Chapter 464 Qin Huairu, are you eating alone?

Chapter 464 Qin Huairu, are you eating alone?

"Qin Huairu, you useless thing, why did you come back empty-handed?" Jia Zhang raised her triangular eyes and asked unhappily, "Did you come back full?"

"I'm telling you, if you dare to eat alone, I will discipline you on behalf of Dongxu today!"

Jia Zhang was looking forward to it at home, but in the end, she got a big empty bowl.

This is just asking for trouble!

"Mom, He Yushui was about to give in, but unexpectedly, Sha Zhu's wife showed up. That woman is not a good person. Not only did she not lend us anything, she even wanted us to return the food we had borrowed."

Qin Huairu curled her lips and exaggerated the situation: "You also know how much food we borrowed from Sha Zhu's family. If they really come after us, we can't pay it back."

Although the Jia family seemed to be doing well on the surface, they were actually penniless.

No, even the house doesn’t belong to them for the time being, it’s not even a home with nothing.

The only sewing machine that I had before was taken away by people from the next yard. The most valuable thing in the house now is probably the big iron pot in the kitchen.

But I can’t take this pot out to exchange for money, otherwise even if I buy food I won’t be able to eat it.

As expected, Jia Zhang became nervous after hearing this.

"No, there's no point in returning the food that was lent out. Can't Shazhu's wife afford to live?"

Qin Huairu couldn't help but feel relieved when she saw this, thinking that this reason was just enough to suppress Jia Zhang.

But Jia Zhang's next sentence completely paralyzed Qin Huairu.

"Since the Shazhu family is so heartless, why don't you go and borrow from other families? There are so many households in this courtyard. If you borrow from the front yard to the back yard, you can at least borrow a hundred kilograms of food. If we save this food, it will last us for a long time."

Borrowing from the front yard to the back yard? And borrowing hundreds of kilograms of food?

When Qin Huairu heard this, she almost fainted.

"I...I also have to have some dignity!"

Qin Huairu was almost crying. If she really had to borrow money from every household in the front yard to get to the back yard, how would she face people in the courtyard in the future?

This is so unaffordable.

"If you don't go, do you want me to go?"

Jia Zhang's triangular eyes glared at me, as if she was going to eat someone: "It's okay for you to go hungry for a meal or two, but Dongxu and I still have to go to work to make money. If we starve to death, our family will fall apart."

"How about we go together?" Qin Huairu said reluctantly.

"Qin Huairu, are you......"

"I'll go, I'll go. I'll go, why not?" Qin Huairu saw that Jia Zhang was about to explode, and hurriedly said, "Then can you go and borrow some cabbage from someone? We've eaten all the vegetables at home."

Jia Zhang nodded in satisfaction after hearing this: "Okay, it's just cabbage. Yi Zhonghai has plenty in his cellar. I'll go borrow a few."

"Mom, how could Yi Zhonghai lend it to us when both our families are in the same situation?" Qin Huairu felt that Jia Zhang was dreaming.

Before, Yi Zhonghai could easily borrow money, let alone cabbage.

But that was only before. Now, don’t even think about borrowing a needle from Yi Zhonghai.

They are even more heartless than Sha Zhu.

"Do you care?"

Jia Zhang gave Qin Huairu a cold look, twisted her fat body and walked out of the door.

In her opinion, Yi Zhonghai and Sha Zhu were both taken advantage of, and it was only natural for her to take food from them. If Yi Zhonghai dared to quarrel with her over a few cabbages, she would jump up and quarrel with them.

After all, cabbage is the cheapest vegetable. You can buy it for just one cent, and you can buy many pounds at a time. The leftovers can be stored in the cellar, where they can be preserved for a long time.

It's not just Yi Zhonghai's family that has a cellar in the courtyard, many other residents' families also have one.

The Jia family didn’t have that. They didn’t have the habit of storing grain and vegetables.

Qin Huairu watched Jia Zhangshi leave the house so arrogantly, shook her head with a headache, and was too lazy to care.

She planned to go to the front yard to borrow some food from the three aunts, and then go to a few other easy-to-talk-to people to borrow some more, just to get through these few days.

"Hey, who was that sneaky figure just now?"

Xu Damao and Liu Guangqi had just come out of the backyard when they vaguely saw a figure flash by.

It was so fast that neither of them could see who it was.

But Xu Damao's brain was better than Liu Guangqi's, and he said without thinking: "Jia Zhang, she is the fattest in the courtyard except your father."

Liu Guangqi nodded in agreement when he heard this and did not feel offended.

In this era, being fat is a symbol of strength, and ordinary people don’t have the conditions to gain weight.

"Was he chased by a dog?" Liu Guangqi couldn't help but mutter.

"Just go and take a look and you'll know." Xu Damao felt that there must be something wrong. With Jia Zhang's personality, she would definitely not run so fast for no reason.

There must be something going on here.

Upon hearing this, Liu Guangqi simply walked forward along the wall, only to find that Jia Zhang was no longer there.

He didn't believe it and moved forward again, and sure enough he found something wrong.

"Damn, she's trying to steal something."

In order to avoid alerting the enemy, Xu Damao also followed Liu Guangqi's gaze along the wall and saw Jia Zhang pulling the bolt of the door in Yi Zhonghai's cellar.

This type of door bolt opens from the inside out and is usually not locked. A small wooden stick is just inserted symbolically to prevent mice from getting in and stealing things.

So Jia Zhang quickly opened the door of the cellar and got in in a very flexible way.

"Hiss, it turns out to be stealing."

Xu Damao scratched his chin, then reached out and patted Liu Guangqi on the shoulder.

"What are you standing there for? Call for help!"

Liu Guangqi was startled at first, then he started shouting at the top of his voice: "Hurry up, hurry up, there's a thief in the yard."

"Someone come quickly!"

Liu Guangqi acted as a loudspeaker and directly alarmed everyone in the courtyard.

At the same time, Xu Damao took a few steps to the cellar, slammed the cellar door shut, and started shouting, "Catch the thief! There's a big rat in the yard."

If it had happened before, Xu Damao would definitely not have meddled in other people's business, because he knew that the Jia family and the Yi family were in the same boat.

But now the crotch of the pants was torn, and the two families were walking on their own, which gave Xu Damao a chance to retaliate.

The onlookers in the yard heard the noise and ran out immediately.

When it comes to watching the fun, everyone's enthusiasm is extremely high.

"Who stole something? Was the thief caught?"

Sha Zhu, who lived in the middle courtyard, was the first to rush out. He was holding a spatula in his hand, and it was obvious that he was cooking.

Qin Huairu heard the noise and ran over in a hurry.

When she saw Xu Damao standing next to the cellar, her heart sank.

broken!

Could the thief Xu Damao was referring to be her brainless mother-in-law?