As soon as the old lady said something had happened, An Ye roughly guessed what was going on.
After lunch yesterday, the couple left first. When they were about to get up and leave, the old lady persuaded them to stop, saying that there was a thief in the restaurant targeting them and asked them not to leave in a hurry.
As a result, they were safe and sound yesterday.
I guess the thief had succeeded in stealing the money, so he didn't come back to look for them.
Although he already had a guess, An Ye still asked one more question: "They are both so old, what could go wrong?"
The old lady slapped her thigh and sighed: "The money of these two people was stolen. They don't even have enough money to go home!"
"That's strange. The couple hasn't come back yet. How did you know about this?"
"It just so happened that they met the production team leader who was going to the city for a meeting on the street, and asked him to bring a message back." Li Tao interjected.
"Then didn't the captain lend them some money?"
"I used all the money to buy things, so I left myself some money for a train ticket."
"That's why." An Ye understood.
Old Mrs. Xu just went to Li Xu to cry and ask him to take some money to the city to bring the couple back. They couldn't just leave them in the city forever, right?
"Mom, I don't think you should worry about this. The third brother and his wife and grandpa are all in the county hospital. They can get there." Li Xu had just returned and didn't want to go to the county town again.
What's more, the couple went to the county town to see Li Yuan. He didn't do any serious work, so why is he coming back now?
When Mrs. Xu saw that Lao Wu didn't want to help, she sighed deeply and couldn't stop crying.
"Mom, why are you crying?" Li Tao took out a handkerchief from her pocket and handed it to her. "My fifth brother is right. Seventh brother and seventh sister-in-law are already adults. Are you still worried that they can't be found? As long as they go to the hospital and ask third sister-in-law or brother to borrow some money, can we not give them the money?"
Old Mrs. Xu felt that what Li Tao said made some sense, so she wiped away her tears and said, "Then I'll wait for them to come back."
"That's right." Li Tao said.
"Mom, we made lunch, why don't you eat with us?" Li Xu couldn't help but feel sympathy when he saw his mother crying.
"That's fine." Old Mrs. Xu agreed. These days, there's always pork or chicken stew in the backyard, and she's almost dying of cravings from the smell. "Then I'll go tell the eldest son's wife to stop cooking for me."
An Ye didn't want Old Lady Xu to stay for dinner, so she snorted and said, "Mom, can you still eat? The Seventh Brother and his wife are fine, but the Third Brother is still lying in the hospital in a coma."
She used to be so worried about the third brother that she was crying, but when she heard that the seventh brother and his wife had lost their money and could not come back, she completely forgot about the third brother and his wife.
People are biased, but they are not so biased as this.
The fourth son's wife had just given birth to a child. Because of her fault, she was angry and refused to go home to recuperate after the baby was born, and went straight to live in her parents' home.
Such a long time passed, and the old lady didn't even look at him.
Such a lovely family was ruined by her like this. I wonder how old Mr. Li feels when he is still alive?
"An Ye, how can you talk to mom like this?" Li Xu frowned and said in a serious tone, "Third brother is not feeling well, mom must be sad too. People are made of iron and food is made of steel. How can you not eat when you are sad? If mom falls down, can we still celebrate the New Year?"
This was the first time that Li Xu spoke to An Ye in this tone after being married for so long.
An Ye was stunned for a moment, without saying a word, he turned around and went back to the house.
"Your wife is angry." Mrs. Xu glanced at Li Xu and tears welled up again. "Mom is old and her mind is inevitably confused. It seems that I am really annoying."
"It's okay, An Ye is not that petty. Mom, don't worry, just stay for lunch."
"Okay, I'll go talk to your sister-in-law."
Before Old Lady Xu left, Li Tao whispered to him, "Brother, you shouldn't scold your sister-in-law. What your sister-in-law said is right. Our mother is biased! Look at what has happened to our family since Dad left. It will be a matter of time before they break up! Your sister-in-law is just telling the truth, and you..."
Li Xu's words just now were too harsh, and he regretted it now: "Hurry up, go and comfort your sister-in-law."
"I'm not going. You'll have to deal with the trouble you caused yourself."
"Consider this as a plea from you. If I go there now, your sister-in-law will give me a big slap in the face."
Li Tao laughed: "Since you are so cowardly, why did you rush towards the big-tailed wolf just now?"
Li Xu sighed helplessly: "Don't I feel sorry for our mother? She used to be such a strong old lady, but now she has been crying all the time."
Li Tao disagreed: "Didn't she do it herself?"
Anyway, she was extremely disappointed with her own mother.
