Chapter 86 I Caught Fubao
When Gu Weidong said this, everyone was shocked and felt that this was strange.
Gu Weidong was puzzled and was about to turn over and try to get Nie Laosan's wife out, but at this moment, Huo Jinyun, the educated youth who was traveling with them, suddenly stopped them and said, "Wait, we can't go on like this!"
Although Huo Jinyun was admired by everyone for being able to use a diesel water pump, and had a special status in the eyes of these farmers because he was a teacher, he was usually too low-key, too gentle, and didn't talk much, so everyone always subconsciously ignored him.
Now, hearing him say this suddenly and harshly, I was shocked. This was a little unlike his usual self.
Huo Jinyun said, "There's a severe lack of oxygen in here, and too many harmful gases. Don't go in yet. Let's ventilate the room first. Bring a fan and fan it!"
When he said this, everyone understood at once.
There are manholes in the countryside, and fruits, vegetables and other food are usually placed in the manholes, such as sweet potatoes, beans, cabbage, melons, zucchini and even some homemade bread. They are warm in winter and cool in summer, so they can keep fresh and not spoil.
However, everything has its drawbacks. Because the entrance to the manhole is sealed, the vegetables and sweet potatoes inside sometimes emit harmful odors due to long-term storage, which is commonly known as poison gas.
Therefore, the manholes of rural people must be ventilated frequently to avoid accidentally inhaling poisonous gases, which could directly cost lives.
When Nie Laosan saw this, his eyes widened and he shouted hoarsely: "Help! Help!"
As he said this, he was about to jump down.
Seeing this, Chen Youfu immediately pinned him down and said, "You're stupid! Going down there is like going to die!"
Then he turned around and ordered everyone: "Ventilate it! Quickly fan it in! Open all the wells!"
This matter involved human lives, and no one dared to treat it as a joke anymore, so everyone quickly opened the well and fanned the air inside desperately. Huo Jinyun even stuck his head in and used his hand to flick out a little smell to sniff carefully.
After a while, he said, "Catch a dog and release it."
dog?
Everyone understood what he meant.
But whose dog is it?
What if I die like this?
Finally, a family offered their dog: "Use this!"
So Chen Youfu let the dog go down. After the puppy went in, it barked a few times and started to dig the soil next to it. It seemed that there was nothing wrong.
Everyone was relieved and quickly went down into the well and carried Nie Laosan's wife out.
After Nie Laosan's wife was carried up on his back, he saw that her face was pale. When he touched her with his hand, he found that she was still breathing, but very weak.
At this time, many people had gathered around. Grandma Hu rushed out of the crowd, holding a bowl of water, drank it, and sprayed it directly at Nie Laosan's wife. Several elderly people next to her unbuttoned Nie Laosan's wife's cotton jacket to give her some ventilation.
At this time, Shengjin and Shengyin had already come over. Shengjin cried loudly, "Mom, don't die!" Shengyin squatted there, not saying a word.
For Shengyin, this was something she couldn't understand at all. She didn't understand what was going on or what had happened.
Did Fubao use that piece of jade to harm his mother?
If it weren't for that piece of jade, would none of this have happened at all?
After tossing and turning for a while, Nie Laosan's wife finally woke up. After waking up, her eyes were wide open and she stared at the sky blankly, as if she had no soul.
Even the knowledgeable Grandma Hu was frightened at this time and asked tentatively: "You, do you know who you are?"
Don't be possessed by a ghost...
Nie Laosan's wife looked at Grandma Hu blankly.
Grandma Hu was frightened: "You really don't know, this is, this is stupid?"
The hearts of the people around were in their throats.
Nie Laosan's wife suddenly blurted out, "You're the fool, your whole family is foolish!"
Grandma Hu: “…”
Members: “……………………”
This is quite spirited...
After a moment of silence, Chen Youfu stepped forward and asked through gritted teeth, "Why did you faint here? What happened?"
Nie Laosan's wife: "How would I know? As soon as I get into this manhole, I feel dizzy, weak, and uncomfortable. I want to ask, what's going on? Who is harming me?"
Gu Weidong heard this and suddenly came over and asked in a deep voice, "This is my manhole. Why are you going down there? What are you doing here?"
…
Nie Laosan’s wife was stunned.
