Once a person has gone astray, it is difficult to return to the right path.

This is not only because of the discrimination of others, but also because the money comes quickly from the wrong path, and if you make a lump sum, you can keep eating and drinking spicy food for a long time. Even if they understand that this is not right, when they change their ways, they are no longer willing to pay that hard work, and even if they can endure it for a while, when they encounter setbacks, they will re-enter the evil path.

Wu Yechang is such a person.

When he came out of the second village with people, cottonseeds, and money, he was indeed determined to change his face and become a new man. After settling in the new village, he didn't make trouble or take the lead, and honestly guarded his field for half a year. But who would have thought that the cotton that he had been working hard for several months with his family would be over in an instant!

He felt that God was unfair, and he felt that everyone was sorry for him. Indignant, Wu Yechang embarked on the old road of stealing again - I can't get better, don't think about it anymore!

Things are gathered by like, and people are grouped. Most of the people who moved out with him had similar thoughts. So when Wu Yechang proposed to steal rice in exchange for money, everyone hit it off.

"The grain store wants good rice this time, let's steal it by the herring lake, where the water is good and the rice ears are sinking." Someone suggested.

Wu Yechang also thought so, "The people in the grain store are not easy to fool, and when people twist their hands, they will know whether the rice is good or not, so we can only go to the vicinity of Qingyu Lake to get it." It's time for this work, let's do it. After today, I will allocate a little bit, remember: the fields of large families cannot be touched, and small households that have no door to rely on are picked. Tomorrow night, let's do it, bring a sickle, a sack and a poisonous steamed bun for the medicine dog, we only need the ears of rice, one person gets two sacks, and take the old way to deliver the goods in exchange for money. ”

The old owner of the second village, the Wu family, used to open a grain shop, so Wu Yechang, the grain store in Jixian County, was very familiar, and when he was in charge, he stole the grain in the fields and warehouses of the master's house in exchange for money.

The dozen or so people acted separately and soon picked a farmland: Lu Qiyuan's family's rice field was more than 100 zhang west, and a widow's family's rice field.

Lu Qiyuan has been here for more than a year, showing that he has a clean face and a clean face, and he does things impartially, which is very popular with the people. But everyone on the road knows that his hands are not clean either. Pan Rui, who bought 80 acres of fertile land in the west of Qingyu Lake, is a descendant of Lu Qiyuan's family. This Tian is not surnamed Pan, surnamed Lu!

They didn't dare to move the fields of the county lords, they were going to jail for dripping, but the small farmer's house next to them was dark under the lights. Because the Lu family's fields were guarded day and night, no one dared to steal grain. The farmers around the Lu family's rice fields are very relieved that they are not keeping watch at night, and it is impossible for the widow's family to have a man guarding the fields!

In addition, the widow's family lost food, firstly, no one stood up for her, and secondly, the first thing that everyone thought of was not to help find food, but that the widow did not keep the woman's way - if she kept the woman's way, why did she lose the grain in other people's fields, but her family?

Besides, the field next to Lord Lu's house lost grain, why didn't so many people in the Lu family find out? Obviously, this is what the Lu family's descendants stole it! You went to the yamen to sue? It's strange that the yamen cares about you!

The more calculated, the more Wu Yechang felt that this matter was reliable. So, the next night, when the grain man slept the deepest, Wu Yechang took a dozen people and stole the widow's two acres of land!

After they hid the ears of rice, they returned to the village in batches at night, not to mention how proud they were. The more than 200 catties of high-grade rice I got tonight are priced at 15 wen a catty according to the grain number, which is more than three pounds!

Three times in one night, if you do it for several nights in a row, how many will be distributed to him? When Wu Yechang fell asleep, he was still settling accounts beautifully. But when he woke up the next day, he couldn't laugh.

