Not long after Zhao Yu and the others left, Yan Siqin went down the mountain. He originally thought that when he arrived home, he would see Zhao Yu and Shi Ke playing games in the yard. Unexpectedly, the door to the house was open and no one was in the yard.

, she didn't care. The two little ones must have gone to play with Zhao Yu. Yan Siqin put the eggs he picked up into the box, washed his hands, and started cooking.

After Zhao Liangsheng delivered the eggs and left his fingerprints with Li Hua, Yan Siqin was almost done cooking when he got home. He put the egg frame aside, first found a cucumber under the cucumber rack, and washed it at the well table.

With a "click", he chewed the cucumber and went into the kitchen to talk to Yan Siqin: "Chen, mother, what are you cooking for lunch today?"

"What's the best thing to eat? Let's just do the same thing, cook millet porridge, make a pot of steamed buns, and make two more dishes." Yan Siqin cut the vegetables and directed Zhao Liangsheng: "Go and see the steamed buns."

No."

"I have the order!" Zhao Liangsheng held the cucumber in both hands and shouted in a long voice, imitating the military commanders in the drama.

Yan Siqin smiled at the corner of his mouth and glanced sideways at Zhao Liangsheng: "Hey, I'm in a good mood today. Come and chat with me. What makes you so happy? Tell me and it will make me happy too."

Zhao Liangsheng grabbed the cucumber with his left hand and chewed it. He opened the lid of the pot with his right hand. He tilted his head slightly to avoid the heat that hit his face. He pressed his index finger on the steamed bun. It felt soft and said: "The steamed bun is ready.

Guess what makes me happy?"

Yan Siqin snorted and pretended to be disdainful: "Tch, whether you want to talk or not, I won't guess. You first put the buns into the box and use a spoon to stir the pot. Don't let the porridge get mushy at the bottom." Yan Siqin cut the pieces.

I put the vegetables in the basin and chopped the onions, ginger and garlic.

Zhao Liangsheng stirred the bottom of the pot, scooped up a spoonful of porridge and looked at it: "The porridge is fine, it's thick."

"Then you carry the pot first, and I'll start cooking." Yan Siqin leaned over, cleaned the pot, sat on the stove, poured oil, popped the chopped green onions, poured the vegetables in and stir-fried.

Zhao Liangsheng put the porridge pot aside, sat on the small bench in front of the stove, and helped Yan Siqin light the fire. He swallowed the cucumber in two mouthfuls, pinched the cucumber and threw it towards the trash can, and threw it into the bucket.

Then he looked at Yan Siqin with a warm look and said: "Mother Chen, there is nothing particularly happy about me. I feel that the days are getting more and more comfortable. Our eggs are good. I think I can sell 200 eggs a week without worrying about it."

Our family has more than ten acres of land and has a lot of harvests. We can save a lot of food in two seasons a year. This morning you said you wanted to raise more chickens. I thought about it along the way. We not only raise laying hens, but also some roosters.

The wild chickens are very popular when fried, and they are sure to sell well at the market during festivals. Slowly, we will save money. When the children grow up, we will build a house for our son and marry him, and then we will choose a good son-in-law for our daughter.

At that time, we didn’t do anything anymore. We would go wherever we wanted to play, and we would go to whose house we wanted.”

"You can do it." Yan Siqin stir-fried the vegetable pot, scooped up a vegetable leaf, tasted the salt and said: "By then, we will both be humming, and I won't come if I don't like whoever comes to the house."

I just stay at my own home. If the younger one wants me to look after the child, bring it to me. I won’t go to my son’s house to look at my daughter-in-law’s face.”

"Look at how arrogant your words are. A few decades later, you are now starting to want to get along with your daughter-in-law? Okay, why is your daughter-in-law trying to show your face?"

"Don't believe me, just take a look for yourself. There are a few families in our village where the old woman and her daughter-in-law are married. They always have problems like this. As time goes by, you don't like me, and I don't like you either. Everyone...

