Big businessman and little fisherman

Chapter 157 Lost
When Lu Quan came back, Lu Yange had already had dinner and gone to bed.

Qiu came back early, holding a large bag of yellow paper, and was busy folding paper-cut money as soon as he entered the door.

Seeing her busy and sullen face, the children didn't dare to mention the matter of the stove in front of her, and she didn't know that Xiao Li and Xiao Si had dug out the things she had hidden.

As soon as Lu Quan came home, he saw his daughter-in-law stacking ingots with the lights on in the house. He glanced at the fact that the five children were not there, and he could vaguely hear Xiao Wu's voice in the room of the three sisters.

"I'm home."

Mrs. Qiu was busy folding the ingots without lifting her buttocks, "The small fish pot stickers and corn noodle porridge for dinner are all warm in the pot, you can serve them yourself."

"Ah."

Lu Quan glanced at the ingots in the basket, "Have you gone to find Li Banxian? What do you mean?"

"What did you say, burn it." Qiu was afraid that the children would hear it, so she didn't want to say more, "Go and eat, wash up after eating, and talk about it later."

That probably has something, it's inconvenient to say now.

After Lu Quan ate and burned his feet, Lu Xiaowu had already sent them to their room.The lights in the girls' rooms have been turned off, and voices can still be heard vaguely.In Xiao Si's room, when he entered the door, the lights were dimly lit, and he didn't know if the child was asleep or not.

After finally coaxing Xiao Wu to sleep, Qiu Shi and Lu Quan folded all the ingots, and it was already midnight.

Qiu packed the folded ingots and paper money on the table and put them into a basket, looked at Xiao Si who was sleeping soundly, and handed the basket in his hand to Lu Quan, and said in a low voice, "I'll go to the kitchen to get the spirit card, It will be burned on the southern slope later.”

Lu Quan didn't like to talk, so he just said "um".

When Qiu entered the kitchen, lit the oil lamp and groped among the piles of firewood, Lu Quan stood in the yard with a basket and waited.

It was also strange today, he and Zhang San went to the net, and went back and forth five times, there were a lot of fish and shrimp, but not a single red carp.

Zhang San and the others didn't believe in evil, so they simply set up six or seven nets on the other side, and planned to collect them tomorrow morning.

They didn't believe that he was able to catch two red carp, but they didn't have one.

If they still miss one tomorrow morning, I don't know if Zhang San and the others will think that he didn't take the right place.

Lu Quan sighed faintly, and saw Mrs. Qiu running out of the kitchen in a panic: "Master, then...that thing is gone."

For no reason, in the cold night, a cool breeze blew up Lu Quan's back.

"Where did you hide, why did you disappear?" Lu Quan put down the basket and followed Qiu into the kitchen again.

With the dim light of the oil lamp, the couple rummaged through the pile of firewood, kindling, and broken grass behind the stove, but there was nothing but a few ground beetles running out of the dark corner.

Lu Quan was a little anxious: "Why not? Where did you hide it? Did you remember it wrong?"

"It can't be wrong." Qiu shook her head, and glanced quickly at the crude stove. She remembered very clearly that she hid the spirit card in the pile of broken grass, and there were also special piles of igniter and fire on it. firewood.

Those grasses were left from the fire on weekdays. Xiao Si said that these grasses were not easy to start a fire, and the fire in the pot was too high, so she made a pile of them, and sent them to the mound next to the latrine for composting.

Because some time ago, Qiu found that there were ground beetles under the pile of broken grass, so she simply didn't clean up the broken grass, and let the ground beetles crawl around in the pile of broken grass.

Thinking, after raising them for a period of time, these wood beetles can be exchanged for a few cents at the pharmacy in the town.

Now, she and Lu Quan rummaged through the pile of broken grass in one corner, and the spirit card hidden under the pile of grass, including the red cloth wrapped in it, was gone.

Lu Quan took a deep breath and asked in a deep voice, "Who lit the fire at night?"

"Yes, it's Xiaosi."

When Qiu came back, he folded the ingots, and Xiaoqing cooked the dinner.During the meal, Xiaoyu said with a smile, did Xiaosi feel stupid today, and even competed with her to start the fire.

At that time, Qiu's mind was full of things, and he didn't think much about it at all. Now that he thinks about it, he feels something is wrong.

Lu Quan also felt that this was strange, he poked his head and glanced at Xiao Si's room, it was dark, and he didn't know if Xiao Si had picked up the spirit card.

Xiaosi can read and write, thinking that if Xiaosi saw her name on the spirit card, she would not know what to think in her heart, Lu Quan and Qiu Shi were at a loss for a while.

Qiu Shi: "The head of the house, what should I do, why don't you ask Xiaosi?"

"Forget it." Lu Quan thought for a while, then sighed, "Find a bag to put the folded ingots and paper money in, and wait until Xiaosi gets up tomorrow morning."

Regardless of whether Xiao Si took the thing or not, he would always be able to see the clues tomorrow morning, and if it really didn't work, he would ask Xiao Si to ask.

Qiu Shi also felt that it was not good to wake up Xiaosi in the middle of the night and ask about this matter.

The couple quietly went back to the east room, tidied up and went to bed.

In the east wing, Grandma Chen turned over and coughed softly.

I don't know what Lu Quan and his wife are busy in the middle of the night. Qiu has folded so many ingots and paper money, but he never heard them open the yard door and go out to burn.

Could it be that this ingot is still reserved for the Chinese New Year?
As people grow older and feel less, Grandma Chen turned over again and fell asleep after a long time.

Early the next morning, Qiu rolled over and got out of bed before dawn.

She didn't sleep well that night, lying on the bed tossing and turning.At first, Lu Quan couldn't sleep, and he could talk to her, but then Lu Quan started talking, and Qiu couldn't sleep even more.

I wondered in my heart whether the spirit card was picked up by Xiao Si, and secretly thought that Lu Quan was so heartless that he fell asleep after such a big matter.

She wished she could pinch Lu Quan hard to wake him up from his snoring.

He stretched out his hand, then retracted it.

The head of the family returned from rowing in Dongyang County early in the morning, and before taking a breather after eating, Zhang San and the others called him out to cast a net.

After tossing and coming back after dark, I must be tired.

I really want to pinch him awake, it seems that I can't justify it.

Finally at dawn, Mrs. Qiu squinted for a while, and then heard the sound of a rooster crowing.

Qiu Shi got up early, and Grandma Chen next door also got up early.

Grandma Chen still cooks porridge in the old small clay stove, which is placed in a corner of Lu's kitchen.Mrs. Qiu was cooking porridge on the big pot in the kitchen, and the two of them were chatting one after another.

When it was dawn, Lu Quan and several children got up one after another, Xiaoqing and Xiaoli went to the vegetable field, and Xiaoyu swept the yard with a broom.

When the sky was bright, even Lu Xiaowu got up, put on his clothes and was carried out by Lu Xiaoqing,

Qiu Shi glanced at Westinghouse, and couldn't help frowning.

Why hasn't this little four woke up yet?

Lu Xiaoli put down the vegetables he picked early in the morning and asked, "Mom, what's for breakfast?"

"Eat corn noodle porridge." Qiu Shi pulled Lu Xiaoli away and ordered, "Xiaoli, go and see why Xiaosi hasn't woken up yet."

"Okay, I'll go."

Lu Xiaoli took a chicken feather as an arrow, and excitedly went to Lu Xiaosi's room and smashed the door.

Unexpectedly, after banging for a long time, there was no sound in the room.

(End of this chapter)