Chapter 1396 A Thief Came in the Middle of the Night

"Hmm?" Zhao Youcai was a little dissatisfied with his son's words and said, "What? People beat yellow skins in front of and behind the house, peeled the skins and sold them, and you didn't buy them?"

Before Zhao Jun could speak, Wang Meilan had already taken the account book. She turned to the previous page and took a look. Her face suddenly became very ugly.

"Son!" Wang Meilan pointed at the page above and said to Zhao Jun, "There was also a person who came to our house yesterday morning and sold a yellow leaf."

Zhao Jun glanced at it and it was indeed clearly recorded in the account book.

"Mom." Zhao Jun said to Wang Meilan, "Recall, recall, see if you can remember the man from yesterday?"

Wang Meilan frowned slightly, recalled the man from yesterday, and then shook her head and said, "That man, your uncle and I don't know him."

"Did he say where he came from?" Zhao Jun asked again, Wang Meilan said, "Your uncle asked him, and he said he was from Shenjiabao at the foot of Fenghuang Mountain."

"Shenjiabao..." Zhao Jun looked at Zhao Youcai after hearing this, and Zhao Youcai said firmly, "The one who came today is Chen Mangliuzi from your uncle Zhang's village."

"Chen Mangliuzi?" As soon as Zhao Youcai finished speaking, Wang Meilan shook her head and said, "It was definitely not him yesterday. If it was from that village, we would all know him."

Even if it is impossible to have dealt with the people in these nearby villages, they will feel familiar when they meet.

"It's not one person, that's fine." Zhao Youcai's face darkened at this time. He took the towel and wiped his feet while saying, "If it's a visit, it's impossible to have the same person come for two days."

"Visit?" Wang Meilan's face turned pale instantly. After all, she was a woman. When she heard this, she was inevitably a little scared.

"Mom." Seeing this, Zhao Jun hurriedly comforted Wang Meilan and said, "Don't worry, it's not certain what's going on."

"Okay." At this time, Zhao Youcai said to Wang Meilan, "Lan, don't think about it. It's useless. Hurry up and clean up. Go to bed when you need to."

After that, Zhao Youcai threw the towel for wiping his feet to Wang Meilan.

"Okay, Dad and Mom, you two should rest early." Zhao Jun said, "I'll go back and sort out this account."

"Hey?" At this time, Zhao Youcai stopped Zhao Jun and asked Zhao Jun to come to him, and at the same time reached out to take the account book.

"This..." Zhao Youcai pointed to a line of crooked words and said to Zhao Jun: "This is sold by Qin Qiang's brother-in-law, Tao Sansheng."

"Who?" Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan were both stunned. The mother and daughter were more surprised to hear this news than to suspect that someone came to their house to check the place.

"Tao Sansheng." Zhao Youcai repeated it, and Wang Meilan was surprised to hear: "The old Qin boss hasn't sent it yet, and they are in a hurry to sell the skins? What kind of people are they?"

"I think so too." Zhao Youcai said: "I saw them getting angry, and I will charge 36 for the raw skins, and 26 for the female ones."

In this matter, Zhao Youcai did not choose to conceal or to cheat.

After hearing what Zhao Youcai said, Zhao Jun took the account book and took a closer look, then asked Zhao Youcai, "Dad, you wrote thirty-eight and twenty-eight on top."

"I'm afraid he'll come to ask for the bill in two days." Zhao Youcai said, "I just wrote it down according to the original number."

"You're just messing around!" Wang Meilan even hit Zhao Youcai with a stick, and said unhappily, "If you do this and it gets out, what will happen to us? Who will come to our house to sell goods?"

"Others... I don't have it." Zhao Youcai said, "If others come, I will give them the money they deserve."

"Dad, you're not doing this properly." Zhao Jun said, "You collect the skins from others at thirty-eight, and then you come to him and pay thirty-six or twenty-six. Then Qin Qiang's family will come to you in two days, right?"

"You!" Wang Meilan pointed at Zhao Youcai and said, "You're always causing trouble all day. Tomorrow you'll have to pay me the money I owe you."

"What are you paying?" Zhao Youcai said. He stretched his neck and said, "Why should I give it to them? They are just a bunch of animals. Their father died and they just want money."

"What will you say when they come to you later?" Wang Meilan asked. Zhao Youcai said, "What should I say? I give 28 or 38 yuan to anyone. Everyone in the village knows it. Tao Sansheng didn't take so much money back. That's his problem."

"Huh?" Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan were both stunned, and then they heard Zhao Youcai say, "There are a total of 33 gray skins, and they are short of 66 yuan. Tomorrow, let Ru Hai take the money to Chen Dalai's house to buy me a roe deer. When the eldest son of the Qin family leaves, I will give him the roe deer and that's it."

Hearing what Zhao Youcai said, Wang Meilan rolled her eyes at him and said, "What are you doing? What's the point of doing this? Don't do this in the future."

Zhao Jun stood aside without saying a word. Wang Meilan could scold Zhao Youcai. He is not a good son.

But thinking back to what Zhao Youcai had just said, Zhao Jun said, "Dad, you can't go out these days."

