At this moment, several villagers came to carry hoe and load. They smelled the aroma of cooking chicken from a distance, and they all stopped to look at the beggar sitting by the earthen kiln, laughing and enjoying the chicken to himself.
Ma Chengzhi approached them and whispered to them about the loss of his purple rooster, and they understood immediately. One of them with a beard said, you suspect this beggar stole your purple rooster. Ma Chengzhi hummed and then asked with a beard, what are the characteristics of your purple rooster?
Yes, its wings and head feathers are dark green, very beautiful.
Is this the characteristic?
Ma Chengzhi hummed again.
What kind of characteristic is this? There are so many chickens of this color!
This is also a characteristic. I think there is still a way to get the beggar to tell where he stole the chicken and what color the chicken's feathers are.
One of them looked at the bearded man and Ma Chengzhi, and whispered the method that could be used.
Ma Chengzhi thought: Yes! He still whispered that if it was proven that the beggar had stolen my chicken, then I would tie him up.
One of them narrowed his eyes and said excitedly, "I will give you a hemp rope to tie him up."
At the moment, Ma Chengzhi asked the three villagers to keep an eye on the beggar here, while he went to the village wine shop to buy a bottle of wine and returned, handed it to the beggar and said, Alas! You just ate meat but didn't drink alcohol. That's a fly in the ointment.
Drink, drink... The beggar took the wine, and did not twist the cap with his hands. Instead, he bit open the bottle cap with his mouth, brought it close to his mouth, drank the whole bottle of wine with a tilt of his neck, and then poured out the empty bottle. He looked at Ma Chengzhi and said, are there any more?
No, why did you drink it all in one go instead of sipping it little by little? This is a pound and a half of wine! Ma Chengzhi felt a little heartbroken because it cost more than ten yuan to buy these drinks.
You’ll be addicted if you drink it all in one gulp! One bottle of wine is too little. Why don't you go get me one or two bottles of wine? The beggar, whose cheeks were gradually turning red, took advantage of the wine to speak in a commanding tone.
Ma Chengzhi glanced at the three villagers who were watching the fun and laughing, and then made a condition. It's not difficult if you want me to bring another one or two kilograms of wine. However, I will only satisfy you if I ask you a question and you answer it truthfully. requirements.
Tell me what the problem is. The beggar who was sitting on a bluestone stood up, still holding the half-eaten roast chicken in his hand. The stick with a silk thread wrapped under his butt was exposed. Ma Chengzhi looked at one end of the silk thread. There is also a steel needle that looks like a fishhook, and it becomes clear that the beggar used this steel needle to hook pieces of meat such as frogs to lure the chickens into swallowing them, and then captured them successfully.
Thinking of this, it is natural to have a secret hatred for beggars. He said, can you tell me the characteristics of the chicken you are eating now?
What do you mean? I didn't understand. The beggar spewed out a breath of alcohol as he spoke, and the alcohol was mixed with a little stench. Ma Chengzhi smelled it and immediately took a step back. He found that he really didn't understand enough, so he explained carefully. The characteristics I am talking about are asking you, The chicken you ate, before it was buried in the fire and burned in the mud, could you see the color of its feathers?
Its color is so pretty. The beggar smiled and said, the chickens I caught are all very good-looking chickens. I will not catch the unsightly chickens. I also came to the conclusion that any chicken with good-looking coats will have particularly fragrant and delicious meat.
The bearded man interjected, "Yes, a chicken with good-looking coats means it is fit and healthy, and the meat is of course delicious." Yin hook nose comically helped, you are a fucking beggar who also loves beauty.
Heart of beauty in everyone. Is the beggar still a human being? He sighed with squinted eyes and smiled with squinted eyes.
I just ask you, what color were the feathers of the chicken you ate before it was buried in the fire and burned? You only said that its coat color is beautiful. Isn't that for nothing? Ma Chengzhi couldn't wait to find out the result.
The beggar shook his head desperately and said that I don't remember, I don't remember, I only remember that its coat color is beautiful.
