Chapter 52 "Took the Wrong Medicine"
When Old Man Lu heard that the money was gone, he hurried home.
The first thing I do when I get home is to check the cash box.
Seeing this, Mother Lu turned pale and asked with all her might, "You didn't touch the money?"
"Even if I move, I won't move all the way." Father Lu said irritably.
He searched frantically for money but found nothing.
Father Lu was so angry that he smashed the money box on the ground with a ferocious look on his face.
"Where's the money? Who took it away?"
His gloomy gaze swept over everyone.
Su Yuxian's scalp tingled, and he hurriedly said, "It's not me. My foot is injured, and it's inconvenient for me to go anywhere. I haven't been to the main house."
Father Lu thought what she said made sense, so he looked away and looked at Lu Xiaomei.
"It wasn't me. If I had taken it, why wouldn't I just confess?" Lu Xiaomei was unhappy.
Father Lu's face was grim. "How can so much money disappear out of thin air?"
The family turned the house upside down and even poked the rat holes, but they couldn't find a single banknote.
Mother Lu sat on the ground crying, crying about her money.
"You damned thief, you gave birth to a son without an asshole. How dare you take all that money? Oh my god, I'm so heartbroken, oh my god."
"When we catch this bastard, we'll chop off his paws and let his parents know whether they have raised a human or an animal."
She was angry, but when she came to Lu Xiaomei, she wanted to cry.
Her dowry was included in that money.
Her mother said that she would give her 200 yuan of pocket money when she got married. Now that the money is gone, how can she get more? !
Father Lu said angrily, "Cry, cry, cry, what's the use of crying? Report to the police. If that doesn't work, go to the Public Security Committee. They are all a bunch of rubbish."
After cursing, he rushed out of the house and went to find the captain of the Public Security Committee.
Once he found it, the fact that the Lu family lost their money could no longer be concealed. The entire Harvest Brigade knew about the theft.
Under the big banyan tree in the village, a group of women who had no mood for lunch break because of the melons gathered in a circle and shared gossip about the Lu family.
"Hey, have you heard that the Lu family seems to have been robbed?"
"I heard about it. The news has spread everywhere!"
"Does anyone know how much money was stolen from his house?"
Everyone shook their heads.
Yuan Bao's mother looked at the silent captain's wife and asked, "Does sister-in-law know?"
"You just remembered me." The captain's wife rolled her eyes, slowly stood up, picked up a stool and sat in the middle of the crowd.
She was content to be stared at by several pairs of eyes.
“I don’t know exactly how much.”
After hearing this, the excitement in the eyes of the onlookers faded. Wasn't this just a lie to them?
If the person who spoke was not the captain's wife, they would curse at him no matter how high or low.
"Don't be so anxious." said the captain's wife.
Everyone thought she had inside information and looked over excitedly.
“I don’t know the exact number, but I know the rough estimate.”
This one sentence aroused the curiosity of everyone present.
"How much?"
"How much? At least three to five hundred, right?"
"Ichizhou has an allowance, so it should be around three to five hundred."
…
Everyone was talking at once.
When the captain's wife thought about the amount of money the Lu family had lost, she felt sad and showed it on her face.
"I heard it's over a thousand dollars."
To be honest, she was shocked when she first heard these words.
Thousands! She had never seen so much money in her life!
As the captain's wife finished speaking, a series of hissing sounds began to rise.
Everyone was shocked.
"Hiss!! Thousands of dollars?!" Yuanbao's mother hissed the loudest, her lips trembling.
Her family couldn't even afford a hundred dollars.
"Is being a soldier so profitable?" Her eyes lit up as she mentally planned to let her son Yuanbao join the army when he grew up.
The captain's wife was stumped by the question and said vaguely, "It's definitely much more than earning work points in the fields."
Even if you get full work points every day and don't get sick or miss work all year round, you will still make less than 200 yuan at the end of the year. After deducting the expenses for household expenses, you won't be able to save much at the end of the year.
It is said that anyone with assets over one hundred yuan is considered rich.
"I wonder if my Yuanbao is lucky enough to be a soldier."
The captain's wife doesn't think that being a soldier is a blessing. It is true that there are allowances, but I heard that soldiers have to go to the battlefield and catch spies, which is very dangerous. The allowances are exchanged for their lives, so what kind of blessing is that?
"Thousands of dollars..." someone muttered, looking a little suspicious, "Did the Lu family kid send all his allowance back home?"
"Who knows?" said Wang Chunhua.
It seemed as if there was a loudspeaker under the banyan tree, and as long as the words were spoken, they could quickly spread throughout the village.
Several old ladies made a special trip to the Gu family.
First of all, he gave Mother Gu an extremely complicated look.
Without waiting for Gu's mother to ask them the purpose of their visit, Mrs. Li said sourly, "Mother Chenghuai, you have a son like Chenghuai, which is worth several sons in other families."
