Liu Wu suppressed his anger, unceremoniously dug out a large piece of meat oil from the heart of the oil jar, dipped it in a pinch of salt, grabbed a large handful of coarse grain noodles, got out of the warehouse, and returned to the third room.

Mix the coarse grain noodles with water, knead them into four long rolls, and burn them in the fire, the rolls immediately harden and become four noodles.

Washed four bowls of meat oil soup with hot water, held it in a bamboo tube, put it on the kang, and pushed Liu, Liu Ya, and Liu Mao sisters and brothers.

Liu and the two siblings were hungry, they didn't sleep honestly, and they woke up when they were pushed by the catkins.

Liu stopped him and said awe-inspiringly: "Su'er, where did you come from?" ”

Liu Fu frowned, and said that he saw the wicker stealing something to eat, Liu shook his head and said, "If you don't pay it back, your grandmother will scold if she knows it." ”

Liu Wu put a handful of meat oil soup on the kang, and said with a displeased face: "Mother, do you regard my grandmother, my uncle, and my aunt as relatives, do they regard you as relatives?" Today we were scolded, wronged, and beaten, and none of them interceded to stop us, and none of them asked Lang Zhong! None of them asked for warmth! The purse was given to me, the money was lent to the third room, and in the end, the purse went to the eldest brother, and the copper money was given to the sister-in-law, Liu Xiao and Liu Hua to buy hairpins! No three-room share! Not even dinner! If you feel ashamed of them, you can choose not to eat, but don't stop me and Liu Ya and Liu Mao from eating, we don't want to starve to death. ”

Liu looked at the three children with an embarrassed face, Liu Ya and Liu Mao looked at their mothers with hopeful faces, and their gray little faces all showed their lives, they had been short of food and clothing, and they were not doing well.

Liu's heart throbbed and throbbed, fell on the kang, turned over, and continued to sleep as if he didn't see it.

Liu Wu also stopped persuading Liu to eat, and brought the soup to Liu Mao and Liu Ya and said: "Drink it all up, eat it all, and don't have anything left." After a while, my sister went to cook bamboo tubes, so as not to be discovered by them. ”

Liu Ya and Liu Mao nodded firmly, and drank up the roasted noodle rolls and soup as if swallowing dates, Liu Mao said unsatisfactorily: "Sister, can we still eat it in the future, this noodle roll is much better than Wotou." ”

Liu Wu's heart was sour, and he held back his tears and smiled: "The warehouse is next door, you can eat whenever you want." ”

If it weren't for the number of eggs, Liu Fu would have stolen a few eggs for his younger siblings to eat.

Liu Wu and Yi lay down, with mixed feelings in their minds, this family, in addition to the ruthless grandmother and uncles, there is also a brainless mother, how to break this situation?

In the remaining days, because of the change of catkins and bowls, Zhou's face was embarrassed in front of the whole village, and Zhou's attitude towards Sanfang was even more cold, and he also found various reasons to even harsh buckles when eating.

Liu Mao unceremoniously stole noodles, oil, and salt from the warehouse, and the three sisters and brothers ate supper every night.

The only thing that worries Liu is that Liu still insists on refusing to eat the stolen things, and he is hungry.

In this way, there are only two days before the willow tree gets married, and the Liu family is busy picking up and picking up, and the Liu family is being turned around.

Willow catkins, willow flowers, willow flowers, and willow buds are also not idle, and they are arranged by Qiao's to peel peanut shells, stick red eggs, and pickle chicken feathers, cut fish maw, and other pickling work, and prepare the ingredients for the banquet the day after tomorrow.

It is rare to see so many delicious things in wicker, especially peanuts, chestnuts, jujubes and other fruits, and the onlookers refused to leave, a pair of eyes seemed to have hooks, staring at the food, and the willow was slightly sneering, and he couldn't drive away.

Qiao Shi put the peanuts he picked first in the dustpan, turned around and went back to the room, and muttered as he walked: "Didn't you drill a mouse these days?" Eating so fast? ”

Liu Wu didn't realize it, as if he hadn't heard Qiao's words; Liu Ya's small shoulders stiffened, remembering what Liu Wu had told her, she lowered her head and pretended to be nothing, and continued to peel peanuts.

The other one who was frightened was Wicker, who was frightened by Qiao's words, where did he still have the heart to stay in the courtyard, and turned back to the fourth room in a gloomy manner, secretly looking at the crack in the door.

Liu Wu dragged Liu Ya to the thatched house together, and when he passed by the door of the fourth room, Liu Ya seemed to ask unintentionally: "Eldest sister, is what the second aunt said true?" It's a pity if the food is eaten by mice, but the sprouts love peanuts the most. ”

Liu Wu smiled: "Don't think about it, these foods are specially prepared for Brother Liu Shu's marriage, take the good omen of 'early Lizi', after the eldest brother gets married, the new sister-in-law can give us a few to taste, and if you want to eat, you can only wait until Brother Liu Gen gets married, then it will take two years." ”

Liu Ya put the finger that had just peeled peanuts under her nose, sniffed the residual peanut aroma on it, and said with infinite longing: "Sister, this peanut smell is really fragrant, how good it would be to eat enough at one time." ”

The sisters went to the hut regretfully as they walked.

