Chapter 103 Thief
"I'll teach you how to ride it later. Get on it and go." Ziyi saw Yike looking at the bicycle with shining eyes, thinking that she wanted to ride it.
In fact, Yi Ke just had never seen the legendary "28-wheeler". Of course, she didn't dare to say that she could ride it. It seemed that she would pretend to learn it after she came back, so that it would be convenient for her to go out in the future.
Ziyi drove Yike to the department store. The store was crowded with people today.
First, you should buy some toiletries and put them in the courtyard, so that they will be convenient for use when you live in the county town in the future.
Yi Ke squeezed to the counter and said to the salesperson, "Hello! Give me five bars of soap, five towels, two pairs of rubber shoes, one pair of women's shoes size 34, one pair of men's shoes size 43, two pairs of socks, one pair for each of men and women, three boxes of vanishing cream, four toothbrushes and four enamel cups, and tooth powder, three boxes of peach cakes, three silk scarves, three hairbands, two pounds of White Rabbit milk candy, a big red double happiness thermos, two boxes of matches, one pound of salt, one pound of brown sugar and one pound of white sugar, a bottle of bean paste, a bottle of chili sauce..."
"Okay, please wait a moment." When the salesperson heard that Yi Ke wanted to buy so many things, his eyes smiled with joy.
After buying the items needed for the courtyard house, Ziyi took Yike to the tailor shop again, and Yike bought himself two sets of ready-made light blue and light pink fine cotton clothes.
In this era, clothes made of a kind of fabric called Dacron were the most fashionable. Ziyi originally wanted to buy some for Yike, but Yike didn't like it at all. Finally, Ziyi gave up when he saw that Yike really didn't like it. In the end, Ke bought Ziyi a set of blue cotton clothes.
When they finished shopping and went home, the "38 car" was loaded with a lot of things. Small items can be carried by hand. The car is mainly loaded with bedding such as a quilt, pillow, mosquito net, blanket, etc. There are also two large bags hanging on the front of the car.
There were too many things, so Ziyi had to ride his bike back first, put the things down and then come back to pick up Yike.
Yi Ke was walking slowly when suddenly a loud shout came from the front: "There's a thief, hurry up, catch him, the thief."
There were the sounds of running footsteps and shouting, and there was chaos ahead.
Yike walked forward quickly and saw that the corner in front of him was crowded with people. The noisy sound made Yike listen for a long time before he could hear what was happening.
It turned out that a thief broke into the yard to steal a chicken. He may not have held the chicken firmly, and the chicken cried for help while struggling.
The chicken owner just came back and heard the chicken clucking at the door. He hurriedly opened the door and went in, only to run into the chicken thief.
The thief lost the chicken and ran away. The chicken owner yelled, "There's a thief," but the yell you just heard came from the chicken owner.
In this era, most families didn’t have much valuables, so a hen was very precious because it could lay eggs.
I hate thieves who steal things. So everyone started cursing and wanted to teach the thief a lesson.
The thief was tied up and fell at the door of the chicken owner's house, surrounded by many people.
Yike squeezed through the crowd and saw that the thief was about sixteen or seventeen years old. His clothes were dirty and torn, and his face was covered in blood. It was probably the chicken owner who broke his head.
Everyone was talking at the same time condemning the thief. Some people even kicked him, some spat on him, and one man was even more ruthless. He grabbed the thief's head and slammed it against the wall.
There was a bang, and the thief's mouth was full of blood, and his front teeth were knocked out. Some of the onlookers shouted, "Great fight!", some cursed, some laughed, and some whose homes had been stolen also stepped forward and slapped the man a few times. In short, the scene was a complete chaos.
Yike kept shaking her head and sighing, because she found that the thief was dying, but people kept coming forward to beat him. "The police are here." someone outside the crowd shouted.
When the people inside heard it, they stopped beating the thief and retreated far away, as if they were not the ones who beat the man.
The police came in and took away the thief, who was still breathing, and the crowd dispersed with a sense of unfulfilled desire.
Ziyi happened to come back on his bike to pick her up at this time. She told Ziyi what had just happened and said that the child might not survive. Ziyi also sighed.
After returning to the courtyard, the two of them cleaned the house again and put out bedding and kitchen items. At this time, the courtyard had a homey feeling and a smell of human habitation.
