Chapter 42: Specializing in the Greedy Bad Guys
So, the Yun family ignored Zhou Cuihua and went back to the main room to have dinner.
Tonight He Chunxiu made sauerkraut and tofu soup, stir-fried some vegetables, steamed buns, and cooked some porridge.
When they entered the main room, Li Rongyue had already set the table and served the porridge.
The whole family sat together and ate enthusiastically.
Zhao Zhilan looked at Baoya's puffy cheeks as she bit the steamed bun and enjoyed it so much, and she thought the steamed bun in her hand was also very delicious.
I don’t know if she felt something was wrong, but it seemed that ever since Xiao Baoya came to their house, she was able to liven up the atmosphere during meals.
Although the whole family used to sit together to eat, it didn’t feel like anything special. We just ate our own food.
But now, I always feel that when Xiao Baoya sits there, everyone starts to enjoy their food, as if they are competing, with their cheeks puffed out and stuffing food into their mouths.
However, Wang Cailian was not paying attention while eating tonight.
Although Baoya said so, she didn't believe it. Could a little girl's words be taken as the truth?
She really didn't know what Zhao Zhilan was thinking. She actually listened to Baoya and didn't pursue her.
Given Zhou Cuihua's personality, if she hadn't chased after him at that time, there would have been no hope later.
So she ate while constantly looking up at the back door, and didn't even see the tofu soup spilled on the table.
"Just eat your meal properly! Why are you looking around?" Zhao Zhilan knocked on her bowl with chopsticks and said unhappily.
Wang Cailian shuddered and came to her senses: "Mom, I still feel uneasy."
"You said Baoya is just a little girl, and she only said this..."
"You still don't believe Baoya's words?" Zhao Zhilan rolled her eyes. "Chen Xiaojuan couldn't move her fingers, it was all because of Baoya's words."
Wang Cailian saw this with her own eyes, but she still felt it couldn't be that miraculous: "Maybe it was just a coincidence. The clam would be tired of holding it all the time."
"If you don't believe me, just wait and see." Zhao Zhilan said, "If Zhou Cuihua is really sent back to us by then, I don't think you will have anything to say."
Wang Cailian stopped talking and ate in silence.
However, until the meal was over, Wang Cailian absentmindedly took the bowl to the front yard to wash it, and Zhou Cuihua did not come again.
After clearing the table, He Chunxiu carried Baoya back to the east wing to sleep.
She looked at the four large river clams placed in the two copper basins on the floor of their house and asked Baoya uncertainly.
"Baoya, tell me the truth, will Zhou Cuihua really send the clams back to us?"
Baoya sucked her little finger and nodded: "Yes, the stick is specially used to pinch the greedy bad guys!"
He Chunxiu scratched her little nose and said, "That's great! Okay, if Baoya says she can do it, then she will definitely do it."
But even though she said that, she was still worried.
The child has said it, but if Zhou Cuihua really doesn't send it back, then he will never be able to get it back.
Her mother-in-law dotes on Baoya and will definitely not say anything. No one else in the family will blame Baoya for the river clam, but what about Wang Cailian?
She could feel that Wang Cailian had never liked Baoya very much, and she was a little worried that Wang Cailian would dislike Baoya even more because of this.
But there was no point in thinking too much, so she boiled some hot water for Baoya to wash her feet and planned to let the child go to bed early.
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On the other side, Zhou Cuihua got a river clam, and her tail almost reached the sky.
No one knows where the Yun family got this big river clam, but it is really big and fat. Even if it doesn't produce pearls, it can be used to make soup.
I thought I couldn't get it, but Chen Xiaojuan's finger was pinched. It was really like a wheat awn falling into the eye of a needle - what a coincidence!
So, without caring about her dignity, she picked up the clam and ran away.
If Zhao Zhilan and the others came to her house, she would hide the clams and would not give them back even if she was beaten to death.
Anyway, she is right. The Yun family's river clam pinched Xiaojuan's finger, so they have to compensate her!
Zhou Cuihua happily ran home holding the river clams, found a large basin, filled it with some clean water, and wanted to put the clams in it.
But she didn't know that when she took it, the clam shell opened and closed, pinching her finger!
Zhou Cuihua's face suddenly turned dark. This thing was clamped quite tightly.
She gritted her teeth and tried hard to pry the clam shell open with her hands, but the shell didn't move at all, as if it were made of iron.
There were footsteps in the yard. It was Chen Xiaojuan who had fallen behind and came back.
"Xiaojuan, what's going on with this broken clam? It's going to pinch whoever it catches."
Chen Xiaojuan was startled and quickly ran over: "Mom, what's wrong with you? Are you pinched too?"
"That's right, what a piece of crap!" Zhou Cuihua's face turned red with pain.
She didn't know where the river clam got so much strength from, but in just a short while, her fingers were pinched red.
"Hiss," Zhou Cuihua gasped in pain, "Once I pry you open, I'm going to boil you!"
Chen Xiaojuan squatted beside her and watched without saying a word.
Zhou Cuihua glared at her and said, "What are you still staring at here for? Go get your mother some scissors! A thin stick, an iron awl, bring them all over here! I just don't believe it!"
After a while, Chen Xiaojuan brought a bunch of things, including scissors, sticks, iron awls, and even a hammer.
The two men pressed them to the ground and fucked around. They were tired and sweating, but they still didn't take their hands away. Instead, they squeezed even tighter.
Zhou Cuihua was in so much pain that she saw stars.
"Mom, if it really doesn't work, let's go find Baoya." Chen Xiaojuan said.
"What did you say?!" Zhou Cuihua exploded upon hearing this. "Do you still remember how we got back? Going back to beg for help again? Do you think I, your mother, will still have any face left?"
Chen Xiaojuan lowered her head, muttering to herself, "Do you still have any shame? If you really did, you wouldn't have done something like snatching it right away."
But no matter what, Zhou Cuihua couldn't stay there for even a quarter of an hour. Her fingers were now swollen and purple-red. If it was the next morning, her hands would probably be broken.
She knocked on the back door of the Yun family very reluctantly.
Wang Cailian and her husband lived in the west room of the main house, and they were all planning to go to bed at this time.
When I heard the knock on the door, I immediately got out of bed, put on my jacket, and went out in my slippers: "Who is it?"
This shrill, bright voice was filled with excitement.
After a while, Zhou Cuihua's voice was heard outside the door, "It's me."
With a creak, the door opened.
When Wang Cailian saw Zhou Cuihua holding her hand with the big river clam in her arms, the corners of her mouth almost split open.
"Hey, isn't this my sister Zhou? What are you doing here in the middle of the night?"
When Zhou Cuihua ran away holding the river clams, her face was thrown back to the back of her head, without any shame at all.
Now he was standing at the back door of the Yun family, raising his hands to beg for help, his face so hot that it could bake a pancake.
"Cai Lian, um, I don't want this clam anymore. You have to get your finger out for me!"
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