The pastoral life of the reborn farmer

Chapter 28

The ducks at home were gone, Shen Ling went home to rest for a while, then went to the wasteland he bought, and found that none of the ducklings that had been stocked in the earthen wall could not be found.

who stole it? Shen Ling narrowed his eyes and walked out without saying a word.

"Young Master?" The young man who came back with him and sent a letter to Mu's house in the middle, asking them to send a few more people to farm the fields, asked suspiciously, what happened? Didn't you mean to bring them to see the place where fruit saplings were planted?

"Don't call me Young Master, I'm just a countryman, I can't afford it." Shen Ling was afraid that people would hear it and attracted attention.

"Yes, what should the villain be called?" The young man said respectfully.

"The next surname is Shen, the second in the ranking, the word Ling, just call me Shen Er or Shen Ling."

"Then the villain should still be called Little Brother! This will save the young master from embarrassment." The young man clearly understood Shen Ling's concerns and called me directly. The name is definitely inappropriate, it's better to call it little brother. When people outside see people younger than themselves and show respect, they call it little brother.

"Yes." Shen Ling nodded.

"Then, little brother, where are we going? Didn't you say planting fruit trees?"

Shen Ling stopped and turned around, "You can plant it first, it's all right here, I still have some things to do.

" Nacheng, you are busy, I will take charge of the affairs here, my family has said that I will not let you worry about it, and do it beautifully for you." The young man smiled.

"Well, that's troublesome, by the way, what should I call you?"

"The villain is doing five at home, you can call me Mu Wu." The young man smiled.

This is also a prostituted servant who was given a surname by the master. It is estimated that he has a son and has been a loyal servant who has been passed down with the master's family for several generations. Shen Ling put a label on the person in front of him in his heart and nodded, "That's fine, Brother Mu."

"Don't dare."

After Shen Ling left, he was going to sit at Lizheng's house. The little thief, I have to take care of this matter. But Shen Ling hadn't figured out what to say. He couldn't find a suspect. In fact, he could easily be shunned when he went to Lizheng's house. He would investigate seriously, but he didn't know when he could find out. .

Moreover, the person who stole the duck should be from the same village. The wasteland he bought was located at the foot of the mountain, and was just wrapped by their entire village. Unless the people from the outer village came around from the mountain, it was impossible not to disturb anyone in the village. He stole his ducks, but he didn't go out for a few days, and most of the duck purchases were known to the villagers, so the possibility of outsiders was really low.

Moreover, if people from other villages come to steal ducks, people come and go during the day, and there are also villagers on the mountain who gather firewood and pick wild vegetables to hunt. Even if they bring a bunch of ducks, they are easy to be found, but if it is at night, it is the wild beasts on the mountain that hunt. At that time, very few villagers would spend the night on the mountain, let alone walking, so no matter how they think they should be from their own village, even if they are not, they must have something to do with them.

"Second uncle."

Shen Ling stumbled and almost tripped over the deep pit that suddenly appeared under his feet. Isn't this the road? Shen Ling was stunned for a moment, raised his head, and saw several little boys in the village looking at him in fear. One boy was holding a shovel in his hand. He obviously dug the ditch in front of him. There is also a pile of scattered large leaves, and some mud that has just been closed.

"What are you doing digging trenches on the road?" Shen Ling frowned, such a big boy was really skinny like a monkey, and he couldn't do it without making trouble for a day.

"Hongzi said he wanted to roast birds for us and let us dig a hole to make a pot." Seeing Shen Ling's bad face, the children next to him sold the boy with the shovel in a blink of an eye.

"Roast birds?" Shen Ling raised his eyebrows, "Are you going to catch sparrows? How are you going to roast them?"

The boy named Shen Hong immediately became anxious when his companion sued him in person, "It's not that you want me to roast it. Yes ."

"Wait, Shen Hong, come here." Shen Ling raised his hand and motioned for the boy with the shovel to come over. I heard that the word "Hong" was taken by his cheap third brother, saying that Shen Hong was born that year. At that time, his parents brought eggs and pork to the door to ask Shen San to take a name, and this is the name.

Shen Ling raised his hand and put his hand on Shen Hong's shoulder, "Tell my uncle, how are you going to bake? What are you going to do with digging? Who taught you?"

Shen Hong was a little nervous, he felt that his second uncle looked different from before. Now, the second uncle in the past would only laugh naively, and even if he was bullied by them, he would only scratch his head and ignore them, but now the second uncle feels a little strange and scary!

"It's nothing, just wrap it in leaves, then paste it in mud, wrap it up and bake it." Shen Hong lowered his head.

"Who taught you that?" Shen Ling smiled gently.

"No one taught me, I figured it out myself." Shen Hong raised his head.

"Liar to me! Other children say they are cooking pots. Obviously they don't know how you want to roast sparrows, but you know that you need to dig a hole and combine the mud and leaves. I also know this method. Someone must have taught you, and It's not long since I taught you, otherwise, you should have roasted sparrows with several other children long ago, and they don't know what you are doing."

