Leaving the scene, he ran out of two or three streets, and went around for most of the circle, until he confirmed that no one was following him, and Fang Rui slowed down.

Whew! Whew!

He gasped for air.

At this point, it's time to check what's in the blanket – check ahead of time so you don't bring anything bad back.

Open the blanket.

In sight, it is: three big coins, a small sack of linen, and a small clay pot the size of a palm.

"Three big bucks?"

Fang Rui's face was a little ugly.

From the perspective of money alone, this time it is a big loss, and it is not worth taking such a big risk, in short, it is: the risk is not proportional to the benefit.

Then I opened the burlap packet, and it was golden and yellow.

"Soybeans?!"

Fang Rui's face looked better at this time, and with his hand, he realized that it was more than three catties.

"That's what it looks like." He nodded secretly.

In this world, soybeans are precious, nutritious, can be squeezed for oil, and are fragrant and convenient to eat.

In the past, soybeans were also available on the black market, but they were much rarer and more expensive than bulk grains: wheat bran, sorghum flour, etc.!

The last palm-sized clay pot.

Fang Rui opened it, smelled it, and his face showed even more joy: "Lard!" ”

It's even more precious.

When he cooks at home, he can only use inferior vegetable oils such as hemp seed oil, and he doesn't dare to use more, so he only puts a little bit at a time, and cherishes it very much.

Compared with vegetable oil, lard is much better, tastes fragrant, strong when eaten, and can bring a feeling of fullness.

It can be said that this jar of lard will not be exchanged for twenty dollars.

"Good catch! With this soybean and lard, you can supplement nutrition for your mother and sister! ”

Fang Rui's eyes were happy.

He thought for a moment, threw away the robbed blanket, transferred the big money, soybeans, and lard to his sack, and then set off again, and hurried back home.

……

Fang family.

Fang Ling, this little bit, was already asleep.

Fang Xue sat in the hall, under a dim oil lamp, holding the soles of his shoes, getting up from time to time and glancing out the window.

Obviously, he was waiting for Fang Rui.

A certain moment.

Knock knock!

"Who?" Fang Xue asked vigilantly, put down the needle and sole, and took out the scissors from the dustpan.

"Mother, it's me."

Hearing Fang Rui's voice, Fang Xue hurriedly opened the door, let Fang Rui in, looked outside the door, closed the door, and forked it back from the inside.

"Brother Rui, are you back?! I didn't see you when I looked through the window just now......" Fang Xue muttered.

Fang Rui smiled and didn't speak.

He was cautious, his actions were naturally secretive, if he could be seen by the Fang Xue clan, wouldn't he be able to be seen by other neighbors?

Of course, Fang Xue's words were not intended for Fang Rui to answer, but just to express the anxiety of waiting in his heart.

Then.

She pulled Fang Rui in front of her, looked at this, looked at that, suddenly her face changed, touched Fang Rui's stomach and asked, "Brother Rui, why are your clothes torn here?" It looks like a cut ......."

"It's okay, I was targeted by a stupid thief, and I sent the other party away." Fang Rui said it lightly.

"Brother Rui!"

Fang Xue heard this, but suddenly his face was serious.

How could she not know that what Fang Rui said was an understatement, but in fact how could it be so simple?

It's going to be dangerous!

This strict mother's appearance didn't last long, Fang Xue couldn't hold back, lowered his head, couldn't help sobbing, wiping his tears.

"Mother, what are you crying about?"

Even in the face of the fierce three-eyed, Fang Rui, who could deal with it calmly, was stunned at this moment, like a child at a loss, he didn't know what to do, so he had to make a smile: "Mother, look, what is this?" Thirty catties of sorghum flour, as well as soybeans and lard......"

But.

In the past, everything that could make Fang Xue's family happy for a long time, but at this time, she didn't even look at it, she just choked up and said: "Brother Rui, if you buy food, you can buy food, but ...... Can we not take the risk? ”

She is not stupid, her understanding of her own son, coupled with the sentence 'sent the other party away', can guess: Fang Rui is most likely risking himself.

Fang Rui was silent.

Facing Fang Xue's family with this appearance, he couldn't say anything to refuse, thought for a while, and promised: "Mother, I promise you that I won't take the initiative to take risks in the future." ”

In fact, this time, he also had lingering palpitations, and he was hesitating whether to stop it.

This kind of 'fishing' is uncertain and unlucky, and if you run into a strong man who can't be beaten, it's really over.

