Eldest daughter

Chapter 323
Because something was on her mind, Wang Yuan'er didn't sleep well all night, and when she woke up the next day, there were two lying silkworms under her eyes.

Seeing her, Mrs. Liang's face was slightly blue, and she couldn't help but asked a few words of concern, and comforted her: "The old man has many problems in his old age, so don't worry too much about it, you have to take care of yourself."

Wang Yuan'er smiled wryly, why didn't she know, but how could this matter be so simple?
"Grandma, I have to go up the mountain with my second uncle to have a look later, and you can take care of the family affairs for me."

"Hey, you go, don't worry about the family."

After the morning court, Wang Yuan'er went to the old house first, and went to the main room to see Old Man Wang. He had just taken the medicine and fell asleep again.

Wang Yuan'er pulled Mrs. Wang aside and asked in a low voice, "Grandma, did Grandpa say anything?"

After looking after the old man for a whole night, Mrs. Wang looked haggard and tired. Hearing her question, she shook her head and said, "I have been taking medicine since yesterday, and I have been sleeping since I woke up. One word, even if it is spoken slowly, it is not very clear."

As she was talking, tears flowed down her eyes, and she choked with sobs and said, "You said he was fine, what did he do up the mountain? Fortunately, Tie Zhu and his wife happened to see him. I'm going to see Lord Yan."

Mrs. Wang had lingering fears, and felt more and more afraid.

Wang Yuan'er said: "Okay, grandma, don't be too sad, grandpa can still talk, it's safe, and he's getting old again, just take care of it slowly."

Mrs. Wang nodded.

Wang Yuan'er asked her to rest again, and she called her second uncle to prepare to go up the mountain together.

"Second Uncle, why didn't you see Second Aunt?" Wang Yuan'er had been in the old house for a long time, but she didn't seem to look at Zhang Shi.

"Inside the house, something happened to Dad, and she didn't get well. She has a fever right now." Wang Er had a headache.

Wang Yuan'er glanced at Westinghouse, the corner of her mouth curled up slightly coldly, I'm afraid Second Aunt is guilty!
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Maziao, the terrain is hidden and difficult to walk, and there are many bushes. Because it is far away from the regular road on the mountain, few people come here. Therefore, Wang Yuaner's great-grandfather dug kilns here to store grain. In the years of war, they will hide here to escape.

Wang Yuan'er hadn't walked this way for many years, and she was brought here twice by her father when he was born, to see where the Wang family's kilns were.

"Strange, no one should come here, why does it seem like a car is passing by?" Wang Er said suddenly.

Wang Yuan'er followed his gaze, and sure enough, there were two roads that looked like wheels, and the shrubs and grass were trampled on, making them very messy.

Her heart sank, and her pace quickened a bit.

Wang Er also felt a little uneasy, frowned and walked forward quickly.

The two walked to the location of the kiln, and saw that all the branches and pine trees used to cover the kiln had been removed, and the surroundings were in a mess, and the door of the kiln on the ground was originally locked with a big lock, but now it has been smashed open I don't know where the big lock is.

"This, this..." Wang Er was shocked in his heart, glanced at Wang Yuan'er, and his face changed slightly.

Wang Yuan'er pursed her lips tightly, stepped forward to open the cellar door, and walked down the stone steps.

Standing in the cool and dry cellar, Wang Yuan'er shivered as if she was in an ice cellar.

There were disasters in some places in the south this year, but their Changle Town was not affected. It was a bumper harvest year, and she knew how much grain the old house had harvested this year. Nearly [-] shi of grain filled the kiln to the brim.

But now, the entire kiln is empty and a mess, there is no food, only a gust of mountain wind blows through, making the heart cool.

"Grain, where's the food? My God, where's our family's food?" Wang Er went down to the kiln, and was dumbfounded when he saw the empty kiln with no hair left.

Like a headless chicken, he looked here and there, and even the cracks in the walls of the cellar were not spared, but he didn't take a single grain.

Wang Er's knees softened, he knelt down on the ground, and asked stupidly, "Is there any food left?"

Wang Yuan'er has been paying attention to his expression since he came in, seeing that his face is earthy, like a mourning concubine, it should have nothing to do with the food being stolen.

"Someone came to steal the food. Grandpa came to see it, and he was stimulated." Wang Yuan'er turned around and walked out.

"Who, who did it? God damn it, I'm going to kill him." Wang Er was furious, and his face was flushed because of anger.

Wang Yuan'er looked at the dense forest outside, turned around quickly, looked at Second Uncle, and sneered, "Second Uncle really doesn't know who it is?"

Wang Er was startled, then his face darkened: "What do you mean?"

"What do you mean?" Wang Yuan'er closed her eyes slightly, clenched her hands tightly into fists, took a deep breath, opened her eyes again and said, "Second uncle, why don't you go back and ask your wife, what good things have you done?"

Anger, indescribable anger, filled her whole body.

There are dozens of shi full of grain, but no one is left after being stolen. How many people's rations is this?

