Yu Tang frowned slightly when he heard Mrs. Chen scolding.
Not to mention, Mrs. Chen's scolding really makes sense.
The home was burglarized twice, both when Yu Wen was not around.
How could it be such a coincidence
Chen also thought it was a coincidence, and took Yu Tang to Yu Bo's house, intending to invite Yu Yuan to stay at home for a few days while Yu Wen was away.
Yu Bo was still busy with business in the shop, so Wang agreed and discussed with Chen: "Why don't you settle A-Tang's marriage earlier? There is someone in your family, and those people dare not come in and out casually."
Their family is just too thin.
Chen shi sighed, and said, "We have to wait until the child of Wei's family is seventy-seven! He is kind, so we can't be too eager. Ah Tang can also afford to wait."
Mrs. Wang sighed, and asked the servants at home to bring some things that Yu Yuan used to.
Neighbors saw it and couldn't help asking a few times.
Mrs. Chen told the neighbor about the family affairs, and the neighbor also sighed a few words to comfort Mrs. Chen: "It will be fine if your family recruits a son-in-law."
"Accept your good words!"
Mrs. Chen and her neighbors said a few words of politeness, and cleaned up the guest room when they got home.
Yu Tang squatted in the corridor and played with Xiao Huang, but he was thinking of Pei Yan.
This person is really arrogant and conceited. He draws people's conclusions when he has only a half-knowledge, and he doesn't listen to explanations. The huge property of the Pei family fell into his hands, and he didn't know how he supported it.
Yu Tang sighed faintly, feeling that his life is not good, and his luck has been very bad recently.
She hugged Xiao Huang and gently stroked its fur, and two yamen servants came to the door. It is said that I got the master's order, and I will patrol the streets in the future, and I will walk around here more often.
Mrs. Chen thanked them again and again, invited the two of them in for tea, and then told Shuangtao to buy refreshments.
These two people not only lived in Lin'an City for generations, but also had hereditary errands. Although they were errands in the yamen, they behaved quite well. They were not soft when they should be greedy, and they were willing to help when they should. On weekdays, the famous people in the city and the city also walk around as neighbors.
Seeing that Mrs. Chen spoke sincerely, Yu Wen had always had a reputation for kindness in Lin'an City, so he was not polite, sat drinking tea in front of the hallway in the front yard, and chatted with Mrs. Chen.
"It's strange to say that this area has always been quiet and peaceful. Why was your house stolen, and it was stolen twice in a row. Could it be that you got your hands last time, and you remember it?" one of the surnames said. Lee asked.
Mrs. Chen said: "It shouldn't be! Our family didn't lose anything last time. Besides, who doesn't know how many good deeds our family has done in a row, and all the money in the family has been used up. If nothing else, it belongs to Lu Xiucai." For the funeral, our master borrowed a few taels of silver from shopkeeper Tong! If you want to steal it, you shouldn't steal it from our house!"
Another yamen servant, surnamed Wang, said: "There must be something missing, you don't know. Based on my experience, if you don't steal something, it is impossible to come to your house twice in just a few days. Most likely it is something I was missed by others, and I failed to steal it last time, but this time it came again."
Yu Tang deeply agreed.
But what is it that people are thinking about
She thought of Yu Wen's study.
Could there be any heirlooms in their family that her father didn't even know about.
She told Mrs. Chen.
Mrs. Chen laughed straight, and said: "Before your grandfather passed away, the family property was clearly divided. After your grandfather took off the filial piety, your uncle and your father will officially separate. Not clear, not only invited Li Zheng, but also invited two neighbors. If there is something, it has been missed by others, why wait until now?"
Yu Tang thought of his previous life, when the new neighbor who moved next door to Li's family disliked the camphor planted in the yard, and ended up digging out a box of silver under the camphor tree...
Anyway, she had nothing to do, Chen didn't urge her to embroider these few days, she just went to help her father tidy up the study.
The lion rolling the hydrangea ball under the bookcase, the "Abandoned Gold Hairpin" covered with dust on the top of the cabinet, and the "Mrs. Wei Inscriptions" spread on the small bookcase next to it... Yu Tang even found a box of Cao's purple in the corner of the study. Cloud ink ingot.
She took the opportunity to help sort out her father's usual manuscripts, calligraphy and paintings.
When Mrs. Chen came in, she saw calligraphy, painting, paper, ink, and picture books all over the floor, in a mess as if her home had been burglarized, while Yu Tang leaned against the bookcase with a smile and read fascinatedly.
"You child!" Mrs. Chen said with a smile while tidying up the books on the ground, "I think you are more powerful than that thief. Look at this house, there is not even a place to lay your feet."
Yu Tang smiled and put down the book in his hand, took a dirty purse casually, and said, "Mom, guess what's in it?"
"What is it?" Chen smiled, and came up with a way.
"It's a picture of a flower I drew for you when I was a child." She happily ran over to show it to Mrs. Chen, "I still remember that I said to keep it safe, but it disappeared somehow, and I found it today. Look, there is my writing on it."
Mrs. Chen took it over and looked at it. The word "No. 1" was written crookedly on it.
She also remembered, and couldn't help laughing: "This is the first flower pattern I asked you to draw."
Yu Tang nodded repeatedly, and said, "I didn't expect that I was hiding in Father's study at that time."
Chen said with a smile: "Your father's study needs to be tidied up."
