Heartfire Chapter 23: Stealing Money

Although Qiu Feng's voice is low and thin in her daily life, there are almost thorns in every sentence.

As soon as she touches her bottom line, her voice will be amplified ten times to quarrel with you and make trouble with you, to put it simply, her bottom line is very low, and she is like a knife blade all the time, making you very cautious, for fear of offending.

Her hair is naturally curly, and there are a pinch of rough bangs like steel wire on her forehead, and when she combs her hair, the whole hair seems to explode, like the fluffy hair of a lion. Qiu Feng has a single eyelid, the two eyes are very close, and the so-called narrow vision is probably described according to her face.

After observing it for a long time, I felt that this title was suitable for her, and called her "lioness".

It didn't take long for Qiu Feng to really move out, she left Jin'er here, but she didn't give a cent of living expenses, the tavern's business has been very bad recently, but every time I see Jin'er, her pocket is full of some food that I haven't seen.

Jin'er is three years older than me, and I learn a lot of things from her.

"What are you eating?" I picked my eyes and motioned for her to give me something to eat.

"Shh Jin'er stretched out a finger to block her mouth and told me not to speak.

"While grandpa sleeps at night, I sneak in and get his money." Jin'er leaned over to my ear and blocked it with her hand.

"Huh? Stealing money? I asked, leaning my shoulders and whispering.

Jin'er nodded.

After dinner, she looked at me, raised an eyebrow, and looked into the room. At this time, as soon as the law lay down, we heard the sound of snoring.

She asked me to give her a hand, while Su Wei was away, I watched outside, and I shared a little of the money I got.

Jin'er took fifty yuan at once.

Jin'er gave me five yuan for the wind.

Although Jin'er usually looks well-behaved and cute, Jin'er now looks like a "veteran"!

When Su Wei got home, she asked me to go back to my room and go to bed early.

I saw her open the dresser, pick up a piece of jade and wear it around my neck. She said that a woman wearing a jade pendant will protect you, but of course this is just a folklore.

The outside of the dresser is made of wood, the table top has obvious yellowish wood grain, a layer of wood wax, thrown through the light, it doesn't look so real, this table is close to the corner of the wall, sometimes things fall through that gap, and they really can't pick it up. The dresser has three drawers, the first drawer contains household medicines, the third is decoration tools, and the second is the "safe" at home, the most conspicuous family portrait of our family of three. Inside is a wedding token given by Teng Zhi to Su Wei, a wooden jar where coins are placed.

Su Wei flipped through the photo and laughed, I leaned my head over to see that it was the wedding photo of Su Wei and Teng Zhi.

Su Wei said that this makeup is not good-looking, and this Western wedding dress is too long and not tall enough, so she can only put a stool under the skirt to raise it to take pictures. Su Wei was holding a family photo of the three of us, I was very young when I took this photo, my face was full of sadness, I didn't smile at all, and I was holding a prop in my hand, I had no memory of this event.

However, that family photo is the best-looking, the smile on Su Wei's face, and the handsomeness that retains Tengzhi.

I looked out of the drawer again, my eyes fixed on the piggy bank, and an idea struck me.

In Su Wei's spare time to wash, in order to hide the sound of the door closing, I gently fastened the doorknob, first moved my thumb little by little, pressed the lock down, and then pressed the doorknob with the thumb of my left hand, and used the four fingers of my right hand to fasten the doorknob, and put my ear against the gap in the door.

I rummaged through Su Wei's handbag and found her key, I found a small golden key, and held the rest of the keys tightly with two hands, leaving only one golden key, for fear of hearing the sound of the keys colliding.

I squatted on the ground, a thin key and the hole couldn't be touched at all, and finally the key was inserted, and it turned and opened!

At this time, I went to the crack of the door to listen to the sound, and when I heard it, there was no more, Su Wei had finished washing, Ruosheng was waiting for a change of clothes, and I quickly pulled out the key. Return the key to its original place.

"Mother, I'm helping you pack your clothes." I pretended to be packing up and folded her clothes with both hands.

"So well-behaved today?" Su Wei touched my head and said.

"That's a must." I held my laundry in front of her with both hands.

After last night's experience, I'm already familiar with lockpicking techniques.

In fact, I can't hear the sound even when the door is closed, so I will directly take the key to open the lock this time. I stretched out my hands to hold the heavy wooden deposit jar, and with both eyes I could not see the gap inside, and I tried to close one eye and use one eye to see through the gap to see how strong the "little vault" inside was. Beforehand, I secretly went to Jin'er's room to steal a dart magnet, it is said that this is a small toy that Jin'er picked up in Xisheng Street, and I took out a pair of tweezers from the third drawer, it is said that this tweezers are very powerful, Teng Zhi once used this tweezers to kill a centipede as long as chopsticks.

Okay, the magnets and darts are ready, now I'm going to start "pinching money".

I removed the quilt and pillows from the bed to make room for my piggy jar. After lying it on its side on the bed, I took the lamp and shone it on the cash opening of the piggy jar, and then pulled out the black plug at the bottom of its body, I pushed a little too hard, a lot of small coins flowed out, I picked one up and put it in the palm of my hand and looked at it, and used my thumb to push it left and right, this is not a coin that can buy things, these are all ancient coins.

I lay on the bed, one eye struggling to see the coin I wanted through the crack, and when I looked over, it was still black and numb, and I tried to move the lamp in front of the round hole in Little Hesse, and put it down. Finally able to see what was inside, and when I found the coin I was looking for, I put the tweezers through the hole in my left hand and clamped the coin pressed next to it, and then I caught it with my right hand with a dart magnet through the gap and sucked it out.

