Chapter 26 Chapter 26 (Catching Bugs) “My house was smashed…
Jiang Shuangshuang guessed wrong.
Even before getting on the bus, Xu's mother was already thinking about checking her household registration. She asked one question after another, which made her unable to stay any longer. She just picked up a corn cob and walked out.
It was especially quiet outside the yard at this time. Tiegeda and his group drove away, followed by many followers. They felt particularly happy just by smelling the exhaust fumes and all ran towards the captain.
While they were weighing, calculating the bill and issuing the receipt inside, a group of people had already gathered outside, all their attention focused on the lump of iron.
"Xu Shuisheng is so lucky. I have never even ridden a bicycle before, but he has ridden a car. I don't know what it feels like."
"How else can it be? Didn't you see him laughing so hard that his eyes could not be seen?" A short man said with envy, "After all, he still has a good sister and a good niece. I heard that she is his niece's colleague. In the future, they will work in the same unit. One phone call will make him drive to collect wild boars."
“You are really capable.”
"My eldest sister is very successful, and Xu Shuisheng can also benefit from it. I heard that when his future in-laws came to visit, the big dish on the table was brought by Xu Yingxia, and she also brought a lot of food. How proud he was in front of his future in-laws."
The so-called main dish is pickled mustard greens.
Ordinary people may not be able to eat pickled vegetables for several months, so during the Chinese New Year, a plate of pork slices is placed on the table from the first to the fifteenth day of the lunar month. People don’t even taste it themselves, but just put it on the table to look good, symbolizing a year of good harvest.
When guests come, let them have a bite or two of the food, and the rest can be used to entertain the next guest. There will still be some left after the Chinese New Year, and the whole family can eat it together.
Anyway, the opportunities to eat meat are really rare, not to mention when the eldest sister comes back to visit, and she brings two such big dried fish and some food. Looking at so many large and small bags, who knows, there might be other things in them.
Look at the other person’s niece, she summoned a lump of iron with just one phone call. She is so promising at such a young age. Who knows, she might be able to support Xu Shuisheng’s family in the future.
"Xu Shisheng is a little short-sighted. What good will it do for them to have a quarrel with the most promising eldest sister?"
"His younger brothers and sisters are quarreling with each other. There must be something wrong with him as the eldest brother."
"I heard that Xu Shisheng came to Xu Yingxia's house to ask for a job even before the seventh day of her husband's death. He is so shameless..."
"Stop talking, Zhao Di is here."
"Come on, come on. You have the nerve to do something like that. Why should we be afraid that she will hear it?"
The sound was quite loud and Zhao Di actually heard it.
Looking at the lump of iron in front of her, she felt particularly uncomfortable.
When Xu Yingxia married into the city, she was very jealous. She was a country girl and didn't look like a fairy, so how could she be seen by a city man and insisted on marrying her?
What made her even more dissatisfied was that Xu Yingxia married and lived in the city, but she never thought of helping her family. She only gave them some gifts occasionally. Those gifts seemed like a lot in the eyes of the brigade, but compared with the people in the city, what were they?
If she really cared about her family, she would give the job to her nephew without them asking.
"She is a wolf-hearted thing. The Xu family has raised her up. Shouldn't she help her?" Zhao Di did not dare to say it outside and started banging the table when she got home. "She should not have been married to the Jiang family in the first place. What's the point of marrying her to the city? If she has not helped her mother's family, she should be sold to someone else as a daughter-in-law. Whoever pays the highest betrothal gift can marry her."
"Okay, okay, why are you bringing this up now?" Xu Shisheng didn't want to hear it. It was useless to say more.
"I'm holding my anger in my heart, why can't I bring it up?" Zhao Di snorted, "Whose sisters are not like this? I am also thinking about my brother from my natal family? The Chen family gave birth to me and raised me, but now that I am getting married, they will ignore me. Am I still a person?"
"Hey, I'm warning you, if you dare to steal things from the house and take them back secretly again, I'll whip you!" Xu Shisheng got angry when he heard this. When he was young, he really didn't think that his eldest sister had to make sacrifices for her parents' family.
There is some preference for boys over girls in the family, but it is not to the extent of exploiting the daughters.
This idea came to me only after I married Zhao Di.
In her opinion, it is the duty of sisters to sacrifice for the men in the family. Even after getting married, they still have to rely on their brothers and nephews for support. She should lend a helping hand to her family without hesitation.
Xu Shisheng heard it so many times that he agreed with it in his heart.
Why don't you agree?
He is the male in the family. He is the eldest sister and he has to make sacrifices. He is the one who benefits. He doesn't have to do anything and people just bring things to him. He loves it.
But if the situation was reversed and it became his wife who took her things back to her parents' home, he wouldn't do it.
Why should his own things be given to the Chen family for free?