Mother Gu: “……?”
Mother Gu looked at her blankly, "Why do you suddenly say that?"
"Did you take the wrong medicine?"
Old lady Li felt upset.
"You don't know yet." Old Mrs. Qian, who lived in the same village as Gu's mother, said with a smile, "The Lu family lost money, haven't you heard about it?"
"Lost money?" Gu's mother raised her voice slightly.
"Yes, they said they lost thousands of dollars." When talking about thousands of dollars, everyone's tone was filled with shock, regret, envy, and a complexity that was indescribable.
"Thousands of dollars?!" Gu's mother was also shocked.
Is the Lu family so rich?
but……
"What does the Lu family's lost money have to do with my third son?"
Mrs. Qian clicked her tongue and said, "Everyone is guessing that the Lu family kid's allowance is not low."
"He is only the deputy battalion commander, but his family has saved so much money. Your third son is the battalion commander, one level higher than him, so his allowance must be higher."
You can save more too.
What she didn't say was that many people were thinking about the Gu family and planned to come and borrow money when they were short of money in the future.
Mother Gu knew that wealth should not be exposed, so she immediately said, "I don't know about this. We have divided the family a long time ago, and I have never asked about Cheng Huai's allowance. How can I ask for money that my child has worked so hard for?"
"His allowance is so high, why doesn't he give you pension money?" Old Lady Li showed disbelief on her face.
Gu's mother said bluntly, "It's not like his father and I can't do it. Why do we need the child's money? We have enough food and drink at home."
"Could it be... your third daughter-in-law is reluctant to give it to you?" As if this could make her happy, Old Lady Li smiled with wrinkles all over her face.
"..."
Mother Gu said the most pretentious words in a calm tone, "Zhao Zhao said that I have worked hard to take care of four children, so he will give me two dollars a month from now on."
She didn't mention that the money would be directly exchanged for food.
Two pieces, that’s quite a lot.
Suddenly, several mothers-in-law sighed and were so upset that they couldn't speak.
Even Mrs. Qian, who was best friends with Gu's mother, looked at her sourly.
"Okay, I know your third daughter-in-law is filial, but it's scary to laugh like that. Do you still think you're a young girl?"
"They are all filial. My three daughters-in-law are all filial." Mother Gu's face was full of smiles, and a trace of pride flowed from the corners of her eyes. "The third daughter-in-law said that she can still be pretty and use face cream even when she is old. She will buy some for me one day."
Unable to bear the sight of her showing off, the old ladies packed up their things and left.
After returning home, I saw that my son's nose was not a nose and his eyes were not eyes.
The sons of each family were full of doubts.
What medicine did you take wrong again?
I didn't dare to ask and just quickly found something to do for fear of being scolded.
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The Lu family lost thousands of yuan, a huge amount.
The comrades of the Security Committee certainly used everything they had learned, investigated what needed to be investigated, asked what needed to be asked, and tried every possible means, but still to no avail.
It can only be considered as the end of the "cold case".
After hearing the results of the investigation, Lu's mother was unwilling to accept the result and stepped forward to grab the captain of the Public Security Committee by his patched sweatshirt.
There was a 'swish' sound, which was the sound of clothes tearing.
The other members of the Security Committee were stunned.
Someone suddenly made a "puff" sound.
Then, the sound of air leakage began one after another.
Uncle Changsheng is also a member of the Public Security Committee. Seeing this, he couldn't help laughing and said, "Auntie, you really don't treat us as outsiders. You stripped our captain's clothes in front of us. Isn't that inappropriate?"
Zhang Yongqiang, the head of the Public Security Committee, gave him a warning look, signaling him to restrain himself.
Mother Lu's face turned red, and she angrily gouged out her eyes at Uncle Changsheng, "I'll pay for it, okay?"
Uncle Changsheng is a scoundrel. If you speak to him nicely, he may give you face. If you don't speak to him nicely, I'm sorry, don't expect him to say anything nice to you.
"Look at what you said. You tore it apart, shouldn't you pay for it? Why are you shouting so loudly?"
Mother Lu was so angry that she leaned back and ignored him. She chased after Zhang Yongqiang and asked, "Captain Zhang, what did you just say?"
"My family lost so much money, and you said you tried your best, what do you mean? You're not going to look for it now? What should I do then?"
She was so excited that she wanted to take action again.
Zhang Yongqiang frowned and took two steps back.
"So what do you want us to do? We've looked in all the right places and asked all the right people, but there's still no clue. What do you want us to do?"
Mother Lu screamed, "Keep looking! Until you find it!"
The uncle sneered, "This request is very rough."
Other members of the security committee gave him encouraging looks and told him to say more.
The young man was greatly encouraged. He stepped forward with his chest held high and continued, "Our Public Security Committee is not your Lu family's, and we are not around your family all day long."
"We have checked everything we should have checked, but we didn't find anything. Even if you force us to death, we still won't find anything."
