After the village chief, Luo Li, finished speaking one, two, three, and four, he wanted to say something more, but when he turned around, he found that the man next to him was sleeping so hard that his mouth was drooling.
The village chief scratched his head and yawned, "Forget it, we'll talk about the other things tomorrow. Let's go to bed today."
Just like cooking, everyone also sits in a circle when sleeping, with food and other things placed in the middle and people sleeping around. This way everyone can know about any movement at night to prevent it from being stolen.
I went to the roadside to pull some hay a few tomorrows in advance. Before going to bed, I spread the hay on the ground, and then put straw mats and quilts on top. Not to mention, it was quite soft when I fell asleep.
Everyone was so exhausted during the day that it was hard to stop. They lay down on the ground and fell asleep quickly.
Yan Yan slept between her grandmother and grandfather. The one on the left snored, and the one on the right grinded her teeth. The noise from left and right kept her awake for a long time.
It's easy to have random thoughts when you can't sleep.
For a moment, I thought of the little girl who was kowtowing and begging for food. If she never got food, would she starve to death like the woman lying in the haystack?
After a while, she thought of herself again. What would she have done if she had not been saved by the old god at that time?
Will he be like that little girl, who can only kneel on the roadside and kowtow to others to beg for food, but what if he can't get it?
There are some things that I can't think about, and I can't stop crying when I think about them.
She was very grateful that she was lucky enough to be saved by the old god and found so many relatives who loved her.
But more importantly, I am afraid of being hungry, afraid of death, afraid that I will break my head and no one will take care of me...
There is also some sadness mixed in with wanting to help others, but being unable to do so.
"Little caterpillar, why do you think there are droughts in the world and why do so many people die?"
Yan Yan wiped her tears with her sleeves and asked quietly in her heart.
"This..." Xiao Qinglong was stopped by her question and stammered, not knowing how to explain.
Yan Yan just asked casually and didn't expect to get an answer, so after asking, she wiped away her tears.
Afraid of waking up her grandfather and grandmother, she cried very quietly and wiped her tears secretly. Xiao Qinglong couldn't bear to see her pitiful appearance, so he searched for words to comfort her.
"Yanyan, stop crying, let's talk about something happy."
Xiao Qinglong jumped to her side, rubbed her teardrop cheek with his tail, and said softly: "I'll tell you some good news. Your merit value has increased. It should be because the thing you asked the villagers to dig yams took effect.
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Yan Yan was only concerned about her sadness, and was not in the mood to think about what should be happy about the increase in merit points. She replied with three words perfunctorily: "Then what?"
"Then you can have more good luck!"
Xiao Qinglong continued to rub in front of her, "Think about it, the more good luck you have, the more people you can help. When your good luck reaches a certain level, won't everyone in the world be able to enjoy it?"
Did you bring good luck?
By that time, even if there is another drought or flood, no one will starve to death. Isn’t this something to be happy about?”
"It seems so." Yan Yan was convinced by it, quickly wiped away her tears and stretched out her fat paw, "Then I must do more good deeds, I, I..."
Xiaotuanzi held out a finger and said, "I" for a long time, but I couldn't find a way to do anything. The little face that had just regained its vitality fell again, "But I can't help others at all now."
"Don't worry about it now. Once you get to the south smoothly and don't have to worry about food, we'll find a way to do something good."
Xiao Qinglong comforted her very thoughtfully.
"Okay then." Yan Yan rolled over, looked up at the twinkling stars in the sky, and continued to mutter in her heart: "When I have a lot of good luck, I will make everyone eat meat every day.
No, except uncle, aunt, and those bad bandits, they should starve..."
"Wait a minute." Xiao Qinglong interrupted her, pointed at the donkey cart parked directly in front with the tip of his tail, and whispered: "There is a thief stealing your things."
Yan Yan was startled and subconsciously wanted to call someone to catch the thief, but Xiao Qinglong stopped her in time, "Don't call people yet, let them steal. After you steal something, you can call people loudly. This will lead to people taking the stolen goods and getting the stolen goods."
"Okay." Yan Yan agreed in her heart and quietly turned over to look at the little thief.
In early August, the sickle-like moon hung in the sky, emitting only a wisp of white light like a gauze, but there were many stars around the moon, which was still bright.
Through the twinkling starlight, Yan Yan saw two thin and tall black figures lying next to her donkey cart. One was looking around and watching, and the other was sticking out his buttocks to pick up the things on the cart.
After a while, the one who was picking up things pulled out two lumps of stuff from the car, patted the other on the shoulder, the two said something to each other, then squatted next to the wheel and ate the stuff from the paper bag.
Judging from the proud looks on their heads, they must have been quite happy eating.
This... situation isn't quite right.
Yan Yan hesitated, does this still count as someone taking the stolen goods together?
In a daze, the one who started to dig through the things stopped eating, stuffed the rest into his arms, and pulled out a few more packages from the car. Then the two of them divided the things and stuffed them into their arms, crouching.
Prepare to run away.
Seeing the right moment, Yan Yan sat up like a carp and shouted at the top of her lungs: "Thief, catch the thief! Grandfather, grandmother, uncle, uncle..."
Before Xiaotuanzi called his family, the villagers had almost woken up. Seeing that something was wrong, the two thieves wanted to run away, but the donkey cart was surrounded by people. Where could they run?
As soon as the front foot stepped out, Shu Mingli grabbed the back foot by the neck and pushed him down. The other one did not run away, but was grabbed by Gu Dayong who had just woken up.
Gu Dayong and Shu Mingli are worthy of being masters and disciples. They are more aggressive than the other in doing things. They don't ask any questions when they catch a thief, they just raise their fists and beat them up.
His grandma dared to steal things from Yaoshui Village, she was really brave!
The two thieves were beaten until they were rolling all over the floor like shrimps. One of them couldn't bear it anymore and cried and begged: "Stop beating me. I am Shuanzi, an acquaintance!"
When Shu Mingli heard this, he was an acquaintance?
If an acquaintance steals something, he will be beaten even more.
He raised his leg and kicked it again, and he kicked the embolus and spit out blood.
Zhuzi was also frightened, and knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "Misunderstanding, huge misunderstanding! We just wanted to take a pee, we didn't steal anything!"
Shu Mingli grabbed him up and glared, looking like a black-faced Yama, a frightening thief, "Why are you running away if you didn't steal anything?"
Zhuzi trembled and made up lies: "It's so scary when you shout, I'm scared..."
"That's not true!" Yan Yan poked her head out from the crowd and said fiercely: "You took a lot of things from my donkey cart and hid them in your pocket. I saw them all!"
Upon hearing this, Shu Mingli immediately tore off his clothes. Zhuzi refused to let him go and twisted to the side to hide. But how could he be Shu Mingli's opponent with his little strength?
There was only a "Zila" sound, and the short shirt on his upper body was torn into two halves by Shu Mingli, and all the oil paper bags hidden in his arms fell off.