The Sweet Little Fulang

At this time, it was still dark, and a dozen or so households in the vicinity heard Li Wanyun's exclamation and went out to look, and some came out while they were eating and carrying bowls.

Shen Xuanqing was about to trouble Huang Da when he saw this, and Lu Gu caught up from behind.

"Are there thieves?" Lu Gu walked to Zhang's house, and Shen Xuanqing followed behind him.

The lock and key in Li Wanyun's hand were still confiscated, and the basket of wild vegetables was still on her arm. Hearing that, she sobbed and said, "No, I was fine when I left, but when I came back from digging some wild vegetables, it was turned over like this."

As she spoke, she pushed open the courtyard door and walked in. Lu Gu saw that her yard was really messy, even the bamboo baskets and dustpans were thrown on the ground, and the kitchen was in a mess.

"In broad daylight, there are thieves."

"Yeah, this thief is also very courageous. He doesn't move at night, but he dares to attack during the day."

People from the village came in behind, frowning and you said something to me. It's not a trivial matter to make a robbery. If you stole Zhang's house today, you might steal another's house tomorrow. Even if the thief might find Li Wanyun's widow who is easy to bully, he came to the door. But others will inevitably be defensive.

Li Wanyun, who came out of the room, wiped away her tears and cried, "The twenty cents of money I hid under the bed were all stolen, so I only have twenty cents left."

She cried and remembered something, and hurried to the backyard. Looking at this situation, even Lu Gu knew that she was going to see the chickens in the backyard.

Lu Gu followed up subconsciously, as did other people in the village, all coming to the backyard.

When the old Zhang was sick, Li Wanyun sold a lot of chickens and ducks. Everyone in the village knew that, but at this time there were only two of the three ducks left. There were a lot of chicken feathers scattered in the chicken coop. After thumping, Li Wan Yunqing covered her face and cried after she finished counting, "There isn't one chicken left."

"This thief who kills a thousand knives!" Aunt Miao couldn't help scolding when she heard this from behind.

Shen Xuanqing glanced at the backyard wall, and then looked at the few recognizable footprints in the chicken coop. He didn't look at how big Li Wanyun's feet were, and he didn't say anything.

Li Wanyun cried twice and stopped covering her face. She raised her head to speak, but inadvertently met those quiet black eyes. She was astonished, and even her expression changed a bit.

Seeing that she was obviously panicked, Shen Xuanqing looked away, pretended not to know anything, pulled Lu Gu's sleeves and said, "Go to the front."

As soon as they moved, the others also went to the front yard subconsciously, and the woman who loved cleanliness with a bowl left first, otherwise the smell of chicken and duck feces would be enough.

Li Wanyun, who was in the back, calmed down. She didn't have much dealings with Shen Xuanqing, but she often talked to Wei Lanxiang. The Shen family had no bastards, and they were all kind-hearted. Thinking of this, she felt a little more at ease.

"Fortunately, I didn't steal it all."

Aunt Miao talked to Wei Lanxiang, who was late, and everyone in the village nodded when they heard it. All the money was stolen.

It’s also that chickens and ducks are grown up. They don’t hide on their bodies like copper plates and others can’t see them. It’s sunny and bright, and it’s estimated that no thief would have the guts to steal them all. If they are caught, they will be stolen and taken away. A beating is light. .

"Who do you think it could be?" Wei Lanxiang pondered as she spoke.

"Someone saw Huang Da slipping past, could it be him." Aunt Miao lowered her voice and guessed.

There were a lot of people in the yard, and there were people close to her. When I heard this, I couldn't help but suspect Huang Da. If nothing else, this second-rate Huang Da had done thieves before, and even stole from the village. The chickens and ducks of the six households sometimes harm even other people's vegetables. They just pick them, but they have to step on the good vegetables for a few times.

Lu Gu also heard several people scolding Huang Da, but when he saw Huang Da just now, that person had nothing in his hand.

He looked up at Shen Xuanqing, saw Shen Xuanqing shaking his head and didn't speak.

Li Wanyun wiped away her tears, picked up a bamboo basket on the ground and said, "I haven't caught the thief, and I definitely don't dare to say who the thief is, but it's really hard to get through this day, I don't have land. If there is no vegetable field, we can only dig wild vegetables, steal two today, and steal again tomorrow while I go out, sooner or later this house will be emptied.”

What she said really made sense. Only a thousand days of being a thief, how could there be a thousand days of preventing thieves. She is a widow with no family, one has no backers and two has no money, so others can't bully her.

