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Chapter 114 Copying Xu Laowen’s Small Treasury

Putting down the phone, Xu Ning did not leave in a hurry. Instead, he chatted with Du Shoucai for a non-nutritious meal. Because Chai Bing was sitting in the room, and Du Shoucai was very observant, the topic was not interesting.

Instead, he kept nagging about the fucked-up things Xu Ning and Li Fuqiang did when they were young.

While letting Chai Bing get to know the two of them, he also developed feelings for Xu Ning and Li Fuqiang.

Du Shoucai is a very particular person. He loves old friendships and is willing to help anyone with anything.

The popularity in the village is quite good, and the people in the village think highly of him, otherwise he would not be able to be the branch secretary of the village.

However, everyone has close relatives far and wide. Du Shoucai had a very good relationship with Xu Chunlin and Wang Erli, and the three of them hung out together frequently when they were young.

Because they were busy with the autumn harvest, Xu Ning's father left Xu and Wang in the care of Du Shoucai's mother.

That was more than thirty years ago. There was an old woman with more than ten children. Think about how much trouble there was.

After chatting for a while, Xu Ning was about to stand up and leave. Du Shoucai laughed and scolded and sent the three of them out of the camp.

Looking at the car leaving, Du Shoucai murmured in his heart: This time Xu Laowang got it. He never thought in his life that Xu Erning could learn well.

Chai Bing drove straight along the street to Lao Xu's house. Xu Ning originally wanted to send half a fan of wolf meat directly to Meng Ziyan, but he thought that he had agreed to buy ice cream for Meng Ziyan last time. What if he went now? Put it in her hand, then Meng Ziyan can't have a bad night?

Therefore, he thought it would be better to wait until he came back from the street tomorrow before delivering meat to Meng Laizi. It would be the same day.

Xu family, outhouse.

Steam rushed out from the edge of the pot and filled the room with heat. Smoke flowed out from the two stove pits, making Wang Shujuan and Han Fengjiao burst into tears and cough violently. The reason for the smoky fire was that the chimney was blocked.

As soon as Xu Ning and the others entered the courtyard, they saw Wang Hu and Xu Long stepping on a wooden ladder, leading a two-meter-long ash tree to the chimney with rag strips tied to their heads.

Li Fuqiang raised his head and asked, "Why is the chimney blocked?"

"Yeah, these days, the smoke pipe is full of ash." Xu Long lowered his head and replied.

"Can you fix it? No, you come down and I'll go up and fix it."

"It's almost done. Brother Qiang and Third Brother, please come into the house quickly."

Xu Ning took a quick glance without saying a word, then opened the door and walked into the outer room. He looked at the thick smoke in the room and frowned to find his mother's location.

Liu Lizhen was squatting in front of the stove and coughing. Xu Ning walked over and said, "Mom, our old house is old. It's no longer good. It really needs to be rebuilt."

Liu Lizhen covered her mouth and nose with her coat sleeve, raised her head and said, "Then we can't wait until you are completely stable?"

"Wait for me? Haha? Let's build it first and live there first."

Liu Lizhen pulled him, looked at Chai Bing and Li Fuqiang who had just entered the door, and said, "Qiangzi, please pull the curtain and run away."

"Hey." Li Fuqiang turned around and put the curtain on the top of the door, then entered the east room with Chai Bing.

Xu Ning stood at the door of the house, took a look, and said, "Oh my god, let's just build it during the Chinese New Year. If we build a new house, everything will be solved."

"Do you think building a house is so easy? Your father and I will think about it. Next year, we will pay more attention to it. We can save enough money to build a house and marry you a wife. The year after that will be enough."

Now that mom and dad have discussed it, Xu Ning didn’t say anything else. She just bent down and said with a grin: “Oh my god, are you still thinking about renovating the terrazzo floor?”

Liu Lizhen had a smile on her face and couldn't help but give him a blank look, "You fucker, just hook me like this. I can't sleep just thinking about the ground. Go back to the house and make some tea for your third brother and the others."

Xu Ning grinned and walked into the room to make some tea for Chai Bing and Li Fuqiang.

Just after pouring the water, Xu Long and Wang Hu also rubbed their hands and entered the house.

