Delicate Flower

Chapter 32 Thief

Yu Tang frowned slightly when she heard the cursing of Old Lady Chen.

Not to mention, Mrs. Chen’s scolding really makes sense.

The home was stolen twice, both when Yu Wen was away.

How could it be so coincidental?

Chen also thought it was a coincidence, and took Yu Tang to Yu Bo’s house, and wanted to invite Yu Yuan to stay at home for a few days when Yu Wen was away.

When Yu Bo was still busy in the shop, the Wang family agreed and discussed with Chen family: “Or, should you settle Atang’s marriage soon? You have someone in your family, and those people don’t dare to go in and out casually.”

Their family is too thin.

Chen sighed and said, “We have to wait until the Wei family’s child is seven or seven. We can’t be too eager because they are kind. Atang can also afford to wait.”

Wang sighed and asked the young man at home to carry some things that Yu Yuan was accustomed to.

When a neighbor sees it, he can’t help but ask a few questions.

Chen told the neighbor about the family’s affairs, and the neighbor also sighed a few words, comforting Chen: “It will be fine for your family to hire a son-in-law.”

“Thanks to your good words!”

Chen and his neighbors took a few words of kindness, and cleaned up the guest room when they got home.

Yu Tang squatted in the corridor to play with Xiao Huang, but thought of Pei Yan in his heart.

This person is so arrogant and arrogant that he draws conclusions when he doesn’t understand, and he doesn’t listen to explanations. The Pei family’s huge estate fell into his hands, and he didn’t know how he supported it.

Yu Tang sighed faintly, feeling that his fleeting years were unfavorable, and his luck was very bad recently.

She held Xiao Huang and gently stroked its hair, and two yamen came to the door. It is said that I have been ordered by the master, I will patrol the street in the future and spend more time around here.

Old lady Chen thanked and thanked them, invited them in for tea, and ordered Shuangtao to buy tea.

The two not only lived in Lin’an City for generations, but also were hereditary errands. Although they were errands in the yamen, they acted fairly, not soft when they should be greedy, and willing to help when they should help. On weekdays and in the city, there are people with faces and faces that also walk around as neighbors.

Seeing that Mrs. Chen spoke sincerely, Yu Wen had always had a reputation for being kind in Lin’an City, so he was polite, sitting in front of the front yard, drinking tea and chatting with Mrs. Chen.

“It’s strange to say that this place has always been quiet and peaceful. Why is your house stolen, and it has been stolen twice in a row. Couldn’t it be the last time I succeeded in your place, I’m worried about it?” One of the surnames Li asked.

Mrs. Chen said: “No! Our family didn’t lose anything last time. Besides, who doesn’t know that our family has done a few good things in succession, and the family’s money has been used up. If nothing else, it’s Lu Xiucai’s. For the funeral, our master also borrowed a few taels of silver from the shopkeeper Tong! If you want to steal it, you shouldn’t steal it to our house!”

Another ya servant surnamed Wang, said: “It must be something that you don’t know. Based on my experience, if you don’t steal something, it’s impossible to come to your house twice in just a few days. It’s mostly something. I was worried about it, but I didn’t steal it last time, but it’s here again this time.”

Yu Tang deeply agrees.

But what is it that people are thinking about?

She thought of Yu Wen’s study.

Is there any heirloom in their family that her father didn’t know.

She told the Chen family.

The Chen smiled straight and said: “Your grandfather’s family assets were clearly separated before he died. When your grandfather’s filial obedience was taken off, your uncle and your dad would officially separate. Your uncle is a careful person, and he was afraid of separation. I don’t know how to say it. I not only invited Lizheng, but also two neighbors. If there is something, people have been thinking about it a long time ago. Have you waited until now?”

Yu Tang remembered his previous life. The new neighbor from Li’s house who moved in next door disliked that the camphor tree was planted in the yard, so he dug out a box of silver under the camphor tree…

Anyway, she was idle, and Chen did not urge her to embroider these days, so she simply went to help her father tidy up the study.

The lion rolls the hydrangea thrown under the bookcase, the dusty “Abandoned Golden Hairpin” on the top of the cabinet, the “Madam Wei Rubbings” spread on the small bookcase next to it… Yu Tang even found a box of Cao’s purple in the corner of the study. Yunmo ingot.

She took the opportunity to help put together father’s manuscripts, paintings and calligraphy.

When Chen came in, he saw paintings, calligraphy, paper and ink on the floor, picture books of words and words, messy like a thief at home, while Yu Tang leaned against the bookcase with a book and looked fascinated.

“You kid!” Chen said while packing the books on the ground, smiling and groaning, “I think you are better than the thief. Look at this house, there is no place to go.”

Yu Tang smiled and put down the book in his hand, took a dirty purse casually, and said, “Mum, do you guess what’s inside?”

“What is it?” Chen smiled, and cleared up a path.

“It’s a picture of a flower I painted for you when I was a kid.” She ran over happily and showed it to Chen, “I still remember that I said I should keep it properly, but it disappeared somehow, and I found it today. You see, there are still words written by me on it.”

Chen took it over and took a look. The word “first” was written slantingly on it.

She also remembered, and couldn’t help but smile: “This is the first flower I asked you to paint.”

Yu Tang nodded repeatedly and said, “I didn’t expect that I was hiding in Daddy’s study at the time.”