But Zhao Di never learned her lesson after being beaten countless times. There would always be something missing in the house, from food to a stool. Whenever she went back, even if she couldn't get anything from home, she would secretly take a few handfuls of vegetables from other people's private plots and bring them back to her parents' home.
"That's my own brother!" Zhao Di stiffened her neck. "Xu Yingxia is so cruel that she doesn't even consider you a brother, but I can't just leave my brother alone. Besides, didn't you think it was natural to take care of your brothers from your mother's side?"
"...That's different!" Xu Shisheng was choked.
How can this be the same?!
"Why is it different? The Chen family gave birth to me and raised me, shouldn't I repay them? Even though I am a member of your Xu family now, if someone really bullies me, won't my brother and nephew help me?" Zhao Di said with determination, "My parents have said that the most reliable person in the world is your own brother..."
"Bullshit!" Xu Shisheng couldn't explain it to her at all. He pointed his finger at the door and yelled, "If you think your mother's family is the only one you can trust, get out of here and never come back again!"
Zhao Di shrank her neck and dared not say anything more.
Xu Shisheng felt better after seeing her shut up, but before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard her muttering, "Am I stupid? If I'm sent back now, won't my mother's food be wasted? I can't let my brother and nephew go hungry to feed me, can I?"
"...You!" Xu Shisheng's chest heaved with anger.
He really wanted to curse at her, but he knew that no matter how much he cursed, it would not wake this stupid woman up. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been sneaking into her parents' house to steal things even after being married for more than 30 years.
He was too lazy to waste time talking to her, so he just glared at her and walked out of the house. He would rather go to work in the fields than look at her any more.
Zhao Di curled her lips and didn't take it seriously.
After so many years of quarrels, she didn't believe that he would really kick her out. If he really went out, who would wash his clothes and cook for him? Who would make his bed? If she was gone for two days, he would live worse than a pig.
But at this moment, she was too lazy to go out and listen to those gossips, so she simply went back to her room and rummaged through the cabinets. "She, Xu Yingxia, can make her brother proud, so why can't I?"
When she collects some more things, she will take them back to her parents' home to make her younger brother and nephew happy.
At this time, a little kid quietly ran past her window and ran into another room, complaining quietly: "Mom, grandma is planning to steal something and take it to uncle's house again."
Wang Sanmei patted her head and said, "You are so good. Keep an eye on your grandma and tell mom if you have any problems."
I wasn't really angry at heart.
After all, she had had a quarrel with her mother-in-law about this matter before.
Her mother-in-law is stupid and foolish, and she is also very hypocritical.
She can support her parents' family, but she does not allow her daughter-in-law to learn from her.
It's very simple. The mother-in-law wants to support her parents, so her, the eldest daughter-in-law, naturally has to learn from her. If the mother-in-law takes a piece of meat back to her parents, then she will take three pieces of meat back to her parents to see who feels more distressed in the end.
Of course, she wasn't really going to support her parents, she was just playing along with them. Usually during the New Year and other festivals, she was asked to bring some holiday gifts to her parents, which was the right thing to do.
But if she had to be unrestrained and ignore her own family to support her parents, she couldn't do that.
Her parents wouldn't exploit her like that.
But by playing a trick, she took advantage of the situation to divide the family.
It’s okay for your mother-in-law to use her own things to make extra money, just don’t stare at her family’s things.
She had some expectations at the beginning but now she is completely disheartened. She has already realized that their small family cannot rely on their parents at all, so she no longer has any expectations.
Anyway, when they get old, she can only give them a pension at most, and don't even think about getting anything else from her. Since her nephew is so good, she can let him support her in her old age if he has the ability.
"Mom, can I go out and see the iron lump?" the little girl asked eagerly, she couldn't wait to go out and join in the fun.
However, Wang Sanmei didn't really want her to go out at this time.
This is a new incident at my aunt's house. Who knows how people outside will laugh at them.
It's just that a good relative has caused such a rift. Having such a relative in the city, even if you can't get any advantage, you can at least benefit from some things.
Take Xu Tan's marriage for example. Although it has no practical benefits, hearing that there is an aunt working in the city in the family makes him feel more prestigious.
She really couldn't understand why her parents-in-law were so upset with her aunt's family. They didn't get any benefits from such a big quarrel. Now they can only watch her aunt's family getting better and better, and they can only hold their anger and be jealous. They are really stupid.
Wang Sanmei didn't want her daughter to hear those mocking words, so she whispered, "Mom will roast a sweet potato for you, okay? You just keep an eye on the fire and make sure the sweet potato doesn't burn."
The little girl hesitated for a long time between looking at the iron lump and eating the sweet potato, but finally she couldn't resist the temptation and nodded in agreement.