Xu Long came closer to Xu Ning and winked at him from time to time, causing Xu Ning to turn her head away to avoid his urgent gaze.

Finally getting annoyed with Xu Ning, he turned to stare at Xu Long and said: "For that little money, you don't want to let your brother rest, do you?"

Xu Long covered his mouth and said quietly: "I'm afraid you've forgotten. Keep your voice down so your sister-in-law can listen."

"If you stick to me again, I'll tell my sister-in-law, do you understand?"

"Hey...why are you like this? Didn't you already agree!"

"Then wait a moment and I'll get the money for you."

Xu Long nodded happily when he heard this, and saw Xu Ning getting up and walking towards the outhouse, but he did not stay in the outhouse, but went straight out and went to the latrine.

First, he untied his trousers and then looked up at the tiles of the latrine. He opened the second tile from the left and saw the instant noodle bag pressed underneath.

I counted it against the wall and found it was exactly 200 yuan!

He counted out 50, then put the remaining 150 into his pocket, stuffed some corn leaves into the instant noodle bag, and pressed it under the tile again.

At present, he has a total of 372 yuan and 6 cents in his pocket, of which 200 yuan was bought by Xu Laowen for teasing before leaving for Wangxing. The remaining 22 yuan and 6 cents were what he originally had in his pocket. He has no chance to spend these days. Except for buying something for Chai Liangyu, Chang Danian, and Xu Pao, he didn't spend a penny. It wasn't that he couldn't bear to part with it, but he didn't have the money to spend it.

When he returned to the house, he waved to Xu Long, and the boss got up and ran over.

When he quietly handed the 50 yuan change to Xu Long's hand, Xu Long immediately smiled and hurriedly put the money into his sleeves, then grinned at Xu Ning and mouthed: Good brother!

In the room, Chai Bing, Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu didn't pay attention, thinking that the two brothers were exchanging feelings. How could they possibly want to have such a dirty deal.

Xu Long took the money and hurried back to the West Room, not knowing where he hid the money.

After the previous incident, Xu Long didn't believe in Xu Laowen's ability to hide money, so this time he thought about hiding it on his own. As the saying goes, it's better to believe in heaven and earth than to believe in yourself!

Xu Ning saw him running away, then grinned and said to himself: I'll let you and your son do well, let's see how you two do well this time!

He opened the door curtain and came to the outer room and said to Liu Lizhen: "Oh my God! Can I tell you something?"

"Just tell me if you have anything to do! Don't keep yelling like a ghost."

Xu Ning took out 150 yuan from his pocket and said, "I just went to the latrine to pick up 150 yuan. Did you drop it?"

"What?"

Liu Lizhen was shocked when she heard this. She quickly stood up and stared at Xu Ning, then lowered her head to look at the money in his hand. For a moment, she couldn't turn her head around. Almost everyone inside and outside the house listened.

Han Fengjiao, Wang Shujuan and Yang Shuhua suddenly thought of a possibility, but none of them said a word.

After hearing this, Li Fuqiang, Chai Bing and Wang Hu in the east room looked at each other and grinned.

After being together for such a long time, they knew very well how damaged Xu Ning was.

In the West Room, Xu Long was about to stuff the 50 yuan that his brother had just given him into the crack under the kang cabinet. When he heard this, he froze.

He slowly turned his head and looked at the door curtain of the west room, gritted his teeth and said: "This bastard, he actually failed to fall into the plan of alienation!"

Immediately, he hurriedly stuffed the money into the crack, then lay on the kang, squinting his eyes and pretending to sleep.

In the outer room, Liu Lizhen blinked her eyes twice. As if she had a clear mind, she knew that this must be hidden by Xu Laowen.

But she never expected that Xu Laowen actually hid so much money! If ten or twenty yuan was just that much, she would turn a blind eye and pretend not to notice it, but this was 150 yuan!

Is he so brave as a bear's heart or a leopard's? Dare to hide so much money, it is really too much.

But there were people inside and outside the house. Even Han Fengjiao and others knew it in their hearts, but Liu Lizhen had to save some face for Xu Laowen.

"Ah, maybe I dropped it, why did you pick it up?"

