Whistling Chapter 40: Half of the Home
This is the second time we have had such an urgent family meeting.
The law said to us, from today onwards, the tavern will be closed for a month, and I happen to live in the tavern, Ah Mao takes care of me, everyone has nothing to do not bother me, all the expenses of the family must be cut, and the medical expenses of Jinyu are prepared, and Wu Xu is dismissed, also because of the reduction of expenses.
It has to be said that the law is much less burdensome.
We, adults and children, are all gnawing at the old book of law.
He said that he did not have the ability to continue to take on the family.
From today onwards, everyone will take care of each other, be well-being, and be responsible for each other.
I could see the tired eyes of the lawyer, and he said that if one day, I am really gone, you can be independent, and I can get out of it.
"I don't want to worry about my family."
"I don't want to pursue the matter of the old lady biting her tongue, why should the family make such an ugly fuss."
That's what the law says to us today.
As he said these words, his hands in his pockets and his eyes closed, we all listened in silence, and no one said a word.
After the meeting was dismissed, everyone was busy with their own business, and the law still leaned his head on the sofa, motionless like a sleeping tiger.
"Ruosheng, Ruosheng!" I shouted.
"Don't shout, I've fired all the servants, and I'll leave Ah Mao Chang." He spoke, and it turned out that he was not asleep.
"The security of the courtyard?"
"I also sold a large area of the yard to the Shen family." After saying that, he got up and walked out the door.
I looked at the faltering figure of the law, and the old man's head looked back and forth from time to time, this land still has to be given up after all.
The next day, we came as planned, Su Wei got up half an hour earlier than usual, and every time I woke up, Su Wei had already bought the food, and she put it on the table in my room, next to the breakfast she had bought outside.
During this time, the first thing I thought about when I got out of school was to go home, and I didn't want to go anywhere.
"Miss, get in the car." Ah Mao was waiting for me outside the school early in the morning.
"I'd better walk."
"It's not safe, let's get in the car, don't mind what happened last time." Ah Mao Chang looked very rusty when he said this.
Finally I got in the car, and I didn't have any contact with Ah Mao Chang along the way until I got home.
As soon as I got home, when I took out the key to open the door, I took out the key, through the transparent glass window, my eyes looked at Qiu Feng from time to time to see what she was doing at this time, and once she looked over, she pretended not to see her or rolled her eyes.
After opening the door and taking the dishes that Su Wei put on the table, I immediately ran to the kitchen, and whenever I passed by Qiu Feng's side, I would spy on her behavior, and then turn my head to the kitchen.
Walking into the kitchen and seeing some pork on the cutting board, I peeked outside the kitchen, secretly twisted a few pieces of meat and threw them into the trash can, and then pulled the contents of the trash can over to cover the pork, I deliberately rubbed the plastic bag so that Qiu Feng would not suspect me.
I took out a blue plastic plate from under the sink, poured the mushrooms that Su Wei bought into the plate, and turned the water on the faucet to the maximum. I picked up some of the dirty mushroom water in my hands and shook the meat she had placed on the cutting board.
I washed the mushrooms, put them on a plate, and brought them into the room.
When I got back to the room, I crept my head out to observe her, and she seemed to know that I was looking at her, and as soon as she turned her head, I immediately retracted my head.
I seemed to hear her walking, and she went into the kitchen and started cooking.
At this time, Su Wei returned.
"Sissy!" Su Wei was already shouting my name loudly in the hallway.
After Su Wei entered the door, Qiu Feng just came out of the kitchen, and Su Wei immediately blackened her face and squinted.
At this time, Qiu Feng was stir-frying the dishes in the kitchen.
We sat on the couch and looked at the kitchen from time to time.
"It's really a dead thing, I don't fire if I don't come back, I fire as soon as I come back." Su Wei pointed to the kitchen and scolded in a low voice.
I sighed and shrugged my shoulders.