For dinner, on the table, there was braised chicken, fried bacon with dried bamboo shoots, sweet and sour shredded radish, hot and sour shredded potato, steamed egg custard, steamed meat with cabbage rolls, and pork bone and radish soup, six dishes and one soup, filling the table. The rich aroma on the table captured everyone's appetite. Everyone's chopsticks almost never stopped moving, their mouths opened and closed, chewing non-stop. They didn't even have time to talk, for fear that if they were too slow, the food on the table would be gone.
Wang Feng's mouth was like a bottomless pit. No matter whether it was chicken or pork, he would not chew it after picking it up with chopsticks. He would just stuff it in mouthful by mouthful. His mouth would not swell up, and the food would disappear as soon as he put it in, but his chopsticks would basically never stop eating.
Ma Youcai was different. His cheeks were stuffed with food and their cheeks kept shaking.
Liu Bing might have eaten too fast, and he kept coughing because of choking...
Tang Jianguo was more polite. He picked up a piece of braised chicken with chili on it, put it in his mouth and savored it slowly, saying incoherently, "It's delicious!" Dong Guoqing seemed to agree with him and made "tsk tsk" sounds while eating.
Ziyi was not in a hurry at all. He first picked some of each dish and put it in an empty plate, then placed it in front of Yike. He also filled half of the egg custard in a bowl, and filled a large bowl of pork bone and radish soup, which made Yike feel very embarrassed. Ziyi said, "Just eat as much as you can. If you don't pick them out and put them aside, they will be gone very quickly. Didn't you see how they devoured them?"
When Yi Ke heard this, he quickly said, "Then eat quickly and don't worry about me."
Sure enough, before Yi Ke had finished half of his meal, the food on the plate on the table was gone in a flash, not even a drop of soup was left. Fortunately, Ziyi had the foresight to pick out the dishes and put away the soup.
"Sister-in-law, take your time eating. Let's go to the main room to talk."
"Don't be in a hurry, eat slowly. Leave the dishes aside after eating and let Ma Youcai and others wash them later." Ziyi said before leaving.
"Yes, sister Yike, when you are full, come and sit in the main room. Wang Feng and I will wash the dishes." Ma Youcai burped as he spoke. It seemed that he was really too full.
After the men left, the room suddenly became quiet. Yike chewed the food slowly and carefully. She did not wolf it down like those men, but savored the taste carefully.
Don’t mention it, Wang Hongjun is a really good cook. For example, the braised chicken is tender and fragrant, not overcooked at all, the chicken skin is very elastic, the meat is tender but not overcooked, and quite chewy; the steamed egg custard is fresh, fragrant, tender and smooth, as soft as brain, I almost swallowed my tongue; the steamed meat with cabbage rolls is sweet, crispy and tender, delicious and not greasy. I still felt unsatisfied after eating it, thinking that Ziyi didn’t pick enough; the shank bone and radish soup is sweet and delicious, and the radish is sweet...
As Yike finished the food bite by bite, he found that he had eaten too much without realizing it. So she put the bowl and chopsticks in the basin and went out to the courtyard for a walk to digest the food. From the main room came the lively conversation of Wang Hongjun and others, and occasional loud laughter. —I’m happy that Ziyi has such a close friend.
"Yike, you're full. Come into the main room. They have something for you." Ziyi went out to find Yike and said when he saw her taking a walk.
"Okay, I'll be there right away." Yi Ke said as he walked towards the main room.
"Girl, sit next to Ziyi." Wang Hongjun said as he poured a cup of boiling water for Yike in an enamel cup.
"Thank you!" Yi Ke thanked politely.
"Yike, this set of golden headwear is a dowry given to you by the five of us brothers. You are our sister, and we have to make up for the dowry when you got married, so you must accept it, and you can't refuse." Wang Hongjun handed Yike an exquisite wooden box.
Once the wooden box was opened, a complete set of gold head ornaments was inside. A pair of gold hairpins, a pair of step-shaking ornaments, a pair of gold bracelets, a pair of gold earrings, and a gold breast pendant.
Yike's eyes first dazzled, and then he felt incredible. These things were too valuable, and yet they gave them out without blinking an eye. Yike was very touched. They really treated her as their own sisters, but she only treated them as ordinary friends, and that was only for Ziyi's sake.
