Zhao Guihua and her friends went up the mountain to catch fish. This was really different from usual, but it was not a wasted trip. They did get some results. Several people worked together and divided the fish according to the number of people. Each person got four fish.
Zhao Guihua and Liang Meifen are a family, and these are the eight fish.
Their "group" is considered to have caught more fish. There are many fish in the pond, but there are too many people. Everyone wants to catch fish, and if you come, I will come too, so there are a lot of them. However, if you take the bus to catch fish, it is actually not very suitable.
After all, the round-trip fare also costs money.
Going up the mountain may not necessarily yield any great gains.
If you only catch one, then you've wasted a whole day and it's really meaningless.
But if you ride a bicycle here, without the round trip cost, it's okay. For people like Zhao Guihua, it's already a profit. Moreover, they not only caught fish, but also encountered a plum tree when going down the mountain. The women didn't care whether it was ripe or not, they just plucked all the plums.
If you don't pick them all, they will probably be gone tomorrow.
They were lucky, and they found it when they were looking for a place to relieve themselves. If it was in a more ordinary place, it would have been gone long ago. It can be said that this trip was quite fruitful. The four female comrades went home together, riding their bikes all the way back to the yard, panting with exhaustion.
But even though it's tiring, I'm happy if I gain something.
"Grandma, you guys are back!"
Hu Tou got out of school early today and had already returned with his sister. The two children couldn't get into the house, so they played hopscotch in the yard. Li Junjun and a few others were playing with them, but the Su family's children hadn't returned.
Zhao Guihua nodded: "I'm back."
Li Junjun and a few others also gathered around their aunt, the milk king.
Zhao Guihua: "Have we divided the things?"
"It's divided."
Compared to others, they came back early.
Everyone shared the fish and plums in the yard.
Aunt Su did not go out. She claimed that she was weak, so she would definitely not go. Besides, she did not have any tools. No one could lend her any. So, when she saw dividing the fish in the yard, she hurried out to get a share. the cold."
Several female comrades smiled and nodded in agreement: "That's right."
Aunt Su continued, "Oh, by the way, I haven't introduced you yet, have I? My cousin Xiu'er is here, Huihui, come out and say hello to. Normally, we should prepare something nice for everyone, but you said it's such a coincidence, our expenses have been paid for a while, and we don't have much money left. We can't even entertain guests..."
Seeing that everyone was still unwilling to take the initiative, she coughed and said, "Well, how about you two share the fish with me? When my Xiu'er gets her salary tomorrow, I'll let her give the money to you. We are all neighbors, so I think you don't mind, right?"
Since no one was willing to take the initiative, she had to take the initiative herself.
However, Zhao Guihua directly refused and said, "It's impossible in my family. My Mingmei is pregnant, and the doctor said she should eat more fish. I can't spare the money. My family doesn't have enough to eat." She doesn't want to spoil Aunt Su.
Give money?
After she borrowed the things, she could sell her misery for a years hundred, waiting for her to pay back the money? It would really take her until the end of time.
She won't do that.
Perhaps Zhao Guihua had set a good example, Aunt Wang immediately said: "I can't do this, my Li Fang is also pregnant, she also needs to supplement nutrition."
Liang Meifen had no right to distribute materials at all. Although she had a share, she had no say in her family. She immediately said, "I always listen to my mother-in-law."
The only one left was Aunt Sui from the backyard. She said directly: "There are many men in my family. They are working overtime and are exhausted. There is not enough oil and water, and they really can't share it."
It was a joke. For no reason, they said they wanted to share the good things they had. Another reason why everyone was unwilling to share was that they thought Aunt Su was not doing her job well. Not only their yard, but even people in the surrounding yards knew that there was a pond with a lot of fish on the mountain.
Although they don't know the exact location, they all head towards that place once they get there, and they can find it by following everyone's footsteps. Everyone can go fishing, so why can't you? You wanted to be lazy when you were catching fish, but now that others have caught them, do you want to get a piece of the pie?
Borrow, no one believes this.
Aren't they tired from the trip? They were tired too, and it had just rained, so the mountain road was not easy to walk on, and they were all dirty. That's why they didn't want Aunt Su to take advantage of them.
Who isn't working hard!
I worked so hard to catch fish, but now I think you get a bargain? You're dreaming!
Aunt Wang was the one in charge of the courtyard, so she took the initiative to say, "We'll go again tomorrow. If you want to go down, find someone to go with you. There are a lot of people going to the suburbs, and we want to go up the mountain to pick mushrooms tomorrow."
"After this heavy rain, there are many mushrooms on the mountain." Zhao Guihua was also happy.
Aunt Su didn't get any advantage, so her smile faded a lot, but she was still very friendly. She said, "Ah, then when are you leaving tomorrow? I'll go with you."
Zhao Guihua smiled silently.
Aunt Wang: "You should find someone to ride the bus with. We ride bicycles. With your physique, you won't be able to ride with us. Besides, there are four of us and two bicycles are just right. If you borrow a bicycle and ride by yourself, you won't be able to bear it. It's quite a long way."
Aunt Sui: "Yes, it took us more than two hours to ride back this evening. You said it was two hours, right?"