As I said, there is a three-year generation gap. How many three years does it take for the old woman to be separated from her daughter-in-law? The generation gap goes round and round like the annual rings of a big tree, disappearing into the sea."

"Okay, okay, I can't talk to you." Zhao Liangsheng raised his hands in surrender and laughed himself: "It's too early for you to worry about us. Our eldest is only seven years old."

Yan Siqin covered his mouth and smiled: "That's right, dad, please remove the fire. This dish is ready. I'll serve it out."

Zhao Liangsheng hurriedly pulled out two larger pieces of firewood, stood up and took the dish from Yan Siqin's hand: "Should I take this to the house first?"

"Well, go ahead and let me cook another dish before dinner starts."

Zhao Liangsheng put the plate on the dining table in the main room, and was going to put the money for the eggs he sold in the morning into the drawer first. He knew how much money he had at home. When he opened the drawer, he saw that the drawer was in a mess, and there were twelve eggs placed in the corner.

One and a half yuan turned into twelve yuan. He was lying here and there, and he muttered to himself: "What did your mother-in-law buy in the morning? Are you in such a hurry? Not only did you rummage through the drawers in such a mess, there was not even a drawer."

Close it."

He sorted out the drawers, took out all the money from his pocket, coded it, and put it in the corner. After finishing these tasks, he turned around and saw Yan Siqin entering the room with a plate of stir-fried kohlrabi and asked: "Morning him?"

Mom, what did you buy today? You’re so anxious that you didn’t even close the drawer. It’s like you can’t grab any good things.”

"What to buy? I didn't buy anything. I went out to pick up eggs and started cooking when I came back. We have all the firewood, rice, oil and salt in the past two days, and there is nothing to buy." Yan Siqin put the plate on the dining table and said, "What's wrong?

?”

"You really didn't buy it?"

"Really not!" Yan Siqin vowed.

"That's not right. When I left in the morning, I clearly remembered that there was still twelve and a half dollars in the drawer. Just now I saw that it was only twelve dollars. The drawer was in such a mess that I didn't even close it properly.

.”

"What? Let me see!" Yan Siqin didn't believe it, took two steps and opened the drawer.

"I just sorted it out. What can you tell?"

Yan Siqin rummaged through the drawer, but didn't see the reason. She thought about it and said, "Ask the children if they have seen it."

"Where are the children?" Zhao Liangsheng looked around the yard and saw no one.

"I don't know. The children weren't at home when I came down from the mountain. Did Erchen and Keke go out to look for Da Zhuang? Dad, go out and call them back."

"Okay!" Zhao Liangsheng pretended that something was wrong and walked quickly. He searched around the village, including some places where children often go, but couldn't find the three brothers and sisters.

Asked, everyone said that Zhao Yu had gone home a long time ago. Only then did Zhao Liangsheng feel the seriousness of the situation. He hurried home with a straight face, opened the door and shouted: "Mother Chen, have the children come back?"

"

Yan Siqin had just filled the bowls and set them up. When he heard Zhao Liangsheng's question, he replied: "No, what's wrong?"

"It's broken! It's broken! I couldn't find it in the village. I asked around, and they all said that Da Zhuang had come home a long time ago." Zhao Liangsheng ran in a hurry, and he was so anxious that he was sweating all over.

It rolled down his face.

"What?" Yan Siqin didn't think much about it. How did Coco get to her house? Didn't it run away from a trafficker? This means that there are really traffickers in this world. Could it be that these three children were snatched away by traffickers?

Thinking of this, Yan Siqin's heart suddenly sank, her legs went weak, and she was almost unable to stand. If Zhao Liangsheng hadn't taken a few steps to hold her up, she could have sat down on the ground directly.

"His father! What should we do? What should we do? Did the traffickers steal our child?" Yan Siqin was so frightened that he lost his mind. He grabbed Zhao Liangsheng's arm and burst into tears.

"Mother Chen, don't be afraid, let me think about it..." Zhao Liangsheng frowned and thought for a moment, then suddenly thought of the messy drawers: "Yes, we are still fifty cents short. It doesn't look like something done by outsiders.

