As soon as Lin Yaqin stepped into the house with the steaming brown rice porridge, Old Lady Gao raised her triangular eyes and started to scold:
"You dawdle your mother's legs! Do you want to starve me to death? Do you want to usurp the wealth of my Gao family or what?
I knew you were no good! You're so slow to cook, what's the point of having you?
Lin Yaqin was speechless. Your Gao family is rich, but what's the difference between this shabby house and a beggar's den? But she still lowered her head and dared not say a word!
Old Lady Gao cursed profusely as she sat cross-legged at the low, paint-chipped table on the edge of the kang. She took the porridge Lin Yaqin tremblingly handed over and cursed, "It's so hot! Are you trying to burn me to death? You black-hearted thing!"
"Is this pig food for human consumption? You're wasting my rice like this?!"
While eating, he was still picky and complaining!
She never thought that a good cook cannot cook without rice. There is only this rice in the rice jar at home. How can she cook anything good?
After complaining about the porridge, Old Lady Gao started to dislike the side dishes and started cursing, "Even a stir-fry can make you choke to death. You didn't have to pay for my salt, but you're wasting it!"
She cursed as she slurped her porridge, her mouth grimacing from the heat, but she continued to grumble: "What's the use of you? You can't even lay an egg! You're just a waste of food!"
As he said this, he threw the bowl onto the table, and rice soup splashed everywhere.
The old woman wiped her mouth and continued, "Look at the girl next door. She's only been married for a month and she's already pregnant! Look at you? No wonder you're stuck with just spreading your legs and serving others!!!"
Lin Yaqin has long been numb to these harsh curses.
When she first came to this family, she did not have to go out to entertain guests, and she did have a relatively "stable" six months.
Although Old Lady Gao was mean at that time, her main focus was on her belly.
He prepared various folk remedies of unknown origin every day, staring at her as she drank them, and always muttered, "Hurry up and give birth to a child for the Gao family."
When she was changing her menstrual cloth again, she was caught by Old Lady Gao.
The old woman exploded on the spot, throwing the medicine jar and cursing shrilly: "A hen that won't lay eggs! All my hard work is for nothing!"
Gao Zhiqiang was leaning against the door frame at the time, drinking. His cold eyes swept over her, and he suddenly grinned: "Can't lay eggs? Of course you can't! I'm telling you, if you can't lay eggs, lay golden eggs for me!"
At that time, Lin Yaqin only felt that his eyes were scary, but she could not immediately understand the deep meaning of his words.
It was not until the next day that Gao Zhiqiang grabbed her hair and dragged her into the pink hair salon at the deepest end of the alley.
She picked up the empty bowl expressionlessly and was about to move towards the pot when Old Lady Gao's scolding came at her head again!
"Eat, eat, eat! All you know is to put food in your own pocket! Are your eyes covered with shit? Don't you see the pile of dirty clothes in the basin? It will be dark before you dawdle any longer! You won't be able to eat today if you don't finish washing them!"
Lin Yaqin put down the bowl woodenly, picked up the basin of smelly dirty clothes and walked out.
Behind me, I could hear the old woman's relentless yelling:
"Rub it carefully for me! Don't try to be lazy again! If I find out you're slacking off, I'll expose your skin!"
Lin Yaqin carried the wooden basin to the public faucet, and Aunt Fat, Mrs. Li and Widow Zhao, who were washing clothes, immediately stopped talking and laughing.
"Oh, this daughter-in-law of the Gao family is really capable!" Auntie Fat said sarcastically, shaking her clothes. "She's just finished making breakfast and she's already doing the laundry! She's so capable, no one can compare to her!"
Mrs. Li sneered, "Of course they can't compare. They make a lot of money and are very capable. It's not something everyone knows!"
As they spoke, several people started laughing again!
Lin Yaqin found a corner and started scrubbing with an expressionless face.
While washing, she found that the soap nuts were used up. When she raised her head, the other people immediately became nervous!
Auntie Pang immediately hid the soap nuts behind her back and shrieked, "What are you looking at? These are all I have left! Can't some people make money? Go buy them yourself!"
"Why are you so nervous? They have plenty of money, why would they care about our soap nuts? Maybe they have a lot of soap in their pockets!"
Even so, Mrs. Li hurriedly picked up the basin and said, "I have to go home to see my little grandson! I don't want someone's stench to get on my clothes!"
Widow Zhao was even more direct. She dragged the basin to the edge and yelled obscenely, "Stay away! Don't pass on the disease to us!"
He was shaking the clothes, and the water droplets fell on Lin Yaqin.
Lin Yaqin was splashed with dirty water and had to go back to get it.
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