Chapter 73 Mom, please stop making trouble!
What a thief crying "stop thief".
As soon as Li Jinhua opened her mouth, she spoke with great confidence and was filled with righteous indignation.
"Sister Song, you don't know, this girl has been against me since the first day she came to the compound. It was her...it was her who made me faint! She also performed a C-section on my daughter-in-law. My perfectly healthy grandson has inexplicably become a little girl who loses money. I haven't even settled these accounts with her, and yet she actually set her sights on the two chickens I raised."
"Go ask around in the compound. Everyone knows I have two chickens. They're big, fat hens that lay two eggs every day! I've been raising them for half a year, just waiting for my daughter-in-law to give birth so I can make chicken soup for her."
When Chu Yue heard this, she almost couldn't help laughing out loud.
Li Jinhua, this stingy person, was actually willing to kill a chicken to nourish Wang Chunling. She was not afraid of her tongue being blown away by the wind when she said such words.
It's ridiculous.
Li Jinhua, however, did not feel guilty at all. She brought out Wang Chunling, who had just given birth a few days ago, and tried to gain sympathy from Song Hongmei.
"Sister Song, my daughter-in-law Chunling is still in confinement after childbirth. Women in confinement need to nourish their bodies the most, and the way to nourish their bodies is to drink chicken soup. Yesterday morning! Yesterday morning, when I was about to kill the chickens, I suddenly found that the two chickens I raised were missing! I searched all over the yard...searched...searched door to door...just to find those two chickens...but no matter how hard I looked, I couldn't find them..."
"It was just yesterday evening. It was her! It was her!" Li Jinhua became increasingly excited as she spoke, pointing her finger directly at Chu Yue. "She came back from the mountains, carrying two chickens, saying they were caught there! Sister Song, listen to this, isn't it ridiculous! How could a little girl like her catch chickens so easily in such a huge mountain? Two of them, to boot! How could such a coincidence happen in this world?"
"I came over early this morning to take a look. I was shocked! This chicken is the one I've been missing! It's my chicken! Sister Song, we only trust you in this compound, so you must judge the situation! I know she's Captain Lu's wife, and her status is different from ours. But it's not easy for an old woman like me to work so hard to raise a chicken. My daughter-in-law is still in confinement after giving birth, and she's waiting for some chicken soup to nourish her body..."
As Li Jinhua spoke, her eyes turned red. She pretended to be aggrieved and crying, and even wiped the corners of her eyes with her sleeves.
In fact, there were no tears in her eyes at all.
This series of behaviors is nothing more than a hypocritical attempt to gain sympathy from Song Hongmei.
Song Hongmei watched Li Jinhua crying and making a fuss, and did not just listen to her side of the story. She said nothing and did not draw any conclusions.
She looked at Chu Yue, wanting to hear what Chu Yue had to explain.
Chu Yue simply said, "Mrs. Li, you don't have to embarrass Sister Song for such a small matter. We can resolve the conflict between the two of us ourselves."
"Hmph, if you want to solve it, fine! Give me back my chicken! And for the one you ate yesterday, pay me according to the market price... give... give me five dollars!" Li Jinhua thought Chu Yue was feeling guilty and actually smiled smugly, "A chicken, plus five dollars. Since you're young, I won't bother with this girl."
Chu Yue ignored Li Jinhua's loud words and asked directly.
"You said this is a chicken you've raised for half a year. So let me ask you, what color is this chicken?"
"It's an old hen, what other color could it be? Of course it's yellow-brown, with a hint of black!" Li Jinhua had noticed the pheasant's feathers when she was trying to steal them. Unlike other old hens, it had large patches of black feathers. "My chickens are different; they have black feathers, so I can recognize them right away!"
Trying to set a trap for her? No way!
Chu Yue continued to ask, "What about the chicken feet? What color are the feet?"
"What other color can chicken feet be? Of course they are yellow! You won't ask me how many feet they have, will you? A little girl like you who has never raised chickens knows nothing." Li Jinhua was still smiling smugly, as if she was confident that she would take the chicken away today.
Little did they know——
"You're not right! Not right!"
Without waiting for Chu Yue to open the door, Lu Yuanbao, who was protected by Chu Yue behind her, rushed out with a pheasant in his arms.
He had never been frightened by Li Jinhua's attitude from the beginning, and now with Chu Yue by his side, he was not afraid at all.
On the way down the mountain yesterday, Chu Yue taught him that wild pheasants are different from ordinary domestic broiler chickens.
"My chicken's feet are black! This is a black-bone chicken, from the neck to the feet, it's all black! You're wrong, this is not your chicken!"
Lu Yuanbao acted like a little adult and completely exposed Li Jinhua's lies.
Li Jinhua was an old country woman. She had never seen a black-bone chicken or a white-bone chicken. However, she had heard of the three white-bone demons.
Now that she was exposed by a five or six-year-old child, she was so angry and embarrassed that she started to act like a spoiled child.
"It's black! It's black! I was just too impatient and said it wrong! How could I get my chicken wrong? Put the chicken on the ground and it will follow me when I call it."
If Lu Yuanbao really put the chicken on the ground, Li Jinhua would definitely reach out to grab it.
Neither Chu Yue nor Lu Yuanbao would believe this old woman who was full of lies.
Seeing that soft tactics didn't work, Li Jinhua revealed her sharp nature and wanted to snatch it directly, "Anyway, this chicken is mine! You must give it back to me! Give it back to me--"
Li Jinhua was about to pounce on Lu Yuanbao, completely forgetting how Chu Yue had slapped her twice just now.
For the sake of money, he really doesn't care about his reputation.
Song Hongmei frowned as she watched from the side, but she also did not approve of Chu Yue using violence to solve the problem.
Just at this moment, a voice was heard.
"Mom—Mom—I beg you, please stop making trouble!"
The person who came turned out to be Wang Chunling.
It had only been a few days since Wang Chunling had a caesarean section, and the wound might not have completely healed. She didn't know what kind of severe pain she had to endure before she got out of bed.
She walked into the yard and first hugged Li Jinhua, while giving Chu Yue and Song Hongmei an apologetic smile, accompanied by pleading.
"Mom, you're wrong. Sister Chu is a good person. She wouldn't be the one who steals chickens. Please stop making trouble."
Li Jinhua was already angry and was worried about not being able to find a way to vent her anger. Now that Wang Chunling appeared, she just happened to run into the trap.
"Wang Chunling, you're really turning your elbow outward! Are you from my Zhou family, or are you from the same family as Chu Yue? Not only did you not speak up for me, but you actually tried to stop me! Didn't she just give you some wedding candies and a mouthful of malted milk? Why are you so blinded by her greed that you don't recognize me as your mother?"
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