Shen Siyue sat on the kang and happily counted all the money again.
In this age when people can't even get enough to eat, the fact that she and Shitou have a savings of nearly two hundred yuan is something that others can't even imagine.
Shen Siyue felt that if she said that she was the second richest person in Dongliang Village, no one would dare to claim to be the first.
Even Liu Changshan, the village chief, Shen Siyue felt that his family would not be richer than hers.
She carefully put the stone money back into the jar, re-corked the wooden stopper, and put it back into the hole in the corner.
Since Shitou felt that this place was safe, she didn't want to move anymore.
As for the cabinet, she definitely couldn't move it, so she could only wait for Shitou to finish cooking before moving it.
After hiding the money, Shen Siyue went to the outer room to cook with Shitou. The newlyweds chatted and laughed, making the stove bubble with sweetness early in the morning.
Everything was prosperous and bright at Shitou's house, but there were dark clouds shrouding the Shen's family.
Seeing that cursing for a long time at the door was useless, Li Xiang could only return to the Shen family in shame.
Wang Huilian was feeling upset because she had a fight with Shen Chunshu early in the morning. When she heard the noise, she guessed that Li Xiang had returned.
She immediately vented all her anger on Li Xiang.
Wang Huilian climbed up from the kang in the west room and went to the outer room, just in time to stop Li Xiang who had not yet entered the room.
Li Xiang looked at the aggressive Wang Huilian and felt a little guilty. She was about to open her mouth to explain.
But Wang Huilian didn't give her any chance at all. She rushed forward, grabbed Li Xiang's hair with both hands and started tearing it.
"Unlucky star, you two are both unlucky stars, you are unlucky for your father, mother, brothers and sisters, why don't you two bitches just die?"
Li Xiang, who had just been beaten by Shen Siyue, had her hair suddenly pulled into a mess by Wang Huilian, and her scalp also felt a burning pain.
Facing Wang Huilian's beating, Li Xiang had no power to fight back. She held her head with both hands, pulled her hair back, and kept begging for mercy.
In fact, everyone in the east room heard the noise, but no one came out to stop the fight and they all pretended not to hear anything.
Wang Huilian was still not satisfied after pulling her hair, so she kicked Li Xiang and started beating her up.
The anger I received from Chen Chunshu was finally vented.
Wang Huilian didn't fight until she was tired. She pushed Li Xiang to the ground, panting and pinching her waist and yelling: "You came back naked like this? Where's the pot? Where's the rice? What did I ask you to do?"
"You useless thing, you can't give birth to a son, and you can't get your money back, how dare you still live?"
At this time, Li Xiang's clothes were covered with dirt and footprints, and her hair was as messy as a chicken coop.
His face was covered with bruises, there was not a single good spot on it.
She huddled against the wall, trembling. Every time Wang Huilian scolded her, she shivered in fear.
Faced with Li Xiang's attitude of not fighting back or retaliating, Wang Huilian finally regained some balance.
I feel like I have finally regained the face I lost in front of Shen Chunshu.
Seeing the sun rising higher and higher outside, the whole family was still hungry. Wang Huilian kicked Li Xiang hard again: "Go, borrow a pot or pan to cook. If you can't borrow one, you don't have to come back."
With tears in her eyes, Li Xiang slowly stood up along the wall.
While Wang Huilian was about to hit her again, she ran out of the Shen family yard in a panic.
Looking at the empty roads on both sides of the gate, Li Xiang felt like crying but had no tears. She had no idea where to go to borrow some equipment.
After visiting several houses, Li Xiang finally borrowed a coarse earthenware jar from an elder sister-in-law.
The eldest sister-in-law’s husband is the fifth child in the family and is called the fifth sister-in-law.
The fifth sister-in-law felt that Li Xiang, who usually looked very neat and tidy, looked dishevelled and looked so miserable that she couldn't bear it and agreed to lend it to her.
Otherwise, given the Shen family's current situation, she was really afraid that the things would not be returned once they arrived at the Shen family.
Li Xiang held the jar and thanked her profusely: "Fifth sister-in-law, thank you so much. Our family is in trouble now, and everyone is laughing at us. I really have no choice but to ask you this."
The fifth sister-in-law waved her hand, indicating that there was no need to say more polite words, and just reminded her not to break the jar.
After all, everything in the family was saved up bit by bit.
After Li Xiang left, the fifth sister-in-law's daughter-in-law was a little puzzled by her mother-in-law's behavior.
"Mom, nowadays everyone in the village wants to be as far away from the Shen family as possible, for fear that they will be unable to get rid of it. Why are you still lending things to her?"
The fifth sister-in-law walked towards the house and said, "Whose family has never had difficulties? In the past, the Shen family was a good person in the village."
"Especially the second son's wife, she's honest and has no bad intentions. She just lent it to him. What if she still needs it after a few days?"
The daughter-in-law curled her lips. Although she strongly disagreed in her heart, she didn't say anything else.
After borrowing the jar, Li Xiang took it home, piled a few stones on the stove pit, placed the pottery jar on top, cleaned it, and started cooking for breakfast.
There was not much food left at home, and with so many mouths to feed in the family, Old Man Shen asked Li Xiang to take only eight potato eggs, each smaller than a child's fist, under his supervision.
After Li Xiang cooked the potatoes, Old Man Shen ordered Li Xiang to give a potato to each man in the family.
That eliminates 6 potatoes.
Chen Qiushu quickly picked one up for his wife Li Xiaoqin and put it in her hand.
Wang Huilian grabbed one for herself.
Now all eight small potatoes were gone in an instant.
Li Xiang looked at the empty jar and could only pour a bowl of the water used to boil potatoes and bring it to the lying Old Lady Wang, wanting to feed her.
Looking at the clear water in the bowl, Old Lady Wang angrily overturned it with a slap, and the water splashed all over the mattress.
Not only did she knock over the bowl, but Old Lady Wang also reached out and grabbed the flesh on the back of Li Xiang's hand and started twisting it in circles.
She was in so much pain that she could only keep begging for mercy from Old Lady Wang in a low voice: "Mom, it hurts... it hurts..."
It was also thanks to the fact that Old Mrs. Wang had not been full these days and did not have much strength in her body. She was tired and out of breath after just exerting herself for a while.
Li Xiang took this opportunity to quickly retract her hand.
No one at the table seemed to hear Old Lady Wang's inarticulate curses and just continued eating.
Li Xiang wiped away her tears silently and picked up the bowl with a broken corner that had fallen on the kang.
After pinching Li Xiang, Old Lady Wang did not give up, so she used her good hand to support herself and crawl towards the table.
If she wasn't given food, she would get it herself.
As soon as Old Lady Wang's hand reached the table, Old Man Shen knocked her hand with the chopsticks.
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