Rummaging through boxes and cabinets
After entering the master bedroom, Xu Roujun first took a quick look around the environment.
Based on the principle of efficiency, she first searched through the boxes and cabinets in her home for things like cloth bags and handkerchiefs.
Unfortunately, there was nothing inside that Xu Roujun wanted. She finally set her sights on the box on the bedside table.
There was a lock on the box, and she touched the copper lock and looked it up and down.
She is not a thief and does not have the skills to pick a lock with a piece of wire.
Xu Roujun twisted the lock in her hand for a while, and finally touched the nail on the lock hinge.
The nails and boards fit together firmly.
Xu Roujun walked into the kitchen on crutches and took out a kitchen knife.
She placed a kitchen knife in the gap between the hinge nails and the wood, then hit it with the brick in her hand.
Soon, the wooden board and the lock patch were loosened by Xu Roujun.
When the gap got bigger, Xu Roujun used the blade of a kitchen knife to leverage the force and then hit it with a brick.
After the two nails were driven out a long way, Xu Roujun reached out and shook the rusty nails.
“Snap!”
Xu Roujun took out two nails from the wood, and the lock fell off. She opened the wooden box without any damage.
After opening the box, Xu Roujun searched for the household registration book in the box.
There was a lot of money in the wooden box, as well as cloth coupons, grain coupons, oil coupons, and cloth coupons.
In fact, the Xu family is quite wealthy, but they have allocated the best resources in the family to men.
Ding Hui is also a person without her own opinion and allows others to bully her like this.
There was a lot of money in the box, and Xu Roujun was tempted. However, if she moved the money now, it would definitely arouse the suspicion of Xu Laoer and the others. If they all called the police, it would be a waste of time for Xu Roujun.
Xu Roujun put aside the money and finally found a dozen notebooks wrapped in a cloth bag in the box.
Xu Roujun took out the notebooks one by one from her bag.
There are land certificates, Xu Laoer's household registration book, and various academic certificates and graduation certificates of Xu Roujun and Xu Wanrong.
Xu Roujun looked through the household registration book and found that the head of the household was still Xu Laoer.
Xu Roujun took out her household registration booklet and her three academic certificates and put them in her arms.
Then she put everything else back in its place.
After Xu Roujun closed the box, she put the two nails she had pulled out back into the previous holes, and then used a brick to hammer the nails in through a wooden stick.
The box was locked again, and there was no sign of damage on its surface, and the lock was still the same as before.
After everything was done, Xu Roujun put all the things that had been messed up back in their places.
She searched in a very orderly manner and recovered very quickly.
After cleaning up the marks in the master bedroom, she took a broom from the kitchen and swept all the way from the bedroom to the living room and then to the kitchen.
After cleaning up the traces, Xu Roujun quickly returned to the woodshed and dug out the iron box that had been buried earlier.
The box was opened, and the inside was dry without a trace of moisture. Xu Roujun folded up her household registration booklet, graduation certificate, and other belongings and placed them in the iron box.
Just as Xu Roujun put the iron box into the pit, Ye Fulan's voice came from outside the yard.
"Grandma Xu, you're back!"
Old Lady Xu responded, "Fu Lan is peeling garlic!"
"Yes! Has Grandma Xu eaten yet? Do you want to come to my house for lunch?"
Old Mrs. Xu waved her hand and refused: "No, no."
Just as Old Lady Xu was about to go home, Ye Fulan stopped her and asked, "Grandma Xu, why aren't you eating in the cafeteria at noon?"
These words were not meant to offend Old Lady Xu.
Old Mrs. Xu said, "The food in the cafeteria is not tasty. I don't want to eat there."
After she finished speaking, she pushed open the door to her own yard.
Ye Fulan wanted to say something but Old Lady Xu had already entered the yard.
"That..." Ye Fulan also came to the gate of Xu's yard and looked inside.
Xu Roujun slumped at the door of the woodshed and watched Old Lady Xu come in.
I almost didn't have time to open the bolt just now.
Old Mrs. Xu looked back at Ye Fulan and asked, "Where is Xu Wanrong?"
Ye Fulan immediately shook his head: "She went to the hospital and asked me to send Roujun back. I feel relieved when I see she is still at home."
After hearing this, Old Lady Xu glanced at Xu Roujun who was sweating in the heat in the woodshed.
"Thank you for your hard work. I'll go back and cook. If you have nothing else to do, go back first."
"good."
After hearing this, Ye Fulan took a few steps back to his doorstep and carried the basket of garlic back home.
Old Mrs. Xu didn't even look at Xu Roujun but went straight into the kitchen to prepare lunch.
Xu Roujun didn't dare to move. After listening to the clanging sounds from Xu's kitchen, she returned to the woodshed.
She went to the previous pit and quickly used her hands to throw all the dirt into the pit.
The pit here had just been filled up when Xu Roujun heard footsteps getting closer.
Old Mrs. Xu went straight into the woodshed, took a bundle of dry firewood from the woodshed and went to the kitchen.
Xu Roujun watched Old Lady Xu leave again without saying a word.
Just as she was about to take a breath, Old Mrs. Xu came back and closed the door of the woodshed.
Only when she heard the sound of the lock being locked in the house did she finally dare to wipe the sweat from her forehead.
Others thought it was sweat from the heat, but she knew it was from fear.
