Just as Xia Juhua finished speaking, Liu Erzhuang, who had heard the commotion in the yard, hurried over - now mat weaving was the main source of income for the production team, and most of Liu Erzhuang's heart was on the yard.
As soon as he arrived, he saw Sun Guizhi trying to leave. Liu Erzhuang was overwhelmed: "Old Fourth, what are you doing here?"
Sun Guizhi was just like Sun Shi, bullying the weak and fearing the strong. Since she hadn't gained any advantage by making trouble at Xia Juhua's house, and Li Daya had been doing nothing but taking responsibility, Liu Erzhuang had never said anything to her. Sun Guizhi knew that Liu Erzhuang and his wife disliked her, so she spoke to him very carefully: "It's nothing, I just heard that they had come up with a new trick, so I came to see what was going on."
"She just keeps telling lies. Captain, don't believe her. She is here to cause trouble for Mrs. Liu." Li Changwang's mouth is very quick and he is determined not to let Sun Guizhi get away so easily.
Liu Erzhuang's face had turned dark: "Didn't I tell mother that the task of weaving mats this time is heavy, and you have never made mats before, so who has the time to teach you from scratch? What are you doing here? If you delay your mission to the supply and marketing department, you will be responsible for it?"
Li Changwang's family said again: "You have delayed us for a while. Captain, you can't deduct our work points today. It's your brother's wife who messed up that we didn't complete the task."
Listen, how can you not feel overwhelmed?
Liu Erzhuang thought that Li Changwang's family could leave the yard with Sun Guizhi. Xia Juhua was the one who didn't want to speak: "Captain, everyone has learned almost everything. I will not come here after I finish making this mat, so as not to embarrass you because of me making mats here."
Liu Erzhuang is in a dilemma now, okay? His sister-in-law is always easy to talk to, and she calls him Erzhuang Erzhuang, which shows her intimacy. Why did she give him such a difficult problem today? Liu Erzhuang glared at Sun Guizhi who was causing trouble, thinking that if she wasn't his brother's wife, he would give her a slap in the face.
Let her be rude every day!
Listening to the women talking in unison about how Xia Juhua shouldn't go home, saying that if she left, everyone would be unsure about what to do. Liu Erzhuang looked at Xia Juhua with some embarrassment, and finally gritted his teeth and said to Sun Guizhi: "You are not allowed to come to the yard again in the future. If you come again, your work points will be deducted directly."
When it came to work points, Sun Guizhi didn't care about Liu Erzhuang and asked angrily, "Why? The yard is not Xia Juhua's. This is a public place for the production team. I can come whenever I want."
"I don't want you to come. If you want to come, you can come to weave reed mats tomorrow. Start by breaking the reed pieces. You will be the only one who will break the reed pieces for everyone. If someone says that you can't supply them, one day's work points will be deducted from you. If you can't supply several people, your work points will be deducted for several days. If your points are not enough, then the fourth one's will be deducted." Liu Erzhuang said these harsh words with a dark face, and Sun Guizhi dared not say a word.
What else can I say? Liu Erzhuang is using the production team's mission to deal with the couple. Sun Guizhi had to leave in disgrace. Xia Juhua couldn't figure out why Sun Guizhi came here to make this trip. Was it just to make her unhappy? It was obvious that she was more unhappy than herself.
Seeing Sun Guizhi walking away, Liu Erzhuang yelled at the women who were still looking at him and Xia Juhua: "What are you still looking at? Have you finished weaving the mats?"
Li Changwang's family was not afraid of trouble and asked the question that everyone wanted to ask: "Will Mrs. Liu come tomorrow?"
Liu Erzhuang rubbed his hands and looked at Xia Juhua. Xia Juhua felt the same as she did the last time she faced Sun Hongmei. She didn't feel happy that Sun Guizhi was not well. Instead, she felt annoyed that someone came to mess up her business just when she was doing something serious.
But Liu Erzhuang and Li Daya had helped her, so she couldn't be too disrespectful to Liu Erzhuang, so she could only keep silent. An Baoling saw that Liu Erzhuang was in a difficult situation, and felt a little sympathetic to him, or felt that she and Liu Erzhuang and Li Daya were in the same boat, so she helped to persuade Xia Juhua, "Sister-in-law, why are you angry with that ignorant person? We all know whether you are good or bad."
