The Sweet Little Fulang

It was still dark at this time, and a dozen or so households in the vicinity all went out to watch when they heard Li Wanyun's exclamation, and some of them came out with bowls while they were eating.

Shen Xuanqing was about to trouble Huang Da, but when she saw this, she stopped, and Lu Gu came up from behind.

"Is there a thief?" Lu Gu walked to the front of Zhang's house, and Shen Xuanqing followed behind him.

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

As she spoke, she opened the courtyard door and walked in. Lu Gu saw that the courtyard of her house was really messy, even the bamboo baskets and dustpans were thrown all over the floor, and the kitchen was turned into a mess.

"It's broad daylight, and there are thieves."

"That's right, this thief is also very courageous. If he doesn't move at night, he dares to strike in broad daylight."

The villagers came in after them, frowning and talking to each other. A thief is not a trivial matter. If you stole Zhang's house today, you might steal another house tomorrow. But others will inevitably be on guard.

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

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

Lu Gu subconsciously followed, and so did other people in the village, all of whom came to the backyard.

When Lao Zhang was ill, Li Wanyun sold a lot of chickens and ducks, everyone in the village knew about it, but now there were only two of the three ducks left, and a lot of chicken feathers were scattered in the chicken coop, it looked like the chickens had been caught by strangers. In Puteng, Li Wanyun covered her face and cried after counting: "There is no chicken."

"This thief who kills a thousand swords!" Aunt Miao heard this from behind and couldn't help cursing.

Shen Xuanqing glanced at the backyard wall, and then looked at the slightly recognizable footprints in the chicken coop. He didn't look at the size of Li Wanyun's feet, and didn't make a sound.

Li Wanyun cried twice and stopped covering her face, she raised her head to speak but accidentally met those quiet black eyes, she was so surprised that even her expression changed a little.

Seeing that she was obviously flustered, Shen Xuanqing looked away, pretending that she didn't know anything, pulled Lu Gu's sleeve and said, "Go to the front."

As soon as the two of them moved, the others subconsciously walked towards the front yard, and the woman who loved to clean with a bowl left first, otherwise the smell of chicken and duck feces would be unbearable.

Li Wanyun at the back settled down, she didn't have much contact with Shen Xuanqing, but she often talked with Wei Lanxiang, there were no scoundrels in the Shen family, and they were all kind-hearted, so she felt a little more at ease after thinking about it.

"Fortunately not all of them were stolen."

Aunt Miao talked to Wei Lanxiang, who came late, and other people in the village nodded when they heard it. All the money was stolen. If the chickens and ducks were gone, how would they live this day.

It is also because chickens and ducks grow big, unlike copper plates that are hidden on the body and others can’t see them. It’s broad daylight, and no thief has the guts to steal them all. If they are caught, they will be stolen and taken. .

"Who do you think it could be?" Wei Lanxiang said while thinking.

"Someone saw Huang Da slipping past just now, it couldn't be him." Aunt Miao guessed in a low voice.

There were quite a few people in the courtyard, including those who were close to her. Hearing this, I couldn't help but suspect Huang Da. Not to mention anything else, Huang Da, a bastard, had done a lot of thieves before. The chickens and ducks in Liuhu sometimes even harm other people's vegetables, and they pick them up as soon as they are picked, but they have to step on the good vegetables 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, and when he saw Shen Xuanqing shaking his head, he didn't speak.

Li Wanyun wiped away her tears at this moment, picked up a bamboo basket on the ground and said: "I didn't catch the thief, and I definitely dare not say who the thief is, but I really can't live through this day, I have no land There is no vegetable land, so I can only dig wild vegetables, steal two today, and steal again tomorrow while I am out, sooner or later this house will be emptied."

What she said is really reasonable, only a thousand days is a thief, how can there be a thousand days to guard against a thief, she is a widow with no family, no backing and no money, no one will step on her head and bully her.

"Sigh." Wei Lanxiang sighed. In this situation, Li Wanyun is alone, and thanks to the family next door, the whole son and his family are good. If it is someone else, they don't know how to bully them because of the proximity of the two neighbors.

"Now I don't have any money in my hand, and I don't have much rice and noodles left at home. 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 at the moment, Her complexion has been bad recently, very pale.

She looked at Wei Lanxiang and Mrs. Miao, then looked at the other husbands in the village, and said, "Grandma, aunt, 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, I can buy rice noodles to eat in the future, if not, I can’t even keep the chickens and ducks, it’s just cheap for the thief.”

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

Before he finished speaking, his wife pinched the flesh on his arm to shut up.Li Wanyun is a widow, so the thieves who come at night only steal money, if it is someone who steals, wouldn't it tarnish the family's reputation.

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

But the words have already been said, Li Wanyun tightly pursed her lips, and said after a while: "No, I will go back to my mother's house. There is no cart at home, and it is not easy to bring chickens and ducks. If you exchange it for money, you can also give it to me." My mother's family brought some rice noodles, so I can't eat rice empty-handed."

"That's not bad, the first seven have passed, and the rest of the matter is not so urgent." Shen Xuanqing agreed, giving Li Wanyun a step to leave.

