Free Days in Siheyuan

Chapter 1227 Being Taught Stupid
After a lot of trouble, they finally found the pipe in the pile of debris.

"Xiao Yu, what do you think? Can it be used?"

Looking at the pipe in front of him, Zhang Yu measured it with his hand and felt that the size should be about the same.

There are spots of rust on it, and I don't know if it has been rusted through.

Once covered by rust, it is impossible to tell what material it is made of.

Xie Zhiying knocked on it with his hand and said, "It should not have been rusted through. It sounds like a copper pipe."

"Copper pipe?" The captain's wife widened her eyes and looked at the pipe in disbelief.

"Brother Xie, is this thing really a copper pipe?"

Xie Zhiying nodded. When he was young, he and a group of brothers dealt in hardware. Although he didn't make a name for himself, he still had some vision.

The captain's wife twisted her thigh violently, looking bewildered: "It doesn't hurt at all, I must be dreaming."

The captain standing by grimaced in pain: "Wife, it hurts! You're pinching me."

The captain's wife looked down, laughed awkwardly, then turned around and blamed him: "Who told you to be so close to me? If you were farther away from me, I wouldn't be able to reach you, right?"

As he said this, he rolled his eyes at him.

The captain was so frustrated.

Xie Zhiying and Zhang Yu, who were standing nearby, almost couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Ahem!" The captain's wife then remembered that there were other people nearby. She coughed twice, blinked her eyes, and tried to change the subject.

"What a loss! What a loss! I suffered a loss because of my lack of knowledge. If I had known that this was a copper tube, I would have put it away properly. Look, it's rusted now..."

The captain's wife felt more and more distressed as she spoke, and couldn't help but glare at the captain again.

The captain felt so aggrieved and glared at him. What did this have to do with him?

Seeing what her husband meant, the captain's wife said unhappily, "You are ignorant. If you had recognized that this was a copper pipe, wouldn't I have put it away long ago?"

The captain's wife became angrier and angrier as she spoke. She put her hand on the captain's arm again and twisted it hard.

It's useless. I can't even recognize the treasure in my hands.

If I had known earlier that it was a copper pipe, our family wouldn't have had such a hard time in the past few years.

Even if it's sold as scrap, such a large copper pipe can be worth a lot of money.

There was no need for her to go back to her parents' home and borrow money just to buy two antipyretic pills.

For that little bit of money, how many years did her sister-in-law slander him?

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became, and the captain's wife twisted the man's hand harder and harder.

This time was different from before, but he didn't hold back at all, and the captain cried out in pain.

"It hurts! It hurts!"

Xie Zhiying finally couldn't help laughing out loud, and the sound reminded the captain and his wife that there were not only the two of them, but also outsiders watching.

The captain's wife blushed with embarrassment. The captain also felt wronged!
How did he know it was a copper pipe?

The guy named Liu has always been unreliable. It's considered good if half of his words out of 10 are true.

He thought the other party was trying to fool him and shirk his debt, but he never expected that the copper pipe he said was really a copper pipe.

The couple looked at each other, and in the end, the captain's wife was the first to be defeated.

Deflect criticism: "It's all that brat's fault. He's not reliable at all."

The captain also echoed, "Yes, it's all the fault of that brat, the third brother. He has no knowledge at all and can't even recognize the other. What's the use of him?"

The couple severely criticized their third son.

Fortunately, the third son they mentioned was not here, otherwise they would have to cover their faces when going out.

After blaming each other, the captain and his wife turned their attention to the copper pipe.

The captain's wife patted the rust on it and asked in confusion, "Where did Liu get such a big copper pipe? I don't believe the nonsense he said that was passed down from his ancestors."

The captain thought about it, as if he had thought of something. He glanced around and saw that there was no outsider, then he whispered: "I should know something about this matter. You know the commune next door. The Japanese used to station troops there. It seems that they mined some ore. At that time, they came to our side to capture able-bodied men to work as miners for them. I don't know how many people died at that time.

After that group of people surrendered, that place became a bit eerie because so many people died. People from the nearby villages avoided it and never went there on weekdays.

But I heard from the miner who escaped that some of the more important machines inside were moved away by the county. Because of those machines, our county built a machinery factory.

But at that time, everything was in chaos, and the county leaders were all very busy, so the wells and pipes dug by that group of people were not paid attention to for the time being and were left where they were.

By the time the county had time to get around to it, the things that were left had already been moved away, and it's still unknown who did it.

You said this copper pipe might be one of the pipes that were taken away at that time."

The captain's wife lowered her head and thought: "Don't tell me, this is really possible. Why didn't I think of this place? That Liu guy is so poor, but his trouser pockets are whiter than his face, and he can still squeeze out money to buy furniture for his daughter.

He doesn't look like the type of person who favors his daughter. There is only one possibility for him to do this, and that is that he has plenty of money."

The captain's wife thought more and more about it, and finally said with absolute certainty: "That Liu guy must have made a fortune! I think he must have stolen the pipe."

As she said this, she nudged her man with her elbow.

"Do you still remember Liu's eldest daughter? If I remember correctly, when his eldest daughter went out, Liu took away all the dowry from the man. He didn't want to let his eldest daughter take a single hair, not even a pair of shoes."

"That's right! Because of this, his eldest brother beat him up severely. Because of what happened that year, until now, his eldest daughter can't hold her head up in her husband's family."

Speaking of this, the captain became furious.

At that time, the village had not yet been changed into a team, and his father was still the village chief.

After this incident spread, the reputation of all the girls in Xiejia Village was affected.

As soon as the matchmaker was proposed, the other party shook his head without even looking at the girl when he heard that she was from Xiejia Village.

To be honest, over the years, not everyone in their team is a good person, but the team leader has seen people selling their daughters. But even those who sell their daughters are not so cruel. They are reluctant to let their daughters wear even a pair of old shoes when they go out.

At this moment, the captain's wife thought of something strange: "There is something I can't figure out. With Liu's temper, I have never heard of him harassing his son-in-law or coaxing his daughter to get things from her husband's family to support her family in all these years."

Speaking of this, the captain also felt a little strange.