to wash his feet, and he doesn't pay attention to scrubbing off the dirt on them, so the skin color of these feet is far from his.

However, what Tang Zhi was referring to was not his feet, but the soles of his shoes.He was wearing straw sandals, which were the same as those worn by ordinary people, and no one noticed anything special about them.

Until a child watching shouted: "White mud!"

"What white mud, how can there be white mud in the world?!" Someone laughed, "Children—"

He couldn't go on, because someone interrupted him: "That's not white mud, that's coal ash!"

"Mine ash? What happened to the mine ash?"

Everyone was eager to find an answer, so they all looked at Tang Zhi: "Little girl of the Tang family, tell me what's going on, don't keep it up!"

"It's very simple, because coal ash was scattered in my vegetable garden." Tang Zhi said.

Chen Erming's pupils shrank, his head went blank, and his heart began to panic.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay: "Why do you want to sprinkle coal ash in the vegetable garden? Isn't it afraid that the vegetables will be damaged?"

Tang Zhi didn't explain, but only stated the evidence that she identified Chen Erming as a vegetable thief: "My family's vegetable garden was sprinkled with coal ash in the evening, and everyone had already returned home at that time, so not many people saw it. In the beginning, I only sprinkled some during the planting rotation, and last night, I sprinkled it in the vegetable garden again. If Chen Erming hadn't been in my vegetable garden, it is impossible for him to be stained with mineral ash."

Everyone knows that the Tang family's vegetable garden is surrounded by fences, and the wording that they happened to pass by is also untenable.And she deliberately chose to sprinkle it last night, there was no moonlight last night, so vegetable thieves couldn't see the quicklime on the soil, so they stepped on it when stealing vegetables, and the quicklime mixed with the soil was stained.

Chen Erming is not a careful person, and he doesn't like to wash his feet. In addition, when stealing vegetables, he is so focused on his surroundings that he never notices the difference under his feet.

After Tang Zhi discovered that the number of stolen vegetables increased last night, he knew that the other party had taken the bait.The vegetable thief knew that Tang Haogen was drunk last night and couldn't go to patrol, so he intensified, stealing more and more, and tried to imitate Song Dalang's behavior so that he could blame Song Yuyan.

But he didn't know that the plan to lure the snake out of the hole was proposed by Song Yuyan. After she knew that the Tang family's vegetables had been stolen, she thought of using the fact that the Tang family sprinkled quicklime in the fields to identify the vegetable thieves.

After the Tang family sprinkled quicklime in the vegetable garden, they would also water it to make the quicklime turn into slaked lime. If you step on it, woven fabrics like straw sandals will definitely scratch a lot.

In addition, there were so many vegetables stolen last night that it would be impossible to steal them all in one round trip, so the vegetable thief must have made many trips.In this case, the lime plaster on the straw sandals will not disappear completely even if you walk for a while.

Vegetable thieves know when the Tang family patrols the vegetable garden, so it is very likely that they are neighbors who can notice the Tang family's movements. After narrowing the search area in this way, they can catch the thieves according to the lime plaster on their feet. thief.

"I didn't get mine ash in your vegetable garden at all!" Chen Erming retorted hastily, "There are so many places with mineral ash, and it's not only your vegetable garden that has mineral ash!"

At this time, Tang Haogen's voice came from behind the crowd: "But, haven't you been staying at home these days? You haven't gone anywhere, so how could you have the chance to get coal ash?"

Chen Erming gritted his teeth: "I walked around the county town at night!"

Song Yuyan sighed: "Why are you dying? Let me tell you where there will be mineral ash. Except for the Tang's vegetable garden where mineral ash is scattered, it is only used by wealthy families to paint walls, build tombs, and make alchemy. Are you sure you will go to other people's houses?" In the house of a rich family, scratching the wall of the house, or going to the cemetery?"

Quicklime was not widely used at this time, except for the places where Song Yuyan said that quicklime was used, it was also used in wars, or in papermaking, printing and dyeing, and medicine.She deliberately didn't mention the latter, just to see if Chen Erming could tell.

Chen Erming said: "How is it possible, there must be places where mineral ash is used! Mineral ash kiln, yes, I have been to a mineral ash kiln!"

Chen Erming was already in a hurry, how could he think of where there would be quicklime?In addition, there are not many opportunities for ordinary people to come into contact with quicklime, and he has never carefully understood these things, so he naturally became dizzy.

"Do you know where the mine ash kiln is?" Tang Haogen asked.

"In, in Sun Lake." Chen Erming's tone was slightly weaker.

"Sun Lake is fifteen miles away. You haven't been out during the day, so why did you go to Sun Lake alone at night? Could it be that you went to a mine ash kiln to steal ore ash?" The little official had already begun to determine that Chen Erming was a vegetable thief.

