Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 3206 Thieves (two more)

"Okay, don't cry. You don't have to shed so many tears for a few sweet potato cakes and two eggs. If you turn around and break your eyes from crying, it will be a big loss."

In the backyard of Yang Huazhong's house, Mrs. Sun was cutting cucumbers for making pickled cucumber strips.

Xiaoduo and Cui'er fought at the side, while Yang Ruoqing took out a handkerchief and handed it to Zhao Liu'er who was still wiping tears in front of her, comforting her with kind words.

On the side, Sun also said: "Third nephew and daughter-in-law, don't cry. After I finish pickling the cucumber sticks, I will make cakes at noon. Then you can give them to the children."

Zhao Liuer shook her head, "Third Aunt, no need, I don't really feel sorry for the cake and eggs, I just feel angry, I can see the egg shell, she still quibbles, grabbing me, pretending to be cynical look like me..."

Yang Ruoqing frowned and said, "Are you sure the egg is yours, not hers?"

Zhao Liuer said: "I'm sure, when my mother-in-law called me to help, I just put the things in the pot."

"I think it's early in the morning, and no outsiders came in, so the door of the stove was not locked."

"In the end, when I went to my mother-in-law's house to help change Fu'er's medicine and returned to the kitchen, I found that the pot was empty."

"Eldest brother went to school, even if the eldest brother is at home, it is impossible to do that kind of sneaky thing. The eldest brother is a scholar, and I believe in his character."

Zhao Liuer turned on the detective mode, sobbing and analyzing for Yang Ruoqing and Sun Shi.

"Second brother and eighth sister took their children to the county town, which is even more impossible."

"Grandma in the backyard still didn't get up at that time, and she wouldn't come to get things from the pot in my kitchen when she got up."

"Even my fourth aunt didn't come over, so who else is there? It can't be an outsider, but it must be someone in the house. Except for the fourth child and Yu Jingui, I really can't find anyone else!" she said.

"According to what you said, I also think Yu Jingui is the most suspected." Yang Ruoqing said.

Sun said: "From Liu'er going to her mother-in-law's house to Liu'er coming out, and then to Yu Jingui's house, it will take a stick of incense at most."

"Liu'er, did Yu Jingui go to her own kitchen? She can eat or hide the sweet potato cakes with half a stick of incense, but she can't cook the eggs before eating them with half a stick of incense." Right? That's too fast!"

Zhao Liu'er said: "At that time, I rushed into her room as soon as I got hot, and when I entered the room, I smelled a faint fishy smell of eggs."

"Then I saw an egg shell the size of a fingernail in a broken basket next to it containing fruit shells and melon seed shells. It was soft."

Yang Ruoqing said: "Maybe Yu Jingui took the eggs and didn't cook them to eat, she just brewed sweet frangipani with hot water and brown sugar lard to drink, so it was so fast.

"

When it comes to the fragrant and sweet frangipani, Yang Ruoqing feels that she is also hungry.

Zhao Liu'er suddenly stopped crying, and said: "Oh, if Qing'er hadn't reminded me, I would have been really negligent. When I entered the room, I saw the fourth child holding a bowl in his hand."

"I thought he was going to pour me tea, and then I saw him put the bowl in the sink to wash. In all likelihood, the bowl was used to brew frangipani. When I went in, she happened to be finish drinking."

Yang Ruoqing said: "Next time, if you don't catch the ironclad evidence, don't go in and question it in a flash."

Zhao Liuer said: "I didn't question, I just asked if they had seen it, and just as soon as I opened my mouth, Yu Jingui scolded her, and she still refused to let her go. Seeing like that, I wish I could make amends for her!"

"Forget it, let this matter go, and we won't mention it in the future," Mrs. Sun stuffed the last cucumber stick into the jar, pressed smooth stones on it, and then got up and walked towards the stove.

After a while she came out with two salted duck eggs.

"This is the salted duck egg I salted last month. I just opened the jar to eat it yesterday. You can take two of them and give them porridge for the children. There is quite a lot of red oil in them." Sun said.

Zhao Liuer quickly stood up and waved her hands repeatedly.

"Third Aunt, don't be like this, I came here to cry with you because I felt aggrieved and wanted to find a place to talk, not because I wanted to take your things..."

Mrs. Sun glared at Zhao Liuer, "Why are you talking so stupidly? This is what the third aunt gave to the child, so don't give in."

"Even if you don't suffer today, I plan to ask Qing'er to send you some of these salted duck eggs. Take them quickly," the woman said.

On the side, Yang Ruoqing was also persuading her.

Zhao Liu'er blushed and accepted it, and when she was about to leave, she suddenly said: "By the way, I went to grandma's room earlier and listened to grandma's words. I know why my uncle and aunt had a fight last night."

"Why?" Yang Ruoqing asked.

Xin Dao couldn't be doing it to sell the fields, right?
Zhao Liuer said: "It's about selling the land."

"The fourth aunt sold four acres of land without telling the fourth uncle. The money for selling the land was still held in her own hands and would not be given to the fourth uncle. The fourth uncle was furious, and the two had a big fight,"

"No matter how intimidating the fourth uncle is, the fourth aunt will not give the 20 taels of silver."

"Fourth Uncle was so angry that he wanted to divorce his wife, and said that he would go to Liu's Village today and ask Fourth Aunt's brother to come and take him away." Zhao Liuer said.

"Oh my god!" Sun's eyes widened in surprise.

"When I heard your father come back yesterday, I thought she would not sell the land easily after hearing your father's persuasion."

"Even if we really want to sell it, we will wait for your fourth uncle's house to come and discuss it with your fourth uncle before selling it."

"Why did you sell the field without telling your fourth uncle? You still hold on to the money for selling the field. What are you doing?"

Yang Ruoqing is very clear about Sun's puzzled question.

To put it bluntly, the fourth aunt became more and more distrustful of the fourth uncle, and felt insecure.

In the past, Xiaojuan was a little bit better before she was pregnant. After all, my fourth uncle's children were born to my fourth aunt alone.

Ever since Xiaojuan became pregnant again, my aunt became more and more anxious every day.

Especially when the fourth uncle came back from work in the restaurant and ostentatiously brought things for Xiaojuan to strengthen her body, the fourth aunt was so angry and jealous that she was about to go crazy.

Therefore, seizing money is far more reliable than seizing men.

"After all, Fourth Aunt is also a hateful and pitiful person." Yang Ruoqing said.

……

In the morning, the whole Changping Village was bustling with activity, and everyone rushed to the threshing ground at the south end of the village with pots, barrels, and twine bags in their hands.

The sound of gongs and drums came from the threshing ground at the south end of the village. All the villagers were flushed with joy and excitement, and it was even more lively than New Year's Eve.

"The low-quality brown rice at the rice store in the town costs two hundred yuan a catty, but here you can buy a catty for twenty yuan,"

"Second-class rice costs [-] Wen a catty in the town, but here it only costs [-] Wen,"

"At this time, a high platform was set up at the threshing ground at the south end of the village. Uncle Zhenbang and several fellows were busy weighing rice grains there, and the whole village passed by."

(End of this chapter)