Chapter 105: Twenty-eight "Cooking New Year Soup" [Seeking Tracking]

"Cousin, you guessed right. There was indeed someone behind the Fifth Brother stealing the money. It was just witnessed by the Seventh Brother's classmates. We can be sure that the Fifth Brother's brother-in-law was among them. However, they were all mixed up with the group that ran the tea factory, and even the Fifth Brother got into their car."

Lu Youzhi explained the situation.

After hearing this, Lu Yang pondered for a while, then skipped Lao Liu and asked the other kids, "Apart from what you heard, is there anything else?"

It's not a good thing that the idiot Lu Youli is hanging out with the people from the tea factory. In serious cases, he might end up in jail in the future. Lu Yang suspected that the other party was originally targeting him, but because he didn't take the bait and was like a hedgehog, the other party couldn't do anything. So, this group of street thugs found another idiot, Lu Youli, as a breakthrough point.

Instigating the theft of money is only the first step.

So what do you want to do next?
Lu Yang didn't want to be too passive.

These children were only twelve or thirteen years old. They seemed a little nervous when Lu Yang asked them this question. One of them stammered, "They said they were building a house and a wall. Oh, and they also had a load of bricks in their car."

"I saw it too. It was red bricks, neatly stacked. My dad worked in a red brick factory and brought it back. I recognize this kind of brick."

"And I."

"I saw that, too. They also said that once the wall is built, it will be a small kingdom inside where they can do whatever they want."

There was the first leading inspiration.

The remaining teenagers all raised their hands one after another.

Lu Yang took out a stack of change and gave each of them fifty cents. He gave another fifty cents to the first child who stood up, making a dollar in total. For a moment, all of them were so happy that they didn't know what to do.

After they went out, they kept shouting that their cousin Lu Youxin was so generous, much more generous than his biological brother. Fifty cents was enough for each person to buy two bottles of soda, plus two bags of dried fish. However, they certainly couldn't spend it like that. They had to save it and spend it slowly. If he dared to drink two bottles of soda, how luxurious that was!

Lao Liu smiled bitterly and said to Lu Yang: "Cousin, you gave too much just now. I have to raise the price in the future, otherwise they will definitely call me Huang Shiren."

Lu Yang laughed and scolded, "Who asked you to be so stingy? Okay, hurry up and take Old Seven back. Today is the New Year's Eve. Even though Old Five is gone, you still have to live your lives as usual. I'll take care of the rest."

"Okay, cousin, I'll be leaving first."

The sixth brother Lu Youzhi was smart enough not to ask Lu Yang how he planned to deal with the matter. If he wanted to tell him, he would have taken the initiative to tell him just now. Since he didn't take the initiative to say it and instead asked him to go back first, it meant that he couldn't say it. It would be stupid to ask him more questions.

After the two brothers left, Lu Yang couldn't help but shook his head: This old six.

He wasn't going to tell anyone.

It was enough for him to know that there was coal under the back mountain. The more people who knew about it, the more variables there would be. Besides, the other party had already started to build a wall, so they would probably be ready to take action soon. What he needed to do at this time was not to alert the enemy, but to wait quietly, and then find the hard evidence of the other party's coal theft and kill him with one blow.

As for whether the fifth brother would be hurt by mistake.

Lu Yang didn't think about it.

Anyway, if the other party really participated and mixed with this group of people to do illegal activities, then he deserved it.

In a blink of an eye, a few more days passed.

This day is the day of cooking New Year's soup on the 28th day of the 12th lunar month. It is customary for Lu Yang and his family to cook all the chickens, ducks, pork, etc. for the New Year in a big pot on this day. Poor families do not have so many chickens, ducks, or pork, so they add a lot of white radishes to the soup, just a little bit of meat. The radishes stewed in this way are a bit like fat meat, and they are smooth and refreshing to eat. They are the favorite of poor families in this era, and they can usually eat them until the 15th day of the New Year. Two years ago, the furniture factory of Lu Yang's master, Old Man Yin, was getting busier and busier, so he stopped farming and lent out his land. Others farmed his land and gave him some food every year, so there were no radishes at home, and even the cellar was empty for several years.

However, Old Man Yin just liked this dish. He liked to eat radishes during the New Year and stew them in the New Year soup. He thought it was more delicious than eating fatty meat. Before going out in the morning, he shouted to Lu Yang's mother-in-law to go to her sister's house to get some radishes so that they could be stewed. His mother-in-law was killing chickens and couldn't leave, so she wanted Lu Yang to make a trip. His father-in-law disagreed. How could she instruct her son-in-law to work when he came to his father-in-law's house for the first time to celebrate the New Year, especially when he had to go to his mother-in-law's house to get radishes?

"Then how about I go?"

"It's a good time to go see grandma and aunt."

Yin Mingzhu, who was reading a book in the yard early in the morning, stood up at this time.

Just like the old Yin family.

The Ma family also has more yin than yang.

Old Man Yin's father-in-law also had only two daughters, one was Lu Yang's mother-in-law Ma Xiulan, and the other was Ma Xiumei, the current women's director of the village. Coincidentally, they had the same idea as Old Man Yin. Back then, his father-in-law also wanted to find a son-in-law to inherit the family line. Later, the baby was born, and there were three in total, but all three were girls.
I could still hope for it before.

But now that family planning has been implemented, and Ma Xiumei has become the director of the women's department, they had no choice but to give up that idea, and the Ma family no longer has a male descendant.

Yin Mingzhu wanted to rush to get the radishes for herself.

Lu Yang was eager to do so.

He was boiling water and was going to wash his wife's hair later.

This is a big deal.

After the water finally boiled, Lu Yang moved out a chair and placed it in the yard, telling his wife to just sit there and listen to his instructions.

When Lu Yang was happy, he walked around to his wife's back, untied the hairband that bound her long, shiny black hair, let the hair hang down into the basin, and was about to apply some shampoo.

Suddenly, outside the courtyard came the fat sister-in-law of the sixth daughter-in-law of the commissary, shouting at the top of her voice: "Help, hurry up, someone is fighting, the old Yin family, your daughter Yin Mingzhu is fighting with someone, the blows are heavy, there's a lot of blood, hurry up, or something bad will happen."

boom.

The basin under Lu Yang's feet was knocked over.

He didn't even bother to wash his wife's hair. No matter how annoying Yin Mingzhu was, she couldn't be bullied by anyone. If anyone wanted to bully her, he could only do it himself.

Pick up a stick from the ground.

He quickly said to his wife, "Be obedient and don't distract me. Stay home and don't go out. I'll go check out the situation first."

After saying that, he ran out in big strides.

About the same as Lu Yang.

The mother-in-law picked up the kitchen knife she had used to kill the chicken and chased after him: "Wait, my son-in-law, don't do anything for a while. It's a pity for a young man to break the law. Let me do it. If anyone bullies my daughter, I will chop him up."

(End of this chapter)