The reborn peasant girl has space for farming

Chapter 697: Almost out of food

There are many adobes made of loess piled beside the back wall of the family home. They were made some time ago when we were trying to prevent big insects. Now they have become the steps of Baimei River. It takes almost three or two steps to cross the wall.

Jiu Sheng moved faster. He jumped over the wall with a slight jump, and the very sensible cat landed next to Bai Meixi.

"Sister, I'm going to see if anyone is there first." Jiu Sheng whispered in Bai Meixi's ear. The Cheng family was particularly quiet today, which made Jiu Sheng feel strange. Now the two old people are at home, and the younger sister of the Cheng family I and several other children didn’t go to school, so how could there be no sound at all.

Bai Meixi also followed. She held Jiu Sheng's arm tightly to prevent him from taking a step away.She had already made a plan. If she met a married woman, she would drag Jiu Sheng into the space to avoid being nagged by them.

Bai Meixi and Jiu Sheng soon arrived at the door of the second elder of the married family. The two elderly people were lying on the bed and looked like they were sleeping soundly. Bai Meixi felt that the second elder of the married family looked thinner and looked very poor. It seemed that they were not. Well looked after.

"Why are you making porridge again today? After drinking porridge, I feel weak. I have to go to the toilet all the time at night. It's not convenient for our parents to move. They peed on the bed yesterday."

Cheng Haiqiang's voice came from the kitchen. Bai Meixi immediately covered Jiu Sheng's mouth, walked close to the kitchen with cat steps, and then ducked into the space.

Bai Meixi used the door of the small courtyard. Even if she stood inside the door, she could see the situation outside. This method was equivalent to being invisible in front of Cheng Haiqiang and his wife. No matter what they said, she could hear everything. Clearly.

"My sister-in-law can take care of them when they peed on the bed. Why are you so anxious? You don't even look at how much money you have at home. If this continues, you won't even be able to drink porridge."

Wu Qin suddenly threw the spoon into the big pot. The porridge she cooked was so thin that it could lift the chopsticks. A normal person would not be full at all and could only barely avoid starving to death.

"How could the family have no money? Didn't the third child send another 50 yuan back? The fifth child also sent back 20 yuan, which is enough for our family to eat for two months."

Cheng Haiqiang felt uneasy feeling his empty stomach. In the past two days, he had gone to pick up the remittance orders at home, and handed them to Wu Qin as soon as he came back. However, the figures in the public accounts did not match at all, and Wu Qin's account books did not match them. Without the 70 yuan, there would still be a balance of more than ten yuan. Of course, this amount of money is not enough to feed the family for a week.

"Shut up! What did I tell you? Don't mention those two remittance orders again. They are all in the public account. Otherwise, how can I have the money to go to the hospital to give birth to the baby?"

Wu Qin embezzled a lot of money from the public account. She asked Cheng Haiyi again and again to ask for money. At first, Cheng Haiyi gave it to his parents, but as time went by, the money in his hands was limited, so he had to cut it off. Wu Qin thought, so Wu Qin reached out to Cheng Haiwen again. Cheng Haiwen just received his internship salary this month and sent it all back without keeping a penny. In the end, not a penny was spent on his parents.

Bai Meixi feels that Wu Qin has gone too far. Bai Meixi can tolerate her greed for money, but now she is obviously abusing two old people, which Bai Meixi absolutely cannot tolerate.

It's just that she couldn't understand Cheng Haiqiang's position. He was the biological son of the second elder of a married family. Could he just watch them suffer here and die of cold and hunger?

"Sister, what are you looking at?" Jiu Sheng couldn't see the door in front of him, and could only see Bai Meixi standing there blankly. He tugged on her clothes, trying to wake her up from her trance.

"I'm fine. Just wait for me for a while. I'll be fine soon." Bai Meixi comforted Jiu Sheng and continued reading. Except for Cheng Haiqiang and his wife, no one else was at home, which made Bai Meixi feel strange. Now that Cheng Haishuang is no longer in school, how could Wu Qin let her go and not let her do some work at home? Besides, the sister-in-law has always been the main force in the family, so how could Wu Qin be so kind as to let her have a day off?

Cheng Haiqiang and his wife were silent in the kitchen for a while, but Cheng Haiqiang broke the deadlock first. He poured the porridge in the pot into a small bowl, and drank a bowl first to satisfy his hunger.

He knew that Wu Qin had a lot of money in his hands, and was still eating alone behind his back, only watching the married people starve. This incident made him extremely dissatisfied. Although his previous daughter-in-law was also at odds with her parents-in-law, she never He had not treated himself badly, at least he had never been hungry before, and it was not as easy as now to drink gruel.

"Xiao Qin, you'd better take out some money. If Haiwu comes back and sees you one day and gives this to the second elder, he will have to beat me to death."

Cheng Haiqiang wanted Wu Qin to spit out some of his private money, so that he could fry a bowl of Chinese cabbage for the two old people so that they could have a full meal.

"Don't mention Cheng Haiwu. I don't believe that he didn't get a penny as an apprentice. I heard that his parents were injured and didn't even send a penny back. It's better not to have such a son."

Wu Qin spread his anger on Cheng Haiwu. In his opinion, everyone in the Cheng family owed her, and no matter how much money she asked for, they deserved it.Cheng Haiwu refused her exploitation, which was unkind and unfilial.

Bai Meixi felt that Wu Qin was getting more and more outrageous and actually wanted to drain the whole family's money. Cheng Haiwu was probably holding a lot of anger in his heart and planned to beat Wu Qin up.

Cheng Haiqiang and Wu Qin were arguing fiercely. The noise also woke up the two elders of the Cheng family. Bai Meixi's father-in-law reluctantly pushed his body up from the bed and shouted towards the kitchen.

"If you can't survive, get out of here, we don't need you here!" Bai Meixi's father-in-law was so angry that he shut Wu Qin up. She was silent for two seconds and then threw the spoon into the pot. , strode back to his room and slammed the door.

There was a snack in Wu Qin's room. In addition to a bag of cakes, there were also two pounds of walnut cakes, which she bought in the town. Whenever the second elder of the family made her unhappy, she would hide in the room and eat snacks.

After all, Cheng Haiqiang still cared about his biological parents. He poured the porridge into a bowl and threw it on the table, waiting for the elder sister-in-law of the Cheng family to come back and feed the two old people.

The eldest sister-in-law of the Cheng family came back just in time. Just after twelve o'clock, she walked into the house with her children and went directly into the kitchen to find something to eat. Bai Meixi noticed that the eldest sister-in-law was holding half a cabbage in her hand, with two pieces of cabbage mixed in it. eggs.

The sister-in-law beat the eggs into the porridge, cut the cabbage into thin strips and cooked it with the porridge. The porridge that originally had only a few grains of rice instantly turned into a porridge with eggs and lettuce. It is nutritious and easy to swallow. The child cooperated very well and took the porridge back to his room to eat, and also placed two bowls in the room of the second oldest child in the family.

Bai Meixi felt that the family had undergone earth-shaking changes in the past few days. Her sister-in-law, who had always been submissive, actually had private money to buy things!

(End of this chapter)