Su Qingluan turned around and went to the small cubicle where the Liu family kept sundries.
It is said to be a "compartment", but in fact it is just a small space separated by weeds and rotten wooden boards. It is very cramped. Even Su Qingluan, a little girl of thirteen or fourteen, can touch the "compartment" with both hands spread out. both sides.
The sundries inside were placed on a multi-layered wooden shelf. The wood was already damp and moldy, and even if you put your hand on it gently, it would make a "squeaking" sound.
Since everyone in this alley set up a stove in the public space outside and took turns cooking, the Liu family did not have a stove, and the water tank was just placed in the corner of the cubicle.
The water in this tank was still clear, but Su Qingluan could see from the reflection of the water in the tank against the light that there was a light layer of dust floating on it.
Su Qingluan frowned slightly when he saw this: Sure enough, such an environment is not conducive to recovery.
Thinking about it this way, Su Qingluan hated the "master" who wanted to defraud the Liu family's resettlement fee. Isn't this a murderous act? !
Thinking of this, Su Qingluan thought that she must expose this old liar's deeds face to face.
She searched everywhere and found that the Liu family was lacking even the most basic condiments.
There are just compartments separated by withered grass and broken wooden boards, so there is no privacy at all. However, the Liu family is quite popular in this area, and the people around them are ordinary people who live a tight life, so there is no question of stealing or not, and nothing has been lost.
On the contrary, as we get along with each other for a long time, the neighbors will help each other to check whether anyone has taken away something.
So the neighbor who was passing by heard the noise here, got out of his house, and watched her rummaging through the boxes.
"Hey, what are you doing, kid?!"
There was a loud shout from behind, which startled Su Qingluan. Su Qingluan turned around quickly and saw a dark-faced man with gray hair and short clothes staring at her with a tigerish face: "Why are you rummaging around in other people's houses?!"
Su Qingluan was stunned when she heard this, and then realized: She should be regarded as a thief who broke into the house.
She quickly stepped forward and explained: "My husband, you have misunderstood. I am Yun Niang's friend."
I thought that by calling this family's name, the other party would be relieved of their doubts. Unexpectedly, before Su Qingluan could finish her words, the old man over there actually picked up the pole beside him and chased her: "You little bastard! This girl from the Liu family is innocent, how could she know you?" Such a little gangster?"
What rice? !
Su Qingluan was a little confused by the greeting of this pole. It was because of her young body, quick reactions, and nimbleness that otherwise she would have lost a layer of skin even if she was not disabled if she was swept over by the pole at once.
"Uncle! No, father-in-law! You really misunderstood! I am not a thief! I am not a prostitute!" Su Qingluan dodged left and right, jumped up and down, and at the end he did not forget to defend himself. For a moment, I was in a panic and ended up at a dead end.
The old man behind was coming menacingly, and when there was no hope of escape, a voice came from beside him: "Qingluan? Uncle Liu? What are you doing?"
Su Qingluan burst into tears as if hearing fairy music: "Mother Yun, save me!"
Uncle Liu, who was chasing Su Qingluan and waving his pole, stopped: "So you really know each other?"
Su Qingluan gasped out of breath and nodded without tears.
Uncle Liu now realized that he had misunderstood, and scratched his head in embarrassment: "Hey, I saw this kid wandering around your water tank, and he looked at a stranger, thinking he was here to steal something! "
Liu Yunniang couldn't laugh or cry when she heard this: "Uncle Liu, what do you think is worth stealing from our shabby pot and stove?"
Uncle Liu's scratching of his head froze: What he said was such a knowing blow!
When Su Qingluan heard this, she couldn't help but twitch her lips: Yun Niang, don't underestimate these thieves and liars. There is a jumping Zheng Huan in your house!
Seeing that it was just a misunderstanding, Liu Yunniang said hello to Su Qingluan and Uncle Liu and went back to the house - the sound was that the "Great Fairy" was starting to "do it" again, which required the whole family to be present.
Su Qingluan quickly waved her hand and told Yun Niang to go over and do her work, while she continued to look for something she wanted to find.
At this time, Uncle Liu who was standing aside came over and asked, "What are you looking for, kid? If you hadn't been sneaking around here just now, I wouldn't have regarded you as a thief."
Su Qingluan smiled bitterly: "I just want to find various seasonings."
"It's not time to start a fire and cook. What are you doing with that thing?" Uncle Liu put the pole back to its original place and asked curiously.
Of course, Su Qingluan couldn't say that it was to expose the deception of "Da Xian'er". He only said: "I came here to look for water - there is a water tank over there, which I can see at a glance. But I just felt uncomfortable in my stomach. , I have some acid reflux. I heard that drinking alkali in water can make your stomach feel better, so I looked for it."
Adding alkali to water creates an alkaline liquid, which can indeed neutralize gastric acid. However, Su Qingluan was just making random nonsense when he said that he had an upset stomach.
