Hard times have room

Chapter 24

Picking up the kerosene lamp placed next to it, Li Cao walked to the back door of Mrs. Li's house, so she took it seriously, lifted and pushed it, opened the door, and entered the house.

With the faint halo of the oil lamp, Li Cao accurately took out a small iron rod and a large wooden stick at the corner of the door where the sundries were placed.

Insert a small iron rod into the copper lock in the middle of the cabinet, and then insert a large wooden stick between the iron rod and the cabinet, and use force to pry it out. Hang it on the button on the other side with a copper lock.

Open the cabinet, it is divided into upper and lower layers, the upper layer is full of clothes, tents and fabrics, and the lower layer is filled with bagged grain, all fine grains and good things.

Li Cao quickly folded the fabrics of the clothes that were soft to the touch and looked new, so as not to take up too much space.

When she was packing up her clothes, she did not expect to find a handful of money and 5 brand new ten-yuan bills from the pocket of the brand new indigo shirt that Mrs. Li put in the middle. The treasury was over, and he was even more careful when he took over Li Cao to search for things.

After packing up the clothes, Li Cao poured out a dozen silver coins and a large amount of copper coins in the needle and thread basket, carefully wrapped it with a small piece of rag, and stuffed it with the clothes in the bag.

Li Cao put a large bag of clothes packed up from the upper level of the cabinet and put it on Mrs. Li's bed, so it was easy to take when she left.

Cloth stuff is expensive now. You need money for cloth tickets. Some fabrics and colors are even more expensive. You can't buy them with money.

What's more, I don't know if the fire will burn into this house. If it does, she might as well take it away. Anyway, she has been working as a horse in the Li family for so many years and taking such things can't go too far.

That fire was regarded as the Li family's debt repayment, and the relationship with the Li family was completely cut off.

In the future, the road will face the sky, and she will walk on one side, and she will not miss the Li family Xu Xiuying in the future.

There is a lot less food under the cabinet. After all, Shanghe Village has more mountains and less land. After the annual food is handed over to the public grain, there is not much food distributed to the villagers. Most of them are sweet potatoes, corn cobs, and refined grain rice. That's even more so that each person can only be divided into a dozen pounds, very few, and even fewer can stay until this time.

Unlike those places where there are many fields and good fields, after the grain is handed in every year, every household can get a lot of rice.

The dozen or so pounds of white rice in this cabinet was reserved by Mrs. Li for her baby Jinsun. After a day or two, she would cook a bowl of white rice porridge for Li Baodan. How about feeding Li Baodan? so sturdy.

Take the rice bag out, put it in the back basket, and take it with you later.

In the small frame next to it are the eggs laid by the big hen at home. It is a small one with some hard chicken excrement stuck on it. There are not many, but eight or nine eggs. It's only during this time that the nest is laid and eggs are laid quickly, otherwise it will be hard to save just these few.

After thinking about it, I still took the eggs and went to the kitchen stove, took out a handful of pine needles, lit them on the oil lamp, stuffed a large amount into the stove, then boiled the eggs in water, and took them with me when I left.

Eggs are the most delicious food in her memory. The wild eggs and bird eggs that she usually picks up in the mountains are delicious raw. They are also delicious when they are secretly simmered in the fire, but they are still fried by Mrs. Li during the Chinese New Year. The eggs are the best, but unfortunately she can only taste one or two pieces.

After the eggs were boiled, Li Cao came to the house and continued to clean up. In the cabinet there were things that Li Tao brought for Mr. Li's longevity not long ago. Sugar, flour, shortbread, etc. were wrapped in oiled paper, ranging from half a catty to a tael. All the catties were taken away in a backpack. I didn't expect this old lady to be quite rich.

Yes, Li Tao is married well, and Mrs. Li can also hold Li Tao's heart. Little by little, isn't it too much? After all, only Li Baodan eats the good things at home, and everyone else eats them. No portion, this may not have time to eat.

After scouring the bottom of the cabinet, Li Cao lit the oil lamp and carefully looked at the bottom. She accidentally watched Mrs. Li take out the grain below from the gap in the back door, and after touching it in the cabinet, she took out a small cloth bag. It should contain important things such as money tickets. Now, of course, if I have the opportunity, I must try it to see if I can find it.

After a while, after touching it a little bit, finally, I felt something unusual in the corner of the cabinet, it seemed to be bulging, I tried to push it, but I actually pushed a small hole and took out a piece of it. I didn't have time to look at the small cloth bags one by one. Li Cao put the bag away and put it in the inner pocket of the chest of the shirt he was wearing.

The weather was fine at this time, and I usually wear thin clothes. There is a big bag protruding from the left side of my chest, which looks very unsightly, but at this time she can't care so much, she must hurry up, now Chenjiazhuang should be showing a movie .

Besides, Li Cao felt that the contents of this cloth bag should be very important, otherwise Mrs. Li wouldn't hide it so secretly.

Li Cao put away the things in the cupboard, and turned his attention to Mrs. Li's bed. Because of Mrs. Li's shrewd and suspicious nature, she probably wouldn't put things in the cupboard alone.

Sure enough, Mrs. Li found 30 yuan each in the pillow and under the straw mat, and she got a lot of money. She walked out of the house with the package in the front and the basket in the back, and came to the kitchen. She took out the eggs in the iron pan and put them in Carrying a basket, I want to go outside with my things.

Immediately, as if remembering something, he put down his things, picked up the kitchen knife in the kitchen, walked to the backyard, grabbed a chicken, carried it to the main room, slashed the knife, and the chicken blood splattered, about a meter in front of it. They were all over the place, and then they grabbed another chicken from the backyard chicken coop, cooked it according to the law, and released chicken blood.

Afterwards, he sprinkled the ashes on the wound on the chicken's neck, so that the blood in the back basket would not stop flowing and expose himself.

Afterwards, carrying a bag behind him and carrying a burden in front of him, he borrowed the moonlight from the mountain in the backyard of Li's house, went to the big stone in the Peach Blossom Forest in Houshan, put the things down, and quickly returned to the Li's house.

Since I was a child, I went to the back mountain to hunt wild vegetables and collect firewood. I have walked this road countless times since I was a child. To put it a bit exaggerated, I closed my eyes and knew where to turn and which small pits to avoid on the road. is too familiar.

First, observe and listen carefully outside the Li's yard. If there is any movement, and someone finds out what she has done at the Li's house, she will turn around and leave. She has no intention of setting herself up for a fire.

Later, if you really have an idea and can't get over the hurdle in your heart, you will have a lot of opportunities to cause trouble for the Li family in the future.

After a while, there was no movement at all. It seems that I was lucky, the Li family did not return, and no one else in the village had been here.

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