Chapter 13 He actually gave me such nice shoes
Ye Xiaolin's pupils shrank and she stared straight at Ye Xiaomei who was washing her feet in the yard.
She held the pair of purple crystal sandals in her arms, wiped her feet with her hands, and then put them on with a smile on her face.
"Who are you trying to show off to?" Ye Xiaolin rolled her eyes. At worst she could ask her grandmother to buy her a pair of shoes.
Ye Xiaomei ignored Ye Xiaolin. She just tilted her feet to admire the crystal sandals. Not only did they look good, but they also felt cool the moment she put her feet in them. The wind blew in from all directions through the hollow holes.
"The table is too small, little girl. Please take some food and eat inside so that there will be room for your sister." Li Cuihua instructed.
"It's okay, I'll eat while standing. I can eat more while standing." Heizi chuckled and quickly picked up a piece of meat with his chopsticks and put it in the bowl, then stood aside.
"How can this be possible? You are the guest, come, sit here. I will eat while standing." Wang Minzhi stood up happily.
The two of them pushed each other away.
Ma Qijun seemed not to hear anything and looked outside the door until Xiaomei came over with her lips bitten. His eyes fell on her feet. Wow, these didn't look like the feet of someone who had been doing farm work all year round. They were as soft as tofu.
Ye Xiaomei grabbed the corner of her clothes restlessly with both hands:
"Mom, does it look good?"
Zhao Mei smiled so hard that her crow's feet got sunken at the corners of her eyes. "Looks good, looks good. My little Mei has fair skin, and these shoes make her look even whiter."
Today is a good day, Zhao Mei said a lot more than before: "Mom, you say so, right?"
Li Cuihua nodded repeatedly: "This must have been bought by Qijun."
Ye Xiaolin, who had been silent all the time, suddenly raised her eyes to look at Ma Qijun, and then moved her eyes to Ye Xiaomei, who was holding another shoe box in her arms.
She had seen the pattern on this box in a store in the county town. The shoes there were several times more expensive than those sold at street stalls, but the styles were all up to date with the fashion trends.
So it was Ma Qijun who bought it for her? She had worked so hard to please her mother before, but she had never seen Ma Qijun buy her any gifts.
Ye Xiaolin, ah Ye Xiaolin, this accident was clearly planned by her from beginning to end, but why does it always seem that Ye Xiaomei got the advantage in the end?
"Xiaolin, Xiaolin? Do you think it looks good?" Zhao Mei saw Xiaolin in a daze and asked hurriedly.
Normally she didn't dare to say much, but now she is more and more certain that her daughter will be happy in the future. In the past, she bullied her daughter and accused her of being indecent, but now Zhao Mei has the confidence and dares to speak up.
Ye Xiaolin's face looked very unhappy. She ignored Zhao Mei's gaze and focused on eating. She thought: What's the big deal? I just bought her two pairs of shoes. Who cares?
"Sister-in-law, please sit down and eat, otherwise I will have to eat all the food." Heizi was grinning from ear to ear.
He was sent by his superiors to take care of Ma Qijun. After all, he was injured in the line of duty. Uncle Ma only came home a few days a month, so only Aunt Wang could take care of him. After all, a woman still had to do farm work and could not take care of him much.
Now, Heizi has received the task of driving to take care of Ma Qijun's travel and changing of medicines. Now that the boss has finally married a good wife, he can go back to the army to report.
Ye Xiaomei was pressed by Heizi onto the stool next to Ma Qijun.
Sister-in-law? Ye Xiaomei blushed and moved the stool towards her mother.
Ma Qijun didn't think much about it. He knew she was shy just by seeing her slightly red cheeks. Anyway, there would be many people who would call her sister-in-law in the future, so it might as well get to know her now.
"Xiao Mei, eat more." Zhao Mei picked out the pork belly and stuffed it into her daughter's bowl.
Ye Xiaoya, who was eating a lot of meat in the house, ran over happily: "Mom, I want to eat more meat."
Ye Xiaomei quickly took the bowl, picked up half a bowl of pork belly, and carefully picked up a large portion of braised fish with chopsticks. She carefully picked out the bones before handing it to Xiaoya:
"Eat as much as you want. There will be plenty of meat today."
Ma Qijun almost laughed, of course not, there was definitely more than enough meat for today, he had seen Xiaomei's cloth shoes were torn, so he simply bought her two pairs.
