Chapter 51 Li Cuihua was ridiculed by the crowd
Li Cuihua put her hands on her waist and said in a sharp voice:
"Of course there are other things I want to settle with you, little whore! One by one! Let's talk about the wild boar first. A big wild boar weighs about 100 kilograms. If you don't ask for more, you should give your mother's family 10 or 15 kilograms. That's enough, right?
Your uncle's family, your third uncle's family, and of course your parents, your mother's family, are all starving every day, but you are enjoying eating wild boar meat!"
Li Cuihua became angrier as she spoke.
The people in Qingshui Village were tight-lipped. Xia Juanjuan had killed a big wild boar and the meat was distributed to the whole village. However, Xiajia Village and another village in the same commune didn't hear any news at all!
——Of course, this is also an established rule.
Although there are three villages in one commune, in fact, most of the time, each village still manages its own affairs.
The commune secretary is responsible for overall control, handling disputes, upholding justice, conveying policies from above to the lower levels, etc.
The specific matters should be left to the village head and the village party secretary.
For example, if large prey such as wild boars caught in the mountains were distributed equally among the three villages of the entire commune, each family would get three times less.
The three villages were unwilling to do so, so after everyone discussed it, they decided that each village would fight based on their ability, and anything they got would only be divided among their own village.
However, a wild boar weighing over 100 pounds is really too eye-catching. If the news gets out, there is no guarantee that it will not attract attention!
Everyone in the village tacitly kept silent.
If her granddaughter Xia Lanlan hadn't heard the news from her good friend Li Qiaoqiao in Qingshui Village last night that Xia Juanjuan had received 20 kilograms of wild boar meat for her contribution in killing a wild boar, she would still be kept in the dark!
After hearing the news last night, Li Cuihua was so angry that she started cursing. If it wasn't so dark that she couldn't see the road clearly, she would have run to Qingshui Village to cause trouble overnight!
Sun Yuxiu finally persuaded her and said, "Mom! It's probably useless for you to go and make trouble for that heartless Xia Juanjuan. I have an idea..."
Li Cuihua rolled her eyes at her and said, "If you have something to say, just say it! It's already this late, and you're still keeping me in suspense! If I delay any longer, that little whore will eat up all the 20 kilograms of wild boar meat, and how can it be my turn?!"
After being scolded, Sun Yuxiu dared not keep the secret any longer and said, "Mom! I saw it the last time Xia Juanjuan came home. Now she has a soldier to support her. She has grown powerful and doesn't care about us anymore! If you go to bother her, she might just turn you away! Then, as a grandmother, where would you put your face? You would become a laughing stock in Qingshui Village!"
Li Cuihua glared at Sun Yuxiu as if she wanted to kill her.
Sun Yuxiu also realized that she was being too wordy, and quickly said, "I think, why don't you take the initiative and go directly to the commune to sue this little whore! Sue her for being disobedient to her elders. Her husband is a soldier, and for the sake of his future, she will definitely be cautious about this matter. She might be afraid and give all the 20 pounds to you! Then, won't we also benefit from it?"
Liu Hongmei, who was standing by, was not as quick as Sun Yuxiu in thinking. Seeing Sun Yuxiu showing off in front of Li Cuihua, she felt very unconvinced and quickly agreed, "Mom! I thought so too! I just didn't have time to say it out loud! Tomorrow, I will go to the commune with you, too!"
Xia Lanlan also said jealously: "That's right! Grandma! Go and sue her! Maybe the commune thinks Xia Juanjuan is unfilial and has character problems, so they don't want her anymore and divorce her..."
When Li Zhan divorces her, she gets along so well with Li Zhan's sister Li Qiaoqiao, so she will definitely be the first to get the upper hand and marry Li Zhan!
She didn't care that Li Zhan couldn't do that, nor did she care that Li Zhan was a second marriage! After all, with a 30 yuan allowance every month, she could eat a pound of meat every day!
The Xia family made a plan together at night and finally waited until dawn. When Xia Shuangshan went out to do bricklaying work, Li Cuihua immediately took Liu Hongmei, Sun Yuxiu, and of course Xia Lanlan, to the commune to complain!
After hearing what Li Cuihua said, Xia Juanjuan showed an embarrassed and aggrieved expression on her face:
"Grandma! What are you talking about? Although I hunted the wild boar in the mountains, it also belongs to the commune. If I really give eight kilograms of it to my mother's family, wouldn't that be digging into the collective of Qingshui Village? I am now a daughter-in-law married to Qingshui Village. If I were to eat at home and secretly give the wild boar meat that Qingshui Village should get to my mother's family, would the villagers of Qingshui Village still be able to tolerate me in the future?"
As she spoke, Xia Juanjuan deliberately raised her hand to wipe the corner of her eyes. At first glance, she looked like an innocent little granddaughter who had been bullied by her evil grandmother, Li Cuihua, for many years.
These words successfully aroused the hostility of the people in Qingshui Village towards Li Cuihua.
"That's right! Li Cuihua, you are tyrannical and unreasonable in your Xia Village, we have no right to interfere! But your granddaughter Xia Juanjuan married into our Qingshui Village, so she is the daughter-in-law of our village! She killed a wild boar, and you, a person from another village, have no face to show it!"
"It's still only 15 pounds! Damn you! I am a villager and I haven't even received 15 pounds! How can an old hag like you get your turn?!"
"Humph! You came to our Qingshui Village to cause trouble so early in the morning? You're really brave! If she wasn't in her seventies or eighties, I would have punched her out of the village!"
The hostility of Qingshui Village made Li Cuihua and other members of the Xia family tremble in fear, fearing that these people would really come up and beat them up!
Secretary Zhao couldn't stand it anymore and said:
"Li Cuihua, you haven't been kicked in the head by a donkey, have you? A wild boar weighs more than 120 kilograms. If it is divided among the whole Qingshui Village, each household will only get about 3 or 4 kilograms. Even your granddaughter Xia Juanjuan only got 3 kilograms of meat! You want her to give you 10 or 8 kilograms? Isn't this forcing her to make a mistake and embezzle public property? If she really does this, even though you are so old, with your landlord's ideas, you will see whether the whole commune will approve of it. You will die!"
When Li Cuihua heard this, she couldn't help but shudder.
She is so arrogant in the village because her family is three generations of poor farmers and she has a good family background, so she is so arrogant! If she is really labeled as a landlord, then anyone in the village can step on her head in the future!
This is worse than not being able to eat wild boar!
Li Cuihua was stunned and became angrier the more she thought about it. She suddenly turned around, raised her hands, and slapped Xia Lanlan, who was standing behind her, on the face with two big slaps.
Xia Lanlan was stunned by the beating. She looked at her grandmother who always loved her with tears in her eyes: "Grandma, you...why did you hit me!"
Li Cuihua was so angry that she pointed at Xia Lanlan's nose and cursed: "You little whore, tell me, did you and your mother conspire to harm me? Xia Juanjuan got 20 kilograms of wild boar meat for herself? Are you deaf or blind? Where did you hear this? Not only did you make a fool of myself in public, but you almost got me accused of being a landlord, a mistress, and a bitch! What are you up to!"
Upon hearing this, Xia Lanlan burst into tears of grievance: "Grandma... I... I... I was just afraid that you wouldn't want to make a fuss for three pounds of wild boar meat... It's all because that little whore Xia Juanjuan was disobedient to you, grandma, and I was so angry that I exaggerated a little..."
If Li Cuihua hadn't come to complain, how could Xia Juanjuan's reputation as an unfilial person have spread to everyone? How could Li Zhan divorce her?