"Eat quickly, and then look around the house to see if there's anything worth buying.
Even if we really want to divide the family, people like Lei Honghua won't give us anything. It's a good opportunity for us to choose first while they are away.
Pots, pans, farm tools, buckets and basins, pick out a batch of them first, otherwise when you really need them one day, you won’t have anywhere to buy them at the last minute. ", Qiao Jiangxin said.
The Qiao Youfu brothers looked at each other and immediately sped up their eating.
Anyway, the pigs have been killed and the grain has been sold, so it doesn't matter if the house is confiscated.
His reputation in the future is doomed to be bad, and Qiao Jiuwang and Lei Honghua’s reputation will be even worse.
It doesn't matter.
After eating, everyone went about their own business.
Qiao Youcai went to the utility room, where farm tools were stored. Farm tools were the most indispensable items for farmers.
When the team was disbanded, the farm tools in the team were distributed according to the number of people. In addition, Qiao Jiuwang bought some for himself later, so the family had basically no shortage of farm tools.
There are 5 sickles, pick out two good ones.
One rake with four fingers, one rake with three fingers.
Choose the four-finger one. This one is too heavy and his dad is too old to wield it.
Hoe, shoulder pole, basket...
In Lei Honghua's bedroom.
Liu Afang held a piece of cloth in her arms, "This is it, my sister-in-law gave it to me."
"I asked her for it several times, but every time she said she couldn't find it and didn't know where she put it. It was clearly hidden in the closet."
Qiao Jiangxin looked at what was in her mother's hand. It was a piece of rough cloth with a bright red plum blossom print on it.
Seeing Qiao Jiangxin looking over, Liu Afang explained, "I got pregnant once after you. This was given to me by your aunt when she came to see me. I was not at home, so she gave this piece of cloth to Lei Honghua and asked her to pass it on to me.
The year I got married, your aunt happened to have a baby, and your grandmother bought some cloth for me because there were no extra cloth coupons left in the house.
I couldn't let my newly born nephew go naked, so I gave my piece of cloth to him. Your aunt kept it in mind and spent many years collecting enough cloth to give it to me. ”
While the two were talking, Qiao Youfu walked in.
"Jiang Xin, have you seen a gray box?" Qiao Youfu asked while looking at the open wardrobe.
Qiao Jiangxin shook her head, "What box?"
Qiao Youfu scratched the itchy red envelope on the back of his head, "My mother, I saw her with a box before, she said it was left to her by my grandfather, inside there was a pair of green bead earrings and two gold bracelets."
"When I talked about Widow Zhang last year, I asked your grandfather to sell the gold bracelet. My mother must want me to go home.
Your grandfather agreed, and told me the next day that it was not a gold bracelet, but copper and not valuable.
I thought, even if it was not gold but copper, it was left by my mother and I wanted to take it away. ”
Qiao Jiang thought for a moment, "Is it engraved with Fu, Lu, Shou and Xi?"
Qiao Youfu shook his head. "I don't know. There are a few small squares on both bracelets, and words are engraved inside the squares. I don't recognize those words either."
Qiao Jiangxin understood, that's right.
In her previous life, she had seen it in the hands of Li Xiaoping and Qiao Jianguo’s wives. It was said to be Lei Honghua’s dowry, one for each of the two daughters-in-law.
She also saw Li Xiaoping showing off to the new brides in the village.
It is obvious that Qiao Jiuwang is lying. If it was really made of copper, would Lei Honghua have hidden it for so many years and even passed it on to his daughter-in-law?
The more I dig into it, the more I realize that Qiao Jiuwang is a piece of shit.
Forget about his younger brother in his previous life, but his uncle and father were his own sons. Even though they had fallen to that state, he could still be so cruel as to take away the two gold bracelets, and he was not afraid that his grandmother would look for him in the middle of the night.
That was the mother's dowry, left for her children.
These two old guys have no bad conscience.
“Turn it over, and if you can’t find it, bring in a hoe and dig.
The place is so small, it must be in this room.
This is grandma's dowry. If I throw it away, I won't give it to Lei Honghua. ”
The three of them immediately started searching the room.
Liu Afang and Qiao Youfu rummaged through the cabinets, and Qiao Jiangxin turned over the bed.
But after searching everywhere, I still couldn't find the box that my uncle mentioned.
Qiao Youfu was a little disappointed and turned to go to Qiao Jianguo's room. Liu Afang also went to choose a quilt.
Qiao Jiang was not giving up and looked around the room carefully. It was a large room with a loft above. The lower half was covered with a bed, and the other half was filled with wardrobes, boxes, baskets for drying clothes, etc.
The whole room could be seen at a glance. She glanced at the ground and bent down to look under the bed.
There were many jars of pickled vegetables under the bed.
This is food, and Lei Honghua was worried about leaving it outside, fearing that someone at home would steal and eat her pickled vegetables, so the jars of pickled vegetables were always placed under her bed.
Qiao Jiangxin dragged the jars out one by one. In later TV shows, the landlords would bury valuables under the bed or in the cracks between bricks. Maybe Lei Honghua did the same.
There were eight or nine jars, four or five of them outside were filled with vegetables, and the few inside were probably empty. Not only were they not filled with water, but there were also wooden boards or something on the lids, which were all covered with cobwebs.
I looked at the ground and there was no problem.
Just as Qiao Jiangxin dragged out the empty jars and was about to check the wall behind, he suddenly discovered that there was something wrong with the jar closest to the inside.
She carefully took out the jar, removed the things on it, and opened the lid.
Sure enough, there is something.
He reached inside and pulled out two waterproof oil paper bags.
Inside an oil paper package was the palm-sized ash box that my uncle had mentioned.
I opened it and looked, and saw a pair of deep green bead earrings, a black ring, and two gold bracelets with the words "Fu Lu Shou Xi" (meaning fortune, wealth, longevity, happiness, and prosperity) on them.
Qiao Jiangxin picked up another oil paper bag, okay.
He opened it carefully and found another tightly tied oil paper bag inside.
When I opened it again, there was a yellowed newspaper inside.
When I opened the newspaper, I saw a neatly stacked tube of large silver carps and two small yellow croakers.
Qiao Jiangxin cursed in her heart and took out all her things.
I went to the kitchen, found six or seven broken wine glasses, stacked them together, rolled them up, and put them back in their original shape.
He took another oil paper bag and went to the pigpen to find two pieces of rotten wood covered with pig manure and took them back to him to wrap it.
After putting all the things back in their original places and tidying up her bed and wardrobe, Qiao Jiangxin went out with her things.
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