Chen smiled and said, “Your dad’s study is going to be cleaned up.”

The mother and daughter were talking and laughing, sorting out the things in the study.

The counterfeit that Lu Xin sold to their house rolled out of a mezzanine.

“Why put it here?” Chen muttered, wanting to put it back in place.

Yu Tang felt unlucky, and said, “The people are gone, so I keep it for what to do. I will take it to the shopkeeper Tong’s pawnshop tomorrow, and shopkeeper Tong said, this painting can still be sold for a few taels of silver. Somehow subsidize it. Our home. In order to do the funeral for him, Dad also borrowed money from shopkeeper Tong. If he can make up the empty space on the side of shopkeeper Tong, this painting can be regarded as the original owner.”

Chen thought it was a good idea, and said with a smile: “Only you have a lot of spooky ideas.”

Yu Tang wrinkled his nose playfully and took the scroll back to his room.

In the middle of the night, they were awakened by Xiao Huang’s cry, and Yu Yuan yelled from the study room: “Who? Run to our house to steal things!”

When Yu Tang ran out wearing his clothes, he saw Yu Yuan fighting with a thin black man.

“Catch the thief! Catch the thief!” Yu Tang shouted loudly.

The people next door were awakened when they heard the sound.

The lights gradually turned on, and the quiet Green Bamboo Alley became noisy.

The neighborhood ran over with a stick or a kitchen knife.

The man in black was caught.

Granny Chen leaned over with the oil lamp.

The thief was actually a kid in their Qingzhu Alley.

The crowd was in an uproar.

Master Wu angrily asked him to call the boy’s parents, and said: “You have to inform your family, like you, you have to be removed.”

The kid was so frightened that he cried and hugged Master Wu’s thigh and begged for mercy: “Don’t tell me my family, I, I was framed by someone, I just wanted to steal a few pennies, I didn’t hurt anyone. Meaning, I don’t dare to hurt people and kill people!”

Master Wu stayed unmoved and said, “Being framed?! Who can frame you? I think you don’t learn well at ordinary times, so that will move your wicked heart. Keeping a person like you is also harmful to others and yourself!”

He was angrily reprimanding that the kid’s mother came. Seeing this scene, she knelt in front of Chen with a “plop”, begging her son with her head, “As long as you don’t send off an official, you will be able to say anything?”

Chen is very embarrassed.

If you don’t punish this kid, their family can’t be stolen in vain; if you punish this kid, everyone has lived next to each other for so many years.

Yu Tang watched his heart move.

She didn’t know this kid very much, but when his mother kowtow just now, he turned his face to the side, as if he couldn’t bear to look more, he didn’t plead with Master Wu.

She walked over.

The kid was crying silently.

Yu Tang wondered in his heart that his father hadn’t come when this kid had such a big incident.

Don’t know if there is no father? Or the father doesn’t care?

Regardless of the former or the latter, they can all be used.

She pulled Chen’s sleeves and whispered in a low voice: “The neighbors have come to help a lot. Please ask them to have a cup of tea in the house. There is a brother in the lobby. This kid is **** and let Atu guard him. , Wait until Daddy comes back.”

Chen thought this was a good idea, and after discussing with Yu Yuan, he invited everyone into the house for tea.

When everyone saw that the matter was over, who was still thinking about drinking tea in the middle of the night, they all thanked them and said goodbye to the Chen family.

Chen gratefully sent them out one by one.

Only the kid’s mother, sitting slumped like a mournful lady, crying silently.

Master Wu was a little worried, and said, “Why don’t we let our little servant come over and help.”

“Thank you, thank you!” Yu Yuan respectfully saluted Master Wu again, saying, “I can save it. It’s getting late. When my uncle comes back tomorrow, my uncle and I will come to thank him again.”

Master Wu nodded and backed home when he saw that Yu Yuan had done everything well.

The kid’s mother kept kowtow to Chen’s pleading.

The kid cried so much that everyone convulsed.

Yu Tang pointed to the kid’s mother and said to the kid: “Look, what you did did hurt your mother. The people don’t tell, the officials don’t. Tell me the truth, why are you here at our house? Yes? If you tell me honestly, I’ll help you plead with my dad and let you go. Your mom doesn’t need to be scorned, and she won’t be able to raise her head for a lifetime.”

The boy raised his head and glanced at Yu Tang, showing hesitation.

Yu Tang knew in his heart, and continued: “This stealing is the most useless. Look at the family rules and family rules, who can tolerate those thieves. My father, like Master Wu, hates this kind of thing the most. He may not report to the official, but he will definitely let your family drive you out of the house and remove your name. By then, your mother will pass away, and there will be no one who worships incense…”

The kid burst into tears again, and he choked up and said, “My father was gambled outside and sold all his family’s ancestral home. I, I just want to get a few ounces of silver to rent a house.”

Yu Tang sighed: “Then I have nothing to say. Just wait for my dad to come back and send you to the government, and then go to your parents.”

“No, no.” The kid said hurriedly, “Miss Yu, you, if you give me fifty taels of silver, no, if you give me three taels, I will tell you.”

Yu Tang remained calm and said: “You lied to me! I don’t have a couple of silver, you like to say or not.” After speaking, he got up and made a look like calling someone.

The kid panicked and said hurriedly: “Someone gave me fifty taels of silver and asked me to steal a painting from your house…Don’t send me off, I didn’t steal it…”