Chapter 25

Thief?

Lin Minjun has lived here for more than a month, except for the beginning of the misunderstanding of the second child to steal things, other than the thief did not see ah

Can’t it be that there is a thief today?

Not right, in broad daylight, a group of amazons sitting in the yard all day, not to mention the thief, even the nearby rats in broad daylight also have to pin their tails before they dare to sneak a circle from the root of the wall underground, the amazons’ eyes are sharp

Lin Minjun is now full of questions, saw the aunt to run, and pulled back, “Auntie, who is this thief ah, and if you really catch the thief, should not be handed over to the police station, so that the public security to the trial? How can you tie up and lynch him, it’s against the law”

“I just heard about it, I’m not sure, but I heard that the thief is from the courtyard” This old lady while saying, but also to the door to look inside, “also not called lynching it, is your yard master to open the whole yard assembly, I guess it, just like some years ago, tied up a couple of scolding, criticized a couple of voice, otherwise, you say a yard living, do you really want to report to the public security, to send people to jail?”

With the yard came a clamor, obviously lively up well, the big mom was anxious, “Hey girl you do not hold me, let me go in to see ah, if you are curious about their own past to see on it”

Auntie shook her hand and ran away, Lin Minjun stomach more questions, and, in the heart there is a kind of bad feeling

Ever since she had come over, she had always heard people say that there was a thief in the yard, and the moment they said the thief was Erwa

Wouldn’t it be Erwa who was tied up and criticized in the yard at this moment?

Lin Minjun parked the tricycle at the root of the wall, simply lock it and ran into the yard

Inside is really lively, a courtyard no one, but into the second courtyard, good guy, the whole hutong as long as not work should be all here, people crowded, even the copy of the porch are standing people, all stretched out their necks to the middle of the courtyard planted under a pomegranate tree to see Lin Minjun to the inside of the time when people are still whispering it

A man standing in the bottom of the copying hand parlor with his hands behind his back asked, “What’s going on here? We can’t see it How can you hold a meeting without a good reason, and engage in that kind of criticism again?”

“I just listened to an ear, said the second child stole a grandpa family to keep the New Year’s bacon, a large piece, is estimated to be worth a lot of money it, you see, a grandpa family to catch the person began to try” Another said

“This child how also no one tube ah, all day to steal chickens and dogs, grow up still good?”

“No father, no mother, no one to educate, but not so” The man was talking and laughing, suddenly his eyes were sharp, “Look, the trial is up”

Once Lin Minjun heard that it was really Erwa, her sweat came out, she didn’t want to think about anything right now, she just wanted to squeeze in and see what was going on

“Make way, I’m from this courtyard, you guys let me in to take a look” Lin Minjun said

But everyone watching the crowd was happy, how happy to get out of the way, in the end Lin Minjun froze and pushed the ones next to her away with force, squeezing a way out of the crowd and walking to the front

This look, her teeth bit her upper lip, her hand suddenly pinched tight

Yan Shao little comrade, that is, Erwa at this time was tied to a bench, face down was facing up, can not see the child’s expression, hands and feet are bound, is a few humiliating position, next to the circle of standing around, the yard is almost all in, an older woman with a cane standing next to her, eyebrows high up, a face of anger and frustration

She pointed her finger at Erwa, her attitude was especially tough, “You stole from someone and still don’t admit it, quickly say, do you admit your fault?”

“I didn’t steal, why should I admit fault?” Erwa’s voice was muffled and stubborn, and the words came out almost through clenched teeth

“You still haven’t stolen, my family’s bacon was hanging nicely on the beams of the room, and it disappeared in one afternoon’s work, who else in this yard would steal besides you, and you still have a stiff upper lip” A big mom usually speak without thinking, now on the basis of their own advantage, speak even more unpleasant

“See in are a yard, you also small age, today will not send you to the police station, but you must admit fault, so young children learn to steal chickens and dogs, still good? There is a mother born without a mother to teach, I am your elder, today I will help them to educate you”

Erwa roared, “Said I didn’t steal, what gives you the right to wrong people!”

“How have I wronged you? Ah? How did I wrong you, today Friday yard people have to work, Shunzi Zhuzi followed Xiaoxia back to her mother’s home, only you a truant in the house, afternoon I also smelled the smell of meat from your house, it is not you can be who, you tell me ah?” Auntie hated the stubbornness of people, and carried a cane to whip her buttocks

A big mom’s words were particularly unpleasant, and everyone felt bad when she spoke like that, but everyone was afraid that she would turn the words against herself, so they didn’t say anything for a while

Besides, the first grandpa hadn’t given his word yet, so it wasn’t their turn

The first grandpa just stood next to him, blazing away and smoking, and the others were even more afraid to speak

Lin Minjun stood in the crowd, saw this scene in front of her, immediately thought of her own childhood

The situation of the second child with her childhood is particularly similar, no parents, no one to support, the neighborhood once less something, everyone to her on the body, relatives do not care about anything, heard others say she stole something, without saying is to beat, others just look at it, do not say anything

She was both angry and feel aggrieved, what’s wrong with children, no parents what’s wrong, children should be given a beating? Not even evidence, with a few lines of reasoning can tie up people and beat them?

Lin Minjun is not only aggrieved on behalf of Erwa, but also on behalf of herself as a child

When she was a child, she didn’t have the ability to resist, no one stood up for her, but now she can!

