Chapter 107 Is there a thief?

Sun Ergou asked someone about the money, and was told it was five cents a day.

A meal costs only about one and a half cents.

With such a high cost, Sun Ergou felt that it was a bit unfair to have such a sumptuous meal.

Let alone the meat, just the scallion rolls and the porridge are things that cannot be bought for a penny.

Sun Ergou felt a little embarrassed. He didn't even use his chopsticks to pick up the meat and eggs. He just took two bites of the cold lettuce in silence.

Lettuce grows in the vegetable garden, so there should be no need to spend extra money, which can help save some money.

Jiang Mixia's family saw it clearly and roughly understood why Sun Ergou was like this.

Jiang Youcheng picked up two large pieces of pork head and said, "Eat, don't pretend." (Pretending: generally means being shy, wanting to eat but feeling embarrassed to do so.) "Uncle Cheng, I..." Sun Ergou felt a little embarrassed.

"Eat more. Only when you are full can you have strength. If you have strength, go and help our family look after the workshop so that we can feel at ease. Otherwise, if someone wants to go to the workshop to do something bad at night, how can you, a bean sprout, fight with them?"

Jiang Youcheng said, "This meal only costs a few dollars. If you can do this job well, it will be equivalent to earning more money for our family."

Sun Ergou felt that what Jiang Youcheng said made sense, so he stuffed the pig head in the bowl into his mouth.

I have to say, this pig head tastes really good.

It tastes strangely sweet.

Sun Ergou narrowed his eyes.

After staying in the workshop for a few days, Sun Ergou became more and more familiar with the various tasks in the workshop, from cleaning the workshop yard, boiling water for making tea, to helping with loading and unloading goods, and helping the guys in the workshop to run errands and pass messages, and he did everything well.

The guys' impression of Sun Ergou became better and better, and even the entire Jiangjia Village had a different opinion of Sun Ergou.

"Has Ergou eaten yet?"

"Ergou, go to the workshop later and tell your brother Banggu to go to his uncle's house for lunch at noon. No one is home."

"Ergou, I can't reach it. Can you help me climb a tree and get my cat down?"

"Er Gou..."

Sun Ergou smiled even more.

Sun Zhuzi came to see Sun Ergou every day. He saw that he was visibly fatter than before, which made him smack his lips and say, "Isn't the food in this workshop too good? How about I go to Sister Xia and cry again, and ask her to let me work in the workshop?"

"Come on." Sun Ergou reached out and gave Sun Zhuzi a slap on the face.

Sun Zhuzi comes from a well-off family and he is the only child in the family. His family would definitely not let him work in the workshop in Jiangjia Village.

Sun Ergou also knew that what Sun Zhuzi said just now was just a joke.

Sun Zhuzi chuckled, but also asked Sun Ergou, "You have been in the workshop for so many days, do you need to go back and tell your uncle and aunt?"

"There's nothing to say. There aren't any secrets in these villages. I guess my parents know about it too. They must be very happy right now." Sun Ergou curled his lips.

Not having to eat for free at home will definitely make you feel like you have saved a lot of money and gotten a great deal.

Sun Zhuzi also knew the situation at Sun Ergou's home, so he didn't say much. He just chatted with Sun Ergou about other things. It was not until dark that they headed towards Sunjiazhuang.

After dinner, Sun Ergou packed up and went to the workshop.

After a thorough inspection and confirmation that there was nothing wrong with the workshop, Sun Ergou locked the courtyard door and the doors of each room in the workshop. Only then did he feel at ease and go back to his room to sleep.

The moon was bright and the stars were sparse. At night, summer insects were singing high and low, and birds were flying around.

Sun Ergou got up from bed in a daze.

The weather was hot, so I talked to Sun Zhuzi for a long time in the afternoon, and we had fried noodles with soybean paste for dinner.

Aunt Liu was very warm and gave him a lot of sauce. Te ate two bowls in a row. When he went to bed, he couldn't help feeling thirsty, so he gulped down a large pot of cold boiled water.

So much so that his stomach was really uncomfortable and he had to get up to go to the bathroom.

Sun Ergou was sleeping soundly when he was woken up by the urge to pee. He felt helpless at the moment. He didn't turn on the light, but went out to the toilet in the corner under the dim moonlight.

As soon as he entered the toilet, Sun Ergou heard a faint rustling sound.

Then, a vague figure was seen falling from the top of the wall.

Is there a thief?

Sun Ergou suddenly became completely sober. He didn't even bother to pee. He just tiptoed out of the toilet to take a closer look.

The dark shadow was sneaking around in the yard, and after looking around, it walked towards the largest warehouse.

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What a thief!

He was really bold, stealing here in the middle of the night! He used to steal from others, but now he was the one being robbed. Sun Ergou was furious.

But on second thought, I felt that something was wrong.

This is a bamboo weaving workshop. The warehouse is filled with bamboo baskets and other things.

Even though the waterproof styles are more valuable, they are just bamboo woven items after all. The most expensive one is no more than two or three hundred coins, and they are also large in size and quite heavy.

Even if the thief wanted to steal, he couldn't steal much. Moreover, the warehouse was locked every day, making it difficult for ordinary people to get in.

But this person went straight to the warehouse...

If he wasn't a thief, then he might be here to cause trouble! As Sun Ergou was thinking, he saw the black shadow take something out of his arms.

After a while, the fire gradually turned red.

A fire starter! He really came to set fire! Sun Ergou picked up a piece of bamboo pole nearby, and found a half-woven bamboo basket in the yard. He walked forward carefully, and when he got behind the black shadow, he suddenly put the bamboo basket on the black shadow's head, and the bamboo pole in his hand fell on the black shadow's knees.

The black shadow was caught off guard and felt the pain immediately. His knees went weak and he fell to the ground.

Sun Ergou took advantage of the situation and smashed the shadow with the bamboo pole in his hand, shouting at the top of his voice, "Hurry up, someone is coming! There's a fire in the workshop! There's a fire!"

In the middle of the night, if someone shouts "Catch a thief", others will probably be confused for a moment and don't know whether they should step in to help or not. But if someone shouts "The fire is breaking out", that's a different story.

The farmers' houses are not only close to each other, but each household has a certain amount of food stored in it, and there are farmlands outside the village. Once a flood occurs, it may be a disaster for a family or even the entire village.

Sure enough, when Sun Ergou shouted "fire", not only Jiang Mixia's family rushed over quickly, but many other people also came in a hurry carrying buckets and basins of water.

He even asked bluntly, "Where is the flood? Where is the flood?"

"It almost caught fire, luckily I stopped it." Sun Ergou stopped what he was doing, panting.

Only then did everyone realize that there was a person curled up on the ground in front of Sun Ergou.

(End of this chapter)