"That's right." The women all agreed with An Baoling's statement. Among them, the one from Li Changwang's family wanted to pat her chest to prove that what she said was from the heart.
Xia Juhua had to look up at everyone and said, "Then I'll come back tomorrow. If you have any questions, please ask me. In one more day, we should all be able to learn, right?"
They could learn, but with Xia Juhua present, they felt more confident when they started making up stories. Without her, they felt that the reeds in their hands were not working. Thinking about Sun Guizhi's troublesome nature, the women all felt that Xia Juhua was afraid that Sun Guizhi would cause trouble again in the future. If she brought Sun's family to cause trouble like last time, even Liu Erzhuang's appearance might not be effective.
So the most hateful person is Sun Guizhi. The women in the yard were weaving reed mats while they were bringing up all the "good things" that Sun Guizhi had done over the years and scolding her. I don't know if Sun Guizhi sneezed when she ran back home.
Xia Juhua felt that Sun Guizhi came to make trouble at the right time, otherwise it would be difficult for her to find an excuse not to come to the yard - she had to teach people how to weave mats in the yard during the day, and she couldn't just talk, she had to weave mats with her hands, and she had to fry two pots of peanuts when she got home in the evening. Xia Juhua felt that she couldn't bear it anymore.
People have to accept aging. Although Xia Juhua is almost 30 years younger than her previous life after living a new life, she feels that it is not too early to take care of her body from now on.
She is a person who wants to make a lot of money. The elders always say that the body is the capital of revolution. Xia Juhua, who does not have much money, must protect her body, which is her capital.
So even though she got home early today, she had no plans to continue frying peanuts in the evening - she had been frying two pots every night in the past few days, which added up to more than 300 kilograms. Starting from the day after tomorrow when she didn't have to go to work, she could finish frying the rest in a few days, so why make herself so tired.
Wang Caifeng, who was used to Xia Juhua being busy all the time, found it very strange that her mother-in-law suddenly stopped working, and asked worriedly: "Mom, what's wrong with you? How about asking Zhiquan to find a doctor to check you out?"
Caring is good, and Xia Juhua also saw that Wang Caifeng's concern was genuine, so she didn't think about her motives for caring, smiled and said, "It's nothing, I'm just a little tired these days, I want to take a day off."
"Well, then you take a good rest, I'll go cook. Baoguo, come on, don't bother grandma." Seeing that Xia Juhua's face looked no different from usual, Wang Caifeng picked up Liu Baoguo and went to the kitchen.
Xia Juhua wanted to say that there were knives and shovels in the kitchen, and Liu Baoguo was very active, so she left him in the main room to watch over him. In the end, she didn't say it out loud. It would be nice to have some quiet time. It had been a long time since she had such quiet time.
Later, Xia Juhua realized that she could only wait until both sons moved out to have peace and quiet. Just as she took out the treated cloth she bought from the supply and marketing cooperative, she heard Sun Hongmei coming back. Wang Caifeng was asking her why the two brothers Liu Zhiquan hadn't come back.
Sun Hongmei said with some anticipation: "Zhishuang and his friends have gone to collect the money for carrying the food packages. They will be back in a while. Sister-in-law, how much money do you think they can get?"
Xia Juhua also smiled when she heard this. It was great that she had money to collect again.
More than half an hour later, Liu Zhiquan and his brother came back. When they didn't see Xia Juhua, they asked about her. They felt a little strange knowing that she wanted to rest, so they asked what was going on with their respective wives.
Wang Caifeng answered very clearly. Sun Hongmei knew that Xia Juhua no longer liked her, and she was relieved that she didn't see Xia Juhua when she came back, so she didn't think of asking her what was going on. So she naturally couldn't answer the questions raised by Liu Zhishuang.
Liu Zhishuang's joy at getting his salary was immediately dampened by his wife's indifference to her mother: "You didn't even ask if your mother was tired?"
Sun Hongmei was stammering and unable to speak. She didn't even dare to ask how much Liu Zhishuang was paid, let alone her plan of taking Liu Zhishuang back to the west room and hiding some of the wages in advance. She didn't dare to show it at all.
The two brothers hurriedly washed their hands, brushed off the dust on their bodies, and went to the main room to see what was wrong with Xia Juhua. They knew their mother better than Wang Caifeng did. If she was not really sick and unable to get up, she would always find work to do. She had never been seen without work at home or outside.
