GBP Chapter 187 has nothing to do with my mother!
Chapter 187 has nothing to do with my mother!
Magistrate Li waved his hand and said:
"Ning Qi! We have all the evidence, what else do you want to say?!"
Seeing this, Aunt Ning Sangu rolled her eyes and started crying.
"Woo woo, sir, please spare our lives. We didn't do it on purpose. We really had no other choice but to do this. Woo woo woo, I will return all the silver to Jiang Yuwei, please don't kill me!"
Ning Qi looked at his mother, who was in tears, and gritted his teeth and said:
"Sir, this matter has nothing to do with my mother. She knows nothing about it. It was all done by me alone. I was confused for a moment, so I did such a thing."
Jiang Yuwei snorted coldly and said:
"I don't think your mother was unaware of it. It seems that she instructed you to do it."
Ning Qi heard this and said hurriedly:
"Reporting to the magistrate, I really didn't know about it. She told me before that she was bullied at Jiang Yuwei's house, so I was so angry that I wanted to avenge my mother, so I did it without telling her."
After hearing this, Magistrate Li nodded and said:
"You were the only one who committed the theft. Since you have already pleaded guilty, please sign the confession. Someone, take Ning Qi into custody."
After that, two police officers took Ning Qi away. Magistrate Li handed the silver to Jiang Yuwei and said:
"Is it okay for Jiang Yuwei to count the amount of silver you lost?"
Jiang Yuwei stepped forward to take the silver, and then she saw Manager Zhang anxiously said:
"Well, there is also my five taels of silver in it."
Jiang Yuwei naturally would not covet Manager Zhang's money. She first counted all the silver, and when she saw that the amount was correct, she took out five taels of silver and handed it to Manager Zhang. In this way, the matter was settled.
Jiang Yuwei drove the ox cart with Manager Li and prepared to rush to North Street. As soon as she left the government office, she saw Aunt Ning glaring at her with hatred, so Jiang Yuwei stepped forward and said:
"Aunt Ning, I didn't send you to jail this time because I appreciated Ning Qi's filial piety and the friendship between us fellow villagers. If you still don't repent after this incident and want to have any evil thoughts again, I will not let you off easily!"
After saying that, Jiang Yuwei got on the ox cart and headed for North Street without looking back. When she arrived at North Street, Jiang Yuwei first dropped off Manager Li at the entrance of Taihe Bookstore.
"We would like to thank Shopkeeper Li for speaking out for justice today. The past is over and we will not mention it anymore. In the future, if Shopkeeper Li needs paper, he can come to our Moxiangzhai."
When Shopkeeper Li heard Jiang Yuwei say this, he bowed and said:
"Okay, okay, I will definitely go to Moxiangzhai to take a look."
After that, the two said goodbye to each other. As soon as Jiang Yuwei arrived at Moxiangzhai, she handed the silver to Uncle Ning Wu and asked him to deposit it into the account. Seeing that there were not many customers in the front, Jiang Yuwei asked Ning Zhao to take Ning Wan and the fool to the backyard to clean up the yard and the hut.
Jiang Yuwei went to check on Xiao Hei again and saw that he was no longer bleeding and his wound had been bandaged by Doctor Lin. She then felt relieved and fetched another bucket of spiritual spring water to feed Xiao Hei. Unexpectedly, Xiao Hei, who had been listless at first, suddenly started to jump up and down after drinking the spiritual spring water, and happily circled around Jiang Yuwei.
Seeing this, Jiang Yuwei hurriedly told the fool:
"Silly, if you want Xiao Hei to get better soon, feed him more water from this bucket every day. Do you hear me?"
The fool saw that Xiao Hei became much more lively after drinking the water, so he nodded in agreement.
Jiang Yuwei thought that the Dragon Boat Festival was coming tomorrow, and the store should organize some activities, so she went straight to the grocery store and bought some embroidery threads of various colors and thicknesses, planning to keep them to make colorful ropes at home. All customers who came to the store to make a purchase on the Dragon Boat Festival would receive a colorful rope for free.
Jiang Yuwei thought that she should make more rice dumplings to share with everyone when she got home tonight, so she went directly to the grocery store and bought some glutinous rice, rhubarb rice and various beans. She also went to the butcher shop to buy some pork belly. Jiang Yuwei planned to make some meat dumplings and some sweet dumplings to eat.
When she returned to Moxiangzhai, it was already evening. Seeing that the backyard had been cleaned up, Jiang Yuwei asked the fool to stay to guard the shop. She also took away all the silver in the cabinet and then closed the shop with peace of mind.
After this lesson, Jiang Yuwei no longer dared to leave money in the shop. From now on, she would take away all the money when closing the shop every day, and take out some money when opening in the morning for Uncle Ning to keep as change.
The group quickly returned to Ningjia Village. As soon as Jiang Yuwei returned to the courtyard, she soaked glutinous rice and rhubarb rice, and then went to the backyard to teach Liu and others how to weave colorful ropes. Jiang Yuwei had been able to weave bracelets by herself since she was a child, so colorful ropes were easy for her to make.
Jiang Yuwei taught Liu and the others how to make simple knots such as the snake knot and the diamond knot. She herself combined several rope-braiding techniques to make some complex and beautiful bracelets. Everyone learned quickly, so a hundred bracelets were soon woven. Jiang Yuwei also woven an extra one for each person in the paper mill to wear early the next morning.
After the ropes were woven and the rice was soaked, Jiang Yuwei lit a fire, washed the bamboo leaves picked at the foot of the mountain and boiled them in water. Then she called everyone to come together to make zongzi. Soon four large pots were filled with zongzi. Jiang Yuwei also washed many eggs and put them in the pot to cook with the zongzi.
Ning Wu, Tie Zhu, Zhang Guang and Tian He each watched a pot burning, while Jiang Yuwei took the time to mix two more cold dishes. Jiang Yuwei thought that everyone should eat rice dumplings, eggs and cold dishes tonight, so that they could finish eating early and go back to sleep.
Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival. I will cook a good meal and invite Xiaoyun, Uncle Zhang, Uncle Youcai and Goudan to come to the courtyard for dinner, so that we can all get together and have fun.
Soon the rice dumplings were cooked. Jiang Yuwei first took out a pot to share with everyone. After everyone had eaten their fill, she took out another pot of rice dumplings and distributed some to each family. As for the remaining two pots, one was kept for consumption the next day, and the other was taken to North Street to give away.
next day
Jiang Yuwei got up early and put the colorful ropes on Ning Zhao and Ning Wan. After she put one on herself, she wanted to put one on Ning Huaizhi as well. Ning Huaizhi frowned and said:
"These are things for children, I won't use them..."
Jiang Yuwei did not allow any refusal, and directly took Ning Huaizhi's hand and lowered her head to put the bracelet on him. Ning Huaizhi felt a little embarrassed when Jiang Yuwei held his hand, so he lowered his head and whispered:
"Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. Ping'an Town will hold a dragon boat race on the Ping'an River. Wife, do you want to go and see it?"
Before Jiang Yuwei could speak, Ning Wan said happily:
"Wan'er wants to go to the dragon boat race. Mommy and Daddy will take Wan'er with you!"
Jiang Yuwei touched Ning Wan's head and said with a smile:
"Okay, let's go shopping some time and take you and your brother with us."
After hearing this, Ning Huaizhi curled up the corners of his mouth into a barely noticeable smile.
Jiang Yuwei took his hand and looked at the black and blue bracelet she had prepared for him, and said with a smile:
"Look, how beautiful it is!"