Chapter 38: Whose duck quack

The boy's eyes were red, his fists were tightly clenched, and he seemed very angry.
"I counted one hundred and eighty-four ducks last night, but when I drove the ducks into the duck house just now, I counted only one hundred and seventy!" The boy said more and more guilt, "I blame me today. I didn’t count the ducks when they were released in the morning..."
Seeing that there were fewer ducks, he immediately went to check the nets, but the nets surrounded the rice fields well, and the ducks could not run away without gaps! And he stayed there all day, and no one came over. It must have been stolen last night!
Reaching out to pat Zhou Yu's shoulder, Shen Yanbei comforted: "It's not your fault. The other party wants to steal the duck, no matter if you count it or not, he will steal it."
"But..." Zhou Yu gritted his teeth, "It would be fine if I watched there at night..."
Shen Yanbei chuckles: "How can people live in the fields?" In this era, the folkway is simple, but there are also people who steal chickens and dogs. It is indeed risky to raise ducks in the fields, but he did not expect that his ducks would be killed before they were raised. Stole.
Everyone in the village knows that it is his field and his duck...
Who stole his duck?
"That's fourteen ducks..." Zhou Yu blamed himself and felt distressed. Shen Yanbei wanted to raise ducks, but he was so happy! Take the initiative to take the initiative to live.
How cute are those little plush things! He drove them to the fields every day, watching them play and pecking in the water, he just stepped and practiced some simple moves, or took the sand table Shen Yanbei made for him to practice calligraphy or Do some manual work, the friends in the village can envy him!
Now he messed up things, and people stole the duck...
Still fourteen ducks! They all have white feathers, and soon they will be big ducks!
Seeing his sorrow, Shen Yanbei said sternly: "Zhou Yu, Changfeng teaches you martial arts and I teach you literacy and hyphenation, not for you to put ducks."
Zhou Yu stared at him blankly, and Shen Yan Beiwen said: "I'm just asking you to help watch temporarily. Someone will take over this job in the future. Now if the duck is lost, I can't find it again. The most important thing at the moment is to prevent being caught next time. Steal!" He could understand this young man's thoughts, except that he felt sorry for not working after receiving monthly money. After finally finding something to do, but not doing it well, I feel guilty and uneasy.
"My husband is right," Gu Changfeng said solemnly, "catch the thief is the most important thing."
There are one or two things like this. As long as they keep silent, the thief will definitely come again.
"I know Master!" Zhou Yi rallied, but the fist beside him was clenched tighter.
The thief who stole his duck, he will definitely not let him go!
"Well, Zhou Yi, you go back first, we will take care of this, don't worry." Shen Yanbei calmly said.
"Yes, son."
Zhou Yu nodded, as soon as he went out, he met Su Qingze who was here to eat.
Seeing the boy's stinking face, he couldn't help asking: "What's wrong with him?"
"A dozen ducks in the field were stolen, and I felt sorry for it." Shen Yanbei greeted people over for dinner.
"Master Xiucai dare to steal the ducks? This thief is quite fat!" Su Qingze frowned. He has lived here for several days, and most of the villagers are still fine.
"It's better to be stolen now than to be stolen when you grow up."
"What should I do then?" Su Qingze looked at the empty dining table blankly, looking forward to dinner.
I ate a red rice last night. The side dishes were a little steamed fish, dried radish omelette and cucumber. It looked a little lighter, but it tasted pretty good. It made him accustomed to big fish and big meat. A different kind of experience!
"Catch the thief first, and then raise two dogs to watch the duck." He prepared all the weight loss meals for Su Qingze after careful consideration. In the original world, some people who want to lose weight as soon as possible use the quick-acting weight loss method, which can lose several kilograms a week, but it is too harmful to the body. For the sake of Su Qingze’s health, he did not dare to push people too hard at once, but after observing his appetite and understanding his eating habits, he adopted a gradual method to adjust his eating habits and control his appetite. , And then proceed to the next exercise.
Su Qingze's eyes lit up: "How to catch?"
Shen Yanbei did not answer, but helped Gu Changfeng put the cooked food on the table.
"What is this?" Su Qingze looked curiously at several bamboo tubes that were burnt to black and yellow, and his nose moved.
He seems to smell a very fragrant smell...
"Bamboo rice."
According to what Shen Yanbei said, Gu Changfeng used a knife to split the bamboo joints a bit, then broke the bamboo tube apart, and suddenly the full and crystal rice was revealed.
