Travel back to ancient times and open a Sichuan restaurant

Chapter 321

Late at night, the sound of a gong suddenly came from the direction of the workshop.

Chen Dongzhi slept on the outside of the bed. He was a light sleeper and woke up as soon as the gong sounded. He heard a few words intermittently. He turned his head to look at his wife who was not awakened by the noise, and got up to go out to check.

Some people on the road had already come out to see what was going on.

He had just walked out two steps when the little yellow dog, who came out from nowhere, bit his trouser leg.

"what's up?"

Xiao Huang pulled his trouser leg in one direction. Chen Dongzhi looked in the direction it was pulling and there seemed to be a few dogs barking over there.

As I followed them, I saw all the dogs in the village gathered under a tree, circling back and forth, as if something on the tree had attracted their attention.

When I looked up, I saw a person hanging on the tree.

I guess this is the reason why Xiao Huang and the others stayed here and refused to leave.

At the workshop, Ji Jiang and Zhao Dazhuang tied up the person who sneaked in.

Zhong Ruyi and other villagers who were also woken up went in and saw that several oil lamps were lit in the yard, making the yard bright.

A man in his thirties was thrown to the ground with his hands and feet tied and his mouth covered. Ji Jiang saw the boss coming and went up to explain what had happened to her.

Upon learning that this person had sneaked in in the middle of the night with bad intentions, Zhong Ruyi's mood became even worse as she was already woken up from her sound sleep.

The villagers were filled with righteous indignation and shouted that they wanted to tie the man to a tree and beat him to death.

Zhong Ruyi looked around but didn't see Chen Dongzhi. He was missing when she got up just now, and no one knew where he had gone.

The third brother on the ground looked terrified. He never thought that he would be caught for stealing a can tonight. Now he just hoped that the youngest brother would run away so that he could find a chance to rescue himself.

But the more you fear something, the more it will come.

He was just wondering why he hadn't seen the youngest child for such a long time and wondered if he had run away. But the next second he saw a tall man coming over with the youngest child, who looked like a little chicken, in his hands.

"How do you know there's someone else who hasn't been caught?" Zhong Ruyi was a little surprised. She thought the man had gone somewhere, but it turned out he had gone to catch another thief.

The young man that Chen Dongzhi was holding in his hand looked timid, as if he was frightened.

Chen Dongzhi explained to her in a low voice, "I thought something had happened, and when I came out, Xiao Huang took me under the tree. It turned out that there was someone hiding in the tree." Since you saw it, just grab it. Who knows if you were hiding in the tree in the middle of the night to do something bad?

Hearing this, Zhong Ruyi patted Xiao Huang's head and praised him, "Great! I'll give you a big chicken drumstick as a reward tomorrow."

Little Yellow barked twice, and a few more dogs followed behind her and also circled around her.

"Very good! You all are great!"

Zhong Ruyi praised him a few words and then turned to look at the two thieves who were trembling with fear.

"Da Zhuang, take the cloth off their mouths and see if they have anything to say. If not, just beat them to death and feed them to the dogs!"

As soon as these words came out, the timid youngest child was already crying on the spot. He began to regret why he listened to the third child and stole some canned food. This time, today was his death day!

Although the third brother beside him was also a little flustered, he looked much calmer than him.

He cleared his throat and was about to say that the two of them had just barged in accidentally and had no bad intentions.

As if seeing through his thoughts, Zhong Ruyi said calmly, "You only have one chance. If you don't tell the truth, you don't want to know the consequences."

Although she had a smile on her face, the threat in her words could not be ignored.

There was no way. The arrival of these two people was too coincidental. Last month, Boss Zhao hired someone to steal her recipe. Not long after that, someone came to the workshop again to do something unknown.

Lao San thought that he had only come to steal some canned food, and these people were making such a fuss, could they really beat him to death? He simply shut his mouth and refused to say anything.

The surrounding villagers were dissatisfied with this and started shouting loudly:

"What does this person mean? How dare he be so arrogant even though he stole something?"

"In my opinion, we should teach them a lesson!"

He refused to say anything, but the youngest one was so frightened that he hurriedly got up from the ground and said, "I'll tell you, I'll tell you!"

Zhong Ruyi leaned on the man, yawned, and signaled him to speak quickly.

The youngest one cried, "We just heard from the villagers that you have a workshop here, and the canned food you make is very valuable, one can be sold for 200 coins, so we thought of coming here to see if we can steal a few and sell them for money."

That's it?

Zhong Ruyi was a little unconvinced and looked between the two of them with suspicion.

If his hands hadn't been tied, the youngest would have almost pointed to the heavens and sworn, "Really! I'm not lying! We are from Datian Village."

Speaking of Datian Village, Aunt Tian's eldest daughter-in-law's face froze in the crowd. She just saw that these two people looked familiar, but she didn't expect that they were from Datian Village. She was from Datian Village and married to Xinghua Village.

But these two people have nothing to do with her? This should be none of her business, right?

The youngest suddenly saw Auntie Tian's eldest daughter-in-law in the crowd and immediately shouted, "It's her! It's her!"

The third brother also looked over there, and his mouth, which had been tightly closed, opened. "It's her! Her brother told us when he was playing dice! He said that his sister found a job at her husband's house, and she can earn more than two taels of silver a month!"

None of the people he was playing with at the time believed him and laughed at him for bragging.

"Really! My sister had only worked there for half a month, and the workshop gave some of the poorly made pork jerky to them to take home and eat. I know my sister took some back to her parents' home!"

Everyone was half-believing and half-doubting. Aunt Tian's eldest daughter-in-law's younger brother became even more excited when he saw this. "My sister said that the canned goods made in the workshop are valuable goods. One can sell for two hundred coins! They have to make hundreds of cans a day!"

Hey!

When they heard him say it sounded very convincing, everyone believed it a little, but did not take it to heart. Only the third brother who was present listened to him.

After playing, he found the youngest brother and discussed stealing some cans from the workshop to sell for money. The two hit it off and agreed to come and steal the cans at night. However, they were caught before they could even touch the edge of the can.

Aunt Tian's heart sank. Seeing the panic on her eldest daughter-in-law's face, she knew that this matter was really related to her. She said sternly, "Hurry up and explain yourself!"

"How would I know this, mother? I only mentioned it to my parents when I went back to my mother's house. I didn't tell anyone else." Aunt Tian's eldest daughter-in-law was a little at a loss. She did tell her family about it, but she also told them not to tell anyone else.

She never thought that her brother, who was such a big mouth, would actually tell this matter outside and attract two thieves! Now she really couldn't explain herself.

Zhong Ruyi was a little surprised. It seemed that these two thieves were indeed not sent by Boss Zhao?