"She did it on purpose, so that we couldn't use the stove, there was only one, and we had no choice but to race against time with her."
"Otherwise, I'll get out of school early, and when I get out of class, Ah Mao Chang will send me to buy vegetables, and I'll make the vegetables as soon as I come back, and you will fry the meat when you come back." I said to Su Wei.
"Okay, will you do it?" Su Wei smiled, her eyes wide open at me.
"It's so simple, it's easy for me." I crossed my hands over my chest and my eyes were half-open, facing Su Wei.
When I got home this time, Qiu Feng was picking vegetables, and when he saw me coming back, he glanced at me, lowered his head and continued to make it.
After I cooked the vegetables, I brought the vegetables into the room first, and Su Wei taught me to be vigilant at all times in this house, and not to relax, I was really afraid that Qiu Feng would poison us.
At this time, Qiu Feng entered the kitchen, and I felt very happy with the sense of superiority won in her.
Lately, I've been in the kitchen ahead of her, and she probably remembered the approximate time I got home, and around that time, she was on one stove and started cooking the soup, while the other was steaming.
I waited a long time.
At this time, Su Wei went home.
She opened the door and looked at me sitting on the bed and said, "Why don't you cook yet?" That dead thing is dominating the kitchen again? ”
I nodded.
Then Su Wei took off her shoes, sat down next to me and said, "Dead things, every time they dominate the kitchen, I really want her to die." ”
I was silent and didn't speak, and when I heard Qiu Feng shouting to Jin'er to come out to eat, I immediately took the dishes out and stir-fried them.
Su Wei said that when the money came, even if she didn't eat or drink, she would buy a new stove, and she didn't have to fight with Qiu Feng.
When Teng Zhi sent the money, we went to buy a stove for 300 yuan that night.
As soon as we entered the house, Qiu Feng glanced at us, and I rolled her eyes fiercely.
Su Wei and I put down the stove, walked to the backyard warehouse and moved out the wooden table that had been placed for some years, and the two of us worked together to carry the table into the kitchen and place it next to the door of Qiu Feng's room, facing the stove. I took a cloth and vigorously wiped off the dust on it, and when I wiped it over, it was a thick layer of powder, wiped the inside and outside of the table, and then moved the stove with Su Wei.
We opened the box, lifted a layer of foam, and the two of us grabbed a corner and slowly lifted it up and placed it on the table. At this time, Su Wei ordered a new bottle of gas and replaced the old gas cylinder in the backyard, so as to save another amount of money to buy new gas. After everything was set up, we went back to our room, and Qiu Feng looked at our newly bought stove from time to time.
The next day, Su Wei came back with a few pots, and I immediately ran up to help her carry them into the kitchen and put them under the table.
From now on, we don't have to "grab the stove" with Qiu Feng anymore.
After a month, she found that the gas was used up quickly, and she had to change the bottle again, Su Wei had no choice but to call Teng Zhi and ask him to send money.
"What to buy? Don't have any money? I don't know how your money is used so quickly, I don't have any money, you can ask your mother to borrow it first, and then pay it back to her when I come back. The voice on the other side of the phone made Su Wei's heart suddenly cold.
Su Wei had no choice, so she asked Yali to borrow two hundred for emergency relief.
"Is that the dead thing secretly using our stove?" Su Wei pondered.
"Possibly, or we wouldn't have used it up so quickly, and we haven't used it much this month." I unconsciously reached out the thumb and forefinger of my left hand and stroked my chin.
"Why don't we make a mark, tear off a small piece with a paper towel, put it in the middle of the stove under the pot, and when we come back to cook, check if the paper towel on the stove is still there, if not, she stole our gas." Su Wei picked up a tissue and demonstrated it to me.
"Okay." I nodded.
After cooking every day, I would secretly hide a small piece of paper towel at the bottom of the pot, and once, I really found that the paper towel under it was burned.
"Who is so bad that they secretly use my gas?" I deliberately shouted out of the kitchen.