Shen Hong listened to Shen Ling's words, widened his eyes and looked in surprise. Looking at Shen Ling, it was guessed. Shen Hong thought of something, and hurriedly shut up, lowered his head and said nothing.

"Did you eat my ducks?"

"No! No!" Shen Hong frowned like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

"Sure enough, you ate it! Otherwise, you wouldn't only know how to roast sparrows, but you don't know how to roast chickens and ducks, because my ducks are about the same size as sparrows, right? You can only roast ducklings."

"I didn't!" Shen Hong shouted, "You guessed it all. You falsely accused me, and I will tell my mother to go!"

"Tell your mother, okay! What is this?!" Shen Ling raised her hand from Shen Hong took out a pinch of duck feathers from the clothes behind Hong, "It's all stuck to the clothes, and I want to lose my skin. I'm going to find your mother! I spent nearly a tael of silver to buy ducklings! I have to let Your mother pays me money!"

"I'm not going! I'm not going! You lied to me, I've changed my clothes, where's the hair from!" Shen Hong is a child after all, and a tael of silver is a huge sum in his eyes. If it was because he made the family lose money, he felt that he could be beaten to death by his mother, and burst into tears for a while, "I didn't steal your duck, woo woo... no..."

Shen Ling let go of Shen Hong amusingly His arm, his face was still ugly, "Okay! I knew it was you, the duck feathers I just put on purposely, I picked it up from the wasteland and didn't lose it, you just recruited it yourself, and you changed it all. Where did the clothes come from, it looks like you really stole my ducks! Did you all hear that?" Shen Ling looked at the other children who were already frightened.

Everyone stared blankly at Shen Ling and didn't speak, so Shen Ling thought they heard it!

"You stole the ducklings!" Shen Ling said firmly: "If you stole my ducks to eat, I have to ask your family to apologize and lose money."

"Woooooo..." Shen Hong's tears were mixed with snot Together.

Shen Ling continued: "But! I know you are a good child, and you won't steal my things if you don't have anyone leading you. If you tell me who brought you to steal my things, I'll go to him to pay for it, and I won't. I found you."

Shen Hong was stunned for a while, opened his eyes, his face was covered with tears and snot, sobbing and looking at Shen Ling, his eyes seemed a little tangled, he promised not to say anything, and he really didn't steal, he just ate At that time, I knew that it was only a duckling from Uncle Shen's family, and that he also taught him how to bake things.

"Hongzi, it's one thing to be righteous, but it's not a man's job to hide and steal things for others! You don't want your mother to know that you are a bad boy who steals things and hides things for the stealer! And , you will lose money! Your father will beat you."

Shen Hong shrank his neck sharply, "It's Gouzi! I didn't steal it, I just saw him walking away with a bunch of ducks, I know you bought it. Duck, just went over and asked a question, Gouzi said to take me to eat together, let me help him hide..."

"Shen Gouzi?" Shen Ling smiled, it was him, the enemy's road was narrow, the villain took revenge, and caught him Opportunity is like a maggot in the tarsus, and it is hard to get rid of it.

"Do you know where he eats?"

"It's in the backyard of his house. He said he was afraid of being seen by the villagers."

"Then, where did the duck bones and duck feathers go?"

"It seems that they were buried, in the backyard where they eat, next to the vegetable garden."

"Who else is there besides him?"

"And Chen Liuzi, who is usually with The few people Gouzi played with."

"Well, let's go, come to Lizheng's house with me, and repeat what you just told me."

"I'm not going!" Shen Hong cried sternly, " My father will beat me to death!" In the countryside, stealing ducks and chickens bought by others is a 'serious crime' and violates the 'taboo' of the villagers, and will be spurned by the whole village.

Shen Ling showed a chilling smile, "If you don't go, I promise you will not only be beaten by your father, but also beaten by your mother, and you will be beaten for a few months, and you will have to pay my little ducklings. "

Ah woo woo..." Shen Hong cried into a ball, and the children beside him huddled together silently, with their heads lowered, all of them were little quails, not saying a word.

Second Uncle Shen is so terrifying, even a little overlord like Shen Hong can cry with fright, so he packs up obediently. The children thought silently.

At Li Zheng's house, Shen Ling had been here for a while, and he had spoken a lot to Li Zheng, so he let Shen Hong speak.