"Alas." Wei Lanxiang sighed, in this situation, Li Wanyun was alone, and it was a loss that the whole family next door would be fine. If it was someone else, because the two neighbors were close, they wouldn't know how to bully them.

"Now I don't have a penny in my hand, and I don't have a lot of rice and noodles left in the house. There are only a few chickens and ducks left in the backyard. I'm afraid that it won't be my turn to eat eggs and meat and be stolen by thieves." Li Wanyun didn't cry now. Her face has been bad recently, very pale.

She looked at Wei Lanxiang and Aunt Miao, then looked at the other husbands in the village, and said, "Mama, auntie, I'm not afraid of your jokes, I have no money to eat and drink, borrowing things is not a way, I can't pay you back. Those chickens and ducks in the backyard, if anyone wants me to sell them at a low price, they can buy rice and noodles to eat in the future, if not, I can’t even keep the chickens and ducks, it’s a cheap thief.”

"Even if you sell it for money, if you let the thief come to steal it again, the money is not gone, so you can't keep it on your body." Lin Jinhu, who lived in the middle of the village, also came to join in the fun. He was late, and he couldn't help saying this when he heard this: "Even if you carry it on your body, what if the thief comes to steal at night?"

Before he could finish speaking, his daughter-in-law pinched the flesh on his arm to shut his mouth. Li Wanyun is a widow, and the thieves only steal money at night. If they steal people, wouldn't they smear their reputation.

After being pinched, Lin Jinhu realized that he couldn't talk nonsense, and shut up embarrassingly.

But these words have already been said, Li Wanyun pursed her lips tightly, and said after a while: "No, I will go back to my parents' house, there is no scooter at home, and it is not easy to bring chickens and ducks. My mother brought some rice and noodles, so I can't eat rice empty-handed."

"This is not bad, the first seven has passed, and the next thing is not so urgent." Shen Xuanqing said, giving Li Wanyun a step to leave.

Sometimes people are like this, and there must be someone to speak up. Li Wanyun's house is not easy to live with, and it's not uncommon for women and Shuang'er to go back to their parents' house for a few days.

Lu Gu had money in his hand, and Shen Xuanqing stood beside him as a reassurance. The first one asked Li Wanyun how to sell chickens and ducks.

When laying eggs, let alone 17 or 8 wen, sometimes they can sell for 20 wen, eggs can be sold, and if they do not lay eggs in the future, they can sell old hens and old hens. It is not a loss.

"Not much, two ducks, one rooster and four hens. If you want all of them, the rooster will give you one. The hen and the duck are each ten yuan." Since Lu Gu asked, Li Wanyun gritted his teeth and kept the price to a minimum. Say fifteen words.

There are only seven in total, which is really not many. Lu Gu looked up at Shen Xuanqing and was relieved to see him nodding.

"Okay, then I'll buy them all." Wei Lanxiang also said, and she glanced at Lu Gu.

"Mother, I'm going to withdraw the money." Lu Gu understood her eyes, since he wanted to buy it, there was no reason to ask others in the family to pay.

This transaction was very neat. Lu Gu first asked to buy it. Others just lusted after such a cheap price. Xuan Qing put a pestle into the courtyard, someone so tall would not want to conflict with his family, and Li Wanyun agreed.

When Lu Gu came over, everyone else in the village had dispersed. It was getting dark, and they had to wash the dishes after dinner.

"This..." Li Wanyun roughly counted the coins, but it was seventy. According to what she just said, the rooster was given to Lu Gu, and sixty pennies were enough.

"You must take it." Lu Gu didn't say anything else, just asked her: "When will you go back to your mother's house?"

Li Wanyun tucked the copper plate into her arms properly, with gratitude in her eyes, and said, "It's late today, so I'll go tomorrow during the day."

That being the case, Lu Gu nodded and said nothing else. He caught the two ducks on the ground, and the remaining five chickens, Shen Xuanqing and Wei Lanxiang, were caught, and the three of them called the dog cubs and went home.

Li Wanyun looked at them from behind and opened her mouth to say that all the bamboo baskets at home were given to Lu Gu, but after thinking about it again, she finally gave up, and lowered her head to clean up the messy yard. Show the attitude of living, otherwise others will be suspicious.

The night shrouded the earth, and many people closed their doors early because of the robbery, and Li Wanyun did the same. With such a commotion today, the neighbors will definitely be on guard at night, even the second-rate Huang Da, who would not dare to approach easily.

