Soon, Shi Jiang dug out some things in their house.
However, what was found was somewhat beyond Shi Jiang's expectations.
Because she dug out a palm-sized wooden box, a round tin biscuit box, and a small flat bag wrapped in a piece of cloth. The most important thing is that these three things were actually hidden in different places in the room.
The round iron box was placed in the wooden box where Jiang Fugui and Liu Xiaocao kept their clothes. Obviously both couples knew this.
The flat bag was taken out from the gap under the bed. Shi Jiang could guess where it was placed without even thinking, and it was definitely Liu Xiaocao who secretly hid it.
After all, she is not tall, so it is convenient for her to put it under the bed and take it out at any time. It can be seen from the furry edges that this small bag must have been touched often.
But the wooden box was hidden on the beam on the roof of the room. If you didn't climb up, you wouldn't know that there was something hidden on it.
And when she took it down just now, there was a thick layer of dust on it. It was obvious that this wooden box should have been put up a long time ago and had never been opened since.
This house was built after Jiang Fugui moved here from Shangzhuang Brigade, so this wooden box cannot be an ancestral heirloom of the Jiang family.
Shi Jiang raised his eyebrows and was not in a hurry to open the heavy wooden box.
Instead, he first opened the lid of the round iron box, and saw some scattered Mao tickets, some coins, and some cloth tickets and other bills inside.
In total, it's about twenty or thirty yuan.
This is the only thing a family has for the whole family, which is really pitiful.
Both Jiang Fugui and his wife knew the money in the round iron box. If they took it away rashly, it would probably be exposed before the day she left, and it would inevitably lead to confusion again.
When it came to the small cloth bag, after opening it, Shi Jiang couldn't help but want to whistle.
They were neatly organized, with at least a dozen of them worth ten yuan, and quite a few of other denominations. A rough calculation showed that they cost at least three hundred yuan.
The private money is actually ten times the family savings. I wonder what Jiang Fugui's expression would be like if he knew his wife had hidden so much money.
However, the money now naturally belongs to her.
So, Shi Jiang put the round iron box back to its original position, and when it came to the money in the small bag, Shi Jiang stuffed it all into his arms.
The package that was originally bulging suddenly collapsed. This is not good. You can tell at a glance that there is something wrong.
Shi Jiang rolled his eyes and saw on the table an old textbook that Jiang Xiaobao had used when studying.
She picked it up, flipped through it, tore out two pages from the back, folded them a few times, wrapped them in cloth, and then put them back under the bed.
As long as you don't open it and look at it, it's no different than before.
After doing all this, Shi Jiang returned to his room with the wooden box, and then carefully observed the palm-sized box in his hand.
It's very heavy to buy, and you can tell from the outside that it's made of good wood. The four corners of the lid are inlaid with iron sheets, and there's also a delicate lock on the box.
Seeing the lock, Shi Jiang subconsciously took out the wire in his pocket and started tinkering with it.
With a "click" sound, as the lock was opened, the lid of the box was lifted by Shi Jiang.
I saw a row of small yellow croakers each inch long, neatly placed in a row. Shi Jiang took it out and counted them. There were ten of them, each weighing about thirty grams.
In addition to the ten small yellow croakers, there is also a jade pendant engraved with the character "hour" and a pair of gold bracelets that are warm and soft to the touch.
Obviously, these jade pendants, gold bracelets and these small yellow croakers must belong to my own mother, the Shi family.
After taking out these things, there was a palm-sized handbook at the bottom.
Shi Jiang flipped through it, and it talked about the medicinal properties of some common medicinal materials and some common prescriptions.
Dad Shi was a barefoot doctor, and this handbook should have been written down by him about the symptoms he usually saw.
Jiang Fugui took so many valuable things from the Shi family, which was more than enough to raise ten other people's children, but he still treated himself like this. Shi Jiang felt a rage rising from the bottom of his heart.
Except for the notebook, Shi Jiang put those things back into the box and carried it in his arms. Then he climbed up at the corner of the wall and placed the box in his arms at the junction of the eaves.
Even if someone comes looking, they won't be found easily unless the house is demolished.
After putting the things away, Shi Jiang sat on the bedside and flipped through the notes in his hand, reading them with great interest.
Even if he heard the movement outside, he didn't pay any attention. He just turned around and found an angle where the light could shine in, so that he could see more clearly.
"Mom, why are you back?"
She went to Zhao's house with high expectations, and was scolded by the old lady of Zhao's family for a long time. Jiang Hongxiu came back disappointed. After entering the yard, she didn't know what to think. She lingered at the door of Jiang Fugui and Liu Xiaocao's room for a long time.
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He pushed the door open with his hand, stepped in with one foot, and saw Liu Xiaocao happily walking in from the yard.
Seeing Liu Xiaocao, Jiang Hongxiu subconsciously retracted her hands and feet with a guilty conscience, and asked at a loss.
Liu Xiaocao didn't think about it that much, she just took another look at her daughter who looked a little strange.
Then he patted the corner of his clothes, rolled his eyes at her and said, "It's almost noon. If I don't come back, can your aunt still leave your mother to eat there?"
Do you still know about your aunt?
Eating a little bit of their food, hum, is like eating her flesh."
Liu Xiaocao's heart twitched when she thought of the things she had delivered to her parents' house in the morning. She really didn't like her sister-in-law at all.
Later, sooner or later, he will let her know how powerful he is, and then find someone for his eldest brother who is a hundred times better than the current eldest sister-in-law.
Although she felt sorry for what she had given her in the morning, Liu Xiaocao felt happy when she thought that the marriage would be successful and that she would have more money in her treasury.
Jiang Hongxiu was not willing to give in after all, and told Liu Xiaocao in an exaggerated manner that Jiang had eaten Jiang Fugui and Xiaobao's food in the morning.
Liu Xiaocao's eyes were filled with fire and his teeth were clenching.
But in the end, he found a random excuse and settled the matter.
Let this damn girl dance happily now, and let's see how she still dances when she gets married.
She had her own plan in mind, but she didn't explain it to Jiang Hongxiu.
When it was time to eat in the evening, even though Shi Jiang had not worked that day, Shi Jiang was not hungry like before. Jiang Fugui just snorted and said nothing more. Jiang Hongxiu's heart felt like it was falling into an ice cellar.
From Jiang Hongxiu's point of view, the scale of the scale began to tilt towards Shi Jiang after she originally felt sorry for her mother.
As for her biological daughter, it is very likely that she will become someone else’s source of trouble.
No wonder people often say that if you have a stepfather, you will have a stepmother, and you eventually become the little pitiful child in other people's mouths.
This was something Jiang Hongxiu couldn't bear, so she hid in bed and cried all night.