However, Uncle Liu believed Su Qingluan's words, pointed to a terrace outside and explained to her: "We are all poor people here who are almost unable to open the pot. We can all piece together to find a shack that can protect us from the wind and rain." It’s very good. Usually there is no special place to light a fire for cooking, so I go there and cook whatever I want if there is space.”
Su Qingluan turned around and looked in the direction pointed by Uncle Liu. Sure enough, about ten steps out of the alley, there was a messy terrace with pots, bowls, bottles, and everything on it.
Uncle Liu went on to say: "I don't know if there is any noodle soda. Go check it out yourself. If you have a handful of coarse salt, just use it sparingly. I guess there aren't that many precious items." With that, he opened the curtain and returned to his own room. Went inside the "house".
Su Qingluan stared at the shabby straw curtain, sighed, and secretly made up her mind to wait until she started the jam business...
Gathering her thoughts, she approached the platform and searched back and forth.
Although it is said to be a "collective kitchen", it is still lacking in things - everyone is very poor, so "luxury goods" such as spices are basically impossible to encounter here.
Su Qingluan rummaged left and right, and finally got a little rice vinegar and a little flour soda, put them in two bowls, added water to each, and then returned to the small compartment of Liu's house where the water tank was. .
She carefully tore one of the two "talismans" she had just received into several strips. She first dipped the bowl of rice vinegar into it, but the paper talisman did not change at all. She then tore off the other small piece of talisman paper. Put it in the alkaline water, and in an instant, the part stained with the alkaline water changes from bright yellow to a dazzling deep red like blood!
Su Qingluan narrowed her eyes slightly: It was indeed similar to what she had imagined. In modern times, this was just the color reaction of acid-base indicators that could be accessed in elementary school. In this distant ancient time, it was actually used by the "great fairies" Use it to show off and deceive.
The skills that were originally mastered as scientific knowledge are actually used to pretend to be gods and ghosts. It has to be said that this is a kind of irony of magical realism.
In order to confirm again, Su Qingluan dipped the "bloody" talisman paper in white vinegar water. The moment it came into contact with the white vinegar water, the originally "bloody" talisman paper began to be "purified". After a while, as the alkaline water was gradually neutralized by the white vinegar water, the paper charm turned bright yellow again.
Su Qingluan sneered, packed up the small notes, and walked towards the cabin where the Liu family lived, carrying the two bowls of water.
When Su Qingluan walked over, the "Great Immortal" had finished "casting the spell" and was collecting the "faith money."
Of course, his attitude was very high, the one on the left was "voluntary" and the one on the right was "not forced".
The Liu family was obviously fooled by the complete set of "blood talismans". In order to make the head of the family's leg disease get better quickly, they happily took out the remaining silver.
Su Qingluan took a quick look and saw that there would be more than ten or twenty taels of silver at least!
Sure enough, when he saw that the Liu family had such a "huge sum of money", the "master"'s eyes lit up, but he quickly suppressed it.
In fact, under normal circumstances, Mrs. Xi and Yagyu Sheng, a couple who are accustomed to traveling around the world, may not be able to discover this scam. But as the saying goes, "care leads to chaos." One of them wanted to get rid of the status of being a burden on the family too quickly, and the other wanted his family to recover, and more or less lost his cool.
In addition, the liar before was really deceptive, so it was inevitable that he would fall into the trap.
Seeing Su Qingluan holding two bowls, Liu Yunniang asked curiously: "Qingluan, what's going on with these two bowls?"
Su Qingluan said with a half-smile but not a smile: "The contents of these two bowls are extraordinary." But then he asked as if he was taking things for granted, "Have all the blood-filled talismans been disposed of?"
Liu Yunniang nodded: "This is natural. Master's actions are not unsafe."
"Oh?" Su Qingluan turned to the man dressed as a Taoist priest.
I saw the man twirling his beard and smiling and nodding: "Don't worry, little friend, I have used the three flavors of true fire to refine the evil spirits, so the layman here can feel at ease."
Su Qingluan understood the implication of these words: I am afraid that the talismans in question have been burned by fire.
Thinking of this, Su Qingluan sneered: Want to destroy the corpse and eliminate traces? Where can it be so easy? !
"Safe and worry-free? I don't think that's the case, right?" As he said that, he put the two bowls aside and took out a very familiar piece of talisman paper from his arms - speaking of it, thanks to the Taoist priest, In order to show that his talisman paper was unique, the cinnabar pattern on it was completely different from others. It was simply a ready-made "anti-counterfeiting mark"!
The "Master" realized something and quickly came forward to grab the talisman: "My little friend, you must make trouble, this thing is very dangerous..."
"Dangerous? Is it like this?" As she said that, Su Qingluan dipped the talisman paper in alkaline water.
In an instant, the bright red "blood water" stained the entire talisman paper!
