Chapter 98 Her revenge is indeed cruel

Bao Er clearly wanted to eat rice cakes, but he acted in a sarcastic way, which immediately made the proprietress laugh.

The lady boss with bangs cut her eyes into slits when she smiled. She said with a smile:

"Hey, whose kid is this? He's so young but he knows how to manage the household! Now that you're here, try the steamed rice cakes made by auntie and tell me if they're as delicious as the wild vegetable cakes fried by your grandma."

Although the boy was young, he could feel the boss lady's encouragement. He pursed his lips and his little face turned red.

He turned his head to look at his mother, then glanced at his father and second uncle. They were standing on the crowded street, and they didn't say a word. "Mom, I really can not eat..."

Zhai Jiahao's brows suddenly frowned, and he had no intention of talking about the matter of women and children.

The couple was waiting for their third brother to buy rice cakes for the children. Seeing that Baoer clearly wanted to eat rice cakes but insisted that he didn't like them, Zhai Jiahao could no longer help teasing his nephew.

"Hey! Baoer, when did you become so sensible? You look like you want to eat it. Let your dad buy it for you." Zhai Jiahao smiled nonchalantly.

What kid doesn’t like to eat soft, sticky and fragrant rice cakes?

Not to mention the children, even an adult like him was secretly swallowing his saliva.

Since the separation, their family has been living a tight life, eating corn grits porridge every day to fill their stomachs, and hoping for a big meal after the autumn harvest.

Xu Ping also turned around and smiled at her brother-in-law, but complimented Wang Ziru, "Bao'er is becoming more and more sensible. It's still your brother and sister-in-law who have educated him well!"

"Why does a child have to be so sensible? Third brother! Look at Bao'er, his saliva is about to flow onto the chopping board, but he is still standing there, what are you doing? Buy it for him quickly, the child will not need you to buy this or that when he grows up."

Zhai Ximo smiled faintly.

Of course it's okay to pay for rice cakes for three children.

But he felt that even a small matter like buying rice cakes still required his wife to step in.

On the one hand, she could get along well with Xu Ping as the sister-in-law, and let her know that she was not generous enough if she had the money but did not buy rice cakes for her children.

He knew that his second sister-in-law Xu Ping came out with money in her pocket to catch up.

When the family was divided up, the mother was a good person and divided the money he sent home between the eldest and second sons, but did not mention giving a penny to the third son.

He could ignore this matter, but when he returned home and saw his wife and children were so hungry, how could he not care about it...

There are some things that Zhai Ximo doesn't have to be serious with his brothers, but he can't lose face for women outside.

Then Wang Ziru touched her stomach and said deliberately, "I ate too much this morning. I feel a little full. Baoer, you can't eat anything either, right?"

Baoer looked back at her mother again, her eyes blank for a moment, her throat dry and she swallowed twice, then nodded, "Well, I can't eat, not even a bit."

In a blink of an eye, the boy tactfully left the chopping board at the door of the rice cake shop, took his mother's hand and walked out of the rice cake shop angrily.

"My eldest son is so well-behaved." Wang Ziru became more and more happy with her adopted son!

The sisters Zhai Xiaoya and Zhai Xiaofeng, who were standing in front of the chopping board, couldn't understand what had happened for a long time. Something was wrong. Baoer was so greedy, why didn't he want to eat rice cakes today?

Xu Ping was also standing outside the rice cake shop with her eyes wide open. It was clearly Wang Ziru who came to buy rice cakes, but she was reluctant to spend the money for the rice cakes.

She suppressed her anger, stepped onto the steps of the rice cake shop, and asked loudly, "Boss, how much is one of your rice cakes?"

"15 cents! Not expensive, buy two for the kids."

Zhai Jiahao wiped his face. His sister-in-law was so stingy that she didn't even want to buy a rice cake for the child.

I usually think too highly of her.

Xu Ping pointed at another basket of steamed dumplings and said angrily, "Give me two rice cakes."

"Okay."

When Baoer heard that her second aunt was paying for rice cakes, she held her mother's hand boredly, turned around and looked at the mother and her two daughters standing at the door of the rice cake shop, as if she had taken root there and couldn't move her legs.

Just as Xu Ping took out some change from her pocket and counted out three cents to hand over to the proprietress, suddenly, someone in the bustling market shouted "Lao Zhai".

Zhai Ximo looked back and spotted his old comrade Zhang Kang, who was wearing a military coat and was very conspicuous in the crowd.

Zhang Kang mixed in the bustling and crowded crowd and finally squeezed in front of them. He looked much better than yesterday. "Hey! What are you doing standing here?"

"Uncle Zhang! We are waiting for Second Aunt to buy rice cakes for my sister." Baoer raised his little face and said loudly.

Zhang Kang said "Oh" and looked down at his eldest nephew, who was holding his mother's hand obediently, as if he had just come out of a rice cake shop. What was going on with his empty hands?

