Chapter 008 Chapter 8 Goat Milk Dispute Lin Xiaobailian
Aunt Zhang was very pleased to see that Lin Yue was willing to listen to her. She stopped talking and asked the two children, "You've let the children lie like this for so long, turn them over so they don't get tired!"
Lin Yue agreed with a smile. Just as he was about to turn the child over, he heard the voice of a timid little girl coming from the door.
Lin Yue poked his head in and saw a little girl of about seven or eight years old. She had two pigtails on her hair and was wearing a clean flowery dress. She was chewing her fingernails while looking around the room curiously.
This is Zhang Yuandong's younger sister, the original owner's sister-in-law. Lin Yue greeted her: "Xiao Xi is here, come in quickly."
Zhang Xiaoxi's big eyes rolled around the room, and then he went over to look at the two little ones lying on the kang like little turtles. He pouted, reached out and grabbed Lin Yue's sleeve, and made a request righteously: "Sister-in-law, mother said that you have raised several sheep here, and your nephews and nieces have goat milk to drink. I want to drink goat milk, you can squeeze it for me!"
Lin Yue's mouth twitched. She had been here for so long, but this was the first time she saw this sister-in-law, and she came to ask for milk.
The ewes were not short of milk now, but she didn't have any ready-made milk, so she could only coax her patiently, "Xiao Xi, my sister-in-law doesn't have any ready-made goat milk. Look outside, the two lambs also need milk. They are the property of the brigade, and we can't compete with them, right? I have peanuts and soybeans here, Xiao Xi, how about having some?"
Most of the food on the plate was soybeans. There were not many peanuts left, only a few scattered ones. Lin Yue brought the plate over and let Zhang Xiaoxi eat it.
Zhang Xiaoxi was angry when she heard this: "Those two lambs can drink milk, why can't I? My mother said that you are my sister-in-law, and you must give me the delicious food first, otherwise it would be unfilial!"
Lin Yue slowly stood up straight.
When she first entered the house, the little girl looked a little timid, and Lin Yue forgot that she was actually a bully. She had a bad temper at home, and would overturn the table and kick the stools if she was not satisfied. The original owner had always kept a distance from her.
This was the first time Lin Yue had seen her, and he hadn't come to his senses yet. He still spoke to her in a gentle and soft tone, as if he was coaxing a child. Only after hearing Zhang Xiaoxi's words did he finally come to his senses.
She said with a half-smile, "I see you are not a child of three or four years old anymore. Let me ask you, are you here to visit your nephews and nieces, or to drink goat milk?"
Zhang Xiaoxi was only a little girl of seven or eight years old. She could not see Lin Yue's sarcasm and was still stuffing beans and peanuts into her pockets. After hearing what Lin Yue said, she stiffened her neck and shouted, "Why should I watch them? My mother said that they are just two little bastards and have nothing to do with my family's affairs. She told us that no one is allowed to come and see them! You woman, you have been wasting your time here. Why don't you go and squeeze some goat milk for me?"
Aunt Zhang scolded him, "How can you talk to your sister-in-law like that? You are so old, why are you trying to snatch food from your little nephew? Those sheep belong to the brigade. I just lent them to your sister-in-law, and you have to pay for them. Didn't your sister-in-law give you peanuts to eat?"
As he spoke, he got off the kang and pushed Zhang Xiaoxi out the door: "Go home quickly, it's dark now, and you're still running around outside. Be careful or your mother will spank you!"
After her husband died fighting the Japanese, Aunt Zhang raised six sons by herself. Although she was not very senior, she was very prestigious in the village. Moreover, her husband and Zhang Zhiwei were close relatives, so Zhang Zhiwei had to be respectful when he saw her, not to mention Zhang Xiaoxi. She had always been afraid of this aunt, and when she saw Aunt Zhang being fierce to her, she did not dare to resist and ran home crying.
I thought that Zhang Xiaoxi didn't get any advantage here, and her mother-in-law would definitely come to scold her. Aunt Zhang was afraid that Lin Yue would suffer another loss, so she didn't dare to leave like that, and stayed with Lin Yue for a while. Unexpectedly, no one came after waiting for a long time.
Aunt Zhang had a whole family waiting for her at home, so she couldn't stay here any longer. Seeing that no one came to visit, she went home.
Lin Yue was also hungry, and Zhang Xiaoxi's incident was not enough to ruin her mood for dinner. She picked a handful of beans from the space, fried them with oil, and simmered cornmeal cakes on the edge of the pot. When the soup from the fried beans dried up, the cakes were also cooked.
The pancakes were golden and crispy right out of the pan, and had the salty and fresh taste of the fried beans soup. Lin Yue couldn't help drooling at the sight of it.
Ever since the vegetables in her space matured, she stopped letting Aunt Su bring her meals. She cooked her own meals during this period, but there was not much food at home, and she was reluctant to eat more.
She brought the meal into the house and started eating next to the two little guys.
Little Wanli put his hand into his mouth and started eating it vigorously, with saliva flowing out of his mouth. Lingling kept waving his hands and accidentally slapped his brother next to him.
