Chapter 6: Mrs. Xu is furious
Old Mrs. Xu looked at Xu Zhiyi slamming the door and rolled her eyes in anger.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Mrs. Song and Mrs. Li ran over to comfort Old Mrs. Xu, and they also did not forget to provide fire on the side.
Li: "Mom, please don't get yourself sick from anger. I don't know how my second brother and sister-in-law raised you in private. Why are you so disrespectful to your elders today?"
Song: "Mother, what the eldest sister-in-law said is right. I'm afraid that since the second brother has been gone for many years, it is possible that the second sister-in-law has other thoughts."
After hearing what the two said, Mrs. Xu caught her breath and gritted her teeth and said, "If she dares, she will die in my Xu family if she enters my family."
Hearing this, Song curled her lips and said, "Why would she be afraid? She was probably pretending to be obedient before! Look, she dared to be lazy today!"
Lee: “That’s it.”
Old Mrs. Xu: "Humph, today one of you will cook, and the other will go to the village to queue up for today's water."
Li and Song: "Mom, we still have to embroider handkerchiefs later."
"What's the matter? I, an old woman, can't get you two to do anything, right? If you don't want to do anything, I, an old woman, will do it? All right, from now on, all the money you two earn from embroidering handkerchiefs must be handed over to me. I promise that you two don't have to do any other work every day, just embroider handkerchiefs for me."
When Li heard this, she hurriedly said, "Hey, mother, where did you go? I didn't say I didn't want to work. It's getting late! I'll go get some water."
After saying that, she picked up the wooden barrel in the yard and ran out, as if she was afraid that she would have to take out the silver if she was a step late. Bah, she was not a fool. How could she take out the silver that went into her pocket in vain?
Seeing that Li had chosen the easier job first, Song could only go to the kitchen and cook obediently in frustration.
Li carried the wooden bucket all the way to the ancient well in the village. Seeing many people coming over, she rushed over and lined up in a relatively front row.
Li was watching the long queue, and he went over to stand on the stone next to the ancient well and said loudly: "Fellow villagers, from today on, each family can only get one bucket of water a day."
When the villagers heard this, they started to clamor.
"What? Only one bucket? We have a big family, how can it be enough?"
"That's right! One bucket of water can only sustain two meals."
"Village head, we were able to get two buckets yesterday, how come the amount has dropped so much all of a sudden?"
"Yeah! At least one and a half barrels!"
When the village head heard the villagers' complaints, he sighed helplessly and said, "Alas, God doesn't know when it will rain, and the water level of the ancient well has been dropping sharply. If everyone doesn't save water, I'm afraid the ancient well can't last more than two months at most!"
"If we can't find any other water source, what will happen to us? I don't think I need to explain it in detail, right?"
After the head of the village finished speaking, the villagers were all very panicked, and some even cried and complained to God.
"Oh my God, you are not giving us a way to live!"
"Oh, what should we do if the water in the ancient well runs out and God doesn't plan to rain?"
"Oh, God is going to force me to death!"
The village head was also very upset, but he was just a mortal and could not control what God did.
He sighed again and comforted everyone: "Don't panic, the villagers who went to find water sources today may be able to bring us good news in Liuhe Village."
When the villagers heard this, they didn't have high expectations, because they took turns to form teams to look for water every day, but after searching for a month, they didn't bring back a drop of water.
He, who came to get water from behind, was surprised to see Li in the team. She asked in confusion, "Li? Why did your Xu family send you here today? Aren't the mother and daughter of the Su family usually come here?"
Upon hearing this, Li sighed in a pretentious manner: "Alas, there is nothing I can do. I don't know what happened today. My second brother's wife got angry and refused to cook. Daya also kept talking back to her grandmother. My mother-in-law was almost so angry that she couldn't calm down."
"No way? Who in Liuhe Village doesn't know that the Su mother and daughter are soft-hearted?" After hearing this, He's eyes were full of disbelief.
When the villagers nearby heard this, they also came over to gossip and whispered together.
"Hey, maybe Daya suffered too much of a blow today!"
"Yes! People who don't commit suicide are considered to have strong endurance!"
"Well, don't tell me, the Chen family has been making a fuss at the scholar's door all day long for the betrothal gift. I wonder if Chen Xiaohua can marry him?"
"Of course you can! He is a descendant of the Gu family, and the grandson of Wang!"
Mrs. Li, who was standing by, heard what these people were whispering. She understood the words, but she didn't understand the meaning at all. She had to pull Mrs. He next to her and asked:
"He, do you know what they are talking about? Why can't I understand? What is the relationship between the Gu family and the Chen family? Didn't the Gu family arrange a marriage with Daya? Why would they discuss a betrothal gift with the Chen family?"
Hearing this, He looked at Li in shock: "No way! You don't know? Such a big thing, you don't know?"
Li was extremely anxious and hurriedly urged: "Hey, what should I know?"
The few people who were gossiping nearby heard that Li didn't know what happened today, then looked around and saw that Wang was not in the team, so they moved closer and whispered:
"Li, your Daya and Gu Yun's engagement is cancelled today!"
"Yes! Gu Yun and Chen Xiaohua are pregnant, and it's been two months already."
"Your daughter is really something. She couldn't even keep her own fiancé and let her best friend get him first."
"Hehe! It's said that Chen Xiaohua is foresighted and knows that a mother's status depends on her son."
After hearing what they said, Li was so angry that her chest heaved. If she hadn't queued up to get water, she would have rushed home to tell her mother-in-law!
She was so angry! How could Gu Yun, such a good fiancé, just give up this money-losing guy? She was planning to marry her daughter Xiaoju instead.
Li looked at the villagers who were fetching water slowly in front of her with an impatient and anxious look on her face. She was so angry that she wanted to vomit blood.
"Mom, something terrible has happened!" After getting the water, Li didn't stop for a moment and hurried home with the water.
Old Mrs. Xu was counting coins in her room. Suddenly, she was frightened by Li's shout. She didn't know where she was counting. She was so angry that she shouted:
"Are you going to die? I'm not dead yet, old woman! Go to hell with your big plan!"
After Li put down the wooden barrel, she saw Old Lady Xu coming out of the room! She said angrily, "Mom, that money-loser actually broke off the engagement with the Gu family."
"What? Where did you hear that?"
Li: "Mom, now the whole Liuhe Village knows about it, and we are the only ones who are kept in the dark."
When Mrs. Xu heard this, her face turned terribly grim and she angrily went over and slammed the door of the Su mother and daughter's room.
"Xu Daya, you better come out here and die. You are really a money-loser. Who allowed you to cancel the Gu family's marriage?"
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