"I'm lucky. Mom, let me discuss something with you. I'm not allowed to go shopping on the street. I'll just take the money first. I'll get it back to you when there's more left. How about it? "

Liu Lizhen waved her hand and said, "Just take the flowers you picked up, and don't spend them blindly. If I know you're making money, I'll have your head ripped off."

"Hey, don't worry, I won't be able to say anything for sure."

"Don't forget to buy the cream for Zi Yan. Your dad was nagging you a lot that day, Uncle Meng, and told you to stay together for half a year and get married the year after tomorrow."

"Well, I know. I haven't asked you yet, what happened to my dad that day? Brother Manzhi called me on the phone and told me that my dad had a runny nose and burst into tears. He was so bloody that he was bleeding all over the village. Huoleng woke up, what happened?"

When Liu Lizhen thought of this, she said angrily: "Your father went to meet Diao Chan at night!"

"What?"

Immediately, Liu Lizhen briefly told the story of Xu Laowen's night meeting with Diao Chan. While talking, she gritted her teeth, her belly bulged with anger, and her nostrils were gasping for breath.

After hearing this, Xu Ning felt happy in her heart, feeling numb all over her body and quite energetic.

He said with concern: "Mom, how is my dad doing these two days? Is there nothing serious wrong with him?"

"What could be wrong? If there was something wrong, I would have told you already. It's nothing, just a cut on the forehead."

"Ah! Then this money..."

Liu Lizhen stared blankly at him, "You can just keep it, and then you can tell me that I picked it up, do you understand?"

"Hey!" Xu Ning responded and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Hey! Mom, where did you pick up the 150 yuan? Hey, did you give it to me? Haha, thank you mom, my mom is so kind!"

After saying that, Xu Ning hugged Liu Lizhen and kissed him twice on the cheek. Liu Lizhen wiped his spittle with disgust, raised her hand and slapped him twice. She gritted her teeth and said angrily: "Get out of here! You are really bad, annoying."

"Hahaha……"

Han Fengjiao, Yang Shuhua and Wang Shujuan in the outer room couldn't hold back and started laughing.

Li Fuqiang, Xu Long and others from Dongxiwu are also happy.

But after Xu Long was happy, he felt something was wrong and muttered: What does this move belong to? To lure the tiger away from the mountain...play hard to catch? Hey, dad, even your own son can't save you in this matter, you can only protect yourself!

Xu Ning has long wanted to steal Xu Laowen's small treasury. There is no other reason. The main reason is that it is too boring to leave it at home and has nothing to do.

Besides, Xu Laowen likes to raise his head when he has a little money and starts acting like a monster... After careful calculation, he should have 205 left in his small treasury. What happened to the 5 yuan that disappeared?

Xu Ning thought that it was because of the night party with Diao Chan that he bought cigarettes and went to kill people in the forest farm. As the saying goes, eating people has short mouths and short hands, so Xu Laowen had to spend a lot of money to silence them!

Xu Ning opened the door curtain of the west room and saw Xu Long sleeping on the kang. He said to himself: "My mother picked up 150 yuan, do you know?"

Xu Long closed his eyes, as if snoring, and uttered "Yeah!" ’, then turned over and turned his face to the edge of the kang.

Xu Ning smiled after seeing it, turned around and walked out.

At this time, Wang Shujuan hurriedly held his arms with both hands and asked quietly: "Has your brother hidden any money?"

Xu Ning nodded, stretched out his palm and shook it in front of his sister-in-law.

"Five dollars?"

Xu Ning shook his head.

"Fifty?"

Seeing him nod, Wang Shujuan immediately frowned.

At this time, Xu Ning said with a smile: "The one I just gave was originally 200, and I gave him 50 as hush money."

"Ah, that's okay."

Xu Ning looked down at her and said, "Tomorrow I will go to the street and buy you some cream, so we can take care of it for a while."

Wang Shujuan smiled happily when she heard this and grinned: "Hey, I don't want it, you can keep the flowers for yourself."

"Then my sister-in-law is so kind to me, why can't I shave my beard?"

"Haha, it's better to be my brother."

"That must be the case!"

(End of this chapter)