After going back and forth a few times, I found a few coins.

I seemed to hear Su Wei's footsteps, as if it was too late, I lifted the big quilt from behind to cover the "tools" in front of me, rubbed my hands and feet over to lock the drawer first, and put the key back in place, Su Wei didn't find it.

I gently pressed the piggy jar to the corner at the foot of the bed with my feet and covered it with a felt. At this time, my foot touched the little thing that was icy, and I explored it with my thumb, and confirmed that it was the coin I had worked so hard to clip. I pretended that my foot was bitten by a mosquito, got up and touched my foot, touched it with my left hand, and put the coin away in my skirt and hid it.

When I came to Xisheng Street the next day, I took out five coins from my pocket, and after choosing food, I gave them to Aunt Lu.

Aunt Lu is the owner of a snack shop, she is in her early thirties, and she always looks at me with the gentlest smile, and Jin'er often comes here.

"Why do you have so many coins today, bring more coins in the future, and I will accept them." Aunt Lu said with the coin.

I nodded vigorously and said yes.

For the first time, I felt the pleasure of having money and was able to meet my own requirements.

In the morning, after Ruosheng woke me up, he prepared breakfast for me. I rubbed my awakened eyes, and Su Wei turned and went down the stairs.

I snuck into her room again.

I just seemed to see something, it's the key, yes, it's the key! Su Wei forgot to bring the key. I quickly got out of bed, jumped out of bed, took the key, and found the golden key that I was familiar with.

After opening it, the first thing I took out was the cash deposit jar.

Then, I rummaged through the drawer again, and one in a white envelope was the wedding photo of Su Wei and Teng Zhi.

There are also a few boxes with red velvet surfaces next to them, and when they are opened, they are all brooches, necklaces, jade pendants and other accessories.

A red bag was placed at the bottom, I opened the zipper, and it was full of brand new coins, I took ten at once, and I was lucky in my heart, so much money, Su Wei would not find it.

I put everything in place, and jumped into bed with the heavy wooden jar in my hand.

Then dig out the tweezers and magnets from the drawer and start "working".

This time I had plenty of time, and I had fifteen coins in my pocket.

After eating, I ran to Jin'er's room, walked up to her, tore my pocket open and showed her, she looked at it and asked me, "Where did you get this money?" The corners of his mouth turned upward, and he had a puzzled expression.

"I stole it from the drawer, show you, you come to my room." I took her hand and came to my room.

I took out the money jar, tweezers, and magnet again, and demonstrated the process just now, and she and I lay on the bed, shocked by my "cleverness", and took out five more coins.

This time I came to the snack shop, and after I chose the food, I took out ten coins from my pocket and gave them to Aunt Lu.

"Wow, so much, why did Madame give you so many coins?" Aunt Lu held the coin in both hands and said with a smile.

"Uh······ Yes, my mother said I was well-behaved and rewarded me. ”

I'm sure I'm a money junkie, money is spent quickly, and every day I think that Su Wei's dresser drawer has what I want, and I know it's wrong, so I continue to do it.

Su Wei came home, sat down tiredly, leaned on the sofa, stretched her feet straight, stretched her hands forward, this action lasted for a few minutes, and then got up and took a book to read, looking at it, she actually fell asleep.

I looked around, I got up from the couch, put on my shoes, took a step and found that it was too loud, so I slowly pulled one foot out of my slippers, and the other foot also came out, stood on tiptoe, and tiptoed into the room, then gently rotated the doorknob so that the button did not make a sound, and finally closed the door.

I picked up Su Wei's handbag from the bed, the weight of the key made the handbag hang down, making a sound of the key "shivering" and colliding, and I immediately grabbed the key with one hand. Then holding the key in both hands, he found the familiar "golden key".

As soon as I opened the drawer, I found the conspicuous red bag, reached into it, opened the zipper, and found that there was an extra stack of coins in the bag. I picked up a few, and I remember that it was exactly twenty dollars.

Immediately after putting everything back in place, he jumped into bed, put the lid on his head, and pretended to be asleep.

Until one day, I heard the sound of Su Wei taking out the key and opening the drawer.

After a while, Su Wei called out to me: "Gu Xining, come here." ”

It's miserable, is it discovered, my heart is pounding, and I approach the door step by step.

Walking to the door, I peeked.

"Did you take the money?" Su Wei took out a red bag and unfolded the money inside to show me.

I closed my mouth and didn't speak, leaning against the door and looking at Suvi.

"I'll ask you again, did you take the money in it." Su Wei unfolded the money again.

I kept my head down and didn't speak.

"You come here, you come here." Su Wei tugged at my sleeve and pulled into the room.

"I ask you, why don't you speak." Su Wei looked at me.

I nodded.

"I took it." I looked up at Su Wei, who seemed to be disappointed, and her face drooped.

"Hold your hand out." Su Wei suddenly walked outside, went to get a hanger, and came in again.

"Which hand is the one who takes the money, stretch out." Su Wei looked at my hand.

I slowly spread my hands.

A gust of wind fell on my hand, it was a hanger, whipping my hands, and a red mark appeared in an instant.

"I'm sorry, I was wrong." I cried and begged for mercy, and my hands went in and out.

"I let you steal, let you steal, who taught you to steal money, where did you learn it?" Su Wei questioned me as she whipped my hands.

"I don't dare, next time I won't steal money again, mother." I wanted to reach out and hug Su Wei, but one of her hangers landed on my shoulder, and I subconsciously pressed my right hand on my shoulder and squatted down.

Su Wei stopped the whipping, and she slammed into my heart in disappointment.

She hasn't said a word to me for a few days.