Wu Yechang's bloodshot bull's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe his ears, "Lu Zhixian's rice was lost, you didn't listen?" ”

His second brother Wu Yeliang was so frightened that his soul was almost gone, "Bad, bad, not bad!" Ya, the news passed down by the yamen. ”

Wu Yechang drank a large bowl of cold water, and only after sobering up for a while did he speculate, "It must have been done by someone else, let's go, let's go and see!" You collect some for me, we'll all die if we expose the stuffing! ”

Wu Yeliang nodded like pounding garlic and followed his eldest brother out. Coincidentally, Wu Yechang's daughter-in-law came out of the kitchen with gruel and hurriedly said, "The master, let's eat before leaving?" ”

"Eat a fart!" Wu Yechang scolded irritably, and he didn't know which one stole the rice of the Lu family without opening his eyes, and now the yamen must strictly investigate, and the rice they got last night can't be sold in a short time. I don't have any money, but isn't it a fart!

In the north of Jixian County, five miles west of Qingyu Lake, Lu Qiyuan got out of the carriage, looked at his family's ruined rice field, his face was greener than the official robe on his body, and said angrily, "The country is people-oriented, and the people are food-oriented." The law of the country clearly states: Those who destroy the seedlings shall be counted for every hundred, and fifty zhang shall be counted! There are thousands of seedlings destroyed here, and if you don't punish them severely, it is not enough to shock the wicked and eliminate the anger of the people! ”

"Chen Wu, this official orders you to take the commander to arrest quickly, investigate this case within two days, and bring all the perpetrators to the official office!"

"The villain takes the order!" The headcatcher Chen Wu clenched his fists and took the errand hard.

The three classes of the county government are responsible for the soap class of the duty officer, the fast arrest of the division, and the strong class with poor strength, and each class has a team leader to lead the class. Headcatcher, as the name suggests, is to catch the head of the team.

In the past six years, Jixian County has changed three magistrates, but the head catcher has not changed, it is all him Chen Wu. Chen Wu knew everything about the ruffians in the villages and towns of Ji County, and he could guess who was responsible for the ordinary theft cases without investigation.

But this case really hurt Chen Wu's brain. The fertile fields around Qingyu Lake are hundreds of acres large, and no one who steals grain steals it, and spoils the grain of the adults and fellow villagers of Zhixian County, which is by no means something that a small ruffian who wants to make money dares to do.

If not for money, but for what?

Two days ago, Lord Lu just tried the case of destroying the seedlings of Chen Xiaonuan's family, and in the blink of an eye, the seedlings of Lord Lu's fellow villagers were destroyed, can it be related at all?

The case in the second village was handled by Lord Lu in an inauthentic manner, which made Qin Anren feel aggrieved, and now that Chen Xiaonuan is back, how can he give up? This matter may have been done by Chen Xiaonuan.

The fellow townsman of the county magistrate is a figure in the eyes of the people, but in front of Chen Xiaonuan, he is not even a hair! I don't know if it's a fellow villager, even his family Lord Lu is not a green onion in Chen Xiaonuan's eyes. provoked her, whether it was the prince, the prince or her own Laozi, Chen Xiaonuan didn't pay attention to it.

How do you take this man? Chen Wu walked towards the field with a dozen catchers and heavy steps, hoping that it was a brainless food thief who ran to the wrong place, not Chen Xiaonuan.

Looking at the lively crowd, the brainless Wu family brothers were as if they had been struck by lightning. In front of them, the rice in the widow's field followed the south wind one by one, but the land of Lord Lu's house was horrified by them.

Wu Yechang dragged his second brother behind a big tree and scolded in a low voice, "This is the point you stepped on, ah?!" ”

This piece was stepped on by Wu Yeliang with two people. When I was walking around the neighborhood yesterday, Wu Yeliang really saw that the pergola of the Lu family was counting to the east of the eighteen big trees, and to the south was the widow's field. He also made a mark on the tree, how could that be wrong.

Wu Yeliang did not give up, turned to the south of the tree to see, he made the mark, the pergola next to the eighteen trees in the west, but the rice in the widow's field was also there!

"He, he, fuck, hit a ghost, ghost......" Wu Yeliang was completely blindsided.

"You fucking hit the hell of a ghost!" Wu Yechang's hands also began to tremble.