Just when Ma Chengzhi was despairing about the situation he was asking about, he found that the beggar put his hand into his trousers and took out something, and then took out a chicken head with a pink comb. It was a rooster. The thin feathers on the chicken's head were dark green. Its two eyes were still open, but there was no luster. At best, they glowed with a death light.
I saw the beggar holding up the chicken head and saying, "It's the color, it's so beautiful, and the cock's comb stands upright, looking arrogant to everything. It reminds me of a saying, I'd rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail." The reason why I cut this chicken head off the chicken body and kept it here is because it gave me the pride of being a chicken head.
Beggar, the chicken you stole is my chicken. Ma Chengzhi immediately straightened his face and stared at him with a sinister gaze, like the dusk sky showing an oppressive darkness.
Unexpectedly, the beggar acted as if nothing had happened. He said calmly, "The chicken you say is your chicken is your chicken. Are your chickens sick and poisonous and cannot be eaten?" Chickens that are not disease-free or poisonous can still be eaten.
You are a thief! Ma Chengzhi pointed at the beggar and screamed.
You are a thief! He narrowed his eyes and started to help, and pointed at his nose.
Am I a thief? Ha... The beggar put the chicken head in his hand into his trousers, and flicked the leftover headless chicken body in his other hand behind his back. A yellow dog who had been waiting for a long time was alert. He raised his head, caught it in his mouth, turned around and ran away.
The beggar was about to pick up the stick with a steel needle attached to it under his buttocks. Ma Chengzhi narrowed his eyes and winked, saying to tie him up to prevent him from stealing chickens and harming the villagers.
The beggar, who was in a half-drunk and half-awake state, looked like he was about to fall over when standing. He just bent down, and the stick with the steel needle tied to it was snatched away by Ma Chengzhi.
He rushed over to grab it, and Ma Chengzhi swung it into the dark night sky. At the same time, he stretched out his foot and flicked it, causing the beggar to fall down and gnaw on the mud.
He narrowed his eyes and said "Come on", and his beard and hooked nose became helpers. They came together one after another to control the beggar. One held his head, the other held his feet. Ma Chengzhi held his hand, which made the beggar unable to move and could only Howling like a pig, but to no avail.
Squinting his eyes, he used the hemp rope he had already prepared, threaded it through several times, and tied up the beggar. When everyone let go, Ma Chengzhi kicked him and yelled, "Beggar, let's see if you still steal the chicken." The beggar groaned, not knowing what to say, and then he stood up again, swaying as if he was about to fall, but he did not fall after all.
Narrowing his eyes, he said, "Send the beggar who stole the chicken to the police station?"
slow! Ma Chengzhi circled his hand and said angrily, I will take him to my house, hang him from the beam all night, and torture him to relieve his hatred. Who asked him to steal my chicken?
Gutter Nose also expressed his opinion that the police station may not care about such dirty beggars wandering around.
Beggars are beggars, vagrants and the like, and are managed by rescue stations under the Civil Affairs Bureau. The bearded man said and denied himself, but beggars and tramps either work as beggars or do things for themselves, but this beggar is a thief and should be handled by the police station.
No matter who controls him, I want to punish him first. Ma Chengzhi pulled the rope that tied the beggar, but he still refused to move. Ma Chengzhi said to the three of them, guys, help treat this guy.
Narrowing his eyes, he came up behind the beggar and pushed him on the back. After walking for a while, he still grumbled and refused to leave. The bearded man also stepped forward and pushed him. After walking for a while, he still stood still resistingly. , Guangou Nose walked closer, and instead of pushing him, he kicked him on the butt. The beggar screamed a few times, and then followed Ma Chengzhi honestly.
When they arrived at Ma Chengzhi's house and entered the main room, the three villagers were hanging the beggar on the beam with the help of lights. Ma Feilong came over, noticed it, and raised his crutch to stop him. What was this? You are from? Put him down quickly.
The beggar had sobered up, and when he saw the old man speaking for him, he started to cry as if he had met a savior.