Zhao Guihua nodded: "Of course there is. When we were going down the mountain and preparing to leave, I asked a young man what time it was. Now... from the time we went down the mountain to the time we came back, including the time we picked plums, it took more than three hours. I estimate that it took us at least two and a half hours."
“Yes, yes.”
Aunt Wang: "Aunt Su, you definitely can't do this. You should take a car."
Zhao Guihua: "It's getting late now. Pregnant women tend to get hungry easily. I have to go home and cook."
Liang Meifen: "Mom, please change your clothes and I will wash them."
Zhao Guihua: "No need to wash. We have to go up the mountain tomorrow anyway."
"That's true."
Zhao Guihua quickly went home and opened the door. Aunt Wang said, "I have to go back and cook."
Aunt Sui: "I have to go too."
Everyone quickly dispersed, and when everyone left, Aunt Su's face darkened.
She walked in with a dissatisfied look on her face. When she saw Hu Huihui standing in the main room, she immediately put on a concerned look and said softly, "Huihui, I'm sorry to have embarrassed you."
She sighed and said, "I wanted to borrow a fish to make you something nice, but... well, you can see that, there's nothing I can do about it."
She said with concern: "You are leaving home this time, so come and stay for a few days."
She said with some apology: "It's not that I don't want you to stay here. I'm very happy that you can come and stay here. It will be more lively with more people. But you also know that our family is so big and only relies on your cousin to work. Her salary is not high. We really have no money to help..."
As soon as Hu Huihui heard what the old lady was thinking, she suppressed her dissatisfaction and said weakly, "I know..."
She pursed her lips and said, "But Auntie, I really have nowhere to go. If you don't take me in, I will have to sleep on the street."
She looked at Aunt Su pitifully and said, "Aunt, please let me stay for a while. I will go home when my father calms down. I, I, I still have some private money. I will pay five dollars. Can you let me stay for a month first?"
Aunt Su's eyes lit up, and she continued, "I'm not greedy for your money, nor do I want your money. Let's wait for your cousin to come back and decide on this matter. She is the one who makes the decisions on family matters."
Aunt Su must get this money. Even though five dollars is not much, it is better than nothing. It would be best if... she could get a little more.
And she had another idea. There were bachelors in this courtyard, and there was more than one bachelor on this street. If she had such a beautiful girl living in her home, she didn't believe that others would not be tempted. As long as they were tempted, that would be good.
If you want to find a partner, you can't not give gifts, right? She pursed her lips and laughed softly. This Hu Huihui came at the right time. It was just right to alleviate the recent predicament of no one helping his family.
But she would not do such a bad thing, and Wang Xiangxiu was very useful at this time. However, she also knew how stupid this daughter-in-law was. If she didn't warn her in advance, she would really do something like chasing people away.
She said, "I'm going to the toilet."
Seeing that the machinery factory was about to close, she planned to go out and block people. Hu Huihui said: "Then I'll cook."
Aunt Su immediately said: "No need, wait for your sister to come back and do it. You are a guest, how can I let you do it?"
As she walked, she said, "I'll take a look at where the three kids are. What a jerk these kids are... They don't even bother to go home after school..."
She muttered as she left the house. Hu Huihui curled her lips, thinking that this old woman was useless. A mother-in-law let her daughter-in-law make the decision. She was really a waste. However, she looked around the house carefully, wondering if there was a place to hide something.
If they took away the gold, silver and jewelry, where could they have hidden them?
In this area, not to mention this street, there are suspects in the streets around it. But the most famous thief in this area is her nephew Jin Lai. So she still has some doubts about the Su family. But if the Su family really hid so many valuable things, they should have guarded the house carefully. As for letting an outsider like her stay alone at home? She pursed her lips, thinking that this possibility was not very likely.
In fact, she had already prepared to live here permanently. There was no other way. Who asked her to find those gold, silver and jewelry? She thought of what Lao Zheng said, that as long as they found them, they would steal the things secretly.
She smiled smugly.
By then, they will have money.
It would be best if she found it herself first, so that she could use it to force Lao Zheng to marry her. Lao Zheng always refused, which was not acceptable. As long as the good thing was in her hands, there was no need to worry about Lao Zheng being unhappy.
She also wanted to be an official's wife.
She looked around and thought to herself that someone like her must not end up like her cousin.
She was sitting at home thinking about all these things. At this time, Aunt Su was already strolling at the entrance of the alley. Seeing Wang Xiangxiu coming back, she quickly grabbed her, walked to the alley on the side, and told her her idea.
Wang Xiangxiu was startled, then said happily: "You are right!"
Aunt Su: "You spread the word that your cousin wants to find a partner. Then we won't have to worry about others not trying to curry favor with our family."
Wang Xiangxiu nodded: "You are right, but just letting her eat and drink for free here..."
"She said she could take five dollars. I said it's up to you to decide. Since she can come up with five dollars, I guess she has more. You can ask for as much as you can. Does she not eat dumplings or noodles? Since she wants to live in our house, the five dollars is rent. Food money is another thing to be calculated."
Wang Xiangxiu: "I asked her for ten yuan."