, if an outsider gets the money, it is impossible for them to steal fifty cents and keep the big ticket in the drawer. I feel that the fifty cents were taken by our children themselves."

“What do the kids do with the money?”

"I don't know what to do. Let's go out and look for it."

"Where should we look? Dad, where do you think we should look?" Yan Siqin was in a mess and had no idea at all. He looked at Zhao Liangsheng asking for help.

"I searched the village, but there was no one there. Let's quickly search in the direction of the city."

The couple hurriedly ran towards the city. They asked people they met along the way if they had seen the three children. They ran like this until they reached the first intersection after entering the city. The couple stopped, not knowing what to do.

Which direction to look for? The two of them made eye contact, followed their original intention, turned right, and searched all the way.

I had finished eating a popsicle long ago, and the cinema was still quiet, with no sign of the opening. Seeing the sun rising above my head, it was time for lunch. The three little ones had walked so much, and they felt it.

Hungry.

Zhao Chen touched his belly: "Brother, I'm hungry!"

Shi Ke also touched his belly: "Brother, I'm hungry too!"

Zhao Yu was also hungry. He wanted to go home. He had agreed to invite his younger brothers and sisters to watch a movie. From the looks of it, he probably couldn't watch the movie. Zhao Yu was a little reluctant to get off the stage. He was struggling in his mind: Should he go home? Or wait a little longer?

Zhao Liangsheng and his wife searched all the way over but did not see the child. They were so anxious and gossiping that Zhao Liangsheng wanted to go directly to the Public Security Bureau to report the case to Li Hua. Suddenly, he sat on the steps in front of an empty cinema as far as his eyes could see.

He was holding three little cubs, who were his own three children. He hurriedly pulled Yan Siqin over and pointed at the three children and said, "Mother Chen, don't worry, we've found them."

"Where is it? Where is it!" Yan Siqin was turning his head, looking around anxiously. Hearing this, he looked in the direction of Zhao Liangsheng's finger. Sure enough, it was his three children.

Yan Siqin put her heart into her stomach, but at the same time, the fire surged up. She took three steps and two steps at a time, ran up to the three children and shouted: "Da Zhuang! What are you three doing!"

Zhao Chen and Shi Ke had already finished eating the popsicles, but there was still sweetness on the sticks. They were reluctant to throw them away, and licked them over and over again. Suddenly, there was a thunderous sound in their ears, and they were frightened.

He was trembling all over, and when he looked up, his mother was staring at them with raised eyebrows.

When has my mother ever been so angry? Zhao Yu felt that he had done something wrong. He was so scared that he shrank his neck and did not dare to say a word. Zhao Chen ran over and hugged Yan Siqin's leg to express his gratitude for him:

"Mom, eldest brother is taking us to watch a movie."

"What movie are you watching?" Zhao Liangsheng looked gloomy and stared at Zhao Yu.

Zhao Yu hurriedly took out the movie ticket from his pocket and handed it to Zhao Liangsheng like a treasure: "Dad, look, I really have a movie ticket."

Zhao Liangsheng took a closer look and almost had snot coming out of his nose. He had never heard that the used movie tickets from three days ago could still be used today. He asked with a sullen face: "Where did the tickets come from?"

"I picked it up at the threshing floor."

Yan Siqin took the ticket from Zhao Liangsheng and took a look at it. He was so angry that he wanted to hit Zhao Yu: "You naughty kid, you don't know what to do with this invalidated movie ticket?"

Movie tickets are still invalid, so how can new tickets become invalid? Zhao Yu doesn’t understand.

It was not appropriate to educate children here. Zhao Liangsheng suppressed the anger in his heart, picked up Zhao Chen and said, "Let's go home."

Yan Siqin led Shi Ke with one hand and pulled Zhao Yu hard with the other, and the family started to return.

On the way, Zhao Liangsheng thought to himself: There is a saying that it is terrible to be uneducated. It is so true. Now that I am old and young, I have reached school age. It is not a problem to play wildly in the village every day. Wait until September.
Chapter completed!