flstandardbreds Chapter 117 Discovery
Chapter 117 Discovery
One day, Mrs. Lu went to the place where the grain was stored and wanted to take out some grain to cook, only to find that there was less grain in the warehouse.
Usually, the cooking at home is done by her daughter-in-law, Xiaopang's mother. But Mrs. Lu suddenly felt like cooking and was discovered by her.
When Mrs. Lu took inventory, she found that half of the food in the house was missing. This stirred up a hornet's nest, so Mrs. Lu summoned everyone in the house to interrogate them.
At first, no one agreed. Mrs. Lu was not willing to do that, so she picked up a stick and hit the mother of Xiaopang, who was in charge of cooking.
This incident caused chaos in the house, with constant shouting and screaming, and attracted nearby villagers.
From time to time, a quarrel between a mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law would break out in the village, and usually everyone would treat it as a farce to watch the fun.
Just like now, there was a lot of noise at Mrs. Lu's house, and many villagers gathered at the gate of their yard.
The villagers thought that it would be like before, so they would come to other people's homes to watch the fun, and they all had a mood of watching a show.
But they stood here for a while, listening to what the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were saying in the yard, and the more they listened, the more they felt something was wrong.
"Xiaopang, why are your grandma and your mother arguing?" someone asked Xiaopang who was standing aside.
"Grandma said that Mom moved the food back to her parents' home!!"
As soon as Xiaopang said this, it caused a huge sensation in the crowd, and everyone's faces turned ugly.
Everyone who reacted didn't bother to join in the fun and hurried home.
Before long, there were noises coming from the village.
Many people returned home and found that there was less food at home, and they started arguing about who took the food.
Many people asked their daughters-in-law to go back to their parents' home to get the food back, but the food had already been sent out, so how could they get it back?
If there was food at her parents' home, she wouldn't have to bring it back, because she couldn't get any even if she went back.
They refused to go back, and started arguing with their mother-in-law.
This disturbance involved more than half of the villagers in Yunjia Village.
Before the people here came to a conclusion, Yunjia Village welcomed a lot of people early the next morning.
There are many relatives in Yunjia Village. When they heard that there was surplus grain in Yunjia Village, many relatives came to borrow grain.
But now food is getting more and more expensive and hard to buy.
In addition, many wives have already taken the grain back to their parents' homes, and they don't have much surplus food left, so how can they borrow it?
In the current situation, now that the grain has been loaned out, when can we get it back?
In addition, if they lend out grain and get a head start, more and more people will come to borrow grain from them. What should they do then?
For the sake of his family, he would refuse to lend food to anyone who came to borrow it.
Would someone who came to borrow food give up so easily?
Many of them were running out of food and could only drink a little clear soup or eat tree bark and wild grass every day.
Many people suffer from indigestion and stomach upset.
It was ok for adults to eat tree bark and wild grass, but there were elderly people at home, especially the hungry children. How could such young children eat tree bark and wild vegetables? They were crying with hunger.
You said that in this situation, knowing that their relatives in Yunjia Village still have food, would they be willing to leave if they come here and cannot borrow food?
When faced with people coming to borrow grain, most households were firm in their attitude and refused to lend food to anyone. Those who wanted to cause trouble would unite with their neighbors and drive the visitors out of Yunjia Village.
There were a small number of people who were easily deceived and could not resist the pleas of their relatives, so they lent out their food.
Once the grain was lent out, it became more and more. More relatives heard the news and rushed over to borrow grain. The village was very lively during those days.
Those who could not borrow food became more and more daring. In order to avoid starvation and survive, they sneaked into Yunjia Village at night.
The people who took this action were not one person or a group of people, but several families as a unit who sneaked into Yunjia Village.
Ever since the last time their food was stolen, the people in Yunjia Village put the food in their own rooms, slept in the same room with the food at night, and locked the door during the day.
Food is no longer stored in the kitchen or cellar as it was before.
The outsiders who entered Yunjia Village were those who came here during the day but failed to borrow food. Based on their familiarity with the village, they went straight to their relatives' homes.
The family worked together to push one of them over the wall, climbed into the yard, opened the gate, and everyone searched the house quietly.
Because I was familiar with the terrain, I went straight to the kitchen and searched around, but couldn't find any food.
It goes without saying that they hid the food, and some people reluctantly left with their families.
Some people were so hungry that they thought that as long as they moved quietly, no one would notice them, so they pried open the master bedroom.
According to their thinking, something as important as food is usually hidden in the room of the head of the family.
They were not habitual criminals, they were just very hungry. Someone made some clumsy movements, which scared the people who were stealing food.
The owner who was sleeping in the bed heard the noise, opened his eyes and sat up. He dimly saw the place where the food was placed and saw several figures standing there, who immediately shouted.
Seeing this situation, the thieves didn't care anymore and just took the food they found and left.
As the masters, how could they let them go? This was their family’s food. Without the food, they would starve.
So he shouted at the top of his lungs and started a fight with the thief.
In the dark night, there was a noise here, which soon woke up the people nearby, and then more and more people woke up.
Soon loud shouts were heard again from different corners of the village.
Yunjia Village launched another operation to catch thieves. Among the thieves, only a small group of them who escaped because they could not find food in the kitchen were caught. All the others were caught.
Fortunately, no food was lost in the village this time, but both sides were injured during the fight.
Among the thieves arrested were several of Wang Yulan’s brothers from her mother’s family.
The Wang brothers had bought some food and stored it at home, but since they had a large family, they couldn't sustain it for so many days.
Because they had returned the money to Wang Yulan, they didn't have much money on hand, so they went to buy food. Food was expensive at the time, so they couldn't buy much. Then they happened to hear that Yunjia Village had a lot of food.
When it comes to life, they don't care about anything else. They shamelessly come to Yunjia Village to ask Wang Yulan for food, as if nothing had happened before.
Wang Yulan hated them so much because of the last time she went to ask them to pay back the money, and she had a falling out with them. How could she be willing to lend them the food? Even if she lent them the food, they would not pay it back.
What's more, Wang Yulan's family didn't have much food left. The whole family was worried about food. They could hardly take care of themselves, so how could they care about others?
Wang Yulan made some sarcastic remarks to the Wang brothers and then drove them out.