Aunt Su nodded: "Okay, if she can't come up with it, you can force her to find a way. She's not bad looking, and she's a grown-up girl, so shouldn't it be easy for her to get money?"
Wang Xiangxiu: "I know she is not a good person. She pretends to be gentle and kind, but she has been with many people over the years. When she was a teenager, she could go to other men's houses for dinner. She has a mediocre reputation in my mother's area. Now she pretends to be a chaste woman who doesn't want to get married. She doesn't even know what she is like."
Aunt Su was surprised: "This little hoof is really good at pretending."
"Let's go home and I'll deal with her."
Aunt Su smiled and said, "Then I will have to rely on you. Otherwise, you have to be the head of our family. I am weak and incompetent. I can only give advice, but I can really take the lead. I can't just support you."
Wang Xiangxiu laughed triumphantly and said, "Just hold it up."
Compared to other people's mothers-in-law, she deeply knows how lucky she is. Her mother-in-law is not just good in words, but really good. For example, she has always used her salary to calculate the household expenses, and she is the one who instigates the purchase of this and that at home. Her mother-in-law never makes the final decision.
Her mother-in-law would never use any cloth coupons. She always said, "I'm an old lady who stays at home all day. Why should I dress well? I'll make do with what I can. The child grows fast and needs to change clothes more frequently. You have to go to work and look decent. I don't care. I'm just not in good health and can't eat badly. Otherwise, I can eat nothing at all. If it weren't for the child and you, I would rather die and follow the old man and son. But I know I can't leave. I have to take care of the child. Besides, only when I'm here can the two aunts take money and things back. Otherwise, they will definitely not care..."
Wang Xiangxiu remembered these words clearly and was deeply moved.
There is no better mother-in-law in the world.
But Wang Xiangxiu never thought that her monthly salary was only about 20 yuan, which was not enough for anyone else. If it was in her hands, she would have to find a way out. Wang Xiangxiu could not think of this. She only thought that she was the head of the family.
She walked back with Aunt Su and said, "Huihui, she had a temporary job before, I don't know if she's still doing it, I have to ask her. If she doesn't make money, I definitely can't keep her... I'll see how much she eats."
The two of them walked back together, but they didn't see that just at the turning point just one step away from them, Zhuang Zhixi and Mingmei were standing there, looking at each other.
After the people left, Mingmei pinched Zhuang Zhixi, who sighed, "This old lady is really cunning."
Wang Xiangxiu is actually just a knife of Aunt Su.
Mingmei clicked her tongue, and Zhuang Zhixi pinched her cheeks and said, "Stop clicking your tongue, let's go home."
Mingmei followed behind Zhuang Zhixi slyly, muttering softly, "I have a feeling that war is about to break out again in the compound."
Zhuang Zhixi burst out laughing and said, "Hey, wife, you are really good. You can even make excuses."
Mingmei: “That’s right.”
She said coquettishly, "Didn't you hear what Wang Xiangxiu said? That someone, Huihui, is not a simple person. But she looks so weak and timid. If she is so good at pretending, won't the war start again?"
Zhuang Zhixi raised his eyebrows: "Could it be that Wang Xiangxiu is jealous of her cousin and said this nonsense?"
He said, "Wang Xiangxiu could do such a thing, right?"
Mingmei nodded: "Wang Xiangxiu is capable of doing it, but I also know that Hu Huihui is definitely not a weak character. I didn't think of it this morning, but then I remembered that she seemed to be wearing a red armband. Anyway, even if she is not, she is related to those people. I have seen her. She is quite flamboyant, not what I saw this morning."
Zhuang Zhixi was stunned for a moment, then narrowed his eyes slightly: "Is that so?"
If this is the case, then this matter is quite interesting.
It is normal for a person to have some personality changes when encountering a major event, but recently the red armband has been looking for things here, which makes people think more. He raised his eyebrows and said, "I'll tell my mother when I get home."
Mingmei nodded: "I know."
The couple went home together and smelled a fishy smell as soon as they entered the yard. There were still many people going up the mountain today, and everyone who went had more or less harvested something. Basically every household did it to improve their lives.
Everyone cooked fish, so the smell was quite obvious.
"Mom, we're back."
Xiaoyanzi: "Aunt, we have plums at home, come and have some."
Mingmei: "Oh, really? That's great."
When she entered the house, she saw that her family was stewing fish. Zhao Guihua had stewed two fish.
Mingmei came close to Zhao Guihua and whispered, "Mom, when we came back, we saw Aunt Su and Wang Xiangxiu whispering at the entrance of the alley..."
As she told the story, Zhao Guihua's eyelids twitched.
That Huihui...could it be that she came to their yard for a purpose?
Even if others didn't know, Zhao Guihua knew it clearly. She knew exactly what those people were looking for. At this moment, she actually regretted it a little bit, after all, she really didn't want to provoke those people.
Although those people didn't know that it was his family who did it, there was one more neighbor with ulterior motives. It made people feel uneasy about eating and drinking on weekdays. It seemed that she had acted rashly, but soon, Zhao Guihua immediately shook her head, thinking that it was done and there was nothing to regret.
