The Sun family was dumbfounded when they heard this. After all, they made the mistake first, and Sun Hongmei had a bad reputation in Ping'an Village after she got married. The Liu family wanted the betrothal gift back, but they had no reason not to, so they chose to act like scoundrels.
Xia Juhua was going to leave some for Sun Hongmei? Why didn't you say so earlier?
The people of Pingan Village and Liu Liqun praised Xia Juhua for her kindness and righteousness, but chose to forget that Xia Juhua's final meaning was that she didn't want to leave anything to the Sun family. Xia Juhua didn't take other people's comments to heart, she was observing Liu Zhishuang's reaction.
Fortunately, Liu Zhishuang did not say that he did not want to return the betrothal gift. He lowered his head and no one knew what he was thinking.
Sun Hongmei's mother slapped her thigh and said, "You wanted to leave a betrothal gift for Hongmei, why didn't you tell me earlier? If you had told me earlier, I would have taken Hongmei back home."
Sun Hongmei looked at her mother in disbelief, regretting that she had just asked Liu Liqun for mercy. When she heard her father also asked Xia Juhua how much betrothal gift she could leave for him, Sun Hongmei turned around and went back to the west room.
Just by looking at the expressions of her parents, Sun Hongmei knew that she would have to get a divorce. Her parents might have been thinking of marrying her off to another family in exchange for a dowry.
It is easy to enter the house, but it is not easy to pack things up. Liu Zhishuang and Sun Hongmei have been married for a short time. Although Xia Juhua did not approve of their marriage at first, she did not go through the motions when it came to the wedding. She had all the new cabinets and new floor covers that a new house should have, including thermos bottles that are not easy to find in the countryside. They were all used by Sun Hongmei since she got married.
But these were all prepared by the Liu family, not Sun Hongmei's dowry, so she couldn't take any of them.
No, there was one more thing she could take away. Sun Hongmei gritted her teeth, went up to the kang, opened the kang cabinet, and took out a small cloth bag from the bottom, which contained Liu Zhishuang's dividends and sixty yuan earned from carrying food bags.
When Sun Hongmei first received the money, she thought about how she would spend it, but she finally accepted it. Now she is about to divorce Liu Zhishuang, so why should she leave the money to him? In the end, she doesn't know who will benefit.
Sun Hongmei stuffed the money into her inner pocket viciously and quickened her packing speed. In the end, she just packed her clothes into the package. Also put into the package was the brown sugar she brought with her and had only been brewed with water once.
"Hongmei, are you done packing?" her father asked from outside. Sun Hongmei took a last look at the furnishings in the house, turned around and slammed the door, then raised her chin and said to her father, "Let's go." She didn't even look at the Liu family.
"Captain Liu, thank you for your help." Xia Juhua thanked Liu Liqun without looking at the package followed Sun Hongmei had packed. Liu Zhishuang also didn't look at it and Liu Liqun out of the yard.
Sun Hongmei was a little puzzled. Her mother pinched her and said, "You are useless. No one wants you anymore. Why are you still clinging on? Tomorrow I will ask someone to find you a new matchmaker. Find someone who eats commercial food."
Everyone in Ping'an Village turned a deaf ear to what Sun Hongmei's mother said. If she could really find a partner for Sun Hongmei who could eat commercial food, would she still let the girl depend on Liu Zhishuang?
In addition to Liu Liqun and Liu Zhishuang, two basic militiamen pushing carts also accompanied the Sun family to Sunjiazhuang. Liu Liqun had learned his lesson this time. If a militia leader does not take a few basic militiamen with him, what kind of militia leader is he?
Halfway through the walk, Sun Hongmei quietly asked her mother, "Mom, how did you discuss this with their family?"
"Return the food to them and keep the money." Sun Hongmei's mother's tone did not reveal any sadness that her daughter was getting divorced. Instead, she sounded somewhat proud.
No wonder the two militiamen were pushing carts, they were going to bring back food overnight. As for Liu Zhishuang, under the leadership of Liu Liqun, they found the leader of the Sunjiazhuang production team, explained to him that they both agreed to divorce, and issued a divorce certificate on the spot.
