Chapter 17
Lin Minjun stood at the kitchen door and saw the empty porcelain bowl on the table before she even entered
She was flabbergasted for a moment, thinking that she had misremembered and hadn’t left a portion out at all
But she thought back, clearly in the morning was an extra bowl ah, in the porcelain bowl, resting on the table, now the bowl is empty
Lin Minjun went over to pick up the bowl and look at it, at first thought it was a wildcat scampered up and knocked over, but the wildcat will leave footprints, knocked over the taro will be sprinkled everywhere, and now the kitchen is dry and clean
Cleaner than the kitchen is the hand bowl, not to mention the taro, not even a little chili residue, than the dog licked clean
Cats and dogs are absolutely impossible to eat like this, the home is not a thief?
This idea just emerged, Lin Minjun hit a chill, she asked for money back from the Lu family sealed a small cloth bag with her, but the family also just bought pots and stoves, which is also worth a lot of money
For a moment, she couldn’t care less about the yams, and hurriedly went back to the small room to see if anything else was missing
In the small room to check a circle, looking around to find just lost a bowl of yams
Staring at the empty bowl, Lin Minjun wondered, the home into the thief, but the thief put the coal stove and pot not steal? Only stole a bowl of yams?
But think about it and feel normal, this compound is crowded with eyes, coal stove and pots take more conspicuous, a bowl of potatoes, eat eat, who does not know
So now Lin Minjun is not sure whether the thief ate it, or the neighborhood children stole it
This matter can not be understood, had to be pressed for the time being, re-took two taro peeling, soaking water, under the frying pan
Half an hour’s work and made a bowl of fried potatoes, to the Xu Auntie served over
Taro is bought from suburban farmers in the hands of the new taro, re-fried once, mounted in an enameled bowl glistening with oil, holding the time do not feel the aroma, and so on the bite, heard a crunch, the flavor only in the mouth to amplify the diffusion, and then chew a little bit, full of chili peppers and taro mixed with the aroma
Xu Auntie ate while saying good, “so ordinary a potato, how to your hands taste is different, really delicious”
“In my hometown, some people also said the same thing, and the children all said that the home’s potatoes were not as good as mine” Lin Minjun smiled
Seeing Auntie Xu sending fried potatoes into her mouth one after another, eating with satisfaction, Lin Minjun’s heart moved, and tentatively asked, “Auntie, are there any of those people around here? The ones who are not too clean?”
“What’s wrong? Is there something missing from your house?”
This means obviously something was stolen from your home, Auntie Xu immediately got on board and inquired
Originally is not sure things, Lin Minjun do not want to say, but Auntie Xu has been asking, “You do not have to be afraid, what to say, what to say”
Auntie Xu asked again and again, Lin Minjun said, “I left a bowl of fried potatoes in the morning at home, just went back and found the potatoes to the people ate up”
“Could it be a wildcat?” Auntie Xu asked
“It was eaten by people, wild cats can’t eat so cleanly, the bowl is licked reflective”
Auntie Xu’s face grew grave, “You hurry back and check to see if anything else is missing?”
Lin Minjun: “That’s not true, the coal stove and pots at home are still there, just fried potatoes are gone”
This thing is fishy, Xu Auntie ate the rest of the fried potatoes in three or two bites, and even scraped the patty cake chili pepper underneath
As for the candidate to steal the yams, she first opened her mouth, obviously there is a candidate, but eventually swallowed, got up and said, “This yard for some years no one thief, I do not know is the neighborhood to come to the thief, or the yard out of the thief, are not small things You go home first, I’ll ask around the neighborhood to see if anyone else has lost something at home”
Lin Minjun followed behind and went out of her house, thought for a moment, and added, “Auntie, don’t make too much of a fuss when you ask around, in case it’s a thief in the neighborhood, they’ll run away as soon as they get wind of it”
Auntie Xu turned around and gave a knowing expression
When Auntie Xu left, Lin Minjun went home to clean up the kitchen where she had finished cooking, and only after cleaning up did she start to cook dinner for herself, there was not much food in the house today, so she casually fried a dish to cope with it
However, before the dishes were ready, Auntie Xu came back in a flurry of activity, with a particularly angry expression on her face, and said, “There’s a thief in the yard!”
Lin Minjun’s movement was a beat, just as the food was also cooked, decisively put out the coal stove, asked, “Auntie, did you find out something?”
In the meantime, she also poured a glass of water for Auntie Xu
After drinking the water, Auntie Xu said, “Just now I went to a few nearby hutongs and asked, I didn’t hear of anyone’s house missing anything, and then I asked in our yard, and there was nothing, only your house missing a bowl of yams And just now I asked someone to inquire about it, there are no strangers in the hutongs today, so it must have been someone in the courtyard, I just don’t know if it was an adult or a child”
Lin Minjun didn’t say anything, Auntie Xu added, “No, I have to find a grandpa and ask him to hold a general meeting of the whole courtyard, thieves are too hateful, stealing food today, tomorrow they dare to steal chickens and dogs, and the day after that they steal money”
Said she got up in a flurry, lifted her leg and walked towards the second courtyard, Lin Minjun hurriedly said, “Wait, don’t go first”
Auntie Xu turned back, “What is it?”
