Wang Xuelan couldn't help but put the egg into Yun Cuihe's hand, "Take it as long as you are told. In the past, our family relied on the third child, and in the future we will have to rely on Xinghe."
Yun Cuihe had no choice but to collect her eggs and lead the children home.
"Xinghe, my mother has been in poor health these past few years and has never been to your grandfather's house. Every year, your two uncles take turns coming to deliver something. The Moon Worship Festival is coming soon. Fortunately, your father and I have been on the foundation for these two days. Your fourth uncle is watching, how about we go to Canghe Town together tomorrow?"
Her natal family is in Qingjiu Village, close to Canghe Town. The journey is actually almost the same as going to Nanping Town, except that Canghe Town has to cross a river. In previous years, the conditions at home were poor, and she looked sick, so she couldn't walk more than a few steps. She needed to breathe, so she didn't want to worry about the two old people.
Now that her health was finally getting better, she was anxious to take a look and let the two old men take a look at her so that she could feel relieved.
Furthermore, if the annual performance is not good this year, I have to go to my parents and brother’s family to warn them.
Lu Xinghe looked worried, "Mom, your body..."
Yun Cuihe patted his arm lightly and said, "Mom knows her body well. It doesn't take much walking by boat. When we come back tomorrow, you can ask your uncle to drive the ox cart to take us to the ferry." , then it won’t be in the way.”
Thinking that the family had not been to his grandfather's house in the past eight years, Lu Xinghe nodded.
"good."
After hearing this, Yun Cuihe went to the house with red eyes.
In the past eight years, she not only dragged down Xinghe, but also owed her parents, making a pair of old people worry about her even at their old age. Every year when her eldest brother and second brother came, she asked them to bring messages to their parents. They say they are living a good life, but if they haven't returned to their parents' home for eight years, how can the two old people really feel relieved?
My mother has not come back since she wiped her tears from here five years ago. Maybe her legs and feet are becoming more and more inconvenient.
…
The whole afternoon, Lu Xinghe read in the room, while Chu Yue took a chair and did needlework under the big tree in the corner of the yard.
She also learned needlework recently. Seeing that the purse on Lu Xinghe's waist was patched, she also thought of making him a purse.
After sitting down for a while, she noticed a look from the side looking at her. Looking back, she saw a girl who was three or four years older than her.
Although this girl is not the very stunning-looking type, she is also Xiaojiabiyu.
Chu Yue quickly put down the needle and thread in her hand, "Who are you?"
Then he turned to look at Yun Cuihe's house, wanting to tell her that a guest was coming, but he heard the girl shush and said in a low voice, "Don't shout."
Chu Yue took two steps back in confusion. She had never seen this girl before, but she was not allowed to call anyone when she came to the house. She was still so sneaky. Could it be that she wanted to steal something?
It’s true that people should not be judged by their appearance.
She has a lot of money hidden at home.
"Come quickly, there's a thief."
When Lu Shanshan saw that Chu Yue thought she was a thief, she stamped her feet in annoyance. To avoid misunderstanding, she quickly ran away and disappeared after a while.
Yun Cuihe and Lu Xinghe both ran out of the house.
Yun Cuihe picked up the broom standing by the door and came to Chu Yue: "Yueyue, where is the thief?"
Chu Yue pointed to the direction where the girl ran away just now: "That's where the person ran."
Yun Cuihe breathed a sigh of relief.
"As long as you're okay."
Chu Yue shook her head: "Mom, I'm fine. I just saw that the person just now looked weird. I'm afraid he was a thief."
Lu Xinghe looked at the direction where Chu Yue pointed just now, and then focused on her again, "Go inside, don't stay outside."
"That's right." Yun Cuihe also said hurriedly, "Stay in the house, this year is really not peaceful."
Chu Yue nodded and went to the house with Lu Xinghe.
Lu Xinghe continued to read in front of the window, while she sat on the bed and made her purse. When it was almost time for dinner, Lu Xingping and Lu Xingan came back with baskets, looking listless.
Seeing this, Yun Cuihe hurriedly asked, "What's going on?"
The two brothers frowned and said, "Mom, it's hard to find even grass on the nearby mountains."
Yun Cuihe touched their heads and said, "If you can't find it, then you can't find it. I might as well go to your grandfather's house tomorrow, or simply don't go to the mountains these days. Your sister-in-law saw a thief today. Don’t kidnap other people’s children.”
Upon hearing this, the two of them looked in Chu Yue's direction.
"Sister-in-law, are you okay?"
Chu Yue, who was washing rice, smiled and said, "I'm fine. That thief was sneaky. He didn't even enter the yard before he disappeared after I yelled at him."
The two of them breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that everyone in their family was fine.
Lu Xingan put the basket back in the kitchen and went to light the stove.
Lu Xingping chopped up the young leaves pulled from the road, mixed them into the shriveled rice husks he had sifted a few days ago, and fed them to the chickens. He also muttered to the three chickens, "Recently, I can't even catch any clean worms in the mountains. You guys Just make do with it and eat some.”
For dinner, Chu Yue cooked a pot of porridge, and took out the soy sauce meat from the cellar, cut a few slices and put them on the plate. If there were no vegetables, she could at least eat one or two slices of the soy sauce meat and add it to the porridge, which would give her some nutrition.
In the dead of night, Chu Yue, who was lying on the bed, thought about it more and more and felt that something was wrong. Thinking back to the girl who came today, she was dressed quite exquisitely. She also had a hairpin on her head. Could it be that she had misunderstood?
She turned back and looked in the direction of Lu Xinghe.
"Ms. sir, are you asleep?"
Lu Xinghe, who had his back to Chu Yue, heard the sound and opened his eyes.
"What's wrong?"
Chu Yue lay down flat.
"Ms. sir, who do you think the girl who came to my house today is? I'm wondering if I misunderstood her." Then he said, "But she looked really strange at that time, and I don't know her. She actually told me not to call anyone, so I thought she was a thief."
Lu Xinghe also lay down and looked in the direction of Chu Yue.
"Since you don't know someone, why do you think so much?"
"Don't you think it's strange?"
Chu Yue said, yawned, and fell asleep in a daze.
She was still talking a moment ago, but fell asleep in the blink of an eye. Lu Xinghe lifted the quilt on her body in a funny way, "She also said that she was not a child, and only children could be so heartless."
After he finished speaking, he raised his hand and put it behind his head, thinking about Chu Yue's words.
The thief who came today is actually a woman?
This matter is indeed quite mysterious.
However, some women are good at pretending to be weak and gain sympathy to defraud money.
I would rather believe it.
Thinking of this, Lu Xinghe got up from bed, found all the bamboo tubes that Chu Yue had hidden in various corners, put the desk in the groove of the beam, and used the old and damaged wood from the beam to Fang pushed towards the groove, but he couldn't tell that there was anything hidden inside.
In this way, even if there is a thief, they will not be able to find the money.
After all, the little girl earned it herself. If it was really stolen, she would be sad.
…
When he got up early the next morning, Lu Xinghe put away his pen and ink and books, and then moved his desk to the room of the two brothers Lu Xingping.
