Chapter 153. A thief comes in the middle of the night
"Huh?" Zhao Youcai was a little disapproving of his son's words and said, "What's going on? People are beating up yellow skins in front of and behind the house, peeling off the skins and selling them, and you still don't accept them?"
Before Zhao Jun could say anything, Wang Meilan had snatched the account book away. She turned to the previous page and took a look, and her face suddenly became very ugly.
"Son!" Wang Meilan pointed to the top and said to Zhao Jun: "Yesterday morning, a man came to our house and sold only a yellow leaf."
Zhao Jun glanced at it, and sure enough, he remembered it clearly in the account book.
"Mom." Zhao Jun said to Wang Meilan: "Recall, recall, see if you can remember the person from yesterday?"
Wang Meilan frowned slightly, recalling the man yesterday, then shook her head and said, "Your uncle and I don't know that man."
"Then he didn't say, where did he come from?" Zhao Jun asked again, and Wang Meilan said: "Your uncle asked him, and he said he was from Shenjiabao at the foot of Fenghuang Mountain."
"From Shenjiabao..." Zhao Jun heard this and looked at Zhao Youcai. Zhao Youcai said categorically: "This person here today is the Chen gangster from your uncle Zhang's camp."
"Rogue Chen?" As soon as Zhao Youcai finished speaking, Wang Meilan shook her head and said, "It was definitely not him yesterday. If he was from that village, we would all know him."
Even if it is impossible to interact with people from these nearby villages, they will still feel familiar when they meet.
"It's not the same person, there's nothing wrong with that." At this time, Zhao Youcai's face darkened. He took the towel and wiped his feet while saying, "If you step on it a bit, you can't let the same person come two days."
"Are you stepping on it?" Wang Meilan's face turned pale instantly. She was a woman after all, and she was inevitably a little scared when she heard this kind of thing.
"Mom." Seeing this, Zhao Jun hurriedly comforted Wang Meilan and said, "Don't be anxious yet, nothing is certain yet."
"Okay." At this time, Zhao Youcai said to Wang Meilan: "Lan Na, don't think about useless things, hurry up and tidy up, tidy up, go to bed when you need to sleep."
After saying that, Zhao Youcai threw the towel for wiping his feet to Wang Meilan.
"Okay, Dad, Mom, you two have a rest early." Zhao Jun said, "I'll sort this out when I get back."
"Huh?" At this moment, Zhao Youcai stopped Zhao Jun, asked Zhao Jun to come to him, and at the same time reached out and took the account book.
"This..." Zhao Youcai pointed to a line of crooked text and said to Zhao Jun: "This is what Qin Qiang and his brother-in-law, Tao Sansheng, came to sell."
"Who?" Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan were both startled. When the two of them heard the news, they were even more surprised than if they suspected that someone was visiting their house.
"Tao Sansheng." Zhao Youcai repeated, and Wang Meilan said in surprise: "Then Boss Lao Qin hasn't sent it yet, and they are anxious to sell the skins? Who are these people?"
"I said so." Zhao Youcai said, "I saw them angry, so when the original skin is finished, I'll give it a score of thirty-six, and for the mother's, I'll give it a score of twenty-six."
In this matter, Zhao Youcai did not choose to hide it or squander money.
After listening to Zhao Youcai's words, Zhao Jun took the account book and looked at it carefully, and then asked Zhao Youcai, "Dad, you wrote thirty-eight or twenty-eight on the top."
"I'm afraid he'll come back to pay for it in two days." Zhao Youcai said, "I'll just write it down according to the original number."
"You're just messing around!" Wang Meilan even scolded Zhao Youcai and said angrily: "If word spreads about your trickery like this, what will happen to us? Who will come to our house to sell goods?"
"Others...then I don't have it." Zhao Youcai said, "If someone else comes, I will give them as much as they need."
"Dad, you are not doing this safely." Zhao Jun said: "You collect other people's skins according to thirty-eight, then go to his place, thirty-six, twenty-six, then Qin Qiang will not be found in his house for two days."
