Chapter 2469 Looking for the Captain
After Aunt Caihua brought Liu Ke back home, she saw the captain was at home and told him what had just happened.
After hearing what Aunt Caihua said, the captain tapped his pipe and asked Liu Ke, "Liu Ke, why did your father want to kill you?"
“For food, today a sister saw that my grandmother and I were starving to death, so she gave me and my grandmother some food.
I didn’t expect my dad to find out, and then he asked me to give him the food. I refused, so he wanted to kill me so he could take the food away.”
"You said you and your grandmother were starving to death. What happened? If I remember correctly, the food you and your grandmother were given last year was enough for you to eat until June if you were frugal. How come it's gone so quickly?"
When Liu Ke heard the captain's words, he did not respond immediately, but looked at the captain with a conflicted look on his face.
The captain saw Liu Ke's tangled look and asked him, "What's wrong? Is there something you can't say?"
"There's nothing you can't say, but I think it's not nice to say bad things about elders behind their backs."
"It's not nice to say bad things about elders behind their backs, but special cases require special treatment. Just tell me, and I'll come to your house after you've finished."
After hearing what the captain said, Liu Ke clenched his fists, and then pretended to be ready to die. He said to the captain: "Captain, my family's food was taken away by my father and stepmother a few days ago. If it weren't for that sister who gave me and my grandmother some millet porridge today, my grandmother and I would have starved to death."
"Is what you said true?"
"It's true. Captain, if you don't believe me, I can swear."
"No need to swear, I believe what you say. Let's go and take a look at your house." After the captain finished speaking, he got off the kang, put on his shoes, and walked out of the house.
When Liu Ke saw the captain was going to his house, he immediately stopped the captain and said to him, "Captain, I want to ask you for help with something."
"What's up?"
"I want to put the food my sister gave me at your house. I will go to your house every two days to get the food. This way, the food my sister gave me will not be taken away by my father and my stepmother."
After hearing what Liu Ke said, the captain agreed immediately. Then he asked Aunt Cauliflower to bring the scale and weigh the grains one by one.
"Liu Ke, have you remembered the weight of each type of food?" the captain asked Liu Ke.
“I remember.”
"Well, next time you come to get food, just like today, weigh the food before you take it, and weigh it again after you take it. Got it?"
"Captain, there's no need to make such a fuss. I trust you so much that I'll send the food to your home."
"I'm glad you trust me, but brothers should settle accounts clearly, so just do as I say."
After hearing the captain's words, Liu Ke did not refuse again and promised the captain that he would do as he said.
"Can we go to your house now?" the captain asked Liu Ke.
"Can."
More than ten minutes later, Liu Ke returned home. Seeing that the house was in a mess, he immediately ran to the kang and asked Liu Xiu excitedly, "Grandma, are you okay? Did that beast do anything to you?"
Seeing that Liu Ke was so excited that his veins popped out, Liu Xiu reached out and touched Liu Ke's head, then said to Liu Ke: "Ke Ke, don't get excited, he didn't do anything to me, you see I'm lying on the kang just fine."
After hearing what Liu Xiu said, Liu Ke looked Liu Xiu up and down. Seeing that Liu Xiu was no different from before he left, he finally put his mind at ease.
(End of this chapter)
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