Chapter 41: The Thief and His Loot Are Caught

  If I didn't mishear, it should be Su Si Xi's voice.

  "Don't move." The house servant holding Su Si's hands raised an eyebrow and shouted sternly, unexpectedly finding that although she was a woman, her strength was not small at all. If he hadn't used force, he would have almost been shaken off by her.

  Xiao Fan's courtyard, Xiao Changfu took over the package of rice grains mixed with pesticides from a servant's hand, which was snatched from Su Sihui's hand. He said to the servant beside him with a serious face: "You go and call her parents over."

  The whole family followed him to his death.

  Yue and Jia, awakened by the noise in the courtyard, got up together and walked to the door of the main hall. They saw the house servants holding torches and Su Si, tightly restrained by two house servants. They asked in surprise: "Fang'er, what's going on?"

  Su Xiaofan suddenly remembered that she hadn't told them about this yet, so she walked over: "Mother, can you come out now?"

  "Ah, it's almost been a full month, and if you just move around indoors, there shouldn't be any problem." After saying that, Madam Jia looked at Su Si and asked: "Si, what's wrong with you?"

  "Auntie, tell them to let me go, my hands are killing me." Su Si Xi struggled and flailed his arms wildly, but couldn't break free from the two house guards' restraints.

  "Something's wrong." Mrs. Jia furrowed her brow, looking worriedly at Su Xiaofan, then glanced at Xiao Changfu and Xiao Yimò standing beside him: "Why has the village head also come? What exactly happened?"

  Ye's family, although they had just come out and discovered Xiao Changfu, did not pay much attention to him. They were all thinking about why Si Xi was caught here at this time, and why the village chief brought so many servants.

  "Earlier, I accidentally discovered that the chickens and ducks that died in our house were actually poisoned to death, so I asked the village chief to come over to help. I hope to catch the person who threw poison into the enclosure where we raise chickens and ducks." Su Xiaofan looked at Su Sihui, who had never given up struggling, and wondered why she would do such a thing. Was it her parents' orders?

  Ye Shi suddenly remembered the rice grains that Fan Er had found in the fence that day, and saw her looking at Su Si Xi. A thought jumped out in her mind, but she didn't want to admit it. Although Su Si Xi was spoiled by her mother, she wasn't a malicious person who could do such a thing.

  Jia's family was also as surprised as Ye's, although Fan Er didn't explicitly state it, but he could infer from her tone that she was preparing to catch the person who poisoned, and at this moment, the servants were holding onto these four joyful ones, how could they not understand?

  After a long time, the sound of footsteps came from afar, and in this quiet night, in the quiet courtyard, the footsteps with anxiety stood out particularly clearly.

  "Wooo, let me go!" Su Si Xi obviously also heard those voices and struggled even harder.

  Su Xiaofan raised an eyebrow and looked over, her heart even more puzzled. Why did she sense that her parents had arrived, yet became even more flustered?

  Isn't this really done by her herself and has nothing to do with her parents?

  But in Su Xiaofan's memory, she had never been at odds with her, nor had the grandma and mother-in-law ever had any conflicts with her.

  "Four Joys, what's going on?" Meng's voice was shrill as she rushed over, trying to snatch Su Four Joys from the two family servants' hands, but was stopped by someone beside her before she could get close.

  "What's going on? Village head!" Meng still didn't quite understand the situation, and before dawn, he was woken up by the village head's servant, saying that the village head had invited them to Su Xiaofan's home. Although full of doubts, the couple still came from afar, but unexpectedly saw the fourth joy who should be sleeping in the house.

  "Mother..." Su Sixi stole a glance at Su Sanfu standing at the gate, then looked back at her own mother with tearful eyes.

  "Child, don't be in a hurry." Meng's family looked at her with heartache and then walked past the person who blocked herself to the village chief's side, asking softly: "Village chief, what's going on?"

  Xiao Changfu glanced at her lightly and said: "You'd better ask your precious daughter directly, it might be faster."

  Meng's face turned slightly awkward and she was stunned for a moment before speaking to Su Si again, "Si Xi, tell me, what's going on?"

  "Ah... Ah..." Su Si Xi opened his mouth but couldn't utter a complete sentence.

  "You're one to talk, are you trying to scare me to death?" Madam Meng's anxiety caused her to raise her voice.

  Su Si Xi silently lowered her head.

  Su Xiaofan helplessly shook her head, lazily yawning and stretching, thinking that if this continued, dawn would break soon. She took a step forward, slowly walking towards Meng's residence while saying: "Third Aunt, let me be the one to tell you, these past few days, for some reason, more than half of our chickens and ducks have suddenly died."

  Meng looked at her with a face full of disgust, although his mother had already returned all the silver they owed to their family, he still disliked her. He never thought that the originally quiet and unknown Su Xiaofan would become like this, easily earning hundreds of taels: "What does this have to do with our family's Fourth Joy?"

  "Third Aunt, don't be in a hurry, let me tell you slowly." Su Xiaofan walked to the front of Xiao Changfu, took the small package from his hand, and then stood in front of Meng Shi, smiling lightly: "Earlier, some rice grains mixed with pesticides were found in the chicken coop at my house. The chickens and ducks died after eating those things. And now, this thing in my hand was just snatched from Si Xi, she was about to throw it into our chicken coop. This is a clear case of guilt!"

  In response to Meng's slightly suspicious gaze, Su Xiaofan smiled and pointed to Su Sixi's shoes, saying: "In order to prevent you from denying it, I went up the mountain this afternoon and brought back some yellow mud. I covered a circle around the edge of the fence. If she hadn't approached my family's fence, how would her feet have gotten those yellow mud on them? And then Sixi came to the edge of my family's fence with this poisonous rice in the middle of the night, what did she want to do? You should understand, shouldn't you, Aunt San?"

  Meng's eyes widened in surprise as he looked at the embroidered edge of Su Si Xi's shoe, and indeed, it was stained with a lot of yellow mud. This kind of mud, anyone from this village would know, could only be found on the top of the mountain behind Su Xiao Fan's house. The soil was extremely sticky and wouldn't dry quickly in a short period of time. Occasionally, villagers would use it to bond the cracked courtyard walls of their homes.

  Si Xi himself was also trembling all over, his head hung low in deathly stillness, and suddenly he understood, his own daughter, how could he not understand her.

  By looking at her reaction, it's clear that what Su Xiaofan said was indeed done by her, but even if one thinks they understand her very well, they can't guess her intention at all. It's just some chickens and ducks that have been raised for a few days, so why would she want to poison them?

  Digression

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