She closed the doors and windows, put the kitchen knife on the edge of the bed, and reached out to touch it. She also hid the scissors under the pillow. After lying down, she opened her eyes and never fell asleep.

Even if Lin Jinhu didn't say those words, she would have to find an excuse to go back to her parents' house. Making a robbery was a big deal, and no one could say anything when she hid back at her parents' house.

As for this robbery, it's actually nothing. She quietly messed up the yard and kitchen, and she also made the mess in the house and backyard. For no other purpose, she couldn't stay in Qingxi Village any longer.

This afternoon, she was sitting in the courtyard chopping firewood with the door open. Huang Da, who was passing by, stood at the door and looked at her for a long time. The second-rater's eyes made her extremely frightened, frightened and frightened.

Compared with the good relatives of the Zhang family, Huang Da's eyes were completely different, so filthy and filthy that she didn't even dare to say a word, and her hand was shaking while holding the axe tightly. If she dared to come in, she could only chop through it with an axe.

Fortunately, during the day, Huang Da did not dare to mess around, and left after watching for a while.

She dared not forget that look. Seven or eight years ago, there was a widow who lived alone in her family's village. At night, someone climbed over the wall and went in. Later, the widow was hanged at home with a hemp rope.

Some people sleep soundly all night, some people stay up all night.

The next day, before dawn, when the rooster crowed, Li Wanyun got up and went to the backyard when she heard the neighbor's movement. purse.

She put two purses inside. She threw the outer one with feces. It was buried inside for so many days. The second purse also stinks. She opened the purse and took out the silver wrapped in cloth. The cloth was wrapped in oiled paper. A full thirty taels of silver.

She held the whole silver ingot tightly in her hand, and the palm of her hand was aching, but she felt a kind of rich and steady.

That day, Zhang Sizi scolded her for ignoring money, and she scolded her back sharply. Others didn't know it, but she knew that she had a guilty conscience, because she really ignorant of money.

Take these thirty taels and ninety coins back to her mother's house. If she has money in her hand, even if she doesn't come back, her mother's family will not drive her away.

She wouldn't leave even if she chased her away, it was nothing more than making a scene. It's better to stay at her parents' house than to live here alone, and you don't have to worry about being bullied day and night.

As for other properties and houses, it's a pity that they can't sell for money, but she's not stupid and knows that she doesn't have to worry about anything else.

In the past, when the old Mrs. Zhang was there, she didn't have any money, so the things she brought back to her mother's house were sloppy, making her two sisters-in-law and younger siblings look down on her. Thirty-two is not a small amount, as long as the money is imprisoned Holding it firmly in my hand, I have the confidence to go back to my mother's house.

The sky was getting bright, and Li Wanyun had washed the money, but it still smelled bad. This was real money.

She vaguely felt that it was good to have money, especially that the money must be in her own hands. The thought that from now on she would no longer have to ask for money in the face of others' cold face, she felt that her waist was straight.

Li Wanyun moved lightly and quickly, and packed all the clothes into the bag. She had few clothes herself, so the cotton coat Zhang Zhengzi left behind was thicker. Seeing that the quilt on the bed was thick, it belonged to the old Zhang family. Later, she covered it by herself, the quilt. The mattress was not easy to take away, so she untied the thread, pulled out the cotton inside, stuffed some into the bag, some into the bamboo basket, and bounced it back, and bought some new cotton, how could it be given to her? Make a new quilt.

She had no intention of cooking, so she put kitchen knives and scissors in the sewing basket and planned to take them away. She went into the kitchen drawer and felt a cold bun, and gnawed it. Pick up two or three that haven't broken the edge, no one else will tell, just enough for her own use.

After choking on the dry bun, she scooped up a small half-scoop of cold water to drink, took a breath, and threw the gourd into the water tank.

A few eggs and duck eggs must be taken away, together with a few rice noodles, Li Wanyun finished eating a steamed bun, and her eyes fell on the cauldron.

Before dawn, Quanzi's house woke up early because of the baby, and the real brother carried the baby in the courtyard to urinate, whistling and whistling.

After the baby finished urinating, he got up and was about to go back when he heard someone calling her, but it was Li Wanyun who was sticking his head out from the wall.

"Wan Yun?" The real brother was very surprised.

"Shh." Li Wanyun motioned him to keep quiet, and then whispered, "Put the doll back, come here and I have something to tell you."