At night, the breeze was slow, and a figure quickly got into the warehouse, grabbed the peanuts and chestnuts that had been picked up during the day to eat, shook off the cheeks and started eating, until the stomach was round, and unwillingly took a spoonful of oil shuttle, and then climbed out along the hole in the wall with satisfaction.

Maybe it was because I thought that I was eating secretly for the last time, and my stomach was too strong, and the wicker was stuck in the hole all of a sudden, and I couldn't get out, and I couldn't get in, and finally I took a sharp breath and shrunk my stomach to the minimum, and then I barely crawled out of the hole, and my face was suffocated.

When the wicker left, the catkins got into the warehouse from the hole, and filled peanuts, eggs, white chickens, pork, and frozen fish in small baskets.

In this way, it was carried out of the hole five times in a basket, and the last time a dead mouse was thrown into the oil jar without any guilt.

Early the next morning, Liu Wu went to Niu Bo's house to collect dung, and was the first to get up from the kang and put the food into a half-person-high basket, because it was too heavy, and the small shoulders were crushed by half.

First went to the thatched house, after coming out, when passing by the wing room where the fourth room lived, he stretched out his hand and wiped it on the door frame, and then went out of the courtyard door, went straight to Liu Changdi's house, and put all the food and a tael of silver given by Ah Huang in Liu Changdi's house, and then went to the village to find Niu Bo to get the bark bag containing dung.

When Liu Wu went home slowly, the Liu family had already become a pot of porridge, and he only heard Qiao's hoarse voice: "Mother, it's gone, it's gone, it's all gone, and there are rats in the barn!! ”

Most of the food in the barn was for the willow tree to become a parent, and Zhou panicked when he heard it, and ran to the barn with a snort.

Seeing Qiao's head and face was a slap: "What did you say?" The old lady is alive and well, why do you say 'it's gone'?! ”

As soon as the Zhou family screamed, the entire Liu family immediately burned on the beams of the house, and all the rooms ran out one after another, even the willow cuihong and willow trees, which had always been hanging high on their own, also ran out.

I saw that there was a mess in the warehouse, the peeled peanuts and chestnuts were scattered all over the ground, there were more than 20 eggs wrapped in red paper, and the white chickens that had been plucked out, the pork that had been cut into strips, and the frozen fish that had been shaved clean, all of which were carefully prepared for the wedding banquet, were all cut in half, and half of them were lost.

What's even more hateful is that even more than half of the meat oil is gone, and on the top of the jar containing the meat oil, there is still a fat dead mouse lying brightly, with a long black tongue spitting out from the side of his mouth, staring at his eyes, looking so terrifying.

Zhou was so angry that he sat at the door of the warehouse and cried loudly: "You are a dead rat who kills a thousand knives, you eat my things and do something, you deserve to be killed!! ”

Qiao Shi looked at the appearance of the dead mouse, and said with a gloomy face: "Mother, the mouse can eat again, and it is only so big with a belly, how can it eat so much food?" Besides, how can this frozen fish and white-striped chicken be eaten without even bones? ”

Zhou Shi glared and said angrily: "Who do you ask me, who do I ask?" The key is not in your hands?! ”

Qiao Shi didn't answer Zhou's words, turned around and glared at Liu Shi and Liu Fu and scolded angrily: "Why don't you sleep and die, there is only a wall between you and the warehouse, and you don't know if you enter the thief!" Look at how my mother cleans you up, no......"

Qiao's face was gloomy and looking at the four mothers in the third room, although Liu's face was dish-looking, the small one was oily and good-looking, especially the sick man Liu Mao, who had a circle of flesh on his small face, and he was not as weak and weak as in the past.

Qiao's was furious, and said firmly: "Mother has punished you for not having enough food in the past few days, you must hold a grudge and steal food, you are a thief......"

Qiao's words successfully diverted Zhou's firepower, and Zhou immediately scolded Sanfang.

Compared with the grievances when the original innocent was scolded, this time when he was scolded, Liu Wu was much calmer, and said in his heart, if he didn't steal, he was wronged, so it was better to really steal to get benefits, saying that I was a money-loser, saying that I was a broom star, not paying you, not sweeping you, how can I be worthy of your abuse of me?

Zhou was tired of scolding, and Liu Wu seemed to be aggrieved: "Grandma, let's see what else is lost, if the remaining things are lost again, the banquet of the eldest brother will not be able to be made the day after tomorrow." ”

Zhou wanted to cry without tears, Liu Shu wanted to make a long face in front of Mr. and his classmates, and forced him to make a first-class banquet, just spent four halves of silver to buy chickens, fish, meat, etc., just prepared in advance, frozen in the warehouse, lost half of the night's work, only enough to make half of the banquet.

Zhou said angrily: "Listen! Move things to the main house kang, and watch it even if I don't sleep! ”

Several daughters-in-law and granddaughters agreed, and it was rare to unite in one place, and they quickly picked up peanuts and chestnuts scattered on the ground, along with frozen fish and frozen chickens, and sent them to the main house.

The contents of the warehouse were emptied, and the vision was broadened, and the catkins pointed to the black hole under the wooden shelves where the things were placed and shouted, "Look, what is this?" ”

Liu Changhai and Liu Changjiang moved the shelf, revealing a waist-thick hole.

Qiao screamed: "Mother, now the truth is revealed, this hole is behind the lower house, and it was stolen by the third brother and sister!! ”