If Mrs. Xu had grabbed some more firewood, she might have discovered the mushrooms hidden under the straw she was using to cover her house.
Fortunately, none of this was discovered.
She parted the straw and looked at the fresh mushrooms, lost in thought. What could she do with them?
She gathered the mushrooms she had brought with her and finally found some straw to cover them tightly.
After hiding the mushrooms, Xu Roujun lay back down in her grass nest to calm her fluctuating emotions.
How will the Xu family handle their family affairs next?
After Old Mrs. Xu locked Xu Roujun in the woodshed, she planned to go to the health center to see her son and her eldest grandson.
On the way back, she heard people say that the situation was quite serious. Just as she entered the yard, she saw a few blood spots on the ground.
So when Old Mrs. Xu came back, she planned to go to the kitchen to cook some for her son and grandson to eat in the hospital.
Old Mrs. Xu cooks very quickly.
She prepared the food and put it into two aluminum lunch boxes.
Old Mrs. Xu had just come out of her yard when she met Ye Fulan who came out from next door.
Ye Fulan was holding a bowl of rice in his hand.
Old Lady Xu glanced at the rich food in Ye Fulan's bowl. "Where is Fulan going?"
Ye Fulan glanced at Old Lady Xu as she locked the courtyard door. She said, "I saw Roujun hadn't had lunch yet, so I thought of sending her something to eat."
Old Mrs. Xu thought about her son and grandson who were sick and had not eaten such good food yet, and she actually wanted to give these things to a fool.
She reached out to take Ye Fulan's bowl, but Ye Fulan dodged her. "This is for Roujun."
Old Mrs. Xu was furious when she received the call but it was empty. However, she still said, "I'll help you give it to her."
Ye Fulan said, "I'll give it to her myself. Grandma Xu, could you please open the door?"
Old Mrs. Xu looked at the rich food in Ye Fulan's bowl and immediately nodded in agreement.
"Okay, okay."
The locked yard was reopened, Ye Fulan and Old Lady Xu entered the house, and then Old Lady Xu opened the lock of the woodshed.
Inside the house, Xu Roujun sat on the straw bed in the woodshed and looked at the door of the woodshed that had opened again.
When Ye Fulan saw this scene, he felt mixed emotions.
She came over and handed the bowl and chopsticks to Xu Roujun and said, "Roujun, come and eat."
Xu Roujun looked at the bowl of rice handed to her by Ye Fulan.
She took the bowl and chopsticks and started eating.
Ye Fulan looked at the woodshed and said to Old Lady Xu, "Let Roujun live here?"
Old Lady Xu: "This place is spacious, and it's summer, so it's okay to sleep anywhere."
Ye Fulan frowned: "But I remember Roujun used to live in the same room with her sister, didn't she?"
Old Mrs. Xu was very annoyed when she heard this. "This is my granddaughter. She can live wherever I want her to. Please leave quickly. I have to go to the hospital to see my son."
This is like an order to expel someone.
Ye Fulan looked at his friend with mixed feelings.
Xu Roujun's current state is completely different from that in the Mahjong team.
Ye Fulan said that he wanted to wait for Xu Roujun to finish eating and then take the dishes away. Old Mrs. Xu directly asked Ye Fulan to go back and return the dishes to Ye Fulan's family after she came back.
Ye Fulan was directly driven out of the yard by Old Lady Xu.
Old Mrs. Xu quickly closed the gate of the yard, and Ye Fulan was locked outside.
Huo Xun heard the door closing next door and poked his head out of his yard.
"Has the meal been delivered?"
Ye Fulan nodded to her husband: "Yes, I've sent it over."
Huo Xun said, "Then come back quickly. I don't think that old woman is a good person."
Ye Fulan was amused by her husband's words. "Okay."
Xu family.
As soon as Old Mrs. Xu closed the yard door, she rushed into the woodshed and snatched the bowl from Xu Roujun's hand.
Suddenly it was taken away by someone.
Xu Roujun was stunned looking at her empty hands.
Old Lady Xu: "Bah! You don't deserve such a good meal!"
Xu Roujun: "..." Don't go too far!
Old Mrs. Xu took Xu Roujun's bowl away, then took the leftovers into the kitchen and put the contents into another bowl.
After packing everything up, Old Mrs. Xu put the lunch box into her small bag.
Xu Roujun: “…”
Before leaving, Old Mrs. Xu did not forget to lock the door of Xu Roujun's woodshed.
After going out, he locked the gate of the yard.
Xu Roujun put her ear to the ground and listened for a long time. After making sure that there were no footsteps outside, Xu Roujun measured the height from under the threshold of the woodshed. Then she took out the iron hoe she had hidden before and started digging a hole right below the door.
After digging to a certain depth, Xu Roujun even stuck her head out to see if she could get through.
After determining the height, she climbed out of the woodshed completely.
After crawling out of the woodshed, Xu Roujun patted her dirty clothes. She hopped into Jiang Rushi's room and took a set of clothes. Then she jumped into Xu Laoer and Ding Hui's master bedroom and took a change of clothes for Ding Hui, along with a sewing kit.
She wrapped the two sets of clothes in a piece of cloth, then she crawled back to the woodshed with the clothes and hid them in the firewood pile.
After hiding the things, Xu Roujun fetched a bucket of well water in the yard. She dragged the bucket to the bathroom and gave herself a quick bath.
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