Chapter 82: Lost Money
"How can she play artillery battles with her little girls? If I want to talk about the strangeness of the fire, I was fine when I went to the back of the house to relieve my hands, and when I finished my hands, I saw a bright light in front of me, and then I saw that her house was stacked with firewood. The fourth grandmother told me how she found the fire, but she found it in time and called everyone to fight the fire together, otherwise the two stacks of firewood would have to be burned out.
Liu Guiyuan looked at the fourth grandmother and said, "Thanks to your old man, otherwise the fire would have burned, and I would still be sleeping in the house." However, this fire is really wrong, I am afraid that there are children who see the spaciousness of this place, and play with artillery here to the point of Mars. ”
The male owner of the Qiao family patted the ashes on his body and said to Liu Guiyuan: "I don't know which child is so skinny, if this is my child, I have to beat him up, this is a big New Year, burning a firewood stack is not a good sign!" ”
The men of the Qiao family are twenty-nine this year, according to their age, they should call Uncle Qiao, Liu Hongzao stepped forward and said: "It's okay, it's just a firewood stack, nothing else is lost, everyone comes to fight the fire tonight, and our sisters have to say thank you, without your help, I don't know what to do." ”
"That is, a firewood stack can't hinder anything, and besides, if you look at how prosperous this flame is, this is equivalent to a string of red firecrackers in my family, which means that the next year will be prosperous and prosperous!" Liu Guiyuan deliberately said two clever words, changing the bad thing of burning the firewood stack for the New Year into a clever thing with a good meaning.
One woman said that the three girls of the Liu family are really good, and they don't have any difficulties when they encounter anything, and they look like people who do big things, no wonder the business at home is hot.
"It's red and hot to make a fortune, longan is a good thing, I also came to roast the fire, and touched the wealth of the longan family." The fourth grandmother stretched out her hand to bake the fire, and the others also pulled up the fire when they saw this, and some people had just wet their trouser legs and shoes, so they took off their shoes, rolled up their pants, and smoked them close to the fire.
After roasting the fire for a while, Liu Chonglin proposed to bury the rest of the fire, for fear that the wind would blow the freshly extinguished sparks, and the weather was dry now, in case the sparks collapsed to anyone's house, it would be a hidden danger. When the others heard this, they really did this reason, and they all found tools to splash water and bury the soil, and after a while, the embers were solved.
Everyone went home after being busy, Liu Hongzao was not at ease, and had to stand in place and watch for a while, Liu Huahua said that he wanted to accompany her, Liu Guiyuan said that she would go back to see first, and always heard the dog barking in the yard, don't scare the lotus seed to sleep.
When he walked to the front of the house, the puppy barked, Liu Guiyuan stopped, the puppy was even more powerful, and before the oil lamp was lit in the house, he heard Liu Lianzi also crying, and heard her crying louder.
In desperation, Liu Guiyuan lit the oil lamp and walked towards the eldest sister's house, and saw the lotus seeds lying on the ground crying, the bed was messy as if it had been turned over, and even the bamboo box containing things was opened.
"Eldest sister, second sister, come back quickly!"
"What's the matter, roaring?"
"Our family may have entered the thief, you two come into the house to see."
The three sisters looked around in the house, the house was in a mess, and it looked like they had entered the living, and suddenly Liu Hongzao shouted, "The money I collected in the bamboo box, I don't know if it's still there?" Liu Huaanhua also hurriedly ran to her house, she collected some of the money, hid it in the clay pot under the bed, squatted down to see that the clay pot was still there, but the money in it was less than half.
"It's really a thief, the broken silver in the crockpot, this is a little foundation." Liu Huahua said distressedly, and his face suddenly turned pale.
"Fortunately, it's okay, the treasure money on my side is still there, and it is estimated that the thief can't see it without lighting the oil lamp, so he didn't go away." Liu Hongjube hugged the bamboo box directly in front of Liu Guiyuan, and began to look for and count the money by the light.
The money in the family is collected by the three of them, and Liu Guiyuan's own share has always been collected in the travel backpack, she is not worried that she will lose it, but she has to pretend to find out the money, and say: "I took away the share I hid for me, put it together and look at it." ”
When the three of them took out all the money and counted it back and forth twice, they could determine that there were only two hundred and thirty taels left in the house, and one hundred and forty taels were lost, which were two treasures and four small ingots, all of which were collected in Liu Peanut's clay pot.
Liu Huahua hugged the crockpot and said with tears in his eyes: "Sister, what can I do, my money is gone?" This is which person who killed a thousand knives and stole my family's money, why is my family so unlucky, the house is on fire outside, and the family is robbed, is the luck so bad? ”
"Second sister, don't cry, the money hasn't been stolen, you see that there is still more than half left, we can still earn it in the future." Speaking of this, Liu Guiyuan suddenly frowned and said very seriously: "Eldest sister, second sister, do you think today's events are strange? First of all, the firewood stack suddenly caught fire, and then a thief took advantage of this moment to steal money from my house. ”
"Really, Guiyuan, it feels like someone deliberately set the fire and led us out to put out the fire and then he came in to steal the money, otherwise the firewood stack could be so clever and burned out so quickly?" Liu Hongzao thought of the trick and immediately became vigilant.
After Liu Guiyuan's contact, Liu Hongjube and Liu Huahua both began to suspect that if it was a child playing with artillery and accidentally collapsed the spark on the firewood stack, it must be slowly burning from one end, and it was impossible to catch fire everywhere like today, and it would not be extinguished when splashing water.