Seeing them rushing in, Xia Juhua was very happy even though she still had memories of her past life. Without waiting for the two brothers to ask, she said with a smile on her face: "Mom is fine, don't worry. I just feel tired and want to rest for a day. Why can't your mom rest for a while?"
"Okay, as long as Mom is okay." After hearing this, Liu Zhiquan sat down on the edge of the kang with relief, his eyes still on Xia Juhua, wondering if she was holding on so as not to worry him.
Liu Zhishuang directly took out the money from his pocket and slapped it in front of Xia Juhua, saying excitedly: "Mom, twenty-five yuan!"
This is really a lot. If you work in the production team, the maximum work points you can get during your free time is eight points. You really can't get that much money, let alone cash. However, Xia Juhua didn't move. Seeing that Liu Zhiquan also wanted to pay, she quickly said, "Don't worry, pack up Zhishuang's too. After dinner, we'll settle it in front of your wives."
"What's there to calculate?" Liu Zhishuang, who was dissatisfied with Sun Hongmei, pushed the money in front of Xia Juhua and said, "I have no use for the money, so mother will keep it for me."
Haha, Xia Juhua smiled at her youngest son. In her last life, Liu Zhishuang wanted to take all the money in her hands and give it to Sun Hongmei, but now he wants her to keep all the money he earned.
The changes are huge.
Sun Hongmei, who came in with the meal, stood at the door, not knowing whether to go in or not. Wang Caifeng behind her didn't know why she stopped and urged her, "Go, the meal will get cold and need to be reheated." She was so tactless. She didn't see Baoguo stumbling after her. What if the child couldn't stop and fell.
What you fear will come to you. Liu Baoguo had short calves, so he had to hold on to Wang Caifeng's trouser legs when crossing the threshold. When Wang Caifeng stopped, he was not prepared, and his calves slipped on the threshold, and he really fell to the ground, crying.
"What's wrong? Zhiquan, go and see why Baoguo is crying." Although Xia Juhua was not as devoted to Liu Baoguo as she was in her previous life, she still couldn't stand the child's heart-wrenching cry and asked Liu Zhiquan to go out and see.
As Liu Zhiquan was walking out, he heard Xia Juhua complaining to him: "Your wife has to take care of the children and cook, and you don't even bother taking care of the children when you come back. If you separate in the future, your wife will suffer."
Mother mentioned the separation again. Liu Zhishuang didn't know if his eldest brother heard it, but he felt upset. Just before she got married, mother told him that when she got old, she would stay at home and not work in the fields, so they could focus on raising children. No matter how many grandchildren they had, she could take care of them.
Now his mother was talking about dividing the family every other day. Liu Zhishuang couldn't help but connect his mother's change with his marriage. It would be strange if he could have a good face towards Sun Hongmei who had already put the meal on the table.
Sun Hongmei felt that she was totally wronged: Liu Baoguo was Wang Caifeng's son, and it was Wang Caifeng who should take care of him. Why did she make Liu Zhishuang lose face by making him cry?
Seeing her mother-in-law anxiously looking at the curtain, Sun Hongmei felt even more uncomfortable. It was just a child, who wouldn't be able to give birth? What if her mother-in-law dared to be partial to her after she gave birth...
Thinking about the rice porridge that Liu Baoguo drank every day, Sun Hongmei carefully touched her belly. Is there a child here too?
Liu Zhiquan had already brought the child in. Xia Juhua took it and looked at it. Fortunately, it was cold and he was dressed warmly. Except for his two little hands that were rubbed red, there was no injury anywhere else. She was relieved. She asked Wang Caifeng to heat up a piece of chicken that was specially reserved for Liu Baoguo and gave it to the child herself. Liu Baoguo's attention was immediately diverted, and he ate the chicken with his little hands.
The meal was simple and quick, and then it was time to divide the money. In fact, Liu Zhiquan and his brother had already agreed on the distribution method before they went to carry the food packages, and this time they just counted the money in front of them.
Xia Juhua thought she had divided the money clearly, so she took her share and tried to leave. Unexpectedly, Liu Zhiquan only kept 10 yuan and handed the remaining 2.5 yuan to Xia Juhua: "Mom, keep this and buy yourself a new headscarf."
