"Mom, don't get excited. Things can't escape their house anyway. It's such a big bicycle. Let's listen to what dad said first." When Chen Lishu saw Li Xiulan raising her arms, she rushed over and stopped him immediately.
If you take action first, you will lose three points.
"Yes, Mom, we'll see if she can still be as arrogant as she is now when she finds something, don't get so angry." Zhang Qin also comforted her.
Li Xiulan could only gasp and glare fiercely at the Liu family, mother and son.
"Okay, I will agree to whatever conditions you want, but there is only one thing. If the bicycle is really found in this courtyard, I won't take it personally. The two brothers must go to jail for me."
Although stealing a bicycle is not a serious crime, you will definitely not be able to escape two or three months of reeducation through labor.
When they heard that they were going to jail, the two brothers were obviously panicked and looked at each other. They thought that the place where they hid their bicycles was foolproof and that ordinary people would never find it. They felt a little more confident.
"Okay, you search. If you can't find anything, please pay." Liu Dabao stepped aside a little and gave up his position at the door of the room.
There are no serious workers in the Liu family, and the only thing left in the yard is a bare house.
Chen Lishu's eyes fell on Liu Dabao, mother and son, and she felt that if they agreed so happily, the bicycle must not be hidden in the house.
Sure enough, brigade captain Sun Yuzhu and security director Zhao Shucheng went into the room together, walked around for a while, and then came out quickly, shaking their heads at Party Secretary Zhang Changhe and Gu Shoufu.
There is almost no place to hide something as big as a bicycle, and it can be seen at a glance.
When the Gu family saw that both of them had found nothing, their faces were not very good-looking, and no one spoke for a while.
Widow Liu immediately perked up: "As I said, your family has wronged us, and you still want to bully us. What's the difference between this and sitting on our necks and shitting? It's not dry shit, this is thin shit! Party Secretary
, Captain, you all saw it, twenty yuan..."
"We haven't finished searching yet. What are you yelling about?" Gu Xingmin suddenly spoke and turned around and walked towards the entrance of the courtyard.
Chen Lishu noticed that the expressions of the Liu brothers changed rapidly. It was not until she saw that Gu Xingmin was heading towards the toilet that their stiff expressions relaxed.
Gu Xingmin endured the smell and went to the toilet for a walk. When he came out, his face was ugly. He didn't find anything. Instead, he was disgusted by the Liu family's toilet.
Although the Han toilets usually have a strong smell, the feces can be exchanged for work points. Every household cleans up very clean, except for the Liu family, which has almost no place to leave.
"Well, give up this time. Give us the money and leave. We still have to sleep and get up early to go to work tomorrow. Can you afford to compensate for delaying our work?" Widow Liu was immediately happy when she saw that no one found anything.
He said to the Gu family with a half-raised chin.
"The usually lazy bastard is so diligent now. Please tell me where you hid the bicycle. Otherwise, I will be guarding your house starting from tomorrow or tonight. If you have the ability, you can hide the bicycle for the rest of your life!"
Li Xiulan was so angry that her voice was almost squeezed out from between her teeth.
"If you don't want to sleep, just stay awake and give me the money first." Liu Dabao didn't care and kept thinking about the twenty yuan.
He had promised it himself before, so Gu Shoufu took the money out of his pocket without saying a word.
When the Liu family members saw his actions, their eyes lit up.
"Dad, wait a moment." After Chen Lishu stopped her, she turned to look at Gu Xingguo and Gu Xingmin: "Big brother and second brother, go and open the cellar next to the toilet and take a look."
As Chen Lishu spoke, she used a flashlight to scan the cellar entrance, which was held down by two bundles of corn stalks.
Every family in the countryside would dig a cellar to store some potatoes, carrots, etc. In order to prevent water leakage or things from falling, most families would use wooden boards or scrap iron pots as lids, but the Liu family was lazy and just put two bundles of corn stalks on top.
thing.
As soon as Chen Lishu finished speaking, both Liu brothers changed their expressions.
"What's there to see in the cellar? If we say it's not stolen, it's not stolen." The brothers wanted to stop them, but Gu Shoufu stepped forward to stop them. At the same time, he looked back at his two sons: "You two go and take a look."
Gu Xingguo and Gu Xingmin immediately went over with flashlights and soon saw the bicycles standing upright in the cellar.
Widow Liu and her two sons were completely dumbfounded when they saw the car found.
"What else can your family say this time?" Li Xiulan snorted heavily towards the Liu family.
"Yuzhu, I have to ask the team to provide a car. Shucheng, please go to the public security bureau with me." Gu Shoufu glanced at the Liu family and said.
"Okay, Brother Gu, let me find someone to set up the car." Zhao Shucheng is the security director, so he needs to go with him for this matter.
"His uncle, the child was confused when he was young. For the sake of our neighbors for so many years, can we not send it to the police? Look, this bicycle is not here. You have nothing to lose. I asked them to give it to you.
It's okay if you can apologize instead of kowtow." Widow Liu panicked and immediately took two steps to beg for mercy.
"If you, a mother, can't teach your child well, then don't protect him. If you send him to a labor camp for a while, he may develop." Gu Shoufu said with a firm attitude.
When the village organized people to send the brothers away, the Gu family members pretended not to hear Widow Liu's cries and howls. They had to go to work early the next day and went home one after another.
"I can't believe that the two boys from the Liu family actually hid their bicycles in the cellar. If they had put their minds to the right things, they would have been kept by their mother at such an old age." Li Xiulan sighed with emotion, and everyone went back to their houses to sleep.
The next day, when Li Xiulan and the others went to work, Chen Lishu did another half-day's work. When she was leaving in the afternoon, she went to the private plot to pick some beans, eggplants, cucumbers and persimmons, and then put on the thirty or so fake collars that had been made.
'After loading it up, I rode back to town.
When she arrived in the town, Chen Lishu first sent her things home, then went out to buy some rice and noodles. When she got home, she saw that it was almost time and started rolling out the noodles.
When Gu Xingping came back from school and saw the bicycle parked in the yard, she knew it was Chen Lishu who was back. She also smelled the aroma of rice in the kitchen, so she got in without putting down her schoolbag.
"Sister-in-law, you are back, I miss you so much."
Chen Lishu smiled: "The noodles are out of the pot. You go back to the house first, put down your schoolbag and wash your hands. I'll bring some vegetables from the garden back home, and I'll send some to the two houses next door in a while."
"Yeah." Gu Xingping went back to the house to put her schoolbag, and Chen Lishu picked up the portioned dishes and walked out of the courtyard, first to the Wang family and then to the Ding family.
"I picked some that I grew on my own land at home and brought them over. I also brought some to you along the way."
Sun Shuzhen and her husband had just returned from get off work. When they saw the vegetables in her hand, they smiled and said, "I was worried about buying some vegetables, so you brought them over."