"You mean someone deliberately burned firewood?" Liu Huahua furrowed his thin eyebrows, two protrusions appeared in the middle, and he clapped his hands angrily: "Who is so thoughtful, he has to go against us, we have not offended anyone in the whole village, is it from another village?" ”
"No, there's an iron egg!" As soon as Liu Huahua finished speaking, she immediately denied the idea of the people from other villages, because she thought of Liu Tiedan, who had been dealing with them all the time, Liu Guiyuan thought the same as her, and took over the conversation and said: "I feel that it may be him, when he came out at noon, Tie Dan just picked a cannonball, maybe he put it." ”
"That's not right, no matter how bad the iron egg is, he doesn't have the courage to enter the house and steal money, his throwing is at most a firewood stack." Liu Hongzao picked up the lotus seed who wanted to speak, coaxed her for fear that she would cry, and continued to guess: "Could it be that others saw us fighting the fire and stole the money while people were not at home?" ”
was guessing, Liu Lianzi in his arms screamed, Liu Hongzao had to coax her, Liu Guiyuan looked at the lotus seed who seemed to be crying but not crying, with a small mouth, a pair of black grape-big eyes seemed to be talking, and suddenly said with a clear heart: "Could it be Brother Tie Niu?" Brother Tie Niu has been staring at our house before? ”
Liu Guiyuan stared at Liu Lianzi and said Liu Tieniu's name, it was really strange, Liu Lianzi stopped making trouble in an instant, her small mouth was closed, her little hands were clenched, and her eyes were wide open, as if she knew something. Although she knew that it was impossible, she still reached out and took the lotus seed, and said casually: "Lotus seed, did you see something?" Is it Tie Niu, Liu Tie Niu came to our house to steal money? ”
"What are you doing, Guiyuan, how old is she, she can't speak, and she can tell you ......" Liu Huahua felt funny, and only halfway through the words, she heard Liu Lianzi's "got" opening, that firm tone, as if she really understood.
"It seems that it was really stolen by Brother Tie Niu, Lianzi said it himself, don't you believe you try?" Liu Guiyuan handed the lotus seed to her second sister, Liu Huahua was suspicious, and tried to call a few names, but Liu Lianzi didn't respond, but as soon as she talked about the iron egg and the iron cow, the lotus seed had to agree.
"Why is Lianzi so smart, can you recognize what Tie Niu looks like?" Liu Hongzao exclaimed, if she hadn't seen it with her own eyes and heard it with her own ears, she wouldn't have believed it. After all, an eight-month-old child doesn't understand anything, how can he recognize Liu Tieniu, who has only met once or twice.
"What's impossible, usually she just listens to what we talk about, maybe she understands everything, but she can't speak." Liu Guiyuan guessed casually, and did not be too surprised by Lianzi's behavior, but turned to talk about the more important things at the moment, "If it is really Tie Niu, how can this matter end, we have no evidence?" ”
Liu Guiyuan thought of the situation that Liu Tieniu came to her house to look around yesterday morning, and combined with the "confession" of lotus seeds, Liu Tieniu's theft of her family's money was just right. It's just that how can she prove that Liu Tieniu did this, she can't hold the lotus seed and tell others, right?
"Anyway, it's him, he used to put his family away from him more than an iron egg, and he didn't learn well after two years in the town, but now he has stolen my family's money! No, I'll have to settle accounts with him tomorrow. Liu Huahua clenched his fists and said.
"How do you settle accounts with him? It's hard to speak. Liu Guiyuan had a headache when he thought of this, Liu Tieniu was a young man, and it was not good to sue in front of the second uncle and second aunt.
"I, I found him privately, saying that half of our family's money was lost, someone saw him with his own eyes, and entered my house when it was on fire outside, if he can return the money, this incident will not happen, and we are still cousins."
"I guess this won't work, Liu Tieniu is not a child anymore, if you say this easily, he won't admit it at all, but instead take this opportunity to make a big fuss, and when the time comes, we won't be able to wipe off face, and we will still suffer." Liu Guiyuan shook her head, she didn't dare to compliment Liu Tieniu's virtue, she was really afraid that he would do something impulsive.
"Then let's start with the iron egg first, let's trick him first, and see if he can participate?" Liu Hongzao thought for a long time and suddenly proposed.
"Well, if the fraud comes out, let's find the second uncle privately and see how he gets the money back." Liu Guiyuan slapped the board.
Early the next morning, the sisters got up early, yawned for days to boil water, washed their faces and poured the urinal, and waited until they were all freshened up, and the egg custard of the lotus seeds was cooked, Liu Hongjube put the lotus seeds in the car, and asked Liu Huahua and Liu Guiyuan to push them, and she used the basket of egg custard in the back to go to the second uncle's house together.
It is necessary to get up early on the first day of the new year, and the first thing is to go to the elders' house to pay New Year's greetings, Grandpa Liu died early, so they only need to pay New Year's greetings to Liu Yao's, but unfortunately Liu Yao's is still angry about yesterday's events, and he didn't give them a good look, and the sisters didn't take it seriously, anyway, the fate between them had long been broken.
The second uncle and the second aunt were cooking dumplings at this time, Liu Tiezhu was washing his face in the yard, and he didn't see Liu Tieniu and Liu Tiedan. As soon as the third aunt Lin saw them, she spoke in a rare way: "Tell me that your firewood stack is burning?" It's bad luck. ”
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