If these gold, silver and jewelry fall into the hands of Yu Baoshan, we will be doomed.
Others didn't know what he had done, but Zhao Guihua knew it clearly. This man was ruthless. Not to mention the things he did when he sold wholesale clothing, he attacked his peers and harmed people. He used this as a basis to save a large amount of capital to run an illegal coal mine, harming many people. Zhao Guihua felt that he had done nothing wrong.
At the very least, he couldn't expand his clothing business without a large amount of capital, and without a large business, he couldn't run an illegal coal mine.
Zhao Guihua knew how many people were harmed by the illegal coal mines. They were all on TV. They tricked many people into working without paying them. People were trapped in the remote mountain valleys, and no one knew how many people were killed. It was really hard for him, a person from the old city, to find such a place.
Now, haha.
Zhao Guihua calmed herself down and said, "I understand. You don't need to bother with her."
After she finished speaking, she saw her youngest son staring at her. She glared at him and said, "What are you looking at?"
Zhuang Zhixi shook his head and said with a smile: "Look at you, why are you so fierce?"
Zhao Guihua stared at him again, and Zhuang Zhixi shrugged innocently.
Zhao Guihua: "Let's live our lives..."
Just as she was about to continue talking, she heard a knock on the door. Mingmei opened the door and said, "Hey? Sister Jiang Lu? What's up?"
Jiang Lu smiled and said, "I heard you caught a lot today, I want to ask if I can trade two."
She took out the money directly and said, "I am a pregnant woman and I am a little greedy."
Mingmei looked at Zhao Guihua. Zhao Guihua was the one who made the decisions in his family. Besides, this was all the result of her mother-in-law's efforts.
Zhao Guihua hesitated for a moment, and Jiang Lu immediately said, "Look, if I'm fine now, I definitely won't come. Aren't you pregnant? I suddenly feel greedy, I promise it will be just this once."
Zhao Guihua: "Okay."
Although Aunt Su was rejected today, there is no "pregnant woman" in Aunt Su's family after all, right? As for whether she is a real pregnant woman or a fake one, no one knows.
Jiang Lu smiled and said, "Thank you."
She said loudly: "Wang Zhaodi."
Wang Zhaodi ran out immediately: "Sister Jiang Lu, what's wrong?"
Jiang Lu: "Take it home, fish it, and make a fish soup."
Wang Zhaodi opened her eyes wide: "You ate both?"
Jiang Lu nodded: "I ate them all."
Her voice was not low at all: "Isn't it that I am a pregnant woman and greedy?"
Well, I really wish everyone in the world knew about this.
Zhao Guihua thought, if she was faking her pregnancy, how would this end? She just couldn't understand it.
Even if she did it again, Zhao Guihua still felt that she couldn't quite understand Jiang Lu's current actions.
Jiang Lu couldn't have made Zhou Qun mad, so that she thought she was pregnant when she wasn't? But looking at Jiang Lu's eyes, she didn't seem crazy. Zhao Guihua coughed, and was indeed a little puzzled. But Jiang Lu didn't leave. She leaned against the door and talked to Mingmei: "You've been pregnant for more than two months, right?"
Mingmei nodded: "Yes."
She didn't know that Jiang Lu's pregnancy was fake. After all, most people couldn't think of it. Zhao Guihua was unique in being able to compare her past and present lives for reference.
Jiang Lu looked Mingmei up and down and said, "I see that you don't have much reaction during pregnancy. I heard that many people have quite strong reactions."
Mingmei: "Actually, I had a reaction too. I was a little uncomfortable and nauseous in the first few days after the diagnosis. Otherwise, I couldn't change my job. Now my daily schedule is regular and I don't ride in a bumpy car, so I don't have a big reaction. As for other people wanting to vomit... I don't have that reaction. I just feel sick when I smell snake meat, but I'm fine at other times. I guess it's probably just a psychological effect."
Jiang Lu nodded thoughtfully.
Of course, she didn't just come to chat with Mingmei casually, but she wasn't pregnant at all. Since she was faking it, she had to pretend. Although she also wanted to communicate with Mingmei to see if she could find Zhuang Zhixi to plot against Bai Fendou.
But these are all later stories. The most important thing now is that she has to pretend to be pregnant.
This is the important thing.
Over the years, she really didn't pay attention to what other people's pregnancies were like. She herself had never had a child, so she would avoid pregnant women and never ask any more questions. So now she was a little confused. She could ask her mother, but Jiang Lu thought it was inappropriate.
Her mother is at that age, she has probably forgotten everything, so it's hard to tell.
So she immediately thought of faking a pregnancy and imitating Mingmei.
There was more than one pregnant woman in the yard. Li Fang was also pregnant, but she had been married for more than ten years. Those who had no contact with Li Fang were looked down upon by Li Fang. It was not easy to get close to Li Fang in a short time.
If it comes to who can get along better, Jiang Lu would choose Mingmei.
"I always heard that pregnant women like to eat sour or spicy food. What do you think?"