Hearing that "Auntie bought rice cakes for the sisters", Zhang Kang hurriedly looked at the two brothers standing outside the rice cake shop, and then laughed, walked over and touched Baoer's head, "I haven't treated my eldest nephew to rice cakes yet, uncle will buy it for you!"

Zhang Kang walked into the rice cake shop and said generously, "Boss lady, give me two rice cakes."

Just at this moment, Xu Ping took two hot and scalding rice cakes wrapped in paper from the proprietress.

Seeing that her brother-in-law's comrade-in-arms wanted to buy rice cakes for Baoer, Xu Ping's face suddenly darkened.

This guy didn't come earlier or later, but came after she paid the money.

Zhang Kang came out of the rice cake shop with two rice cakes in his hand and walked straight over to hand them to Wang Ziru, "Sister-in-law! Take them, one for you and one for the child."

"You're not calling me sister-in-law today?"

Since Zhang Kang was kind enough to treat them, Wang Ziru would rather not hit someone who smiles at her.

It was the first time that Wang Ziru teased him. Zhang Kang smiled innocently and said, "It's just a name. It's not that important."

"You are quite straightforward! However, our old Zhai has helped you a lot this time."

"Sister-in-law, this is fine no matter who says it, but you are Wang Zonghao's biological sister, so you'd better not say it."

"...Hmm, the rice cakes steamed by the boss lady here are really authentic, soft, sticky and sweet." Wang Ziru took a bite of the scalding rice cake and said in a half voice: "Okay, let's not talk about those unpleasant things."

Zhai Jiahao's face almost turned green, and he was very depressed. Zhang Kang was also a stingy person. He could buy rice cakes for Baoer, but why didn't he buy rice cakes for his two girls?

Besides, my sister-in-law is an adult. It’s no big deal for her to eat these kids’ snacks!

Zhang Kang was too lazy to bother with the second son of the Zhai family and his wife.

He did not forget that when they were in junior high school, he would sometimes run to the Zhai family in Hongmei Village to play with Zhai Ximo.

Every time he went to the Zhai family, Zhai Jiahao and his wife would always mock him, "Hey! Can't you Zhang family afford to eat? Or are you coming to our Hongmei Village to beg for food? You come to our house every other day."

Xu Ping also echoed: "The roads in our Hongmei Village have been widened by you."

Now that Zhang Kang has returned from the army to visit his family, no one dares to look down on him in person anymore.

Those old things had long been in the past, but when he saw the second son of the Zhai family and his wife, his expression could not improve.

Zhang Kang took Zhai Ximo and walked to the door of the store next to the rice cake shop.

"Yesterday, the matchmaker came to my house. She heard that Chen Pingping's family had called off the marriage with me, so she insisted on going to Chen's house to reason. I think it's unnecessary. Let her go to Zhu's house after lunch today to propose the matchmaking. What do you think?"

"The town is gathering today. I don't know if the Zhu couple will come to the town to gather. However, Zhu Yan said yesterday that she is going to the Wang family to look for Wang Zonghao today..."

"Zhu Yan will definitely be so angry that she's going to teach that bastard Wang Zonghao a lesson!" Zhang Kang suddenly became excited as if he had been injected with chicken blood. He wished he could go to Longwang Village with his old comrade and witness with his own eyes how that bastard Wang Zonghao was humiliated by his ex-fiancee.

But he couldn't find a more respectable excuse to go to Dragon King Village again.

I could only watch my old comrade and his family go to Longwang Village, wondering whether I should wait at the intersection, in case I ran into Zhu Yan later.

"Oh my! If I really run into Zhu Yan, what shall we say?" When Zhang Kang thought about meeting Zhu Yan, he felt uncontrollably excited, but also a little embarrassed, fearing that Zhu Yan would really look down on him.

But at this time, Longwang Village is even more lively than during the first month of the lunar year when every household plays with dragon lanterns and lion dances.

Zhu Yan barely slept the entire night; the heavy blow of having her engagement broken off was too cruel for a village girl like her.

Last night, while wiping away her tears, she packed up the New Year gifts she had received from the Wang family during the years since her engagement, including two sets of clothes, shoes, socks, and a nylon scarf, into a backpack.

I also brought a pair of scissors for sewing.

I found a ballpoint pen and writing paper and wrote a short "letter".

He waited until daybreak in the east, got up, washed, and, despite his parents' earnest advice, he packed his backpack and went to Wang's house alone.

In the Wang family's stone house, the family had just finished breakfast.

The two women at home were clearing the dishes on the table as usual. Inside the stone house, the three men of the Wang family saw a familiar figure suddenly appear outside the courtyard gate.

"Zong Hao! Zhu Yan...is really here?!" Wang Zongming shouted in surprise.

