Chapter 112: Just because you are my brother-in-law, am I afraid of you?
"No! You little rascal, your uncle has been protecting and pampering you all the way, telling you to stop talking nonsense, and you sell me out when you get home?!" Wang Zonghao was furious and wanted to grab the little guy and spank him.
The little guy pouted and asked, "Who asked you to hit me last night?"
"I just touched your head, and you're still complaining."
Thinking of his sister's powerful hands, Wang Zonghao shuddered. His little nephew was so scary.
He knew that he could not hide the affair between him and Pingping from his sister and brother-in-law, so he stood at the door of the side room and stammered to tell his elder sister what had happened.
"Hmph, Zong Hao, don't you worry that Chen Pingping will give birth in nine months?" Wang Ziru was not surprised at all that her brother got on the bus first and bought the ticket later.
As the old saying goes, if you are not from the same family, you will not enter the same door.
Zong Hao is a frivolous guy whenever he sees a girl, and the daughter of the Chen family is also frivolous.
Zhai Ximo came over carrying a plucked hen, "Zong Hao, aren't you afraid that the Chen family will cause trouble for you?"
"We're getting married soon, what trouble can you bring to me? Besides, I, Wang Zonghao, didn't sleep with his daughter and not take responsibility." Wang Zonghao grinned with a ruffian look on his face, then pointed at the hen in his brother-in-law's hand and said, "You two are living a good life at home."
"Yes, you can go back to Dragon King Village if you have nothing to do."
"No! Brother-in-law, you are not acting like a host. I came all the way to bring your child back to you. I walked for two or three hours carrying a child weighing more than 20 kilograms. You sent me away without even inviting me to eat. That's outrageous."
"Zong Hao! You came just in time. This is a chance for you to practice!" Wang Ziru was lying on the bed, waving at her brother outside the door, "Come in and I'll tell you how to make chicken that both adults and children will like."
Wang Zonghao happened to be relatively new to cooking, so he took the chicken from his brother-in-law and walked into the house, "How do you want to eat it? Or spicy chicken? Baoer can't eat spicy food."
"Why are you making spicy chicken? We don't have chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns at home!"
Wang Ziru called the man into the room, sat up from the bed, and said carefully: "Make braised chicken! The method is very simple. Once you learn it, you can show off your skills when you go to work in the county tomorrow and the comrades in the logistics department buy chickens."
She guessed that with Mr. Zhang's crude cooking skills, he had never made braised chicken in yellow sauce for the hospital before, which was a delicious dish to go with rice.
When Zhai Ximo saw his wife get up, he knew she was from her parents' home and was very happy.
He turned and walked into the kitchen, scooped up a few ladles of clean water, washed out all the chicken offal, and planned to give it to his brother-in-law to make some stir-fried chicken offal.
The house was quite lively because of the guests.
Seeing that her brother was a little confused, Wang Ziru had no choice but to put on her shoes and cotton jacket, then go to the stove room with him and teach his apprentice step by step.
"Ximo, there's not much water left in the water tank. Go fetch some water."
"Well, let's go."
After placing the cleaned chicken offal on the chopping board in the kitchen, Zhai Ximo went to the opposite company and found two wooden barrels, one of which was missing half a board.
The boy saw his father go out to fetch water and hurried to follow him, "Dad, wait for me."
"You walk in front, slowly, don't fall." After becoming a dad, Zhai Ximo has become extra careful. He is never careless when taking care of the child and takes the child out to fetch water.
As soon as I walked out of the main room, I saw my mother holding a pair of pliers and trying to pry open the copper lock hanging on the small door of my eldest brother's house.
"This shameless woman, I was so nice to her, but she actually dared to abuse my son..." Mrs. Liu pried the door open while cursing.
Zhai Qingsong looked helpless, unable to persuade his mother, so he could only stand aside with his hands hanging down.
When he saw his third brother carrying a bucket on his shoulder, apparently going to the village well to fetch water, he hurriedly shouted, "Third brother, persuade mom. If the lock breaks, Liu Xiangqin will definitely fight with me when she comes back."
