When Lu Quan came back, Lu Yangge had already eaten dinner and fell asleep.

Qiu came back early, holding a large bag of yellow table paper, and was busy folding ingots and paper-cutting money when he entered the door.

Seeing that she was busy with a calm face, several children didn't dare to mention the matter of the stove room in front of her, and she didn't know that the things she was hiding had been turned over by Xiao Li and Xiao Si.

As soon as Lu Quan got home, he saw his daughter-in-law stacking ingots in the house with a lamp, he glanced at the five children who were not there, and he could vaguely hear the voice of Xiao Wu in the room of the three sisters.

"I'm back."

Qiu was busy stacking ingots, and he didn't lift his buttocks, "The small fish potstickers I ate at night, as well as the bud rice and noodle porridge, are all warm in the pot, and you can serve them yourself." ”

"Hmm."

Lu Quan glanced at the ingots in the basket, "Have you gone to find Li Banxian?" What do you say? ”

"What did you say, it's burned." Qiu was afraid that the children would hear it, so he didn't want to say more, "You go to eat, wash up after eating, and then talk about it later." ”

That's probably what it is, it's not convenient to say now.

By the time Lu Quan had eaten and burned his feet, Lu Xiaowu had already sent them to their room. The lights in the houses of several girls have been turned off, and the sound of talking can still be faintly heard. In Xiaosi's house, when he entered the door, the lights were dark, and I don't know if the child is asleep.

Finally coaxed Xiao Wu to sleep, Qiu and Lu Quan folded all the ingots, and it was already the middle of the night.

Qiu Shi packed up the stacked ingots and paper money on the table and put them in the basket, looked at Xiao Si, who was sleeping sweetly, stuffed the basket in his hand to Lu Quan, and said in a low voice: "I'll go to the stove room to get the spirit card, and I'll go to Nanpo to burn it later." ”

Lu Quan didn't like to talk, so he only said "um".

When Qiu entered the stove room, lit an oil lamp and groped in the firewood, Lu Quan stood in the courtyard with a basket and waited.

Today is also strange, he and Zhang San went to the net, back and forth five times, there are a lot of fish and shrimp, and I haven't seen a single red carp.

Zhang San and the others didn't believe in evil, so they simply spread six or seven nets on that side, preparing to collect them tomorrow morning.

They didn't believe that he could catch two red carp, and they didn't have one.

If he still doesn't catch one tomorrow morning, I don't know if Zhang San and they will think that he didn't bring the right place.

Lu Quan sighed faintly, and saw Qiu running out of the stove room in a panic: "Boss, what ...... The thing was gone. ”

Unprovoked, in the cold night, a cool breeze rose on Lu Quan's back.

"Where are you hiding, how did you disappear?" Lu Quan put down the basket and followed Qiu into the stove room again.

By the dim light of the oil lamp, the couple turned over the firewood, fireweed, and broken grass behind the stove, and there was nothing but a few soft-shelled turtles running out of the dark corners.

Lu Quan was a little anxious: "How could it not be, where are you hiding, will you remember wrong?" ”

"You can't go wrong." Qiu Shi shook her head, her eyes quickly glanced at the humble stove room, she remembered very well that she had hidden the spirit tablet in a pile of broken grass, and there was also a special pile of firewood and firewood on it.

Those broken grass are all falling from the fire on weekdays, Xiaosi said that these grasses are not easy to ignite, and the fire in the pot is big, so she has a pile of them, so she sends them to the mound next to the toilet to make manure.

Because some time ago, Qiu found that there were turtle insects under the broken grass pile, so she simply didn't clean up the broken grass, and the turtle insects crawled around in the broken grass pile.

I thought, after a period of time, these turtle worms can be exchanged for a few pennies when they are brought to the town pharmacy.

Now, the pile of broken grass piled up in a corner was turned over by her and Lu Quan with their hands, and the spirit card hidden under the pile of broken grass, including the red cloth wrapped in it, was gone.

Lu Quan took a deep breath and asked in a deep voice, "Who lit the fire at night?" ”

"Yes, it's Little Four."

When Qiu came back, he stacked ingots, and dinner was made by Xiaoqing. During the meal, Xiao Yu said with a smile, is Xiao Si frozen stupid today, and rushed to light the fire with her.

At that time, Qiu's mind was full of things, and he didn't think much about it at all, but when he thought about it now, he felt that it was wrong.

Lu Quan also felt that this was strange, he took a look at Xiao Si's room, the black rumbling, and he didn't know if Xiao Si had picked up this spirit card.

Xiao Si is literate, thinking that if Xiao Si sees her name on the spirit card, he doesn't know what to think in his heart, Lu Quan and Qiu are a little at a loss for a while.

Qiu: "What should I do, do you want to ask Xiaosi?" ”

"Forget it." Lu Quan thought about it and sighed lowly, "You find a bag to pack up those folded ingots and paper money, and wait for Xiao Si to get up tomorrow morning." ”

Regardless of whether the thing was taken by Xiao Si or not, he could always see the clue tomorrow morning, but if it didn't work, he would ask Xiao Si about it.

Qiu Shi also felt that it was not good to wake up Xiaosi on this big night and ask about it.

The two quietly returned to the east room, packed up and went to bed.

In the east wing, Grandma Chen rolled over and coughed lowly.

I don't know what Lu Quan and his family are busy with most of the night, the Qiu family stacked so many ingots and paper money, why didn't they hear them open the yard door and go out to burn.

Could it be that this ingots are still kept for the New Year?

People are old and sleepy, and Grandma Chen turned over again and fell asleep for a long time.

Early the next morning, Qiu turned over and got out of bed without waiting for dawn.

She didn't sleep well that night, lying in bed tossing and turning. At first, Lu Quan couldn't sleep, and he could still talk to her, but then Lu Quan began to talk, and Qiu couldn't sleep anymore.

I was worried about whether the spirit card was picked up by Xiao Si, and I was so angry that Lu Quan had no heart and lungs, and he fell asleep for such a big thing.

She couldn't wait to pinch Lu Quan's two handfuls and wake him up from his snoring.

The hand reached out and retracted again.

The head of the family came back from rowing from Dongyang County early in the morning, and before he took a breath after eating, he was called out by Zhang San and them to cast a net.

Tossing and turning until after dark before coming back, it must be tired.

I'm really going to wake him up, and I can't seem to say it.

Finally, at dawn, Qiu squinted for a while, and then heard the sound of a rooster crowing.

Qiu's got up early, and Grandma Chen next door also got up early.

Grandma Chen's family still uses the original small tandoor to cook porridge, and the small tandoor is placed in the corner of the Lu family's stove room. Qiu was cooking porridge on the cauldron in the stove room, and the two of them were talking together.

When the sky was light, Lu Quan and several children got up one after another, Xiaoqing Xiaoli went to the vegetable field, and Xiaoyu swept the floor in the yard with a broom.

When the sky was bright, even Lu Xiaowu got up, put on his clothes and pants and was hugged out by Lu Xiaoqing.

Qiu glanced at Westinghouse and couldn't help frowning.

Why hasn't this little four gotten up yet?

Lu Xiaoli put down the greens he picked back early in the morning and asked, "Mother, what do you eat in the morning?" ”

"Eat bud rice noodle porridge." Qiu Shi pulled Lu Xiaoli over and ordered, "Little carp, go and see why Xiao Si hasn't gotten up yet." ”

"Okay, I'll go."

Lu Xiaoli took the chicken feather as an arrow, and went to Lu Xiaosi's room to slam the door in a hurry.

Unexpectedly, after knocking for a long time, there was no sound in the house.

(End of chapter)