After a long pause, she was speechless: "I, I, I..."
Wang Fugui's wife asked, "There are delicious foods in the well. Are you planning to steal their food?"
When she said this, Chen Xiu'er next to her suddenly said, "Oh, I remember now. My dog kept barking last night. I was wondering what was going on, so I went out to check, but there was no movement. Could it be that Third Brother Nie's wife came to use the manhole?"
Nie Laosan couldn't stand it anymore and rushed over: "Tell me, why are you in someone else's manhole when you're fine?"
You know, every household has a manhole.
Generally, this manhole is located in the front or back of one's house. Usually, no one is watching it and it is not locked. However, people are not afraid of others stealing it. After all, they are all in the same production team and no one would covet other people's things. Thieves will be punished.
But who would have thought that Nie Lao San’s wife would do such a thing?
It would have been fine if she had just done such a thing, but before she could even finish her thief's work, she was suddenly filled with smoke from the smoke entering someone's manhole. If everyone hadn't been looking for her today, she would have probably died in there.
Nie Laosan's wife was so ashamed that she didn't know what to say. She was speechless for a long time before she finally blurted out, "I was passing by and accidentally fell in..."
But who would believe this? No one!
When Liu Guizhi heard this, she was extremely angry.
What's in the manhole? There's her family's meat!
Is Nie Lao San's wife thinking about her meat?
This is over 20 kilograms of meat, meant for the children to nourish themselves, and yet someone actually wants to steal it? Liu Guizhi was furious just thinking about it. She pointed at Nie Laosan's wife and said, "God has eyes. You went down my manhole and fainted from the smoke. This is karma, karma! Otherwise, if you stole something from my family, where would I go to find you later? How could you be so cruel?"
What Liu Guizhi said was exactly what everyone was thinking.
If you hadn't been knocked unconscious by the smoke, and Liu Guizhi's things were gone, where would she be able to find them?
Liu Guizhi is lucky, she shouldn't have been stolen by you!
For a moment, everyone looked at Nie Laosan's wife with contempt. Originally, everyone was quite sympathetic to you because you almost lost your life, but now, it's really despicable that you actually wanted to steal other people's food.
Everyone had a manhole, and everyone stored their food in it. If there were people like this who stole other people's food in the production brigade, who would dare to store food in the manhole in the future? Where else would they store food if not in the manhole? How could they live like that?
This matter concerns everyone's vital interests.
Everyone looked at Nie Laosan's wife with condemnation, and said sarcastically: "We are so eager to save him, but he is just a thief, why should we save him!"
Grandma Hu was also helpless: "I spent a lot of time to wake her up, and she just started calling me stupid."
Chen Youfu said with a stern face: "Nie Laosan's wife, are you okay? If you are, come with me to the production team!"
Nie Laosan's wife was stunned, and she suddenly understood.
Her body softened and she lay there again: "I, I'm tired..."
In fact, she was not pretending. She had just woken up and was talking with a burst of energy. In fact, her body was dizzy after the lack of oxygen in the manhole. After the energy passed, she fell down again.
But who would believe her when she looks like this?
Everyone thought she was doing it on purpose, just to shirk her responsibilities, and they couldn't help but laugh: "This Third Brother Nie's wife is really good at pretending!"
Chen Youfu didn't care whether she was real or fake, so he had to ask someone to help her up. But when they helped her up, they found that she couldn't stand at all.
Nie Laosan also discovered that his wife closed her eyes and fainted again. So he had no choice but to call for her parents. Chen Youfu borrowed an ox cart and quickly sent her to the commune.
After much trouble, Nie Laosan's wife was finally sent away. The people in the commune examined her and said that it was caused by lack of oxygen or something. It was quite complicated. They gave her an injection and asked her to come back and recuperate. So Nie Laosan's wife was brought back and laid on the kang to recuperate.
It is said that since then, she has developed a problem where she always feels dizzy when she wakes up in the morning and has headaches at any time.
Some people also say that she was pretending on purpose, but that is not known.
But that was a story for later. The more Nie Laosan's wife thought about it, the more she felt she was unlucky. She had clearly witnessed them putting all those delicious foods in the manhole the day before, and the kid from the Gu family was fine when he went down the well. Why was it that when it was her turn to go there in the middle of the night, she was immediately knocked unconscious by the poisonous gas?