After getting the certificate, Liu Zhishuang only said to Sun Hongmei: "I'll wait for you at the commune at 8 o'clock tomorrow." Then he lowered his head again.
Sun Hongmei suddenly felt that Liu Zhishuang was very unfamiliar. Even though he was right in front of her, she couldn't remember what his face looked like. She couldn't help but laugh at herself, pinched her inner pocket, and then breathed a sigh of relief.
Liu Liqun, a brigade cadre, said to the production team leader of Sunjiazhuang: "Captain Sun, Sun Hongmei is now a member of your production team again. Tomorrow, you should remind her to bring the Sun family's household registration booklet and transfer her household registration at the same time."
Captain Sun understood that Liu Liqun was telling him that he should supervise Sun Hongmei to go to the commune to complete the divorce procedures with Liu Zhishuang tomorrow. He reluctantly: "Okay, I'll remind her. Anyway, we have the proof and both parties have put their fingerprints on it. Even if Sun Hongmei doesn't go to the commune, we can still get the divorce certificate."
"It's better to get it done right the first time." Liu Liqun said, "Otherwise, we won't be the ones coming next time, and we won't have to bother Captain Sun. I'll just take Liu Zhishuang to find the Red Team, and then we'll have to take the betrothal money back with us."
Captain Sun was also severely criticized by the Red Squad today because the Sun family had hidden Liu Sizhuang's family. When he heard that Liu Liqun was going to look for the Red Squad again, his face turned pale and he quickly said that he would personally bring Sun Hongmei to the commune to wait for Liu Zhishuang tomorrow.
The Sun family didn't want to say anything until they saw the people from Ping'an Village pushing the carts away. Then they breathed a sigh of relief. Sun Hongmei's mother patted her thigh and said, "It's not a loss. Hongmei hasn't eaten at home for more than a month, so she saved a lot of food. It's also 50 yuan for nothing. Let them take the food back."
The production team had just distributed food, and Sun Hongmei's food was left in the Sun family, so the Sun family always cared about money rather than food. Captain Sun looked at the three Sun family members in disbelief, and felt that he, as a captain, had learned something new today.
The young lady was sent back to her parents' home, spitting so much that she could have drowned her. Her parents didn't even say a word of comfort, they just thought about how they had gotten fifty dollars for nothing!
Xia Juhua was also enlightened. She did not expect Liu Zhishuang and his companions to return so quickly. Considering the time, Sun Jiazhuang gave out the food and certificates without any difficulty.
Is there really no one who thinks about how Sun Hongmei will live in the future? Xia Juhua looked at Liu Zhishuang speechlessly as he was carrying food to the warehouse. She should stop thinking about Sun Hongmei and think about how her little son will live in the future.
"Zhishuang, you..."
Liu Zhishuang seemed to know what Xia Juhua wanted to say, and forced a smile at her: "Mom, I'm fine. That troublemaker is gone, and there's no one causing trouble in our family, which is good."
It was indeed a good thing for the rest of the family, but not necessarily for Liu Zhishuang. After the family had a late dinner, Liu Zhishuang stood up and wanted to leave, but Xia Juhua stopped him.
Liu Zhishuang waited for a while, and seeing that his mother didn't say anything, he had to look up at her, and his eyes met Xia Juhua's. Liu Zhishuang quickly looked away, and Xia Juhua sighed:
"Zhishuang, I know you're feeling bad right now. You still have the whole night to think about it carefully. If, if you regret it..."
"Mom, I won't regret it. If I have any regrets, it's that I didn't tell you the truth." Liu Zhishuang smiled bitterly: "I thought I had grown up and could handle my own affairs, but I didn't expect that I would still let someone..."
Hearing this, Xia Juhua shook her head and had to admit that she had not taught Liu Zhishuang well. Even at this point, he still wanted to put all the problems on Sun Hongmei, not thinking that a person's goodness or badness is not determined by what he says, but by what he does. Of course, if Liu Zhishuang really thought this way, he would not be influenced by Sun Hongmei bit by bit during their time together.
Fortunately, it's not too late.
