Chapter 342 Sisters' Heart-to-Heart Talk
Xiao Qi took the initiative, and in the end, he slaughtered all the chickens in the house by himself. Lin Yuesha didn't help, but just watched him with emotion and admiration.
Xiao Qi twitched his eye, suppressing his unease. He had to finish his own performance, even if he was off-key. He was very good at fooling his little sister.
Not long after, Chen Xiaohua returned after trying on her wedding dress. When she saw Lin Yuesha there, she burst into tears.
"Sister Xiaohua, I haven't even cried yet, why are you crying first?"
After Lin Yuesha finished speaking, she ran forward and hugged Chen Xiaohua, bursting into tears.
The group that followed in: ...
"You silly girl, I haven't heard from you since you got to the prefectural city. I know you're not coming back, but you could at least have sent a message!"
Chen Xiaohua cried and wiped away her tears with a handkerchief. She was truly afraid that she wouldn't see her younger sister before she got married. She had heard that the rules at the girls' school were strict, and it was not easy for them to go out.
"Sister Xiaohua, who told you to get married so early?"
Lin Yuesha sniffed, feeling very reluctant to part with Chen Xiaohua. Chen Xiaohua was still the same Chen Xiaohua, unchanged at all.
Ignoring everyone else, the two sisters went straight into the back room, leaving everyone else outside.
Xiao Qi looked at the closed door with complicated feelings, wondering if Lin Yuesha would cry like this if she got married. However, since they were family members, no one should object to his marriage with Lin Yuesha, since they were not real step-siblings.
Inside the room, Lin Yuesha and Chen Xiaohua whispered to each other that tonight, her aunt and second cousin would be sleeping together. As she transitioned from a girl to a bride, she was about to undergo some kind of enlightenment.
"Little sister, take this."
Chen Xiaohua stood up, took out a lotus-patterned purse from the drawer, and handed it to Lin Yuesha. "This is the money I owe you. I still have five taels left, and I've saved it all up."
Chen Xiaohua spoke excitedly about her family's business. She said that in the past, if she had farmed in Chenjia Village, it might have taken her eight or ten years to accumulate this much money. Doing business was much faster and less tiring.
"Sister Xiaohua, what are you doing?"
Lin Yuesha declined, explaining that Chen Xiaohua was about to get married and would become a member of the Xiao family, so she naturally couldn't manage the Chen family's business anymore. Saving money in the future would probably be difficult.
There's a difference between being a daughter and being someone's wife. If you encounter an unreasonable family, life will be tough.
“Even between sisters, accounts should be kept clear. If it weren’t for your help back then, I might have really married that old woman Wang’s son who was pretending to be stupid.”
Chen Xiaohua forcefully stuffed the purse into Lin Yuesha's hand, saying that debts should be repaid, even between sisters, even though Lin Yuesha might not be short of money right now.
"If that were the case, I would have jumped into a fire pit. Now I can marry into the Xiao family..."
When Chen Xiaohua spoke of Xiao Dazhuang, her face flushed and her eyes held a shy joy. "He may be a little slow-witted, but he's a good person."
Lin Yuesha was curious about her cousin-in-law, but as a woman, it wasn't appropriate for her to go to the blacksmith's shop to see him. She could only wait until Xiao Dazhuang's wedding the next day so that she could meet him with the others.
Given Chen Dahua's experience, the Chen family should be cautious about marriage. Lin Yuesha really didn't expect her cousin to get married so quickly, which caught her off guard.
"That's just fate, isn't it? What does it matter whether you marry early or late?"
Chen Xiaohua saw it clearly: after she got married, the family shop could be combined into one, her elder brother and sister-in-law would take care of their parents, and she would be an old maid at home, which was not welcome to her anyway.
"But what did my cousin's wife say?"
Lin Yuesha asked curiously. She used to live and eat at the Chen family's house. Her cousin-in-law had been married into the family for several years and had taken good care of her, an outsider, without uttering a single complaint.
"No, my sister-in-law isn't that kind of person."
Chen Xiaohua rested her chin on her hand; there were some things she only considered after she started doing business.
Before, she only relied on her parents and never thought that one day she would get married and leave the Chen family. After she made a profit in business, her thoughts naturally changed.
“If I keep working in the shop, and my parents give me all their money, my elder brother and sister-in-law will definitely be unhappy.”
Even if the two don't mind, siblings should still keep clear accounts, otherwise it would be bad if this caused a rift between them.
She'll get married sooner or later. Xiao Dazhuang is a good person, and her future in-laws are also cheerful and easygoing. She'll find a good match.
"Little girl, there's just one thing I don't understand. My older sister died a pitiful death, the result of the Ma family's pack of wolves. So why does my sister's death affect my reputation?"
The world is so unfair; Chen Xiaohua could only lament that she wasn't born a man.
Even if she is good at business and her parents love her, they will not hand over the business to her, because once she gets married, she will be a guest and an outsider when she comes home.
Lin Yuesha remained silent. That's just how the world is; even if you think it's unfair, you can't change other people's minds.
If men are superior to women, where would the precepts and virtues for women come from? The seven grounds for divorce are all designed to bind women.
The Jiang family was so wealthy, and it wasn't that Mr. Jiang didn't love his daughter, but in the end, he caused such a huge mess because of one of his sons.
Now that Jiang Huai has disappeared, Jiang Baozhu is all alone. Even if she has money and no worries about food and drink, she is still lonely and miserable.
"I understand."
Chen Xiaohua sighed softly. She should be thankful that at least Xiao Dazhuang was a good person.
“My dad sprained his ankle a while ago, and Xiao Dazhuang carried him to the shop.”
They come every morning and bring people back in the evening, rain or shine.
Chen Xiaohua felt a sense of security thinking about his tall figure. Of course, the fact that the simpleton gave her an iron pot and a machete several times startled her.
"Ha ha!"
Lin Yuesha laughed until her stomach hurt, her mind filled with vivid images as Chen Xiaohua described.
"He came in carrying a gleaming machete, went out into the yard, brandished the machete, and chopped firewood right in front of me. In no time at all, he had chopped a month's worth of firewood for the house."
At that time, Chen Xiaohua was right at the door and was quite frightened.
"Your brother-in-law came in and went to chop wood without even saying hello?"
Lin Yuesha stared, not quite understanding Xiao Dazhuang's tactics. This approach was a bit barbaric. She asked again, "Didn't you ask your brother-in-law why he did this?"
"I asked."
Chen Xiaohua pursed her lips, but after a moment she couldn't help but laugh. "He said he was a blacksmith and this was to show off his blacksmithing skills."
Xiao Dazhuang was a blacksmith and forged a machete, which was very useful.
Xiao Dazhuang had brought a pot with him earlier, but he was too embarrassed to go into the Chen family's kitchen. To show off his skills, he came up with a plan to chop firewood in the yard.
Lin Yuesha: ...She's a ruthless person.
"Tomorrow is an auspicious day. I checked and it's a lucky day. It's your wedding day, and it's also my stepbrother's coming-of-age ceremony."
Lin Yuesha took out her package and showed Chen Xiaohua the several pairs of socks she had made, saying smugly, "How about it? You didn't expect me to have such good skills, did you?"
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