But it was already noon when they came back from the county, and if they sent it over, it would be just in time for dinner. Her mother, who was well versed in the ways of the world, insisted that they bring some dishes over, and they had to be meat, so that they would appear respectable and that the Ma family would not be stingy.
It seems that the mother is really good at handling things, and it also satisfies Xiaomei and Xiaoya.
However, the lady standing opposite who was eating had her eyes fixed on the vegetable bowl, searching for meat with her chopsticks over and over again.
Li Cuihua winked at them vigorously. Normally, she would just let it go, but today there were guests who didn't know the rules. She must have a talk with the mother and daughter tonight.
After eating and drinking, Ye Xiaomei and Ye Xiaoya began to clean the table and wash the dishes. Li Cuilan went to the east room without waiting until night.
"Minzhi, you are a mother, let me talk about you first. You said that you can't read a few words, but you don't know etiquette?"
Li Cuilan sat on the stool and turned her face away angrily:
"You've almost made a big hole in the vegetable bowl? What's the matter? You've never eaten meat or seen a pig walk before, so when you go home to cut some meat, don't you hide it and eat it with you two? Why are you still clinging to me, a starving ghost?"
Wang Minzhi was stunned. She opened her mouth but said nothing. She just looked at Ye Xiaolin who was silent.
"And you, Xiaolin, you may say foul language behind my back, but how can you curse in front of Ma Qijun? I am generous and don't care. If I care, I will slap you twice and you won't say anything."
Li Cuihua clicked her fingers in the air like a chicken pecking at rice.
"No, Mom, are you possessed by evil spirits or what?" Wang Minzhi interrupted. She didn't look like her usual self at all. Usually, she was particularly partial to their family.
Ye Xiaolin snorted, and said sarcastically with a curl of his lips: "How can you say you are possessed? You are just obsessed with money. You want to worship Ye Xiaomei's family and that cripple Ma Qijun as gods, otherwise you won't be able to get the one thousand yuan betrothal gift after the marriage."
Li Cuihua's face suddenly turned dark when her thoughts were revealed.
Wang Minzhi finally came to her senses. So this was what she was thinking. No wonder her mother-in-law seemed like a different person when the Ma family arrived.
I couldn't help but feel that my daughter, who had attended junior high school, knew a lot and saw things clearly.
Li Cuihua's face flushed with anger, and she was immediately furious. She was afraid that Ma Qijun in the west room might hear her, so she could only grit her teeth and whisper:
"You two are really stupid. I am good at spending money, but I am doing this for your two sons. Ye Qiang and Ye Hu are both unmarried. Ye Qiang will be thirty this year, and Ye Hu will be twenty-six. Who do you think I am doing this for?"
Li Cuihua was so angry that she gasped. She felt unwilling to accept that her kindness was being treated as a waste, so she added:
"Xiao Lin, you look down on the cripple, I don't blame you and I won't push you into the fire pit. I can find a better one in the future. Let Xiao Mei marry him, and we can get some money. Isn't this a good thing to kill two birds with one stone?"
Wang Minzhi thought this made sense. She was about to persuade her daughter when she realized her face wasn't even a nose. She didn't know what she was angry about.
At this moment, the scorching afternoon sun was suddenly covered by a dark cloud, and a gentle breeze blew into Ye Xiaomei's room in the west wing.
Ye Xiaomei sat beside the bed, Ma Qijun sat in front of Xiaomei's desk, the air was quiet and eerie.
There was a layer of newspaper on the table covered with paste. Although it was a little yellowed, it was very clean. A few books were placed against the wall.
Ma Qijun thought to himself - I heard that this girl is illiterate. The books on the table are mostly professional manuals on agricultural production, vegetable planting, and animal husbandry, as well as a sow breeding manual.
This book is, Materia Medica?
"Do you still read medical books?"
They finally started talking, otherwise the jealousy in their hearts would have exploded in this quiet and eerie environment.
"Um."
Just a hum? Ma Qijun looked back and saw Ye Xiaomei putting her crystal sandals under the bed. She felt they were crooked and put them back in place. Only then did she get up and sit back on the bed with satisfaction.
When they looked up and their eyes met, there was an indescribable passion in their eyes.
The raindrops in midsummer were beating like drums, making the tiles above our heads crackle.
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