Before Zhai Ximo could walk over, Mrs. Liu had already pried open the copper lock on the door in a rage.
"I want to see! Where did she hide the food? How dare she not feed my son! If she dares to come back to this house today, I will chop off her hands and feet..."
Baoer looked up at his father and said, "Dad, my aunt will definitely make a fuss, right?"
Zhai Qingsong had no choice but to follow him into the west compartment.
Everyone in the village knew that this old woman loved the eldest son the most. When she heard that the eldest daughter-in-law did not give him food and even forced him to sleep in the living room, the old woman was so angry that she almost beat Liu Xiangqin on the spot.
Just at this time, two village women carrying loads on their shoulders passed by the fenced yard of Zhai's house.
The two women were gossiping as they walked.
When he saw Zhai Ximo, he greeted her with a smile, "Old Third, are you going to fetch some water?"
"Well, Sister Xu, have you seen my sister-in-law?" Zhai Ximo remembered that these two women usually got along well with Liu Xiangqin. In the first two years after Liu Xiangqin married into the Zhai family, her belly was still not moving. Whenever Liu Xiangqin heard some rumors, she would run to them and cry.
The woman who was called Sister Xu was stunned and said, "Your sister-in-law? She's been having a lot of fun lately, going back to her parents' home every day."
"Going back to your mother's house?"
"That should be the case. Your eldest brother caused such a trouble. With your eldest sister-in-law's temper, she must go back to her parents' home and cry to her brother and sister-in-law, right?"
The two village women stopped where they were, and before they could even walk down the slope, they heard Mrs. Liu cursing in the yard.
It turned out that Mrs. Liu had pried open the door and couldn't find a single grain of food anywhere, not even any noodles.
Mrs. Liu was so angry that she scolded Liu Xiangqin as a good-for-nothing!
He then turned around and scolded Zhai Qingsong for being weak and incompetent.
The two village women vaguely guessed that something big seemed to have happened in the Zhai family, so they quickly left with their loads on their shoulders.
"It seems that there is a serious crisis in eldest brother's marriage..." Zhai Ximo felt sad for his honest eldest brother. Seeing his eldest brother coming out of the house with a dusty face, he said, "I just asked Sister Xu, and she said that eldest sister-in-law seems to have been running to her parents' home these days."
"This bitch! If you like going back to your parents' home so much, then don't come back for the rest of your life." Upon hearing this, Mrs. Liu became even more angry and cursed to the sky.
The two brothers watched their mother go back to her room cursing, and then they came together.
"Brother, why don't you go to my sister-in-law's parents' home and talk to her brother and sister-in-law if you have anything to say." Zhai Ximo said.
Zhai Qingsong had a tense face, not knowing whether to go to Liu's house.
But he also felt that it was too much. Since Liu Xiangqin secretly took away all the food in the house, she might have taken it back to her parents' home.
Not even a strand of noodles was left for him, let alone a penny.
"Third brother, what's the point of me living like this?" Zhai Qingsong asked in a muffled voice.
His face seemed to be covered with dark clouds. Hearing that Liu Xiangqin had gone back to her parents' home was like a bolt from the blue, setting off a barrage of shock in his mind.
They have been married for so many years, but Liu Xiangqin has never done this before.
Zhai Ximo was also in a very low mood and was silent for a while, "She doesn't really want to live with you anymore, does she?"
"You don't even care about my life or death, and you still expect me to live with you?" Zhai Qingsong was not a fool. When he followed his mother into the house just now and couldn't find a grain of food or a penny anywhere, he seemed to understand instantly.
After a while, Zhai Ximo came home carrying well water and saw his wife sitting by the stove, warming herself by the fire, talking to her brother-in-law about the cooking temperature of the braised chicken.
This scene is particularly heart-wrenching and reassuring.
Zhai Ximo put down the bucket and briefly told the woman about his elder brother.
