Chapter 280 Kneel Down
When Li Hongmei heard this, she immediately looked at Old Lady Li. Although she didn't sell much in the past few days, she also tasted the sweetness of making money.
She hasn't made a lot of money yet. What if Lin Jiayi really doesn't let her sell?
Mrs. Li gave her a reassuring look and said in a calm voice, "What are you talking about? Hongmei heard that you were too busy with your business, so she came all the way back to help you. If she doesn't know how to do it, you can just teach her slowly. This is what you should do as a brother and sister-in-law. Why are you yelling and showing off your ability? It's just some leftover meat. At most, we can eat it ourselves. We have been selling meat for such a long time, but we haven't eaten much of it ourselves."
"Eat it yourself?" Lin Jiayi stepped forward and lifted the cloth covering it. "How are we going to eat so much meat? All the money in the family is on this. If we eat it all, how will we get the money to buy more tomorrow?"
In the basket, there were pig intestines, hearts, livers, lungs, pork heads, and all kinds of cooked food, filling half the basket. There was no way we could finish eating them all.
Besides, the meat did have a strange smell, which was obviously different from what they usually ate.
When she thought about how all the money was invested in this, Mrs. Li felt even more distressed. She glared at her eldest daughter secretly and then said.
"I think the meat is just a little undercooked. When Guangyuan comes back, I'll have him put it back into the pot and add some more seasoning to enhance the flavor. Then we can sell it tomorrow."
Lin Jiayi actually thought so too. Although those people came with great force today, nothing happened to them in the end.
At worst they can just change the place where they sell in the next few days. They don’t have a shop, so they just sell wherever they go.
I just don’t want Li Hongmei to have an easy time.
Seeing that Lin Jiayi was still unwilling to give in, Mrs. Li winked at her eldest daughter and said, "Didn't you just say that you would give the money from selling the meat to your sister-in-law? It just so happens that your sister-in-law is here, so let her see how hard you have worked these past few days."
Li Hongmei widened her eyes in disbelief. Her mother actually asked her to give money to that little bitch?
Seeing that Mrs. Li kept winking at him, he had no choice but to take out five dollars.
"I gave all the money from the previous sales to my brother. This is the money from today's sales. I'll give it to you from my sister-in-law."
Lin Jiayi frowned. Only five dollars?
But of course she wouldn't let go of the five dollars, it was all her money.
Lin Jiayi took the money and turned to leave. Li Dongmei was afraid that her elder sister would come after her, so she also ran away in shame.
Li Hongmei could only glare at her back, then turned around and saw Old Mrs. Li speaking in dissatisfaction again.
"Mom, look at her. She's almost riding on my neck, and you're still talking to her."
Old Mrs. Li glanced out the window and said, "You are stupid. No matter what, you still have to rely on her secret recipe for cooked food to make money."
"What secret recipe for cooked food? I think she is just trying to trick you. I have tried it, and Qin's cooked food doesn't taste like this at all."
"Why do you care if it tastes like this? Just based on her relationship with Lin Chuxia, it doesn't taste like that. How many people have eaten Qin Ji's cooked food?"
Li Hongmei did not refute, she also beat the drum when she was selling things
Under the banner of the Qin family.
"Didn't you tell me that I should keep the money from the cooked food myself? Why don't you keep your word and let me pay for it?"
Mrs. Li was a bit disappointed. "I told you to keep it yourself, but I didn't ask you to ruin the family business. Look at how much meat is left in your basket?"
Li Hongmei was not convinced. "I don't know how much I can sell. What if it's not enough? Wouldn't I lose a lot of money?"
"You are so confused," Mrs. Li knew that her daughter was greedy and cunning, so she could only patiently enlighten her. "If you sell a little every day and save a little every day, how can you lose your income? If the business fails, where will you get the money?"
Of course Li Hongmei knew what Old Lady Li meant, but she also knew in her heart that it was just her mother's idea that the money from selling the meat belonged to her. If that bitch Lin Jiayi found out, she would probably make a scene.
Whenever they had a fight in the past, their mother would definitely side with her. But now that Lin Jiayi had the secret recipe in her hand, she really couldn’t tell who her mother would side with. Didn’t she see that even her own sister wasn’t on her side?
The two were talking in the room when a scream was heard outside.
"Guangyuan, what happened to you? Who beat you up like this?"
Li Guangyuan came in from outside in a disheveled state, with a cut on his forehead, bruises on the corners of his mouth, and his clothes were all dirty.
Li Guangyuan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Lin Jiayi. Then, when he saw Old Lady Li and Li Hongmei coming out of the house, his eyes darkened.
"Some people said that the meat we sell has quality problems and can make people sick. Today, a group of people surrounded me and asked for medical expenses. I argued with them, but they beat me up without saying a word."
Old Madam Li glanced at Li Hongmei, a trace of guilt flashed in her eyes, and then she said angrily, "Where did this troublemaker come from? I think he is just jealous of our good business. Is there any law here? Didn't you go to the police?"
"Mom, if I really call the police, would you be willing to hand over my eldest sister?"
Mrs. Li fell silent immediately.
Li Guangyuan took off his torn coat and threw it on the ground, then walked to the basket where the meat was placed. He took one look and knew what was going on.
He is now exhausted both physically and mentally by this family. Whenever he wants to do something good in his career, these people always hold him back.
There was so much meat in the eldest sister's basket, she definitely didn't take it today. Anyone with a little common sense would know that cooked food would go bad after two days in the summer, but she still sold the spoiled meat.
"You can't sell it, but you're getting so much. Do you want to kill your whole family?"
Li Guangyuan suddenly roared. In all these years, he had never lost his temper with his family. For a moment, the women in the yard were stunned.
But someone soon reacted.
The first one to rush up was Li Hongmei. "How could I have killed my family? If anyone was responsible for killing someone, wasn't she the jinx? She was the one who was in charge of selling cooked food, and now that something has gone wrong with the cooked food you cooked, you're blaming me. I came all the way back to help you, and not only are you not grateful, you're also putting the blame on me. Do you have any conscience?"
"Did I need your help? When you get married, you should stay at your husband's house and take care of your husband and children. Why do you keep going back to your parents' house to make trouble? How can you not want your parents' family to live a good life?"
Lin Jiayi felt extremely happy when she saw Li Guangyuan say out loud what she had not dared to say.
They didn't even care that Li Hongmei almost ruined their business.
Yes, just scold the sister-in-law so harshly that she will never return to her parents' home.
This was the first time in her life that Li Hongmei was scolded by Li Guangyuan. She jumped up and down and retorted, "I think you guys just can't bear to see me live a good life. I could have married a city person, but you made me marry Ma Dazhuang and ruined my life. What qualifications do you have to criticize me?"
"What's wrong with Ma Dazhuang? If you ask me, Ma Dazhuang is more than worthy of you. As for a woman like you who is ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth, who doesn't know how to live, and who has no brains but still tries to be clever, you should be grateful if someone wants you, you..."
“Bang!”
A slap hit Li Guangyuan's face hard, and Mrs. Li was so angry that her face turned blue.
"Get down on your knees."
Li Guangyuan looked at the face of Old Lady Li. The shadow of being strictly disciplined by his parents since childhood made his heart tremble, and he knelt on the ground with a plop.
Old Mrs. Li picked up a fire poker nearby and hit Li Guangyuan again and again. It was obvious from her momentum that she was using all her strength.
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