The real brother hurriedly went back to the room, but Li Wanyun was nowhere to be seen after he came out, but he still took a short ladder to climb up the wall and whispered, "Wanyun."

He stood tall and saw Li Wanyun come out of the kitchen with an iron pan in his head, and then hummed with great effort and climbed up from the wall and handed it to him.

"You are..." The real brother was puzzled.

"Don't worry about it, just hold it, use it or sell it, in short, don't let people know that I gave it to you." Li Wanyun whispered, looking at the familiar face of Quanzi's husband, her eyes were a little wet .

"Come down, don't let anyone see it, and I'll come back to you to get the soles of your shoes later." She said and went down the ladder first.

The real brother felt a little strange, but Li Wanyun had already entered the firewood room and closed the door. He didn't even say what he promised, so he had to climb down with one hand carrying the cauldron. He had a headache, but luckily he went down quickly. After going down, he stood by the wall, thinking that Li Wanyun was not as thin as his strength, and he didn't know how to climb up the wall with a cauldron.

In the firewood room, Li Wanyun pulled away the firewood. Underneath was a broken water tank, and inside the water tank were two dead chickens that had been partially plucked.

The two chickens she lost were killed by herself. It was not easy to take them with them, and they would suffer if they were seen.

Before the sun came out, the coldness of the early morning filled the air. The door of Zhang's courtyard opened a gap, and a figure squeezed out from it. Seeing that there was no one around, he hurriedly ran towards the houses in the back of the village, stopped at the door of Miao's house, and ran to the end. The second room of the Shen family stopped for a while.

Lu Gu was boiling water in the kitchen, when suddenly he heard a knock on the courtyard door, and Da Hui called out, "Who is it?"

No one agreed. In broad daylight, he opened the door to see. There was no one outside the door, but there was a basket on the ground with a dead chicken in it.

Seeing the dead thing early in the morning was shocking enough. Da Hui and the puppy who ran out came forward to sniff it. The death of the chicken was not that bad, and not even much blood seeped out. Lu Gu felt a little relieved when he found it. .

"What's wrong?" Shen Xuanqing came out of the room, but saw him outside the door, and the dog and Da Hui didn't know what to smell.

At this time, the Miao family also opened the courtyard door. Lu Gu looked over subconsciously. Aunt Miao raised the bamboo basket on the ground, which was also a chicken.

"Gu Zi, this..." Aunt Miao glanced at the person at the door of her house and then at the person at Lu Gu's side, and was immediately stunned.

Shen Xuanqing walked fast, and when he came out to see the situation, he pondered for a while and said, "It's better to take our own chickens back."

Aunt Miao is older than Lu Gu and has experienced a lot of things, so she can react faster. She sighed and said nothing. She glanced at Zhang's house and went in with a basket.

Lu Gu took a beat, but he also knew what happened to the chicken.

"It's said that the widow has a lot of right and wrong in front of her door. It's alright for her to go back. Remember to keep quiet about this matter." Shen Xuanqing said to him in a low voice.

"Well, I know." Lu Gu nodded, feeling a little gloomy in his heart.

The sun came out, the sky was bright, and no one knew what was going on in the early morning haze.

Li Wanyun packed her luggage, two bamboo baskets and two baskets, and she had to carry a bag. She couldn't take it with her alone. Besides, Huang Da, the second-rate son, had recently returned to the village and was running around everywhere. On the road alone.

So I simply found two women in the village whose parents were in Lijia Village, and privately agreed that one of them would give five cents of money. Women usually have little work to earn money, and they can earn five cents by running back and forth with their things on their backs. The two village women are naturally very willing.

Li Wanyun had already locked the kitchen door when the two came. After carrying her things, she closed all the doors and windows in a decent manner. When she locked the courtyard door, her hands trembled slightly.

With a "click", the lock was closed. She was stunned for a while before she put away the key. She walked out of the village with no expression on her face, but her heart was beating non-stop.

Country people get up early. Many people take advantage of the cool weather to pull weeds in the wheat fields. She encounters many people along the way, and she has to call out auntie or grandma when she meets them.

Li Wanyun's thoughts were a little dazed, she felt that she was very strange, while being able to talk to the villagers, she also felt that she was floating in mid-air. This light and airy feeling came down after she stepped out of Qingxi Village and walked past the big tree at the top of the village.

Underfoot is the solid earth, and the wind blows through the wilderness and the boundless wheat fields, blowing and blowing, blowing over her side and brushing her face, making her feel happy for no reason.