Little Wanli was stunned for a moment, pursed his little mouth, and burst into tears. Little Lingling heard his brother crying, turned his head to look, not quite understanding why the child was crying and trying to pry his brother away with his hands.
When Lin Yue saw this, he quickly picked up his brother and patted his back gently to comfort him.
When Lingling saw her mother hugging her brother, she became unhappy. She uttered meaningless protests and waved her hands to ask for a hug.
Lin Yue had no choice but to hold his fat son in his left hand and his fat daughter in his right hand, and hug them both in his arms.
She obviously felt that her strength had increased. The two little guys weighed more than 20 kilograms in total, but it was not difficult for her to hold them up.
After coaxing the two little guys, she finished her meal in a few bites and put all the things that must not be seen by others into the space.
Just as I finished cleaning up, I heard the voice of a little boy calling sister-in-law outside the house.
Lin Yue responded and went out, and saw a little boy of five or six years old standing outside the fence. The child was thin and small, and he was wearing a thick cotton jacket with patches on top of patches. The jacket was so big that it almost wrapped up his small body.
Lin Yue recognized that this was Liu Shiliang, the youngest son of Jin's family. She invited the child into the house and asked, "Shiliang is here, what's up?"
Liu Shiliang refused to go into the house and said hurriedly: "Sister-in-law, my mother told you to go quickly, your mother-in-law is scolding you on the street." Then he walked forward and grabbed Lin Yue's clothes and dragged her forward.
Lin Yue knew that Sun Hongmei would definitely cause trouble for her, but she didn't expect that Sun Hongmei would scold her in the street just for not giving Zhang Xiaoxi goat milk.
On the other hand, Sun Hongmei did not expect that her eldest daughter-in-law, who had always been cowardly and timid, would be so tough again and again.
Seeing that Zhang Xiaoxi not only failed to get the goat milk but was also driven back, she was so angry that she wanted to tear the little hoof apart.
When she heard the daughter say that Aunt Zhang was there, she was afraid of getting into trouble, so she didn't dare to go and make trouble. She endured it until after dinner, when the old man went to the brigade to chat with others. She saw people passing by her door, so she immediately pulled her three children to sit at the door and started singing and cursing.
The old house was close to the brigade, and many villagers had to pass by his door to go to the brigade. There was nothing to do in winter, and everyone was almost idle. If they finally saw a big show at their doorstep, they would not go to the brigade to warm up, but would stop to watch the excitement. ①
When Lin Yue arrived, many people had already gathered. Two aunties were trying to persuade Sun Hongmei and pull people up. More people stood aside to watch the excitement. Some people couldn't get a good seat and hid in the houses of neighbors. Some people even used flashlights to help Sun Hongmei because it was too dark.
Lin Yue asked Liu Shiliang to stay at home to help look after the two children, and she hurried over. Seeing such a lively scene and Sun Hongmei's singing, noisy and swearing, she stood outside the circle and dared not go forward.
It was the first time she heard such insults, such as "Raised a son until he was over 20, and now he has a wife and forgets his mother", "The daughter-in-law is heartless and doesn't care about us, the two old parents", "We worked hard to find a wife for our son, but the daughter-in-law starved our parents to death"... It was really like singing an opera.
The two brothers-in-law stood on either side of Sun Hongmei, crying so hard that they almost drowned out her voice.
Lin Yue was still wondering why the two kids were working so hard for their mother, but then he saw Sun Hongmei crying and singing while listening carefully. If she heard any noise from somewhere, she would slap the twins.
Zhang Xiaoxi put his head on Sun Hongmei's legs. Although he was not beaten, he still cried.
This morning, Aunt Su told her that the brigade had decided to rent the ewe to Lin Yue, and because the two lambs had not yet been weaned, she would also have to take care of them.
During the year, as long as the sheep were not killed, all the goat milk produced belonged to Lin Yue. The village charged her a symbolic two yuan as rent, but she had to return all three sheep to the team after one year.
The decision was just made in the morning, and in the afternoon Zhang Xiaoxi went to her house to ask for goat milk. How could it be such a coincidence?
When the family was divided, Sun Hongmei didn't know that the original owner had private money, otherwise she would have taken it from her. Now she heard that Lin Yue not only lived a good life, but also had money in his hands, so she started to act up.
Lin Yue stood outside the crowd and adjusted her expression. During this period of time, Wang Xiuxiang and Aunt Zhang had taught her a lesson. Now was her chance to practice it!
Her mother-in-law is not an easy person to get along with. She will bully the weak. If she gets the upper hand today, Lin Yue will never have a peaceful life in the future. Only when she knows that she is no longer the person who can be manipulated at will, she will calm down in the future.
"Mom, what are you doing? Can't you just talk it out calmly?"
When Lin Yue heard her own "weak" voice, she shuddered all over. There was nothing she could do. Although she really wanted to go up and have sex with Sun Hongmei, she had to endure and pretend to be a good daughter-in-law.
The door was very narrow, and she had to exert all her strength to squeeze in, complaining: "What happened today is not what you think. I am very happy that Xiaoxi came to my house. No one in the family has seen two children since they were born. How could I be angry with Xiaoxi just because of some goat milk?"