Chapter 431 Gold Jewelry
"If I'm not mistaken, grandpa should have hidden gold and jewels."
When we returned to the ancestral hall, the smoke of incense was sparse and the room was filled with the scent of sandalwood.
Chen Tang took out a flashlight from his bag and looked at the floor under the table. There was only dust underneath and nothing unusual could be seen.
"Hidden here?"
He Xu also squatted down: "The dust is too big. We have to splash water on it and clean it up before we can know which brick has the problem."
My grandfather sealed the cellar, but before sealing it he made a special mark. There was a brick that was different from the other bricks, and that was the location of the cellar.
"Let's go back and eat first."
Afraid that the child would not adapt to the place and would cry and look for them, He Xu planned to study it slowly after dinner.
"Do you want to take the things out?" Chen Tang asked.
"Let's wait and see. It will take a long time to repair the house. I will start slowly after the situation stabilizes in a few years."
It's too hasty to take it out now, and there is a high possibility that someone will catch you.
The two returned to the village chief's house together.
He Zhi held a large loquat in his hand and ate it with great relish, not worrying at all that his parents would abandon him.
Several children were also eating nearby. The older one didn’t eat much. He stared at He Zhi until he finished eating and whispered, “Don’t eat too much.”
He Zhi: "Why?"
"Because my mother killed the chicken, you won't be able to eat meat later, and you will definitely cry."
He is eight years old this year. Having seen his younger brothers and sisters crying loudly, he has learned to predict in advance.
He Zhi patted his belly and said, "No, I'll finish these two and leave the rest for Mom and Dad."
He Jiutang was also a little greedy and couldn't take his eyes off the loquat in He Zhi's hand.
He Zhi was stared at and lost his appetite: "How about you eat it?"
"No, you eat it. You are the guest. If I eat less, grandpa and grandma can sell more loquats and work less this year."
He Jiutang swallowed his saliva as he spoke.
The fruits of the loquat tree were big and sweet. The family members ate the small fruits and sold the big fruits to the supply and marketing cooperative, which was their family's only source of income.
He Zhi felt a little embarrassed. He had already eaten several of them. Wasn't that equivalent to eating a lot of other people's money?
He took out a few chocolate candies from his pocket: "I'll trade these with you."
He Jiutang blushed and quickly refused: "No, no, you are a guest."
The two pushed each other back and forth. Aunt He, who was passing by, saw this and sighed, "Children are so good. They established friendship right away."
He Zhi refused for a long time, but He Jiutang finally accepted it.
He finally understood why his mother had been exchanging gifts with Grandma He this morning.
He Zhi pursed his lips, the adult world was too scary.
He Jiutang looked at the child in front of him. He was dressed exquisitely and had a fair and clean face. He was not at all slovenly like his younger brothers and sisters.
He tilted his head and asked him, "Atang, where is your home?"
"In the capital, where our great leader is."
"Is it fun? Are all the kids there as fair and tender as you?"
He Zhi thought about it and shook his head: "No, many of my friends are as dark and thin as you. I was born fair like my mother, and I have been covered up all winter."
He Jiutang was happy then.
He liked He Zhi very much and was afraid that he would not be friends with him because he was too dark.
His sister He Jiuhong came out with a rope and said softly to He Zhi, "Do you want to skip rope? I'll ask my friends to come over and play with us."
He Zhi refused: "I don't play skipping rope."
He Jiuhong put the lost rope back home, stood in front of him steadily, holding her face and looking at him: "You are so beautiful."
He Jiutang pouted. His sister also liked pretty girls.
He Zhi: "Thank you."
He Jiu's little face turned red. When she heard a familiar noise coming from the door, she turned around and saw a few good sisters winking at each other at the door.
He Zhi didn't understand what was going on and was about to go look for his parents when he heard He Jiutang say that he was going to take him out to play catching grasshoppers with his friends.
The little guy was the leader of the kids in the family compound. He had played with all kinds of grasshoppers. Thinking about the katydids he fried last year, he felt itchy and followed He Jiutang to the field.
Maybe it was because he was really good-looking, after he had been walking for a while, a group of children followed him.
But in the end, the katydid was not caught, and the group of children went to the fields to have fun.
He Zhi also wanted to play, but the children around him treated him like porcelain, not letting him do anything. They even took the initiative to put all kinds of fish, shrimps, and snails next to him. He Zhi had no choice but to sit by the rice field and watch depressedly.
I was just feeling bored when I suddenly saw a girl riding a bicycle rushing home. Maybe she was in too much of a hurry and she tripped over a rock and fell to the ground.
In an instant, yellow dust flew everywhere, and He Zhi was so scared that his eyebrows twisted into a ball. The fall was too hard.
"Hey, isn't this the girl from Qin Lao San's family? Didn't you go to work today? Why are you back again?"
The people working in the fields saw this and exclaimed in surprise.
It can be said that Qin Laosan and the village chief's wife are somewhat related, but they have different fates. Qin Laosan's wife died early, and in order to take care of his son and daughter, he married another wife.
The stepmother also brought a son over and treated the two children like her own, so the family lived a better life. However, Qin Laosan somehow learned to gamble.
A good job was lost.
My mother was so angry that she died.
The stepmother did not divorce for the sake of her children, but was often beaten by Qin Laosan.
The two children born to Qin Lao San were good ones. They often tried to stop Qin Lao San for the sake of their stepmother, but they were also beaten all over.
Especially since his only daughter had grown up, Qin Laosan thought about selling her for money.
But this girl was very ambitious. She found a job after graduating from high school. In addition, she inherited the beautiful facial features of the Qin family, so there were so many people proposing marriage to her that they almost blocked her door.
Just when things are about to get better, there's always this troublemaker holding things back.
Qin Laosan directly said that no one could marry his daughter without 500 yuan as a betrothal gift.
Now, those who were originally waiting and watching have given up.
And it just so happened that there was a man in the county who was willing to pay 500 yuan to marry Qin Fang, and that was the son of the local county magistrate.
Aunt He thought that she was her cousin, so she went to the county town to inquire about the matter. She then learned that the county magistrate's son had beaten to death his three wives. The wives were ten years older than Qin Fang, and they gave birth to three daughters for him.
He took a fancy to Qin Fang, firstly because she was beautiful, and secondly because he wanted her to give birth to a son for him.
Isn't this just pushing people into the fire?
Qin Laosan was used to being scolded by the villagers and had no shame at all. When he saw Aunt He coming to persuade him, he shamelessly said, "If you have the ability, give him 500 yuan, and if you don't want to give me money, then stop talking nonsense."
Aunt He was so angry that she said she didn't want to care about it anymore.
Not knowing what had happened, Qin Fang hurried back, without even helping to pick up the fallen car, and ran home.
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