Thanks to Wang Sanmei's thoughtful consideration, Xu Shisheng, who had just left the house, finally understood why his wife came home so early. Everyone he met along the way would make a few jokes about her. He was quite annoyed at first, but after hearing more, he regretted it.
His older sister isn't actually a cruel or stingy person.
At the beginning, when my brother-in-law was still around, they would go back to the brigade from time to time and bring some things home. It was precisely because of the large amount of things they brought that his appetite grew. After listening to that stupid woman's advice a few times, he couldn't help but have other thoughts. He was afraid that the Jiang family would take away his brother-in-law's job, so he hurried over to ask his eldest sister to give the job to his son.
If this happened to Zhao Di.
That stupid woman Zhao Di agreed without hesitation.
But when it came to the eldest sister, she got very angry and picked up a bench and threw them out of the house. As a result, they had no car to go home that night and were afraid of being caught as vagrants, so they hid in the flowers of the small park and dared not show their heads.
At that time, he was so angry that he threatened that there would never be such a girl again and she would never have any contact with him again.
What's the result?
He now wants to interact with his elder sister and get along normally like before, but his elder sister really has no intention of reconciliation. She has not come into the house for more than ten years. Every time she comes back, she runs to Xu Shuisheng's place. Sometimes when they meet in the team, she doesn't even say hello, and doesn't even look at him.
So cruel.
It was really cruel, considering he had taken her out to play when she was little.
"Xu Shisheng, why are you so diligent today? If you hadn't been trying to separate from your brother, you wouldn't be so tired now, without even a helper."
"You are the dog!" Xu Shisheng glared at him unhappily, "Don't think I don't know. You are just like a dog when you are with Widow Niu..."
"Hey! Who told you this?" The man interrupted him quickly, "I'm talking about your two nephews. Didn't the Xu and Tan brothers follow Aunt Wu to the mountains to hunt? The captain meant that the work points should be divided equally among them. Your brother's family has two sons, so they must make a lot of money."
"Don't talk nonsense and harm Aunt Wu! They didn't go up the mountain to hunt. It was the wild boars that came down the mountain and destroyed the crops, so we had to catch them." The people around hurriedly corrected him. There is a difference between taking the initiative to go up the mountain to hunt and having to hunt.
Although they knew exactly what was going on, they couldn't just reveal it to them.
"Right, right, right." The man slapped his mouth, "I was wrong, I was wrong, it was a wild boar that came down the mountain to destroy the crops, so Aunt Wu and your nephews caught the wild boar."
Xu Shisheng listened with a look of jealousy.
How come his son didn’t have such a good thing happen to him?
I plan to wait until the end of the year to burn some incense to my ancestors and pray for their blessing to Xu Yingxia and Xu Shuisheng. They should also pray for him, the eldest brother, to have some unexpected wealth, right?
…
The money was exchanged for the goods, and all the documents and certificates were provided. In half an hour, several bags of wild boar were loaded onto the jeep.
Xu Guodong, the brigade secretary, and the accountant counted the money first, and after confirming that it was correct, they locked it in the cabinet and hurriedly invited Cheng Jin: "Comrade Cheng, don't be in a hurry to leave. I have asked the child's mother to prepare the meal. How about you stay and have a meal?"
Cheng Jin refused directly, "I promised Comrade Jiang that I would go to his uncle's house for dinner."
Xu Shuisheng on the side nodded quickly, "Yes, yes, yes, my family has also arranged a meal, and we will definitely entertain Comrade Cheng well."
"Okay, okay." Xu Guodong felt a little regretful, but actually he still wanted to keep the person to strengthen their relationship.
After all, he is still looking forward to the next transaction.
I wanted to signal Xu Shuisheng and ask him to invite me to dinner as well. It wasn't that I wanted to have a free breakfast, but I wanted to have a good chat with my comrades from the public security department at the dinner table to enhance our mutual affection.
As a result, Xu Shuisheng didn't even look at him. He climbed onto the bus happily and sat on the passenger seat under the envious eyes of everyone.
But if it were him, he would probably be so happy that he would be at a loss.
He had only ridden in a tractor in his life, but had never ridden in a car this big. He would probably be more excited than Xu Shuisheng if he really got on one.
Forget it, I won’t bother you this time.
Anyway, as long as Miss Xu Yingxia works in the unit, there is no need to worry about not having more opportunities to contact her in the future.
Xu Shuisheng was particularly excited.
Sitting in the car and looking at the scenery outside, even though I have lived in this production brigade for more than 40 years, I still find it particularly novel.
It’s a pity that this road is too short.
The experience was over in just a few minutes. The iron lump stopped outside the yard and we had to get out of the car.
"Comrade Cheng, come in quickly!" Xu Yingxia waved her hand, seeming particularly enthusiastic. "It's just plain food, don't be dissatisfied."
Although it was just a simple meal, she discussed it with her brother and sister-in-law and gritted her teeth and cut a small piece of bacon.
