Hard times have room

Chapter 23

Li Cao put his handle on the bulge in the middle of the door, and with both hands, he lifted it up, moved the door to the right and opened a gap where the handle can be inserted, then stretched his right hand inward, pushed in the wood that fastens the door, and moved the door back to its original position. , At this time, just push the door, and the door opens.

When I went in, I saw that Mrs. Li's room was still the same as before. It had not been moved in the past few days. The bed was on the left, and facing the back door was a large cabinet. This cabinet was both tall and large. Only when the arm is straight can it barely reach the top, and the fingers of both hands can reach both sides of the cabinet.

Li Cao knew that this cabinet was bought by the Li family when she was eight years old, and it was said that it took a lot of food to make it.

After that, Mrs. Li liked to hide all the important things in the cabinet, such as clothes, fabrics, sugar, biscuits, money tickets and refined grains.

There was a small copper lock on the top of the cabinet. Li Cao knew that only Mrs. Li had the key to the cabinet, and it was strung with the key to the main entrance of Mrs. Li's house.

Li Cao couldn't get the key to the wardrobe, and she didn't plan to move the wardrobe now in the clear sky. Her purpose this time was to put things next to Mrs. Li's wardrobe.

Mrs. Li's room is very dark, and there is only one small window in the whole room. It is difficult for people who are not familiar with the layout of the room to find what they want.

Li Cao is familiar with this place because she has to change the bed for Mrs. Li every year, and she has to clean the room every one or two months. The sweet potatoes that she carries back from the cellar every winter and spring are also stored in Mrs. Li's house. , Can you not be familiar with it after so many years?

Li Cao walked straight to the wooden box next to the closet with the basket on his back, took off the wooden board above it, and was very familiar with it and took out a bag of about 4 kilograms of soybeans from it. This is what Mrs. Li took out two days ago. Those who are going to plant in the wasteland and private land behind the house, when the rapeseed in the private land is harvested, the soybeans will be planted immediately.

A bag of cornmeal is about 6 kilograms. This type of cornmeal is ground with corn kernels and corncob. The grinding disc in the village is not very fine, and it tastes very choking. However, when this family is in a spring drought, this grain is not bad. .

There are also sweet potatoes, which are the most in the box. There are 20 pieces of Li Cao, and they stop when the basket is almost full. The rest is in Mrs. Li's house. up.

The wooden box is made with wooden boards and nails. It is not good-looking or fine. It is also covered with a piece of wooden board. It is mainly used to prevent mice. It is placed next to Mrs. Li's cabinet. Three days ago, Li Cao went to the cellar to get sweet potatoes to replenish the food, so there is so much food in it today.

He put the board back on the box, carried the back basket and the sackcloth out of the room successively, and hid them in the innermost part of the firewood stack in the kitchen. Afterwards, he tied the back door of Mrs. Li's house back to her.

Li Cao went out and walked around as if nothing had happened, to see if the people next to him went to Chenjiazhuang, how many people went, and who stayed at home.

Then he went out of the village, went to the back mountain to pick up some firewood and carried it back to the Li family.

When I returned, the sky was already dark, and the moon had not yet come out. I couldn't see who was five or six meters in front of me if I didn't look closely. I could only vaguely see a figure walking around.

When I walked to the village, most of the people went to Chenjiazhuang, and most of them were only old people or women whose children were too young to leave.

There is only one family next to Li's house, that is Aunt Xiu's house. Others are seven or eight meters away from Aunt Xiu's house, not to mention Li's house.

After all, the Li family was an outsider who came here more than ten years ago. The foundation of the house was built on the outskirts of the village, and the good places in the center were all divided up for the aborigines of Shanghe Village.

After all, who doesn't want to occupy a bigger place next to their own house, encircle a yard, and plant some things. No matter how bad it is, it will always be convenient to dry things. When the children in the family grow up, they will build a house next to them. My brother is here Together, it is good to have a support and be close to the old parents.

Unless it is really at odds with my parents and brothers, I will build a new house far away from home. For example, Aunt Xiu’s house is like this. When Aunt Xiu is not separated, she likes to chew her uncle’s tongue and do it outside. I like to be lazy at work, and I also like to say goodbye to my sister-in-law when I get home. It’s unpleasant to get along with, and there are quarrels at both ends for three days. When her parents-in-law separated, her house was next to Li's house.

When Li Cao passed by Aunt Xiu's house, she found that the gate of her fence and yard was closed, and it was still tied with ropes from the outside. It seemed that Aunt Xiu's family had gone to the next village.

Li Cao put the firewood on the side of the wall, went back to the kitchen to boil water, pulled out the back basket and bag from the firewood stack, took out a dozen sweet potatoes, and buried them in the stove.

Put the sackcloth bag on the back basket, carry the back basket and walk up the path in the backyard of Li's house, out of the village, and then directly take the moonlight on the path without passing through the village, and go to Houshan Peach Blossom Forest.

Put down the back basket, open the sackcloth bag, pour the contents in the back basket, then tie the bag tightly, carry the bag to the side of the big rock, carefully use a stick to poke a hole in the thorns, and put the bag down , pushed it down again, and then restored the thorns that were picked up, and also used a stick to pick up a lot of dry thorns and spread them on it.

As long as you don't come to the Peach Blossom Forest on purpose, go around the big stone, and look carefully at the thorn bushes, otherwise you won't be able to find it.

Of course, as long as the transfer is done in time the next morning, nothing will happen.

After all, this place is also considered a secret base for Li Cao and Bao Lin, how could it be possible without some security and concealment.

Li Cao has already decided to run away, and it is basically impossible to return to Shanghe Village after that. This is a little bit of her affection for Paulin and her parents before they leave. After all, without the permission of Baolin's parents, Paulin How can I bring those things to her.

She didn't dare to tell Paulin about the escape, because Paulin is still young, as for the rest, let's go and see later!

After all, she only has a pair of legs, so at most she will go to Qingping Town or other places beyond the reach of Li's family on the back of Daqingling, make inquiries, find a good man, and be a daughter-in-law. This two-day journey is not a big problem.

Li Cao, who had returned home carefully, went back to the kitchen first, put down the back basket, pulled out the roasted sweet potato in the fire with a fire stick, picked up one and patted the ashes on it, and even chewed the meat on the belt and swallowed it down. .

In the afternoon, the bowl of sweet potato porridge she drank with the Li family had long since been left behind after such a long exercise, and her stomach was growling when she returned from Houshan Peach Blossom Forest.

It was not until I ate three roasted sweet potatoes in a row that I stopped and patted off the ash on the remaining eleven sweet potatoes and put them on the bottom of the back basket. This is the dry food for the next two days.

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