Chapter 18

At this time, Erwa was also startled by a sudden voice, froze and turned around, staring at Lin Minjun with some bewilderment

The kitchen is just a built up shed, not big, Lin Minjun immediately blocked the door to prevent him from going out, just can not figure it out, since the landlord, the mother is still a young lady, left a set of four courtyard, according to theory, the second child is not worried about food and clothing, why would you want to steal from people to eat

The more she thought the more strange, pulling the two children do not let go, exasperated questioning, “last time is also you steal my fried potatoes it, say, why do you want to steal people things?”

“Who stole something?” Erwa first froze, reacted with a face of dismay

Lin Minjun: “Don’t deny it, you ate my fried yams last time too, right, and this time you’re here to steal my broken pastry bag!”

Finally coming back to his senses, the dismay on Erwa’s face changed to anger, a wave of his hand broke away from Lin Minjun’s hand, his tone also sounded particularly angry, “I didn’t steal it! I bought it!”

“You weren’t preparing to set up a stall to sell something! Sell to who is not sell, I gave money that day, do you sell food still divided into people, anyone sell just not sell to me?”

Lin Minjun froze, money? She didn’t see it, not a single cent

“You gave money?”

Erwa could get angry, pointing at the small table Lin Minjun used to put the bowls on, “Right! I didn’t know how much to sell, so I gave twenty cents, it was pressed under the bowl, why are you falsely accusing me of stealing!”

“If I had pressed money under the bowl according to what you said, I should have been able to find it at a glance, but I came back that day and didn’t see anything” Lin Minjun gradually calmed down, “Could it have been blown into the ground by the wind?”

Erwa immediately squatted down and started rummaging, “I paid for it”

The night is low, the sky is full of stars, of course there is no light in the small broken kitchen, but the light from the next door shines in, and with the dim light, Lin Minjun also squatted down to rummage together

After half a day of searching did not find, she simply went into the house to take a flashlight, inch by inch to find

Simply, the two are about to turn the entire kitchen floor all over again, Lin Minjun even the coal block all piece by piece to move away to look for, froze did not find the two cents he said

Lin Minjun’s fried potatoes are gone, and Erwa balked at the idea that he was paying for it, and gave money for it, but the money froze and couldn’t be found

Erwa still keep rummaging, soy sauce vinegar bottle was picked up and put down, even reached out in the rice bowl to pull out

“I really gave the money, it’s pressed under the bowl” Erwa was still going on and on, suddenly turning around, “I know, it must have been taken by someone else, this kitchen door of yours has no lock, I can open it, so can anyone else, it must have been after I left, someone else saw the money and stole it”

He clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, “I’m going to catch this thief!”

Erwa’s head was sweating and he was still rummaging

Lin Minjun didn’t say anything, Erwa rummaged through it, glanced at her, his movements gradually slowed down, a self-deprecating smile on his face, “You definitely don’t believe me, thinking I didn’t pay at all”

He threw his hands away with a broken look, and simply didn’t bother looking at Lin Minjun anymore, and began to lay out the spoils, “Then let’s just pretend that I stole it, everyone says that I love to steal things anyway”

He lowered his head and walked out of the kitchen, his tone was still fierce, “You stay away from me in the future, if you’re not at home, close the door, less I go near the house, so that I don’t lose things in the future all rely on me”

From the turnover to admit, this state is obviously not right, but the second child to the wrongly accused, no one believe him, he is used to, he began to defend, and later found that people simply do not want to listen to him to prove their innocence

Later, the second child simply do not defend, back this black pot is, anyway, wrongly accused a fatherless child, it is not a big deal

But just as Erwa was about to leave, Lin Minjun suddenly said, “Wait, you said that someone else took the money away, so go and find it, find the thief and show me”

“You believe me?” Turning back, Erwa froze, the expression on his face was actually a bit overwhelmed, “You should have heard others say that I have bad character and like to steal, right, and you still believe me?”

Lin Minjun just came that one or two days it, everyone is very curious about her, there are indeed people who want to run over to watch the fun, and in the meantime chewing on some tongue, such as next door to a person with her daughter’s sister-in-law Xu, and then one into the yard of the Xia Auntie, have come to the

But she was born for this kind of gossip is not interested in, and also busy adjusting the taste of fried potatoes, simply excuse that they are particularly busy, and sent people away

Now that she thought about it, I’m afraid they just wanted to talk to herself about Erwa?

“You really believe that I’m not lying?” Erwa had a skeptical face and was still pursuing the question

How to say it, Lin Minjun wasn’t believing him, after all, the day she rented the house Erwa was fierce and rude, his first impression wasn’t great

But Lin Minjun found that the eyes of the two children just now that grief, with their own childhood exactly the same, she grew up boarding in the uncle’s house, is also fatherless and motherless random people bully, when the neighborhood lost something, as big as farming tools, as small as a thread, will rely on her, the great-aunt and what not to listen to, raised his hand to beat, simply do not listen to people to defend

At that time Lin Minjun, and just like the two children as aggrieved, angry, but there is no way, because many people never take the child’s words seriously, always think that the child, no self-esteem, aggrieved is nothing

Lin Minjun, however, can empathize, even for the sake of his own childhood, but also for the sake of the second child, give him a chance, in case the child can really find the real thief?

