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date="2021-11-16"

title="Chapter 18 Catch and Steal!"

weight="147343"

series = ["Strict Wife of the ’70s Manages the Household"]

mode = "manual"

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When he came back from work that evening, Lin Lan went back to clean up first, look at the little ducks, and helped Han Qingsong grow vegetables that can still be grown this season.

"Tell the old lady if I can make a small bowl of noodles for Xiaowang? He has weak intestines and stomach, so he has diarrhea. Coarse grains are not easy to digest." Xiaowang followed his brother and sister out the day before to eat wild fruits and wild grass roots and had diarrhea, although it has stopped. Diarrhea but lingering without appetite.

Lin Lan felt so distressed that he wanted to get some fine grains to eat, but the grains at home were all in the hands of the old lady.

Han Qingsong also cares about Xiaowang very much, "I will talk to my mother."

Although he didn't say it, he saw it in his eyes. Lin Lan was dressed in shabby clothes, her body was so thin that she didn't have any flesh, and her waist was so thin that he could pinch it off with one hand. Let's take a look at my own children, one by one, yellow and thin. Dawang didn't see anyone for three days, just like a wild boy. Although Erwang's wheat ears are slightly clean, the clothes are also unsightly. Not to mention Sanwang, soaking in the river all day, with only a torn pants on his body. Xiaowang's eyes are not good, and his body is worse. He is thin and small, and looks very pitiful with big head and big eyes.

He sent Er Wang to talk to Xiu Wang and make some noodles for Xiao Wang. He doesn't like making noodles, just some gnocchi.

Waiting for dinner, Lin Lan found that not to mention Xiaowang's noodles and noodles, even the previous cornmeal cakes were gone, and they were all replaced with dark and sloppy wowotou.

She squeezed a wowotou and tried it, and all those bitter images deep in her memory surfaced, what kind of melon and vegetable substitutes, what starch, what... after eating severe abdominal distension, constipation, and swelling all over her body...

This is clearly the wild vegetables Wowotou, maybe even mixed with the sweet potato leaves and stems ground for pigs? This is to eat the bran throat thoroughly!

The food has plummeted within two days of the separation. Do you dare not want them to come back to eat or something?

And this farmer’s meal has no technical content. For breakfast, we distill the previous cakes, wowotou, and boiled sweet potatoes. If you feel that way, cook some porridge. The staple foods such as distilled rice cakes are then cooked in salt water with dripping oil. No food for dinner will add sticky porridge or the like.

Even if Lin Lan didn't like to cook in her previous life, she knew that these meals had no technical content at all.

But, why is it so terrible for my sister-in-law to cook?

It's not just unpalatable. In the past few days-since the separation, she found that the food at home was really getting worse.

Now catch up with those people who can't open the pot that Sanwang said, "sweet potato rice, sweet potato soup, three meals a day panicked."

Take a look at the tough wow head that can kill the dog in your hand!

This kind of wowotou is mixed with sweet potato leaves and sweet potato stems. The three-year difficult period called "starch" is a kind of meal replacement. People will experience constipation if they eat it. In severe cases, the whole body will be swollen and even the stomach will be distended.

The old Han family returned to the pre-liberation overnight.

Lin Lan was so angry that adults would not be able to eat this, and children's so tender intestines and stomachs would be stunted, not to mention Xiao Wang was still ill!

She glanced at the old lady, who said alive that she had a bad appetite.

The few big men didn't say anything, Sister Han also ate silently, but Sister Han only drank sticky porridge instead of Wowotou.

As for the children, most of them drank sticky porridge, only Dawang was gnawing at the hard-to-swallow Wowotou. This child is stubborn and not talkative, and has a very silent temperament, but he never complains about not being picky eaters. Thinking about his previous life, he was shot in the dark after being mixed...Lin Lan's heart was stunned.

Erwang and Maisui took two bites, and swallowed them with their necks, but they didn't want to eat any more.

As soon as the wheat ears were put down, the old lady Han looked at and immediately cursed: "Why is it still ruining the food? It is not delicious? This is not hungry for you. Think about the three years of difficult times, let alone this kind of Caiwowotou, just do it. Wild vegetables are good things. How many people eat that stick stalks, bean stalks, and the noodles ground from the roots of crops. Do you still think it’s not good to eat right now?"

Sanwang curled his lips, "Mum, what do you eat? The poorest and laziest families in our village don't eat this either."

Is this pig food?

