Daming female local tyrant

Jing Lan squatted in the weeds at half a person's height, looking nervously into the "dog hole" at the base of the courtyard wall.

However, on the third day of March, the weather has become so hot that people can't wear jackets.

She had just gone to the field where her parents planted rice seedlings to deliver vegetable porridge, and she heard a piece of "good" news from her younger sister, A Guo.

"Sister, don't worry about running out of rice to cook at night." A Guo said happily.

Jing Lan asked suspiciously, "Ah Shan is picking up rice again?"

Ah Shan is Jing Lan's younger brother, three years younger than him, ten years old this year.Just over a month ago, Jinglan’s rice tank was empty. After the family ate boiled pumpkin for seven or eight days, Ah Shan suddenly came back with four or five catties of rice, saying that he went with brother Ah Hu next door. Fozu Town sells small fish and picks them up.At that time, the whole family was very happy. Relying on these few catties of rice, Jing Lan's family survived for another month, but if you save four or five catties of rice, you can cook a pot of gruel that can make a person's figure look good every day. It will be finished after all.

On the third day of March, Jing Lan got up early to cook porridge, and threw the last handful of rice in the rice vat into the big iron pot. The rice vat in the corner of the kitchen bottomed out, and Jing Lan's beautiful eyebrows were also locked. .

The younger sister Ah Guo and the younger brother Ah Shan, of course, also saw the eyebrows furrowed by their elder sister.

So Ah Shan went to think of a way, and he went to the Shen's courtyard at the east end of Qingxi Village to "pick up rice" with Ah Hu next door.

A Guo ghost spirit, followed A Hu and A Shan quietly, saw them go into the dog hole in the back wall of the Shen family's courtyard to "pick rice", and saw Jing Lan when they went back. Jing Lan said.

When Jing Lan heard it, she immediately understood what was going on. It turned out that this is how Ah Shan picked up the rice!

Ah Shan and Ah Hu went to the Shen’s courtyard at the east end of the village to steal rice. The last time they stole the four or five catties of rice from the Shen’s courtyard, this time they went again.

She asked Ah Guo to take her there immediately, and she wanted to stop them from doing so, and if they stole the rice, she wanted them to put it back.

No matter how poor or hungry, she can't steal. This is the moral bottom line of her time traveler, although she has only been through it for more than half a year.

A Guo took Jing Lan to the backyard wall of Shen's other courtyard, and after showing Jing Lan the "dog hole" that A Shan and A Hu got into, Jing Lan asked her to go back to watch the house.For some reason, Jing Lan felt a little flustered. She felt that her younger brother Ah Shan was afraid of getting into trouble this time, and she didn't want her younger sister Ah Guo to be involved.

In the backyard of Shen’s Bieyuan, the sun is languid in the spring afternoon, the crabapple and pear blossoms are quietly blooming, the bees are buzzing and busy among the flowers, the butterflies are dancing on the flowers, and the green willow filaments are blooming. Swaying gracefully in the warm spring breeze.

The courtyard was silent and there was no one around.

Jing Lan saw it clearly, held her breath, and bravely got into the "dog hole" at the bottom of the wall that one person could pass through.

She moved her hands and feet very lightly, afraid of making the slightest noise. When she successfully got through the "dog hole", she exhaled, lay on the ground for a long time before slowly getting up, bowed her body and looked around again.

Jing Lan wondered where the Shen family's kitchen was located, or what kind of house looked like a rice warehouse.

Although it was past noon at this time, the Shen family, as a rich family, should eat three meals. Although this is the Shen family's other courtyard, and the Shen family doesn't usually come here, Jing Lan still looks forward to staying in the Shen family's other courtyard. The servants had cooked more than an hour ago.In that case, there might still be a faint smell of smoke from burning firewood in the air, allowing her with a keen sense of smell to smell where the kitchen is.

It's a pity that the backyard of the Shen family's other courtyard is full of beautiful flowers and trees, especially now that it's mid-spring, when all kinds of flowers are in full bloom, the strong scent of flowers in the air covers up the faint smell of smoke, and Jing Lan's nose is full of flowers that make her feel sick. The scent of flowers.She couldn't smell the smoke, so she couldn't tell which of the dozen or so houses in front of her was the kitchen.

She suddenly thought, don't all kitchens have chimneys?

She should be able to see the kitchen if she just stood upright and stood on tiptoe.

Jing Lan did this, and soon discovered that the kitchen was on her left, in a small courtyard five to sixty meters away from her.

It just so happened that there was no one in the backyard at the moment, Jing Lan guessed that the servants guarding the Shen family's other courtyard had lunch and fell asleep in spring, and most of them were sleeping in their own rooms.

Well, the corners of her lips curled up slightly.

Jing Lan rushed over at a speed of 50 meters, rushed to the door of the kitchen courtyard and stopped, panting as lightly as possible, and peered inside the door frame.

Ah Shan and Ah Hu!

Jing Lan's beautiful eyes widened suddenly, and she looked in disbelief at the two people who were back to back, tied together, with a cloth stuffed in their mouths, standing in the middle of the courtyard, basking in the harsh spring sun.

The expressions of the two were flustered and shy, especially the ten-year-old Ah Shan who was crying, with two tears on his face.

They are caught!