Even if there is a robbery point compensation, it is not very cost-effective - Fang Rui is immortal, and his time is infinite, but there is only one life.

As for the problem of money, you can think of other ways, think about it, there is always a way out, and the living can still be suffocated by urine?

Hearing Fang Rui's assurance, Fang Xue's clan was slightly relieved.

Fang Rui hurriedly diverted the topic: "Mother, what about Ling'er?" Slept? ”

"Well, slept. She's clamoring to sleep with you, in your house...... I'm asleep now......"

Fang Xue sorted out the things that Fang Rui brought back, classified the sorghum noodles, soybeans, and lard one by one, and found a place to hide them.

She is smart-minded, and she no longer asks how the good things like soybeans and lard come from, as long as Fang Rui promises that she will not take risks in the future, she will be satisfied.

"I'm going to wash my feet......"

"Wait."

Fang Xue called Fang Rui: "Take off your clothes, I'll sew them for you." ”

"Mother, tomorrow, it's not early, you better rest early......"

"Got it."

Fang Xue agreed, but he still went his own way, picked up Fang Rui's clothes, and sewed them stitch by stitch under the oil lamp.

When Fang Rui washed her feet and came out, she was still sewing, stitches and threads, stitches and threads, and her eyes narrowed hard under the smoking oil lamp.

The line in the mother's hand, the wanderer's shirt.

For some reason, Fang Rui suddenly remembered this poem, and there was a warm current surging in his heart.

"Mother, it's not early, go to bed."

He took the needle and clothes strongly, and blew out the oil lamp: "Mother, wait for tomorrow, you rest early!" ”

"Hey, you kid...... Okay, okay, I'll listen to you! ”

Fang Xue couldn't resist Fang Rui, so he shook his head helplessly and took advantage of the moonlight outside the window to go back to the house.

Fang Rui watched his mother enter the house, smiled, and returned to his room.

On the bed, Fang Ling slept and was not honest, and when she fell asleep, she became sleeping horizontally, and the thin quilt covering her stomach was also kicked to the ground by her, but she slept as sweet as a pig.

"This girl!"

Fang Rui smiled, picked up Fang Ling and straightened it, covered her belly with a quilt, and kissed her on the cheek, before lying down next to her.

In the depths of the night, an unknown insect screamed, and he fell asleep.

……

The next day, in the morning.

"Mother, today's food is delicious." Fang Lingdao.

"Can't stop you from being so delicious?" Fang Xue knocked her head.

Actually, it's just a little lard added when stir-frying wild vegetables, and it is very fragrant.

"Oooh!"

Fang Ling was holding the rice with chopsticks, snoring, but his eyes were staring at the bowl.

"If it's delicious, eat more." Next to her, Fang Rui smiled and gave her a big chopstick.

In the end, half a bowl of fried wild vegetables, the three of them ate cleanly.

Even the slight oil stains on the vegetable bowl were smeared over and over again by Fang Xue's with sorghum flour cakes, until finally, it looked clean and recognizable.

I don't even need to wash the dishes.

……

Morning.

Fangjia fried soybeans, and the attractive aroma wafted far away.

"Brother!" Fang Ling inhaled the aroma in the air and quickly ran in.

Outside the door, there were three or five children, staring and swallowing saliva, among them, the three ladies were also there.

"Oh, take it and eat it slowly." Fang Rui grabbed some for Fang Ling and stuffed them into her clothes pocket.

"Thank you, brother!" Fang Ling jumped down happily, and couldn't wait to put one in his mouth.

Boom!

When a fried soybean bites down, the mellow aroma explodes on the taste buds, making the little girl's big eyes bend into crescents.

Boom!

Outside the door, the sound of saliva swallowing sounded in unison.

To the neighbors' children outside, Fang Rui was not stingy, and beckoned: "Come!" ”

"Iron, you five."

"Hill, yours."

"Huai, eat."

"Hello, good."

……

It's not that Fang Rui is reluctant to do more, but: in this year, there is a shortage of materials, and there is a drought, three or five fried soybeans are already generous, and more people will be said to be 'stupid and generous' behind their backs.

Only the third lady's family, Fang Rui deliberately and quietly grabbed a small handful.

"Don't tell anyone else." He whispered.

"Thank you, Brother Ari!"

She blinked, jumped, and went to play with the other children.

"Brother Rui, the courtesies are still exchanged, can you bring some to the three girls' family?" Fang Xue put out the fried soybeans, and the other party said sharply.