After listening to Shen Hong's words, Li Zheng suddenly slapped the case, his face was gloomy, so scared that Shen Hong almost cried again, Shen Ling said in a blaze, "Uncle, it's not that I have to ask someone to compensate, you know, I am now I still have a few silver coins in my hand. I don't lack this, and I don't want to worry about it with people from the same clan. But, uncle, look, Shen Hong is a child! He is the future good man in our clan. If he follows him today Shen Gouzi learns to eat ducklings, and tomorrow he learns to help conceal the theft, will he be taught by Shen Gouzi to be an accomplice the day after tomorrow? This trend will not be eliminated, I'm afraid that I don't know how many children in the clan will be taken away. Li Zheng 's

face was obviously even more ugly, he waved his hand and said: "Don't worry, I will definitely give you an explanation for this matter. If Shen Gouzi eats it, I will ask him to spit it out and compensate you, and then severely punish it. , I won't wrong you."

Shen Ling felt that the scene Li Zheng described was a bit disgusting, but he didn't say anything, just gratefully said: "Then thank you uncle, it's just uncle, Shen Gouzi has always been idle, it's all due to My sister-in-law subsidizes the family. Even if I ask him to lose money, it will still make my sister-in-law suffer. How can I bear it? So I don't want this money. In this way, if you really want Shen Gouzi to compensate me, drive him over and give it to me. Work for a few days and use the wages to pay for the money. On the one hand, you can watch him and let him do some serious work, so as not to stalk the dog all day long and take care of the children of the clan, on the other hand, it also makes the sister-in-law relax a little, so as not to tire her. "

Li Zheng raised his head to look at Shen Ling, there was a rare trace of complexity in his eyes, and he suddenly sighed, "You are thinking of your sister-in-law, she is a good man with a good heart, everyone is of the same clan and clan, it's good that you can think so. Just do as you said, if Shen Gouzi doesn't obey you, you come to me, and if he doesn't want to work hard with you, I'll send him to a place of labor and let him earn wages and pay you back! A family can't tolerate such rogue thieves!"

Li Zheng suddenly slapped the case again, furious.

"Uncle calm down, you sit, you sit." Shen Ling stood up, raised the tea cup respectfully, and handed it to Li Zheng, with a smile on the corner of his mouth. With Li Zheng's words, he was not afraid that Shen Gouzi would not work hard Besides, Shen Gouzi is someone in this gang of gangsters, using a thief to see a thief is much more effective than how many people he invites to watch the scene.

In the future, there will be labor like Shen Gouzi, plus what Li Zheng said is a threat, not afraid that Shen Gouzi will not do his best, and if other hooligans still care about their 'brotherhood' with Shen Gouzi, He would be worried that he would be sent to labor, so he would not come to beat his idea of ​​the venue. It seems that he has to think more of a way to keep Shen Gouzi to work here!

When Shen Ling led Shen Hong away from Lizheng's house, Lizheng's face had not yet softened, Shen Hong shrank his head and followed behind Shen Ling, and after waiting for a while, seeing that Shen Ling did not speak, Shen Hong said in a low voice: " Do you still want to go to my house to sue?"

"You want me to sue?" Shen Ling smiled.

"If you go to file a complaint, I'll...I..." Shen Hong just wanted to threaten a few words, said something harsh, saying that he would steal your ducklings every day, but when he thought that Shen Ling had just gone to Lizheng's house to file a complaint, let Lizheng be right Brother Gouzi's angry appearance suddenly shriveled again.

"What about you?"

Shen Hong lowered his head and didn't speak. He seemed to have accepted his fate. He followed Shen Ling pitifully. Shen Ling couldn't help but reached out and patted Shen Hong's head. He felt that Shen Hong was inexplicably different from Han Shi. Like, he couldn't help but soften his heart, "Come on, I won't go to your house to complain."

"Really!" Shen Hong raised his head suddenly and said in surprise.

"That's right! Isn't this afraid that your parents will hit you! Am I righteous?"

"Fight for righteousness!" Shen Hong nodded as if he had won the jackpot.

"Stinky boy." Shen Ling patted Shen Hong's shoulder with a wave of his hand, "I will open my eyes to see clearly in the future, what is true justice, don't follow everyone else, I dare to eat ducklings, that is you Second uncle, I have a good heart, if you change someone, you will be able to get a skin off."

"Yes, yes." Shen Hong kept nodding, all Shen Ling said was, just let him go.

"Okay, let's go." Shen Ling hurried back to buy new ducklings, and there were all kinds of things to do, so it was enough to educate him casually. After all, he was not his own child, so he would ignore it.

Shen Hong stood where he was and saw that Shen Ling had really left, he was relieved and shook his head in a pretentious manner, "Young master is really lucky!" He also hurried to the house, but he didn't know that he was taking his family with him. When the old man interrogated Shen Gouzi about stealing the ducklings, his father and mother found out about him, and they beat him up very well. Moreover, his father and mother also complained that Shen Ling didn't go to his house to ask for money. I am grateful, I think Shen Ling is really a good person. If ordinary people knew that their son had eaten his ducklings, they would have called to ask for money and compensation.

Shen Hong couldn't get out of bed for a few days after being beaten, so he could only lie on the bed, his butt was swollen, and when he was very bored, Shen Hong suddenly had some life insights. You have to accept your fate, your fate...