"What are you doing, Jingzhi?" I was thinking about telling my mother-in-law to lock up the grain. A thief can be hard to keep out of the house. I still had to buy a lock.
An Jingzhi turned around and said, "Just taking a look." Then he left without delaying the other person's cooking.
There is plenty of food at home, and they are not short of food. They can even eat some meat every now and then.
But it's just a little bit of grease on one person's part.
A few ounces of meat plus a dozen bites, how much more does each person want to eat?
When An Ersao came to cook, Zheng Jianghong pulled her aside to talk.
"Just now I saw my brother-in-law looking at our grain furtively. Do you think he wants to steal the grain and sell it? I think we should talk to mother-in-law and lock up the grain. Who knows what he will do."
Mrs. An Er is a quiet woman. Like Mrs. An Da, she graduated from junior high school and was considered to have some culture in that era.
"As daughters-in-law, we shouldn't say anything bad about our brother-in-law. Let Jianjun and his brothers go and tell our father-in-law."
Zheng Jianghong thought so too. If she told her mother-in-law directly and casually that her brother-in-law wanted to steal food from the house, her mother-in-law's first reaction would definitely be to favor her younger son.
You might also think she's talking nonsense.
Although my father-in-law was partial to his younger son in the past, he is now fair-minded and may have given up on his younger son.
After hearing what their wives said, An Yuanchao and An Jianjun were reluctant to pass on the message. After all, he was their younger brother, and they didn't want to think so badly of him.
But food is the lifeblood of the family, so after thinking it over, they decided to tell An Changhua about this and let their father decide what to do.
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