Queen of flowers - Chapter 22

When it was quiet at night, Yong Ruo suddenly awakened from her sleep, because she seemed to hear a scream!

She rubbed her chaotic head and forced herself to wake up as soon as possible. Sure enough, she heard successive screams, which seemed to come from the direction of the bamboo nail array!

The courtyard of the Yong family had only one entrance. The courtyard door opens at the southeast corner. There was no house on the south side of the courtyard. There was only soil and fence separating the courtyard and the alley.

Under the wall of the courtyard on the south side, there was originally a small strip of vegetable field, but when Zhou and the original owner, Yong Ruo, fell ill, the vegetables in the field were eaten slowly. Now the spot was empty. Yong Ruo thought that the easiest way for a thief to enter was through the fence. Because the fence was not high, only a little thatched curtain was covered on the top of the wall to protect the yard from the rain, without any safety precautions.

So during the day, she had buried a large number of bamboo nails in this long small vegetable field. She also made a bamboo nail array fence that surrounded the yard.

Unexpectedly, her worries became real, a thief broke into the house at night and experienced the power of the bamboo nail array!

Hearing the screams one after another, Yong Ruo guessed that there were at least two people. They called so miserably; they must have stepped on the bamboo nails!

Hehe … they were suffering!

She yawned, stretched her waist, and while she was watching the movement outside, she slowly dressed up, and got out of bed to wear shoes.

She was preparing to stretch her arms, kick her legs, and do some warm-up exercises. When the neighbors got awakened, she would go out to meet the two thieves, she heard Yong Qiao’s panicked voice, ringing in the darkness, “Sister!!”

Yong Ruo was afraid to scare the children, and she said quickly, “I’m here! It’s all right! Don’t be afraid!”

Yong Qiao was obviously relieved, and while he was wearing clothes, he asked Yong Ruo in a low voice, “People outside are crying so badly, have they been tied by your bamboo nails ?!” Actually, he looked forward to seeing that!

“Sure it is!” Yong Ruo patted him. “Let’s light up the lamps later, before that we need to wait until the neighbors wake up from the thieves’ cries.”

She turned to look at Zhou’s bed- so much movement, but Zhou still slept so heavily? She took a few steps forward and probed Zhou’s carotid artery. After she felt the faint pulse, she was relieved, but at the same time was saddened by her condition- was she unconscious or lethargic?

Yong Qiao jumped off the bed and wore his shoes.

The two thieves in the yard had changed from screaming to shouting, “Help!” “Help!” “Yong Ruo, we are wrong! Forgive us!” In the dark night, such a familiar voice was heard. Damn!

Yong Ruo said, “Ouch! It was really an acquaintance!” Listening to their voices, she knew who they were; they were Wu Da and Wu Er, who lived in the neighborhood.

There was a gradual movement in the neighborhood, the sound of talking, running, opening and closing, breaking the tranquility of the night, and a few dogs barked in the distance, adding to the shocking commotion that night.

Yong Ruo lit the lamp, picked up a wooden stick, and said to Yong Qiao, “You stay in the house, guard our mother and third brother. If they are also awakened, you tell them not to be afraid!”

Yong Qiao grabbed her sleeves, begging, “Sister, please, you just take care of our mother and third brother! I am a man! I will go out!”

Yong Ruo smiled, “You’re still young! You won’t know what to do. Rest assured! The two thieves outside have lost 50% of their lives. They are only at my mercy. So they can’t hurt me! You be obedient, When you grow up, you can protect your sister! “

Yong Qiao’s eye turned red when he looked at Yong Ruo and lowered his head with a bit of hatred, “When will I grow up ?!”

“Don’t worry! There will be a time when you grow up. At that time, you will remember your childhood!” Opening the door, she walked out against the dim light in the room.

There were already people outside Yong’s house, knocking on the door.

“Yong Dayi … sister Yong … how are you?”

Yong Ruo yelled, “We’re all right! All right! Two little thieves broke into my house, stepped into a trap, got hurt, and are screaming!”

She walked over and took off the door bar behind the courtyard door, took off the small clip behind the door bolt, pulled the door bolt open, and then the courtyard door opened.

Outside the courtyard, stood some men with sticks and kitchen knives.

They held torches, lanterns, and looked at Yong Ruo dumbly. Jin Sanbao said, “Sister Yong, you said … the two thieves stepped into … the trap in your house?”

“Yeah!” Yong Ruo smiled. “My mother is ill, my two younger brothers are still young, and it’s just a house that women and children live in. Naturally we need some means to protect ourselves. Yesterday my family got some meat, won’t the thief be jealous and come to steal? A bamboo nail array was set up in the yard. I didn’t expect to catch two thieves. “

She stepped aside and greeted those who came in, “Come in! But don’t step into the fence, or your feet will be pierced by the bamboo nails.”

“Bamboo nails? Your feet will be pierced?” These words made several men outside the door swallow their spit, and Jin Sanbao said in fear, “Since the Yong family, has catched the thieves, then we won’t go in! You just go and see for yourself, we’ll wait outside. “

Another tall man, Qin Dayong, chuckled and walked in, “Didn’t the sister Yong say that nothing will happen if you don’t step into the fence. We’re here to get the thieves, and we’re not going over the wall to come in and be thieves. Afraid! I’ll take a look; those thieves are acquaintances in our alley! “