"Wow...my brother asked me to take it, I didn't want to take it..."
Facing Shen Xiao's high pressure, Wei Fang couldn't hold on for even a second and burst into tears.
"Brother, you were the one who said they wouldn't be able to find out. Wuuuuu, it's all your fault, wuuuuuu."
Wei Fang opened her mouth and cried with tears streaming down her face, not forgetting to push the blame onto Wei Dong.
Wei Dong looked at his sister in astonishment, his face flushed and he clenched his fists. He wanted to say something but finally put it down helplessly.
When Qiao Baozhu saw this scene, she had a plan in mind and glared at Shen Xiao with a look of reproach on her face.
"Why are you so fierce? They are still young. Talk to them nicely if you have something to say."
Shen Xiao looked at Qiao Baozhu with a tense face, looking puzzled.
"Little sister, your name is Wei Fang, right?"
Qiao Baozhu stepped forward and took Wei Fang's hand, with a kind face and gentle tone: "I remember your three names were Dong, Fang, and Hong, am I right?"
Wei Fang nodded with sobs and said in a tearful voice: "We just want to take a look, not steal..."
“Aunt knows that you two didn’t steal, you were just curious about the furniture in Uncle Shen’s house.”
"Your Uncle Shen is used to leading soldiers in the army, and he can't help but lose his temper when he sees someone making a mistake. I don't mean to be mean to you."
Wei Fang raised her head with red eyes and asked timidly, "Really?"
“Why is Uncle Shen angry?”
Wei Fang asked another question without knowing the consequences, which made Qiao Baozhu realize that these two children really had no sense of right and wrong.
"Because your behavior is very impolite. If you rummage through boxes and cabinets in your own home, you will be scolded by your parents for being unruly, let alone in someone else's home. Fortunately, your uncle Shen is not an outsider, and he will not gossip about you outside. What about going to someone else's house?"
"Don't tell me you've never rummaged through someone else's stuff when you went to their house."
Wei Fang looked surprised: "How do you know we have turned over?"
Wei Dong's brain worked faster than his sister's and he figured out the answer immediately.
Her face was tense and she realized belatedly: "They said that. What else did they say about us behind our backs?"
Seeing that Wei Dong was quite smart, Qiao Baozhu put away her smile and looked at Shen Xiao with an embarrassed expression.
After receiving Qiao Baozhu's signal, Shen Xiao lectured Wei Dong: "When your father mentioned you before, his face was full of pride. He said you were a good kid, that you liked to wield swords and guns, and that you were the leader of the kids from childhood to adulthood."
"Wei Dong, you are the eldest brother, and an eldest brother is like a father. Your father died, and you are now the only pillar of the family. You have to take the responsibility of educating your sisters and distinguish right from wrong."
"Have you forgotten what I told you the last time you got into such trouble at the supply and marketing cooperative?"
Wei Dong lowered his head in shame, his little face flushed with embarrassment, and he nervously tugged at his sleeves.
"Uncle Shen, I haven't forgotten. This time it's really not my fault..."
"Uncle Shen, my brother said he remembered it. We all remember clearly what you taught us. We promise that we will never make the same mistake again."
When Wei Fang saw that her brother was about to give her away, she was so scared that she quickly stepped forward and interrupted what Wei Dong was about to say.
Afraid that Shen Xiao would notice something, Wei Fang rolled her eyes and began to change the subject.
"Uncle Shen, my mother is waiting for us to take the food coupons back home."
"Give us the food coupons first, and I'll take them home to my mother. My mother said that if we don't buy food, my family will have nothing to eat."
Wei Fang touched her round belly and looked at Qiao Baozhu pitifully: "Aunt, I'm hungry."
As an adult, how could Qiao Baozhu not see through the little tricks of these two kids.
But she was determined to treat the lotus with tea and to achieve the goal of flattery. I will never let Bai Hongmei take advantage of me with a clear conscience.
"So you're here to borrow food coupons?"
Qiao Baozhu spread out her hands and smiled bitterly: “Your Uncle Shen has used up all the food coupons this month.”
The two children were dumbfounded and looked at each other.
Wei Fang made a bitter face and asked Wei Dong in a low voice: "Brother, what should we do? Without food coupons, we will starve. I wonder if my aunt's family has food coupons."
"It's the end of the month and no one has enough food coupons. Let me pack some food for you two to take back. Just hold on for a few days and wait until the food coupons are issued at the beginning of the month."
Just when the brother and sister thought they would go home empty-handed today and would be hungry starting tomorrow.
Qiao Baozhu actually took the initiative to ask to borrow grain. The two children cheered for joy and hugged each other excitedly.
"That's great, we don't have to go hungry anymore."
Qiao Baozhu took out a flour bag and poured half a bag of cornmeal into it, and then filled a small enamel basin with sorghum rice.
This is about 15 kilograms of food, enough to eat for a week.
The two children happily took the food from Qiao Baozhu's hand, but when they saw that there was only cornmeal and sorghum, expressions of disappointment appeared on their faces.
"Why are there only cornmeal and sorghum rice?"
"This thing is so irritating, who would want to eat it?"
"Aunt, why don't you give us white flour? I want to drink the soup and eat boiled noodles."
Seeing that Qiao Baozhu was so easy to talk to, Wei Fang shamelessly suggested eating fine grains instead of coarse grains.
Qiao Baozhu glanced at Shen Xiao, who had a frown on his face and looked unhappy, and felt secretly happy.
"Didn't you two just turn over the bowl rack? I don't have any fine grains at home. I only have cornmeal and sorghum rice. This little cornmeal is the only fine flour I have. I didn't even give you the corn grits."
Wei Fang pouted reluctantly, threw the bag of noodles in her hand to the ground, and ran to the kitchen to rummage through the bowl rack.
Sure enough, she saw corn grits under the bowl rack, walked into the house with a gloomy face, and nodded at her brother.
"Okay, you guys carry this food home to survive for a few days. When the food coupons are issued, you can go buy fine grains."
Qiao Baozhu thought of the noodles she had sent over and reminded them maliciously, "By the way, didn't I give your family a pound of noodles before? Didn't your mother give you some?"
The two children looked at Qiao Baozhu in disbelief and asked in unison: "Noodles?"
Qiao Baozhu nodded: "Yes, your mother took the milk powder and noodles. Why, didn't she give them to you two?"
The two children's faces suddenly turned ugly, and they no longer wanted to stay there.
One was carrying a bag of cornmeal, and the other was holding a basin of sorghum rice. The brother and sister ran home in a hurry, complaining angrily as they ran.
"Our mom is so annoying. She has milk powder and instant noodles but she won't give them to us. She must be cooking for us behind our backs."
Qiao Baozhu felt so happy when she saw the two children running home like they were on Hot Wheels.
He clapped his hands, turned around with a smile, and met Shen Xiao's obscure eyes.
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