Su Qingze's eyes widened and couldn't help sniffing his nose. "Good smell!"
"This is yours." Shen Yanbei pushed a piece of bamboo rice with fungus and eggs over it.
Su Qingze looked down at his own and then at Shen Yanbei and Gu Changfeng's. Everyone's is different, but they all look delicious!
Picking up the chopsticks, Su Qingze was not polite, and straight into his mouth. The hot rice entrance has a distinctive fragrance, mixed with the fragrance of eggs, fungus and chicken breast, which makes people unable to stop eating!
"It's delicious!" Su Qingze fry green vegetables with chopsticks, eating a book of satisfaction.
Ming An was holding his share and ate carefully.
There is bacon in his rice, so the young master must never know!
After the meal, Su Qingze was told to walk around and digest, and Shen Yanbei and Gu Changfeng went to the field to check the duck house.
Unlike a house built with bricks, the duck house is built with bamboo. Even if it is locked, the bamboo can be pried to steal the duck.
"Daughter-in-law will have to work hard for you tonight." No one is guarded at night, even if the duck house is built firmly, it will still be targeted by someone. Now the only way is to get the spoils and kill the chickens.
It was night, Gu Changfeng crouched near the duck house.
Xu was because he had just stole the duck, and the culprits were wary, and did not steal again this night.
On the second night that Gu Changfeng crouched, the culprits did not come. On the third night of the guard, the culprit still did not come.
Shen Yanbei's complexion was not very good, even a little mad.
Your uncle's not coming yet! It made Lao Tzu and his wife not sleep well, and also made Lao Tzu stand alone and sleepless!
"It's okay, I'm not tired." Gu Changfeng said seriously.
It's just a night watch, and it doesn't matter to him, but... he can't help but miss the temperature next to him.
Finally on the fourth night, a black shadow appeared beside the ridge. Gu Changfeng immediately took a breath and hid in the dark.
The thin man looked around with a sneaky expression. He first hid on the side of the field and watched for a while, then he let go of his hands and feet to steal the duck after he found that there was no one near the duck house.
Under the bright moonlight, Gu Changfeng could clearly see what the thief looked like.
A young man in his twenties, his face was thin, his face was pocky, his eyes were frivolous, like a rogue.
The young man took a cloth bag with him, pried the bamboo apart, stretched out his hand, grabbed the duck and pulled it out.
"Quack!" the frightened duck yelled, flapping its wings. The young man didn't change his face, grabbed the duck and stuffed it into his cloth bag.
Gu Changfeng frowned and wanted to stop the youth, but thinking of Shen Yanbei's explanation, he could only wait calmly.
After about ten ducks, the young man stopped his hands, flung the cloth bag and turned away with a smug smile on his face.
Gu Changfeng followed him far behind.
The youth walked around in the rice fields, and finally crossed the farmland boundaries of Shenjia Village and entered Lijia Village!
It's no wonder that this thief is from Li Family Village!
Entering the village, the young man let go, and walked toward his house with the quacking duck on his back. It's a pity that he hasn't taken two steps yet, and suddenly his eyes go dark and he faints.
When the young man woke up again, he found that he was lying on the intersection of Shenjiacun and Lijiacun to the county, surrounded by villagers from the two villages who were going to the county. The young man was frightened immediately.
"Haha..." The young man hurriedly got up with a chuckle. Unexpectedly, when the cloth bag in his hand loosened, the ducks in it came out one after another!
"!!!" The blood on the youth's face faded, and his smile froze.
"Li Masan? Where did you get so many ducks?" Lijiacun villager asked.
Young Li Masan was in a cold sweat, and his heart was terrified.
What a ghost! Obviously he stole more than a dozen ducks last night, how come dozens of ducks ran out of the bag?
Also, isn't he about to go home? Why are you here?
Li Masan realized that his neck pain was severe.
A villager in Shenjia Village who knew Li Masan smiled disdainfully: "There are so many ducks, I'm afraid it's not..."
The unfinished meaning of the words is clear to everyone. This Li Masan is so lazy and likes to do some sneaky things.
Li Masan swallowed with difficulty: "You... don't talk nonsense!"
"What nonsense? Do you dare to say that you bought these ducks..." The villager of Shenjia Village who was speaking was taken aback, and asked: "Aren't you stealing our village?"
"You...you are spitting blood!" Li Masan was so guilty that he roared loudly with his neck.
