Wei Xiaotao stayed at the Wei family like this. After one night, she felt a little anxious.
The Kong family wouldn't really want to divorce her, right?
What if I really divorce her?
Wei Xiaotao knew that Tang Li was doing this for her own good, but she was too embarrassed to suggest going back on her own initiative.
So, in this anxiety, it was delayed day after day.
The Kong family actually had a hard time.
Yang had been a daughter-in-law for many years and finally became a mother-in-law. In the past ten years, Wei Xiaotao did everything, including washing clothes, cooking, and even the foot washing water was brought to her by Wei Xiaotao.
Naturally, she didn't know how to do these tasks, so she handed them all over to her eldest daughter-in-law, Zhang.
As soon as Zhang married into the Kong family, she gave them a grandson. When Wei Xiaotao was around, she was very precious. Yang favored Zhang, and Zhang flattered Yang. The relationship between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was very good.
Now that Wei Xiaotao is not around, all the work falls on her.
Washing clothes and cooking may seem simple, but your hands never have a rest throughout the day.
She wanted Yang to help her cook, but Yang was a little unhappy.
"There's not much work to do in the fields right now, so you just wash clothes and cook. On weekdays, Wei does so much work and never complains of being tired. Mother already feels sorry for you. You're just too lazy. You just need to work more."
Zhang cursed in her heart: You old fool, your bones are even lazier, as lazy as lying in a coffin.
But with a smile on his face: "Mom, you are right."
"Okay, let's go cook. The food was too salty yesterday, so use less salt tonight. Salt is so expensive, don't waste money."
Zhang hadn't been in the kitchen for more than ten years, and her cooking skills were rusty. The dishes she cooked were either too salty or too bland, and no one in the Kong family, from the old to the young, was satisfied with the food.
Zhang cursed inwardly and went into the kitchen to work. After working for more than half an hour, she finally prepared the meal.
There were three dishes, one of which was the fish caught by Old Man Kong.
Old Man Kong loves to eat fish, and the fish cooked by Wei Xiaotao tastes good, so he always thinks about it.
Old man Kong happily took a bite, but when he put it in his mouth, it was burnt and fishy, and very unpalatable.
Old Man Kong threw the bowl down and said, "What kind of meal is this? Even a pig can't eat it!"
He didn't even eat and went back to his room.
Yang hurriedly brought a bowl of rice into the house for Old Man Kong, and when she came out she looked unhappy.
"Zhang, Wei is here, so there's always someone to do the work. It's okay if you don't do it, but you have to know how to do it. Look at you, you wasted a fish!"
Zhang was full of dissatisfaction. She was the one who chopped the firewood tonight, but they only knew how to teach her a lesson. What a lazy family!
"Mom, I understand. I will do better next time. Mom, Xiaotao has been staying at her brother's house for several days. It's not good for her to stay at her mother's house all the time. Why don't you let my second brother go and pick her up?" Zhang said.
"Why bring her back? She can't even lay an egg, and it's a waste of rice bran to keep two money-losing girls at home! Let others raise them if they want! If she wants to go back on her own, then don't come back!" Yang cursed.
Zhang could only swallow what she was about to say.
Zhang was used to being lazy, and she felt that if she continued like this, she would be exhausted to death.
The next morning, she secretly ate a croton seed, and then she had diarrhea and kept running to the toilet.
She was exhausted from diarrhea and naturally couldn't work, so Yang had to do the housework.
Mrs. Yang’s cooking is better than Mrs. Zhang’s.
Everyone in the Kong family was slightly more satisfied with the food.
Old Man Kong said, "From now on, you should cook for us. Don't let Mrs. Zhang waste the food."
Yang had to do laundry, cook, wash dishes and boil water. At the end of the day, she felt like her old bones were about to fall apart.
Yang didn't want to waste rice bran on Wei Xiaotao and her daughter, but she also felt tired from the work, so she was quite conflicted.
She cursed Zhang's uselessness in her heart, but decided to let Wei Xiaotao come back.
So the next day, she called Old Man Kong and Kong Shuan out to discuss the matter.
