Courtyard House: Starting by inheriting the tradition and suppressing the barbarians.

The night was deep and still, the moon was dark and the wind was high.

The courtyard was deathly silent, save for the occasional weak bark of a hungry dog.

Ever since Sha Zhu's lunchboxes were cut off, the Jia family has been unable to make ends meet.

He could only drink wild vegetable soup every day, and Jia Dongxu was so hungry that he groaned in bed.

Banggeng was so hungry his eyes were practically green, and he was constantly thinking about where to steal some food.

But tonight, Bang Geng wasn't the only one eyeing the cured meat in the Li family's backyard.

Outside the backyard wall, two furtive dark figures crouched low and silently crept up to the base of Li Xuan's house.

"Ergou, are you sure there's meat in this house?"

One of the skinny, monkey-like men asked in a low voice.

"Nonsense! Jia Dongxu once told me when we were drinking that Li Xuan's family is rolling in money!"

"And I've been specifically smelling it these past few days; the smell of meat wafts through the air at night, so there must be a lot of cured meat hidden inside!"

The thug called Er Gou sniffed, as if he could already smell the aroma of meat.

"If we pull off this job, we two brothers will have a good New Year!"

These two were habitual thieves in the area, and they usually idled away their time.

He used to be close friends with Jia Dongxu, who was not yet paralyzed.

In these difficult times, driven by hunger, they set their sights on the "fat sheep" Li Xuan.

"superior!"

Er Gou squatted down and let Shou Hou climb up by stepping on his shoulders.

The skinny monkey clung to the top of the wall, sticking half his head out to look inside.

The courtyard was quiet, with a row of cured meats hanging under the eaves, looking particularly tempting in the dim starlight.

"Meat! It's really cured pork! Several pieces!"

The skinny monkey was so excited that he was practically drooling.

He turned around and made a gesture to Er Gou, then prepared to climb over the wall.

however.

He didn't notice that a white shadow moved next to the chimney on the roof.

Those were sharp eagle eyes that gleamed with a cold light in the darkness!

It was Li Xuan's spirit pet—the gyrfalcon "Azure Sky"!

Inside the room, Li Xuan was not asleep.

With his "Eagle Eye Sharing" ability, he spotted the two petty thieves as soon as they entered the alley.

"You ignorant fool, daring to set your claws in my house?"

Li Xuan lay in his warm bed, a cold smile playing on his lips.

He issued the command to the heavens directly through a mental link:

"Leave them a mark, don't kill them, leave them alive."

on the roof.

Upon receiving its master's command, the sky suddenly spread its wings.

"Rage!"

A sharp, piercing cry of an eagle shattered the silence of the night sky!

Immediately afterwards, a white bolt of lightning struck down from the sky.

With a sharp whistling sound, it rushed straight at the skinny monkey who had just climbed onto the wall!

"What is it?"

The skinny monkey felt a gust of evil wind blow up from above.

Before I could even lift my head, I felt a sharp pain in my face!

"what!"

The sky's claws, as hard as steel, precisely gripped the skinny monkey's face.

Although I held back a bit and didn't blind anyone, I still managed to tear open several bloody gashes in an instant!

"My face!"

The skinny monkey screamed and lost his balance, falling headfirst from the two-meter-high wall.

"Ouch!"

The two dogs below are preparing to provide backup.

As a result, they were hit squarely by someone falling from above, and the two of them rolled around in a heap, completely disoriented.

"Thief! A thief has climbed over the wall!"

Li Xuan turned on the light at the opportune moment, put on his coat, and rushed out.

He was also holding a rolling pin that he had prepared beforehand.

"Where? Where's the thief?"

The screams woke the neighbors in the front and middle yards, who quickly threw on their clothes, grabbed shovels and brooms, and rushed out.

Xu Damao, in particular, was more enthusiastic than anyone else when he heard about catching thieves. He grabbed a flashlight and rushed to the backyard wall.

"There they are! Don't let them get away!"

The beam of the flashlight shone.

At the base of the wall, two dark figures were supporting each other as they tried to run away, with a pool of blood on the ground.

"beat!"

The neighbors had a lot of grievances they had been holding in and had nowhere to vent them.

Once you see a thief, how can you be polite?

They immediately swarmed forward and gave the two of them a sound beating.

"Stop hitting him! Stop hitting him!"

"If you keep hitting him, someone will die!"

The two thugs were beaten so badly they cried for their parents and ran away with their heads in their hands.

Not long after, Captain Xu from the police station arrived with his men.

"Stop! Take them back to the station!"

The two thugs, their faces bruised and covered in blood, were handcuffed.

Li Xuan stepped forward, looking terrified, and said, "Uncle Xu, those two were too ruthless."

"Trying to break into a house with a knife in the middle of the night!"

"If my pet eagle hadn't discovered me, I'd be dead!"

"Home invasion robbery? Armed with a knife?"

Captain Xu's face darkened; this was a completely different matter. "Take her back! Interrogate her immediately!"

......

The news reached the courtyard house early the next morning.

Those two thieves confessed!

They admitted that they wanted to steal Li Xuan's cured meat.

But what's even more shocking is that they also implicated Jia Dongxu!

"Officer, we didn't want to come either!"

"It's that Jia Dongxu! He used to brag to us every day when we were drinking together that there were fat sheep in this yard."

"They say the Li family is full of good stuff, and that the walls here are easy to climb over..."

"We were instigated by him!"

Although Jia Dongxu hasn't seen them recently.

But that doesn’t stop them from making baseless accusations and shifting blame onto others in order to get a reduced sentence!

This caused an uproar in the courtyard.

"Good! I knew there were no good people in the Jia family!"

"He's paralyzed himself, yet he's still not behaving himself, actually colluding with thugs to steal from his neighbor?"

"This is like inviting a wolf into the house! People like this shouldn't live in our compound!"

The Intermediate People's Court, the Jia family.

The police came again, albeit due to insufficient evidence.

Furthermore, Jia Dongxu is paralyzed in bed and indeed lacks the ability to commit crimes, so he cannot be arrested.

But a stern warning and reprimand are inevitable.

"Jia Dongxu! Watch your mouth!"

"If we find out again that you have any connection with these criminals..."

"Even if you're paralyzed, we'll still get you in!"

After the police left, the Jia family's door was surrounded by neighbors pointing and whispering.

Some children even spat at his windows!

Qin Huairu huddled in a corner and cried, and Jia Zhangshi dared not curse anymore.

Jia Dongxu, lying on the bed, was so angry that he was trembling all over and his eyes rolled back.

His blood rushed to his head, and he spat out a mouthful of bloody foam.

He's innocent!

He's truly innocent this time!

He's been so busy lately he can't even get out of bed, how could he possibly have time to instigate others to steal?

But he's destined to take the blame!

backyard.

Li Xuan fed Cang Qiong a tender strip of meat and stroked its smooth feathers.

"Well done."

"Now, the Jia family has become like rats crossing the street in this courtyard."

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