Mingmei looked at Jiang Lu in confusion, not knowing why she asked this. But thinking that everyone was pregnant, she said, "I like to eat everything. Maybe it's because I'm in the early stages of pregnancy, so I don't feel anything. I'm not picky about food. I like to eat everything. I don't miss anything, whether it's sour or spicy."
Jiang Lu seemed to be thinking: "That's true, the moon is too young, so it doesn't really have much effect."
"Yes."
Mingmei asked curiously: "I heard you have a baby too, how does it feel?"
Jiang Lu said calmly: "I don't feel anything. I used to think pregnant women would change a lot, but now I don't feel anything at all. I'm still a little unsure. Isn't this what I want to ask you?"
Mingmei felt that this logic was not right.
But she didn't say much, instead she said: "Maybe I was just happy. I didn't feel much before I found out I was pregnant, but once I found out I worried for nothing and was a little distracted at work. But I calmed down quickly and was fine."
Jiang Lu uttered a soft "oh" and said, "Is that so."
Zhao Guihua interrupted, "People react differently. Some people have been in good health since childhood, so they don't feel anything when they are pregnant. Some people are weaker, so their reactions are bigger. Some people are fine at the beginning of pregnancy, but feel uncomfortable in the fourth or fifth month. This kind of thing is the most unreasonable."
Jiang Lu nodded: "Yes, yes."
She felt relieved when she heard this.
Seeing that they were already cooking and preparing to eat, Jiang Lu said, "I'll go back first. We'll exchange experiences with each other some other day."
Mingmei: "Huh? Oh."
She watched Jiang Lu leave and muttered softly, "How weird."
Liang Meifen: "This Jiang Lu finally got what she wanted, and she is no longer the same as before."
Zhao Guihua: “Yeah.”
Mingmei pursed her lips while eating. Zhao Guihua said, "We will go to the mountain to pick mushrooms tomorrow. If we come back late, you two can cook for us."
Mingmei: "Okay."
Zhao Guihua: "Cut a piece of mutton, stir-fry the mutton with green onions, and then make some green vegetables."
Mingmei: "Okay."
Hu Tou and Xiao Yan Zi both started to swallow their saliva.
Zhao Guihua smiled and said, "Our food is pretty good, why are you still so greedy?"
The two kids felt embarrassed to say this, so Tiger Head smiled innocently and said, "Yeah, I'm just very greedy."
He tilted his head and asked, "Grandma, we are eating all these delicious foods. Does that mean we have no money left at home?"
Although he was just a child, he knew all this. Zhao Guihua laughed and said, "If you don't eat well and grow taller and stronger, how are you going to make money in the future?"
Tiger scratched his head and said, "Yes."
Zhao Guihua: "If you eat better, you will be strong and won't get sick. If you spend the same amount of money, is it better to buy meat or take injections and medicine?"
Tiger Head was extremely determined: "Eat meat."
Xiaoyanzi nodded in agreement: "Eat meat, eat meat. I hate taking medicine the most!"
It tastes bitter and makes me want to vomit.
Zhao Guihua: "So, grandma has her own plans. You kids don't need to think so much. Just eat well and grow up obediently."
The two children nodded heavily: "Yes."
Mingmei also smiled and said, "Mom, you are really good at educating children. I will let you teach my future children, too."
Zhao Guihua glared at her and said, "You want to be lazy, right?"
Mingmei's eyes widened, and her face was round and firm: "How could it be, I didn't!"
She said coquettishly: "Mom, I feel so bad that you misunderstood me like this. Oh, my heart hurts so much~"
She covered her chest and was very pretentious.
Zhao Guihua smiled and nodded at her: "You, just like to make trouble."
Mingmei said confidently: "No way, besides, you are smiling, you are obviously very happy..."
Zhao Guihua laughed and said, "You..."
Before he could finish, he heard a burst of crying and shouting from outside.
Mingmei almost dropped her bowl and said, "Oh my god, what are you doing outside?"
Zhuang Zhixi stood up quickly, looked outside, and said, "It's Aunt Su barking again, like a donkey."
When he went out, he saw that other people had already come out. Bai Fendou and his son, as well as Jiang Lu, were standing at the door with their arms folded, looking curiously. People in the backyard also walked forward one after another. However, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Su family looked like they couldn't live anymore.
Aunt Wang came to the front yard and asked quickly, "What happened?"
She is the most miserable girl in the city, bar none. She has a huge sense of helplessness engraved on her forehead. Anyway, she is miserable.
Aunt Su burst into tears and could hardly speak. Wang Xiangxiu looked as if she was about to be unable to bear it. She said, "My Jinlai is missing, and my three children are all missing. They haven't come back, wuwuwu..."
The children are their lifeblood. If it were anything else, they would still have some reason. But when it came to their three sons, Wang Xiangxiu collapsed. She cried, "They haven't come back yet at this time. What should we do?"
Aunt Su added tearfully, "Usually, after school, they play outside and come back for dinner, so we didn't think much of it today. But we waited and waited until it was already past dinner time, and the children hadn't come back yet. Xiuer went outside and saw that there were no children there. They had all gone home for dinner. When we asked the children in the next yard, we found that they hadn't even seen Jin Lai and the other two come back..."
She was really panicked. Seeing her like this, Aunt Wang was also startled and frightened.