However, Wang Ziru had already guessed that Liu Xiangqin was not a woman who would be content to live with Zhai Qingsong, so she sneered, "You were threatening to divorce a few days ago, and now, after the house has been emptied, your eldest brother is just reacting?!"
"Don't mock your elder brother like that. He has not been educated for many years, has little knowledge, and is honest. How can he be a match for Liu Xiangqin?" Zhai Ximo pulled over a chair, sat next to his wife, and picked up the child.
Wang Zonghao looked at his brother-in-law and then at his sister as if he was watching a trick. "Uncle Baoer is having such a miserable life. He can't even eat a bite of food?"
If this happened to Wang's daughter-in-law, he would beat the woman up first.
Of course, Pingping would never treat him like that.
"Okay, say less. Don't let brother hear you." Wang Ziru quickly signaled her brother to shut up.
At this time, don't stab others in the back. No one wants to make their life a mess.
Wang Ziru soaked some wild mushrooms she brought back from her mother's home in water, then mixed them with some seasonings she dug up on the hillside in the morning, threw them into the pot, and then added two potatoes and chicken to stew them together for a rich flavor.
In addition, there was a pot of rice cooked over a firewood stove next to it.
Seeing the two men placing rice and fragrant chicken on the high stool, Wang Ziru stood up from the stove and brushed off the dust on her clothes, "I'll go call my brother! Ximo, get another bowl of rice."
Zhai Ximo was a little surprised. Seeing that his wife had already gone out, he said nothing and served another bowl of straw raincoat rice and placed it on the high stool.
Then he went to the main room and brought in a chair.
At first, Zhai Qingsong was embarrassed to come in and have dinner with the third brother's family.
However, the noodles he had taken from my mother had already been taken back by my mother.
He didn’t know what to eat at noon, so after eating, he followed his brother and sister-in-law in to eat.
When Mrs. Liu came home from the police station in the morning, she found that her food had been touched. She started making a big fuss, and after a long time, she found out that it was Liu Xiangqin who had abused her eldest son.
I was so angry that I went back to my room and lay down to sleep.
She heard the third son's wife calling the eldest son to eat outside, so she jumped out of bed, opened the door, went out, and walked to the door of the stove room, where she saw her eldest son and the third son's family sitting together eating.
"Mom, look!" Baoer thought that the adults didn't notice his grandmother, so he tapped his mother with chopsticks and reminded her in a low voice.
Wang Ziru ate the chicken in big mouthfuls, as if she didn't see anyone at the door. "Eat quickly. Eat more chicken so you can grow taller. Tomorrow, mom will take you to the city to play."
"Wow! Really?" The little guy's attention was immediately attracted back to his mother.
Just as Mrs. Liu was about to lose her temper, she saw the second-generation rich man from the Wang family also coming, and her thoughts of dealing with the third brother immediately stopped.
He turned around and went back to the house in dejection.
A family of five sat in the stove, enjoying the heat from the stove and eating braised chicken with a mixture of vegetables and meat, feeling warm and comfortable.
In the dull room, no one spoke, and everyone just focused on eating. |
I thought I would have a delicious lunch, but at this moment, I heard Zhai Zhaodi's voice coming from outside the house.
"Mom! Look, our lock has been picked!"
Zhai Qingsong's expression suddenly changed, and the hand holding the bowl trembled violently, "Zhao Di is back."
"It's okay, don't worry about them, eat well before going out." Zhai Ximo said.
Outside.
"Zhao Di! Go and bring your father back." The person who said this was Liu Xiangqin's elder brother.
Then, the eerie voice of Liu Xiangqin's eldest sister-in-law rang out from the yard outside the house: "Alas! Who married you to such a poor family in the first place? Look, your man doesn't care about you and even pried open the door for you. It's clear that he doesn't want to live with you!"
Zhai Qingsong nodded a few times and was about to continue eating when he unexpectedly heard the voices of his brother-in-law and his wife.
He suddenly jumped up from his chair in shock, "Why are Zhaodi's uncle and aunt here?!"