Xia Juhua admitted that she was just an old lady from the countryside and couldn't say anything profound. She just said, "You will meet all kinds of people in the future. Just be careful when you see how people are and don't just listen to what they say."
Liu Zhiquan nodded as usual, and Liu Zhishuang kept silent. Wang Caifeng looked around but couldn't wait for anyone to speak, so she couldn't help asking, "Mom, we have enough food at home, why do you want food instead of money?"
Here they come again. Xia Juhua glanced at Wang Caifeng and said, "Do you think we should get the food and money back together?"
Wang Caifeng didn't respond, but you could tell from her expression that this was what she meant. Xia Juhua said helplessly, "Even a cornered dog will jump over the wall. If we don't leave anything for the Sun family, what if they shamelessly drag their feet and refuse to divorce Zhishuang?" They were a shameless family to begin with, so the possibility was very high.
Wang Caifeng thought that was not possible: "But they can still go to the commune to seek justice. The Sun family doesn't want to join the Red Team either."
Xia Juhua was amused: "Of course they didn't want to go to the Red Team if they could. Don't forget, Zhishuang and Sun Hongmei each have their own reasons, and no one saw what happened at the time. Do you know who the Red Team believes?"
Seeing that Wang Caifeng was a little unconvinced, Xia Juhua had to tell her that the Red Team might be thinking about the fried peanuts in the previous house. Although the director of the supply and marketing cooperative had promised that it was okay, she didn't want to take the initiative to run into the Red Team's gun.
When the others heard about this, their faces turned pale. Xia Juhua had to comfort them with the words of the director of the supply and marketing cooperative, but she also warned the three of them to work honestly in the next few days and not to argue with outsiders even if they made a few sarcastic remarks.
Liu Zhishuang knew that his mother was talking mainly to him, so he nodded first. again, he will pay for the bride price himself."
Liu Zhiquan quickly shook his head and said that he didn't think so. Even Wang Caifeng kept assuring her that if Liu Zhishuang remarried in the future, she would have no objection to the family giving a dowry.
Xia Juhua almost took the couple's words as a joke, and rushed back to sleep after they made their promises. But before the three of them left, Xia Juhua also said that since Liu Zhishuang would pay for the gift next time he married her, he would keep the food he brought back from his grandson's family, and asked Liu Zhishuang to move the wheat with her before going to sleep.
Wang Caifeng wanted to object, but Liu Zhiquan glared at her and she remained speechless. After returning to the house, she said, "That was originally the food produced by the family, why did Zhishuang have to collect it all by herself?" That was 50 kilograms of wheat, not 50 kilograms of corn.
"You only know how to calculate these trivial matters." Liu Zhiquan glared at his wife impatiently: "Mother always keeps her word. She said that in the future, Zhishuang will pay for the betrothal gift herself, and she will definitely not use the money and things in the family. If you still haggle and make mother unhappy, mother will let you take care of the food in our room yourself. Are you willing?"
Wang Caifeng wanted to say that she was happy with it, but she swallowed the words back after opening her mouth.
Wang Caifeng had to admit that she did not have the skills of her mother-in-law. She had long discovered that her mother-in-law had her own way of arranging the food for the family: drinking liquid food when she was free and eating dry food when she was busy were certain, and there were special rules for drinking liquid food and eating dry food.
Sometimes pumpkin and sweet potato were mixed into the porridge, but not much. Cornmeal or sorghum rice was still the main ingredient, but it added flavor to the porridge and saved some of the main grain. Dry porridge was often mixed with millet flour, sweet potato flour or sorghum flour, but not much. Before we knew it, the sweet potato flour and sorghum flour, which tasted bad, were all eaten up, and the cornmeal at home could be eaten until the next autumn harvest.
As for the wild vegetables in spring and the dried seeds from the ground in autumn, my mother-in-law arranged them into the most suitable meals, which not only saved food but also increased the taste of the meals.
Although she has been cooking for three years with her mother-in-law, Wang Caifeng still doesn't think she has mastered all her mother-in-law's skills. For example, she has watched her mother-in-law frying sugar-coated peanuts for so long, but she still doesn't dare to try it herself. Moreover, Wang Caifeng saw that her mother-in-law didn't know what other skills she had through the new patterns she made. It would be a loss if she really made her mother-in-law angry and didn't teach her.