You know, losing a child is never a trivial matter.
Everyone started talking: "Ah, the child is missing? All three children are missing? Could they have met a kidnapper?"
"There aren't any kidnappers these days, are there?"
"So where did you go?"
"Could it be that Tan didn't come back because he was too playful?"
"Why don't we just look for it?"
The child being lost is no small matter. Even people who are usually distant from each other will take the initiative to help. Aunt Wang calmed down and said, "Everyone, help go out and look for the child."
"OK."
"good."
Zhao Guihua also took the initiative to help and asked, "What time did they go to school and get out of school today? Has anyone seen the children?"
She said, "Let's split up and look for them. We neighbors can look around. Wang Xiangxiu, you can go to the school and ask around. Then go to their teacher to see if they went to another kid's house to play. Or, have they told their friends where they were going?"
"Yes, yes, I'll go to school now..."
Wang Xiangxiu was about to leave, Zhao Guihua said: "Auntie Wang, you are the manager of the hospital and are familiar with the surroundings, please mobilize people around to help look for him."
Aunt Wang: "Okay."
She said: "Yang Lixin, accompany Wang Xiangxiu to the school..."
Li Fang said, "Mom, let my dad come with me. Young people can't do things as steadily as you do."
She was worried about letting her man be alone with Wang Xiangxiu. Although the matter was urgent, she didn't want her home to be stolen. Her father was old, so it was okay.
They had known each other for a long time, so how could she not know what Wang Xiangxiu was like? Chef Li: "I'll go, Wang Xiangxiu, come with me."
Wang Xiangxiu nodded immediately, and the two of them hurried out the door together. Aunt Wang also called everyone.
Zhao Guihua: "Pregnant women, please don't go out. Wait for the news at home."
She continued, "Come here all you kids, does anyone know where Jin Lai and the others went?"
The children all shook their heads. Tiger Head said, "I haven't seen them since school ended today."
Li Junjun, Li Weiwei and others also nodded, agreeing with Hu Tou's words.
Li Junjun: "We played hopscotch in the yard when we came back, but we didn't see them."
"The three children must be together. Jinlai is in primary school, and Tonglai is in kindergarten. It is impossible for them to be lost at the same time. They must have left together. Let's go out and look for them. I hope Wang Xiangxiu and the others will find something."
Everybody agreed. The children didn't need to go out, and several pregnant women didn't leave either. But everyone else went out, regardless of whether they were on good terms with the group or not. This was a big deal, and no one would refuse to help.
Although people these days may quarrel hysterically over a piece of onion or garlic, they will really help when encountering such a situation.
But if you say you have encountered kidnappers, most people don’t believe it. There aren’t that many kidnappers these days. Even Zhao Guihua knows this. If you say kidnappers have increased, it’s only since the 1980s, and there have been more since the 1990s.
But it was still the 1970s, life was poor, and it was hard to get enough food. There were really few kidnappers, mainly because of poverty. And there was no family planning, so every household had many children. Even if you really didn't have children, you didn't have to go far if you wanted to have one. Who didn't have a few poor relatives? You could definitely find a child to adopt.
And now you need a letter of introduction wherever you go, and it’s not that they won’t check it if you bring your children with you.
So if you want to ask whether there are kidnappers, the answer is yes.
But there are very few, very few.
With this understanding, everyone tends to think that these children went out to play by themselves. After all, these three children are always like this, very naughty. Zhao Guihua and her group all went out.
Mingmei didn't go out because she was pregnant. She sat at the door with a small stool. Hutou and Xiaoyanzi sat beside her. Hutou frowned and asked, "Aunt, is Jinlai missing?"
Mingmei: "I don't know. They have all gone to look for it. They should be able to find it."
It's dark now and I don't know where the child will run to.
Tiger Head propped up his cheek and said, "If we can't find it, we won't have parents anymore."
Mingmei: "Yeah, that's right. So if children want to go somewhere, they must tell their parents. It's not okay to not tell them anything."
Hu Tou nodded quickly, and so did Xiao Yan Zi beside him.
Both children were quite afraid of not being able to find their way home.
Jiang Lu didn't go out, but came over and sat together. Although she wanted to go out to help, she thought that she was a "pregnant woman" and didn't go out. She said to Mingmei: "These three children are usually too spoiled, where do you think they can go?"
Mingmei didn't know either, so she shook her head and said, "I don't know."
She said: "If no one saw them, then it would be troublesome. I'm afraid they are not nearby, which would make it difficult to find them."
Jiang Lu nodded. In fact, she had always criticized the way the Su family raised their children. If she had a child, she would definitely educate him well. How difficult is it to raise a child? How can you just ignore everything? How can he succeed in the future?
Don't say that Jiang Lu has this idea, in fact, others may have the same idea, but the Su family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are so indulgent to the child, they will definitely not say much. This matter has nothing to do with them.
Jiang Lu: "I hope the child can be found soon."
"That's right."
They didn't talk much. Although Jin Lai's three children were hated by everyone, they didn't want to see the children lost, so they were still feeling a little heavy. Li Fang also brought a stool to the front, and several people sat together.