"Okay, I'll take it to the third sister."

Fang Rui took a small half bowl of soybeans to Sanniangzi's house.

"Third sister, I'll send you some fried soybeans."

"That's good stuff."

"It's not much, just taste it, don't be too little for the third sister."

"Brother Rui!"

The third lady glanced at Fang Rui, full of amorous feelings: "Take my words from yesterday, come and block me, right?" ”

"How dare you?" Fang Rui took back the bowl and was about to go back with a smile.

"Wait."

The third lady stopped Fang Rui and took out a pair of new cloth shoes from the house: "These shoes are for you, Brother Rui, try them." ”

There was a faint aroma on it, Fang Rui took it, but he didn't really try it.

He is a man, and he is not as particular as his daughter's family, he can't be looked at easily, and he doesn't have athlete's foot or anything...... But taking off your shoes in front of a woman is always a little embarrassing and uncomfortable.

"Third sister, it looks very suitable, but you don't have to try it, it must be quite suitable for me, thank you."

"Why doesn't that sound right?"

The third lady leaned on the door and watched, stunned for a moment, and suddenly reacted: "This kid ...... How dare you tease me! ”

With her laughter, the snow swells, like the waves of the sea, and like the fruit in full bloom in midsummer, full of fragrant fragrance, mouth-watering.

It's a pity that no one can see it.

……

In the afternoon, the Fang family has the habit of taking a nap.

Fang Ling sometimes slept with Fang Xue's family, and sometimes came over to sleep with Fang Rui.

On the bed, Fang Ling was lying on his side, holding a fried soybean in his hand, grinding it little by little with his teeth, just smacking that taste, one can be eaten for a long time.

Eating, eating, the little girl fell asleep.

Next to him, Fang Rui felt that there was something awkward on the bed, and when he reached out and grabbed it, it was three or two fried soybeans that slipped out of Fang Ling's pocket, and he couldn't help but smile and shook his head.

Through the crack in the door, you can see that in the hall, Fang Xue is sewing clothes at the door.

Outside the window, there were unknown insects, screaming hoarsely one after another.

Summer is long.

The chaos and sin of this world are all shut out. The years, in this kind of sun, seem to be stretched and soft.

Fang Rui squinted his eyes, and his heart also calmed down.

……

Time flies by like a white horse, slipping through the fingers.

More than half a month has passed.

In the county, grain prices are still rising, and Caozhitang's business has not improved.

——The world is not quiet, it is difficult to live, where can I get the money to see a doctor? For most people, it's better to hold on.

Fang Rui is in charge of the 'Caozhi Hall', and he is polite to everyone he sees with his neighbors, and he is polite on the surface, but in fact, he keeps a distance.

Only the three ladies are in the house, sometimes they go to sit and sit, and the relationship is good.

The three ladies want to sell family favors; Fang Rui wanted to make friends with the three ladies and inquire about the news, and the two sides hit it off, but they were much closer than before.

Fang Rui also learned from Sanniangzi that the reserve soldiers in the county had been dispatched, but the specific situation outside the city was unknown.

Surreptitiously.

Fang Rui used the money saved at home to buy food from the black market like ants moving, and he didn't 'fish' anymore.

One thing is unlucky: he went to the black market, basically three times out of five, and ran into the tall and thin man who was selling cheats, and it seemed that the other party was also a frequent visitor to the black market.

Other than that, the Fang family was calm, and nothing major happened.

In fact, it's also true, like in the novel, things are one after another, and contradictions and conflicts emerge one after another, which is to promote the development of the plot.

In reality, for the people at the bottom, if they are honest, they will encounter two or three catastrophes in their lives, which is amazing.

Of course, their ability to resist risks is weak, and when they encounter a catastrophe, they will break their muscles and bones, and even destroy their families and clans.

But.

Now is not a peaceful season, the world will be chaotic, compared with the past, the probability of encountering chaos is indeed greater.

The only bad thing is that Caozhitang can't make ends meet, plus he went to the black market to buy food, the Fang family doesn't have much money anymore, and only some emergency money is left.

That money can't be touched.

Want to keep stocking up?

You'll have to think of something else.

……

This morning.

Fang Xue was sewing clothes in the back room, and Fang Ling was helping to rub the twine on the side.

Outbuilding.

Fang Rui dialed the abacus behind the counter.

Just then, two uninvited guests arrived.

……