Chapter 70 The baby rabbit was eaten
"We need to go to my house and move the rabbit to the watermelon field." Ye Xiaomei doesn't have the time to spend on dressing up now. She wants to start proving step by step that her daughter can also be independent. This is the first step.
Ma Qijun naturally would not refute. Thinking that he could come back another day, he took his wife and rushed all the way back to Meihua Village. He did not turn back to his own home, but went straight to the Ye family.
Ye Xiaomei jumped off the car seat and ran straight to the yard. Seeing that the aunt and grandmother and Ye Xiaolin were already having lunch in the main room, Ye Xiaomei greeted them:
"I'm here to get my rabbits. I'm leaving now."
I walked straight towards the alley entrance. In the simple brick rabbit cage, the six newborn cubs had already grown long fur and were round like big cotton balls.
This made Ye Xiaomei smile so hard that she couldn't stop. In her mind, she had already started to calculate how much she could get from shearing the wool in the fall.
"Eh? Where's my male rabbit?" Ye Xiaomei was startled. They were originally a couple, but now only the female rabbit and her cubs are left. "Grandma, where's my male rabbit?"
When he ran to the door of the main hall and asked this question, Li Cuihua and Wang Minzhi looked at each other subconsciously with a little panic in their eyes.
Ye Xiaolin rolled her eyes and ate the meat with big mouthfuls, looking like she was ignoring the stranger.
Ye Xiaomei saw that something was wrong and stepped over the threshold in two or three steps. It was not a big deal at this point.
The large bowl on the table was full of meat. Ye Xiaomei even saw the bones of the rabbit's head: "Grandma, you...you ate my rabbit?"
Ye Xiaomei's voice became a little louder.
Ma Qijun, who was waiting outside, had never heard Xiaomei's voice so high before. He put on the bicycle leg and limped into the yard:
"What's wrong, Xiaomei?"
Seeing this, Ma Qijun took a breath of cold air. His daughter-in-law's face turned red with anger, and her huge eyes flashed with tears of forbearance. It was obvious that she was holding back a lot of grievances.
"Xiao Mei, aren't rabbits raised to be eaten? Why are you so angry?" Li Cuihua bit her teeth nonchalantly.
Ye Xiaomei clenched her hands, her shoulders trembling slightly, and pointed at Li Cuihua, Wang Minzhi and others: "That's an Angora rabbit, used to sell its fur, not to be raised to eat, you..."
Ye Xiaomei stamped her feet and said through gritted teeth: "You should pay for my rabbit." After that, tears fell from her eyes and her throat was filled with sobs of grievance.
"Xiao Mei..." Ma Qijun would be lying if he didn't feel sorry for her. When had he ever seen his wife so wronged? She was crying.
"Brother Ma, you sit here today." Ye Xiaomei turned around and took a stool from the house and squatted on the ground. Although she was angry, she was still thinking about Brother Ma who had a bad leg and took her for such a long walk:
"I have to make things clear today." She had been feeling aggrieved for eighteen years, and she didn't want to continue feeling this way.
"Xiao Mei, we are all family, why should we pay for eating a rabbit?" Wang Minzhi had an embarrassed look on her face and avoided looking at him. She knew she was in the wrong.
Just two days ago, the mother-in-law complained that there was not enough meat, so she gave Wang Minzhi twenty yuan. Wang Minzhi was thinking about waiting for Hu Zi to bring his girlfriend over tomorrow and then buy some good food together.
There happened to be a rabbit at home. It would be meat no matter how hard we tried to kill it. I didn't expect Ye Xiaomei to be so stubborn that she would start to complain.
"Okay, I'll watch here." Ma Qijun sat down and looked at his wife quietly.
Ye Xiaomei sniffed and said, "I raised him, so you have to pay for it."
Li Cuihua was stunned for a long time. This girl was so angry that she threw down her chopsticks and said, "You are married now, and you have the support of your in-laws. How dare you be hard in front of me? I asked your aunt to kill the rabbit. What's the matter? Do you still want me, an old woman, to compensate you?"
Ye Xiaolin, who was standing by, saw Ye Xiaomei being so angry. She had never seen such a good show since she was a child. She grabbed a rabbit leg and started chewing it in big bites, humming a tune.