Xia Juhua was stunned, pushed the money away and said, "I can still wear my headscarf. Besides, I have my own money, so I don't need you to buy it for me." This will prevent your wife from going out and telling me about this.
Wang Caifeng actually smiled and persuaded her to accept it: "Mom, please keep it. This is the first time your son has thought of buying something for you."
Liu Zhishuang only took away ten yuan and pushed the other two and a half yuan to Xia Juhua: "Mom, buy another piece of cloth to make a dress."
"No need, the headscarf and cloth only cost so much." Xia Juhua still didn't want to accept it. She had never been treated like this in her life, and now she was really not used to being given money all of a sudden: "I know your feelings, I'm very happy. I appreciate your kindness, you can take the money back and buy anything for your wife."
Liu Zhishuang turned around and glanced at Sun Hongmei - his sister-in-law knew to persuade his mother to accept the money, but Sun Hongmei, who was always talkative, didn't say a word. Did his mother see that Sun Hongmei was unwilling to pay and that's why she didn't want the money?
Sun Hongmei was indeed feeling sorry for the two and a half yuan. Her mother-in-law had clearly taken half of it, so why did she still give her money to buy a headscarf and cloth? Apart from the new clothes she wore at her wedding, the rest were old clothes from her parents' home, so it was time to get a new one.
Just when she was thinking about how to make Liu Zhishuang think of making new clothes, Liu Zhishuang looked over. Before Sun Hongmei could get excited, she realized that Liu Zhishuang was looking at her with dissatisfaction. She looked at Liu Zhishuang in a daze, not understanding what she had done to make him unhappy again.
Liu Zhishuang sighed secretly, and when he turned to face Xia Juhua, he had already put on a cheeky smile: "Mom, you are wrong. It's not enough to just show your thoughtfulness. My brother and I have never bought anything for you. This time I want to see my thoughtfulness worn by you." After saying this, without waiting for Xia Juhua to retort, he pulled Sun Hongmei and ran out of the door.
Xia Juhua smiled helplessly, and Wang Caifeng took the opportunity to pull Liu Zhiquan up, picked up Liu Baoguo and went out. Just then, they saw Liu Zhishuang shake off Sun Hongmei's hand and walked into the west room without looking back.
Liu Zhiquan didn't understand, so he went back to his room and asked, "What's going on between Zhishuang and his wife?"
Wang Caifeng also felt sorry for the two and a half yuan, but compared to Sun Hongmei being ignored by Liu Zhishuang, she felt that her money was worth it. She smiled and said to Liu Zhiquan: "Who knows, if you keep making trouble every day, your mother will also be angry."
When mentioning Xia Juhua, Liu Zhiquan warned his wife very vigilantly: "Don't say this outside the house, and don't mention it in front of mother."
Do I need to carry it myself? Wang Caifeng had long discovered that her mother-in-law had sharp eyes and was calculating in her heart. Although she didn't say anything, she was very determined. Didn't you see that Sun Hongmei could hardly even lift her head at home?
With this experience, Wang Caifeng would never say anything that would upset her mother-in-law. In the final analysis, if a man sides with his mother-in-law, she will always have the final say in the family.
Sun Hongmei didn't have the same treatment as Wang Caifeng. Liu Zhishuang didn't remind her but warned her: "Don't lose face in front of me every day. Do I owe you that?"
"I didn't say that mom owed me anything. But mom is so cold to me every day. Before I do anything, I have to think whether mom will be unhappy. Before I say anything, I have to think whether mom will dislike what I hear. How can I laugh?"
Do you lose face when you can't laugh? Liu Zhishuang looked at his wife helplessly, wanting to ask her where her cleverness before marriage had gone, but in the end he didn't ask.
Or maybe the daughter-in-law never had money when she was at her parents' home, so she values money so much. Liu Zhishuang decided to give Sun Hongmei one last chance and handed her the ten yuan in his pocket: "Save it well." With money in hand, the daughter-in-law can buy whatever she wants and won't worry about other people's money anymore.
What if she still cares about him? Liu Zhishuang hasn't figured it out yet. He just knows that he will be very disappointed, and he knows that his mother will be even more disappointed than him.