At this time, everyone was looking around outside but found nothing.
However, Chef Li and Wang Xiangxiu did come back, and everyone gathered at the entrance of the alley.
Chef Li: "They are not in school. I have asked around. Jin Lai didn't have any classes this afternoon. He said he felt sick at noon and asked for leave. After he ran away, he went to the kindergarten to pick up his two younger brothers. The three of them left together."
They first went to the school and then to the kindergarten and almost figured out what was going on.
"Where can the three of them go?"
"My Jin is here."
"It's already dark, what are they going to do? Woo woo woo."
Aunt Su cried and threw herself on Old Man Bai, howling, "Brother Bai, why is my life so miserable?"
Everyone's mouth twitched. You can cry if you want, but why do you want to hook up with the old white-haired guy at this time? Zhao Guihua: "They don't have any children they know? Does anyone know where they are going?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a middle-aged woman came hurriedly and said, "I am Jin Lai's class teacher..."
"Give me back my son, you bastard, you damned bastard. I sent my child to school and you should have helped me take good care of him, but now he's gone... You bitch. Give me back my son..."
She rushed forward and was about to hit the teacher, but Aunt Wang quickly stopped her and said, "What are you doing? Why are you making such a fuss now? Do you still want to find your son?"
Primary school teacher: "Student Su Jinlai is not a particularly good kid at school, but he told his deskmate that he wants to do something big today. He said that many people in your yard are going fishing, and he wants to go too!"
"ah!"
"Catching fish?"
"Yes, everyone said they were going up the mountain today. She might have heard it."
Aunt Su also shook her head and said, "Yes, yes, yes, we talked about it last night."
In fact, she wanted to go, otherwise she couldn't ask for the specific details of the place, but when she heard that it was in the suburbs, she gave up. This is too far, she doesn't want to suffer, she has thought about it, when the time comes, just ask others for one, wouldn't it be much easier? If others get more, she will ask for two, she has such a difficult life, it is only right to help her.
Who can be so unsympathetic?
Anyway, that's what she thought.
So she didn't go at all. As for Wang Xiangxiu, she went to work, so it was impossible for her to go. But unexpectedly, Jin Lai heard about this and kept it in mind. She was very sad and shouted, "How can they go to the suburbs? What if something happens?"
Aunt Su grabbed Aunt Wang and said, "Didn't you guys go to the suburbs too? Did you see him?"
Aunt Wang shook her head: "I didn't see it."
She asked, “Did you see it?”
There were quite a lot of people going to their yard today.
Everyone shook their heads, saying no one saw it.
Zhao Guihua: "We set out early in the morning and started to head back in the afternoon. The last one to come back must have been rushing back before dinner. If they left late and had to walk without a car, they would have missed us, so it's normal that we didn't meet."
"They left after lunch, so they should have arrived in the afternoon."
"You can't say that. They don't have bicycles, right? They probably don't have money to take a bus. If they had to walk, they wouldn't be able to get there until the evening, right?"
"That's true."
"Aunt Su, does the child have money for the bus?"
Aunt Su shook her head vigorously. However, she said, "Although we don't have money, my child Jinlai has been smart since he was young. Maybe he can find a way to take a bus."
"It's hard to say. No one has seen them, so it's unlikely that they went there by car."
"What should I do then?"
"My poor Jinlai, where are you? You want to kill me. If you get lost, mom will die too..."
“Stop howling and quickly follow the road leading out of the city to find it.”
Zhao Guihua: "Divide into three groups. One group will ride directly to the mountains outside the city to have a look. Another group will follow this road out of the city to look for them. The last group, Aunt Wang, you must take them to the police station as soon as possible. It will definitely be better if the police can help."
“Yes, yes, yes.”
Zhuang Zhixi: "I'll go to the bus station and ask. There's only one bus going to the suburbs. I'll ask the driver or the crew. If there are three children on the bus going to the suburbs, they must have some memory of it."
"Is it time to get off work now?"
Zhuang Zhixi: "It's okay, my wife will definitely know him."
"Oh yes, that's where Xiaozhuang's wife works."
Everyone was eager to help and no one was vague.
However, it can be seen at this time that there is a reason why the old Zhuang family lives a good life. From Zhao Guihua to his son Zhuang Zhixi, they are very organized in doing things. And they can handle things at critical moments.
The Su family, on the other hand, can do nothing but shout.
Aunt Wang led the group to the police station, and soon they had helpers. At this time, Zhuang Zhixi also brought back news: "I asked around. They did take the bus to the suburbs and got off at the stop at the foot of the mountain. There were three children, and they also carried a bucket. Because there were many people going to the suburbs today, the ticket seller did not ask them in detail why the children went out together. However, because many people were going fishing, they thought they were with adults. Also, they had money on them, so Jin came to buy the tickets..."
“Ah, this…”
"Aunt Su, didn't you say the child has no money?"
"Look for it quickly, don't say there's nothing left."
Since the children have already determined the place to get off, it must be in the suburbs. Everyone rushed to the suburbs, and the police station even contacted a bus to take there. The reason they still wanted everyone to come was mainly because they were not sure about the specific location. If there were too many people and they really couldn't find it, they could divide into groups to search the mountain.
