Chen Jinhua quickly took the things to the inner room, lifted the cloth and saw two pieces of pork belly, half a pig's liver, sugar and eggs. She burst into laughter and her face was full of wrinkles.
Considering that the Xiao family are good people, I thought they might be very poor.
Jiang Qiaoqiao brought out two bowls of water. They were just two bowls of water, ice-cold water, without any courtesy at all.
"Here, have some water, new bride!" When she said the three words 'new bride', she emphasized the tone and felt gloating.
Moreover, she kept looking at Jiang Sui from head to toe, and when she saw the pair of pink embroidered shoes on her feet, which were very delicate, she liked them very much and thought to herself that she would get a pair to wear tomorrow.
However, the contempt in her eyes was obvious, especially when she saw Xiao Hechuan, she couldn't help but laugh.
Xiao Hechuan snorted arrogantly, crossed his arms and refused to take her water.
Jiang Sui didn't answer it either, as if no one wanted to drink her bowl of cold water.
"No, we're not thirsty. We'll leave now."
Jiang Sui didn't want to stay here at all, but he had no choice but to follow the rules. If he didn't come, he was afraid that others would gossip about him.
"Oh, now you have found a husband and are so powerful, wearing new clothes and new shoes. You are so awesome. Do you think you have become a phoenix from a wild chicken? You are just a sparrow at most. Even a sparrow is flattering you. You are asking for favors, and you think you have gotten something good. As the saying goes, if you marry a man, you will get clothes and food. I will just wait and see until your father-in-law and mother-in-law can no longer work. How can you be so powerful?
I’m afraid that by then, things will be worse than before!”
Jiang Qiaoqiao inherited all of Chen Jinhua's sarcasm and harshness. It can be said that she is even better than her teacher.
"Don't bother with that. I will definitely get better and better in the future." Jiang Sui fought back, pulling Xiao Hechuan's hand.
"That's right, my wife is right, just wait and see!"
Xiao Hechuan’s main role is to protect his wife and he is a loyal supporter of her.
"Hahahaha… This is so funny, you? I'll just wait and see."
Jiang Qiaoqiao didn't believe that a fool like Xiao Hechuan could let her, Jiang Sui, live a good life. She was just comforting herself.
She laughed so wildly that it was really annoying.
Chen Jinhua listened to the noise outside but was not affected at all. She was happily thinking about how to deal with the two pieces of meat and the pork liver.
Jiang Sui also guessed that the meat was fed to the dogs, but it didn't matter. This was all for the Xiao family's dignity. There would be no such good thing in the future. Even the cheap dogs would not be cheap to them.
She was too lazy to argue, because they would be slapped in the face anyway, and she was waiting to see the joke.
When Chen Jinhua came out, Jiang Sui had already left with Xiao Hechuan. On the way home, they met many villagers. They greeted Jiang Sui on the surface, but turned their backs and looked at the joke.
It's a joke that she treats a fool like a treasure, but he is a treasure, he is the future top scholar, her thigh.
Laugh now, it won't be long before you can't laugh anymore.
When she returned to the Xiao family, everyone had already left. Xiao's mother thought that she would not come back so soon, so she took Xiao Lanlan, mother and daughter, to the mountain, thinking about the unpicked wood ears on the mountain. Xiao's father and his other three sons went to work in the fields.
Jiang Sui happened to have nothing to do, so she washed the dirty clothes that she and Xiao Hechuan had taken off. Originally, it was Xiao's mother who washed them, but now that she was not the one who did it, it was her job to do it.
Xiao Hechuan didn't go to play with Dazhuang either. The children in the village were not free until the afternoon. In the morning they had to go to the old scholar in the village to learn how to read.
The old scholar received all the salary in the form of grain. As a lonely man, he could only rely on this salary to make ends meet, plus the money and grain distributed by the government every month.
Daqing attaches great importance to literature. Scholars can be exempted from taxes, and their families can be exempted from corvee labor. For construction projects initiated by the court, two quotas can be saved if a family has a scholar. Moreover, scholars do not have to kneel when meeting the county magistrate, and they receive a subsidy of thirty cents and a dou of rice every month.
Scholars are respected wherever they go. Having less pressure in life is one thing, and being respectable is another. This is why Jiang Qiaoqiao is trying her best to marry a scholar.
Xiao's mother and Xiao Lanlan deliberately rushed back before noon, intending to make lunch, but they did not expect that when they got home, smoke was already rising from the yard.
Jiang Sui and Xiao Hechuan were busy in the kitchen. Jiang Sui was cooking pumpkin porridge while Xiao Hechuan was helping to watch the fire. He was very obedient.
When Xiao's mother came in and saw this scene, she was very puzzled:
"Why, didn't Chen Jinhua invite you to have lunch before leaving?"
She thought, even if Chen Jinhua is a bad person, she shouldn't be so bad, right? She doesn't even try to be good at it? Isn't she afraid of gossip from the villagers?
"No, we just went there and came back soon, and I didn't want to stay for dinner, so it doesn't matter." Jiang Sui replied calmly.
She really doesn't care and she doesn't want it.
Having said that, Xiao's mother was still very uncomfortable and felt sorry for her daughter-in-law.
"You are such a heartless person. You have lived in their house for more than ten years. Do you really have no feelings for them at all? I feel sorry for my meat and candy now. I gave them all to you. I am sorry for inconvenience to you, little girl."
"Mom, I don't feel wronged. You have already treated me very decently." Jiang Sui is not the kind of person who doesn't know what is good and what is bad. Although she is a little selfish, she is not without conscience.
On the contrary, Xiao Hechuan was still unhappy after the whole morning, just because the mother and daughter of the Jiang family gave his wife the cold shoulder and spoke ill of him. Although he didn't quite understand what the words "bird" and "phoenix" meant, he could tell good from bad from the tone of Jiang Qiaoqiao's voice.
"Mom, I will never go to Widow Chen's house again. They are all bad people. They make my wife unhappy. If my wife is unhappy, I will hate them."
Xiao Hechuan pouted his lips while holding a pair of pliers and poked the ground in annoyance.
This made Xiao's mother laugh. No matter what her son became, he had a good heart.
"Okay, okay, I won't let you go in the future. You were sensible today and even knew to help watch the fire. I'll reward you with some sugar water later."
For country people, sugar is a rare good thing, priced the same as refined white flour. Ordinary families are reluctant to eat it even though they have it in stock. They will only take it out and mix it with water during the busy farming season because it can make them energetic.
So, when giving the Jiang family a return gift, Xiao's mother left some sugar in it, thinking that there was a pregnant woman at home, and this was for emergency use. Xiao Hechuan loved drinking sugar water, so she made an exception and rewarded him.
When he heard that there would be sugar water to drink, Xiao Hechuan smiled happily and put the unhappy things behind him.
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