That night, when everything was silent, Yong Ruo suddenly woke up from her sleep because she seemed to hear a scream!
She rubbed Chaos's head, forcing herself to regain consciousness as soon as possible, and sure enough, she heard continuous screams, which seemed to be coming from the direction of the bamboo nail array!
There is only one entrance to the courtyard of the Yong family, and the courtyard door opens in the southeast corner. There is no inverted house on the south side of the courtyard, and there is only an earthen wall separating the courtyard and the alley.
At the bottom of the courtyard wall on the south side, there was originally a small strip of vegetable plots, but Mrs. Zhou and the original version of Yongruo fell ill one after another, and the vegetables in the vegetable plots were all slowly eaten up. It will be planted, and it will be empty here. Yong Ruo felt that this wall was the easiest for thieves to enter. Because the wall is not too high, there is only a little thatched curtain on the top of the wall to prevent rain, without any safety precautions.
So during the day, she buried a large bamboo nails densely in this long strip of small vegetable fields, and surrounded the bamboo nail array with a fence, on the one hand to avoid accidental injury, and on the other hand to keep it secret.
She didn't expect her worry to be true, some little thieves broke in at night to test the power of the bamboo nail array!
Listening to the screams one after another, Yong Ruo guessed that there were at least two thieves. They screamed so badly, they must have stepped on the bamboo nails!
Hehe... Now, some of them suffered a lot!
She yawned and stretched. While paying attention to the movement outside the house, she slowly got dressed and got out of bed to put on her shoes.
I was about to stretch my arms, kick my legs, and do some warm-up exercises. When the neighbors around me were awakened, and then I went out to meet the two thieves, I heard Yongqiao's terrified voice in the dark. :"elder sister!!"
Yong Ruo was afraid of scaring the children, so he quickly said, "I'm here! It's okay! Don't be afraid!"
Yong Qiao was visibly relieved, and while she was rustling her clothes, she asked Yong Ruo in a low voice: "The people outside screamed so badly, did they get pierced by your bamboo nails?!" Actual participant, he is looking forward to it!
"It must be!" Yong Ruo reassured him, "Let's light the lamp later, after they wake up the neighbors."
She turned her head and looked at Mrs. Zhou's bed - Mrs. Zhou was still sleeping so deeply after such a big commotion? She took a few steps forward, probed Zhou's carotid artery, and felt the weak pulse. She breathed a sigh of relief, but then felt sad—is she comatose or lethargic? !
Yong Qiao has jumped off the bed and is putting on his shoes.
The two thieves in the yard have changed from screaming to shouting: "Help!" "Help!" "Aunt Yong, we are wrong! Please spare us!" Creepy!
Yong Ruoxin said: Ouch! Sure enough, they are acquaintances! Listening to the voice, it sounds like Wu Da and Wu Er who live at the entrance of the alley? !
Gradually, there were some movements in the neighbors. The sound of talking, running, and opening and closing doors broke the tranquility of the night. A few dogs barking in the distance added a kind of frightening commotion tonight.
Yong Ruo then lit the lamp, picked up a wooden stick, and said to Yong Qiao, "Stay in the house and watch over Mother and Third Brother. If they wake up too, tell them not to be afraid!"
Yongqiao rushed forward and grabbed her sleeve, begging: "Sister, you should guard your mother and third brother! I'm a man! I'll go outside!"
Yong Ruo smiled: "You are still young! I don't know how to deal with the following things. Don't worry! The two thieves outside have lost 100% of their lives and 50% of their lives. They are only at my mercy and can't hurt me at all! You are obedient, When you grow up, come and protect your sister!"
Yong Qiao looked at Yong Ruo with reddened eye circles, then lowered her head resentfully: "When will I grow up?!"
"Don't worry! There will be a time when you grow up. At that time, you will miss the days when you were a child again!" Open the door, and walked out against the dim light in the room.
Several people have already knocked on the door of Yong's house: "Aunt Yong... sister Yong... how are you doing?"
Yong Ruo raised his voice and said, "We're fine! We're doing well! Two little thieves broke into my house, stepped into the trap, got hurt, and screaming!"
She walked over and took off the door lever behind the courtyard door, and took off the small clip behind the door latch, pulled the door latch, and the courtyard door opened.
Outside the courtyard gate, there were several big men holding sticks and kitchen knives.
Holding torches and lanterns, they looked at Yong Ruo stupidly. Jin Sanbao said: "Sister Yong family, you said... two little thieves stepped into... your family's trap?"
"That's right!" Yong Ruo smiled, "My mother is sick, and my two younger brothers are still young. There are women and children in the room. Naturally, I have some means to protect myself. Yesterday my family got some firewood, rice and meat, so I thought, maybe there is a Little thieves will steal with jealousy? So they set up a bamboo nail array in the yard, and unexpectedly caught two thieves."
She stepped aside and called those people to enter the door: "Come in! But, don't step into the area surrounded by the fence, lest your soles be pierced by bamboo nails."
