Li Yanhong glared at the two little brats, cursing under her breath.
However, he rolled his eyes at Ye Xiaoxiao with a smug look. So what? It's just two bricks. Ye Xiaoxiao was at a loss.
"The rice is burnt, we have to cook it again. Xiaoxiao, you cook it!"
Liu Juan spent ages washing the pot. It was full of black water. She even shoveled out the burnt bits to feed the sheep.
"I can't, I've been standing here for ages, my back hurts! Mom, it's just a meal. What could you possibly cook!"
Ye Xiaoxiao found a chair with a backrest, sat down, and held her back, thinking, "Let the Li family bully me."
Then everyone should eat their pig feed properly today.
"Oh, sister-in-law, you should ask Mom to cook!" Li Yanni exclaimed in fright, immediately running to Ye Xiaoxiao's side. Mom's cooking was terrible.
The sun was blazing, and the soil in the yard was steaming.
"What a terrible tragedy! They can't even get a meal."
As Liu Juan cleaned up the pots and pans, she kept nagging.
"I can't live like this anymore. Everyone else has become a 'master,' and I'm the only one working myself to the bone to serve them."
Liu Juan's words were a veiled insult; there were only three people who could cook, and Li Yanhong was already standing in the corner as punishment, holding a brick. She was clearly referring to Ye Xiaoxiao.
Li Yanni ran to the kitchen door and watched her mother shaking her head like a rattle-drum. "Mom, let me start the fire," she said.
"What do you expect if you don't light the fire? It's a real mess. Why is there not a single one of you who's useful?" Liu Juan raised her hand and tapped her youngest daughter on the head.
The courtyard was as hot as a steamer, but Ye Xiaoxiao was quite content.
She moved a small stool, deliberately found a shady spot in the yard, and sat down, her eyes fixed on Li Yanhong under the sun.
Seeing Li Yanhong squatting under the blazing sun, holding two bricks, Ye Xiaoxiao was overjoyed and couldn't suppress her smile.
"Tongzi, look at how you squat! It's like a duck laying an egg, not proper at all."
[Task: Supervise Li Yanhong to complete one hour of standing as punishment.]
Upon hearing this, Ye Xiaoxiao immediately perked up and pointed at Li Yanhong's buttocks.
"Li Yanhong, your posture is wrong, you look like a crooked tree."
Bend your knees a little more, yes, spread your legs a little wider, even wider, like a bellows.
Ye Xiaoxiao had originally intended to turn a blind eye, but now she was afraid that Li Yan's performance would be subpar and she wouldn't receive the reward.
Li Yanhong was tanned to the point of looking like an eggplant, and in less than ten minutes, beads of sweat were dripping from her forehead like broken beads.
She glared at Ye Xiaoxiao with hatred, a look that could pierce right through her:
"What a petty person who has achieved his goal."
Li Yanhong had just thought that it was just two bricks, nothing serious, but now she felt that her arms were a little sore.
"I'm a scoundrel, and everyone knows who's a scoundrel. Dare you say what you're up to? I know perfectly well."
Ye Xiaoxiao found another stick.
Whenever Li Yanhong did something wrong, she would hit her with a stick, not very hard, just to make her feel uncomfortable.
"You...you're lying, I didn't steal it!" Her face turned as red as a monkey's bottom.
"Come on, everyone's not stupid. We all know perfectly well whether you stole it or not."
Ye Xiaoxiao chuckled and asked again, "I just want to know, did you steal this money yourself, or did the Chen family instruct you to steal it?"
"What do you know!" Li Yan blushed again. "That was filial piety, don't you understand!"
"Haha, you're using your own parents' money to support your in-laws, how filial you are!"
Ye Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes, recalling that in the original story, Li Yanhong had only been married into her husband's family for less than two months when...
She fights with her in-laws every day, and they frequently come back to her brothers to get their support.
She acted like a madwoman, saying one thing one minute and another the next. After she finished making a scene, her in-laws would try to appease her, but she would blame her brothers for hitting Chen Dashun too hard.
She didn't even go back to her parents' home for the New Year. The following year, she got pregnant, and thinking that she would need her family to prepare baby clothes and gifts after giving birth, she shamelessly came back and acted pitiful. She's incredibly shameless.
Li Yanhong nearly dropped the brick in her hand, swaying like a drunkard.
My arms are so sore I can barely lift them, and my legs hurt too.
Liu Juan listened to the commotion from the kitchen, glancing over every now and then, her heart aching with worry.
She wanted to say something to help her daughter out of the predicament, but she was afraid of angering her formidable daughter-in-law, so she could only mutter to herself.
This Ye Xiaoxiao is like a tigress now, she's really not someone to mess with. Just wait until she has her child, then we'll see how she deals with her.
At this moment, Liu Juan brought out the freshly cooked meal. Seeing her daughter's pitiful appearance, her heart almost broke.
"That's enough. It's so hot; any more punishment and someone could die."
Liu Juan muttered softly, like a mother hen protecting her chicks, "Come and eat."
"Mom, what are you saying? Aren't I doing all this for the family?"
Ye Xiaoxiao immediately perked up.
"Don't give her this meal. Let her reflect on her actions, so she doesn't keep siding with outsiders. Otherwise, she'll bankrupt us. How will we manage then?"
As they were talking, they saw that the young men outside had almost finished their work. Seeing that a table had been set up in the yard, they immediately ran home to prepare for dinner.
"That money was all saved for my younger brothers to get married."
Mom, you can't be soft-hearted. You've almost finished buying my younger sister's dowry. It has everything. It's even more complete than mine.
"Our family's money is all accounted for. If anyone is short of anything, it'll be my eldest sister's responsibility to pay for it. I'm telling you this."
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