Mrs. Zhao did not dare to speak, stood up and hid behind Li Gui.

"Yue'er Duo'er, starting from tomorrow, I will learn how to cook from your mother. I am already a grown-up and can't do anything. How will I get married in the future?" The old man heard everything behind the door. Although he was dissatisfied with Zhao's last words,

But what I said before is quite right. If you marry someone, your husband's family will not treat them as a wealthy young lady, not to mention that the youngest daughter's face is disfigured.

"Dad, I won't go. If my hands get rough, no one will want me." Li Yue raised her arms, and there was no flaw on her white and tender hands.

Perhaps because he felt a little guilty towards Li Yue, the old man didn't say anything. He changed his mind and asked Li Duo to go alone. Li Duo was timid by nature and didn't dare to speak in front of others. He just nodded and agreed.

"Second daughter-in-law, why don't you go cook? I want your father to starve to death." Wang took the opportunity to attack. Anyway, the old man only said that he would start from tomorrow, so this meal must be cooked by someone she doesn't like.

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Mrs. Zhao didn't dare to touch the old lady's brow, so she responded and went out to cook. Lin Xue also went out to help. It wasn't that she was out of kindness, but that she was really hungry and couldn't bear it.

Lin Xue went back to the house to see the two children first, and learned that they had already eaten at Guihua's house. Lin Xue felt relieved and went directly to the kitchen. In order to save time, Zhao heated up the leftover steamed buns from the morning and cooked another one.

For a pot of porridge, Lin Xue fried a few vegetables and brought them to the upper room.

Halfway through the meal, Li Fu and Mrs. Zhang came back from the town, "Dad, I asked the boss about it. There have been people selling red fruits in the shop these days, and the boss said that they cost three taels of silver in total."

Mrs. Wang put down her chopsticks and said, "What's the money? You haven't sold the red fruit yet."

"Mom, it's like this. Our red fruits have been stolen. My father asked me and the head of the family to go to town and have a look. Maybe we can catch the thief." Mrs. Zhang explained while sitting by the kang.

"That's unreasonable, boss. If you know who that person is, I have to skin him." Wang said viciously, "Three taels of silver, what's the difference between that and eating her flesh?"

"I heard about it, the boss said..."

"Pah." The bowl on the table fell to the ground, and Li Ping knelt down with a plop, "Dad, let me be honest, that red fruit..."

"It's a woman named Zhao who came to sell it." After Li Fu was interrupted, he looked at Li Ping who was kneeling and asked, "Fourth brother, what do you want to say, what happened to the red fruit."

"It's good that we found the red fruit, and dad can feel at ease." Bai Fen helped Li Ping up and continued.

"Is this true for fourth brother?" Li Fu asked.

"Yes, that's what I wanted to say." Li Ping leaned half of his body on Bai Fen, his face pale.

"Brothers and sisters, you should help the fourth brother to go back and have a rest. Look at how bad his face is." Lin Xue advised, but it was useless. If Li Fu had spoken a little later, he would have made a mistake.

"It's okay, Sister-in-law, we also want to hear news about this thief so that we can be more prepared in the future." Bai Fen refused. She was the one who sold the red fruits. Although she changed her name, she was still afraid of leaving any loopholes.

The old man nodded and motioned for Li Fu to continue.

"That woman has been selling for several days in a row, but she wears a veil every time. The boss only knows her surname is Zhao, and she also said that she knows our family. This news is what we told her." Li Fu said the news he got.

Said it out.

"The second sister-in-law is also named Zhao." Bai Fen seemed to think that she had said something wrong and hurriedly changed her words, "Of course this matter must have nothing to do with the second sister-in-law. There are so many people named Zhao."

"It must be her." Mrs. Wang insisted, "Zhao still knows our family, but she is not who she is." She spat on the ground, "Bah, you white-eyed wolf, you dare to steal your own things. You said, you hid the money."

That’s it.”

Mrs. Zhao glared at Bai Fen angrily. If she hadn't been so talkative, how could the matter have been related to her, "Mom, don't listen to the nonsense of the fourth brother and sister. How could I steal your own things? Besides, I have been working in the fields these days.

I’ve never been to town.”

"Oh, you can let someone else go. I remember that the second sister-in-law's sister came to our house the day before yesterday." Li Yue interjected.

"My eldest sister is here to deliver something to me, and it has nothing to do with this matter at all." Zhao explained feebly, and all the evidence suddenly pointed to her. She did have this idea at the beginning, but what happened to her eldest sister?

It was so vivid in my mind that I finally gave up that idea.

"Second brother, if you don't tie up your wife and ask her to hand over the money and send her back to her parents' home, we can't afford such a daughter-in-law," Mrs. Wang ordered.

"Mom, I didn't do this. Dad, you have to believe me," Ms. Zhao kept explaining. "Master, please say something. We have been together these days. How can I have time to steal?"

Red fruit."

Li Gui thought for a while and realized that Zhao's sister had indeed been here, but she didn't take anything when she left. "Dad, my wife is telling the truth. She has been working in the fields these days, how can she have time to steal red fruits?"

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"Maybe it was stolen at night." Bai Fen nodded and smiled at Mrs. Zhao, "Second sister-in-law, I just said that it might have been stolen at night. I didn't say that the person was you. Don't get me wrong."

"Fourth brother and sister, please stop pretending to be stupid, don't you just want to see me unlucky?" Ms. Zhao wanted to rush forward and bite me. She resisted the urge to hit and knelt on the ground and swore, "I, Zhao Xu, hereby swear, if it is

If I steal red fruits and sell them for money, I will be struck by lightning and fall into a ditch when I go out. My children will not have a happy ending."

The vicious oath made the old man believe in Zhao's innocence, and the old lady curled her lips and stopped talking. Ancient people still valued oaths. If they had not really not done it, no one would make such an oath.

"Second daughter-in-law, you should get up first. I believe no one in our family would do such a thing." The old man took out his dry cigarette and took a few puffs. "Second brother, you go to the red fruit field to guard the place tonight, but don't do it here.

It was stolen."

"Yes, I understand, Dad." Li Gui finished the food in his hand in several bites.

When Li Ping returned to his room, his face was still pale. Bai Fen looked outside the door and closed it, "Why are you so useless? If I hadn't been clever, your stealing would have been exposed."

Li Ping came back to his senses, his voice trembling, "Madam, don't dare to do this again. If dad finds out, I will be dead."

Bai Fen nodded, "There are people watching at night, so you really can't do it, but I think you are too timid. You are so scared when you steal your own things. How can you do big things in the future?"

Bai Fen looked down upon Li Ping more and more. He had no ability and was still so cowardly. He was far from her ideal husband. In modern times, she would have divorced and found a new husband.

"Madam, you don't know, dad hates thieves the most. Back then..." Li Ping told Bai Fen the past of the Li family. After hearing this, Bai Fen's face turned pale with fright, and she gained a new understanding of the old man.

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