Chapter 50: The Unruly Old Woman
"Besides, there is all sorts of cloth for sale in the cloth shop. How can you be sure that what I have is the one that your family lost?"
"You are too careless. You don't even put your things away before you go out."
"Don't think I won't hit you just because you're a woman!" Zhang Quangui growled unhappily.
When Lan heard this, she immediately became angry: "You are rebelling. Your sister-in-law is not wrong. We took the things that were lost in your house?"
"Besides, I am your mother, you little beast. If I had known you were so unfilial, I should have thrown you into the toilet and drowned you when you were born."
"You unfilial little bastard, you don't know how to honor your mother with good things. If I take it, you want to report it to the police. Go ahead!"
"Catch your mother and sentence her, and you will be proud of it!"
As he said this, he was about to rush up and hit him.
Yu Bantao felt sorry for her man, so she stepped forward to block him, and almost got her face scratched by Lan.
Fortunately, Zhang Quangui was fast and blocked the claw.
Then Lan went crazy and beat Zhang Quangui, scratching his face and neck, calling him a little beast and saying he deserved to be drowned.
Zhang Quangui's eyes were bloodshot, and he was completely furious: "Didn't you lose it? If the pit wasn't dry and my grandma hadn't rescued me in time, I would have drowned in the pit."
"Do you really think I don't know? Just because I was born with a difficult labor, you hate me and dislike me. Are you worthy of being a mother?"
"I am a little beast, and you are the old beast who gave birth to me!" Zhang Quangui tore off the veil without any hesitation.
Lan was stunned on the spot. Only she and her dead mother-in-law knew about this.
The midwife and a woman in the village also knew about it, and those two people would never tell anyone, otherwise it would have become known to everyone.
It must be the dead old man who said that. She felt a little guilty: "Don't listen to what others say. It's not true."
"God is watching what we do. It's not that there is no retribution, it's just that the time has not come yet." Zhang Quangui said with a sneer.
"You can keep it secret if you want. Anyway, I'm not going to live in Xiaozhang Village anymore. I'll sell the house soon. If you get caught and brought to justice again, it won't have anything to do with me."
"You want to sell the house? Why?" Mrs. Lan became anxious when she heard this. Her eldest son was not at home all year round. After he left, who would do the work in the fields at home in the future?
Who will give her money to supplement the family income?
"Where are you going? Are you planning to leave me alone to enjoy your life? No, you can't leave!"
"We have separated. We will still give you the same amount of money every quarter, but there will be no more subsidies in the future."
Zhang Quangui said this in a cold voice and was about to leave.
Lan rushed over, beating him and cursing at the same time: "Little bastard, I told you that you are not a good person. How dare you leave me and take your new wife and children to enjoy life."
"You unfilial son, someone come and give me some justice... I won't live any longer..."
Having said that, Lan sat down on the ground, slapping her thigh and crying.
Soon many people came to watch the fun, but Zhang Quangui was not afraid at all: "Even if you make a scene, I will still move out."
"It's just right that everyone is here. I have a long-term job now. I wonder if everyone is willing to follow me..."
Hearing what he said, the men present were instantly moved.
The wages are paid on a daily basis, with skilled workers getting 15 cents a day and unskilled workers getting 10 cents a day, plus one or two meals included. Where can you find such a good thing?
When helping to build a house on weekdays, the skilled workers would only get eight or ten cents at most, and the unskilled workers would sometimes only get three or five cents, and they would only be paid after the work was done.
“Is this true or false?”
"We are all from the same village, how can I lie to you? But let me be frank, we have nowhere to live. The village chief said he could clean up an abandoned house and give everyone room to squeeze in."
"Also, you can't be cunning or sly. You need someone who is willing to work hard, quick-witted and steady."
Zhang Quangui specifically emphasized that people should not be cunning or dishonest.
"Is it really a long-term life?"
"Of course it's true. My father-in-law and his family are planning to build a workshop in the village. Later, my father-in-law's family will also rebuild their house. At least from now until the New Year, there will be work to do."
"If you come back with something, just tell me and I'll have the accountant record it."
"The village chief of my father-in-law's village said that if we work on the construction site for a whole month, we will receive a reward." Zhang Quangui repeated what his sister-in-law had taught him.
Now not only the men but also the women were excited.
"We're going home."
"I'll go to my house too."
"Are you serious? You're going to help your father-in-law, so why are you selling the house? Are you not coming back?"
"Also, didn't you say that the foreman would get twenty cents? I'll have someone call your eldest brother back, and you let him be the foreman." Upon hearing this, Lan stopped making a fuss and started making arrangements.
Everyone else looked at her as if she was a fool, but Lan was unaware and continued to talk nonsense.
Zhang Quangui ignored them and asked everyone to come to his house the next day to register. After he had counted the number of people, he would go to other villages to recruit some people to go together.
Xiaozhang Village is not big, with only fourteen households in the entire village.
Some people have already started asking his eldest brother-in-law if their nephew can go with them.
Zhang Quangui responded one by one and said that he would call the person over tomorrow and he would talk about it after he had checked it out.
He had seen most of the people who helped build the house nearby, and he knew how fast their hands and feet were. He would definitely not want those who were sneaky and cunning.
The people of Xiaozhang Village went back happily, and Mrs. Meng became anxious.
"Mom, what should we do? The second son and his wife are going to live in my father-in-law's house. You spent a lot of money on the betrothal gift when you married the second son."
"How can you turn a son-in-law into a door-to-door servant halfway through?"
"Also, he didn't even think of his own eldest brother for this good thing. No, I have to go back and tell my eldest brother and his family to go. The quota can't be taken up by the villagers."
Having said that, Meng was about to walk outside.
Lan grabbed her and said anxiously, "Find someone to tell the boss to come back quickly."
"Okay." Meng nodded quickly. This was all money.
Later the next day, Meng really came with her brother and nephew.
Zhang Quangui didn't want any of them and almost started to make a scene again. In the end, it was the village chief who calmed the situation down, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law didn't dare to make a scene.
Afterwards, the house was not sold but given to the village chief to be lent to others at will, and the ownership still belonged to the couple.
Most of the stuff was left at home and the keys were given to the village chief.
The Lan family wanted to make a fuss again about the food and other things, but the village chief was angry, so they didn't dare to say anything and watched them load the food and other things onto the ox cart and leave Xiaozhang Village.
Yu Banxia snorted: "Just wait, she will come to make trouble again."
"Sister, how is your uncle?" Yu Banxia asked Yu Bandao.
Yu Bantao replied: "It's OK, it's fair, he doesn't treat his wife and mother unfairly, and he always brings something for my children every time he comes back."
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