"Why?" Zhao Youcai raised his voice instantly, and then he heard Zhao Jun say, "What if Qin Qiang and the old Tao family come? Can my mother and the others settle this matter?"

"I..." At this time, Zhao Youcai regretted it in his heart. If he had known earlier, he would not care about the old Qin family's mess.

Wang Meilan heard the implication of Zhao Jun's words, smiled, and said nothing.

Zhao Youcai glared at Zhao Jun fiercely, stood up from the edge of the kang, and raised his hand to pick up the semi-automatic on the wall in front of the east wall.

"What are you doing, Dad?" Zhao Jun asked hurriedly, but heard Zhao Youcai say, "I put the gun next to me. If anything happens, I can get the gun and get up."

"Stop it." Wang Meilan hurriedly stopped Zhao Youcai and said, "Don't do it by mistake."

"How can it be?" Zhao Youcai said so, and Zhao Jun hurriedly persuaded him, "Dad, it's not certain, it won't be that serious."

As he said, Zhao Jun pointed out and said, "There are so many dogs in our yard, who can come in just like that?"

"That's right!" Wang Meilan echoed, then took the semi-automatic from Zhao Youcai, hung it back on the wall, and said, "Our son is right, don't do it blindly."

...

At the same time, in the two thatched houses of Mangliutun.

A row of people were lying on the kang in the east room, with women and children on the head of the kang and two men on the side of the kang.

There was no way, the family was poor. When there were guests at home, the male host would be separated from the male guests, and the female host would be separated from the female guests.

Chen Mangliuzi, Chen Jinmin, mentioned by Zhao Youcai, was lying between his wife and Hu Zhonghou at this time.

This Hu Zhonghou was the man who went to Zhao Jun's house to sell a yellow leaf the day before yesterday. He claimed that he lived in Shenjiabao at the foot of Fenghuang Mountain, but in fact, his family lived in Wanshou Village, Dongershiqiao.

Hu Zhonghou's parents gave him a good name, but this man has nothing to do with the word "honest". He was idle, lazy and cunning. He was almost 40 years old, but he didn't even have a wife.

When his parents were around, Hu Zhonghou was a little restrained. But since his mother passed away the year before last, Hu Zhonghou, who was left alone, began to steal chickens and dogs in the village.

This man is not a village uncle. Whenever he was caught stealing, he was beaten up.

Everything is accumulated over time. The more Hu Zhonghou stole, the more the villagers disliked him.

Last week, Hu Zhonghou was caught stealing sticky bean buns, which caused three families to beat him together. And it was not just a beating, but beating whenever they saw him.

Hu Zhonghou couldn't stand it, so he fled the village.

But when he left the village, Hu Zhonghou found that he had nowhere to go. In the past two years, he not only offended the relatives in the village, but also had no relatives willing to pay attention to him.

Hu Zhonghou was not stupid. He thought that the distant ones were fragrant and the nearby ones were smelly. Since he could not go to the old relatives and old neighbors nearby, he would go far away.

So Hu Zhonghou came to Chen Jinmin's house.

Suddenly there was a guest, and Chen Jinmin and his wife really entertained him. Although there was no meat, Chen Jinmin's wife took out the frozen tofu saved for the New Year.

But what people didn't expect was that Hu Zhonghou stayed and didn't leave. With the conditions of the Chen family, it was difficult for them to eat and drink at home, so how could they bear him eating and drinking for free?

Chen Jinmin's wife had no choice but to say something to Hu Zhonghou, but Hu Zhonghou seemed not to understand. Chen Jinmin's wife had no choice but to let her child ask, "Uncle, why did you leave?"

Hu Zhonghou's answer almost scared Chen Jinmin and his wife to death. Hu Zhonghou said that he would not leave until after the Chinese New Year.

Chen Jinmin was so upset that he kept persuading Hu Zhonghou to go to his sister's house.

But Hu Zhonghou's brother-in-law looked down on this brother-in-law. Hu Zhonghou had been there twice before, but every time he went there to eat, his brother-in-law got drunk. Then he took advantage of the alcohol and slapped Hu Zhonghou hard in the face.

After two times, Hu Zhonghou understood that his brother-in-law did it on purpose. Although he was shameless, it really hurt to be beaten. So, Hu Zhonghou never went to his sister's house again.

Hu Zhonghou was always chased away by Chen Jinmin, and he was upset. He thought, since you don't let me eat and drink for free, then I will go out and get something back.

When Hu Zhonghou was wandering in the Rangliu Village, he heard a group of people talking about the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce. They talked about how rich the Zhao family was, how many skins and bear galls the family collected.

Hearing this, Hu Zhonghou instantly became treacherous. He mixed in the crowd and chatted and asked questions, and got a general understanding of the situation of the Zhao family.

Then, he sneaked into Yong'an Village and went to the Zhao family for a field investigation.

But when Hu Zhonghou returned home, he found that Chen Jinmin and his wife had quarreled.

In this day and age, couples don't quarrel in front of outsiders easily. Hu Zhonghou entered the house, and Chen Jinmin's wife was still cursing, scolding Chen Jinmin for bringing all the people home, which was obviously scolding him, Hu Zhonghou.

