Chapter 248 Bitten by a Rat 2

The others also looked on with anticipation and eagerness, wishing they could immediately grab hoes and dig up all the rat holes!

Ma Xiulian waved her hand and said, "I'm not going."

Why don't you go?

The Chen family's sons and daughters-in-law looked on in disbelief. Had their mother gone mad? Knowing there was so much grain in the rat hole, why didn't she dig it up?!

This is totally my style!

Ma Xiulian said calmly, "The monkey didn't come tonight. Do you think you can find the mouse hole on your own?"

The brothers were stunned when they heard this: That's right! The monkeys haven't come, and they can't find the mouse hole either!

Why isn't Grandpa Monkey coming tonight?!

Li Chunhua, however, was unwilling to give up and said, "Then we can look for it ourselves. What if we find it!"

She's currently breastfeeding her youngest son, so if there were more grain, she could eat as much as she wanted every day.

Ma Xiulian glanced at her indifferently: "Go by yourself if you want to. I'm too lazy to bother you."

Then he picked up his granddaughter and carried her into the house: "Sweetie, let's go to sleep!"

Chen Jiandang always listens to his mother and wife. Now that his wife isn't here, he naturally does whatever his mother says.

So he immediately said, "Then I won't go either."

Seeing that his brothers were not united, Chen Jianguo, the eldest brother, said in a low voice, "Go back to sleep, and we'll see how things go tomorrow night."

Li Chunhua secretly hoped that none of them would go, and that only the two of them would go, so that they could secretly hide and eat the food they found.

She whispered these words to her man.

Chen Jianye looked troubled and said, "Isn't that inappropriate?"

He never even considered the idea of ​​secretly hiding food to eat alone.

Li Chunhua retorted confidently, "We have two sons to raise. All the food we have is going to that wretched girl. She's grown up plump and healthy, but our little Bao is skinny as a beet! And Jinbao, he's destined for great things, but now we don't even have enough breast milk!"

Thinking of his two sons, Chen Jianye hesitated for a long time before gritting his teeth and nodding: "Okay!"

He kept only half of it and handed the other half over to the authorities.

The two searched the village for most of the night but couldn't find a single kernel of corn.

I had just gone back to my room and fallen asleep when I was woken up to work. I was under the blazing sun, and it was incredibly tough.

During a break, Ma Xiulian lowered her voice and said mysteriously to the old lady next to her, "Have you heard? Someone in the next town dug up a rat hole and found grain, three or four baskets of it."

"What?"

The old lady was shocked: "You can dig up so much grain by digging a mouse hole?"

The rats here steal a lot of grain, but I've never heard of anyone managing to retrieve the grain from the rat holes.

"That's what people say, but I don't know if it's true or not."

Ma Xiulian added a special note: "Don't spread this around, people told me not to tell anyone."

Grandma Bai said with absolute certainty, "Don't worry, I definitely won't tell anyone!"

Within half a day, the story had spread throughout the commune, and the rumors were quite outrageous.

In the neighboring town, someone dug out a large amount of grain from a rat hole, enough to fill more than ten large baskets, enough to feed an entire family for quite some time.

Moreover, they have all kinds of food, all of which were stolen and hidden by the rats.

Ma Xiulian listened quietly to the women's discussion around her, feeling quite satisfied.

This old lady Bai is notoriously gossipy, and she likes to exaggerate everything and make it sound like a big deal.

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