Chapter 7: Cooperation

The two strange little girls were still very eye-catching in the eyes of the villagers who were all familiar with each other, but everyone knew their origins and no one took the initiative to approach them. Only a few naughty children ran and jumped over them.

"Brother Hutou, I heard that they are living in Grandma Jinhua's house!"

"Humph! How dare you live in my house? I'll deal with them!"

A chubby little boy with a round face and squinting eyes gathered a handful of sand and threw it at Jiang Wan. He was not afraid at all. These outsiders did not dare to offend the villagers. Even if they were beaten by him, they could only endure it.

"Hey! Ugly girl, move out of my aunt's house as soon as possible, it's mine!"

Jiang Wan patted the sand off his body and it didn't hurt or itch, but the kid's attitude was too arrogant and he deserved a beating, making people want to teach him a lesson.

"You said it was my aunt's house, so how come it's yours?"

"It's mine! Their family has no sons and they have no descendants. I am the only son in the family, so the house should be mine."

The little boy put his hands on his hips smugly, and said the shameless words as if it was a matter of course. It was obvious that he had heard adults say them countless times at home.

"You guys better move out right now, or I'll have my parents kick you out. Bastards like you don't deserve to live in our village!"

"Brother Tiger is so majestic!"

"Brother Tiger is so awesome!"

A group of little brats said nice things to him, which made Hu Tou even more proud.

Jiang Wan rolled her eyes and walked towards the little boy step by step. Yin Ning was afraid that her cousin would act impulsively and quickly pulled her back.

"That kid is only seven or eight years old, it's not easy for us to do anything..."

If a girl of this age beats a child, especially if an outsider beats a villager, my cousin will definitely be the one who suffers.

"Don't worry, cousin. I'm so weak, there's no way I could do anything."

weak……

Yin Ning's mouth twitched when he thought of his cousin holding the fish's tail and smashing it against the reef. His cousin might have some misunderstandings about weakness.

Jiang Wan walked up to the kid named Hutou, glanced at the other children, and immediately had an idea.

"You call Hu Tou their boss?"

Hu Tou snorted coldly, and his younger brothers rushed to answer for him.

"Of course, our Tiger Head brother is amazing."

"Oh? If you are so powerful, why are you the shortest among you? I heard that those who are the bosses are all mighty and tall, how can there be a short guy like this."

This little guy is very rude and you don't need to save face for him. Everyone knows how to poke fun at someone's heart.

Sure enough, when she said this, the kids were stunned.

Tiger Head, who was so smug just now, blushed suddenly when he met the scrutinizing eyes of his younger brothers.

Height, this is what he cares about most.

Because his father was the shortest man in the village, and his mother was also short, he always heard people say that if his parents were both short, he would not grow tall. Later, he secretly compared himself with his peers and found that he was much shorter than them.

This was the matter that he had always cared about the most, but he never expected that this outsider would bring it out!

"you!!"

"What's wrong with me? Did I say something wrong?"

Jiang Wan looked at his younger brothers, who were not good at reading his expressions and said seriously, "Brother Hutou is right. You are really the shortest among us."

A little boy whispered, "Can the shortest one be the boss?"

The younger brothers were silent.

Hu Tou was immediately hit hard, and the prestige he had built up by selling snacks collapsed in an instant.

He burst into tears and shouted, "Just wait, I'll let my mother take care of you!"

After saying this, he wiped his tears and ran faster than a rabbit.

The boss ran away, but his younger brothers were still standing there in a daze.

Jiang Wan was not interested in teasing the kid and turned to leave when she suddenly heard a little boy behind her remind her, "You should go back to your parents as soon as possible. Brother Hutou's mother is very powerful and you can't beat her."

Jiang Wan thanked the child, looked at the half basket of cat's eye snails she had caught and thought it was enough, so she called her cousin back.

The boy named Hutou was able to grow so fat in a poor family, so he must have been a pampered child. Moreover, he said that he was the only boy, and his words and deeds showed that he favored boys over girls, so his family must have doted on him.

Even though I only said a few words to him, the kid is now crying and his parents will definitely come to cause trouble.

Just based on the fact that his family said that Jinhua's grandmother would not have any descendants, I knew that the people in his family were not reasonable and kind people. Right now, it was just me and my cousin, and it would be bad if a fight broke out and my cousin was implicated.

So she thought she should go back and find her uncle and mother first.

She is not afraid of reasoning, but she is afraid that she is too small to beat others now, and she will not be able to reason when she gets beaten.

The two sisters found their family with half a basket of cat snails. Mao Cuifang was no longer there, and the rest of the family dug up a bunch of clams.

