After hearing Uncle Gong Jian's confirmation, the village chief turned around and walked towards the ladder. This made Uncle Gong Jian's heart immediately rise again. This village chief is really annoying, why did he ask so many questions?
He didn't leave yet, he even said he would leave, but then came back. Who are you kidding?
I saw the village chief swinging in front of the ladder twice, then walking to the top of the ladder, patiently squatting down, reaching out his hand, and carefully touching the pillars on the side of the ladder.
Seeing the village chief's strange actions, Uncle Gong Jian was a little anxious. He didn't understand what could be on the ladder that actually attracted the village chief's attention.
At this time, he didn't care about his injured foot and limped over. He wanted to see what the village chief had seen.
When Uncle Gong Jian approached the village chief, he found that the village chief was carefully observing his hand that had just touched the ladder.
Uncle Gong Jian immediately looked over nervously, only to find that there was some red powder remaining on the fingertips of the village chief's hand.
Those pink powders looked familiar to Uncle Gong Jian. But when he thought about it carefully, he couldn't remember what it was? He was still a little strange.
, when did such a thing exist? Uncle Gong Jian was thinking about it carefully in his mind, and he didn't seem to have anything of this color at home.
The village chief over there had already stood up and stretched out his hand to Uncle Gong Jian: "Boss of the Gong family, look, where does this red powder on your ladder come from?"
Uncle Gong Jian was also thinking about this problem at this time. He turned his head and walked around the yard, but found that there was nothing red in his house that could be related to this kind of powder? In the end, he could only turn his head to the village again.
The chief shook his head in confusion, "Village chief, I, I don't know either."
Hearing Uncle Gong Jian's answer, the village chief was a little helpless. The boss of the Gong family is really like this. If you ask him about anything, most of his answers will be that he doesn't know. He also has to act like a
He looked stupid, but no one in this village knew that in terms of taking advantage, even Uncle Gong Jian ranked second, and no one could recognize him as the first.
Of course, if there is something that he cannot take advantage of, Uncle Gong Jian will act as stupid as possible and as honest as possible. At this time, Uncle Gong Jian is obviously in an honest state.
The village chief was helpless and could only continue: "I just looked at your ladder, and there was a lot of this powder stuck on it, and it was stuck on the top of the ladder. This powder was just stuck on recently. Do you want to
Think about it, where was this red stuff the last time you used your ladder?"
The reason why the village chief asked this was mainly because he wanted to know why the thief had to move the ladder. He had just looked at the ladder carefully and couldn't see anything special except that it was heavier than other people's houses.
place.
But the doubt lies in this point. Such a heavy ladder is not a valuable thing. Why did the thief have to work so hard to transport it out?
Uncle Gong Jian was not that nervous about the red powder. Although he didn't know what it was and where it got on the ladder, he always felt that he couldn't suspect anything just from the powder, so
He no longer wanted to trace the source of the powder.
"This ladder has been kept here at our house and has not been used for many years."
Uncle Gong Jian was lying with his eyes open. He had clearly used this ladder the night before yesterday. But except for that time the night before yesterday, their family had not used this ladder for many years. The original ladder at home,
It was used to go up to the house for repairs or to dry things. These two tasks had not been done in Uncle Gong Jian's house for many years. Naturally, no one would think of using this ladder.
This time the village chief was even more confused, "Since your family hasn't used this ladder for a long time, and the powder is newly attached, that is to say, where did the thief use the ladder after he moved it from your family?"
Over this ladder?"
Having said this, the village chief immediately thought of something. He hurriedly walked out of Uncle Gong Jian's yard and inspected the walls of several houses on the left and right. Soon the village chief's eyes stopped at the palace not far away.
At the courtyard wall of the Jian family.
Unlike the surrounding families, whose courtyard walls are made of stone, rammed earth or blue bricks, the courtyard wall of Gong Jian's house was just repaired a few days ago, using red bricks. As the village chief
When his eyes rested on the red brick courtyard wall of Gong Jian's house, at that moment, he had the answer in his heart.
He hurriedly walked back, grabbed Uncle Gong Jian and pulled him out. Uncle Gong Jian didn't care about the pain in his feet at this time, so he could only rely on the village chief's strength and follow him out of the yard.
Then he saw the village chief pointing in the direction of Gong Jian's house, and said excitedly to him: "Look, look, see if the red bricks on Gong Jian's courtyard wall are contaminated with those on your ladder."
Is the red powder the same?"
These words almost frightened Uncle Gong Jian so much that he sat down on the ground. He never thought that the powder left on the ladder was actually something left behind when he and his mother-in-law went to Gong Jian's house.
If the village chief discovered that they had secretly visited Gong Jian's house, what would he say?
At this time, Uncle Gong Jian felt cold sweat dripping down his back, but he could only grit his teeth, try not to show any panic expression on his face, and said calmly: "Ah? Really? I
It doesn’t look like much.”
The village chief who was standing next to him had been looking at the red brick wall of Gong Jian's house. The more he looked at it, the more he felt that the brick was the same color as the red powder on his hand just now. He didn't hear Uncle Gong Jian's words at all.
In reply, he just subconsciously reached out and patted Uncle Gong Jian on the shoulder, "Oh, yes. It must be the bricks on the outer wall of Gong Jian's house."
Uncle Gong Jian was already trembling with guilt. He was bent over by the slap. He barely struggled a few times before standing up straight again. Seeing his reaction, the village chief realized that he had struck too hard.
He hurriedly supported Uncle Gong Jian to prevent him from falling, and then said: "Hey, boss of the Gong family, I'm sorry, I was so happy that my men were not serious."
How should Uncle Gong Jian respond to this? He was so guilty that he could only gesture with a gesture to indicate that he was fine. But in his heart, he still wished that the village chief could forget his existence. Now Uncle Gong Jian was thinking, oh, what?
What to do? The matter is about to be exposed. (To be continued)