"No, I, I went a few days ago!" Chen Erming was so anxious that he broke out in sweat.

"A few days ago? How did you get there?"

"Seven days ago! Of course I went on foot!" Chen Erming spoke convincingly, as if giving him confidence, he immediately raised his head and chest, and looked directly at Tang Haogen.

"If I remember correctly, seven days ago, it rained for the next few days, right? When you came back from such a far place, wouldn't your shoes be wet by the rain and wash away the ashes? Only these two days did not It's raining, that's why you haven't washed off so much mineral ash in the crevices of your shoes."

Chen Erming was speechless, at this moment, someone shouted: "Go to Chen's house and search to find out if he has stolen food!"

Chen Erming's face turned pale, because he thought that the Tang family would suspect Song Yuyan of stealing the vegetables first, so he didn't even think about transferring those vegetables, so these vegetables were all in his room!If he is found out, he is really finished!

Thinking of this, he thumped and knelt down towards Tang Haogen, weeping: "I was wrong, Tang Dian, I know I was wrong, and I have no choice but to do this!"

Originally, when the evidence pointed to him and he couldn't defend himself clearly, everyone vaguely believed that he was the one who stole the food, but he didn't have a reputation for stealing on weekdays, so everyone wavered for a while.

Now that he has admitted it himself, everyone is shocked: Song Yuyan really didn't steal it? !

"Where did you feel compelled?" Tang Haogen looked very angry with a dark face.

As soon as Chen Erming wanted to mention his poverty, someone made it worse by telling him that his elder brother had a monthly income of a thousand coins and that his parents were working for other people. That is to say, he was not As for being poor enough to steal Tang's food.

Chen Erming put his hope on Tang Haogen and Tang Zhi again: "I know you are kind-hearted. In the past, Song Yuyan stole your family's food, but you didn't care about your generosity. This time, please let me go. I promise to make sure next time." Won't do it again!"

Chen Erming's parents also begged: "Yes, you can forgive Song Dalang, why can't you forgive my Erlang?"

Tang Haogen frowned deeply: "If you don't forgive anyone, that's our business. Isn't this the first time you stole food from my house? I found out before, but just to let you relax your vigilance, I kept silent until you You are getting more and more daring, and want to blame Song Dalang! Your arrogance has exposed your feet, and your behavior of blaming me also disgusts me."

The Chen family pulled Tang Haogen to plead with him, but when the pleading failed, they began to curse people angrily.In their minds, the brothers and sisters of the Tang family still have the same weak temperaments that they had just lost their parents two years ago.

Tang Zhi, who has been very quiet since Tang Haogen appeared, suddenly said: "I said you have been mistaken about one thing. Song Dalang did not steal my vegetables. Since two years ago, she has often come to my vegetable garden It is guarded by the house, so in the past two years, no one has stolen our food."

Onlookers: "?!"

Song Yuyan: "!!!"

System: "Didn't you know this from the original owner's memory? Why are you shocked?"

Song Yuyan: "I just never thought that Tang Zhi would know."

The original owner kept trying to die, but was tolerated by the Tang family time and time again. Apart from the kindness of the brothers and sisters of the Tang family who pitied the three of the Song family, part of the reason was that the original owner had been secretly helping the Tang family guard the vegetable garden for the past two years.

Song Yuyan has always felt that the original owner is a person who is not good at expressing and is very contradictory at the same time.The first time she stole food from the Tang family, it was because the Wu family took away all the money, she had no business, and she had nowhere to go.

At that time, Tang's mother had passed away for more than three months, and the vegetable garden was left unattended, and all the vegetables had been dug up.Tang Haogen had just interrupted his studies and his family had no livelihood, so he took his younger sister to start gardening again.

The two younger sisters are still young, and Tang Haogen is only a 16-year-old boy. In addition, the vegetable garden is not next to the Tang family, so they often cannot take care of the vegetable garden at any time, so the situation of stealing vegetables keeps appearing.Even if someone was caught by him on the spot, the other party bullied him and denied it.

The original owner is also a member of stealing vegetables, but she often only picks one or two vegetables, so that the three siblings will not starve to death.

Until the original owner saw that Tang Zhi was crying because the food at home was stolen.She also thought of the scene where her uncle, aunt and others fought for her family's property in front of her mother's mourning hall when her mother died. At that time, she also cried helplessly while hugging her head.However, no one cared about her who was crying sadly. After she finished crying, the family property dispute left by her family came to a conclusion.

The original owner recalled how Tang's mother cared for her when she was alive. Such a kind woman, how could she watch her children being bullied?