"Some things don't always work hard to get results." He ended with this sentence.
Mother Lu realized that her family's money was really gone. She felt so distressed that she felt dizzy. She sat down on the ground and cried desperately, "My family's money."
She has always been difficult to deal with, and the people on the Security Committee left one after another for fear that something might happen.
The Lu family members sat numbly, each occupying a place of their own. There were dark clouds hanging over their heads and the atmosphere was chilly.
Lu Baozhen covered her rumbling stomach and walked out of the room. Just as she reached the yard, she fell.
This is the first time for the little lucky star recognized by the whole brigade.
She was confused and couldn't react for a long time.
Mother Lu's old eyes suddenly brightened, she stepped forward and picked up her granddaughter, her wrinkled face relaxed, "I have Baozhen, what's the use of that little bit of money with Baozhen?"
She looked at Father Lu and said, "I will take a day off tomorrow and take Baozhen to visit the county."
The money in the blue cloth bag and the gold ring were "picked up" by Baozhen in the county. If she took Baozhen to the county, the money and the ring would definitely be returned.
Father Lu paused for a moment while smoking his pipe. "Go."
Su Yuxian's gaze seemed to fall on Lu Baozhen, and something flashed quickly in his eyes.
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County.
After work, Lin Zhao drove Li Fen to the match factory, got the materials for making 500 matchboxes, learned how to make them, thanked the enthusiastic sister Li Fen, and said goodbye.
After leaving the match factory, I went to a photo studio, took out the film, paid the master in the photo studio to develop the photos, and confirmed the time to pick up the photos.
Then ride your bike home.
As soon as we arrived at the village entrance, two cubs and two dogs, one big and one small, came to greet us.
Erzai hugged Lin Zhao's waist and said, "Mom, I want to ride a bicycle."
The eldest son held his younger brother and said, "Second son, mom is tired from work."
"...Okay." Erzai looked disappointed and sighed, "When can I ride a bicycle by myself?"
"Maybe another three to five years," Lin Zhao replied.
She bent down and picked up the second child, put the little one in the back seat, and looked at the eldest child: "Mom will push you home, the second child will sit first, and then you can sit, okay?"
The eldest child said, "Sure, I'll help you push the cart."
After saying that, he grabbed the back seat of the bicycle.
Erzai was so happy when he got on the bicycle, swinging his legs and shouting with joy, "Mom, it's so high, I like bicycles."
The villagers said that no one doesn't like bicycles.
Old Lady Qian said with a smile, "Second son, wait for your father to come back and let him carry you higher on his neck."
The second child looked at Lin Zhao and said, "Mom, how tall is my dad? Is he as tall as my second uncle?"
"Of course, your father is a well-known tall man in the surrounding villages. He is taller than your grandfather, your uncle and others." Lin Zhao explained in a gentle voice.
When she was dating Comrade Gu Chenghuai, his height and face were both important plus points.
"Wow!" Erzai exclaimed, looking at his mother eagerly, "Mom, can I be that tall?"
"Of course, you are your father's sons. As long as you eat well, of course you can grow that tall." Lin Zhao smiled and suddenly thought of his father. She wondered how he was doing.
As they were walking, Erzai suddenly said, "Mom, stop, it's my brother's turn to sit down."
"Erzai did the right thing. He wasn't greedy and he was thinking about his brother in his heart." Lin Zhao praised.
The second child held his head high and chest out, feeling very elated.
My mother praised me again, hehe.
The eldest boy sat on the back seat of the bicycle. His posture was much more obedient than his younger brother. He looked calm, and except that the corners of his mouth were raised higher than usual, he did not show any joy.
"Did anything happen in the village today?" Lin Zhao asked casually.
The second child trotted forward and walked side by side with his mother, his eyes sparkling, "Yes! There are so many things happening in the village today."
He looked around cautiously and said mysteriously, "Mom, Lu Baozhen is super weird."
Lin Zhao couldn't help laughing and said in confusion, "What's so strange about that?"
"She shouted to her hand... Pear, Pear!" The kid who didn't even have a kindergarten education didn't know which pear it was and could only think of the pear to eat.
Lin Zhao stopped and asked in astonishment, "You said Baozhen was talking to her own hands?"
"That's right." Erzai nodded his head, "My brother and I saw it, right, brother?"
Lin Zhao followed his gaze and turned to look at the calm elder.
"Yeah, I saw it too. She was calling Lili." The eldest son spoke clearly and with the courtesy of a little gentleman, like Lin's father. "Mom, Lu Baozhen also wanted to steal the box that the second son and I dug."
He said with a serious face, "She also threatened me and Erzai, asking us to give her the box, otherwise she would tell the team."
Erzai jumped in front of Lin Zhao and added quickly: "She also bit me! Look at the bite marks she left on me, mother." He raised his hand.
(End of this chapter)
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