Yin Huaishan was in a very good mood after a good harvest today. However, he felt that his hands and feet were too hungry to move, and he thought that his wife and sister were also hungry. It happened that his daughter and niece also came back, so the whole family simply packed up and took their things back home.

"We need to keep this clam to spit out the sand first. Let's eat the fish for lunch first, right? But this fish..."

Song Wenhui was a little worried because she didn't know how to cook fish soup or prepare fish.

She used to be a rich lady, and even after getting married, she didn't have to cook for herself. Even if she occasionally cooked for her family, the chefs would prepare the ingredients and seasonings and she would cook directly. She learned how to cook corn porridge from watching the officials cook while she was in exile.

"Sister-in-law, let me do it."

Yin Huaixi's cooking skills are pretty good in modern times, and she is good at cooking chicken, duck and fish. She said this at this time without fear of exposing anything, after all, the original owner has been married for more than ten years, and even if her elder brother and sister-in-law are suspicious, they can say that she learned it in the past to please her ex-husband and ex-mother-in-law.

They don't ask too many questions at this time.

Sure enough, the couple looked at each other and stopped talking. My younger sister must have learned this skill from the Jiang family. Bringing up that place would only make my younger sister sad, so it’s better not to talk about it.

So the couple went to get firewood while the other went to fetch water to raise clams.

Yin Huaixi took the fish to the Niu family to borrow a knife to cut the fish. As for the blue crabs, Jiang Wan stuffed them into the stove when cooking the fish soup.

Just a cup of tea later, the fish soup wasn't even ready yet, but the smell of burnt crab shells was already wafting from the stove.

“It smells so good!”

I didn’t expect such an ugly crab to be so delicious!

Yin Ning stared at the crab in the oven that had turned orange and red, and his saliva couldn't help but flow out again.

So hungry...

Jiang Wan couldn't help laughing when she saw her cousin's greedy face. In fact, she was also drooling, but seafood is best eaten when it is fully cooked.

About half a cup of tea later, the tips of the eight legs of the blue crab near the stove began to turn black before she took it out.

Jiang Wan and her cousin quietly discussed the four large blue crabs and decided to give three blue crabs to each of the adults, and she and her cousin would eat the remaining one together.

Song Wenhui stared blankly at the blue crab she was given, with a confused look on her face.

"Didn't Cuifang say that women can't eat this?"

"You can eat it, but don't eat too much and make sure it's cooked thoroughly before you eat it. I'll teach you how to remove the gills and the crab heart."

Yin Huaixi explained that he had read a lot of miscellaneous books about the seaside, and all of them had records of it.

"Also, I have read a lot of medical books over the years. My medical skills are not very advanced, but it is no problem to diagnose minor ailments. This thing is not poisonous."

As she said this, she tore off a crab leg and started to chew it. Her intoxicated look aroused the appetite of the whole family. Yin Huaishan and his wife were no longer entangled. Believe in my younger sister or believe in outsiders. They all have the answer in their hearts. Anyway, my younger sister will not harm them.

"Mother, we have eaten crabs before. You teach my uncle and aunt how to eat it, and I will teach my cousin."

"I know~"

The mother and daughter looked at each other, and the little secret was revealed without words.

Jiang Wan took her cousin to sit on the big rock in front of the house. Here they could eat, enjoy the fresh air and keep an eye out for anyone causing trouble.

"Cousin, eat the crab legs first. Come on, bite them and push forward like I did to squeeze the meat out."

Crab legs are easy to eat. Jiang Wan is very skillful and can squeeze out the crab leg meat with just a few bites.

It smells so good!

I don't know if it's because she's been hungry for a long time or because the water here is good, but she always thinks the meat of this blue crab is much sweeter than the ones she's eaten before. It's a pity that the juice in the crab legs is pitiful because they are roasted, otherwise you can still sip the juice.

"Cousin, is it delicious?"

Yin Ning was squinting his eyes while chewing the crab meat in his mouth, and nodded vigorously subconsciously.

This is meat, such fragrant meat, of course it’s delicious!

“This is just a side dish.”

Jiang Wan opened the crab shell, deftly removed the crab gills and heart, then broke it into two pieces with great effort and handed one piece to her cousin.

"There's more meat in here than in shanks, but it's a little hard to eat."

She was used to biting off a piece and chewing it, then spitting out the shell. Yin Ning didn't want to eat slowly, so she followed Jiang Wan's example and bit off a piece and chewed it, and the two sisters ate with relish. The last big pliers was a surprise, because the meat of the big pliers was just a piece of bone, which was enjoyable and not troublesome to eat.