"Shuan'er, why don't you bring Wei Xiaotao back?" Yang said.
"Mom, why did you call her back? I'm annoyed just looking at her! She eats so much food like a sow, what a waste!" Kong Shuan muttered.
"She eats a lot and does a lot of work. There's not much work in the fields right now, but when the time comes to harvest the grain, who's going to do it? Are you going to do it all?"
"Mom, then let's find another capable wife. Wei Qing's wife is so capable, she can make money and is beautiful." Kong Shuan drooled at the thought.
"You don't need money to get a wife? Do you have the money to get a wife now?" Yang hit Kong Shuan and said.
Kong Shuan stopped talking.
"Mom, brother, I know someone on Coal Hill. They need people to work there, both men and women are fine. There is not much work in the fields now, so you can let Wei Xiaotao go to work on Coal Hill. On Coal Hill, men can earn seven or eight hundred coins a day, and women can earn four or five hundred coins a day." Kong Dazhu said.
Kong Dazhu wandered around, made a lot of friends, and was well-informed.
"It's such a good job, why didn't you tell me earlier and do it with your brother?" Yang was greedy for money and couldn't help but say.
"Mom, people are often crushed to death in the coal mine. If my brother and I were crushed to death, you would cry your heart out." Kong Dazhu leaned close to Kong Shuan and said something with a hint of meaning, "Brother, if you were crushed to death, the mine would pay ten taels of silver per person as compensation."
Five hundred a day, that’s more than ten taels a month!
One month is enough for him to find a wife!
If Wei Xiaotao died, he could get another ten taels, and not only could he marry a new wife, but he could also live a good life.
Kong Shuan was very excited: "Mom, I'm going to pick up Wei Xiaotao!"
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Wei family.
Wei Xiaotao has been staying here for four days. She has had good food and drink during these four days, and her complexion has improved a lot.
However, I became more and more anxious and could not concentrate on my work.
Will the Kong family really come to pick her up?
Since she hasn't been back for so long, will the Kong family just divorce her?
Actually, if you think about it carefully, she is a pretty good wife. She couldn't give birth to a boy, but the wife didn't divorce her and didn't have an affair with other women.
Wei Xiaotao couldn't continue doing handicrafts, so she took Zhaodi and Niandi to Tangli's shop.
Tang Li was teaching Zheng Ding how to read the account book in the shop. When she saw Wei Xiaotao coming to find her, she let Zheng Ding look at it himself while she went to greet Wei Xiaotao.
"Sister, what's wrong?" Tang Li asked.
"Sister-in-law, I'm really sorry to have disturbed you these days. I'd better go back." Wei Xiaotao said.
Tang Li had actually noticed Wei Xiaotao's anxiety a long time ago, but she had never pointed it out.
She didn't understand why she should be attached to a man like Kong Shuan, but she was not Wei Xiaotao, and it was Wei Xiaotao who had to live her life, so she couldn't make decisions for her.
"Okay, I'll take you there." Tang Li said.
As soon as Tang Li sent Wei Xiaotao to the door, he saw a person standing at the door, it was Kong Shuan!
Kong Shuan has always been very confident and thinks he is very good, but when he saw Tang Li, he inexplicably felt inferior and ashamed, and was a little afraid of her.
"Boss, why are you here?" Wei Xiaotao shouted, her voice full of surprise.
Kong Shuan picked up the shelf and snorted: "I'm here to take you home! You've been outside for so long, have you forgotten to go home?"
"No... I just stayed at Aqing's house for a few days. Head of the family, I'm going back with you. Will you still hit me?" Wei Xiaotao remembered what Tang Li taught her, that if the head of the family came to pick her up, it meant that the Kong family couldn't do without her, and she wanted to take the opportunity to put forward conditions.
Kong Shuan remembered what he had promised Tang Li and said quickly, "Why would I hit you? You are my wife, of course I have to love you!"
These words made Wei Xiaotao very happy, and she followed Kong Shuan back happily.
Tangli looked at their receding backs and sighed softly.
Kong Shuan didn't mean what he said, so Wei Xiaotao still has a lot of troubles in her life.
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