Chapter 22 A Fight
These words made Mrs. Zhao choke.
Before I could even fight back, a fierce woman laughed and said:
"Aunt Fa Cai, when did your family move to the seaside? Why are you being so nosy?"
"Of course. Just look at how efficient Miss Caiping is and you'll know she works a lot." Another plump woman agreed.
Ye Caiping recognized that these two people were Tieniu's wife and Zhuzi's wife who had gone with her to Lijia Village to seek justice last time.
Although the villagers had a bad impression of Ye Caiping.
But as Ye Caiping said, she didn't eat their rice, so it was none of their business whether they were lazy or greedy.
Moreover, not only did Ye Caiping not eat their rice, she also shared with them the method of removing toxins from cassava, giving them more food to survive the winter.
As the saying goes, one should be grateful to others for their kindness, and many villagers began to defend Ye Caiping.
When Mrs. Zhao saw so many people confronting her, she became timid for a moment.
The wife of the village head said sternly: "Mr. Rich, do you still want this cassava? If not, go home."
"Who said I don't want it!" Mrs. Zhao was frightened and hurriedly held the half-cut cassava in her hand.
Mrs. Zhao's daughter-in-law came over quickly and said anxiously, "Auntie Lizheng, my mother is talking nonsense because she is too tired. I will take her back now."
Then he smiled at Ye Caiping: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Sister Caiping."
While she was apologizing, she cursed in her heart, "Can't this old woman just shut up?" I am becoming more and more hated.
After saying this, he took Mrs. Zhao away.
Ye Caiping ignored them and continued cutting cassava with her head down.
Old Mrs. Ye snorted and started talking to the headman's wife and the woman beside her.
It is said that Caiping in her daughter's family is not lazy nor greedy, but very hardworking. I also take turns cooking with my two sisters-in-law.
Among the busy crowd, a woman in her early thirties curled her lips and whispered to Mrs. Du beside her:
"Others laughed at her for being lazy and greedy, but your sister-in-law was not ashamed of it. Instead, she was proud of it and became complacent."
Mrs. Du chopped the wooden stake with the hatchet in her hand and gave her a sidelong look: "It's none of your business. Did I eat your rice?"
The woman——Liu Chunfang choked.
She knew that Du and Ye Caiping did not get along, so she said something to taunt Du so that she could share the same hatred with her and discredit Ye Caiping together to find a sense of identity.
Who would have thought that I would end up in such a disgrace.
Mrs. Du couldn't stand Ye Caiping's arrogance, but she also couldn't stand Liu Chunfang's slandering her. She was torn between two extremes with mixed emotions and got angry.
Mrs. Du held her breath, feeling very bored, so she picked up the hatchet and left.
Anyway, one person from each family is enough, so it doesn’t matter if she leaves.
Because there were so many people involved, more than a dozen baskets of cassava were cut quickly.
Ye Caiping asked everyone to bring bamboo sieves, put them on the mouth of the basket, and tie it up with cloth strips.
Then carry it to the river and soak the cassava and the bamboo basket in the water.
For fear that the whole basket of cassava would be washed away, they tied it with a rope and tied it to a tree by the river.
"Caiping, how long do we need to soak this cassava?" asked the village head's wife.
"Seven days."
"Look, the men are carrying cassava again. Let's go to work."
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On the mountain, lunch finally arrived.
The man in the cassava forest threw away the hoe in his hand and walked towards the backpack in a hurry.
"Wash your hands and face," Ye Daquan shouted, "If you eat raw cassava, it will be poisonous."
The men swarmed to the stream to wash their hands and faces.
After cleaning, he took his own bowl and chopsticks and sat on the floor.
As soon as Ye Daquan and others opened it, they smelled the fragrance of cassava and their mouths were watering.
The bottom of the bowl is a layer of brown rice, then a thick layer of cassava chips, and is served with small pickles.
"Is this cassava? Daquan, give me a piece." A man with sharp eyes stretched out his chopsticks to pick up some.
Ye Daquan quickly covered it up: "No."
Ye Erquan, Ye Yong and others also quickly covered their bowls.
The men became anxious. People have always said that poisonous roots are edible, and I have been digging for a long time, but I haven't even tasted the saltiness. I have been itching to try it.
"I give you two mouthfuls of brown rice, and you give me a piece of cassava."
Ye Daquan's eyes lit up. Two mouthfuls of brown rice were much bigger than cassava chips. Although he still wanted to eat cassava, he had eaten enough in the past two days.
So Ye Daquan exchanged a piece of cassava for two mouthfuls of rice.
"I'll change too. I'll change too."
"I'll trade half an egg for three slices!"
After Ye Daquan's cassava was snatched away, the cassava of Ye Erquan, Old Man Ye, and the Ye Yong brothers were also exchanged by the anxious men.
The men finally tasted the cassava they had been longing for, Ye Daquan's family ate rice and even eggs, and everyone was very satisfied.
After a whole day of work, half of the cassava on the mountain had been dug.
Old Man Ye and others carried hoes and baskets and went home.
When I entered the room, I saw Ye Caiping cooking in the kitchen and Ye Jiner making a fire.
"Oh, why did Caiping come into the kitchen?" Ye Daquan was so shocked that the basket in his hand fell to the ground.
Ye Caiping said: "It's my turn to cook today."
"How can you cook?" Ye Daquan was anxious.
Ye Caiping glared at him and said, "Didn't I tell you last time not to treat me differently? If you keep talking like this, I'll move."
"No, no, no."
Ye Caiping continued, "It's not much work. Just cook some porridge and cassava, and stir-fry some cabbage."
Because the family was poor and the meals were monotonous, even if we were to prepare meals for fourteen people, it would only take a little more effort.
"Then I'll fetch you some water." Ye Daquan didn't feel tired at all. He turned around and picked up the bucket to fetch water.
Seeing this, Ye Erquan hurriedly followed.
Ye Caiping did not refuse either.
Housework, besides cooking, includes cleaning, washing clothes, fetching water, cleaning the chicken coop and pigpen, chopping grass for pigs, cooking pig rice, mixing chicken feed, and feeding livestock.
But each room is responsible for doing laundry, and fetching water is the man's job. It is the man from a certain room who fetches water when it is his turn to do housework.
Ye Caiping has no man, so Ye Daquan's brothers can only choose one.
Now that all the chickens and pigs in the house have been sold, there is no need to clean, let alone prepare pig food and chicken rice, so the housework is quite light.
Soon, the food was served.
Ye Daquan looked at the meal on the table with a look of regret: "If I had known that my little sister would cook today, I would not have replaced the cassava at noon. That was the meal my little sister cooked! I have never eaten it! I actually replaced it at noon."
Old Man Ye and others: "..."
The corners of Ye Caiping's mouth twitched slightly.
Seeing Ye Daquan's shameless licking appearance, Mrs. Du choked.
If Ye Caiping was not Ye Daquan's biological sister, she would have a fight with him no matter what.
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