Chen Lishu returned to the room and started reading. Time passed little by little. Because she was too absorbed in reading, when she remembered to look at the watch on her wrist, she found that it was already past eleven o'clock at night.
Thinking that she would have to go back to town tomorrow, Chen Lishu was going to go to the toilet and then come back to sleep.
The toilet was by the wall of the courtyard outside. Chen Lishu walked to the door and pushed it, but it didn't open. She tried twice more but still didn't open it. Suddenly something occurred to her and she raised the flashlight in her hand and scanned around the courtyard. Suddenly
Two black figures flashed past the courtyard wall.
"Dad, brother, there is a thief in our house -" Chen Lishu shouted loudly without thinking.
The most common way to recruit thieves in rural areas is to use a shovel or a hoe bar to push against the door. In this way, even if someone is found in the house, they cannot come out in time. Some even more aggressive gangs commit crimes and assign a person to guard the window. If you dare to jump
If you go out of the window, you will be knocked down directly, so many people sometimes dare not go out even if they know that a thief is coming.
As soon as she shouted, everyone in the family woke up.
There was no time to light the lamp, and the men rushed out, pulling on their shoes.
"Dad, the thief used something to push the door shut."
Gu Shoufu's face fell as soon as he heard this. It seemed that this thief was a habitual offender.
"Dad, let me jump out of the window." Gu Xingguo said and was about to go to the window.
"Xingguo, be careful, don't fall for other people's tricks." Li Xiulan came out later, and when she saw her eldest son was about to go out, she immediately warned him nervously.
Gu Xingguo nodded and jumped out while holding on to the window sill. After landing, he quickly looked around and found that there was no danger. He walked a few steps to the door of the room and found that someone had indeed put a shovel on the door.
When Chen Lishu and the others came out, the courtyard had returned to its usual quiet state, and there was no sound at all.
"First, let's see if there is anything missing at home." Gu Shoufu also took a flashlight at this time. Soon everyone found that the warehouse door was open, the lock on it had been broken, and the bicycle inside was missing.
"Third daughter-in-law, have you seen anyone?" Gu Shoufu's face was filled with tears. The thief didn't steal anything else and went straight to the bicycle in the warehouse. Judging from this situation, it must be an acquaintance who committed the crime.
Chen Lishu: "When I scanned with my flashlight, I saw two black figures jumping towards the wall of Liu's courtyard. As soon as I shouted, they disappeared."
"Boss and two, you guys go over to the Liu family and have a look."
After hearing what Chen Liqi said, Gu Shoufu turned around and gave instructions to his two sons.
Gu Xingguo and Gu Xingmin nodded and immediately ran in the direction Chen Lishu said. Sure enough, they saw scratches from the transport bicycle on the courtyard wall.
As soon as the two of them arrived in Liu's courtyard, the lights in Liu's house turned on, and Liu Dabao came out yawning: "What are you doing here in my courtyard without sleeping in the middle of the night?"
Gu Xingguo and Gu Xingmin looked at each other, and when they saw his look, they knew that the theft of bicycles must have something to do with him.
"Something was lost at home. I saw that you two brothers stole it. Hand it over quickly." Gu Xingguo said with a frown.
Liu Dabao was still pretending at first, but now he became a little anxious when he heard Gu Xingguo's words: "It's so dark at night, who are you kidding by saying you saw it when you saw it? I was sleeping at home, and I didn't steal from you.
Home bike.”
Gu Xingmin suddenly became happy: "Liu Dabao, you just eat and don't have any brains. When did my elder brother say that he lost his bicycle?"
Only then did Liu Dabao realize that he had been fooled, but he still frowned: "I said I didn't steal, so I didn't steal. What evidence do you have? You didn't leave quickly."
"What's going on?" There was a lot of commotion outside. Widow Liu also put on her clothes and came out, followed by Liu Xiaobao who was neatly dressed.
"Mom, the Gu family said that Xiaobao and I stole their bicycles and came to our house in the middle of the night to ask for them. They are not so damn bully." Liu Dabao said, pouting hard on the ground, and even
He took two steps toward Gu Weiguo.
"Hey, Liu Dabao, you are so capable now that you still want to fight. Look at how skinny you are, you look like a sick chicken. What are you pretending to be?" Gu Weimin rolled his arms and sneered disdainfully.
"We really think we are afraid of you. You bully our orphans and widowed mothers just because there are many men in the family. Do you think that no one will care about you making trouble in the middle of the night? Believe it or not, I will go find the party secretary and the team leader now?"
"When Widow Liu saw Gu Weimin's attitude, she shouted that she was going to act up.
"You don't need to look for me, I've already invited someone for you."
Chen Lishu pushed open the courtyard door, followed by party secretary Zhang Changhe, brigade captain Sun Yuzhu and even security director Zhao Shucheng.
After Gu Xingguo and Gu Xingmin went to Liu's house, Gu Shoufu asked Chen Lishu and Zhang Qin to invite them over.
Widow Liu was just being tough. Now she was dumbfounded when she saw so many people coming in.
"Dabao Xiaobao, did you two take the Gu family's bicycle? If you did take it, return it immediately, because we are all old neighbors who have lived in the same village for many years and we will have to pay the penalty." Party Secretary Zhang Changhe clasped his hands behind his back and looked sternly.
He looked at the Liu brothers.
"Uncle, what you said is obviously to favor the Gu family. My two sons were sleeping well at home, but they jumped over the wall to make trouble. I couldn't bear the loss of things at home, and they insisted on throwing the shit basin into Dabao and Xiaoxiao.
It’s all because of my incompetence as a mother that they were bullied like this.”
Gu Shoufu's face suddenly turned dark when he heard Widow Liu's words.
"I invited you brothers to come over today just to show you. We don't have the right to raid other people's houses. If they are not found, I will have wronged these two children. As an uncle, I will personally make amends to them both." Gu Shoufu said.
He turned his head to look at Zhang Changhe and the others.
"Dad, what are you trying to apologize for? It was obviously them who stole it. All the three younger brothers and sisters saw it. You didn't know that when my eldest brother and I first came here..." Gu Xingmin spoke anxiously, but Gu Shoufu raised his hand to stop him.
"There's no use in apologizing. After all this time, you have to give me something to express, right?" Liu Xiaobao said with disdain, twitching the corner of his mouth.
Seeing his attitude, everyone present subconsciously frowned.
"Liu Xiaobao, don't be too big or too small. If you want to show off, if you didn't steal, just prove it to everyone openly and don't just clean up useless things." Zhang Changhe scolded with a serious face.
"What expression do you want?" Gu Shoufu glanced at him sharply and said in a calm voice.
"Of course I have to give you money, twenty yuan, otherwise this matter will not be completed." Liu Xiaobao said in a dazed manner, shaking his legs.
"Yes, if you can't find something, what kind of harm are you doing? You have to pay twenty yuan." Widow Liu immediately echoed.
Li Xiulan was furious: "I'm sorry for your grandma's fault. Your family's upper beam is crooked and the lower beam is crooked. You stinky, shameless old woman gave birth to two even more shameless ones. Today I..."