Xiang Jin and her mother didn't say anything. Yes, what if we just forget it? They have no evidence!
Xiang Nan said again, "I reminded you yesterday to take back the firewood on the slope, but you just didn't listen. Now, it's better. Someone else stole it?!"
Looking at her angry little mouth, Xiang Jin said funnyly, "Maybe this firewood was stolen before yesterday. Even if we came to collect it yesterday, we might not be able to collect it."
Xiang Nan said unconvinced, "Humph, sophistry!"
Xiang Jin said, "This is not a quibble, but it is not impossible. Think about it, in the whole Bayou, our family is not the only one who is not happy. There are also some people in our family.
That's why I said that the firewood may not have been picked up by someone from Lao Xiang's family, but maybe someone else.
And I have a basis for saying this. You see, there are only three people in Lao Xiang's family at present. These three people have been used to playing around for many years. They have long developed the habit of eating and being lazy. They have long been in the habit of doing such heavy work.
They won't spare the effort to resist the cypress branches.
Therefore, even if they wanted to pick up the firewood, they wanted to wait until it had dried on the slope before picking it back up, not now.
Besides, Lao Xiang's family is not short of firewood now. Our mother has stocked up a lot of good firewood for them before, such as mulberry branches, yellow wattle poles, cypress branches, aquamarine trees, and other hard wood.
firewood.
Even if they can't pick up a piece of firewood, the firewood they stored up before can burn for two years. Do they have to go to the slopes to collect firewood in the middle of summer?"
"Then, who stole our firewood?" After her analysis, the couple was a little shaken by their previous beliefs, and they also felt that this might not be done by the Lao Xiang family.
Xiang Jin sighed, "Actually, it's very simple to know who did this. They are just the people at the head of the bay, and they can't be people from other bays. After all, the slope is on our boundary.
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Xiang Nan asked, "How do you know?"
Xiang Jin said, "Then we should go back and see which family, except Lao Xiang's family, has not sawed trees recently but has cypress branches piled up."
Xiang Nan clenched his fists and said, "Okay, I will check carefully when I go back to see who is the shameless person who stole our firewood!"
The mother and daughter went back less than half an hour later. When Aunt Liao saw them, she asked, "It's all tied up so quickly. Why did I say that I would wash these clothes and help you?"
Yang Juyun said, "Oh, forget it, it's not tied up."
"What do you mean? Why aren't you sleepy?" Aunt Liao stopped shaking her clothes.
Xiang Nan was the first to say, "Our firewood was stolen, and we didn't tie it up."
"Stealed? Why did you steal it?" Aunt Liao was very surprised, "Who did this, stealing firewood from other people's slopes?"
Xiang Nan nodded heavily, "Yeah, and there aren't even any left!"
Yang Juyun shook his head and said, "I don't know."
Xiang Nan couldn't help but said, "I'm going out to play for a while!" After saying that, he turned around and ran out of the courtyard door.
Yang Juyun and Xiang Jin were carrying hoes alone to repair the road from the entrance of Renwan to Huangyewan Madiden'er.
In the evening, when Xiang Nan came back from outside, Xiang Jin grabbed her and asked, "You have been running outside all day, but have you found out whose family stole the firewood on the slope of our house?"
Xiang Nan said with some frustration, "No, but sister, in the afternoon I saw Fatty Ai and his family picking off the branches of the row of cypress trees behind their house.
Do you think their family stole our firewood, and then they were afraid that we would find out, so they deliberately picked some cypress branches to cover it up? They call this place a place without three hundred taels of silver, right?"
Xiang Jin was startled, then smiled, stroked her head and said, "Well, that's right, everyone knows that there is no three hundred taels of silver here."
The little girl shook her head, "Oh, am I serious?"
"I know, but it's not impossible!"
"Then what should we do?" the little girl asked unwillingly and entangled.
Xiang Jin said, "Lang Sala, accept your defeat."
"How can that be done?"
Seeing that she was ready to make a move, Xiang Jin glanced at her coldly, "Are you here again? Have you forgotten what I taught you before? Don't be impulsive before you have sufficient evidence!
Even if you have evidence, but you are not strong enough, then you have to endure it for me first, and then when the time is right, you can capture or move the person in one fell swoop. As the saying goes, it is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge.
Whenever you have to use your brain more and use your wits to win, don't just use your fists and mouth. What's the use of trying to achieve temporary success? Those are the actions of reckless men and shrews, do you understand?"
"Oh, I understand," Xiang Nan picked at his fingers and lowered his head.
That night, Xiang Jin went out with a flashlight after everyone in Wantou was almost asleep.
She came to the back of Hu Yulan's house and was about to open up the pile of cypress branches to investigate the facts. However, someone covered her mouth and turned off the flashlight and pulled her behind a protruding stone wall.
She was about to attack the man, but the man said, "Shh, someone is coming, don't say anything."
Yan Chen? Why is he here?
Sure enough, within a moment, Hu Yulan and Ai Chaocong appeared carrying a bundle of cypress branches.
Hu Yulan used a flashlight to light the way for him. After Ai Chaocong put down the bundle of firewood, she went over and uncovered the cypress branches on the pile of firewood, intending to dump the bundle of firewood that Ai Chaocong carried back. On the pile of firewood, then cover it with the layer of cypress branches outside.
Ai Chaocong knocked down the cypress branches on the back shelf and said impatiently, "Oh, okay, let's just leave it like this. Who can still see it at night? Let's cut down a piece of bamboo and peel it into strips tomorrow morning. Tiao tied it up and lined it up in the corner, and put some cypress branches cut by ourselves on the outside. Who can tell?"
Hu Yulan stopped holding the cypress branch, "You are right, no one will see it at night, okay, then there will be no trouble. Oh, you are still smart, pick some of our own cypress The branches were placed inside. Who would know that they were from the old Xiang family and Yang Juyun, that silly woman?
But don’t tell me that their cypress branches are really thick. They are basically as thick as a wine cup. It will definitely burn easily when the time comes."
Ai Chaocong said, "Of course, those trees were planted by Xiang Kui when he was young. At that time, he was still married to Zhang Guiping. How many years do you think they have been?"
Hu Yulan then added, "And with these firewood, even if we don't cut down the slope this year, we will still have enough firewood. But then again, tell me, if they know that the firewood on their slope has been stolen, What will happen to them? They will probably jump with anger, right?"
Ai Chaocong said, "It's hard to tell Yang Juyun, I'll probably suffer the consequences of being mute, but that Mrs. Zhang is probably good at cursing."