Sometimes people are like this, someone has to take the lead in speaking, Li Wanyun's family has a hard time being burglarized, besides, it is not uncommon for women and Shuang'er to go back to their mother's house for a few days.

Lu Gu had money in his hand, and Shen Xuanqing was standing beside him as a reassurance. He was the first one to ask Li Wanyun how to sell the chicken and duck.

When laying eggs, the hens and ducks can be sold for [-] yuan, let alone [-] or [-] yuan. The eggs can be sold, and the old hens and ducks can be sold if they stop laying eggs in the future.

"Not much, two ducks, one rooster and four hens. If you want them all, the rooster will be given to you. The hen and the duck will be ten yuan each." After Lu Gu asked, Li Wanyun gritted her teeth and lowered the price to the lowest. Say fifteen words.

There are only seven in total, not many, Lu Gu looked up at Shen Xuanqing, and felt relieved when he nodded.

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

"Mom, I'm going to get the money." Lu Gu understood her eyes, since he wanted to buy it, there was no reason to ask someone else in the family to pay for it.

This business is very neat, Lu Gu asked to buy it first, others are greedy for such a cheap price, there is nothing they can do, it is not that no one wants to spend an extra copper or two to cut off their beards, even if it costs twelve cents to buy a laying hen, it is still a good deal, but Shen Xuan Qing slammed into the courtyard, with such a tall person, others would not want to have a conflict with his family, besides, Li Wanyun also agreed.

When Lu Gu came over, all the other people in the village should have dispersed. It was getting dark, and they had to wash the dishes after dinner.

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

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

Li Wanyun stuffed the copper plate into her bosom properly, her eyes were filled with gratitude, and she said: "It's late today, 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, the remaining five chickens Shen Xuanqing and Wei Lanxiang caught them, called the dogs and the three went home.

Li Wanyun looked at them from behind, and opened her mouth to say that all the bamboo baskets in the house would be 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 covered the land, because of the thieves, many people closed their doors early, Li Wanyun did the same.With such a commotion today, the neighbors will definitely be on guard at night, even that bastard Huang Da would not dare to approach easily.

She closed the doors and windows, put the kitchen knife on the edge of the bed, within reach, and hid the scissors under the pillow. After lying down, she kept her eyes open and never fell asleep.

Even if Lin Jinhu didn't say those things, she would still have to find an excuse to go back to her natal home. Being a thief is a big deal, and she can hide in her natal home and no one can say anything.

As for the thieves, it was actually nothing. She was the one who quietly messed up the yard and kitchen, and she was responsible for the mess in the house and backyard.With no other purpose, she couldn't stay in Qingxi Village any longer.

This afternoon she was sitting in the courtyard chopping firewood, the gate was open, Huang Da passing by stood at the gate and looked at her for a long time, the look in the eyes of that bum made her extremely terrified, startled and frightened.

Compared with those good relatives of the Zhang family, Huang Da's eyes are completely different, obscene and vile, so that she dare not even say a word, the hand holding the ax tightly is shaking, and there is only one thought in her mind, if Huang Da If she dared to come in, she could only hack through with an axe.

Fortunately, it was daytime, Huang Da didn't dare to mess around, and left after watching for a while.

She didn't dare to forget that look. Seven or eight years ago in her natal village, there was a widow who lived alone. Someone climbed over the wall and entered at night. Later, the widow hanged herself at home with a hemp rope.

Some people sleep soundly all night, some people don't sleep all night.

The next day, when the cock crowed and the sky was still dark, Li Wanyun got up and went to the backyard when she heard movement from her neighbor. purse.

There were two money bags, and she threw away the outer one that was stained with feces. After being buried in it for so many days, the second layer of money bags also smelled bad. Open the money bag and take out the silver wrapped in cloth. The cloth was wrapped in oiled paper. A full 30 taels of silver.

She held a five-liang ingot of silver tightly in her hand, her palms ached from the pain, but she felt a kind of solidity of being rich.

That day Zhang Sizi scolded her for being ignorant of money, and she scolded back sharply, but no one else knew, but she herself knew that she had a guilty conscience, because she really was ignorant of money.

Bring these 30 taels and [-] copper coins back to her natal family. Now that she has money, even if she doesn't come back, her natal family will not drive her away.

She didn't leave even if she was chased away, it was nothing more than a scene of trouble, it was better to stay in her mother's house than to live here alone, so she didn't have to worry about being bullied day and night.

As for other belongings and houses, it's a pity that they can't be sold for money, but she is not stupid and knows that there is no need to worry about anything else.

In the past, when old Zhang was here, she searched and searched, and she had no money in her hand. The things she brought back to her mother’s house were shabby, and her two sisters-in-law and younger siblings looked down upon her. Thirty taels is not a small amount, as long as the money is firmly held Holding it in my hand, I have the confidence to go back to my mother's house.

It was daylight, Li Wanyun laundered the money, so what if it still smelled bad, this is real money.

She vaguely felt that it was good to be rich, especially if the money had to be in her own hands. Thinking that from now on she would no longer have to face other people's cold faces to ask for money, she felt her waist straightened.