Are you coming?"
"You!" Wang Meilan pointed at Zhao Youcai and said, "You are causing trouble all day long, so hurry up and send me the money tomorrow."
"What are you giving?" Zhao Youcai frowned and said, "Why should I give it to them? They are a bunch of cattle brats. His father is dead, and he is just looking for money."
"What do you say when someone comes to you later?" Wang Meilan asked, and Zhao Youcai said: "What are you talking about? I gave twenty-eight or thirty-eight to everyone. Everyone in the ten miles and eight villages knew it. Tao Sansheng didn't take back that much.
Money, that's his problem."
"Huh?" Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan were both stunned, and then heard Zhao Youcai say: "There are thirty-three gray skins in total, which cost them sixty-six yuan. Let Ruhai take the money and go to Chen Dalai tomorrow."
My family will buy me a roe deer. When the eldest son of the old Qin family leaves, I will give him the roe deer and that's it."
Hearing what Zhao Youcai said, Wang Meilan rolled her eyes at him and said: "What are you doing? What are you doing with this plan? Please don't do this kind of thing in the future."
Zhao Jun stood aside without saying a word. Wang Meilan could scold Zhao Youcai, but he was not good enough as a son.
But recalling what Zhao Youcai said just now, Zhao Jun said: "Dad, you can't go out these days."
"Why?" Zhao Youcai's voice suddenly rose, and then Zhao Jun said: "What if Qin Qiang and the old Tao family come to find me? Can my mother and the others settle this matter?"
"I..." At this time, Zhao Youcai regretted in his heart. He had known that he would not care about the old Qin family's bad affairs.
Wang Meilan heard the implication of Zhao Jun's words, pursed her lips and smiled, saying nothing.
Zhao Youcai glared at Zhao Jun fiercely, stood up from the edge of the kang, went to the east wall and raised his hand to pick off the semi-automatic on the wall.
"What are you doing, dad?" Zhao Jun asked hurriedly when he saw this, but Zhao Youcai said: "I put the gun next to me. If anything happens, I will grab the gun and get up."
"You can pull him down." Wang Meilan hurriedly stopped Zhao Youcai and said, "Don't get carried away."
"Is that possible?" Zhao Youcai said, and Zhao Jun hurriedly tried to persuade him: "Dad, it's not necessarily what's going on. It won't be serious."
After saying that, Zhao Jun pointed out and said: "There are so many dogs in our yard, who can just come in if they say they can."
"That's right!" Wang Meilan agreed, then took the semi-automatic from Zhao Youcai's hand, hung it back on the wall, and said: "Our son is right, don't mess around."
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At the same time, the gangsters were living in two thatched houses.
There is a row of people lying on the kang in the east room. On one side of the kang are a woman and a child, and on the other side of the kang are two men.
There is no way, the family is poor. When guests come to the house, the male guests are separated by the male host, and the female guests are separated by the hostess.
Chen Jinmin, the gangster described by Zhao Youcai, was currently lying between his wife and Hu Zhonghou.
This Hu Zhonghou is the man who went to Zhao Jun's house the day before yesterday and sold a yellow leaf. He claimed to live in Shenjiabao at the foot of Fenghuang Mountain, but in fact his family was in Wanshoutun, East Ershiqiao.
Hu Zhonghou's parents gave him a good name, but the word "Zhonghou" has nothing to do with this guy. He is usually idle, lazy and greedy. He is almost forty years old, but he doesn't even have a wife.
In the past, when his parents were around, Hu Zhonghou was a little restrained. But since his mother passed away the year before last, Hu Zhonghou, who was left alone, began to sneak around in the countryside.
This man doesn't belong to the village yet. If he is caught stealing, he will be beaten.
Everything accumulates over time. The more Hu Zhonghou steals, the more the villagers resent him.