According to the current market price, tens of shi of grain can only be sold for 50 taels, but is that comparable to silver?Seeing that the war at the border is imminent, it is very likely that food will be collected everywhere.
At that time, how many times more money will it take to buy back so much grain?
In the years of famine and war, who doesn't know that food is precious, some people may not be able to buy food even if they have money, but now?
Wang Yuan'er was really furious. She never expected that someone would be so bold as to steal food and sell it. They all said that it is difficult to guard against house thieves by day and night. This is an eternal truth.

Wang Er was confused when he heard this, and frowned and asked, "What do you mean, what does this have to do with your second aunt?" He looked at Wang Yuan'er's half-smile, and suddenly widened his eyes: "You don't think it's because of this? The food in the kiln was stolen by your second aunt, right?"

He took a step back, looking at Wang Yuan'er as if looking at a monster, and said with some displeasure: "I know, you never like your second aunt's behavior, but she is your elder after all, and you can't just give it to her casually." Accused. Your second aunt, how dare she?"

"What is there that she dares not do, and what can't she do? She is selfish and likes to gamble. For money, what can't she do?" Wang Yuan'er sneered.

"Impossible, it's impossible!" Wang Er waved his hand in disbelief, still not believing Wang Yuaner's words, he and Zhang Cuizhi have been married for more than ten years, who is he who shares the same bed with her?

Wang Yuan'er was very angry, and said in a muffled voice: "Second Uncle, do you still remember that Second Aunt went around borrowing money a while ago? It was still as much as 30 taels, so you might as well ask Second Uncle for money, right?"

Wang Er was stunned and didn't refute. Mrs. Zhang asked him for money, and the name was to treat her mother-in-law, but how could he give her such a large sum of money? Later, she was no match for her begging, so she bought it from the store. After paying her a dozen taels in the account, I gave up.

"Second aunt wants so much money. Didn't Second Uncle ask her what she wants to do here? Oh, you said it was to treat her in-laws? Does Second Uncle really believe it?"

Wang Er muttered, "Mother-in-law is really sick."

"It's true that she's sick, but she doesn't want money for her mother's medical treatment. If I'm not wrong, she's going to pay off her gambling debts!" ​​Wang Yuan'er smiled coldly: "Second uncle still remembers how outsiders passed on Second Aunt' About "stealing a man", the second aunt also said that it was the noble son in the gambling game, who met at the door of the house by chance, and then dragged a few words. I think it is the noble son who came to ask the second aunt to pay off the debt. Second Aunt is afraid that people will watch her, so she is evasive."

Wang Er was shocked: "This, there is no evidence to say it."

"Second aunt likes to gamble, who doesn't know, she has a hot head, and it's so strange to borrow money to gamble when she loses. Back then, she could sell a few catties of bacon meat, so why can't she do it?"

Wang Er was at a loss for words, his face flushed red.

He naturally remembered these scandals of the Zhang family, and the story of the woman who was rumored to steal a man was also vivid in his mind, but could it be that this is the truth, the dead woman really owed a gambling debt, so she stole the food from the family and sold it to pay off the debt up?

Wang Er still couldn't believe that Mrs. Zhang had such courage.

"If the second uncle still doesn't believe it, do you remember that the second aunt said one day that she went back to her mother's house to take care of her mother? What did the second aunt do that night? The second aunt knew in her heart." Wang Yuan'er said angrily: "And after that, the second aunt also The whole person is very relaxed, everything is safe and sound! Heh, the gambling debt is paid off, so I am at ease."

Wang Er was made to take a few steps back again and again by what she said, his face full of surprise and uncertainty.

What she said was all the truth, and if you think about it carefully, that dead woman can't eat well or sleep well, and she always looks sad, looking like a dead father, and she doesn't say anything when he asks her what's the matter.

But ever since the woman went back to her mother's house to spend the night, nothing happened!

Now it seems that the woman is too suspicious!
"Second Uncle, do you still recognize this key?" Wang Yuan'er stretched out her hand again, and in her white hand was a key covered in mud.

"This..." Wang Er went there, wiped off the mud on it, and looked carefully, the more he looked, the paler his face became.

"Grandpa gave it to me quietly after waking up yesterday." Wang Yuan'er said indifferently, "I don't know what this key means, but Grandpa cried."

"This, this key is mine." Wang Er said in a crying voice with trembling lips. Yes, Mrs. Zhang also asked him where the key of the kiln was kept.

"How could the second uncle's key appear in Grandpa's hand?" Wang Yuan'er sneered, then turned his mind, and said: "I see, Grandpa must have found the key here, and seeing that the food is gone, He knew in his heart that this was stolen by his own people to sell for money, Grandpa was extremely angry, that's why he had a stroke and fainted."

That's why Old Man Wang had such a sad and disappointed expression after waking up. What could be more disappointing than having his own family become a house thief?

This old man is chilling!
Wang Er fell to the ground, with all kinds of evidence in front of him, he was afraid that the grain in this granary was really stolen by that dead woman, and his father fainted with anger.

Anger rushed up from the soles of his feet, and Wang Er yelled: "Zhang Cuizhi, I will kill you." After saying that, he ran down the mountain.

(End of this chapter)