“Don’t go to find a grandpa first, once you open the whole courtyard assembly, everyone knows about it” Lin Minjun then said
As soon as she heard this, Auntie Xu misunderstood, she thought Lin Minjun was afraid, a little girl alone in the capital, stolen things also dare not say, in the eyes of Auntie Xu, Lin Minjun is more and more heartbreaking
She hurriedly said, “You are afraid of making too much noise, the thief retaliation, right? There’s no need to be afraid, there’s me here, there’s a grandpa, no one can overturn the sky You were introduced to me, and I have to help you when things go wrong in the courtyard”
I actually Lin Minjun is not afraid of the thief’s retaliation, but she just came here, once she came here and lost something, it would be too high-profile to hold a whole courtyard meeting, everyone would know about her situation, and it would be even more dangerous then, and just a moment ago, Lin Minjun thought of a better way
“I know you’re warm-hearted, but I have another way here, I don’t need to hold a hospital-wide assembly to catch the thief” Lin Minjun pulled Auntie Xu to sit down and added, “Now we can’t be completely sure who the thief really is, and we won’t necessarily be able to find him even if we have a general meeting, I thought that since he dared to steal, there must be a second time, so I’ll make something tasty to eat some other day, and purposely hide, and see if I can catch someone”
This is still a tactic that I learned from Lu Deping in my last life, what is this called? Waiting for the rabbit!
Seeing Auntie Xu’s hesitant face, Lin Minjun added another fire, “Try it first if it’s a success or not, I’m just worried that after opening the whole hospital assembly, the thief didn’t find it, but instead, he was scared that he wouldn’t dare to do it again, why don’t we take advantage of this opportunity to see who’s really stealing and thieving”
Auntie Xu thought about it again, and agreed painfully, “OK, then first according to what you said to do, if you catch it you call me”
The two said so well, temporarily pressed the immobilization, also not to make a sound, just waiting for the thief to do it again
To tempt the thief to do of course to create the conditions for him, this day Lin Minjun specializing in a free afternoon, to make a big meal, which is called to invite the king into the jar!
After eating lunch began to flour, but also soak rice flour, she is going to do is sugar legs broken pastry buns and meat meat rice noodles
Baked broken pastry buns soft and fluffy skin, salty and sweet, eating oil nourishing but not feel greasy, Lin Minjun in her past life, as long as the broken pastry buns, the neighbors smell the smell will come
Broken pastry buns to use authentic ham, not a child set not a wolf, ruthless from home to bring a large ham on the cut with a piece of fat, chopped and mixed into the filling to go on over the steamed before the surface of the buns and then brushed a layer of oil, steam steaming outward, the aroma is simply to the people in the stomach of the gluttony hooked somersaults, the most tolerant people passing by the door could not help but inhale a deep breath of the fragrance
Broken crisp bread flavor spread out, Lin Minjun will open the kitchen door, they hide in the house does not come out, do not say a word, even breath are held, just waiting for the thief to show up
Waiting for a long time, from evening until dark, Lin Minjun stood legs are sore, eyes also stared at the flower, froze and did not wait for the thief
A lot of people pass by the door, but everyone is very quality, stop and take a deep breath and go
She couldn’t help but start to self-doubt, the stuff is definitely fragrant, but the thief actually didn’t come, in the end, what’s going on?
Could it be that this method doesn’t work?
Seeing that the sky was getting darker and darker, and the scent of the broken pastry bag was getting more and more tantalizing, the thief still didn’t come, Lin Minjun couldn’t wait any longer and was going to give up, but at the moment she was about to lift her leg, there was a movement outside
She could not see clearly through the door, but only vaguely saw someone first stopped in front of their own home, sniffing around like a puppy, probably smelled the buns, all the way down the scent drilled into the kitchen
Lin Minjun looked through the doorway, only to see that the person is short, footsteps are very heavy, and bold, without hesitation, drilled into the kitchen of their own home!
She was instantly a bit exasperated, this thief was also too bold! Not even look into other people’s kitchens, this is when their own home?
In order to catch a square, Lin Minjun again behind the door to hide for a while, waiting for the thief completely inside, she guessed that the thief should have already eaten, and immediately went to the kitchen
Into a look, the thief is a child, back to the people, is lifting the steamer to look inside, really is caught in the right place
Lin Minjun at first glance felt that this child is a little familiar, but can not recall, shouted, “This is my kitchen, you come in for what?”
The thief was obviously creeped out, trembling, immediately turned around, just with a quick step in Lin Minjun hit the face
When she saw who the thief was, Lin Minjun was also stunned, “Ah? Are you Erwa?”
When she saw the thief’s short and small back just now, she guessed that the thief was probably a child in the yard, but she never thought that it was actually Erwa, her landlord?