Last week, Hu Zhonghou was caught stealing sticky bean buns, which prompted three family members to beat him. And they didn't knock him down after a beating, but they beat him whenever they saw him.
Hu Zhonghou couldn't bear it anymore and fled from the village.
But after leaving the village, Hu Zhonghou realized that he had nowhere to go. In the past two years, not only had he been deeply offended by his relatives in the village, but he also had no relatives who were willing to talk to him.
Hu Zhonghou was not stupid either. He thought that the smell was better when it was far away and the smell was worse when it was near. If old relatives and neighbors nearby could not join him, they should go further away.
So Hu Zhonghou came to Chen Jinmin's house.
Suddenly a guest came, and Chen Jinmin and his wife really entertained him. Although there was no meat, Chen Jinmin's wife took out all the frozen tofu that had been saved for the New Year.
But what people didn't expect was that Hu Zhonghou stayed there and never left. Given the conditions of the Chen family, it was difficult for them to eat and drink. How could they tolerate him eating and drinking for free?
Chen Jinmin's daughter-in-law had no choice but to talk to Hu Zhonghou, but Hu Zhonghou seemed not to understand. Chen Jinmin's daughter-in-law had no choice but to ask her child, "Uncle, why are you leaving now?"
Hu Zhonghou's answer almost scared Chen Jinmin and his wife to death. Hu Zhonghou said that he would not leave until after the New Year.
Now Chen Jinmin stopped working and kept trying to persuade Hu Zhonghou to go to his sister's house.
But Hu Zhonghou's brother-in-law despised this brother-in-law the most. Hu Zhonghou had been there twice before, but every time he went there to eat, his brother-in-law would drink too much. Then he would take advantage of the wine and slap Hu Zhonghou hard on the mouth.
After two visits, Hu Zhonghou understood that his brother-in-law did it on purpose. Although he was shameless and shameless, the beatings really hurt. Therefore, Hu Zhonghou never went to his sister's house again.
Hu Zhonghou was always being chased away by Chen Jinmin, and Hu Zhonghou was also upset. He thought, since you won't let me eat and drink for free, I will go out and bring something back.
While Hu Zhonghou was wandering around the gangster village, he heard a group of people talking about the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce. They were chatting about the Zhao family, how they were rich, how many skins and bear bile they collected.
When Hu Zhonghou heard this, he instantly became evil-minded. He mingled among the crowd and chatted and talked, and got a general understanding of the Zhao family's situation.
Then, he went into Yong'an Village and went to Zhao's house for an on-site inspection.
But when Hu Zhonghou returned home, he found that Chen Jinmin and his wife were quarreling.
Nowadays, as husband and wife live their lives, it is easy for the couple to quarrel in front of outsiders. When Hu Zhonghou came into the house, Chen Jinmin's wife cursed him, saying that Chen Jinmin would recruit anyone to his house. This was obviously a scolding of Hu Zhonghou.
Hu Zhong was unusually thick-skinned. He walked into the house with a smile to break up the fight. Chen Jinmin's wife was helpless for such a shameless person. The fact that she could marry a gangster meant that the conditions of her natal family were not good, and she could not even return to her natal family if she wanted to.
No.
The next morning, Chen Jinmin took Hu Zhonghou out of the house on the pretext of drinking. But when they were outside, Chen Jinmin took out two yuan from his pocket and asked Hu Zhonghou to take the money and find another place to go.
Hu Zhonghou was happy to receive the money, but after he received the money, he said to Chen Jinmin: "Old Chen, can I make you rich?"
This sentence confused Chen Jinmin.
Chen Jinmin didn't dare to think about getting rich, but he dreamed of letting his wife and children live a good life.
So even though Hu Zhonghou was unreliable, Chen Jinmin took the bait.
But when Hu Zhonghou explained his plan, Chen Jinmin's head shook like a rattle.
Chen Jinmin has never been to the Zhao family, but he has heard that the Zhao family has strong dogs and ten dogs tied up in the yard. If he wants to steal something from his house, he might as well just dream.
