After Mrs. Shen and her group returned home, they were all so angry that they didn't even eat dinner and just sat in the room sulking.
They didn't catch anything this time, and they were stung by bees like this. It was really embarrassing.
After Shen Yaocai fell into the ditch, he went home and changed his clothes, and then went to the edge of the mountain forest to look for goats and hens for a long time.
Unfortunately, he still couldn't find it. He wanted others to help him find it, but no one was willing to go into the mountains with him in such a cold weather.
After catching a cold in the ditch, coupled with the cold wind blowing in the mountains for a long time, he still felt cold after wearing a cotton-padded jacket for several years, and he kept sneezing and running his nose.
"Mom, we made a miscalculation this time. Ah, ah! Come on, next time you wait, I will get back what we deserve!"
Mrs. Shen wanted to touch her face to see how it was, but she accidentally touched the wound and gasped in pain.
"Hey~ It's time for next time. Are you not afraid of being stung by bees next time? Their house is very evil, I don't dare to go there again. What's more, now that the second brother has severed ties with us, we can't find him even if we want to come. The beginning.”
"Ah!" Shen Yaocai sniffed and said disapprovingly, "Mom, you are stupid, we can wait until it is quiet at night before going. I don't believe it, they don't sleep at night."
"Don't they still have a sheep? Then I will steal the sheep back and take it to the city to sell it before dawn. No one will notice it and no one will find it."
"Eh? This is a good idea!" Mrs. Shen exclaimed, stroking her palms, "My son is really smart, and he is indeed a great eldest son."
"Grandma." At this moment, Shen Qiangsheng and Shen Qiangwu came over.
They both touched their stomachs and said bitterly: "Grandma, we are hungry."
Mrs. Shen has the power of cooking at home, and all the food is kept in her house.
Every time she cooks, she has the final say on how much rice to put in.
As long as she doesn't agree to cook, there will be no food in the pot.
When Ms. Qian came to ask her if she wanted to cook, she angrily said she wouldn't eat tonight.
But adults can tolerate it for a while, but half-grown children who are still growing cannot tolerate it.
Mrs. Shen felt much better because of Shen Yaocai's words. When she saw her two sweet grandchildren coming to complain about hunger, she suddenly felt a little hungry herself.
So she immediately started to call people to cook, but no one came.
"Where is Qingqing? Where did that dead girl go? Why didn't she come when I asked her to cook?"
Shen Qiangsheng and Shen Qiangwu also have a younger sister named Shen Qingqing, who is only eleven years old this year.
But in this family that values boys over girls, the little girl has been able to do housework very early, and she usually cooks at home.
"I'll call her!" Shen Qiangsheng volunteered to find Shen Qingqing.
He went out and walked into a small shed in the yard. There was only a small bed in the shed, and a little girl was lying weakly on the bed.
"Hey!" Shen Qiangsheng kicked the head of the bed, "I've been sleeping all day, get up and cook soon!"
"Ah?" Shen Qingqing, who was sleeping soundly, was frightened and did not dare to show it. She just responded obediently, "Oh, okay..."
After hearing the satisfactory answer, Shen Qiangsheng turned and left.
Shen Qingqing pushed herself up to get up, but almost fell.
Yesterday, it snowed and the temperature suddenly dropped. Her shack was not cold-resistant, and the quilt was thin. She was so cold that she couldn't sleep all night, and she also contracted wind chill.
Even so, she still had to do the housework at home, otherwise she would not be able to eat and would be beaten and scolded.
Shen Qingqing dragged her weak body to the kitchen, got a bowl, and walked into Mrs. Shen's room to ask for rice.
"It took me so long to come here now, what a useless loser!" Mrs. Shen cursed dissatisfiedly, took the bowl and groped over to the rice vat inside the bed.
She opened the lid of the rice vat and reached into the rice vat to scoop out rice, but it was all empty.
"Huh? Why do you eat this rice so fast?"
Mrs. Shen muttered and stretched her hand down again, but she still scooped up nothing.
She was so anxious that she reached the bottom of the rice vat and found that there was still no rice.
"What's going on? There is obviously so much rice, where has it gone?" Mrs. Shen cursed angrily, "Did one of you steal the rice and sell it?"
"Mother, sneeze! What are you talking about?" Shen Yaocai sneezed and said with some dissatisfaction, "We went out with you and came back together. Who has time to steal rice to sell? Could it be that you remembered it wrong? ?Maybe the rice was eaten by us."
Although he did steal rice and sell it for money before, he did not do it this time.
"I can't remember it wrong!" Mrs. Shen said firmly, "A jar of rice in our family can last for a month. I refilled the rice on the tenth day of the lunar month. How could I finish it on the sixteenth day?"
Shen Yaocai curled his lips, "Then what else could be going on? There's no way someone could come to our house and steal rice, right?"
The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional. Mrs. Shen's heart skipped a beat after hearing his words.
Oops, it might have been stolen!
The more Mrs. Shen thought about it, the more panicked she became. If it hadn't been stolen, where could the rice have gone? Could it be that she had run away?
When she was cooking at noon today, she still remembered that there was still a lot of rice in the jar.
They all went to Shen Er's house in the afternoon, so it was impossible for his family to steal it.
Although there is Shen Qingqing in the family, no one believes that a little girl who is submissive and timid like a mouse all day long dares to steal food from the family.
What's more, they weren't at home all afternoon, and Shen Qingqing was sick. If a thief really sneaked in, they wouldn't be able to find it.
"Quick! Go quickly and see if the food we have hidden is still there!"
Mrs. Shen was so frightened that she stammered in her speech. If so much food was stolen, it would really cost him his life.
Shen Yaocai didn't take it seriously at first, but from the panicked look on his face, I had some bad premonitions.
He hurriedly picked up the key and went to the room where the food was stored. Before he entered, he saw that the door was wide open and the lock on the door had been picked.
When I walked in, I saw that all the hay used to hide food in the room had been turned over.
The food hidden inside had been emptied out long ago, leaving only a few scattered footsteps on the ground.
Shen Yaocai almost fainted from anger after just one glance.
This is the food that their whole family needs to survive!
There are still eight or nine months until next year's autumn harvest. How will they survive during this period?
The Shen family used Father Shen's pension to buy a lot of fertile land. In addition, they saved a lot of food after driving away Shen Zhengwen's family, so even if it is a famine year, they don't have to worry about food and drink.
Their family accumulated a lot of food and lived their small life secretly.
But Shen Yaocai didn't expect that Shen Zhengwen would leak the news that their family had food, so their family had not dared to go out casually during this period. They stayed at home guarding the food all day long, for fear that someone would hear the news and come to steal the food. .
But I didn't expect that I still didn't keep the food. In the short time I went to Shen Er's house, all the food in the house was stolen.
Shen Yaocai crawled back to Mrs. Shen's room and shouted with a mournful face: "Mom! The food, the food is all gone, how can we survive now..."
"What?" Mrs. Shen was furious. After enduring a day of blows, she finally fainted completely...
When Shen Qingqing saw her grandmother fainted, she screamed in fright and shrank into the corner.
Her eyes seemed to glance at Mrs. Shen who was unconscious on the ground, but the corners of her mouth slowly curved under the cover of her hair. This chapter has been completed!