Zhou Lanying firmly believed that her mother-in-law, Zeng Qigu, had taken away the missing food. It was impossible for Zhou Lanying to just tell Xiao Dajiang about this matter. Her mother-in-law's family couldn't help it. When she went to the dock to wash clothes, Zhou Lanying couldn't help but tell the mother-in-law in the village.
Family complains.
"To tell you the truth, I have nothing to do with my mother-in-law. We just built a house, and the boss is about to take in his daughter-in-law. Do you think I can't afford to be careful? I don't give her anything. There are master craftsmen in the house.
, I have to have cold tea every day, always have a bowl and a plate. There must always be some Xia in it. As a result, while I was pulling pigweed, she secretly took the Xia away. Be careful and guard against house thieves.
.I can’t live like this anymore.”
Naturally, all the ladies in the village could not be as strict-mouthed as Xiao Dajiang. After Zhou Lanying said this, someone immediately told Zeng Qigu secretly. Zeng Qigu also had a bad temper. She heard that her daughter-in-law suspected that she had eaten something and hung it from the beam.
After serving the food, he immediately found Zhou Lanying angrily.
The long-simmering conflict between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law suddenly broke out. Zeng Qigu used the most cruel trick of the mother-in-law in the village. She took a chopping board and a kitchen knife and went to the old camphor tree at Xianji Bridge and swore a poisonous oath.
"If I eat the food hanging from the rafters, I will die... Those who chop off my head, those who chop off my head, are unjustly accusing me of it for no reason!
A series of unpleasant words came out of Zeng Qigu's mouth like a mantra. She cursed and chopped on the chopping board with a kitchen knife.
Xiao Laosi was so angry that he rushed home and slapped his mother-in-law twice.
"Why can't my mother forgive you? You want to accuse her unjustly? Now that she's making such a fuss, how can you expect me to hold my head high at Xianji Bridge?"
Zhou Lanying lost the case, but she was also very aggrieved. It was not easy for her to run this family. She had paid so much for the old Xiao family, but in the end, her mother-in-law took a chopping board and chopped it under the old camphor tree. It seemed that the knife was not chopping on the chopping board, but on the chopping board.
It was as if it was chopped directly on her head. Now she was given two hot slaps by a man. She couldn't think more clearly.
In a fit of anger, she took a rope and hung it from the beam. She put her neck on the rope and kicked the stool away. It was the first time Zhou Lanying hung herself. She was not good at her job. Instead of turning the rope into a livelock, she directly
The rope was fixed in a circle. Therefore, although the rope strangled her neck and made Zhou Lanying breathless, it was not fatal. When her neck was a little painful, her two hands grabbed the rope under the instinct of survival.
Stay. Keep lifting your feet in the air.
It was also Zhou Lanying's fate that should not be cut off. When the little Taoist priest came over with his schoolbag on his back, he heard something moving in the house. He looked inside and was startled. What a hanged man! His tongue was about to stick out.
"Master, Master, Zhou Lanying hanged himself!" the little Taoist priest shouted, a golden light flashed on his hand, the rope hanging on the beam suddenly broke, Zhou Lanying fell to the ground with a bang, her butt fell heavily to the ground, her eyes
He stared at the ground aimlessly, breathing rapidly.
Xiao Dajiang ran over and quickly comforted him: "Sister-in-law Lan Ying, why are you doing this? Is there anything you can't talk about and do stupid things?"
People from the production team came over to persuade and finally calmed down the matter for the time being. But the next day, Zhou Lanying once again found that there was a lot less food in the basket hanging on the beam. She called Xiao Laosi directly.
return.
"I went out for a while, and more than half of the preserved vegetables in the basket were missing. Do you think there is a ghost in this house?" Zhou Lanying said angrily.
Zeng Qigu happened to be the only one in the house in the afternoon, and all the evidence seemed to point to Zeng Qigu.
"Mom, if you want to eat it, just tell me and I'll ask Lan Ying to prepare some for you. I hung up the bacon today. If Lan Ying told me that you took it, I really wouldn't believe it.
But now the facts are before our eyes. What do you want me to say?" Xiao Laosi said angrily.
Zeng Qigu said angrily: "Fourth child, you are really a good son of your mother! Don't you know what kind of person my mother is? Your father, the short-lived ghost, died early, and my mother was a widow in her thirties.
I raised you brothers and sisters and got some delicious food, but my mother never tasted it. She ate it all for you brothers and sisters. Would my mother be so good at it that she would steal the pickled vegetables you hung on the beam? I know I am old now.
, I can’t do it anymore, you two dislike me, if you want, from now on, I will separate. You Xiao Laosi will not have to worry about life and death!"
Xiao Dajiang said quickly: "The matter is not clear yet, how can we draw casual conclusions? What if I have wronged my aunt? I think this is a bit weird. Even if my aunt stole it, she must eat it, right?
Are there any oil stains on her hands? Is there any bacon between her teeth? Even if she hides it, there is always a place, right?"
Zeng Qigu said angrily: "Open your eyes and take a good look! I went to cut the sweet potato vines today to get the juice from them. If I touch the bacon and wash my hands, the juice from the sweet potato vines will also be washed away. There is a gap between my teeth."
You can see clearly whether there are shredded bacon in it!"
Zhou Lanying felt aggrieved, Zeng Qigu was even more angry. Xiao Laosi was in a dilemma.
The little Taoist laughed and said, "We'll see what happens tomorrow."
Xiao Dajiang didn't know what the little Taoist master had to do, so he asked when he went back: "Chang Xing, tell me tomorrow, how can you catch that thief?"
The little Taoist laughed and said: "Master, don't you think that although this thief is very cunning, he is also very honest? Although he steals things without being discovered every time, he dares to steal every day. What if he dares to come again tomorrow?
, after Mrs. Xiao Laosi hangs up the basket and goes out tomorrow, we can secretly watch it and catch the thief, right? "
Xiao Dajiang nodded: "This is a way. Chang Xing, do you think Qi Gu didn't steal it?"
"It goes without saying. No matter how good Qi Gu is, she would never steal food again after such a big incident happened." The little Taoist Master said.
Xiao Dajiang nodded: "I think so too. Besides, I know Qigu very well, and her face is more important than her life. Otherwise, it would be impossible to be a widow for decades and bring up the fourth brother and sister. Who can tell?
She stole things from home, and I wouldn’t believe her even if she was beaten to death.”
The next day, it happened that the Taoist Priest had a holiday and he didn't have to go to school, so he and Xiao Dajiang went to Xiao Laosi's house early in the morning.
Xiao Laosi went out to help early in the morning. Zhou Lanying cleaned up the housework, prepared the food, put it in a basket, and hung it on the beam. Then she went to hunt pig grass with her two daughters carrying a bamboo basket.
Seeing Zhou Lanying leave the house, Xiao Dajiang and Xiao Daochang put down their work temporarily, quietly walked to the window of Xiao Laosi's house and looked inside through the window. They saw a basket hanging on the beam.
There was a bench underneath, and Zhou Lanying stepped on this bench to hang the basket.