Reborn before the famine, kicking away the scumbag's family and living a carefree life.

119. Stolen

"After he divorced me, he had an affair with my first love at home. He was caught in bed with her by her husband, which had a huge impact. They were both dismissed by the education bureau and are no longer teachers; they are now working in the production team."

"Even working in the production team shouldn't have resulted in this!"

"Who knows! I haven't seen him for over a year. I noticed his behavior today was a bit unusual. Could it be that he can't accept reality, got a shock, or something's wrong with his mind? After all, he used to be a proud and arrogant person. Losing his job all of a sudden, he can't adapt. It seems like he's in a lot of financial trouble too!"

"There's always a reason why someone is pitiful. It's pathetic and lamentable that a primary school principal has fallen to such a state!"

"Yes! It's a good thing his parents are dead, otherwise seeing him like this, they would be so angry they'd die."

"Luckily he was blind and let you go, otherwise if you had continued to waste your life on him, you would have ruined your life."

Su Jinru remained silent. In her previous life, she had wasted more than thirty years of her life on him. Only after the divorce could her life truly belong to herself.

After the two finished eating, Su Jinru took the food for the two children home.

Yuan Wenjie escorted her to her doorstep.

"I can't believe you're already a mother of two. It's not easy for a woman like you to raise two children alone. If you ever need anything, just let me know."

Anyway, he's single, so no one would dare to gossip if he helped her.

"Okay, thank you!"

"I'll pick up the goods at eight o'clock tomorrow morning."

"Okay, see you tomorrow morning."

……

With Liu Dazhuang no longer bothering her, Su Jinru finally had a few days of peace and quiet.

One day, Su Jinru returned home and found the gate to the courtyard ajar. Her heart skipped a beat. She stepped into the courtyard in a few quick steps and found the vegetables in a mess.

Her vegetables were stolen; not a single cabbage or green vegetable was left. All of them, big and small, were pulled up. Eggplants and cucumbers were also picked clean, regardless of size.

Soon after, the two children returned from school and saw that the vegetables they had worked so hard to grow had been harvested. Anran was stunned for a long time, her face turning pale.

An Xin burst into tears.

"Who could be so despicable! They stole all the vegetables my brother and I planted! We were planning to sell them this weekend!"

"I reckon these vegetables can sell for three yuan! Waaah..."

“Yes! That’s outrageous! People like that deserve to be torn to pieces,” Su Jinru chimed in.

Since moving to the county town to live and study, although the town has electricity and electric lights, there is still no running water. We have to fetch water from underground wells.

So these vegetables were all watered by the two children who carried water from the well.

Although the well is only about 20 meters away from home, it's still quite tiring to go back and forth.

Su Jinru also felt particularly sorry for the two children. They were so young, and she had to water and weed the vegetables every day to help them grow. It was only to have them targeted by thieves.

"Mom, are there any seeds left?" Anran asked.

"Of course, there are more. What kind of seeds do you need? I'll find them for you."

The eggplant and cucumber trees are still there; with careful tending, they can still bear fruit. The cabbage and bok choy need to be reseeded.

"And scallions and mint."

After all, he's a boy, and when faced with a problem, his first thought is to solve it.

They won't stay stuck in their emotions for long.

Su Jinru went into the house, took out the seeds from her spatial storage, and saw An Ran already loosening the soil with a small hoe.

Anxin was still there, sobbing as she watched her brother Songtu.

Su Jinru patted her daughter's head.

She handed her a meat pie.

"Eat something, you'll feel better."

Su Jinru then stuffed another meat pie into her son's mouth.

"Son, eat something so you'll have the energy to work."

Su Jinru then handed him four more packets of seeds.

"There are words written on these seeds, so don't get them wrong."

"Got it, Mom."

"Okay, I'll go cook. You turn over the soil and start planting slowly."

Su Jinru said to An Xin, "An Xin, are you in a bad mood? Do you want to stay and work with your brother, or come to the kitchen with me to cook?"

An Xin calmed down at this point.

"My brother and I grow vegetables together."

Su Jinru went into the kitchen, then into her spatial dimension to steam rice in the rice cooker. After looking at the crops inside, she made a stir-fried egg with chives, a vegetable soup, and reheated the leftover braised chicken from lunch.

Seeing that the rice in the rice cooker was cooked, she took the rice out and scooped it into the steamer.

After setting all the dishes on the table, Su Jinru told the two children to wash their hands and eat.

During the meal, Su Jinru noticed that both children were in a bad mood.

"How about I give you two four yuan, two yuan each? Consider it my way of making it up to you."

Anran: "Mom, isn't your money our own family's money? If you give it to us, it doesn't count as money we earned ourselves."

An Xin: "Yes, we want to earn our own money."

An Ran said worriedly, "These vegetables are lost, but we can just plant more. What I'm worried about is what if we plant some more vegetables and they get stolen again?"

Su Jinru: "Mom promises that this will never happen again."

Anran looked up and asked, "Really? Mom, do you have any good ideas?"

"There's no good solution right now, but if there's a problem, we have to find a way to solve it. If we keep thinking, we'll eventually figure it out."

After listening to their mother's words, both children began to think hard.

“The thief broke into our house by breaking the lock. Let’s buy a sturdier lock,” An Xin said.

An Ran shook her head.

"No, even the sturdiest lock can be broken."

"then what should we do?"

"Or, we could electrify the door, and electrocute anyone who dares to touch it."

Su Jinru: "That won't work either. What if innocent people get hurt?"

"What should I do?"

"The thief won't come anytime soon, because even if he does, there won't be anything left to steal. Let's think of a solution slowly; we'll eventually come up with a good one."

This weekend, Su Jinru brought five kilograms of rice and some fruit to Minister Ye's house.

When Minister Ye's wife, Zhou Yun, saw that Su Jinru had brought so many rare items, she scolded, "Jinru, it's enough that you came in person, you always bring so many expensive things."

"It's nothing. A friend gave it to me. I was afraid that there would be too many and they would go bad, so I brought some over for you."

"It's kind of you to think of us so much and send us anything good you have. These things are very precious now."

"Minister Ye is our family's benefactor. When we had nothing to eat, it was Minister Ye who gave us a bag of millet, which saved our family. Back then, food was precious, and that was a real lifesaver. Compared to that, what we have now is just icing on the cake."