After putting the grain in the rice vat at her eldest sister's house, Wang Yulan asked Wang Lidong to sit down, and then poured two cups of tea for Yu Yu and Wang Lidong.
"Sister, don't say any polite words. In the beginning of winter, you should stay at home first. If there are any leftovers, you can bring them over.
Now the whole capital is short of food. When you do something in the beginning of winter, you must be more careful."
She had some guesses as to where Wang Lidong got so much surplus food every month, so she gave Wang Lidong a few words.
Then he looked outside the door, sighed and said,
"As you can see, it's almost the end of the month again. In our yard, my family is the only one that can still feed the children. I won't talk about the other families in the yard.
If you hadn't come here today, my family would have run out of fine grains, and we would have to eat sweet potatoes until next month."
Wang Lidong didn't believe it after hearing this.
"It's not that big of a deal, sister, doesn't my brother-in-law also have some skills? It wouldn't be difficult to make dozens of kilograms of stick noodles, right?"
Wang Yulan looked outside the door and whispered,
"In the past two months, your brother-in-law's business has been unstable.
Just two days ago, your brother-in-law went to them to ask for dozens of kilograms of mixed noodles, but he replied that only sweet potatoes were left this month. If it were a few days later, even the sweet potatoes might be gone. When will this end?
.”
Looking at the sad look on the eldest sister's face, Wang Lidong comforted her,
"We meet every day, senior brother, and we don't say anything. It's not like we meet outside.
The several relationships I have here are quite stable. When needed, sister, just give me a shout.
It’s hard to say how much it is, but fifty or sixty pounds of white flour every month is not a big problem.”
Wang Yulan was surprised when she heard that,
"Really? Are you sure? Brother, don't you just try to coax me?"
"It must be true. How can I joke with you about this kind of thing?"
There are several hundred kilograms of white flour in his system warehouse. If it's not enough, he can just leave a little more when he harvests wheat on his farm in a few days.
"Let your brother-in-law make the decision on this matter. Just ask him to find you when the time comes."
Wang Yulan thought for a moment and then said.
“That’s it.
Come on, Lidong, you come first, stand up for me, and help you measure your size. You are all still growing, so last year’s size must be a little inaccurate."
With Wang Lidong's guarantee, Wang Yulan finally no longer worried that her children would be hungry, and she also had a smile on her face.
After measuring Wang Lidong's size, the eldest sister kicked Wang Lidong out of the door, leaving the rain behind.
Wang Lidong was not interested in listening to the conversation between the women and went out directly.
Then I squatted beside the courtyard in boredom, watching a large group of children playing games.
"Sister, don't send me off, we're leaving."
Wang Lidong and He Yuyu said to their eldest sister Wang Yulan and several nephews at the gate of the compound.
"Be careful on the road. Come pick up your clothes in two weeks."
"Goodbye, little uncle, good-bye, little aunt."
Wang Yulan and her three nephews waved.
"I know, let's go."
After having dinner at his cousin's house, Wang Lidong got on his car and took the rain home with him.
Yu Yu was not happy at first and insisted on letting her ride. Wang Lidong did not dare to let Yu Yu, a novice, ride at night.
There are no street lights now, and Wang Lidong is afraid that if he is not careful, the rain will send it into the river to feed the fish.
"Brother Dong, eldest sister didn't ask us for cotton, you see..."
The sound of rain came from behind.
"If you didn't ask, it means my eldest sister's family is not short of cotton, so of course she won't ask us for it. Don't worry, my sister works in a textile factory."
"By the way, rain, tomorrow morning we will go to Baocheng together to see my father-in-law."
Wang Lidong replied while riding his bicycle.
"Go, Brother Dong, you took advantage of me again. If you keep doing this, I will ignore you."
Yu Yu suddenly felt his face burning up, but his little hands skillfully pinched Wang Lidong's waist.
"It hurts, it hurts. I'm not wrong. Sooner or later, you will be my wife, Wang Lidong."
Wang Lidong continued to speak harshly.
"snort!"
He Yuyu snorted softly while sitting in the back seat of the car.
"We'll leave at 6 o'clock tomorrow, remember not to oversleep."
Wang Lidong reminded me of the rain.
"Didn't you always go there at eight o'clock before? Why is it so early tomorrow?"
Wang Lidong has taken Yu Yu to Baocheng several times in recent years, but only this time the time was set so early.
"I have something to do with your dad, so go there early."
Wang Lidong explained.
.......
When he got home, He Yuyu helped Wang Lidong boil water and then returned to his room.
Thinking of going to his father's house tomorrow, He Yuyu planned to take some money with him and buy something for his father when he arrived in Baocheng tomorrow.