Yike closed the wooden box, pushed it back to Wang Hongjun and said, "Thank you all for your kindness, but this gift is too valuable and I cannot accept it. I appreciate your kindness, brothers."
"What? You don't want to accept it? Do you think we are stupid? Besides, how can these things be valuable? They are not even as valuable as food now." Ma Youcai became anxious when he saw that Yi Ke refused to accept it.
"I said it's not appropriate to give this as a gift. I can't wear it out now. It would be better to give her money directly. This way, I can buy whatever my sister likes." Dong Guoqing muttered. "Sister Yike, if you still consider us as your brothers, please accept it. We give us a token of our love, and you accept it as a token of your love as well. It has nothing to do with whether the gift is valuable or not. If we talk about valuable things, the cow you gave us is the most valuable. Now that we don't go to work in the production team, no one says that we are idle, because the cow works for us and helps us earn work points, and matchmakers have begun to introduce girls to us. These are all brought to us by you, sister Yike, so please accept it!" Liu Bing said sincerely.
"Yes! Sister Yike, please accept it!" Dong Guoqing said.
"Sister Yike, please accept it! If you and Ziyi have a daughter in the future, you can use it as a dowry when she gets married. If her in-laws want to bully her, they have to think twice." Wang Feng also said.
"Accept it! This is a gift from your brothers!" Wang Hongjun put the wooden box in Yi Ke's hand again. But there is a dilemma at this moment: if I accept it, it is too expensive. Although it is not valuable now, it will be very valuable in the future. If I don't accept it, I will disappoint them. ”
"Accept it! This is their kindness!" Ziyi said.
"Thank you, brothers! Thank you very much! I am very touched by you! From childhood to adulthood, my biological brothers either beat or scolded me. You made me feel the love of having a brother. From now on, you are my biological brothers." Yi Ke was very excited. These brothers are not relatives but are better than relatives!
"It's my turn now!" Tang Jianguo said, "Sister-in-law, I still owe you a wedding gift, so I'll join in the fun today. This bracelet is for you, don't think I'm late. I wish you and your wife will have a baby soon and live together forever." Tang Jianguo handed a mutton-fat jade bracelet to Yike.
"This! This is too expensive! I——" Yike looked at Ziyi for help.
"Take it! Take it! We will send him a gift in return when he gets married. If he doesn't get married, we will have made a profit. Haha!" Ziyi said.
Yi Ke said embarrassedly, "Thank you!" and put the bracelet into the wooden box.
Ziyi said to Tang Jianguo: "Brother Tang has been urging you to get married. How is it? Do you want to get married?"
"I do! I do, but I've never met a girl as smart and lovely as my sister-in-law."
"Please keep an eye out for him in the provincial capital, and introduce him to someone suitable if there is one," Ziyi said.
"Brother, I'm still single, and I did it all by myself." Wang Hongjun wailed, "Your task is too difficult, I can't complete it."
"Brother Tang, then you should go to the provincial capital more often, or hang out in front of the textile factory in our county. There are the most girls in the textile factory." Ziyi said with a smile.
"There is a beauty in our village. Do you want me to introduce you to her?" Ma Youcai also said with a smile.
"That girl called Fatty in your village is not worthy of being called the village beauty. You should just marry her yourself!" Tang Jianguo snorted.
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That night, Yi Ke gained a lot and was very excited. He even suffered from insomnia for the first time after returning home. When she first came here, she thought she had no family ties in this world and was mentally prepared to live a lonely life. However, she found that she was so rewarded after entering the forest. She has two parents who love her, husbands who have been with her for two lifetimes, and now five brothers who are truly kind to her, plus that adopted brother Du Jiankang. Everything is going smoothly for her. It turns out that I am still the group’s favorite in this life. So touched! So happy! So happy! So happy!
"Ziyi, as the saying goes, there is bitterness before sweetness. Look, I'm starting to live a sweet life now. I won't live a bitter life anymore." Yike lay in the warm quilt and rubbed Ziyi's chest.
"Yes! You won't have a hard life in the future, I promise!" Ziyi hugged the person in his arms tightly and said affirmatively, "I will let you live a happy and sweet life forever!"
Yike's heart was pounding, and the warmth in her chest seemed to overflow. She excitedly hugged Ziyi back, kissed his neck again and again, and bit Ziyi's chin hard. The last bit of oxygen was taken away by Ziyi, and she finally fell asleep peacefully.
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