He took the wowotou in his hand and stuffed it into his pocket, intending to take it back to feed the ducklings.

The old lady Han said angrily: "You are not in charge, you don't know that firewood, rice, oil, and salt are expensive. What else do you know besides eating? The family is about to be broken, don't you know?"

With such a curse, no one said anything.

Lin Lan took a look, and when she heard Han Qingsong's footsteps entering the yard, she asked the old lady Han, "Mother, Xiaowang has diarrhea in the past two days, can you make some fine noodle soup for him?"

The old lady slapped her chopsticks on the table with a clatter, "Why are there so many problems? Anyone can live as long as they are. They are all poor and low-middle peasants. What kind of landlord and old wealth should they eat?"

Lin Lan pretended to be aggrieved: "I didn't have to ask every day, so I got sick and took a bite. This kind of Wowotou Xiaowang couldn't digest it."

Han Qingsong walked in, washed his hands and had a meal. He knew what was going on when he heard it.

He asked Erwang, "Did you talk to Xiu Xi?"

Er Wang curled his lips and said aggrieved: "Father, of course I said it, I have said it several times."

The old lady Han said in a bad mood: "It's useful to say it? It's useless if you don't have fine noodles at home, for God's sake. Let's talk about it when you want to eat it."

It’s impossible to say that the wheat is only divided in summer without fine noodles.

Han Qingsong: "If you don't have noodles, I will make eggs and eat them. I'll make them."

"What are you doing!" The old lady Han became hot. "The reunification has only a few chickens, and more than half of them still don't lay eggs. You don't make money now, and you don't have cash at home, so you can't rely on a few chicken butts to be a bank? What am I going to change for kerosene and salt?"

Er Wang curled his lips and muttered in a low voice, "Save it for my sister and uncle."

Han Qingsong glanced at the dinner table. Xiaowang was lingering, and a little girl in Mai Sui pinched a black and hard wow head and felt sorrowful. Lin Lan wore a patchwork dress, which was many times as cold as the second sister-in-law opposite her.

There was an indescribable feeling in his heart, sour, a little tingling, and his chest panicked.

"An egg costs three or four cents." Han Qingsong insisted.

"What's wrong, you want to settle accounts with your mother. You have made money. Then you are not at home all day, and you don't serve your parents to support your family, so you can't get any subsidies? You haven't gotten back a cent of the money this quarter. , Eat my eggs, you are so unscrupulous..."

"Okay, just an egg!" The old Hantou hasn't said a word, and can't stand it now, "make one for the child. They are all sick, you look pitiful looking thin."

Han Qingsong went into the house, and Lin Lan hurried after seeing this.

Sister Han also rushed over, "I'll come, I'll come!"

Han Qingsong is not at home and doesn't know the home market, but Lin Lan knows.

She moved quickly and quickly found the small urn with eggs, which was almost full, and there was also a tank for noodles, as well as another tank.

The old lady rolls out pancakes every other day and asks them to take them to the county town to give them to their younger sons and daughters. She often grinds noodles at home.

The family ate coarse grains all day from old to young, just to save fine grains for both of them.

Sister Han was still a step slower, she smiled in embarrassment and took an egg.

Lin Lan took one more and did it once, so why couldn't she feed Xiaowang.

Han Qingsong said: "Sister-in-law, you eat, I'll come."

**Eggs are quick, boil a bowl of water at the bottom of the pot, knock the eggs in, boil for a few more rolls, they will be cooked, even if the soup is scooped out, pinch a few grains of salt into it.

In order not to provoke the anger of the public, Lin Lan did not go out, but called Xiao Wang into the house to eat.

Xiao Wang is very sensible, and whispered: "Mother, you have one, I have one."

Lin Lan took a sip of the soup symbolically, and fed the rest to Xiaowang.

The old lady outside was very sour, "He knows to feed her mother, but he doesn't know to feed it to Madam."

After feeding Xiaowang, Lin Lan came to eat by herself.

She soaked Wowotou in the sticky porridge, seeing that Erwang and Maisui couldn't swallow it, but because the old lady dared not to leave it, she blinked at them and motioned for Dad to eat.

Her playful look fell in Han Qingsong's eyes, and he looked at it for a moment.

Er Wang took the wheat ears and quietly stuffed them to Han Qingsong.

Han Qingsong glanced at Lin Lan again, silently took it and ate it by himself.