"It smells so good, cousin, shall we go catch some crabs later?"

Yin Ning felt a little unsatisfied.

Jiang Wan shook her head and explained to her cousin: "The tide has risen now. If we want to go to the sea, we have to wait until the tide goes out tomorrow."

She was just about to tell her cousin about the ebb and flow of the tide when she suddenly saw two people approaching the intersection. They looked imposing and it was obvious that they were not to be trifled with.

"Cousin, it's him!"

The tiger-headed man who was hitting people came with his mother to support him.

"That's her, Auntie!"

Hu Tou now feels very confident because he has someone to support him, and his little face is full of pride.

He looked a lot like his mother, except that his mother's face was rounder. At this moment, Tiger Head's mother had her hands on her waist, with a bit of ferocity on her face, staring at Jiang Wan fiercely.

"You little bastard, you were the one who bullied my Tiger Head?!"

Jiang Wan shook her head and said seriously: "No, I am a grown-up girl, how could I bully a child?"

She was just telling the truth.

"My mother is lying! She was the one who bullied me just now. She said I was short! Goudan and the others don't recognize me as the boss anymore! Wuwuwuwuwu..."

The last sentence reminded Hu Tou of his sorrow, and the little brat started crying again. Hu Tou's mother became even angrier and tried to grab Jiang Wan.

"What are you doing?!"

The three adults heard the noise coming from inside, and the three-on-one tiger-headed mother's momentum suddenly weakened a lot. But the tiger-headed mother was not someone to be trifled with, and her voice became even louder.

"What? More people?! I'm not afraid! You exiled prisoners are lucky to be settled in my village. You want to bully the villagers before you even have a firm foothold? No way!"

The noisy sounds attracted several neighbors to come and watch the fun, and the Cai family was very happy to see it.

Yesterday, Jiang Wan tricked them into leaving their house, which was taken back by the village chief. As a result, they had to stay on the hillside all night, covered in bug bites. It was such a horrible feeling. Now they just wanted to see Jiang Wan suffer the consequences.

At this time, Hu Tou Niang pulled her son over and pointed at Jiang Wan and said, "Who is this damn girl? She bullied my son today. Hurry up and beat her up, otherwise this matter will not end!"

Although the village chief said that we should not cause trouble to these people, this time they were the ones who took the initiative to cause trouble, so he couldn't be blamed.

"If you can't do it, I'll do it!"

Tiger Head's mother was ready to make a move. Yin Huaixi was about to speak when she saw her daughter stand up tremblingly, her voice so weak as if she hadn't eaten for three days.

"Auntie, it was clearly your tiger head that hit me, how can you confuse right and wrong?"

"You're talking nonsense! What's the difference between black and white? My Tiger Head will never hit anyone. If he wants to hit someone, it's because you bullied him first!"

Jiang Wan seemed to be frightened by the loud noise. She shuddered before she said carefully, "I really didn't bully him. He said I was living in his house and wanted to kick me out, so he hit me."

Yin Ning also reacted at this time, imitating her cousin Rourou and said: "Yes, we all said that it was Grandma Jinhua's house, but Hutou said that Grandma Jinhua's family has no descendants, and the house is his..."

The two thin and weak girls were timid, as if they were poor little ones being bullied by a bully. And the tiger-headed mother's face turned red and white, obviously she didn't expect her son to say these words.

"Tsk tsk tsk, if Grandma Jinhua heard this she would definitely go over and slap her whole family."

"At such a young age, it's really vicious to talk about losing a family."

"It's not something a child could come up with. He must have heard it so often at home that he remembered it. Tsk tsk tsk~"

The villagers kept talking, and Tiger Head's mother's head was buzzing. She was fierce but she also wanted to save face. She didn't even think about causing trouble at this moment. She just wanted to get her son home as soon as possible.

The mother and son had just taken a step when the "heartbroken" Jiang Wan fainted.

Yin Huaixi understood immediately, pinched herself, walked forward, hugged her daughter and cried, "My Wanwan, why didn't you tell me when you were bullied! Wake up, I will not live if anything happens to you! Mother Hutou, I only have this one daughter, you can hit me if you want! There is no point in us living as an orphan and a widow, wuwuwu..."

Tiger Head Mother: If she says now that she didn’t intend to hit anyone, will anyone believe it?

The weak always arouse everyone's sympathy, especially when the other party is the fierce woman Hu Tou Niang who has a bad reputation in the village.

"What is going on?!"

The old village chief is here!