Hearing this, the arrogant Lijiacun villagers became unhappy, and immediately shouted, "Did your eye see him stealing from your village? Does this duck have your Shenjiacun name written on it?"
Seeing the villagers supporting him, Li Masan pushed the other person with an arrogant tone: "I bought this duck! What's up!"
"Then why are you lying here?"
Li Ma poked the opponent's chest with three fingers: "I love to lie down here! What's wrong? This way is yours?"
The villagers of Shenjiacun were pushed a step back.
"It's really a dog taking a mouse!" Li Masan snorted, turned around and caught the duck that ran out again.
Looking at the ducks, someone in Shenjiacun muttered: "Shen Xiucai seems to have many ducks at home..."
The expressions of the rest of the villagers in Shenjiacun changed as soon as they said this. The villager who spoke first stopped Li Masan, "You don't mean you can't take this duck away!"
"Hey!" The young man lowered his face and stared at him fiercely. "Why should I tell you? How old are you? Get out of me!"
The villagers in Shenjia Village did not move.
Upon seeing this, the villagers of Lijiacun stepped forward and surrounded the villagers of Shenjiacun: "You think you are the grandfather of the county? If you ask the bottom line, do you have to tell you what posture you use to go to the latrine?"
"Hahaha..." The villagers of Li's village laughed all together, making a noise.
"He doesn't have the face to think of himself as the county grandfather, he thinks of himself as a dog!"
"No wonder! As the saying goes, dogs can't change eating shit, you guys in Shenjia Village are addicted to eating?" The two villages have friction from time to time, and Li Jiacun wins the case every time! Shenjiacun, who is like a bereaved dog, always loves to die!
With such wanton insults, everyone in Shenjiacun looked ugly and couldn't help refuting: "This Li Masan's duck doesn't know its origin at first sight. You actually protect him with your conscience! Is this how your Lijiacun is embarrassed?"
"Fuck you shit!" The villager of Lijiacun punched over.
The villager of Shenjiacun was caught off guard and was punched, and his face suddenly became blue.
Seeing that their villagers were beaten, the villagers of Shenjiacun hurriedly stepped forward to help, and the villagers of Lijiacun were not far behind, and the villagers of the two villages fought into a ball.
At this time, a carriage slowly stopped on the side, and a young man dressed as a small servant asked: "What are you doing around here? Get out of the way of Master Juren!"
Master Juren! The eyes of the villagers in Lijiacun lit up, and Li Masan immediately cried and said, "Please raise the master to seek justice for the young!"
Li Yi sat in the carriage. Hearing this, Li Yi frowned and asked Xiao Si to lift up the curtain.
"what happened?"
Li Masan threw himself in front of the carriage with an extremely aggrieved expression: "These despicable and shameless people from Shenjiacun have falsely accused me of stealing! Please also call the master for me!"
"Even so?" Li Yi got out of the carriage after listening.
The villagers in the two villages stopped fighting, and stood still.
Standing with his hand, Li Yi glanced impatiently at the villagers of Shenjia Village, and said coldly, "Do you know that you are going to be scammed by framing others?"
The villager of Shenjiacun, who was confronting Li Masan just now, said: "As everyone knows, Li Masan loves to do stuffy things. Now he is lying in the middle of the road with a big bag of ducks. He can't tell the origin of these ducks. Suspicious. Only when he was young, he stopped him and asked a few more questions."
Li Yi glanced at Li Masan who was catching a duck, and a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes, but he said to the villagers of Shenjiacun, "You dare to talk nonsense about things without evidence?"
"Apologize, or see you at the yamen."
The people of Shenjiacun paled, daring not to speak.
"Have you heard!" After Li Masan stuffed the duck into his cloth bag, he walked up to him pretentiously, "Hurry up to apologize, or take you to see the official!"
The villagers of Lijiacun laughed triumphantly and urged: "Quickly make up for your sins!"
"What happened?"
An anxious voice came from afar, and the villagers of Shenjia Village looked back and found that it was the village chief and Shen Yanbei. It turns out that some villagers in Shenjiacun saw that the situation was wrong and ran back to call someone!
The villagers in Shenjia Village breathed a sigh of relief when the two came. When Li Masan saw Shen Yanbei, his eyes flickered, and he only felt that the heavy cloth bag in his hand could hardly be lifted.
"I have seen Li Juren." Shen Yanbei bowed his hand to Li Yi.