But Hu Zhonghou said that he has a unique skill, that is, no matter whose house he goes to, the dog will not bark.
Chen Jinmin didn't believe it, so Hu Zhonghou went to Yong'an Tun. There were no dogs in Hooligan Village, and there was no small shop. Anyway, Chen Jinmin had to go to Yong'an Tun to buy alcohol, so the two of them went to Yong'an together.
When entering the village to go to Wang Fu's small shop, he passed by Lin Xiangshun's house. What was strange was that when Chen Jinmin passed by the Lin family's tent, the white dog in the yard barked. When Hu Zhonghou passed by himself, the white dog in the yard didn't react at all.
The two of them walked to Zhang Yuanmin's house again, and so did Zhang Yuanmin's two dogs.
I tried several more stores later, and finally arrived at the door of Zhao's house, and the same thing happened.
Seeing that Hu Zhonghou had this ability, Chen Jinmin also became evil-minded. So Chen Jinmin took Hu Zhonghou home again.
When Chen Jinmin came home, he didn't dare to say that he and Hu Zhonghou were planning to steal the Zhao family. But when his wife saw it, she didn't send the plague god away, but gave him two yuan instead. This made Chen Jinmin's wife angry, so she took the child and returned to her parents' home.
But her departure made it more convenient for Chen Jinmin and Hu Zhonghou. Chen Jinmin went down to the cellar with a shovel and dug out a butter paper bag, which contained a hundred yuan that the couple had saved for ten years.
Then, Chen Jinmin took the 100 yuan and bought two yellow leaves. Hu Zhonghou went to Zhao's house first, and Chen Jinmin went to Zhao's house again. The two of them twice inquired about the truth of Zhao's family.
It's just that when Hu Zhonghou went, Chen Jinmin also followed him. Because Hu Zhonghou said that he was going to visit today, and it would be bad if the Zhao family became suspicious because the dog didn't bark.
So, when Hu Zhonghou came yesterday, Chen Jinmin also came with him. When Chen Jinmin arrived, the dogs in the yard howled, so Chen Jinmin hid aside and let Hu Zhonghou go into the house to "inspect" by himself.
After Hu Zhonghou entered the house, he observed the Zhao family's furnishings. When he saw Wang Meilan taking the collected skins to the west room and taking out money from the west room, Hu Zhonghou thought that all the Zhao family's money was in the west room.
Hu Zhonghou didn't dare to break into the house and steal, so he targeted the Zhao family's warehouse.
Today, Chen Jinmin came to "inspect" the house again. When entering and leaving the Zhao family, he carefully observed the Zhao family's warehouse.
Erhei was guarding the door of the warehouse. Erhei, who weighed nearly 120 pounds, was standing there. Chen Jinmin's calves felt weak.
When Erhei barked at him, Chen Jinmin pretended to be scared and asked Zhao Youcai if the dog would bite him. Zhao Youcai's answer at that time was, why would it bite you if it was tied with an iron chain?
Hearing this, Chen Jinmin felt more confident.
They slept until midnight. At around two o'clock, the big rooster next door crowed, and Hu Zhonghou and Chen Jinmin got up.
The two men tiptoed with their cotton-padded jackets and trousers under the kang, put on their clothes in the outer room, and went out to Yong'an Tun.
After arriving at Yong'an Village, Hu Zhonghou asked Chen Jinmin to wait outside the village for help, and he entered the village alone.
Hu Zhonghou walked by, and the dogs in each house noticed it, but they just looked up and didn't bark.
In this way, Hu Zhonghou approached the Zhao family.
At this time, the big lantern hanging on the door of Zhao's house had been extinguished. Hu Zhonghou went all the way to the door of Zhao's house. The dogs in the yard poked their heads out of their kennels one after another.
But Hu Zhonghou is very capable. When he opened the tent door, the two black dogs, the white dragon and the three red dogs closest to the outside didn't even bark!