The little Fubao in the deserted village made all the dignitaries in the court go crazy with envy

After recovering from the shock and calming down a little, he lit a fire in the main room.

Mrs. Lin went out several times to see what was going on. The bandits were tied up tightly and piled up against the courtyard wall, with only their nostrils and soles of their feet exposed. She guessed that the villagers had used all the ropes in the village to tie these bandits up, so there was no need to worry about them making a sudden attack.

As for whether the bandits would suffocate to death because the ropes were tied too many times and too tightly... Mrs. Lin felt that this might be what the villagers wanted.

Lin Jiang, on the other hand, was very busy, running around the living room and the kitchen, rummaging through drawers and cabinets.

Mrs. Lin really didn't have the energy to care about it, so she just let him go.

As the night deepens, people become increasingly sleepy, but dare not sleep.

Until there was another commotion outside the yard and shouts of joy could be heard from afar.

"Here they come! The police are coming!"

The women who were dozing off in the main hall of the Lin family woke up immediately, got up and ran to the yard, only to see countless villagers already at the door of their house.

It seems that no one slept that night.

There were about ten yamen runners who came, almost all the staff of the town yamen.

The leading constable was a burly man in his forties, dressed in tight clothes with a sword hanging from his waist and a stern expression.

After exempting the villagers from courtesy, the visitor first walked to the left wall of the courtyard to look at the bandits who were tied up and piled together there. The corners of his mouth twitched twice. The bandits, with only ropes on their bodies and no heads or faces visible, were thrown in the corner of the wall. In the middle of the night, a layer of snow had covered their bodies. At first glance, it was hard to tell whether they were dead or alive. In short, there was no movement at all.

They did look miserable, but the detective didn't want to use the word miserable to describe these evil people.

He turned his head and asked Lin Dashan, who was looking down with his hands hanging down, "Since you used drugs to knock the bandits unconscious and arrested them, present the evidence. Once the coroner verifies the evidence, you can collect the reward."

Lin Dashan and Lin Jiang exchanged glances quickly, "Yes, please wait a moment, sir."

Lin Jiang immediately turned around and ran to the kitchen, and quickly took out a burnt torch and presented it, "Sir, this is the evidence. My eldest brother hunted to support the family in his early years before his eyes were injured. He once learned the basic skills of making animal drugs from a deceased old hunter, but the medicinal properties are very weak. The bandits are inhumane, and my brothers and I had to rack our brains to find a way to protect our family. In the end, we came up with the idea of ​​using this drug to increase our chances of winning. At that time, we didn't know if it would work. If it worked, it would be the best. If it didn't work, we would have to risk our lives with the bandits. Unfortunately, there were not many drugs left in the house. The three of us brothers smeared all the drugs on the torches, and also poured kerosene that we were reluctant to use on weekdays to intensify the smoke. Your Excellency, you can ask the coroner to check, and the torch head should be able to detect the residual drug properties."

The constable stared at the three Lin brothers, who lowered their heads and answered tremblingly. After a while, he raised his hand and signaled the coroner to come forward to receive the evidence for inspection.

But in just a short moment, the hearts of the three Lin Dashan brothers rose and fell repeatedly, and the palms of their hands that were pressed against their trouser legs were full of sweat.

The villagers and the women of the Lin family who were crowded at the door were all confused and bewildered.

"Sir, I have completed the verification. The ashes on the torch head have indeed been found to contain drugs, and the drug is quite potent. It is indeed possible to knock someone out." The coroner finished the inspection quickly and reported loudly.

Hearing this, a hint of surprise flashed across Lin Jiang's eyes, but he didn't show it on his face at all.

The constable asked again, "Since the smoke was emitted by burning torches, why were only the bandits fainted? Do you, the Lin family, have an antidote to the smoke? Otherwise, how do you explain it?"

Lin Dashan's eyes moved slightly, and he bowed and answered, "Your Excellency, I was terrified! My Lin family is just an ordinary family, where do we have the antidote for the smoke? At that time, we had no choice but to use the smoke. Not only the bandits fainted, but also me and my second brother. At that time, we dared to do this because we hoped that the villagers would come to help quickly."

Lin Erhe followed up and said, "I would never dare to lie to you, sir. We brothers fainted in the yard at that time, and many villagers saw it."

As soon as these words came out, the villagers at the gate could no longer hold back and shouted, "Sir, I, Li Fugui, can testify on behalf of the Lin brothers. I was the first one to rush over, and I saw with my own eyes the eldest and second sons of the Lin family lying on the eaves of the kitchen porch!"

"Sir, I, Wang Erniu, can also testify! Aunt Lin and her two daughters-in-law thought Dashan and Erhe were poisoned to death, and they cried so hard that they couldn't speak!"

"Your Excellency, we all saw it! I was puzzled when I first didn't know. I grew up with the Lin brothers. How could they have such great abilities to defeat twenty bandits with only two of them? Now I know that they used smoke! This makes sense!"

"That's right. I've always wondered about this. It was said that the two brothers of the Lin family beat up a whole field of bandits, but when I helped tie them up, I didn't see any fight scars on the bandits. This is not right! I didn't expect there was such a secret! Dashan, Erhe, good job!"

Listening to the villagers' confident words, the constable's doubts disappeared, and he finally took out the reward money he had brought with him, "Well, now that the matter is settled, the government has posted a reward, so we must keep our word. More than 20 bandits, half of the reward money!"

After handing the silver to Lin Dashan, the constable waved his hand and ordered the yamen runners, "Take these bandits back and put them in jail. Let the garrison commander decide their fate! In addition, the commander has instructed that the yamen will do its best to eliminate the remaining bandits in Shennv Mountain as soon as possible. The people can spend the New Year with peace of mind!"

There was silence for a moment inside and outside the courtyard, and then cheers rose into the sky.

Amid shouts of "Your Excellency is wise", the villagers of Yuxi sent off the constable and the yamen runners.

The Lin family yard became quiet again.

The family returned to the main hall and sat around the fire. Lin Dashan handed the reward he had just received to Mrs. Lin, "Mother, fifteen taels!"

The heavy silver really fell into the palm of her hand. Before Mrs. Lin could say anything, her eyes turned red.

Fifteen taels is a lot in the eyes of a poor man and can easily solve the current difficulties of his family.

But this was something her son had risked his life to buy, and she felt it was heavy and hot in her hands.

Blinking away the tears in her eyes, Mrs. Lin gathered her thoughts and looked up at her three sons who were sitting in a row opposite her and grinning to themselves. "Let's not talk about anything else for now. What's going on with the smoke?"

The three brothers looked at each other with silly smiles and laughed silently.

Lin Dashan pushed Lin Jiang and said, "Mom, let the third brother speak. He came up with the idea, and the second brother and I are just cooperating with him."

When the topic came to this, the women of the Lin family all turned their eyes to Lin Jiang, waiting for him to answer their questions.

The villagers might not know the whole story and be easily fooled by what they saw, but they were different. They had some idea of ​​what happened at the time. At least they did not burn torches to disperse the smoke.

At that time, Lin Jiang stayed in the kitchen with them. The torch was lit, but it was never taken out. Could the smoke in the kitchen knock out the bandits outside the house?

impossible.