Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Look, what an honest father and daughter...

The people present looked at Cao Mei and Tian Fang with something strange in their eyes.

I thought that even if the food was scarce, it was much better than in 1958, 1959, so how could we be so hungry? It turned out that all the food had been borrowed, and the family had been without food for several days... If you don't eat for a few days, you will starve.

"No, everyone has enough food, so how can we ask for a loan? If we want to borrow, we should borrow from the brigade. We can just deduct the money when we distribute the food. If we borrow from others and run out of food, what kind of thing is that!"

"Oh, you said it was borrowed, but you never thought about paying it back, right? How can this be borrowed? This is clearly robbery, right?"

"I'm not surprised at all that Cao Mei did this, but I didn't expect Tian Fang to have something to do with this."

"Tsk, I told you long ago that it was just a nice talk, but you didn't believe me."

Most of the people working on the land were old people and children. To be more precise, apart from the children, most of them were aunties. The aunties always spoke up, not to mention that there were a few who didn't get along with Cao Mei and Tian Fang, so they started to talk about it.

Cao Mei was immediately furious: "What nonsense are you talking about? I didn't say I wouldn't return it, so how can it be considered as robbing? Besides, it's not your food that I borrowed, do you really need to be here and meddle in my business?!"

She pushed Shen Moer away with all her strength, and said confidently: "Our family has a large population and not enough food. Your family is small and the burden is small. We are all relatives. What's wrong with borrowing some food from your family? How can you be so stingy? If there is no food, just go and dig some wild vegetables and grass roots to eat. Who doesn't get by this way? Why are you the only one who is so fussy?!"

The others were immediately shocked by her shamelessness. Aunt Chen, who was always enthusiastic, immediately said, "Since your family is short of food, why don't you go dig up some wild vegetables and grass roots to eat?"

Shen Moer was pushed by Cao Mei and staggered to the ground, crying, "But I don't want to borrow it. My father is not at home. You took all the food away. You didn't even leave us a potato... Woo, I dug wild vegetables, but they are not filling. Woo, I am so hungry. I am not going to starve to death, am I?"

Shen Shaoyuan supported his daughter, his face flushed with anger: "Sister-in-law, you took away all the food while I was away, and now Mo'er is like this, and you still scold her, and you push her, you, you are going too far! Are you trying to force us to death?!"

The others also understood that Cao Mei took advantage of Shen Laoqi's absence and stole all the food from his house.

Both the father and daughter of the Shen family are timid and cowardly. They probably wouldn't dare to ask for it back, or even if they went to ask for it, Cao Mei wouldn't return it - everyone thinks that Cao Mei is capable of doing such a thing.

As for Shen Laoqi's family, with two working people and no other burdens, they should be able to be self-sufficient. However, they probably could not ask the team to borrow food, so the family ran out of food.

If Shen Moer hadn't fainted from hunger, the father and daughter might not have dared to mention this matter.

After finding out the whole story, everyone looked at Cao Mei with even more contempt. What kind of person is she!

Zhou Peijun was furious: "Aunt Cao, they didn't even want to borrow it, but you just took it away. Isn't this robbery?! Don't glare at me. If you don't agree, let's call the police station to come over and talk to them. Let's see whether they say you are right, or whether they will arrest you and put you in jail for a few days!"

Cao Mei was still staring at Zhou Peijun, unconvinced. But when she heard that they were going to arrest her and put her in jail, she immediately lost her temper and said, "No, it's just a small matter. Why do we need to call the police?"

She didn't think she had done anything wrong, but she knew that Zhou Peijun's brother-in-law was a public security officer, and she was afraid that her brother-in-law would be instigated by Zhou Peijun and really be arrested.

Zhou Peijun didn't really want to call the police. Cao Mei was definitely wrong in this matter, but rural people were used to resolving problems within the brigade. Otherwise, if the matter got out, their entire brigade would be embarrassed.

He angrily said, "Why don't you give the food back to them?!"

Cao Mei was naturally unwilling to take out the food that had fallen into her own pocket. Moreover, she did not feel sorry for the looted food. The family had been eating dry food every day for some time and had almost finished it.

Cao Mei muttered, "There's no food at home. We've eaten it all."

Shen Moer sobbed softly: "There are more than 40 kilograms of food and more than 20 kilograms of potatoes. How can they be eaten up? Wuuwuwu..."

The others gasped immediately. This added up to about 60 to 70 kilograms, which was really a lot!

I despise Cao Mei even more. Even if it was an emergency, she would only lend one or two kilograms at most. But she just wanted to snatch so much. What kind of person is she!

Zhou Peijun said directly: "I don't believe that you have no food at all. Let's go now and take a look together."

The nature of this matter is extremely bad. If Shen Laoqi and his daughter really starve to death, their Yangliu Brigade will probably become famous, a bad name.

Zhou Peijun made a prompt decision and headed straight for Shen Laosan's house.

Cao Mei hurriedly followed, shouting as she walked: "Okay, okay, my family still has some food, but their food was not taken by my family. Tian Fang and I shared it equally. You can't ask me to pay it back, right?"

