"Li Erhui, Aunt Li said something nice, telling everyone not to worry, but you don't have to listen.
Why are you still making up stories about Xiao Nian? You can really say such nice things about such a good girl."
Li Erhui shook off the fat on his face:
"Oh! Lin Cuizhi, we have lived in the same village for so many years, but I have never heard you speak. I thought you were mute.
It turned out that he was not mute, and he started to curry favor with Mrs. Li.
I know that you and Sun Dalei made a few coins from Qin Nian. Are you trying to flatter him?
Open your eyes wide and look carefully. Qin Nian is not here, so what's the point of you flattering Mrs. Li?"
Mrs. Li knew that when it came to insulting and scolding people, Cuizhi was no match for Li Erhui.
She pulled Cuizhi's sleeve and pulled her behind her.
"Li Erhui, you said I'm useless? You sisters-in-law, go work in my stew restaurant.
If I don't agree, you won't do it. Is that true? You scold Cuizhi for making small change. If you want to make small change, you have nowhere to go. "
"Who would dare to use someone like her? If you really use her, your things will be stolen.
Not only did they not finish the work, they also arranged for Xiao Nian. "
Cuizhi said again hatefully.
"I just made up a story about Qin Nian. What can you do to me? Lin Cuizhi, I know from your plain face that you are just like Qin Nian, both of you are selling out!
Qin Nian was young, and he didn't know who he sold it to, but he made a lot of money. You can't do it, and it's not worth it even if you sell it.
Otherwise, your little third son wouldn’t have starved to death.”
Li Erhui's words were very sharp, and she kept poking at Cuizhi's wounds.
Cuizhi thought Li Erhui knew about her and Dong Biao. Her face turned red and her whole body trembled. She was so ashamed that tears were about to flow.
Mrs. Li held Cuizhi's hand and hurriedly comforted her:
"Li Erhui is a barking dog, and you are mad at her?
Our Dawa Village is the largest village in several surrounding counties. There are more than 700 households and several thousand people in the village.
Adults and children, few people care about Li Erhui's family. You don't care about her either. When you see her in the future, just treat her as a mad dog. "
Li Pozi's intention was to let Cuizhi know that Li Erhui was just scolding her blindly. Li Erhui didn't know about the affair between Cuizhi and Dong Biao.
Mrs. Li felt that if someone like Li Erhui knew that her husband Dong Biao and Cuizhi were having an affair, she would have gone to Cuizhi's house to scold her long ago.
Cuizhi understood what Mrs. Li meant, but when she thought of what happened with Dong Biao, she felt regretful and afraid, and her whole body was shaking.
Suqin said, "Li Erhui, don't curse me. Living in the same village is a kind of fate. You never know when this fate will end."
Another woman also said: "Now the relief food has stopped being distributed, but fortunately there are still a lot of cabbages and radishes in the vegetable cellar that we planted last year.
A lot of dried cabbages have been dried and the wild vegetables are about to grow, so we won’t starve to death.
But when May comes, it’s time to farm. Instead of scolding others, you might as well think about how to farm.
I don’t have a single seed at home, I’m so worried, and you still have the energy to curse me.”
Li Erhui has a face full of fat. Because of the difficult life, she has lost a lot of weight and the skin on her face is drooping.
Her neck stiffened and her face shook, “Although our life is not as good as before, we can still plant crops in the land.
Unlike families like you, we can’t even buy seeds.”
She looked so arrogant, as if her family was the richest in the entire Dawa Village.
The woman who had spoken earlier pushed Li Erhui and said, "Get lost, go home and brag. We are all poor, don't stay here."
Li Erhui snorted, turned around and went home.
Her family's life was already in trouble, otherwise her sister-in-law wouldn't have to go to work for Qin Nian.
But those who are used to being arrogant still tend to look down on the villagers.
After talking for a while, everyone dispersed.
Mrs. Li and Ye Meizi walked back together. Mrs. Li saw that there was no one in the west, so she took out a few banknotes from her bosom and stuffed them into Ye Meizi's hand.
"This is given to you by Xiao Nian, so don't refuse it. Your family has been working with you for so long, you can't do it for nothing.
In this world, war may break out at any time. Having money on hand will make you feel more at ease.
Mei Zi, please keep these banknotes safe, don't let Tang Xiaomei steal them. And that Geng Zhenlan is not a good person either.
You have to be careful this time."
Ye Meizi was about to refuse, but Mrs. Li said sternly, "This is what you deserve. In Xiaonian's words, it is the money your family has earned.
Hurry and put it away, don’t let anyone see it.”
Only then did Ye Meizi put away the banknotes and hid them in her arms.
When she got home, Mrs. Li was not hungry and did not eat lunch. She lay on the kang and took a nap for a while.
Get up and finish dinner early.
The cabbages planted in the fields before are still quite fresh because they were stored in a deep vegetable cellar.
Mrs. Li chopped the cabbage into pieces, added a little cornmeal and mixed it evenly, then took it outside and poured it into the chicken trough, intending to feed the chickens.
Let the chickens out of the cages, seven hens and one rooster, and they all came to the chicken trough.
They circled the chicken trough, but not a single chicken lowered its head to eat.
"Um?"
Mrs. Li was very surprised. Could it be that all eight chickens were sick? It couldn't be, especially the big rooster. How could it hold its head high and look so majestic even if it was sick?
She looked carefully and discovered the reason - each chicken's mouth was propped up by a small wooden stick!
How can you eat if you can’t close your mouth?
These eight chickens were kept in a large chicken coop. There was no one else in these two courtyards except Tang Xiaomei.
Mrs. Li was so angry that she went to Ye Meizi's house with a wooden stick.
Ye Meizi didn't make lunch either, and dinner was still corn porridge with half a chopped cabbage in it, the same as what the chickens at Li Po's house ate.
Ye Meizi and Geng Zhenhai were standing in the kitchen, holding bowls and eating vegetable paste. Tang Xiaomei was drinking in the east room.
Mrs. Li first went to the East House:
"Tang Xiaomei, you bastard, if you are not satisfied with me, come after me, why are you messing with a few chickens?
No wonder you got into Geng Feng's bed. Geng Feng doesn't want you. You are as mean as your mother. You deserve to rot at home."
Geng Zhenhai and Ye Meizi hurriedly put down their bowls and asked what had happened.
Mrs. Li was furious: "While I was at the headman's house, Tang Xiaomei propped up the beaks of my chickens with small wooden sticks.
I was feeding the chickens just now and saw it."
Tang Xiaomei refused to give in: "Mrs. Li, why are you yelling? Did you see with your eye that I was the one who propped up your little chicken's mouth?
I have time to lie down for a while, I don't want to do that."
Mrs. Li pointed a wooden stick at Tang Xiaomei and said, "You said it wasn't you, right?
You swear a solemn oath that if you were the one who propped up the chicken's mouth, you will never get married in this life, and you will never have the chance to be with Geng Feng in your life.
No one wants you in this life, do you dare?"
"Why should I listen to you?
By the way, do you dare to swear that if you wrongly accuse me, you will get a sudden disease, die a miserable death, and there will be a thunderbolt in winter that will hit your head?"
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