The more I think about it, the more weird it seems, and the more unlucky I feel.
How could I be so unlucky?
Why does the Gu family eat so much meat?
Is it really because of Fubao?
Fubao?
Nie Laosan's wife figured this out and clenched her fists: "Nie Laosan, we have to get Fubao back! Fubao is our daughter, we adopted her, we have to get her back!"
Nie Lao San was dumbfounded: "Are you crazy?"
Nie Laosan's wife: "I'm not crazy. I think about the days when Fubao was in our family. But look at us now, what kind of life are we living? No, I have to take him back! I'm going to find Chen Youfu now!"
Nie Laosan stomped his feet, extremely angry, but he had no choice but to follow behind.
Is it possible to get Fubao back? Nie Laosan also felt a glimmer of hope in his heart.
——
In the east room of the Gu family, Shen Hongying was recalling what happened today.
Gu Weidong and Liu Guizhi went to the new house specifically to stew meat. Why? Because they stewed a lot of meat.
Why did they stew so much meat? Because they were not willing to exchange pork for food and money.
Why were they willing to eat meat like that instead of exchanging it for food and money? Because they had money!
Shen Hongying tried hard to recall the behavior of Gu Weidong and Liu Guizhi. She found that since Gu Weidong came back with a "fleeing famine" look on his face, the couple was not only not stingy, but even more generous than before.
Shen Hongying suddenly realized something. Could it be that Gu Weidong actually made a fortune, but deliberately didn't tell anyone because he was afraid that she would be jealous?
Chen Hongying sat on the kang and slapped the headboard: "She did this on purpose, pretending to be poor! She's afraid we'll steal her!"
Why did Shen Hongying try so hard to analyze the life of Liu Guizhi and Gu Weidong? Because she was now in deep doubt and entanglement. She suspected that the separation of the four branches of the Gu family was premeditated and that the purpose of the separation was to divide Fubao away and prevent them from taking advantage.
They were wrong, all wrong. Fubao was the great lucky star, she was blessed with good fortune, she was a little girl who had come to earth!
What inspired Shen Hongying to use her brain, which she rarely used, to think about all this was all because of what happened today.
Isn't it strange? Gu Weidong's manhole was only recently built and there wasn't much stuff in it. People put things in it the day before, so how come Nie Laosan's wife was poisoned and fell asleep in it the next day after stealing other people's things?
Now everyone in the production team is talking about it, saying that Gu Weidong is lucky, that it is destined that his things will not be stolen, and that Nie Laosan's wife went to harm other people's things and got her retribution.
All the discussions among people were automatically transformed into "the things in Gu Laosi's cellar are protected by Fubao, and no one can steal them" in Shen Hongying's mind.
This is the Buddha appearing. The Buddha appeared and knocked down the bad guy who stole things!
Shen Hongying kept thinking about it, and the more she thought about it, the more upset she became.
These past few days, she regretted it so much that she wanted to slap herself.
First, she shouldn't have forced the paper ball with the word "Fu" written on it onto Liu Guizhi. This was like forcing a good thing out of her.
Second, she shouldn't have been clamoring for a separation.
You see, if the family had not split up, everyone could eat the pheasant together. But after the family split up, others can eat the pheasant while you can only smell the flavor. Can you say that there is such a sad thing in the world? Her heart aches just thinking about it!
Shen Hongying thought it over and suddenly said, "No, I have to get Fubao back!"
When she said this, her two sons and the man next to her were all shocked: "What?"
Fubao, what does Fubao have to do with them?
Shen Hongying took a deep breath, looked at her husband and son, and said solemnly: "I'll tell you the truth, it was me who drew the word 'Fu' when we drew the lot, so I should have adopted Fubao, so we should take Fubao back."
After hearing this, her two sons and one man fell silent.
Chen Hongying smiled. "You didn't expect that, did you? Actually, I'm the lucky one, so I should go and have a say with the Fourth Brother's family. Since I was the one who caught them, I'm also half the mother of Fu Bao. We need to discuss this matter."
Niu Dan and Niu Shuan looked at each other, and they both wondered if their mother had not woken up yet.
And Gu Weiguo began to wonder if his wife was... stupid?
