Old man Zhou was stunned, and then clapped his hands, "Yes, I checked it several times. It's impossible to forget to lock it! I forgot to lock the door, but the lock in the warehouse was not locked either! I remember it was Wu Lang yesterday afternoon
The last locked warehouse."
Xu Yinyin looked at Wu Lang, "Wu Lang, did you lock the warehouse yesterday?"
Wu Lang said hurriedly: "I locked it, Zheng Dalang and the others were watching!"
Zheng Dalang and others also nodded and said that they were right after watching Wu Lang lock the warehouse.
"That's weird." Xu Yinyin said, stepped forward and looked at the lock on the door. After a moment, she frowned and said, "Someone has picked the lock!"
When he heard that the lock had been picked, and that he had not forgotten to lock the door, Old Zhou seemed to be relieved and regained his energy, "Si Ya, what should we do about this? Should we report it to the official?"
Xu Yinyin said: "If you lose so much goods, you will naturally have to report it to the official!"
Others in the workshop also echoed, "I want to report to the official! I want to report to the official! Please report to the official immediately!"
The reporter caught the thief who was killed that day!
What's wrong with stealing? Why steal a workshop? If the damaged workshop cannot be opened, they will lose their job. Let's see if they don't scold the thief for eighteen generations!
Mr. Liu, who came from behind the crowd to hear the noise, rolled his eyes and quietly ducked and ran away.
Xu Yinyin saw it clearly, with a slight sneer in her heart and a calm face. She first asked Xu Chunhe to go into the city to report to the official, and then asked Wu Lang to find Village Chief Zou.
Such a big thing has happened in the village, and it is impossible not to let the village chief know.
As for the workshop workers, they could not work for the time being. Xu Yinyin announced on the spot that they would have a day off today and let everyone go back and start working again tomorrow.
But everyone was thinking about this matter. For a while, they were reluctant to leave. Thinking of waiting for the officials to come and take a look, they all gathered under the tree outside the workshop, sat and talked, and did not leave.
The government did not come so quickly, but Village Chief Zou came quickly. Nowadays, the life of their Xiaohe Village is getting better and better, and the villagers also come to him from time to time to make trouble. Everyone is earning wages and living a good life, all thanks to Xu
Home.
But now, such a big event has happened in their village. As the village chief, how can he not be concerned? His daughter-in-law also works in the workshop.
"Brother Zhou, what's going on? You're fine, why did you get robbed? I went to bed early last night, and I didn't hear any sound at all."
Old man Zhou had a worried face, "Who knows, what will happen now, all the goods have been stolen!"
Village Chief Zou said: "Everything was stolen? This thief is really abominable!"
He was also a little anxious. With so many goods stolen from the Xu family, they would have to lose a lot of money, right? What if they couldn't recover it?
The workshop workers outside are also discussing this topic.
Over there, as soon as Xu Chunhe drove his carriage into the city, he met a group of government servants leading a team out of the city.
Xu Yinyin arranged for Linglong to go to the city to find Xu Dajun at dawn. As soon as Xu Dajun got the word, he immediately went to Ye Xuran for help and sent a team of government officials. It was not a problem.
Not to mention that he had public sentiments that he wanted to report to the government, but simply wanted to do a favor. Xu Dajun spoke up, and Magistrate Ye also offered to help without even saying a word.
Therefore, Xu Chunhe did not need to go any further. After meeting Linglong, he turned around and took a group of government officials out of the city and headed straight for Xiaohe Village.
Linglong turned around and returned to Qingyunfang, planning to go home to pack some things Xu Yinyin needed before returning to the village. In this way, she had a purpose to go to the city early in the morning.
The official came very quickly, and no one in the village thought much about it. They just looked at the leading official who saw Xu Yinyin's excellent attitude, and secretly murmured in their hearts. It seems that the Xu family's business is really big! Look.
Look, I'm so familiar with the yamen servants. As soon as I say hello to you, they'll come right away.
Mrs. Liu, who was watching the movement in the distance, saw this and was a little worried, but thinking about it and no one saw it, her man might have just left with the goods. Who knew it was him?
Did it?
The leading officer roughly understood what had happened and started to investigate around.
Among them, some of the government officials who had already been dealt with were secretly adding fuel to the fire, and everything fell into place.
Soon, the officials discovered the messy footprints at the entrance of the village, and there seemed to be traces left by boxes rubbing on the ground. Then they followed the footprints to the forest slope, and then along the forest slope, they found the forest beside the official road.
Xu Yinyin had already sent Xixin to secretly follow Mo Dazhuang and others. At this moment, the Yamen came to the forest and saw the traces of ruts and messy footprints, and lost all clues for a moment.
There was a man Xi Xin had paid to wait here. This man happened to be picking up horse dung, mule dung, etc. on this section of the road. There were many people entering and leaving the city in the morning, and a lot of dung could be pulled down along the official road.
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The person who picked up dung said that two-quarters of an hour ago, he saw someone in the forest carrying boxes of things, loading them on a mule cart, and heading south.
When the officer heard this, he concluded that the thief was escaping with his goods, so he quickly rode south to pursue him.
The mule cart was pulling so many things and it didn't move very fast. Xixin followed at a trot without losing track.
Not long after, she heard the sound of horse hooves behind her, and she slowed down. When the fast horses passed by and stopped several mule carts in front, Xixin immediately jumped into the forest, took a path, and headed back to Xiaohe Village first.
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She had just returned to the village, holding half a basket of wild sweet potatoes in her hand. When everyone in the village saw her, they thought she had left the village early to dig wild sweet potatoes.
Yesterday, the children at home dug up wild sweet potatoes and sold them to Xu Yinyin for a penny a pound. They all knew about this. Children are very playful and played for a long time. They were also happy to earn some copper coins to buy candies for themselves.
of.
When Xu Yinyin saw Xixin coming back, the master and servant looked at each other and exchanged glances. Xu Yinyin knew that everything was going well.
Sure enough, as soon as Xixin came back, the officials returned with a mule cart, Mo Dazhuang and others.
The mule cart was driven by government officials. Mo Dazhuang and others had their hands tied and were dragged into the village behind the mule cart.
People in other villages didn't know him, but everyone knew Mo Dazhuang.
At that moment, someone shouted in shock, "Mo Dazhuang? Why is he tied up?"
"You haven't seen it yet? The official has recovered the thief and the goods. It turns out that the thief killed that day was Mo Da Zhuang!"
There are also workers in Qingshan Village and Dahe Village who don't know Mo Dazhuang, but they all know it when people in the village tell him.
"It turned out to be a thief in my own village! Let me tell you, how could the people outside be so familiar with it and steal it quietly?"
Village Chief Zou was furious when he saw that Mo Dazhuang was leading the theft.
At that moment, before Xu Yinyin could say anything, a group of villagers scolded Mo Dazhuang bloody.
Someone with sharp eyes saw Ms. Liu peeking her head out from behind, and immediately stepped forward and dragged her in, scolding her along with her.
The leading officer ignored them and walked up to Xu Yinyin and said: "Miss Xu, the thieves and the goods have been brought back. You can count the goods first to see how much there is."
Xu Yinyin thanked them, and then pretended that it was unintentional, and asked Wu Lang and others to move the goods out of the car, count them, and put them back into the warehouse.
But by accident, the box was overturned, and a small amount of the contents fell out, which turned out to be rocks.
This shocked everyone. Xu Yinyin hurriedly asked people to open the other boxes to take a look, but they saw that they were full of stones.
This is interesting.
Xu Yinyin knew the truth and was frightened, so she acted well and said: "What's going on? Why are they all stones?"