Open the closet and pull open a small drawer in the closet. There is a small wooden box inside.
He Yuyu opened the wooden box and saw a neatly arranged stack of banknotes of various denominations inside.
As soon as He Yuyu opened the box, he frowned a little and felt that the thickness of the banknotes was wrong.
Before she goes to bed every night, she takes it out and lights it again.
Otherwise, you will not sleep well.
So any small differences are immediately noticeable.
He Yuyu's heart immediately skipped a beat.
I immediately counted all the banknotes in the box and found that the total was 30 yuan less.
"It was stolen!"
What He Yuyu immediately thought of was to find Wang Lidong.
"Wait a minute, if it was really stolen by a thief, all the money in the box must be gone, and he wouldn't only take thirty yuan."
He Yuyu hugged the box and sat beside the bed, calming down.
"If it wasn't stolen by a thief, it was done by an acquaintance.
Neighbors in the courtyard? It should be impossible. Ever since I was a child, I have never heard of any neighbor stealing money from the courtyard.
Brother Dong will definitely not come to take the money, but if he does, he will definitely tell himself.
Then the rest...
"bump,"
He Yuyu suddenly opened the door of Shazhu's room and saw his brother Shazhu, happily drinking wine and eating fried peanuts.
I know how to drink all day long, and I am not afraid of drinking myself to death one day.
After closing the door, He Yuyu walked up to Si Zhu.
Silly Zhu was drinking happily when he was suddenly hit by the rain and was a little confused.
"Brother, the pocket money in my box is 50 yuan missing. When did you get it?"
He Yuyu looked at Silly Zhu with a cold face.
"50 yuan? Impossible, I counted, I only took 3..."
Silly Zhu suddenly woke up.
He was deceived by He Yuyu.
When did the rain start and become so cunning?
"You let it slip."
He Yuyu stretched out his hand in front of Silly Zhu.
Silly Zhu looked at the stretched out hand,
"Yu Yu, what are you doing?"
"Pay me back. You took 30 yuan from me. Why, you don't want to pay it back?"
Silly Zhu quickly waved his hand and said,
"I didn't take any of your thirty yuan, really. I was the one who was short of the thirty yuan."
"Silly brother, you know whether you took it or not. I just want to ask, why don't you return it?"
"I didn't take the rainwater, so how can I pay you back? I'll say it again, I really didn't take any money from you."
"Yesterday, more than half of the snacks in my room were inexplicably missing. This was also taken by you, right?
Don't shake your head, I saw the wrapping paper of biscuits at the door of Jia's house this morning.
I haven't settled yesterday's account with you yet. It's a good thing you started taking my pocket money again today.
You are such a big brother.
The most hateful thing is to do it and not dare to admit it!"
He Yuyu felt so heartbroken when he thought about finding out that most of his snacks had been stolen last night.
I originally wanted to talk to Wang Lidong about this early in the morning.
But when I went to Wang Lidong's house in the morning, I accidentally saw a few pieces of wrapping paper that looked very familiar among the pile of black garbage at the door of Qin Huairu's house.
Taking a closer look, isn't this the outer packaging of the biscuits I bought?
As for how these biscuits ended up at Qin Huairu's house, there is no need to ask.
Who else could it be besides his silly brother?
That's why He Yuyu was in a very bad mood early in the morning.
I was thinking of finding some time to have a good chat with my silly brother.
But who would have thought that my stupid brother was getting more and more outrageous and took 30 yuan from her today.
He Yuyu has been able to save this through hard work and frugality for several months.
The more I thought about it, the sadder I became, and tears flowed down uncontrollably.
"Rainwater, this...don't cry."
When Silly Zhu saw He Yuyu dropping the beans, he immediately became at a loss.
"I got the 30 yuan. Isn't it an urgent need?
You were not here just now, so I planned to wait until you come back before telling you.
I'll pay you back after my salary is paid next month."
"You're short of 30 yuan?!
Where is your salary this month, and where is the money you saved before?"
He Yuyu asked.
"I'll pay you back next month, there are so many problems!"
Silly Zhu said a little impatiently.
"Let's be clear, bro, you make 37.5 yuan a month, and everything you eat is from the factory. You have been working for more than ten years, and you can't even get 30 yuan out of it?!"
"Go, go, stop meddling in my affairs."
Silly Zhu became more and more irritable.
"Okay, I don't care. Just give me the 30 yuan and I'll leave immediately."
"I said I would pay you back next month, but you are no longer my biological sister. I am just asking you to borrow some money."
Silly Zhu said loudly.
"You can tell me what you used the thirty yuan for, right?"
He Yuyu suddenly asked.
"If you don't explain clearly, I'll pay you back immediately. If you don't pay me back, I'll call Brother Dong over right away!"