Her second sister was a victim of marriage, and she herself was almost "sold" by her own mother.
No matter how close the blood relationship is, it cannot withstand such a ordeal.
Li Xu felt that his biological mother was indeed pitiful, but on the other hand, he felt that what his sister said made sense, and he was torn between the two emotions.
lunch.
An Ye was angry and didn't eat with them. He came to Ning Jia with his bowl in his hand.
"What? He dared to hurt you?" Ning Jia stared at An Ye in shock, "Why didn't you slap him in the face? Are you still going to keep him for the New Year?"
An Ye swallowed his saliva: "Aren't you too excited? How come you are more excited than me? Think about it carefully, he didn't seem to say anything..."
Ning Jia sneered and laughed: "You are really good at pua yourself!"
"It's not a PUA, it's really nothing. After all, Li Xu is also a human being, and human beings have feelings! I just don't like Mrs. Xu and don't want her to stay for dinner. But as her son, it's normal for Li Xu to say a few words for her, right?" An Ye thought and said.
Ning Jia nodded fiercely: "Yes, yes, yes! Don't you think clearly? Why are you still angry? If you get angry and damage your body, won't you feel uncomfortable?"
"You're right, but I have to teach him a lesson. I'm not going to pay any attention to him before the New Year!" After An Ye made the decision, he felt much better and his appetite instantly increased.
She finished two bowls of rice by herself, threw the bowls into the kitchen, and went straight back to Ning Jia's room, lying on the kang with her to take a nap.
Li Xu didn't dare to provoke her, so he could only wait until An Ye's anger subsided in the evening and then try to coax her carefully.
An Ye said she had done it, but no matter how he coaxed her, she just refused to pay attention to him. Li Xu was depressed the whole night.
The next day.
Lin Xiaoxi and Li Chuan returned dejectedly.
As soon as she entered the door, Old Mrs. Xu hugged the two of them and cried for a long time, "My liver, my meat." It was like when the roof leaks, it rains; when the boat is broken, it encounters headwinds.
The family, which was already not well-off, was now even worse off.
"How much money was stolen?" asked Old Mrs. Xu.
Li Chuan hesitated and didn't mean to say anything.
Lin Xiaoxi said: "We brought more than 30 bags with us this time, but they were all stolen. We originally wanted to see if Third Brother was short of money, so we could give him some first, but we didn't expect this to happen. But you don't have to worry about Third Brother, he has woken up and will be back in a few days."
As she spoke, tears began to fall from her eyes: "Mom, I don't have much money in my pocket. How am I going to live in the future?"
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I'm still here!" Old Mrs. Xu looked around to see if there was anyone around, and then she whispered, "I still have some money left for the coffin. It's not much, but at least it can reduce your losses."
Hearing this, Lin Xiaoxi couldn't help but curl up the corners of her mouth: "Mom, you really love me!"
But Mrs. Xu suddenly remembered what An Ye said, and she felt a little uncomfortable for some reason: "I heard that you ordered a lot of dishes and spent a lot of money. How can you be so extravagant and wasteful?"
Li Chuan said quickly, "Mom, to be honest, Xiaoxi hasn't had any good food in the past two years at the educated youth camp, and her period hasn't come regularly. We're also anxious to give you a grandson, so we thought we'd give her more meat and vegetables to nourish her now that we're in the county town."
"You don't eat well? Xiaoxi always brings a lot of food every time she comes home..."
"It's precisely because all the food was given to us that Xiaoxi couldn't eat it herself." Li Chuan hurriedly defended his wife.
Old Mrs. Xu believed what she said and patted Lin Xiaoxi's shoulder distressedly: "My dear child, I am really putting you in a difficult position! Wait, I will go to the house to get you some money."
After receiving the money, Li Chuan and Lin Xiaoxi returned to the house.
As soon as the door was locked, Lin Xiaoxi dug into his trouser pocket and took out a roll of money: "Look, I didn't spend a penny this time, but I made twenty dollars!"
Li Chuan was so happy that he immediately hugged Lin Xiaoxi and gave her a big kiss: "My wife is really smart! She acted so well that she fooled everyone!"
He and Xiaoxi did encounter a thief, but fortunately he discovered it and prevented his money from being stolen.
Fortunately, his wife was smart. She took advantage of this incident and took the money from the old lady. Anyway, if the money is not given to him, it will be given to someone else.
If they didn't perform this drama, they would have to pay for the medical expenses of the third brother!
It would be really ridiculous if I don’t pay them back when the time comes!
The three people thought that they had done this secretly, but they didn't know that Bai Jinfeng had seen it clearly through the crack in the window.
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