Jing Lan's heart, which was hanging in the air, rose to her throat at once, and the beating sound of the heartbeat was amplified through the eardrums, and it rang like thunder in her brain.

what to do?It was too late, what happened to them!

After a moment of panic, Jing Lan forced herself to calm down. She quickly scanned the small yard where the kitchen was located, and found that there was no one else except Ah Shan and Ah Hu who were tied up and standing in the middle of the yard.

In order to confirm this judgment, she even pricked up her ears to listen to the movement in the small courtyard for a long time.

It was very quiet, there was no sound at all.

Jing Lan judged that although Ah Shan and Ah Hu were caught for stealing rice, the servants in the other courtyard of the Shen family were lazy and no one was guarding them. They probably felt that they could not escape if they were tied up like this.

Biting her lip, Jing Lan decided to take the risk and help the two of them untie the rope and rescue them out.

It was really because she couldn't predict how severe punishment Ah Shan and Ah Hu would receive after they were caught stealing rice.After all, in the countryside here, any thief who steals will be beaten to death after being caught, and then sent to the government for punishment.

Even if Ah Shan and Ah Hu were young, the amount of rice they stole was only a few catties, but if the Shen family beat them like ordinary thieves, they could only bear it.

Heartbroken, Jing Lan rushed towards Ah Shan and Ah Hu.

Ah Shan and Ah Hu heard the movement and saw Jing Lan rushing towards them. After a brief surprise, they soon became anxious at the same time.

Although the mouths of the two were stuffed with rags, they made vague voices together, as if they were telling Jing Lan not to come, and run quickly.

Jing Lan didn't have time to distinguish what they were talking about, her eyes were only on the knot beside the two of them, and her two hands were struggling to pull the tightly tied knot.

I don't know if she was too nervous, but her hands were trembling, obviously she had tried her best to untie the knot, but she couldn't untie it as if she had no strength.

Large beads of sweat emerged and gathered on her full and smooth forehead, and then quickly flowed down the profile of her face.

Jing Lan felt that time seemed to stand still at this moment.

Finally, she untied the knot, and she was overjoyed. Soon, Ah Shan and Ah Hu would run away with her.

The rope fell to Ah Shan and Ah Hu's feet. As soon as Ah Shan could move his hand, he tore off the rags that blocked his mouth, crying and shouting: "Sister, what are you doing here? You are so stupid. They set up an ambush!" Already!"

Jing Lan looked at Ah Shan: "..."

"Hahahaha! Sure enough, another one was caught!" A middle-aged man's voice sounded at the gate of the courtyard.Then with a creak, the courtyard door was closed, and five or six young servants came in behind the middle-aged man, two of them stood guard at the door, and the rest of them, led by the middle-aged man, walked towards Jing Lan and the others.

"My aunt is really a fortune teller." A woman also smiled and said, and then walked out from the closed kitchen door with three or four strong servants.

Jing Lan was dumbfounded, and her heart sank. She didn't expect that there were so many people lurking in the quiet backyard of the Shen family. These people used Ah Shan and Ah Hu as bait to catch her self-inflicted snare.

"No, my sister is not with us, she is not here to steal rice, you let her go!" Ah Shan screamed loudly as he struggled in the hands of the two servants before being gagged again with a rag.

Ah Hu also said that he tried to rush to the courtyard gate but was caught.

The middle-aged man with the appearance of a housekeeper asked his servants to tie Ah Shan and Ah Hu tightly, and then said that he would send the two of them to the government for punishment after he told his aunt and grandma in a while. No less than a thousand catties, he must be punished for a felony.

"A thousand catties... No, my younger brother and brother Ahu didn't take so much..." Jing Lan explained to the butler after being twisted by two strong servants.

The housekeeper said: "I didn't wrong you. The rice bags piled up in the warehouse next to the kitchen are well documented. I can submit it to the official account book to prove that the rice you stole is worth a thousand catties."

The Shen family is a well-known prominent family in Jinling City, they must have contacts with the government, as long as they enter the yamen, no matter what they say, the officials in the yamen will listen to them.As for the words of a poor family with no power and power like the Jinglan family, of course the officials would not listen.

Jing Lan can think of this with her toes.

Jing Lan was angry and impatient, her eyes turned red in an instant, and she stammered, she said, "You...you colluded with government and businessmen..."

The butler snorted coldly: "Who told you to steal? Stealing a thousand catties of rice is stealing, and stealing a tael is also stealing. Don't say such things when you see the official. If you confess your crime honestly, you will suffer less!"

Jing Lan was choked by the butler's words, her eyes were crystal clear.

That's right, who told Ah Shan and Ah Hu to come to steal rice? If they hadn't come to steal rice, wouldn't they have been given the opportunity to collude with government and businessmen and frame them for stealing a thousand catties of rice?

The butler waved his hand and asked his servants to drag the tied up Ah Shan and Ah Hu out, and he walked behind with his arms behind his back.

Jing Lan's eyes were blurred with tears, and she felt powerless watching her younger brother and Ah Hu being taken away.

"Don't cry, instead of worrying about those two boys, you should worry about your own size. A girl even came to steal rice. If she goes to court and takes off her trousers and receives the stick, tsk tsk..." The old woman took a handkerchief Covering the corners of his mouth, he smiled gloatingly.