The bacon is served with thick porridge and some pickled radishes.
There are also boiled eggs and corn cobs as extras, and if you want roasted sweet potatoes you can take two from the stove.
This breakfast is definitely not bad, and it's neither too early nor too late. Otherwise, it would be possible to have another big dish. Even if it is used as transportation fare, it will cost a few cents for the trip back. It's very uncomfortable to squeeze in the bus. I can still experience the rarity of riding in a car.
It's more important.
The more Xu Yingxia looked at Comrade Cheng, the more satisfied she became.
Look at this appearance, so handsome!
Look at this posture, so tough!
Anyway, I was satisfied no matter how I looked at it. Although I didn't get anything out of Shuangshuang's mouth, I did find out the most important thing: she was not married!
Shuangshuang already has a job, so there is no need to rush to find a partner. But if you really meet a suitable gay man, it is not impossible to talk to him first and cultivate the relationship!
Xu Yingxia thought the current situation was quite good, so she was very enthusiastic. She invited people to the table and helped to get the dishes and chopsticks. This made Cheng Jin very nervous. He wanted to stand up to help but was pushed down by Lu Lianhua, who stuffed a boiled egg into his hand.
"This egg..."
"Take a taste. They were laid yesterday. They are more tender when you eat them." Lu Lianhua saw through her sister-in-law's thoughts. She was proud of her future in-laws, so she certainly couldn't fall behind. "Eat them with some sauce. There's more after you finish!"
Cheng Jin seemed very restrained.
He felt that eating alone was not good for him, but he had not considered this problem before, so he was not able to communicate with his comrades in time. He was a little at a loss for a moment, and a rare look of confusion appeared in his bright eyes.
Jiang Shuangshuang couldn't help laughing. This made Comrade Cheng look at her. His expression was still the same, but now he was asking for help.
She hesitated for a moment, but decided to help.
Don't scare Comrade Cheng, okay?
After coughing lightly, she said, "Mom, little aunt, you guys are talking about this and that, how can Comrade Cheng eat? Let him eat it while it's hot, otherwise it will get cold."
"You're the only one who talks too much." Xu Yingxia rolled her eyes at her, then turned to Comrade Cheng and smiled, "Comrade Cheng, eat, and we'll have a good chat after you're done."
She was not in a hurry. She used to think the journey back to the city was too long, but now she felt that it was okay if it was a little longer. She had time to get to know this young gay well along the way. If she felt it was a good match, she would let them try to get to know each other. If not, she could look at other candidates.
After eating, I carried the prepared food to the car.
The original plan was to have the Xu Tan brothers carry firewood to the city together. Now that they had a car, they would not be needed for help. However, after asking Comrade Cheng if the car could carry five people, she decided to take the two brothers with her.
Just like she said before, her nephew must go and recognize the door of his aunt's house, otherwise he will not be able to find the entrance to his house if anything happens in the future.
The Xu and Tan brothers were so happy about this decision that they couldn't stop laughing.
It's such a rare thing to go to the city in a jeep!
The jeep driven by Cheng Jin had three rows of seats, and there was room for another row in the back, but it was very crowded. The two brothers sat in the back without saying a word and gave up the seats in the front.
Originally, Xu Yingxia wanted to sit in the passenger seat.
Isn't this so convenient for chatting?
Before she could move, Jiang Shuangshuang opened the car door and pushed Jiang Xiaozhou in, whispering, "A plate of pork dumplings. Don't leave your seat until we get home!"
"I guarantee to complete the mission!" Jiang Xiaozhou grinned happily.
He can sit in the passenger seat and eat pork dumplings. No one can pull him down!
Including Xu Yingxia, who used threatening eyes and secretly poked him in the stomach, but failed to pull him out of the car, so he could only sit in the second row with Shuangshuang.
The second row is fine, at least we can talk to each other in the same compartment.
As soon as she opened her mouth, Jiang Shuangshuang reminded her quietly, "Don't disturb the driver, our whole family is in the car."
"..." Xu Yingxia glared at her unhappily and spat in a low voice, "What unlucky words you said."
But the effect was obvious, and Xu Yingxia held it in all the way.
Only when the car stopped safely at the gate of the compound did Xu Yingxia feel relieved. She thought about pulling Cheng into the house to sit for a while. But as soon as she got out of the car, she heard a cry of surprise from the side, "Shuangshuang's mother? You're finally back!"
The one who called out was Aunt Xu. She had come to join in the fun and see who had returned by bus.
This time, she found that it was her neighbor.
But this time, he was not curious, but said: "You should go back and take a look. Your in-laws have sent two more to the hospital. Their house has been smashed!"
"..." Xu Yingxia's face froze.
I made a calculation in my mind.
My goodness, then there must be five members of the Jiang family going to the hospital, right?
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