When Mrs. Xiao returned home, she started complaining to Mr. Zhao. Zhao Dayong had never expected that the third brother's family could be so ruthless. It was just a matter of riding on their mule cart, but they refused to do so. It was simply outrageous.
"I know. What did you buy?" Several kids also looked at their mother. They were hungry and wanted to eat everything.
"That's it..." Just as the words came to her lips, Old Mrs. Sun came running over, snatched the basket, looked at it again and again, and said, "Why are there so few things?" Old Mrs. Sun was very dissatisfied. It was not enough. There was a big family, not even enough to fill the gaps, not to mention that there were relatives to entertain.
Mrs. Gui was too weak to complain. The old woman didn't even think about how much silver she had been given. "Mom, with so little money, this is all I can buy."
"How can it not be enough? Did you embezzle it?"
"No, if you don't believe me, search it up. Everything has gone up in price. I still bargained for a long time to buy this."
Old Mrs. Sun grunted a few times, holding the basket, and left. She has to hide the things so that they won't be eaten by greedy people.
The next day.
Apart from being able to play freely with Lihua, the whole family stayed in the kitchen to prepare meals.
"Girl, let's fry the meatballs first." Yesterday, the Liu family sent over some meatballs, which were really good, but he just didn't have enough of them.
"Sure." Frying meatballs is so convenient, there is already labor available, "Dad, you chop the meat and vegetables, mom and I will roast the fire."
Zhao Dashu: ...
All day long, various aromas wafted through the Zhao family's yard.
"Girl, fried chicken wrapped in flour is really delicious."
Zhao Xiaoyu really missed junk food. From the end of the world to ancient times, she had never eaten it. I don’t want to think about anything else, only fried chicken can satisfy me. I don’t know whether it’s authentic or not, but it’s definitely more nutritious than the chicken fed with feed before.
"Is that so!" Lihua was gnawing on a chicken leg. She had been eating all day and her little mouth was very full, but this chicken was really delicious. She wanted to eat another chicken leg.
"Dad, pick up a bowl of chicken and send it to the front. Don't give the meatballs because they have them." Tomorrow, fry some fresh food and send it over.
"Girl, I can't do this, what should I do?"
What is this? It’s so tangled and has to be soaked in oil.
Making sazi is very troublesome, but it is also delicious. When I was a child, my family would fry several big bags of it every time, which could be eaten for two or three months.
"Be patient and take your time."
Zhao Dashu had a depressed look on his face. This thing couldn't be done by one person, it required two people.
After a while, all three of them felt a little tired.
"That's it for the day."
"Okay, I'm tired of the smell of cooking fumes every day. I smell all over. Let me boil some hot water and wash myself."
"Let's take a break for two days before frying. We'll make some fish and eat them tomorrow."
The three of them smelled cooking fumes for the first time and were scared, so they took a hot bath, crawled into the warm bed, and slept soundly.
It's not just them who sleep soundly at night. The people in the old house also go to bed very early and sleep soundly.
In the old house, there were two figures swaying, and they were particularly conspicuous under the reflection of the snow.
"Are they all asleep?"
"You can't die any more. Even if the earth dragon turns over, it can't wake up. Move quickly and move."
"Tuo, is there enough food?"
"I looked, there's quite a lot in the cellar. Can you move it?"
The rogue pinched Xu Xiaohong's butt and said, "Why don't you say something to me again?"
Xu Xiaohong suppressed her nausea and slapped his hand away, "You are the best, hurry up and push the cart home. Remember, you must wipe off all traces of the cart." It was difficult to wipe off all traces on snowy days, but that day, even God helped her, and the snowflakes from the sky never stopped falling.
"I understand."
People who often do immoral things don't need to be taught how to clean up afterward.
Xu Xiaohong hooked up with a village vagrant, and the two hit it off immediately. They both planned to go and make some money from the Zhao family. The medicine is Xu Xiaohong's father, a wandering man, who is responsible for moving food and things from the old house and hiding them in his house first. He has no parents, and no one knows how much stuff he has at home. Most importantly, no one goes to his house.
The two men agreed that when the situation calmed down, they would move to the county town to sell the property and earn some money, splitting the profit in half.
Xu Xiaohong didn't tell him that it was because what she wanted was not only the food, but also the old couple and their private house.
After leaving the house, she went to Old Man Zhao's room first. After rummaging through boxes and cabinets, he found two silver bracelets and a silver hairpin in a broken wooden box. He dug out another half ounce of silver from a hole in the wall. After searching around, he found eight copper coins in the pocket of the old woman's torn cotton-padded jacket and a small silver nugget in the lining of the old man's cotton-padded trousers, which looked like it was worth two cents at most.
Looking at the two old people sleeping soundly, Xu Xiaohong wanted to slap them twice, but was afraid of waking them up. With his eyes rolling, he carried out all the clothes and quilts of the two people and threw them onto the snow outside.
He went to Wang's house again and searched through all her belongings, but only found a few dozen coins. What a poor bastard!
What surprised her most was that the richest person in the family was actually Mr. Zhao.
Dozens of large coins were found in his room and in the boxes. A silver hairpin and two taels of silver were found in four holes in the wall. There were two silver ingots in the lining of their cotton trousers, three silver ingots in the quilt, and four silver ingots in the pillow.
Finally, when he was about to go out, he found a loose brick behind the door. When he opened it, he found a large silver bracelet and three taels of silver inside.
Oh my god, I always knew that my husband was not a good person, but I didn't expect that he could hide it so deeply. Where did he get all these private properties? The old woman stared at them like a thief, and he was able to play tricks right under her nose. How awesome!
Hahaha……
Now, these are all hers!
Xu Xiaohong held the silver and walked around the old house again and again, wondering where it was hidden.
After choosing for a long time, she finally set her eyes on the pit toilet in the backyard of her home. There was the least snow there, so it was most convenient for her to work. Besides, who would hide something in a toilet? If the truth is revealed tomorrow, they won’t look for the toilet even if they are searched.
Even if she found a toilet, who would have thought that she would dig a pit next to it.
Xu Xiaohong sincerely felt that she was so smart!
How could she find their silver? It was because her mother used to hide silver in the same way. She had dug countless holes in the walls of her home and had sewed the quilt countless times. They thought she didn't know, but in fact, most of the time, she was pretending to be asleep.
She took a shovel and dug a hole two steps away from the pit...
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