Chapter 53 It's all gone

After Lin Jianshan left, the originally lively courtyard slowly fell silent again.

Lin Shiru moved a small stool and sat on the steps in front of the threshold, looking at Mother Lin with a frown on the left, and then at Father Lin sitting in the yard smoking a dry cigarette.

Looking closely at the two brothers, they seemed to have nothing to do. They were chopping firewood together and sawing the trunk of the tree.

"Mom, don't you need to go to grandma's house?" Doesn't it mean that it will take two or three days to finish the rice?

How could Liu Cuihua still have the heart to help harvest rice when such a big thing happened: "Dahua, Xiaoping, how about you go to your grandma's house and deliver them a letter?"

The two grown men who were working were sweating profusely. After hearing this, they stopped what they were doing, pulled down the towels around their necks and wiped their heads all over.

"Okay, let's go here."

She still had to treat Li Wazi to dinner. Liu Cuihua cheered up and went into the kitchen.

There were not many ingredients in the empty kitchen.

Liu Cuihua poked her head out of the kitchen: "Aiguo, go get a ticket and buy some meat from the cooperative."

"Okay." Lin Aiguo absentmindedly shook the flue-cured tobacco leaves from the tobacco rod with a few clicks and placed them on the stool next to him.

Then entered the room.

They came home so late last night that they didn't notice the chaos in the room.

Lin Aiguo searched several times where Liu Cuihua kept her tickets, but couldn't find any food stamps.

Lin Aiguo supported the door frame, stuck his head out and shouted: "Cuihua, where did you put the pork tickets?"

"It's right where I usually put my things!"

"I looked for it, but it wasn't found. Did you move anything in the room last night?" Liu Cuihua was confused.

After wiping her hands, Liu Cuihua cursed and entered the room: "You can't find the place where I usually put it! Isn't that where the tickets are?"

He reached out and pulled out the small box, "Just put it here..." The box was empty.

"What's going on? Have you taken out everything?" Liu Cuihua opened her eyes wide as she looked at the empty box.

How unjust he was. Lin Aiguo blinked and looked at Liu Cuihua and whispered: "I came in to get the ticket and looked for this box. There was nothing in it."

"Then where did my tickets go!" Liu Cuihua's heart suddenly fell to the bottom. She looked around and realized that everything around her seemed to have been touched.

"Look, was this rope placed here before?"

"I didn't move. I was still wondering why you moved my rope inexplicably..." Lin Aiguo scratched the back of his head.

"Then all the few tickets we have are gone!"

Liu Cuihua was so anxious that she couldn't hold back her tears. She rummaged around and couldn't help yelling at the man standing next to her: "What are you doing standing still? Find me quickly!"

"Our tickets and the watch are all placed in this small box!" If they can't find it, how will their family live?

"What!" Lin Aiguo then realized the seriousness of the matter, threw himself aside and started rummaging around.

"There is no..."

"nor……"

"Not at all..."

After a long time, Liu Cuihua sat on a pile of messy things, feeling despair.

He murmured: "Patriot...what should I do?"

Watches, food stamps, meat stamps and other valuables in the house were gone, and Liu Cuihua's eyes were full of confusion.In this year, I don’t even have enough to eat.

How can their family survive?
Liu Cuihua dug into her pocket and took out the crumpled five-pound food stamp left in her pocket.

"This is the only food stamp our family has."

Liu Cuihua handed the ticket to the man sitting beside her with shaking hands, his head buried in his knees.

The gray-haired man looked up, his eyes red, and the sudden blow was about to crush him. He pursed his lips tightly and slowly took the ticket from Liu Cuihua's hand.

"Is this the only ticket left in our family?"

"What about the watch?" His wife closed her eyes and shook her head, her pale and weak look reflected in her pupils. Lin Aiguo couldn't help but clenched his fists, and his back molars were almost broken with hatred.

Lin Aijun!You really want my family to be destroyed, don't you?

Holding back his hatred, Lin Aiguo stretched out the food stamps, and the words "five pounds" came into his eyes.

Tears fell on the food stamps, and were quickly wiped away by Lin Aiguo. Food stamps should not be stained with water.

"Dad? Mom? Are you looking for something in the room?" There was a sudden knock on the door, and Lin Shiru outside the room turned her head and looked at the tall man who entered the yard.

"Brother Li is coming to our house."

After hearing her daughter's words, Liu Cuihua straightened her back, sniffed to calm down, then took out her sleeves and wiped the tears from her face.

After clearing her throat, she shouted out the door: "Yan'er, greet your brother Li first. We'll come out as soon as we find him."

"Hey, okay mom." Lin Shi ran into the kitchen and filled a glass of water with an enamel cup.

In the room, Lin Aiguo carefully stroked Liu Cuihua's tear-soaked hair next to her cheek, stared at his wife's face, which had grown old after so many years of hard work, and forced a smile: "Let's go out, don't let my daughter worry."

Liu Cuihua's eyes red from crying stared at the man she had lived with for most of her life. She grabbed the man's rough hand and couldn't help but shed a few tears when she looked at the man's pale hair and slightly bent back: "Patriot, I'm sorry. you."

"No, you didn't feel sorry for me. It was me, a soft-hearted person, who felt sorry for you and our daughter and son. If it hadn't been for me..."

"Stop talking, stop talking." Liu Cuihua covered Lin Aiguo's mouth.

"Our family will be fine, believe me, Cuihua. But the food stamps are gone. I'll borrow them. If I earn more centimeters, I will be able to survive this winter."

"Look at you, you are crying so sadly again. Let our daughter see you and think so much. Wipe it quickly, wipe it quickly." Lin Aiguo took a handkerchief and carefully wiped the stains on Liu Cuihua's face little by little. Wipe away tears.

"Pfft." Liu Cuihua looked at the man who was usually taciturn and couldn't even fart when he was talking. He was as dumbfounded as when he first met her. His hands and feet were busy comforting her in a panic, and she couldn't help but laugh out loud. .

"Okay, let's go out, Li Wazi has been waiting for a long time."

Here, Li Qingshan carried the fish caught in the mountain stream into the yard.

As soon as he entered, he saw a girl wearing white and blue floral clothes and standing straight with two pigtails. The girl's big watery eyes were looking at him: "Brother Li, sit here. My mother is looking for her inside. Where’s the stuff?”

"Ahem, here you go." Li Qingshan handed over the fish in his hand.

Lin Shiru was surprised: "Brother Li, you fish..."

"Didn't you say you'd like to invite me to dinner?" Walking in empty-handed?Li Qingshan is really embarrassed.

"Squeak..." The door was opened, and Lin Aiguo and Liu Cuihua came out.

"Li Wazi, what are you doing?" Where did the fish come from?

 Ah, I got the chapter name wrong when I entered the volume, >_<.

  My dears, please forgive me! qrz.
  
 
(End of this chapter)

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