Shen Hongying, however, was full of fighting spirit.
She has been feeling so uncomfortable and depressed these days that her chest aches.
Especially the sentence "How come my fourth aunt caught Fubao, but you didn't catch him, mother?" directly hit her heart and made her breathless.
Let's not talk about the drawing of lots. She just accepted her fate and gave the child Fubao to the fourth family, asking her to continue to benefit the fourth family and make them happy. She couldn't accept it.
I really can’t accept this!
These past few days have been so torturous, and her mind is full of this matter. She always feels that if she stands up, the resentment in her mind will be shaken out.
If this continues, she will go crazy.
So she could only bring up this matter, she didn't believe that Liu Guizhi would deny it.
She had to let Liu Guizhi explain clearly who had caught the word "Fu" in the first place and whose house the "Fubao" belonged to!
"Now, we have to call Chen Youfu, Uncle Li, Grandma Hu, and our entire family. We must tell everyone what happened so that everyone can understand the truth and discuss together who Fubao belongs to!"
Niu Dan Niu Shuan: ...
Gu Weiguo:……………………
This is crazy!!!
This day was the third day of the Chinese New Year, the day to go back to one's parents' home. Fubao was taken by Liu Guizhi to visit her parents' home again. After having a meal at Liu Guizhi's home, everyone happily returned.
Along the way, I saw Liu Guizhi leading the little Fubao. The seven-year-old little Fubao had grown up and followed Liu Guizhi in a graceful and slender manner, as childish and cute as a small tree in spring.
When I returned to the production brigade and walked on the street, everyone came to say hello.
Some people sympathized with Liu Guizhi for almost getting robbed and condemned Nie Laosan's wife. Some praised Fubao's good looks, saying that Fubao was smart, had perfect scores on the exam, and was beautiful, and that she would definitely find a good family. Some also envied Liu Guizhi's good luck: "If there wasn't poisonous gas in your manhole, Nie Laosan's wife would have taken away all your things!"
After Liu Guizhi greeted everyone, she led Fubao into her alley.
People on the street looked at the mother and daughter and praised them, "What a blessing! Since we adopted this girl, the mute can speak now."
After hearing this, everyone suddenly remembered: "To say that Fubao is a strange child, Nie Laosan's wife adopted him. After ten years without having children, she gave birth to twins. Liu Guizhi adopted him, and the child, who had been mute for ten years, began to speak."
"That's right. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it."
And at this moment, Nie Lao San's wife, who everyone was discussing, appeared.
Nie Laosan's wife had a gloomy face and went straight to the production brigade to find Chen Youfu.
Everyone looked at her like this, confused: "What's wrong? Is she possessed?"
The others chuckled, "I don't know, but no matter what, be careful!"
Everyone smiled mysteriously at each other, understood each other's meaning, and stopped talking.
Nie Laosan's wife rushed to the production brigade to look for Chen Youfu, but Chen Youfu's daughter, Chen Cui'er, said, "My father was just called away by Gu's aunt. They said something important happened!"
Chen Cui'er was thinking of going to play with Fubao, and by the way, she would go and see why the eldest aunt of the Gu family called her dad.
When Nie Laosan's wife heard this, she said, "Okay, that's perfect. I'm going to find your father at the Gu family!"
After saying that, he turned around with a dark face and went straight to Gu's house.
At this time, people on the street saw her go and come back, and then turned into the alley on the left. Someone with curiosity looked at her and said, "She is going to Gu's house."
Gu family?
Hey, didn’t Shen Hongying just hurriedly call Uncle Li, Grandma Hu and Chen Youfu to the Gu family? Why is Nie Lao San’s wife also involved?
Everyone looked at each other, and suddenly realized that there was something exciting to watch.
So word spread, and everyone said, "We have to go and see the fun!"
Nie Laosan's wife went straight to Gu's house. When she arrived, she found that the house was full of people, inside and outside.
In the middle, someone seemed to be heard shouting, "I was the one who caught Fubao. She should have been my daughter! I was wrong for not saying anything at the time, but you can't just take my daughter away like this! Fubao is my daughter! I am Fubao's mother!"
When Nie Laosan's wife heard this, she got anxious. "No, no, she's Fubao's mother! Who's trying to snatch it from her?"
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