Seeing that an older woman was about to whip Erwa’s butt, Lin Minjun was instantly enraged and pushed away the person in front of her to go forward

“Xiao Lin what are you doing? Don’t rashly go up and take the lead, didn’t you hear them say Erwa stole bacon?” Someone grabbed her hand

Lin Minjun turned around and looked, and immediately recognized that the person who grabbed her was Auntie Xia, who had her hair tied up all year round, and was rough and grumpy with everyone, and in Auntie Xu’s words, Auntie Xia had been treating herself like a man all year round, and wanted to be nice to everyone

Lin Minjun can not figure out, since you want to be good with anyone, why do not you say a few words when you see something unfair, even if you do not say it, you do not allow others to say it, is your want to be good still look at people?

“Did they steal bacon just because they said they stole bacon? Is there any evidence? Any witnesses?” Lin Minjun pulled away from her hand and asked rhetorically

Auntie Xia: “There’s no one in this yard who loves to steal except him”

“Oh, just like that the hat is off, then if I still say I stole it, do I still have to be tied up and beaten?” Lin Minjun asked one more time

“You all know, now in addition to breakfast, the other two meals are paid to eat in my place, today at noon Erwa ate a bowl of red three chopped, two bowls of rice with large ballast and three nests, finally I was in a hurry to go to set up a stall, the three nests are the baby himself to take it home and eat it, the smell of the meat that you smelled is probably this flavor You all have children people, I would like to ask, a ten-year-old child ate all this, but also to steal bacon to eat, he is trying to hold himself alive?”

“That’s either he’s eating it himself or selling it” A big mom interjected

Well, she still has the face to speak, Lin Minjun at this time also does not care that the opposite side is the leader of the courtyard, pushing people away and walked up

“A big mom, do you have evidence? Someone saw him sell? Nothing, just say that his family has the smell of meat to beat the child, what’s wrong, he owes your family? If you really want to say who owes who, it’s you who owes Erwa, living in such a big house for nothing You said he stole something, and I also said that you bullied someone who was fatherless and had no one to back him up”

A big mom gave her an open-mouthed, cane still holding in mid-air asked, “So, you want to give him backing?”

“Yes, so what?” Lin Minjun a ruthless, go out on a limb, she had no one to back her up when she was a child, and in her last life she was so weak and unsure of herself, only to get off the train and marry Lu Deping

“You are not afraid of being grammed to death by him? This baby life bad it, the birth of his mother to the death, and then killed his father, and then his brother are killed, you’re not afraid of him grams you?”

This is to take the fate to say things, Lin Minjun even more feel ridiculous, counter-argument, “To tell you the truth, I was also from the novel to the big, how many people say I life hard, we see who grams who”

A big mom angry face is white, dog anxious to jump over the wall: “OK, then I’m waiting, I’m waiting to see you unlucky, by his grams to death”

Words have not finished, trapped on the bench of the second child suddenly roared up, “Okay, I stole, I admit that I stole not okay? Don’t say it”

“You see you see” A big mom shouted, “He admitted it himself, you still speak for him, this child has a future? He’s been stealing chickens and dogs since he was a child, and he’s going to jail!”

A big mom can be considered to have found an opportunity, began to be reasonable and unforgiving, “you guys say, I hit the wrong? If a child steals something, he should be educated, have I educated him wrong?”

“I admit to stealing not okay? Don’t say it” Erwa mumbled

Lin Minjun didn’t believe this!

When she first came here, everyone said that Erwa was a thief and a bad judge of character, and even Auntie Xu suspected that it was him once she said that someone had stolen something

But get along so long, Lin Minjun found that the second child is not at all so ah, although his mouth is hard, talk unpleasant, but eat something to give money, never take advantage of her, and occasionally bumped into the road, but also came over to help give a hand to help her lift the potatoes

Besides, he ate so much at noon, he then went to steal bacon to eat, is not to hold himself up

Lin Minjun does not believe that he stole bacon, squatted down, broke over the head of Erwa

At a glance, Erwa was in tears and didn’t dare to look her in the eye, saying sullenly, “I stole it, you guys stop arguing”

“No, you didn’t steal it at all, you are afraid that she cursed me to be grammed to death by you, that’s why you said you stole it, isn’t it?” Lin Minjun asked

Erwa skimmed his head and didn’t say anything

Lin Minjun stood up to untie the wa, he was face down, his hands were tied to the bench legs, his hands were strangled red

“Hey no, this isn’t over yet, how can you untie him?” An older woman came up to stop it

Lin Minjun was shaking with anger, suddenly turned around and glared fiercely at her, “If you don’t let me, I’ll go to the police right now, I’ll say that you guys bullied and abused the orphans”

Helping Erwa up, he should have been frightened and kept saying, “I stole it, don’t argue”

“Didn’t steal is didn’t steal, why should I confess” Lin Minjun held his breath, two hands holding Erwa shoulders, tone especially heavy, “I do not have parents, you do not have, you call me a sister, I will treat you as my brother, you now give me cheer up, did not do things do not admit, the last time you did not catch the Shunzi and columns to steal my money? Why not this time, let’s find the thief to prove to her, really find, to make their family to compensate for the money, to make them apologize in public!”