Wang Zonghao, who was about to go to the toilet, heard that Zhu Yanzhen came to the Wang family to find him, and hurriedly shot back.

Standing at the gate of the courtyard was indeed Zhu Yan.

"Wang Zonghao! Get out here!" Zhu Yan's pretty girlish face looked ferocious and somewhat frightening.

"Why are you here at the Wang family?" Wang Zonghao was startled by Zhu Yan's gentle appearance, which was different from what he had imagined. He pulled up his pants and hurriedly walked out of the stone house. "You've read the letter I wrote, so you should understand what I meant."

"How dare you say that!"

Zhu Yan's teeth were trembling with hatred, and she slowly put down the backpack from her back, "You want to cancel the engagement, fine, but you have to return all the clothes and shoes that our Zhu family gave me."

"No, I've already worn all the clothes you gave me. What's the point of giving them to you?"

At this time, Wang Zonghao walked to the gate of the courtyard. When he got closer, he saw clearly that the basket on Zhu Yan's back was full of clothes that the Wang family had bought for Zhu Yan in the past.

He chuckled, "It doesn't matter whether you return these things or not! However, you should take them back and wear them as gifts from our Wang family. It's a token of our appreciation. They came from so far away, why would you return them?"

"Give me back all the clothes the Zhu family sent me." Zhu Yan's eyes were grim.

"I'll return it, just wait."

Wang Dongsheng and his son Wang Zongming came out of the stone house and were too embarrassed to greet Zhu Yan, for fear of offending their in-laws, Chen Pingping's parents.

Chen Pingping was originally going to come over to ask Wang Zonghao to go to the town to meet up together. Just as she came out of the house, she suddenly saw Zhu Yan coming.

She was also shocked and didn't know what Zhu Yan wanted to do by coming to Wang's house.

The girl was clear-headed and didn't want to be dragged into Wang Zonghao's mess. She glanced at Zhu Yan not far away and planned to go home and wait for them to talk things out before she left.

Outside the gate of Wang's courtyard, the villagers watched as if they were watching a trick, wanting to see what Zhu Yan was going to do.

Seeing that Zhu Yan came to the Wang family on purpose and seemed to have no intention of making things difficult for Wang Zonghao, and only wanted to return the clothes that the two families had given to each other, the villagers talked about it in a funny way.

"There's really no need to return the clothes."

"Oh, this girl from the Zhu family is really good."

"This girl is too straightforward. Since it's a thing of the past, why is she going back to it?"

The villagers also knew that the Wang family and the Chen family had officially become relatives, so they were very curious about how the Wang family would reconcile with the old relationship with the Zhu family.

Soon, under the eager gazes of the villagers, Wang Zonghao returned to his room, searched out the clothes, pants and other items that the Zhu family had bought for him before, took them all out and threw them in front of Zhu Yan.

"Here! Take it away!"

"However, you don't have to return the gift from the Wang family. After all, no one likes to wear clothes that have been worn by others."

Wang Zonghao had a playful expression on his face and didn't take the matter seriously at all.

As he turned around to go back to the house, he heard Zhu Yan coldly say, "And the pants you're wearing! I bought them for you too, take them off."

The villagers couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Hahaha! Zong Hao is such a promising kid. He still wears the pants Zhu Yan gave him even after breaking off the engagement."

The villagers were almost laughing crazy.

Wang Zonghao looked down at the navy blue pants he was still wearing, still without any nervousness or discomfort.

He grinned, went back to the house, took off the pants, put on his own old pants, took them out, and threw them in front of Zhu Yan, looking disdainful, "Take it away, if you like it, you can give it to your future fiancé Zhang Kang."

Wang Dongsheng was just about to come out and scold his younger son for ridiculing the girl like that.

Some of the villagers were brave enough to point at Wang Zonghao and say in a lecturing tone: "Zonghao, how can you be so rude? Even if you cancel the engagement, you can't say that about Zhu Yan!"

Zhu Yan looked at Wang Zonghao with a complicated look. She had never thought that one day she would be broken off the engagement by this bastard.

A pair of bright eyes stared at Wang Zonghao. After a few seconds, a piece of letter slowly emerged from his pocket.

"Wang Zonghao, this is for you, take it!"

Wang Zonghao looked puzzled, with a hint of surprise in his eyes. He slowly turned back, took the letter, opened it, and shouted in astonishment, "What the hell did you write? You don't agree with my marriage to you?! You want to cancel the engagement?"

Zhu Yan smiled coldly; this was the moment she had been waiting for.

After a pause, Zhu Yan straightened her chest, her eyes suddenly flashed with a cold and sharp light, and she said angrily, "That's right! I don't agree with the marriage between the Wang family and the Zhu family. So, today, I'm here to cancel the engagement!"

"Wang Zonghao! You shameless villain, don't bother me anymore!"