90s Little Struggle

Chapter 52 Doubt

On the first day at the gate of the school, the preparations were insufficient, and only 23 baskets of steamed dumplings were sold.

The main reason is that some day students have no money in their pockets, or they are worried that if they don't go back to have breakfast, their family members will worry.

What's more, the boarding students all steamed their breakfast and didn't want to waste food.

But the number of students who bought steamed dumplings increased by the next day, and [-] baskets of steamed dumplings were quickly sold. Some students even went to their store to eat dumplings.

In the next few days, business was very good.

Not only the students like to change the taste, but even the teachers come to buy it.

After all, there are no dumpling wrappers for sale yet, and it is very troublesome to eat a dumpling meal. It takes a lot of time to knead the dough, wake it up, buy meat and mince the stuffing.

Although a bowl of dumplings at [-] cents is not cheap, the teachers' wages are not low and they can afford it.

Occasionally, steamed dumplings cannot be sold if they are steamed too much. If they are steamed again, they lose their chewiness and are not fresh enough.

Xiao Hong specially ordered a large pan to turn the remaining steamed dumplings into delicious fried dumplings.

After another week like this, Xiao Hong saw that the income of her stewed chicken was about 60 yuan a day, and the income of the family was much higher. On average, she could earn [-] to [-] yuan.

She wasn't going to make any more fuss.

Mainly because these are enough for them to be busy all day.

In the evening, we will start to braise pig's head, trotters, braised chicken, and braised tea eggs.

The next day at about three o'clock in the morning, I have to get up to knead the dough and roll out the dumpling wrappers.

Open the door at [-]:[-] in the morning and be busy until [-]:[-] or [-]:[-]. After packing up, I will prepare lunch. After lunch, Uncle Zhao will go to collect chickens, or chop wood or something.

Mom has to clean up the house, do hygiene, wash and scrub.

In the afternoon, we will also sell lo mei, kill chickens, clean up pig heads, and prepare dinner.

There is hardly even time to rest.

Therefore, even if Xiao Hong still had a lot of money-making ideas in her heart, she didn't say it out, for fear of exhausting them.

Anyway, now I can eat and drink well, live a comfortable life, and I can still have an income every day. This little life is really too comfortable.

It would be better if you don't have to read.

Because reading is really exhausting.

And just when their family was living a prosperous life, Xiao Jianhua and Xiao Hong's hometown also started to demolish the house and build a new red brick house.

Before demolishing the house, the couple took out some belongings first.

In the past few days, all the furniture and other things have been moved to the village committee where I live, and they will move out the water tank and pickle tank at night.

But when lifting the water tank, for some reason, the water tank broke.

Xiao Jianhua complained to her: "It's all your fault for pushing so hard, otherwise how could such a thick water tank break?"

Liu Meijuan was very gentle in front of him: "Blame me, go to sleep first, just leave me here to clean up slowly."

Xiao Jianhua is most satisfied with her good temper: "Okay, let's come together."

There is no need to worry about broken tanks, they will quickly get out the broken tanks.

Later, Xiao Jianhua found that the water in the water tank was seeping down quickly. He accidentally stepped on it, and the Jiefang shoes sank a little.

This made his eyes light up: "Bring me a hoe."

When he was a child, his father loved him very much. After drinking too much, he told him that a lot of gold was buried in this house, and he would give it to him in the future so that he could live a good life.

Later, his father died unexpectedly, but he left no last words.

But Xiao Jianhua has been thinking about this matter in his heart.

So in the past few days, he moved the things at home and dug a lot of places along the way.

For example, the room where his parents lived, and some places he thought were special, had been dug up by him.

Unfortunately, Bai worked hard for several days, but still got nothing.

But now he found something unusual.

The water seeped so fast that there might be real gold underneath.

In fact, this is also because when Xiao Hong took the gold earlier, he dug up the soil and moved the box away, so the water naturally leaked down.

Liu Meijuan also knew what he was looking for, so she hurried to get a hoe, and the couple dug up the bluestone slab within a few hoes.

At this moment, the couple burst out laughing excitedly.

They all felt that they had dug up the gold left by Father Xiao.

When they carefully removed the bluestone slab, they found that it was empty underneath.

This is simply a bolt from the blue.

It can be said that one moment he was happy as if he was floating in the sky, but the next moment he was like entering the gate of hell.

"How is it possible?" Xiao Jianhua couldn't believe that his family's gold would disappear, it was left to him by his father.

He went crazy, and swung his hoe to dig down desperately.

It must be a blindfold, the gold must still be down there.

It's a pity that the real treasure has been taken away by Xiao Hong. After digging hard for more than an hour, they dug up everything nearby, but they didn't see anything good.

Xiao Jianhua sat down on the mud pile in despair: "Why is the gold missing? Who stole my gold?"

There must have been treasures in the space under the bluestone slab, otherwise it would have been impossible to make it like this.

But now that the gold is gone, someone must have preempted it.

The first thing Xiao Jianhua thought of was his own brother: "My elder brother must have done it secretly!"

Liu Meijuan didn't get dizzy: "But when they came back last time, they stayed at home for a day when it was Qingming, and there was no one in the house. Even if they wanted to do it, they didn't have a chance?"

"Then who else is it?" Xiao Jianhua's suspicious eyes fell on her.

But thinking that even she didn't know where the gold was buried, how could she know?

Fortunately, Liu Meijuan didn't know what he was thinking. On the contrary, she also had the object of suspicion: "Tell me, could this good thing be in the hands of your ex-wife?"

"How is it possible?" Xiao Jianhua rolled his eyes at her: "I don't even know, how could she know?"

"But our granddaughter was partial to Xiao Hong when she was alive, and she didn't like me, she liked the one in front of you." Liu Meijuan was really unwilling to be reconciled to her mother-in-law's partiality, and she thought a little more: "Could it be The mother-in-law told them quietly? Otherwise, who would find such a secret place?"

Anyway, when she thought that a box of gold might fall into their hands, she was so angry that her heart ached.

"Impossible," Xiao Jianhua's tone became less firm, gritting his teeth: "Even if my grandma favors them, she wouldn't give them all. The palms and backs of the hands are full of flesh. My eldest brother and I are her own."

Liu Meijuan heard it, and he also suspected that he had fallen in love with his ex-wife and daughter. Naturally, he wanted to make him resent them even more: "That's not sure, maybe our grandma told Xiao Hong before she died?"

"Maybe our grandma meant to let us share the gold equally, but their mother and daughter saw the money and took it all to themselves?"

(End of this chapter)