Just when everyone was getting anxious and gathering together to help regardless of their relationship, and even people like Hu Huihui and Wang Zhaodi were busy looking for people, what were the three Su Jinlai brothers doing at this time?
The three children lit a fire and sat together to grill fish.
To talk about how these three children went up the mountain, we have to start from yesterday. Yesterday everyone knew that there was such a place. Although no one knew whether there were as many fish as people said, many people still wanted to come and see it.
After all, things like this that improve our lives must be grasped firmly.
The fish supplied by this grocery store is limited, and can be bought on the black market, but everyone has a formal job, so they would rather avoid the black market. That is why everyone will grab this free opportunity.
But among these people, there is Aunt Su.
Although Aunt Su is poor, she doesn't want to work hard.
You said that if you asked her to mend clothes for her grandson, she could do it.
You can even let her wash clothes for the children or make some money by pasting matchboxes, that's fine too.
But if you ask her to do some physical work, she won't do it. This old lady is very prudent. Going to the suburbs or the mountains is a torture, so she definitely won't go. Although she didn't want to go, Jin Lai heard it.
As a boy, he is not afraid of long distances or being tired.
He immediately pulled his two younger brothers over, and the three of them started to talk, and soon they had a plan. They were going to go fishing in the suburbs together. Other families could catch fish, so why couldn't his family? Recently, there was a faint fishy smell in the yard, and the children could smell it with their sharp noses.
They were just craving for it, and now they had the chance to eat and play, so of course they were very happy.
But they also knew that the adults would definitely not agree with them going, so in the morning the three children went to primary school or kindergarten as usual. After lunch, they all pretended to be sick and ran out.
To be honest, Jin Lai is a "talent". He is really a very professional "technician".
Since they were going to go up the mountain to catch fish, they couldn't do it with their bare hands, so Jin Lai thought of a way. He targeted the school's kitchen. He was not familiar with other places. The places he was most familiar with were their compound and the school.
Everyone in their compound would go up the mountain, so naturally they would not leave their fishing nets at home.
So Jin Lai set his sights on the kitchen. Chef Zhang in the kitchen liked to fish sometimes, so he went straight in and took away the fishing rod and bucket. Poor Chef Zhang, he didn't even know his things were lost.
Jin Lai grabbed the fishing rod and bucket and quietly slipped out. The three children discussed it with him. They also knew that if they could walk to the suburbs, it would be good if they could make it in the afternoon, so they still had to take a car.
Fortunately, Jin Lai listened carefully last night and asked questions without leaving any trace, and he already knew what car to build.
But a new problem arose: they had no money.
Although children like Tonglai didn't need to buy tickets, Jinlai would definitely be questioned, and there was a high possibility that he would buy a half-price ticket. If he was accompanied by a parent, he might be able to get away with it, but if he didn't have a parent, he would definitely be questioned.
Jin Lai thought about it and felt that this would not work. He wanted to steal money, but it was not easy to steal money, and it was difficult to do so in a short time. Thinking that Zhou Qun had always loved them, Jin Lai decided to start with Zhou Qun. Even though they went to Zhou's house to steal things, Zhou Qun still got angry and beat them up.
But most of the time, Zhou Qun is pretty nice to her three children. No matter what they do, Zhou Qun praises them as "great."
To the extent that they deeply felt that Zhou Qun was a sonless person because he had no son, that was why he liked them.
Jin Lai came to the hospital and finally found Zhou Qun.
When Zhou Qun heard that they wanted to "borrow" money, his face became gloomy. Just when Jin Lai and the others thought everything was over, Zhou Qun unexpectedly smiled and agreed to lend the money.
Just like that, the three children took the fifty cents given by Zhou Qun and bought tickets to go to the suburbs.
What they don't know is that Zhou Qun is not a considerate and kind person. He treats these three children in the same way: “praising to death”.
Anyway, he doesn't have a son, so he would be very happy if other people's sons learned bad things.
Jinlai spent ten cents to buy a ticket for himself. Yinlai and Tonglai were still young, so they didn't need to buy tickets. He still made forty cents.
Oh, if you count the return to the city, there will be only three cents left.
In short, the three Jinlai brothers felt that they had made a good deal. The three of them took a car to come here. Because there were many people on the mountain, they went all the way up the mountain and found the pond. However, they were children after all, so they set out late after "preparing" various things, and they were very tired after going up the mountain. After all, it was not early.
As to why they didn't meet Zhao Guihua and the others, it was because Zhao Guihua and the others were walking down the mountain, so they were walking up the mountain.
Moreover, the adults took the normal route up and down the mountain to save time, but the children were inevitably distracted and ran around all the way, and finally missed everything. After they went up the mountain, there were still many people. However, because the children's level was not very good, they waited for everyone to leave one after another, and they still hadn't gained anything.
These guys were not convinced. If others could catch it, why couldn't they?
This has delayed it until now...
But the three children finally got something, and they said proudly: "Damn, those adults always think they are great. In fact, they are nothing! Look, with our level, can't we fish just as well?"
"Big brother is awesome!"
(End of this chapter)
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