boom!
Father Jiang tripped over something and lost his balance, falling forward to the ground.
Jingle, jingle—
Xia Qianqian didn't sleep all night, waiting for the bad guys to come. When the bell rang, she immediately rushed out of the door with a shovel, and sure enough, she saw a light in the field.
"Someone, there's a thief!"
Xia Qianqian ran and shouted loudly.
Father Jiang was horrified when he heard the noise. He wanted to get up and run, but he found that his knee seemed to be stuck by something.
"Which bastard dares to destroy my bricks? If you have the guts, don't run away!"
Xia Qianqian shouted loudly and majestically, and the bell in her hand rang like a soul-calling bell in the middle of the night, which frightened Jiang's father so much that his heart was beating like a drum. He was so panicked that he couldn't get up for a long time.
Finally, Father Jiang got up! But Xia Qianqian's shovel arrived, and she slammed Father Jiang back to the ground.
Neighbors Liu Bo, Yang Daneng, Liu Bing and others all came over, followed by Aunt Liu and a group of villagers, with several lanterns lighting up the fields in the night.
Xia Qianqian carried the iron rod on her shoulders and stepped on Jiang Li, shouting, "Fellow villagers, I caught the bastard who destroyed my bricks!"
"Old Jiang?" Uncle Liu came forward with a lantern, recognized Jiang's father, and was immediately furious, "Why don't you change your bad habits and do bad things all day long?"
"We have to ask the village chief for help on this matter." Xia Qianqian said, "Which uncle can help me ask the village chief to come?"
"I'll go." Yang Daneng went to invite the village chief.
There was something stuck under Jiang's knees, and Xia Qianqian stepped on him so hard that he lost all resistance and had to beg for mercy: "I, I didn't mean to do anything. I came out to get up at night and saw a figure in your field, so I came to help you catch the thief."
"Oh, do you have clairvoyance? Your house is several hundred meters away from mine. How can you see a thief in the middle of the night?" Xia Qianqian sneered.
Uncle Liu picked up the lantern on the ground. On the lantern was a word "Jiang" written in red paint. Uncle Liu said angrily, "Old Jiang, this is your lantern."
"You come to the field with a lantern to catch a thief. Are you afraid that the thief won't run fast enough?" Liu Bing said. He took two days' wages from Xia Qianqian and was very angry to see Xia Qianqian's career being ruined.
Father Jiang said, "I didn't expect this. I really came here to catch a thief."
"Come on, stop talking nonsense." Xia Qianqian said, "Do you know what's stuck under your knees?"
"What is it?" asked Father Jiang.
Xia Qianqian gave Uncle Liu a look, and Uncle Liu and another man stepped forward and lifted up Father Jiang. Xia Qianqian used a lamp to illuminate the ground.
There was a circle of string on the ground, tied to Xia Qianqian's wrist. In addition, there was a layer of jelly on the ground.
"This is high-concentration pigskin glue." Xia Qianqian proudly introduced it to everyone, "I expected that the people who caused trouble last night would come again tonight, so I boiled pigskin glue in advance and poured it around the tiles. In order to prevent the glue from freezing, I also placed a circle of kiln-heated stones on the ground."
Uncle Liu was shocked: "Pigskin glue is a precious commodity!"
"I can't care about that because I'm trying to catch the thief." Xia Qianqian waved her hand. In fact, she didn't know why there was pig skin glue in the thatched house, or whether it was a dried product that had already been boiled and could be used.
At this time, the village chief Fan Ming also came running. As for the situation, Liu Bing had already told him on the way. Fan Ming said angrily: "Lao Jiang, you destroyed other people's property! This matter must be reported to the police!"
“Village chief…” When Father Jiang heard that they were going to report to the police, his legs went weak and he knelt on the ground.
(End of this chapter)