There is also Baoguo's rice porridge. Alas, the rice porridge exchanged for fifty kilograms of wheat, how long will it last for Baoguo? Wang Caifeng thought very melancholy, who did her mother-in-law exchange it from?
In the Liu family's old courtyard, people were also talking about food.
Sun looked at Liu Erzhuang and his wife as if they were enemies, slammed the table and asked, "Are you really not going to bring food to Sizhuang and the others?"
No one said anything. Sun didn't want to bang the table anymore, so she slapped her thigh instead: "Oh my God, why did I give birth to something like you? You have no humanity at all. Si Zhuang is your own brother, and you sent him to the Red Team, but you didn't even send him food. Do you want to starve him to death? Do you want to starve him to death, and then you can monopolize all the food?"
Liu Erzhuang was silent, Li Daya was silent, while Sun Shi cried and made a fuss.
An Baoling, who was listening under the window, curled her lips and went into the house. Her mother did not call her, but looked straight at Sun and said, "Give us the food in our house. We will cook for ourselves starting tomorrow."
"You are so beautiful, you spendthrift woman, is there any sister-in-law like you? How did Si Zhuang treat you so badly? You went to the commune to report him, and now you want to share the food? No way." Sun finally found an opponent, and she started to speak at An Baoling.
An Baoling sneered and ignored Sun, only speaking to Liu Erzhuang: "Each person gets 360 kilograms of grain per year. Our production team gets 200 kilograms of staple grain and 160 kilograms of miscellaneous grain. There are four people in our family, so we should get 800 kilograms of staple grain and 640 kilograms of miscellaneous grain. Second brother, am I right in my calculations?"
"I'm not dead yet, and I'm still the head of this family. As long as I'm here, no one can take away a grain of food. If you want to do it alone, then do it alone. I have no food to give you." Sun was very dissatisfied with An Baoling for ignoring her. She said harsh words and looked at Liu Erzhuang.
Liu Erzhuang actually nodded!
Sun stood up and slapped Liu Erzhuang in the face: "Do you also want to split the family?"
Just looking at Liu Erzhuang's expression, it seemed as if Sun's slap had hit someone else in the face. Apart from tilting his head, he did not make any other movements. He turned his head back and looked at Sun steadily, which actually made Sun feel creepy. He couldn't help but raise his hand to slap Liu Erzhuang again.
Sun thought that Liu Erzhuang would not take another slap from her, and that would give her a reason to complain to outsiders that Liu Erzhuang was unfilial, and then threaten him that he had already gone to the brigade to complain about Cong. If he wanted to continue to be the production team leader, would he dare to agree to An Baoling's ration list?
Little did he know that Liu Erzhuang just stared at Sun, waiting for her slap to fall without moving. Li Daya had already stood beside Liu Erzhuang and wanted to pull him to hide, but Liu Erzhuang stopped her and said, "Let her hit you."
The voice was cold, without any warmth or even ups and downs, and Sun couldn't hit him anymore. After waiting for a while, Liu Erzhuang asked, "Mom, why don't you hit me anymore? You can hit me however you want today. If I dodge, I'm not my father's son anymore."
What are you talking about? Sun was so angry that she almost rolled her eyes, and then she heard Liu Erzhuang still saying: "If mother doesn't want to beat me, then I'll make it clear. Not only does the third daughter-in-law want to divide the food in her room, we also want to divide the food, and we can eat our own food in the future."
"Don't even think about it!" Sun couldn't say anything else except these two words. She found that she couldn't understand Liu Erzhuang. Was this man in front of her who looked like a stranger to her really her second son who always obeyed her?
Li Daya and An Baoling looked at each other and sat on the edge of the kang without saying anything. Liu Erzhuang didn't care what Sun said and only said his own words: "Over the years, how our two families treated Sizhuang and his family, you know it well. What do our children eat and what do Sizhuang's children eat? What do our children wear and what do Sizhuang's children wear?"
