As soon as Chu Yue came out of Yun Cuihe's room, she saw Lu Xingping sitting under the eaves with his chin propped up and a frown on his face.
She looked confused.
"Xingping, what's wrong with you?"
Lu Xingping sighed heavily, "You don't have any shortage of things, so why is mine missing?"
When Chu Yue heard this, her expression became serious.
"What are you missing?"
The young man sighed again, his little face full of sorrow, "Every year during the Chinese New Year, my mother would give me a New Year's package worth one penny. I was thinking that I could save it to marry a wife in the future. Now it's better." , before it was time to marry a wife, all the New Year’s money I had saved for eight years was gone.”
Seeing his sad face, Chu Yue suddenly became a little unresponsive.
"After eight years of saving, how much have you saved?"
Lu Xingping held up his cheek and looked in her direction, "Ba Wen."
Chu Yue was stunned for a moment, then said calmly and went to the kitchen.
Lu Xingping sat under the eaves and pursed his lips and groaned, "Why do you have this expression? Shouldn't I be sympathized with when I lost my money? Humph! My sister-in-law is just as outrageous as my eldest brother and Xing'an!"
After a while, Lu Xing'an walked out of the room and said seriously: "Isn't it just eight cents worth your sadness? I'll give you half of it later, and we'll have the same amount again."
Chu Yue felt sad and wanted to laugh when she heard it in the kitchen.
Because their family is poor, these two children don't have much idea about money. Today's trip to Canghe Town is their first trip away from home, and they don't know about the recent windfalls that their family has made.
Perhaps, they would think that the eight cents in their hands is a large amount of wealth, right?
"Xing'an, I just planted the rice. Come and help me light the fire."
"okay."
Lu Xingan responded and immediately went to the kitchen.
Chu Yue went to the house and took twenty cents from her purse. After leaving the house, she called Lu Xingping to the kitchen, then divided the twenty cents into two parts and put them in their hands.
"Here, here's your pocket money."
Lu Xingping looked at the ten cents in his hand blankly, and then looked in the direction of Chu Yue.
"Sister-in-law..."
Chu Yue opened the wooden board covering the cellar, took out an egg from inside, and said while covering the wooden board: "Take it, you can buy something or save it for later use, but you have to hide it tightly in the future. Son, don’t let anyone touch you again.”
Lu Xingping sniffed with some emotion, sister-in-law was still the best.
"Thank you, sister-in-law. I will be as filial to you as my filial mother in the future."
Chu Yue smiled.
"I don't want you to be filial. Just be filial to your mother."
She made some brown sugar and egg soup for Yun Cuihe from the eggs in her hand and brought it to her room, asking her to drink a bowl of sugar water first.
Then I grabbed a small handful of peanuts from the hanging basket, cleaned them and fried them in a small dish, and served them as porridge with the peanuts in the evening.
I didn't even dig up wild vegetables a few days ago. The family hasn't eaten green leafy vegetables for a long time, so they can only cook what they have at home.
After dinner, Lu Xingan and Lu Xingping collected the dishes with great enthusiasm and went out to wash the dishes.
Yun Cuihe looked at Lu Xinghe.
"Xinghe, who do you think is the person who comes to our house to steal money?"
When the pig at home was stolen, he could easily find Chu Youqian. In her opinion, her son still had some abilities.
Lu Xinghe shook his head.
"I don't know. At least not many things were lost. Let's just be more careful later."
Although eight cents is money, but tomorrow he will start building a house at home, and he really doesn't have time to spend a lot of money on eight cents. He should be more careful in the future, as the thieves will show up sooner or later.
Chu Yue suddenly thought of that inexplicable girl.
Could it be her?
Although she didn't know her, she just felt that the girl didn't make her feel good.
At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded outside the courtyard gate.
"Aunt Yun, are you at home?"
Hearing the voice, Yun Cuihe frowned slightly. When she left the room and saw Lu Shanshan standing outside the yard, she pretended to be enthusiastic.
"Shanshan is here, but what are your father's orders?"
If I remember correctly, it seemed that it was almost time to pay taxes, but Li Zheng usually did this by himself. Why did Lu Shanshan come to the door now?
Lu Shanshan summoned up her courage, "Aunt Yun, can I say a few words to Xinghe?"
The smile on Yun Cuihe's face suddenly disappeared, "Shanshan, our two families used to just joke around a lot, but now my Xinghe has married a daughter-in-law, and it's not appropriate to see you again. If you have anything to say, Just tell me first, and I'll think about whether it's necessary to convey it to you."
Hearing Yun Cuihe's unkind words, tears began to well up in Lu Shanshan's eyes, as if she had been wronged a lot.
"Auntie, you misunderstood me. I never wanted to destroy Xinghe's family."
Yun Cuihe snorted, "Then what are you doing here?"
Lu Shanshan bit her lip, her watery eyes full of grievances.
In the kitchen, Chu Yue heard the conversation outside and raised her eyebrows slightly.
what's the situation?
Is the girl from outside related to Lu Xinghe?
Turning to glance at Lu Xinghe's unrippled face, she stood up and left the room. When she saw Lu Shanshan's face, Chu Yue's eyes were filled with surprise.
It's her!
He actually wanted to talk to his husband alone.
No wonder she always felt that this girl's behavior last time was too weird. She came here secretly before, maybe to meet Lu Xinghe, right? Or perhaps, he wanted to see what she would look like when she married Lu Xinghe.
Somehow, when she thought of this, she felt a little uncomfortable.
"Mom, what's going on?"
Yun Cuihe panicked in her heart and hurriedly pulled Chu Yue behind her.
"It's not a big deal. Yueyue should go to the house first, and my mother will handle this matter."
This little girl is honest. What if she cares about this and has a grudge against Xinghe in the future?
It's also strange that Lu Shanshan is about to get married, so why did she come to provoke their family?
In the past, I despised my family's poverty and refused to acknowledge my verbal marriage. Now, when I saw that my family was going to build a brick house, I came to see her. I was really a wallflower who despised the poor and loved the rich.
Fortunately, the person Xinghe married was not her.
"Shanshan, please go back. We are all in the same village and we are related. I don't want to make it too ugly. Although my aunt's family is in a bad situation, I will still prepare a small gift for you when you get married next month. Liquor.”
Lu Shanshan was anxious. She sniffed and stepped forward to hold Yun Cuihe's hand.
"Auntie, I really have something to talk to Xinghe. I may know who broke into your house and stole something."
Yun Cuihe was stunned, but did not peel her hand off immediately.
Chu Yue lowered her head and rubbed the soil on the ground with her toes.
Xinghe Xinghe, the shouting is really intimate. If you don’t know, you might really think they have something.
She raised her head and looked directly at Lu Shanshan, "There was a burglar in our house. We didn't know about it until we got home before dinner. We never told anyone about it. Why do you know so well?"