Xia Juhua did not feel disappointed now. She was wondering whether she should find another piece of cotton to plug her ears to prevent someone from disturbing her in the middle of the night.
Before she could think it through, there was a knock on the door, and An Baoling cried out, "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, open the door for me."
Xia Juhua ignored her pounding heart and quickly put on her shoes and went out. Before she left the house, she heard Liu Zhiquan asking, "Auntie, why are you here? Don't cry first. What happened?"
An Baoling had never come so late in her life. Xia Juhua pulled open the door and asked, "Auntie, what's going on?"
"Sister-in-law, Sanzhuang's head was broken by Sizhuang, and the bleeding won't stop. Mother won't give me money to see a doctor, can you lend me some money first?" An Baoling told her purpose while crying, and Xia Juhua's heart skipped a beat.
What medicine did Liu Sizhuang take? How dare he break Liu Sanzhuang's head? Sun was also a ruthless person. Wasn't Liu Sanzhuang her son? Even if she despised this son, she couldn't just watch him bleed without paying.
A lot of thoughts flashed through Xia Juhua's mind while she was looking for money. When she handed the hundred yuan to An Baoling, Xia Juhua had already sorted out her thoughts: "Big brother and second brother, you two go back to the old house with your aunt and take your uncle directly to the county hospital."
An Baoling looked at the thick stack of bills in her hand, tears streaming down her face even faster: "There's no need for Zhiquan and the others. My second brother and I can take Zhijun and Zhiguo with us."
□□ and Liu Zhiguo are the two sons born to An Baoling. The elder □□ just went to the fields to earn work points this year. Liu Zhiguo is only fourteen years old during the Chinese New Year. Xia Juhua thinks they can't do much and said, "Zhijun and Zhiguo are still young, so let Zhiquan and his brother go. You two should listen to your second uncle when you go there, and don't say anything nonsense or give any nonsense advice." In the end, Xia Juhua had to instruct the two brothers Liu Zhiquan.
She had to give orders. Xia Juhua felt that Sun Guizhi must have been responsible for Liu Sizhuang beating Liu Sanzhuang today. Both Liu Zhiquan and his brother had a lot of resentment towards Sun Guizhi. What if she went there and said something unpleasant and was caught by Sun Guizhi or the Sun family?
They are there to help, not to take the blame.
It’s a long story, but actually it only took five or six minutes from the time An Baoling knocked on the door to the time Liu Zhiquan and her brother returned to the old courtyard. Xia Juhua looked at the empty courtyard gate and slowly walked over to close it again.
When she walked to the main room, she found that her two daughters-in-law were standing at their respective doors, looking at her, with expressions that seemed to want to ask something but didn't know how. Xia Juhua herself was still confused, so she had to wave to them: "Come in, we'll talk tomorrow if there's anything."
After hearing this, Sun Hongmei turned around and was about to go into the house, but she heard Wang Caifeng ask, "Mom, how about I stay with you? We don't know when Zhiquan and the others will be back." Then she stopped again, feeling angry that she had such a good opportunity to please her mother-in-law, but Wang Caifeng took it first.
But if I look back, wouldn't I have learned from Wang Caifeng? If I didn't do this first, the one who learned would always be laughed at. Sun Hongmei gritted her teeth and pretended not to hear what Wang Caifeng said, and gently closed the door.
Xia Juhua heard what Wang Caifeng said, smiled at her and said, "You go back to the room and look after Baoguo. Don't worry, Zhiquan and the others just went to help. It's no big deal." Wang Caifeng was pregnant, and she might have been frightened by the loud knock on the door just now. Normally, Xia Juhua should just keep her company, but she couldn't let a pregnant woman take care of herself, so she had to comfort Wang Caifeng.
Looking at Wang Caifeng's performance during this period, Xia Juhua felt that she deserved such comfort.
An Baoling, who brought Liu Zhiquan and his brother back to the old hospital, no longer expected others to comfort her. When she entered the hospital, she found Liu Sanzhuang still sitting on the ground. The eldest son was crying while covering the wound on his father's head with a towel. He was so angry that he didn't even care to cry: "Zhijun, Zhiguo, help your father up, let's go to the county hospital."
"Don't scare people with the county hospital." Liu Sizhuang sneaked out from under the lights and shouted to An Baoling: "If you want to go to the county hospital, you have to give your salary to mother first."
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