After dinner, the men went out to get together and brag, and the women took their children to do housework at home. Lin Lan took a few children home. On the way, she explained to Erwang and Mai Sui, and asked them to find a chance to see how the aunty cooks.

Erwang understood at once, "Mother, you said my auntie deliberately made something bad for us to eat?"

Lin Lan motioned to him in a low voice, "It's not your auntie, it must be your mother. I am angry that we are separated and don't want to give us food."

"Really? Why is she so bad!" Sanwang squeezed from one side as he listened, "I'll take a look."

He turned his head and ran back, but was pulled back by Dawang, "It's all closed, you ran away."

When they came out, the second lady closed the door.

Dawangti slipped away with Sanwang.

When he got home, Lin Lan sent the children to wash their faces and feet, and then took the mosquito-smoked mugwort to the door, ready to go to bed.

She drove the children back to the house, looking for opportunities to talk to Han Qingsong alone.

"Have you seen the food these past few days?"

Han Qingsong washed his feet with water, "What's wrong?"

"What's wrong? You didn't see it. Since you came back to separate the house, the food has been getting worse every day. Today, even the melon and vegetable substitutes were taken out."

Han Qingsong thought for a while, "Wowotou is a bit rough."

"It's just a bit rough?" Lin Lan looked at him, and said to him, "Even in those few years, the old lady and them have never eaten this kind of wowotou!"

Listening to her complaining tone, Han Qingsong understood what she meant, "Do you think my mother made such a meal deliberately?"

Lin Lan sneered: "Why, you can't think of it."

Han Qingsong frowned, a little unacceptable to the old lady's behavior, and felt that the old man had suffered from three years of famine, and basically had such a problem, reluctant to eat and wear, "should not deliberately treat children..."

After all, Xiaowang ate eggs at night.

"Cut!" Lin Lan rolled her eyes. Except for the stupid son who puts an 800-meter filter on her mother, everyone can tell that Mrs. Han is not a good crop, okay.

"You are not at home all the year round, don't know the situation, and I won't tell you more, just take a good look at it yourself." Not at home all day, I thought my mother was reasonable. Haven't seen it clearly after coming back this time?

The old lady didn't say anything about Han Qingsong. Some just asked for money and agreed to split the family when she knew she wanted to change jobs.

Nothing will be given if the family is separated, and Han Qingsong will get anything, she will go first.

This can be seen in the eyes of discerning people that the old lady deliberately.

In the past, the original owner was capable and weak, so the old lady was happy to pretend to understand her mother-in-law, but in fact, she was bad.

She is not trying to instigate Han Qingsong's relationship with the old lady. After all, they are mothers and children. She just wants Han Qingsong to see clearly the unfair treatment she and her children have suffered in this family.

Also, let him see clearly that the old lady is not as good to them as he thought.

Anyway, give Han Qingsong a vaccination first, don't think she is the one who caused the trouble.

The next day, she whispered to Erwang, Mai Sui, Xiaowang and asked them to find a way to see the aunt cooking.

Sanwang shouldn't let Sanwang know about this. He is a straight man and can't hide things, and he listens to Dawang. Dawang has a lot of prejudice against Lin Lan, so he can't let him know.

As a result, Erwang and Mai Sui went there several times, but they didn't see Sister Han cooking two different kinds of rice. They were all Guicai Daiwowotou. They asked the other children but they didn't ask anything. And as long as it's not time for dinner, the old lady scolds them when she sees them, telling them to mow the grass and earn work points.

The children thought it might be Lin Lan's carelessness, after all, everyone eats the same.

Lin Lan doesn't think so. According to her understanding of the old lady, there must be something tricky.

The two large tanks in the east room were filled with grain, and there was half a small penthouse with grain in it. The sister-in-law was not at home, and the old lady locked it with a lock, and no one was allowed to enter.

Sister-in-law can avoid Sanfang and steam the other pancakes and Wowotou. As for the child is threatened by the old lady, who dares to speak?

Presumably speaking, you have to eat the same as them.

She secretly observed the two meals to let her find the flaws, and Lin Lan got an idea after a little thought.

She wants to catch the current situation and see what they have to say.

She woke up early the next day, and before it was light, she tiptoed and went out to Lao Han's house.

The courtyard door is closed.

She slid into the house first, and she heard the sound of Sister Han pulling the bellows on the fire, as well as murmurs.

Then she heard the second sister-in-law Han yelling under her throat: "Sorghum and Xiaofu are going to go to the kang, hurry up and eat Erhe noodle pancakes. When you San Niang Niang and the others come, they can only eat sweet potato leaves."