The mother and daughter were talking and laughing as they sorted out the things in the study.
The forgery that Lu Xin sold to their family tumbled out of a mezzanine.
"Why did you put it here?" Chen murmured, wanting to put it back to its original place.
But Yu Tang felt it was unlucky, and said: "People are gone, so why do you keep it. I will take it to shopkeeper Tong's pawn shop tomorrow, and shopkeeper Tong said that this painting can still be sold for a few taels of silver. At least I can subsidize it Our family’s household. In order to take care of his funeral, Dad even borrowed money from shopkeeper Tong. If it can make up for shopkeeper Tong’s vacancy, this painting can be regarded as returning to the original owner.”
Chen thought it was a good idea, and said with a smile, "You have a lot of crazy ideas."
Yu Tang wrinkled his nose playfully, and took the scroll back to his room.
In the middle of the night, they were woken up by Xiao Huang's cry, and Yu Yuan shouted angrily from the study: "Who? Come to our house to steal things!"
Yu Tang ran out with his clothes on, and saw Yu Yuan fighting with a skinny man in black.
"The thief is caught! The thief is caught!" Yu Tang shouted loudly.
People next door were awakened by the sound.
The lights gradually turned on, and the quiet Qingzhu Lane became noisy.
Neighbors ran over with sticks or kitchen knives.
The man in black was caught.
Mrs. Chen leaned over with the oil lamp.
The thief turned out to be a kid from Qingzhu Lane.
Everyone was in an uproar.
Master Wu angrily sent someone to call the boy's parents, and said: "Your family must be notified. People like you must be removed."
The kid was so frightened that he wailed loudly, hugged Master Wu's thigh and begged for mercy: "Don't tell me, I, I was framed by someone, and I just wanted to steal a few taels of silver for use. I didn't hurt anyone. I mean, I don't dare to hurt anyone!"
Master Wu was unmoved, and said: "Being framed by others?! Who can frame you? I think you don't usually learn well, and that's why you have evil intentions. If you keep a person like you, you will also harm others and yourself!"
He was yelling angrily, when the kid's mother came, and when she saw this scene, she knelt down in front of Mrs. Chen with a "plop", and begged her son for mercy: "As long as you don't send him to the official, you can do whatever you want?"
Chen was very embarrassed.
If this kid is not punished, their house cannot just be stolen like this for nothing; if this kid is punished, we have lived next to each other for so many years, and we can't see each other when we look up, how will we get along with people who meet their family in the future
Yu Tang watched his heart move.
She didn't know this kid very well, but when his mother kowtowed just now, he turned his face away, as if he couldn't bear to look more, and stopped pleading with Master Wu.
She walked over.
The boy was weeping silently.
Yu Tang pondered in his heart, such a big incident happened to this kid, yet his father didn't come.
I don't know if there is no father? Or does the father not care
Whether it is the former or the latter, they can all be used.
She went to pull Chen's sleeve, and said in a low voice: "The neighbors have come to help a lot, please invite them to the house to have a cup of tea first, there is a big cousin here, this kid is tied up first and let Ah Shao guard , wait until Dad comes back."
Mrs. Chen thought this was a good idea, and after discussing with Yu Yuan, invited everyone into the house for tea.
Everyone saw that the matter was over, and it was midnight, who was in the mood to drink tea, thanked each other, and said goodbye to Mrs. Chen.
Chen gratefully sent them out one by one.
Only the boy's mother sat on the ground like a mourning concubine, crying silently.
Master Wu was a little worried, and said, "Why don't you ask our little boy to come over and help you?"
"Thank you very much!" Yu Yuan respectfully saluted Master Wu again, and said, "I'll save it. It's getting late, and when my uncle comes back tomorrow, my uncle and I will come to thank you again."
Seeing that Yu Yuan acted well, Master Wu nodded and went home with his hands behind his back.
The kid's mother kowtowed to Mrs. Chen to plead for mercy.
The kid cried so hard that everyone twitched.
Yu Tang pointed to the kid's mother and said to the kid, "Look, what you did has hurt your mother. People won't sue, officials won't prosecute. Tell me the truth, why did you come to our house? Yes? If you tell me honestly, I will help you and ask my father to let you go. Your mother will not be looked down upon by others, and she will not be able to hold her head up for the rest of her life."
The kid raised his head and looked at Yu Tang, showing hesitation.
Yu Tang knew it well, and continued: "This kind of stealing is the most useless thing. Look at those family rules and family rules, who can tolerate those thieves who steal things. My father is the same as Master Wu, and he hates this kind of thing the most. Yes. He may not report to the officials, but he will definitely let your family expell you from the house and remove your name. When your mother dies, there will be no one to offer incense... "
The boy burst into tears again, he choked up and said: "My father is gambling outside and sold the family's ancestral house. I, I just want to get a few taels of money to rent a house."
Yu Tang sighed: "Then I don't have anything to say. You just wait for my father to come back and send you to the government, and then go find your elders."
"No, no." The boy hurriedly said, "Miss Yu, you, if you give me five taels of silver, no, you can give me three taels of silver, and I will tell you."
Yu Tang said calmly, "You still lied to me! You don't even have a tael of silver, you can talk about it or not." After finishing speaking, he got up and pretended to call for someone.
The boy panicked, and hurriedly said: "Someone gave me five taels of silver to come to your house to steal a painting... Don't send me to the official, I didn't steal it..."