Ye Xiaomei's heart was bleeding as she watched this. Without the rabbit couple, she wouldn't even have enough to eat, not to mention that they were supporting Xiao Ya to go to school. The two of them were a light for Ye Xiaomei when she was most desperate:
"Grandma, you can't say that. My mom works hard for this family. Have you ever fed her? How has she not taken good care of you? But you give all the good things to my aunt's family. She can study, but I can't. Fine, I can not study, but I can raise rabbits to earn tuition for my sister. You have eaten my sister's tuition money again. I don't care. You must compensate me."
Wang Minzhi and Ye Xiaolin were both surprised by these words. She actually dared to be so aggressive. How could her temper change so suddenly?
Ye Xiaolin paused in chewing and subconsciously looked at Ma Qijun who was sitting in the yard. It turned out that he had a backer, no wonder he was so hard.
However, the face of this patron was now so gloomy that water could drip out of it. He never dreamed that the old lady of the Ye family would be so partial to him. She took pity on his delicate daughter-in-law and even saved money for her sister's education.
"You damned girl." Li Cuihua was not used to it. She lifted her little feet, took off her shoes, and stood up to hit her on the head:
"I am not a big person, but I will twitch. I will just eat it today."
"Grandma!" Ma Qijun would not tolerate his wife being wronged. As expected, Li Cuihua did not care about the monk's face but the Buddha's. She put her shoes back:
"If you continue to hit me, it's not just about educating the younger generation. You're hitting someone from my Ma family. You know my mother, she's not good at anything but protecting her own shortcomings."
Li Cuihua moved awkwardly and sat back in her chair. There were really few people who could be a match for Wang Dalababa.
Wang Minzhi secretly glanced at Ye Xiaomei and was about to show off her kindness in front of the Ma family, but Ye Xiaolin got there first:
"Isn't it just relying on the Ma family? If I eat a rabbit from you, do I have to declare it through customs? You are so stubborn and have never seen it on the market, as if no one has ever eaten rabbit meat."
Ye Xiaomin bit her lips tightly. Even if she got beaten today, she had to explain the matter clearly. She raised her tear-stained face:
"You know you're eating my rabbit, how is that any different from stealing? I don't understand how you could eat it."
"Xiao Mei." Ma Qijun wanted to take Xiao Mei away now and never come back. He was present today, but what if he was not present? Wouldn't it be that the whole family bullied his wife alone? Instantly, the image of his wife huddled in the corner appeared in his mind, and Ma Qijun felt distressed every time he thought about it:
"Your cousin is right. It seems that we really need to go to the police station to see how they handle this matter. Xiaomei, let's go."
"..." Ye Xiaolin's heart sank and he was suddenly confused. What did she say?
Ye Xiaomei felt reassured when she saw the man's eyes. She stepped out of the main room and walked towards the alley. Ma Qijun was also not idle and brought over the snakeskin bag he had prepared in advance.
Take out the rabbits one by one and put them in.
Main room.
"Xiao Lin, what are you talking about? What if she really asks the government to handle it?" Wang Minzhi was worried and angry.
Country people are particularly sensitive to government investigations. They always feel that something big has happened in someone's family. Even if the final investigation result is just a misunderstanding, the family's reputation will be messed up by those who whisper behind their backs, and it will be no different from that of a labor camp prisoner.
"You can't blame me for that. It's just a rabbit. Who asked Ye Xiaomei to make such a fuss about it?" Ye Xiaolin was unconvinced.
Li Cuihua suddenly raised her voice: "Xiao Lin, if you don't understand, don't speak. No one thinks you are dumb."
The sudden sound startled Ye Xiaolin. Her grandmother had always treated her like a baby, but suddenly she felt like her grandmother had become a different person.
At this moment, Ma Qijun walked out carrying the snakeskin bag filled with rabbits.
Ye Xiaomei suddenly stopped and turned around: "My rabbit is seven yuan. You can either pay me the money or give me a male rabbit of the same size. If you don't send it to me by tomorrow, I will go to the county police station to report you for theft."
After saying this, he turned around and left, only to be met by Ma Qijun at the door with a half-smile on his face.
Ye Xiaomei suddenly lowered her head and said nothing.
Ma Qijun was just impressed that his wife was a quick learner and had a good grasp of her temperament, which was very different from her usual weak character. This way, he would not suffer any loss in the future.
"Hey, hey, hey, Xiaomei, wait a minute, wait a minute..." Wang Minzhi was given a look by her mother-in-law and hurried out to chase after him.
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