So the original owner squatted around the Tang family's vegetable garden at night, and when he saw someone approaching, he jumped out to frighten them, scaring those people away in embarrassment.Even if someone is not afraid of the original owner, the original owner would hit the other party directly without saying a word. Although she was mostly beaten with black nose and face, the other party was probably worried that she would make things worse, so she didn't dare to come again.

But perhaps the original owner's behavior offended those who planned to take advantage of it, so those people beat back, and finally the Tang family knew that the original owner had "stolen" the dishes.

At this time, the original owner was thinking, she was accused of stealing it anyway, how could she not get any benefit and get a bad reputation for nothing by helping the Tang family take care of the vegetable garden?So every time she finished guarding the vegetable garden, she would steal some vegetables as her reward for guarding the vegetable garden.

Later Tang Haogen entered the yamen, and everyone was afraid that he would retaliate if he gained power, and even the idea of ​​taking advantage of him faded away.The original owner also changed from frequently going to guard the vegetable garden to going several times a month.

Although the original owner's self-stealing also caused a certain loss to the Tang family's vegetable garden, it was not as serious as the previous loss. Therefore, after Tang Haogen and Tang Zhi knew about this incident, they also adopted the method of turning a blind eye.

Of course, Tang Zhi never believed that the behavior of the original owner was correct.She was worried that the original owner would become addicted to stealing and would steal from other people's houses, so whenever she found out that she was stealing vegetables, Tang Zhi had to go to the door of Song's house to yell and scold. secondly, I also hope that the original owner can be scolded and wake up, and stop doing those sneaky things.

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In addition to the frank faces of the neighbors who have never stolen the Tang family's food, and have never taken advantage of the Tang family's brothers and sisters, many people who stole the Tang family's food in the early days and were discovered and driven away by the original owner had a bit of embarrassment and unnaturalness on their faces. .

They thought that two years had passed, and the brothers and sisters of the Tang family didn't know about it, and they wouldn't pursue it. They didn't expect that the brothers and sisters of the Tang family knew the truth, but they just kept silent, and now they slapped everyone in public. .

Everyone looked at Song Yuyan, and all kinds of thoughts flashed in their hearts, including guilt, doubt, and relief.The prejudice that was once deeply rooted in their hearts seems to have undergone some changes in this farce of catching thieves.

At the same time, the thoughts of those who thought that the brothers and sisters of the Tang family were kind and weak, and would not pursue those who stole vegetables also dissipated with the arrest of Chen Erming.

"You bastard, it's you, you killed my family's Erlang!" Chen's father and Chen's mother rushed to Song Yuyan when their son was arrested, wishing to scratch her to death.

Tang Zhi, who was standing next to Song Yuyan, stood in front of Song Yuyan first, and stopped the two of them.

She seemed to have regained the momentum of cursing Song Yuyan in the past, and she put her hips on her hips and cursed: "If you do unrighteous things, you will die yourself. You two are not dead yet. It's not that no one taught him to be a man! If you don't teach him well, others will learn by himself." Let him be taught a lesson! Instead of swearing at people here, why don’t you go back and look up the laws and think about how the yamen will exonerate him!”

Chen's father and Chen's mother were so angry at her.Fortunately, Tang Haogen was still there, otherwise even Tang Zhi would have been scratched by them who were furious.

Someone advised them: "Go and make up the money, maybe the Tang family won't pursue it for the sake of no loss?"

When Chen's father and Chen's mother heard the words, they didn't care about looking for Song Yuyan's bad luck, so they hurried home and gave Tang Haogen the money, hoping that he would let Chen Erming go.

Seeing that this incident ended in such a way, everyone went home in a daze.When the crowd of onlookers dispersed, the only ones standing in front of the courtyard of the Song family were the third sibling of the Song family and sister Tang Zhi.

Compared to Song Yuban and Song Yuzhuan who didn't understand Tang Zhi's words very well, Tang Ye's reaction was the same as that of the onlookers, because her brother and sister never told her about the ins and outs of Song Yuyan's stealing vegetables.

Even if she knows now, she still can't understand what kind of mentality her elder brother and sister used to treat Song Yuyan, "Sister..."

Tang Zhi packed up his pole and bucket and walked to his house, "This matter is over, for the time being, no one will be so bold as to steal vegetables again, let's go home!"

"Miss Tang." Song Yuyan opened his mouth to keep Tang Zhi, "Thank you!"

"Thank you? You came up with this method." Tang Zhi said.

Song Yuyan smiled helplessly: "Miss Tang knows what I am expressing my gratitude for."

If Tang Zhi hadn't mentioned this past event, then Song Yuyan would never have known that Tang Zhi had noticed everything the original owner had done.

Song Yuyan didn't know if the original owner really disappeared, but if she was still there, then she should be able to see all of this, and she should also know that when everyone only remembers her evil side, there are still people who can discover her good side.