Tian Fang had been silent, trying to get away with it, but after being yelled at by Cao Mei, she was furious but also knew that she couldn't escape, so she immediately chased after her to explain: "Old Cao did give my family a little bit, and I left it there. I'm going to get it now."

Cao Mei felt that this was not right, but she was the one who took the food and distributed it to Tian Fang. When Tian Fang said this, she couldn't find any words to refute it. Then she thought that everyone else scolded her but not Tian Fang, and Tian Fang didn't say anything to help her, so she glared at Tian Fang angrily. Tian Fang, on the other hand, just pretended that she didn't know.

Naturally, other people followed suit. After hearing this, many people thought that Tian Fang had accepted the grain distributed by Cao Mei without knowing it. They felt that Cao Mei was really despicable. Not only did she rob people of their grain, but she also used it to do favors. She was simply shameless.

Aunt Chen helped Shen Shaoyuan hold Shen Moer and muttered, "The Tian family member is really clean. Maybe she was the one who came up with the bad idea."

Shen Moer and Shen Shaoyuan looked at each other and thought that Aunt Chen was a rare sensible person in the village. Tian Fang looked sweet on the outside but was actually bitter on the inside. Wasn't it her who came up with the evil idea?

A group of people walked all the way from the village entrance into the village, and finally arrived after more than ten minutes.

There are four brothers in the old Shen family, the eldest, second, third and seventh brothers. The first three live together in a row of blue brick and tile houses, which were built when the old man was still alive.

Before the old man passed away, the house was divided among the family, and Shen Laoqi actually had a share. However, he was not married at that time, but his nephews who were older than him were married and felt that the house was too crowded, so they "borrowed" the house.

When Shen Laoqi got married, his nephews did not talk about returning the house. Instead, they pooled some money together and bought a confiscated storage room from the village. They repaired it up and handed it over to Shen Laoqi, and that was considered returning the house.

You can imagine how sturdy a utility room can be.

Over the years, villagers have heard a lot about the air leaks and water leaks in Shen Laoqi's house.

When everyone saw this row of solid blue brick and tile houses, they all had a sudden realization: The Shen family might have a history of borrowing things!

Everyone knew that Shen Laoqi's family suffered a loss in the past, but it was a family matter after all, and Shen Laoqi himself didn't say a word, so even if they wanted to help, they didn't know where to start.

Today is different. Moer is so hungry that she fainted. The father and daughter have laid out everything. And team leader Zhou Peijun is leading the way. We are all from the same village, so we must help!

Several enthusiastic aunts followed Cao Mei and Tian Fang directly into the main room and supervised the two of them taking out the food.

Tian Fang's food was indeed untouched, but there were only a few potatoes left. Cao Mei's family not only ate all the potatoes, but also had little food left.

Tian Fang sighed, "There are many people in the family, and the children are just in their prime. But even if my family is starving, I can't let Moer go hungry, right?"

Cao Mei cursed: "Take it all, take it all. Just eat your fill, father and daughter, and don't worry about our lives! Damn it, you are all ungrateful wolves!"

What they both said actually meant the same thing, both accusing the father and daughter of taking away the food without caring about the lives of their two families.

Shen Moer leaned against Shen Shaoyuan "weakly" and asked, "Dad, is the brigade going to distribute food today? The second and third uncles' families shouldn't be starving like us, right?"

Shen Shaoyuan choked up and said, "Don't worry about it. Your cousins ​​are very capable and earn more work points than us. They won't starve. Look at you. You're so hungry, but you're still worried about them not having food to eat. You're worried about them, but who's worried about you? Don't worry about it. Dad has figured it out. You're Dad's only daughter. If anyone doesn't let you have enough food, Dad will fight him to the death!"

The others reacted immediately. If they were to talk about starving, it would be Shen Laoqi's family who had been without food for several days that was truly starving. Moreover, the team was distributing food today. By taking away the food, Shen Laoer and Shen Laosan's families would not starve.

Both families have a lot of labor force. Just like Shen Laoqi said, they earn a lot of work points, and their lives are definitely better than those of Shen Laoqi and his daughter.

Besides, you robbed other people’s food and you think you are right?

Look, the honest people are forced to cry, make a fuss and shout for beating and killing!

Although everyone's impression is that Shen Laoqi and his daughter do not seem to be of this kind of character, didn't the early opera say "forced to Liangshan"? When this person was forced into a corner, he even dared to rebel. What else was there that he dared not to do?

So no one thought there was anything wrong with what Shen Moer and Shen Shaoyuan did.

But I felt that Cao Mei's unreasonable meddling was a bit hateful, and it seemed that Tian Fang was indeed a bit like what Aunt Chen said, just saying nice things.

So, when they heard Shen Shaoyuan asking what to do about the shortage of food, everyone said in unison that the team would distribute the food, and when the time came everyone would supervise the two families together and make sure they made up for the shortage.

Shen Shaoyuan was touched: "Everyone is a kind-hearted person!"

Shen Moer expressed her gratitude "weakly": "If it weren't for your help, what would we do..."

Others, especially Zhou Peijun and several enthusiastic aunts, suddenly felt a sense of responsibility and mission: Look, what an honest father and daughter, if it weren’t for their help, they would have been bullied and starved to death without knowing how to resist... Help, we must help to the end!