"Bamboo nails? The soles of the feet were pierced?" These few keywords made several big men outside the door swallow their saliva in unison. Jin Sanbao said in fear: "Sister Yong family, since the thief has been caught No, we won't go in! Just go and see for yourself, we'll wait outside."
Another tall man, Qin Dayong, sneered, and strode in: "Didn't the sister of the Yong family say that? If you don't step into the fence, you'll be fine. We're here to catch thieves, not over the wall to be thieves. Scared of a bird! I want to take a look, this thief is an acquaintance in our alley!"
Yong Ruo smiled, and walked ahead to lead the way, and told the people behind to guard the door so that no one could come in at will, so as not to accidentally hurt them.
Standing outside the fence, everyone took torches and lanterns to shine a light, and they saw some small bamboo branches and leaves piled up in the fence; two of them stood and lay down, sweating from the pain, and their faces were pale. It was Wu Da. , Wu two brothers.
The two brothers are shopkeepers. They usually walk around the street and greet people with smiles. They look very kind. People in the alley also went to their brothers to buy things.
Unexpectedly, the little thieves were actually them!
At this time, Wu Er who was standing was fine, but his feet were pierced by bamboo nails, and the blood gurgling from the soles of his feet soaked the bamboo branches and leaves under his feet.
Wu Da, who was lying on his stomach, was not only pierced by bamboo nails, but also pierced the palm of his right hand, and the back of his hand was bloody.
Seeing their miserable situation, even Yong Ruo couldn't help but took half a step back.
The exposed part of the bamboo nails she buried was actually not long, but they couldn't hold back the two people who jumped off the wall and were stabbed—the speed plus weight, the pressure was definitely strong enough, and the bamboo nails were very magnetic. That Wu Da, Yue Mo, didn't stabilize his center of gravity when he jumped down, and when he fell, his palm was pierced.
Seeing the two, Qin Dayong was extremely angry, and shouted: "Wu Da, Wu Er, it's actually the two of you who own it!" He said: "Did the big black dog of my family be stolen by the two of you for a tooth sacrifice?" ?!" He even forgot not to enter the fence, and he wanted to jump into the fence as soon as he lifted his long legs, as if he wanted to beat someone.
With sharp eyes and quick hands, Yong Ruo swung the wooden stick in front of him and quickly stopped him: "Don't go in!" He said with black lines all over his face, "You don't want to be like them, do you?"
Qin Dayong was startled, and came back to his senses, showing a scared expression, and thanked Yongruo: "Thank you very much! I was so angry that I forgot about this."
Yong Ruo's head was full of black lines, and he thought to himself: Can you take your brain with you when you go out? I just said you forgot? ! He also told others: "You must remember: don't step into the fence!"
The others responded quickly, and made fun of Qin Dayong again. Qin Dayong blushed and scratched his head, rather ashamed, said: "Don't tell my mother and my wife!"
Wu Da said in cold sweat, "Please save us! I am in so much pain that I want to die now! If I can't hold on and collapse, I'm afraid that many more holes will be pierced in my body. There is still life?! Although it is wrong for us to steal things, it is not a crime to die?! I just ask everyone to save us first for the sake of my mother and baby in my house!"
Wu Er also cried and pleaded: "We will be punished in the future! Pity us now!"
Yong Ruo knocked on the fence post with the wooden stick in his hand, and said calmly, "It's okay to rescue you. But first, I have to explain the matter clearly: why did you break into my house in the middle of the night?"
Wu Er confessed very happily: "During the day, noble people from your family came to your door and gave you a lot of things. We were a little greedy, thinking that you orphans and widows are not worthy... and can't eat those many good things, so we wanted to steal them. The whole family is having a tooth-beating ceremony!"
Yong Ruo sneered: "You have also been shopkeepers for many years, is this what you are good at? If you want to have a tooth sacrifice, you have to steal it? Don't have the money to buy it?"
Wu Er hesitated a bit: "This... this stolen thing, isn't it more delicious to eat? Besides, there is no man in your family, so you don't steal for nothing! But I didn't expect... I didn't expect..."
Yong Ruo thought: The stolen food tastes better because it hurts others and benefits oneself, so you feel happy, right? !
Still not stealing white or stealing? hehe! Picking up the weak and bullying, right? !
"I didn't expect that I would set up a bamboo nail array in the yard, which made you stumble?" She sneered, "Do you look down on women? Do you think you should let you bully me if there is no man in the family? Tell you the truth , I, Miss Yong, am not the type to be bullied! In our alley, there has never been a break in stealing. I got those things yesterday, so I guessed that the family will not be peaceful in the next few days, so I set up this bamboo nail array When I was burying the nails, I thought: If there is that blind thing that dares to bully the door, I will make him scream and go out!"
She also said this to other people present, especially the Jin family next door. During the day, she had already given Aunt Jin a sweet date, and it was time to warn her, lest Aunt Jin bring another bowl of washing water to take advantage of it tomorrow.
Yong Ruo tapped lightly on the fence posts with the wooden stick in his hand, and asked Wu Da and Wu Er brothers: "Now, don't you have to go out screaming? How does it feel?"