"How many work points did Si Zhuang and his wife earn in a year? Are they enough to allow their children to eat more and dress better than our children? Mom, you really don't know, or you pretend not to know. It's all in the past and I won't talk about it."
"But seeing that our sons Zhifu, Zhigui, and our third son's sons Zhijun and Zhiguo are all getting married, I can't watch my grandson eat and dress worse than Sizhuang's family."
"So whether you like it or not, this family has to be divided. Not only that, but we have to ask the cadres of the brigade to share with us. Let's calculate the accounts of the past five years. How much is our dividend, how much we have spent, and how much is left, you have to give it to me. Otherwise, my son won't be able to get married. I can't let my son be single."
Sun looked at her strange second son and felt speechless. She forced herself to say, "You just want to take advantage of the fourth son's absence to steal their food. Well, you stole your eldest brother's cakes and starved him to death, and now you want to starve the fourth son's family to death. I will report you to the production team and the commune. When the time comes, you will not only lose your share of food, but you will also lose your position as production team leader."
Li Daya glanced at Sun's profile and heard Liu Erzhuang say, "If I don't want to be the leader, then don't be the leader. If my eldest brother wasn't the production team leader, would I be willing to be the production team leader?" He worked very hard and worried a lot every day, but what benefit did he get from it except allowing Liu Sizhuang and his wife to slack off!
Sun was dumbfounded. Liu Erzhuang didn't take the production team leader seriously. Was he deceiving her?
Li Daya thought Liu Erzhuang was telling the truth. Seeing the man looking relieved, she sighed in her heart and couldn't help but said to Sun: "Mom, didn't you go to the brigade to complain about Erzhuang this morning? He can't be the production team leader any longer."
Sun went to the brigade without telling anyone, and she felt that she was justified at the time, but now she wondered if Liu Erzhuang was hurt because she went to the brigade to sue him. She always knew that she would have to rely on Liu Erzhuang for her old age, and she treated their family better than Liu Sanzhuang's family, but she was afraid that Liu Erzhuang would really leave her.
I didn't expect that after I went to the team and told him that he didn't care about his brothers, he would hate me and say that he didn't want to be the production team leader? If he really didn't take the production team leader seriously, why didn't he say anything to me when I treated him so well, but now he wants to split up?
"Okay, now that you've grown too independent and don't want to support me, let's split up. But we've agreed that as soon as we split up, you'll move out of this yard as soon as possible, so that I don't have to get so mad at you every day!" Sun was not someone who would give in easily, so she pulled out her last trump card.
Liu Erzhuang looked at his mother with a strange expression, sneered and said nothing. Li Daya also sneered and looked at An Baoling.
An Baoling didn't sneer, she just asked coldly: "Mom, Sanzhuang is still lying on the kang now, do you really want to drive us both out like this?"
"You don't want to support me and want to live separately, so how come I have to blame you? Oh, it's not enough that you occupy my food, you also want to occupy my house? I tell you, I built this house, and I can let anyone live in it if I want. Whoever I don't want to live in it should get out of here."
"Okay, mother, you built this house. I am too embarrassed to say who spent the most money on it. My eldest brother is no longer around. My sister-in-law didn't even mention it when she moved out. Let's just assume that you, an old lady who has never worked in the fields, can afford to build a house by yourself. We're moving out. Should we weigh our food now?"
This didn't scare her? Sun had to resort to her last resort, lying on the ground and crying. Liu Erzhuang glanced at his wife and An Baoling, and was the first to leave. The two followed him closely, and no one paid any attention to Sun, who was crying.
Sun was completely dumbfounded, and stopped crying. She got up and called out, "Second brother, second brother, are you really not caring about your mother?"
Liu Erzhuang asked without even turning his head: "Mom, where is the key to the warehouse?"
Sun pressed the key on her waist and said, "No, you can't take the food away. I'll let you cook for yourselves and I'll weigh the food for you for every meal."
Li Daya couldn't help it and sneered again. Sun was about to curse, but she thought of Liu Erzhuang who didn't even turn his head, so she held it back. She had been so submissive, but Liu Erzhuang still didn't give in: "Mom, if you don't give me the key today, I will break the lock, believe it or not."
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