Chapter 21: You can lose your house, but you can’t lose your chicken

Chen’s father, worthy of being a seasoned veteran, stood straight as a ramrod in front of Grandma and reported to her.

According to the investigation, there was no record of a fallen soldier at Wolong Mountain on the list of fallen soldiers in the city.

There was a soldier who died while fighting a fire near Qingniu Mountain. They would investigate the connection with her grandson’s situation in depth.

The specific information hadn’t been sent yet, but they only knew that his name was Yu Haisheng.

Yu Haisheng.

The moment she heard the name, Shen Rongrong swayed for a moment, lowering her head in a flustered manner.

Grandma looked at her reaction, guessing that she might have found the right person. After pondering for a moment, she took the two hundred yuan that her daughter-in-law had left behind from under the lunch box and handed it to her son.

“Transfer this money to his family, and leave Rongrong’s name.”

Chen Guozhong took the two hundred yuan with both hands, straightened his back, gave her a standard military salute, and said solemnly, “Thank you for your concern for the affairs of the martyrs! Comrade Shen Rongrong!”

“Grandma…” Shen Rongrong raised her head, stunned, and tears welled up in her eyes, “Thank you, Grandma, boo…!”

“Good child.” Grandma hugged her and patted her gently, tears welling up in her eyes, “You must be well. The night before Grandma was hospitalized, I dreamed that a Bodhisattva said to me, ‘The mountains and rivers are eternal, and the will lasts forever. The martyrs died for the country and were buried in the mountains and rivers, but their hearts will follow those they care about.’ Only when we living people are well, will they be at ease over there.”

Shen Rongrong never expected that Grandma would remember what she had said before, and nodded with tears in her eyes, “Yes! Grandma, live well too!”

Grandma stroked her head, and nodded solemnly after a long time, “Okay, Grandma will try her best to live, Grandma… still has to help take care of her great-grandson!”

Because she owed Wu Zheng three hundred yuan, and Grandma two hundred yuan, Shen Rongrong thought of many ways to make money in the following days.

Including checking for spiritual auras in the vicinity on the way to get food from the hospital cafeteria, hoping to find some treasures buried in the soil.

Unfortunately, there was nothing. The city was different from the mountain village. The main roads were compacted, and the small roads were also very smooth from being stepped on. The soil in the garden was clean, and she couldn’t even find an extra worm.

Grandma’s illness also entered the treatment period in the blink of an eye.

In order to reduce the risk, the Chen family’s elders decided to send the old lady to a larger hospital and treat her with the best equipment.

Shen Rongrong had eaten her fill for a few days at this time, and the spiritual energy in her body had recovered a little bit, and she had become slightly slow again.

Grandma was used to it, feeling that she would become soft and slow as soon as she was pampered. She felt that she had raised this girl very well.

She instructed her, “There are enough people to accompany me to the big hospital, you stay at home to take care of the house. I don’t trust anyone to take care of Grandma’s chickens! I’ll leave them to Rongrong! I’m at ease!”

“Yes! Grandma!” Shen Rongrong stood at attention and saluted, “I will protect the chickens!”

“Good!” Grandma smiled, “I believe that with Rongrong around, the house can be lost, but the chickens won’t be lost!”

In this way, Grandma went to the big hospital for surgery, repeatedly explaining many things before leaving, “Take care of yourself, pay attention to safety, don’t get thin, it doesn’t matter if the chickens lose a few feathers, you can’t lose a single feather! Did you hear me!”

Shen Rongrong repeatedly agreed, and after sending Grandma away, she went directly to the police station.

After reporting the problem with her sister Shen Yueying’s wrist to her police colleagues, she went home.

The first thing she did when she got home was to hurry and look at the small vegetable garden that she had planted with her own hands.

The seedlings that had been planted before had already grown up. She hadn’t been willing to eat a single one, but because she hadn’t been home these past few days, the chickens had stolen a lot of them.

Fortunately, these thieving chickens didn’t eat for nothing, and were all diligently laying eggs. There were more than a dozen eggs hidden in the chicken coop, all of which she had saved to supplement nutrition for Grandma when she came back from treating her illness.

She also took the opportunity to dig up some jade buttons and other things in the nearby safe area, thinking that she could sell them if she had the opportunity in the future, and if she couldn’t sell them, she would give them to Wu Zheng to pay back his money.

The next day, in the evening.

Shen Yueying appeared at the entrance of the Chen family’s old courtyard, with dark circles under her eyes. Seeing Shen Rongrong, who was feeding the chickens, she came in from outside with her bag and questioned loudly, “Shen Rongrong, what do you mean!”

“Nothing~ means.” Shen Rongrong knew that she had come out of the police station, and put down the chicken feeder, “Let you experience what it’s like, retribution is not far off.”

“Do you think it’s useful for you to do this?” Shen Yueying pointed to the bruise on her hand, which was about to heal, “I said that the thing on my hand is just an injury, it will be fine soon! It’s not a birthmark at all! You have no evidence!”

“Yeah I have no, evidence.” Shen Rongrong shrugged her shoulders, teasing slowly, “But you’re still, upset.”

Shen Yueying gritted her teeth, pointing at her, “You wait!”

Shen Rongrong laughed coldly, “I’m waiting.”

One afternoon a few days later, a group of hooligans suddenly appeared at the entrance of this rural courtyard.

Because Grandma’s chickens usually had to go out for a walk, the door had to be left open for them. A dozen hooligans kicked open the iron door and came in one after another, holding sticks and shovels in their hands.

“Hey! What are you doing!” Aunt Wang, a neighbor next door, saw this scene and shouted in a panic across the courtyard wall, “This is a military officer’s family! The children and grandchildren are all soldiers! You… you… don’t ask for trouble!”

“Does being a military officer give them the right to be unreasonable? They owe us money and won’t pay it back! We’re not being unreasonable anywhere!” A yellow-haired hooligan said, carrying a stick, “Brothers! Let’s do it!”

Shen Rongrong, who was busy watering the garden in the back, poked her head back when she heard the sound… guessing that this was her sister, who didn’t want to let it go and was using dirty tricks again. She immediately rushed to the front yard to protect her home!

But after running halfway, she stopped in place again and had an emergency brainstorm.

Grandma said that the house can be lost, but the chickens can’t be lost.

It’s okay if the chickens lose feathers, but people can’t lose feathers.

The chickens aren’t at home, but the people are at home…

After a burst of brainstorming, Shen Rongrong came to the conclusion – run!

She ran away, but unfortunately, several directions outside the house were blocked by hooligans. She could only return to the backyard again… Looking left and right, she executed the last command, ‘people can’t lose feathers’, and quickly hid!

Meanwhile, a large group of hooligans had a clear division of labor. One group went into the house to take hoes and smash the earthen bed, and another group tore down the bricks of the house, scattering soil and debris everywhere.

There were also several hooligans responsible for smashing the things in the house. All the ceramic bowls and plates were smashed, and even the big iron pot was smashed with a hole. The tables, chairs, and wardrobes in the house were not spared, and were all split in half.

While they were smashing, a motorcycle suddenly came from outside. The man was wearing a motorcycle helmet, pointing at the house and shouting.

“What are you doing!”

“Mind your own business!” A hooligan in charge of guarding shouted at the man, “We’re just taking people’s money to eliminate disasters for them! If you don’t want to die, come in!”

“Ha, in these ten miles and eight villages, there’s no business that I, Wu Zheng, don’t dare to mind!”

He jumped off the motorcycle nimbly, without even taking off his motorcycle helmet, and walked quickly into the courtyard!