“It doesn’t matter if I believe it or not, you only need to find the real thief to prove your innocence” Lin Minjun waved her hand at him, “Go on, find the thief”

“I’m going now” Erwa pulled his legs out and ran away, running two steps and turning back, “Don’t be in a hurry to close the door, I’ll find it tonight”

Lin Minjun agreed in one breath and continued cooking dinner after Erwa left

The marinated meat bacon was first put into the pot and fried, after frying the aroma, put the pickles together and fry, then add water and stew, first so stewed, stewed out the flavor

Rice noodles have long been softened, soft and absorb water, Lin Minjun took the rice noodles ready to pot

Just now, when Erwa was leaving, he said he would be back soon, and I don’t know how he caught the thief, and indeed he came back very quickly, running fast on two legs, carrying a child on one side

Running to Lin Minjun in front of the time, two wa has been huffing and puffing gasping for breath, wa also can not care about rest, two hands thrown

The two children in his hands, just like the two hummers, were directly scared silly and were thrown in front of Lin Minjun

“That’s them” Erwa panted heavily, “They stole my money”

“There’s no rush, let’s see if you can catch your breath first” Lin Minjun saw his face was white, quickly went into the house and poured a cup of warm water, thought about it, and sprinkled some sugar in it, afraid that he was a little hypoglycemic

Erwa picked up a mouthful and finished it, smashed it, even more overwhelmed, did not know what to say to Lin Minjun, so he went to yell at the humming two generals, “Stand up! Tell her what you two did two days ago”

At this time Lin Minjun’s eyes shifted to the humming two generals, no, it is the two children, this look recognized, this is the two grandchildren of Auntie Xia’s family

The bigger one on the left was called Shunzi, and the one on the right was Pillar, and the two boys gave a roar, and were even more dumbfounded

The two boys had milky white syrup hanging around their mouths, their little hands were black from eating, and they timidly looked at Lin Minjun

“Quickly say, did the two of you sneak into this room two days ago, saw twenty cents pressed under the bowl, and took it away to buy Great White Rabbit Milk Candy?” Erwa roared again

After all, Erwa is older than them, and the attitude is very fierce, the two children directly scared to cry, Zhuzi crying while pulling out sugar from his pocket, it is really a big white rabbit milk candy, “I don’t dare to oooh oooh oooh, my brother let me do it, my brother took me to buy sugar”

Shun Zi was directly scared to the point that he covered his face with both hands, and with his mouth open, he howled

Lin Minjun gave them a headache from the noise, Erwa said again, “Look, I really gave money, I’m not a thief”

“I know you’re not, you didn’t steal it” Lin Minjun gave him an affirmation first

Seeing that a few children were really arguing without bounds, Lin Minjun simply pulled up Erwa, “You pull Shunzi and Zhuzi, let’s go, let’s go to Auntie Xia’s house and ask for an explanation”

“Ask for what?” Erwa froze

“For both of us to ask for a statement, they are stealing my money, causing you to take the blame, besides, the column is still small, Shunzi is also five or six years old, his younger brother does not understand, he can not understand that this is stealing? I don’t care this time, in the future they will even more casually enter other people’s houses, this kind of trend can’t be condoned”

“What? You don’t want to?” Lin Minjun walked two steps, saw Erwa standing still and not following, turned around and asked

Erwa hesitated for a moment, but still pulled up the humbug, “Then let’s make a trip”

Lin Minjun walked ahead with quick feet, and in a few steps, she arrived at the first courtyard

She is with the second child to ask for a statement, the intention is to let the Xia family mother-in-law and daughter-in-law know about this matter, discipline the child, don’t indulge into the habit of stealing needles at an early age, and stealing gold at an older age

So Lin Minjun did not yell, to the Xia family to save face

Walking to the Xia family’s door, seeing no one inside, she stood outside and shouted, “Is Auntie Xia at home? I have something to find you”

Footsteps sounded, what came out was not Auntie Xia, it was her daughter-in-law, Sister-in-law Xia, who was still combing her hair when she walked out, rolling her eyelids and looking up and down at Lin Minjun, “My mother isn’t here, what are you looking for her for?”

“Nothing, it’s the same if you’re here”

Lin Minjun said, then pulled the humming two generals over and opened the door, “Sister-in-law, two days ago Erwa bought a bowl of fried yams from me, when I was not at home, he pressed the money under the bowl in the kitchen, who knows that this money was stolen by the two Shunzi brothers, you have to give me a statement”

“What do you mean by a steal, how can a big person like you talk like this? Have you bullied a child like this?” When Xia’s sister-in-law heard this, her voice was particularly sharp and she yelled

Said and glared at her eldest son, in fact, she knew in her heart that her eldest son’s hands and feet are not very clean, sometimes like to steal

But there is no way, her man’s salary is not high, she and her mother-in-law are not working, the family day is not too generous, although it can eat, but the child greedy ah

At this time they go to other people’s homes to take some things, but also understandable

Besides, it is not to take the expensive things, just a little money, snacks and drinks, who can really be with the children this, there was no such thing

Coincidentally, this thing in Lin Minjun this can not be a big deal, small matter

Today, she will have to take care of it