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A’Tao was so shocked by the huge surprise that she was speechless.
With a pocket full of sweet jujube candies and a handful of copper coins, she was simply taken out by Su Qiu in a daze.
When the chief steward of the Ye family finally closed the door and came back, Ye Fu Liu was still standing by the pit. She was standing on the edge of the pit and was keenly looking down.
Hearing the footsteps of the chief steward approaching, Ye Fu Liu raised her bright round eyes as clear as glass. She raised her chin in the direction of the visitor and showed a hint of a smile.
“I asked you to do something, and you did it like this?! It was almost exposed by the little kid. Can I still be safe?? Can you let me have a good sleep?!”
Hearing that, the face of the eldest steward of the Ye family turned dark.
He also stood at the edge of the pit, expressionlessly staring down at the pit.
If A’Tao were two years older, she would have discovered that the bottom of the pit that was so hard just now was actually only covered by a thin layer of soft soil.
There were planks buried at the bottom of the pit.
The board was eight feet long, three feet wide and two feet high. It was more like a simple wooden coffin than a long wooden box.
It could fit an adult man who was not very big.
—The thin wooden coffin under the pit was slowly lifted up.
The wooden board was opened, revealing a pockmarked man lying inside.
The person who was buried alive had almost gone crazy. His face was covered in tears and snot, and his mouth was blocked by rags because he kept screaming.
Ye Fu Liu stood by the wooden board, boredly fiddling with the new white jade Pisces pendant, while casually talking to the person in the coffin.
“Brother Hu Mazi is a brave man. He sneaked into my Ye family’s door single-handedly and planned to rob my wealth first and then have sex with me?”
“If you walk too much at night, you will easily encounter ghosts and lose your life without knowing it…”
The man lying in the coffin vaguely cried while begging for mercy.
No one listened to what he said and the Ye family gave him two paths.
“The first way is to take you to the local government. Article 59 of the “Dayong Civil Code” states that those who break into a house with the intention of stealing will be punished with an eighty rod and three years in prison…”
“If you plead guilty and honestly serve your sentence, the sky is high and the land is vast. Let me not see you again.”
“And the second way, you Hu Mazi are a local gangster. You refuse to plead guilty. That’s easier to handle. Just lie down and I will transport you back to the bottom of the pit. To be buried—”
Hearing this, the man in the coffin wildly shook his head and vaguely shouted a few muffled syllables that had escaped from his blocked mouth.
“Plead guilty… please… I will plead guilty…”
Hearing this, Ye Fu Liu walked into the house with satisfaction.
She bought a bowl of honey water that she hadn’t drunk yet.
After taking two steps, she was stopped by a shout from behind.
The only big steward of the Ye family who was hired by Ye Fu Liu on the way. Of course, his surname was not Ye, but Qin.
Manager Qin asked, “Catch the thief and bring the stolen goods. I have caught the person and I will directly go to the county government office.”
“What are the stolen goods that will be presented to the court later?”
This was a good question.
Ye Fu Liu casually pointed to the corridor, “Over there.”
“Over there?” In the empty corridor, apart from the broken stone steps and small gravel on the ground, there was only a big cat’s basin that was so dirty that the original color could not be seen.
He had just pulled it out from the corner of the wall this morning.
It was popular in this dynasty to keep pets, and people from well-to-do families liked to keep pets like cats and dogs. There were a few cat bowls and dog bowls for feeding in every house.
“How much is the cat basin worth?!” Manager Qin’s eyelids twitched, “If you report the cat basin as stolen goods, I’m afraid the case won’t be filed.”
Hearing this, Ye Fu Liu turned around and looked at him with a slight smile.