Li Wanyun moved lightly and quickly, and packed all the clothes into the bag. She had few clothes, so Zhang Zhengzi left a thick cotton coat. Seeing that the quilt on the bed was thick, it belonged to Mrs. Zhang. Later, she covered herself with the quilt. The mattress was not easy to take away, so she unstitched the thread, pulled out the cotton inside, stuffed some into the bag, and stuffed some into the bamboo basket. Make a new quilt.

She didn't care about cooking, so she put the kitchen knife and scissors into the sewing basket and planned to take them away. She went into the kitchen drawer to find a cold mixed noodle steamed bun and gnawed on it. Pick two or three of the ones that haven't broken the edge, and others don't say, just enough for her to use.

Choking on dry steamed buns, she scooped up half a scoop of cold water to drink, took a breath and threw the gourd scoop into the water tank.

A few eggs and duck eggs must be taken away, together with a few rice noodles, after Li Wanyun finished eating a steamed bun, her eyes fell on the cauldron, the iron pan is worth a lot of money, if she doesn't come back in the future, she doesn't know whose hands it will fall into.

Before dawn, Quanzi's family woke up early because of a baby, and Brother Zhen took the baby and urinated in the yard, whistling and whistling.

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

"Wanyun?" Brother Zhen was very surprised.

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

Brother Zhen hurried back to the room, but Li Wanyun was nowhere to be seen when he came out, but he still moved a short ladder to climb up the wall, and whispered: "Wanyun."

Standing tall, he saw Li Wanyun coming out of the kitchen with an iron pan, then grunted and struggled to climb up from the wall and hand it to him.

"You are..." Brother Zhen was puzzled.

"Don't worry about it, just keep it. It doesn't matter if you use it or sell it. In short, don't let anyone know that I gave it to you." Li Wanyun whispered, looking at the familiar face of Quanzi Fulang, her eyes were a little wet .

"Go down quickly, don't let anyone see you, later, I will come back to find your shoe soles later." She said and got off the ladder first.

Brother Zhen 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 holding the cauldron. She had a headache, but luckily she went down quickly, and after she got down, she stood by the wall, thinking that Li Wanyun was thinner and not as strong as him, and she didn't know how she managed to climb up the wall with the cauldron.

In the firewood room, Li Wanyun pulled apart the firewood, there was a broken water tank underneath, and inside the water tank were two dead chickens with part of their feathers plucked.

The two chickens that were lost were killed by herself.

Before the sun came out, the early morning chill was pervasive, the door of Zhang’s courtyard opened a gap, a figure squeezed out from inside, seeing no one around, he hurriedly ran towards the back of the village, stopped at the gate of Miao’s house, and ran to the end The second room of Shen's family in front stopped for a while.

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

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

Seeing a dead thing early in the morning is enough to shock people. Dahui and the pups who ran out stepped forward and sniffed it. The death of the chicken was not so miserable, and there was not even much blood oozing out. Lu Gu felt relieved when he found out. .

"What's the matter?" Shen Xuanqing came out of the room, but saw him outside the door, and the puppy and Dahui were smelling something.

At this time, the gate of the nearby Miao family also opened, Lu Gu subconsciously looked over, and Aunt Miao lifted the bamboo basket on the ground, which also contained a chicken.

"Guzi, this..." Aunt Miao glanced at the one in front of her own house, then at the one at Lu Gu's side, and was immediately stunned.

Shen Xuanqing walked quickly, came out to see the situation, pondered for a while and said: "It's better to take our own chicken back."

Aunt Miao was older than Lu Gu, she had experienced many things, so she reacted faster, she sighed and said nothing, took a look at Zhang's side and went in with a basket.

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

"It is said that there is a lot of gossip in front of the widow's house. It's fine if she goes back, but remember to keep this matter quiet." Shen Xuanqing whispered to him.

"Well, I know." Lu Gu nodded, feeling a little depressed.

The sun came out, the sky was bright, and no one knew what happened in the early morning twilight.

Li Wanyun packed her luggage, two bamboo baskets, two baskets, and a burden on her back, which she couldn't take away alone, besides, Huang Da's bum, who recently returned to the village, was wandering around, so she couldn't guarantee that he would meet him on the road, so she didn't dare On the road alone.

So he simply found two women in the village whose natal families were both in Lijia Village, and privately agreed to give each of them five Wen.The women usually have few jobs to earn money, and they can earn five cents by running back and forth with their luggage on their backs. The two village women are naturally very willing.

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

With a "click", the lock closed, and she was stunned for a moment before putting away the key. She walked out of the village without much expression on her face, but her heart was beating non-stop.

People in the country got up early, and many of them took advantage of the cool weather to weed weeds in the wheat fields. She met many people along the way, and she had to call auntie or grandma when they met.

Li Wanyun was in a trance, she felt that she was very strange, she was able to talk to the people in the village, and at the same time felt that she was floating in mid-air, this light and light feeling did not come down until she stepped out of Qingxi Village and walked past the big tree at the head of the village.

There was solid soil under her feet, and the wind blew across the wilderness and the boundless wheat fields, blowing and blowing, blowing past her side and brushing her face, making her happy for no reason.