Sure enough, playing this trick behind them!

Lin Lan thought for a while, and quickly went back and asked Erwang and Mai Sui to go to Lao Han's house.

Han Qingsong got up and splashed water to plant vegetables, and saw that they asked, "What are you doing in a hurry?"

Lin Lan raised her eyebrows and said, "I'll find evidence for you!" You don't know how good it is if you don't catch the current situation!

When they arrived at Old Han’s house, they didn’t knock. Lin Lan turned over from the low courtyard wall to the south. While riding on the top of the wall, she happened to see Ersao Han leading a few children robbing cakes, and she said, “Who will go? Staring at the door, watching them come and shout, hurry up. Eat, eat!"

Lin Lan yelled unceremoniously, "You steal food!"

She yelled so coldly, so scared that the women and children in the yard who had been eating with a guilty conscience shivered, and Xiaofu dropped the pancakes on the ground.

Ersao Han almost threw the rice basket. She turned her head to look at Lin Lan, her eyes met, like a ghost, and she couldn't believe it for a while, "Why are you from the old family, you, and you are here?"

Lin Lan found out that in this home, you should not be aggressive, you should be cold and cold, and you should get started!

She jumped down and ran forward and snatched the rice basket from the second sister-in-law Han, "I said you are really good."

Erwang and Maisui also crawled in, "Huh, shameless!"

Ersao Han’s first reaction was that she wanted to take the rice basket back, but she hadn’t eaten it yet.

Sister Han's face flushed with embarrassment. She didn't know what to say for a while, and her lips murmured, "The third child, come, come...I will improve the food today, and I will ask the child to call you."

This shame is something that the old lady can do. At first, she disagreed. If this was let the third family know, it wouldn't be laughable.

The key is not all fresh sweet potato leaves. Many of them were dried last year. Who knows who really tasted that taste? Old lady Han refused to eat it during the three-year disaster.

As a result, the old lady said harshly that if anyone dared to speak out, no one would be able to eat, including children.

So she can only say nothing.

I just didn't expect that the third family would see through it in just two days.

It's really shameful.

The old lady Han shouted on the kang: "What's wrong, do you think I spent the allowance? Wasn't it all used to subsidize the family's food to buy rations? This time I didn't receive the money, of course I didn't have food!"

There’s one in the old Han’s family, and they all have to work to earn work points, but don’t forget that they still have two big people to eat. They don’t work and don’t earn work points, and their rations are paid for by others. Or spend money to make up for them.

But the old lady likes to take care of 11 children.

Lin Lan didn't quarrel with them, "If so, we will separate our rations, and we will cook and eat by ourselves in the future."

There is no need to mention the distribution of grain. The old lady Han did not agree with the death, but this time she was at a loss and did not want her third son to have any opinions. It's a pause, what kind of food to share, toss!"

Sister Han took out cakes in silence for everyone to eat. She looked down at Lin Lan in embarrassment. She was afraid that Lin Lan went crazy and wanted to find life. If Han Qingsong saw this, she would definitely think that his wife was forced to die by the family.

At this time, Lao Han's first class men were all up, they were embarrassed one by one, but pretended not to know.

Old Hantou: "Go and hoe the self-preserved land." When he said he was carrying the hoe, it flashed, and he didn't care about the meal.

Brother Han followed closely, and couldn't afford to lose that person.

Lin Lan looked outside, and Er Wang gestured to her. She knew that Han Qingsong was also leading Xiao Wang.

She took the rice basket and divided the pancakes between Erwang and Maisui, and said loudly: "I also confessed the ugly, or we will share the rations and we will cook and eat, if we are not hungry enough, there is nothing to say. But if there is no ration, Specially make pig food for our three rooms, let me see next time..."

She paused, glanced at Sister Han and Sister Er, hearing Han Qingsong's footsteps have reached the gate of the courtyard, she said loudly: "I just smashed the pot and smashed the table. Don't eat anyone!"

Sister Han and Sister Er were frightened, and the children looked at San Niangniang in horror.

Your aunt is still your aunt!

The shrew is still that shrew, even more fierce!

Look at that look, more powerful than tigress!

After saying this, Han Qingsong has already walked over.

Erwang immediately shouted, "Father, look! They make Erhe noodles and eat them stealthily, and wait for us to come and eat sweet potato leaves for us!"