Hu Zhonghou was not ordinary thick-skinned, he smiled and went into the house to persuade him to stop fighting. Chen Jinmin's wife was helpless for such a shameless person. The fact that she could marry a hooligan meant that her family conditions were not good, and she couldn't go back to her family.

The next morning, Chen Jinmin took Hu Zhonghou out of the house on the pretext of buying wine. But when they got outside, Chen Jinmin took out two yuan from his pocket and asked Hu Zhonghou to use the money to find another place.

Hu Zhonghou was happy to take the money, but after he took the money, he said to Chen Jinmin: "Old Chen, I will help you get rich?"

This sentence made Chen Jinmin stunned.

Chen Jinmin didn't dare to think about getting rich, but he dreamed of letting his wife and children live a good life.

So even if Hu Zhonghou was unreliable, Chen Jinmin took the bait.

But when Hu Zhonghou told him his plan, Chen Jinmin shook his head like a rattle.

Chen Jinmin had never been to the Zhao family, but he had heard that the Zhao family was strong and had more than ten dogs tied in the yard. If he wanted to steal things from his house, it would be better to dream.

But Hu Zhonghou said he had a unique skill, that is, no matter whose house he went to, the dogs would not bark.

Chen Jinmin didn't believe it, so Hu Zhonghou arranged to go to Yong'an Village. There were no dogs or small shops in Mangliutun. Anyway, Chen Jinmin had to go to Yong'an Village to buy wine, so the two of them went to Yong'an together.

When entering the village and heading to Wang Fujia's store, they passed by Lin Xiangshun's house. Strangely, when Chen Jinmin passed by Lin's tent, the white dog in the yard barked. When Hu Zhonghou went by himself, the white dog in the yard did not react at all.

The two of them went to Zhang Yuanmin's house and the two dogs in Zhang Yuanmin's house were also the same.

They tried a few more houses later, and finally arrived at the door of Zhao's house, and it was the same.

Seeing that Hu Zhonghou had this ability, Chen Jinmin also had evil thoughts. So Chen Jinmin took Hu Zhonghou back home again.

When Chen Jinmin went home, he did not dare to say that he and Hu Zhonghou were planning to steal from Zhao's house. But his wife saw that they did not send away the plague god, but also lost two yuan. This made Chen Jinmin's wife angry, and she took the child back to her parents' home.

But her departure made it convenient for Chen Jinmin and Hu Zhonghou. Chen Jinmin took a shovel to the cellar and dug out a butter paper bag, which contained a hundred yuan that the couple had saved for ten years.

Then, Chen Jinmin took the 100 yuan and bought two yellow leaves. Hu Zhonghou went to Zhao's house first, and Chen Jinmin went to Zhao's house again. The two of them inquired about the Zhao family's true and false twice.

But when Hu Zhonghou went, Chen Jinmin followed him. Because Hu Zhonghou said that he would visit the house today, it would be bad if the Zhao family was suspicious because the dog did not bark.

So, when Hu Zhonghou came yesterday, Chen Jinmin also followed him. When Chen Jinmin came to the front, the dogs in the yard barked, so Chen Jinmin hid aside and let Hu Zhonghou go into the house to "inspect" by himself.

After Hu Zhonghou entered the house, he observed the furnishings of the Zhao family. Seeing Wang Meilan took the skins she received to the west room and took out the money from the west room, Hu Zhonghou thought that the money of the Zhao family was all in the west room.

Hu Zhonghou did not dare to steal in the house, so he aimed at the Zhao family's warehouse again.

Today, Chen Jinmin visited the Zhao family again for "inspection". When he entered and left the Zhao family, he carefully observed the Zhao family's warehouse.

Erhei was standing guard at the door of the warehouse. Erhei, who weighed nearly 120 kilograms, stood there, and Chen Jinmin's legs were weak.

When Erhei barked at him, Chen Jinmin pretended to be afraid and asked Zhao Youcai if the dog would bite him. At that time, Zhao Youcai's answer was, it was tied with an iron chain, how could it bite you?

Hearing this, Chen Jinmin felt more confident.

After sleeping until the second half of the night, at about two o'clock, the big rooster raised next door crowed, and Hu Zhonghou and Chen Jinmin got up.

The two people tiptoed down with cotton jackets and cotton pants, put on clothes in the outer room, and went out to Yong'an Village.

After arriving at Yong'an Village, Hu Zhonghou asked Chen Jinmin to wait outside the village for a response, and he went into the village alone.

As Hu Zhonghou walked along, the dogs raised by each family noticed it, but they just looked up and didn't really bark.

In this way, Hu Zhonghou approached Zhao's house.

At this time, the big lantern hanging on the door of the Zhao family had gone out. Hu Zhonghou walked all the way to the gate of the Zhao family courtyard, and the dogs in the yard poked their heads out of their kennels.

Hu Zhonghou was quite capable. When he opened the tent door, Erhei, Bailong and the three red dogs who were closest to the outside did not bark!

This chapter was made up for the day before yesterday, and will be updated as usual tonight