Wang Zeran said: "When he ran past me, I saw the wallet lanyard exposed in his arms. It was greasy. I was just a little suspicious at the time, but I didn't expect to catch up and actually find the wallet."

Si Sheng looked at him and asked, "Did you suffer any loss?"

Wang Zeran raised his lips and said, "No, how could a little kid be my opponent? It's just that the kid ran pretty fast, or I would have caught him long ago."

Si Sheng nodded and said nothing more.

The three of them walked around and looked around the whole town.

Suxue paid special attention to the stalls selling tofu. There were two tofu stalls in the town, one was in the middle of the town, and the other was at the exit of the town. The two types of tofu they sold were the same, only old tofu and tender tofu.

Seeing Suxue lingering in front of the tofu stall, Wang Zeran asked softly: "Sister Xue, what exactly are the dried tofu and tofu skin you mentioned?"

Hearing this, Si Sheng glanced at Suxue and seemed to have some understanding. Without waiting for Suxue's reply, he directly asked the owner of the tofu stall: "In addition to tofu, do you sell other soy products?"

The boss said: "That's all here. I also have bean sprouts and bean dregs at home. Do you want them?"

Suxue asked: "Uncle, we would like to ask, do you sell dried tofu and tofu skin?"

The boss looked at Suxue strangely. Seeing her serious look, it didn't look like she was deliberately causing trouble, so he said: "Dried tofu and tofu skin? You kid doesn't understand. Tofu needs to be eaten tender and dried in the sun."

Can it be delicious?"

The boss made a "cut" sound and then said: "There are also tofu skins. Who has ever heard of someone peeling off the tofu skins and selling them separately? Even if you want to buy it, I can't sell it to you. Who can sell the remaining tofu without skins to you?"

go."

After hearing the boss's nonsensical words, Suxue didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and then looked at Si Sheng happily.

Seeing Suxue's eagerness to try, Si Sheng nodded and said to the boss: "Give me twenty pounds of old tofu."

When the owner of the tofu stall saw these people asking a bunch of strange questions, he thought he had no business to do, so he already showed an indifferent attitude. Suddenly, he heard Si Sheng say that he wanted to buy twenty kilograms of tofu, and his face changed.

He was instantly filled with smiles.

Suxue shook Si Sheng's arm and said coquettishly: "Dad, we haven't eaten crab roe tofu for a long time."

Si Sheng lowered his head and looked at Suxue's pouty mouth lovingly, and then happily let the boss cut two pounds of tender tofu.

The three of them went to other stalls to buy a few salted duck eggs and some seasonings, as well as a big basket, and then walked back satisfied.

Looking at the basket full of things, Si Sheng regretted bringing Wang Zeran here. With him here, he couldn't put things in the space and be lazy.

Si Sheng carried the basket and walked for more than ten miles. When he finally returned to the abandoned yard, it was already past noon, and the other groups sent by Niu Zhixin had all returned.

As soon as Niu Zhixin saw Si Sheng coming back, he went to inform several family heads that he would come to the meeting after Si Sheng finished eating.

After dinner, Si Sheng went to work, and Suxue was not idle either.

She took Mrs. Wang to the back of the courtyard wall again, this time not to wash her hair and face.

Suxue stood in front of Mrs. Wang, and like a magic trick, she took out an oil paper bag from behind and took out an oil cake from inside, "Dangdangdangdang——, milk, look, what is this?"

Mrs. Wang was in a bad mood and was thinking listlessly when she suddenly saw a fried cake poked in front of her eyes. She was still unable to react.

"Milk, this big pancake is for you, eat it quickly."

Mrs. Wang glanced at Suxue's smiling face, then looked at the bright yellow pancake, and swallowed. This was her favorite food.

However, Mrs. Wang resisted the temptation of delicious food and said with a stern face: "Juni, did you ask your father to buy this? You are really ignorant, spending money indiscriminately at this time."

Suxue was scolded without hesitation, and she blinked innocently, "Nai, this pancake didn't cost a penny, it was earned by Cousin Wang."

After hearing Suxue's explanation of the origin of the pancakes, Mrs. Wang softened her expression, "Since it was the food stall owner who thanked Mr. Wang, I left it for Mr. Wang to eat. Why did you bring it all here?"

Suxue smiled and said: "Milk, Cousin Wang asked me to get it for you."

In fact, Wang Zeran's original words were: Leave two for me, I will give them to Yong'an, and Sister Xue can share the rest as she pleases.

When Mrs. Wang heard that it was Wang Zeran who gave it to her, she felt very happy. The longer they got along, the more she felt that Mr. Wang was a troublesome kid. Sometimes, Mrs. Wang was even secretly glad that she had kept him.

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Suxue stuffed the pancake into Mrs. Wang's mouth, "Milk, eat it quickly."

Seeing the earnestness in Suxue's eyes, Mrs. Wang didn't want to dampen her granddaughter's kindness, so she took a small bite.

It was so fragrant that Mrs. Wang couldn't bear to swallow it and chewed it in her mouth for a long time.

"Juni, you eat too." Mrs. Wang handed the pancake to Suxue.

Suxue took a generous bite, ate it deliciously, and said, "Milk, we've all eaten it in the town, you can finish it all."

Mrs. Wang couldn't bear to finish the meal, so she left most of it behind and said, "Let the three boys try it later."

"Milk, eat it quickly, there's still more here."

Suxue opened the oil paper bag and counted it to Mrs. Wang, "Mistress, there are five more. I have already calculated them. I will leave one for my father and Wang Zeran each, and the remaining three, the three boys and the others, plus

Half of the cow is enough for each person."

Mrs. Wang raised her eyes and asked: "Niu Niu... are there too?"

Suxue was a little funny, but Mrs. Wang started to be stingy again, "Nai, didn't you say that Uncle Yang is our family? Besides, the third boy, Yong'an and the others have been playing with Niu Niu, so it's hard to avoid Niu Niu eating alone, right?

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That's right. Mrs. Wang opened her mouth, but didn't say anything more. She lowered her head to eat her fried cake.

Mrs. Wang took two bites, then stopped and sighed: "Now we still have pancakes to eat, but after a while, we may have to beg for food."

Suxue was a little puzzled, "Nai, we still have food, why are we left begging for food?"

Mrs. Wang sighed deeply and said worriedly: "I didn't know you came back late. The people who went out in the morning brought back news, alas... everyone was so worried that they couldn't even eat lunch. Do you believe that Grandpa and the others didn't even have water?"

I can’t swallow it.”

As Si Sheng said, the county did not distribute food or provide porridge to the refugees fleeing famine, nor did it have a resettlement policy.

Mrs. Wang said: "I heard from them that when there were not so many refugees, there were many wealthy households giving porridge at the city gate on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month. Since the notice was posted at the city gate asking the refugees to return home, there have been no more

They went to give porridge."

It is understandable that those wealthy households must also be afraid of being infected by the upper-class people and causing trouble to themselves.

The men had inquired and found out that the refugees staying at the gate of the city and in the disaster-stricken areas had nothing to do in daily life and mainly relied on begging for food.

Occasionally, people would send some leftover food and swill in the disaster-stricken areas, but the area was controlled by several groups of powerful fleeers. If you wanted to live there, you had to "go to the top of the mountain" and hand over most of the food you begged for.

The news brought back by Butcher Zhang made everyone even more discouraged. Here, whether you want to rent a house, buy a house, rent land, buy land or work, you need a household registration certificate and a guarantee.

Without the guarantee of local people, no one would dare to sell or rent land to you, even if you have money, let alone work.
Chapter completed!