Qiu Feng looked at the kitchen, then turned his head again, and was doing something casually.
Probably she knew I'd find out that the next little tissue, it's all there.
We cook back-to-back every time, and go straight back to our room to eat when we are ready.
Later, our small room suddenly became a "living room," where we ate and slept in it.
Soon, the gas in the bathroom ran out, and this bottle of gas lasted the longest.
Su Wei said: "Why should I buy gas, can I use it for her?" ”
Qiu Feng should think the same way, so we have lived a "primitive life" without a water heater for bathing. ”
At first, we all picked up the kettle to boil water, and when the spout was bubbling up, I took my clothes, carried the wooden bucket to the bath, poured the water dry, and then added new water to continue to boil the next pot for Su Wei to wash.
At this time, Qiu Feng and I boiled water at the same time, and she turned on the fire so that it could boil quickly. Before Su Wei took a bath, she and Jin'er had finished washing, and when I looked at the bathroom in the kitchen, why was she still there, she was still washing clothes there, slowly rubbing them one by one.
"She's still doing laundry there." I say.
"Dead thing, still occupy the bath room after taking a bath." Su Wei pointed to the kitchen and scolded, but her scolding was always just a whisper.
I walked to the kitchen, stared at Qiu Feng, rolled her eyes, and turned the fire very small.
In the end, by the time Su Wei took a bath, she had fallen asleep unconsciously.
Later, Su Wei said: "This is not a way, it is better to buy an electric heating rod to boil water, anyway, we don't have to pay the electricity bill, we don't know how much gas is used to boil water like this every day." ”
"Electric heating rods?"
"Yes, these are all Western goods, and my grandmother's family also has one."
After Su Wei bought the electric heating rod back, she tried to heat it smoothly, she took the wooden bucket to the kitchen and filled half a bucket of water, and then carried it into the room. She put the electric heating rod in the bucket, plugged it in, and at first saw that there was no reaction in the water, but after fifteen minutes, small bubbles bubbled on the electric heating rod, and after another ten minutes, the water in the entire bucket boiled. Su Wei turned off the power of the electric heating rod, took out the electric heating rod and put it on the floor outside the room, and picked up the yellow wire, which was hot to her hands, and it was very soft, and when it was plugged in, it still emitted a smell.
"It seems that it can't be used in the room, I'm afraid that the voltage here is not enough, so I have to take it to the strip in the living room." Su Wei said.
"Then it's going to have to wait until that dead thing isn't there, or she'll take that position." I say.
During this time, Su Wei came back early, and the first thing she did when she got home was to boil water in a bucket with a hot rod in her room, and after washing, she burned another bucket and waited for me to go home and wash it.
I think the electric heating rod is too dangerous, and it burns out a socket in a row, and it will be discovered by Qiu Feng later, so Su Wei should not continue to use it.
"When Qiu Feng finds out, I guess I'll quarrel with us again." I pointed to the bucket.
"What are you afraid of?" After Su Wei came out, she rubbed her hair with a towel.
"Oops, they all said don't use it. It's too dangerous, what if Qiu Feng comes back at this time? "I carried the bucket to the bathroom, took out the mop, mopped the water from the bucket clean, and then went into the room to pack up my clothes and take a shower.
Until one time, Qiu Feng really came back early.
Su Wei was washing in the bathroom, and I was watching the wind in the living room.
In the living room, an electric heating rod heats the water.
I heard Jin'er's voice outside the door, I immediately turned off the power, pulled out the electric heating rod, brought the bucket to the kitchen, and then, casually picked up a rag, ran to the living room, wiped the floor, and ran back to the kitchen.
As soon as I ran back to the kitchen, Qiu Feng opened the door, and she turned on the light, as if she was suspicious of something, and looked left and right at the kitchen.
I pretended to boil water in the kitchen, spoonful by spoon.
In the future, Su Wei didn't dare to boil water in the living room, but still used the old method of boiling water with gas.