Li Yi glanced at him arrogantly, and mocked: "Shen Xiucai, you have to teach you people in Shenjiacun what propriety, justice and shame are."
Shen Yanbei smiled slightly: "If we are not from Shenjia Village, I will make amends for them." He asked the villagers to tell the ins and outs of the matter.
Li Yi raised his eyebrows: "I heard you clearly? What else can you say?"
Shen Yanbei didn't reply, but said: "Such a book boy from my family came to report to me that he found that there were fewer ducks when he released the ducks. This little brother Li, can you open the cloth bag and show me?"
"I counted the ducks! There were 14 missing a few days ago, and 30 missing this morning!" Zhou Yu was full of anger, "I recognize my ducks! Open the cloth bag!"
Hearing that, Li Yi's face was hard to look.
Li Masan's forehead was sweating cold, and he yelled: "Ducks are not all the same, they are so beautiful!"
Zhou Yu glared at him: "Do you have a guilty conscience?"
Li Yi said coldly: "Open the cloth bag!"
"I brought this duck from my mother-in-law. It has just grown white hair..." Li Ma hesitated and didn't open it.
Zhou Yu immediately grabbed it, and Li Masan's expression changed greatly and hurriedly kicked. Zhou Yu dodged and avoided. The villagers of Shenjia Village on the side hurriedly helped him pour out the duck in the cloth bag.
"Quack!" The little duckling who was regained freedom stretched its fledgling wings and ran away.
"It's our duck!" Zhou Yu pointed to the red rope on the duck's feet. "After the duck was stolen for the first time, I marked each duck with a red rope!"
"Hu, nonsense!" Li Masan shouted tremblingly, "This is what my mother-in-law did to distinguish her ducks!"
Li Yi said with no expression on his face: "Just having a red rope tied to your feet does not mean that this is your duck." People in the countryside will mark them when they raise chickens and ducks.
"That's right! Our chickens and ducks are also tied with red ropes!" Lijia Village villagers helped.
"We lost thirty ducks, and there are thirty ducks here too!" Zhou Yu shouted angrily, almost to death by the rogue of Lijiacun villagers.
Li Masan's feet were a little soft, but his mouth was still stiff: "I... my mother-in-law gave me 30 ducks?"
The villagers of Lijiacun immediately answered, "It's just a coincidence, what's all the fuss about!"
Zhou Yu gave them a fierce look and beckoned to the ducks: "Miles!"
When Zhou Yu called, the ducks ran towards Zhou Yu.
Wiping the sweat from his forehead with his hand, Li Masan supported his shaky body and said with difficulty: "This...isn't it all called raising ducks..."
"Yes, that's right! It's all about raising ducks..." The villagers of Lijia Village agreed in unison.
"Enough!" Li Yi exclaimed, "I will send someone to his mother-in-law's house and ask."
Li Masan was agitated and said loudly: "You don't believe me, Master Juren can't help but believe it? Just let Juren..."
"It doesn't have to be so troublesome." Shen Yanbei looked at Li Yi directly, "The weather is getting hot. In order to prevent snakes, insects, mice and ants, I sprinkled a lot of sulfur around the duck house."
"If he smells of sulfur..."
Li Masan's eyes widened in horror, and he hurriedly sniffed his body, there really was an unpleasant smell of rotten eggs!
I was arguing just now, and no one noticed...
Seeing Li Masan kneeling down and sitting on the ground with a gray complexion, the villagers of Lijiacun looked at him. Zhou Yu deliberately walked over and smelled it, then clutched his nose, and said contemptuously: "It's really stinking!"
Li Yi's face was gloomy, and with a flick of his sleeves, he dropped a sentence: "Send him to the government!"
According to court law, the thief shall be sentenced to the crime. The light one requires the thief to compensate the other party for damages and an apology, and the heavy one has to pay for the damage...
These thirty ducks are enough for Li Masan to eat ten big plates!
Shen Yanbei smiled and folded his hands: "Li Juren understands righteousness!"
Li Yi ignored it, and Shen Yanbei said again: "We are waiting for you on the day of the crowning of the sixth grade of the junior! Please show your face!"
Li Yi snorted and turned to the carriage.
Finally, the villagers in Shenjiacun felt very relieved.
Shen Dezhong was sad: "You have offended him. How can he come on the day of the crown?"
Shen Yanbei smiled: "It's okay, my courtesy has been exhausted."
The invitation was sent, and I invited it in person, but Li Yi wouldn’t come...it couldn’t be better!