The setting sun dyed the brick walls in the alley orange-red. Li Guifang and Xie Dazui walked side by side, each with their own thoughts.
Li Guifang glanced at Xie Dazui several times, seeing her eyes rolling around and her fingers twisting the corner of her clothes.
I know this old sister must be planning something in her mind.
"Su Lian," Li Guifang cleared her throat and deliberately slowed down her pace. "If you ask me, we should be patient about this matter and wait a few days..."
Normally, not many people would call Xie Dazui by his real name, so when Li Guifang called him that, it meant that the matter was very important.
But Xie Dazui was stunned and didn’t notice it at all!
"Ah? Oh! Right, right!" Xie Dazui responded, but his head kept nodding like a chicken pecking at rice, his eyes darting around.
"Um...Fang, I suddenly remembered that I still have soup simmering on the stove. I'll go home first!"
Li Guifang knew what was going on!
But she didn't expose him. She just watched Xie Dazui pretending to run home. His two short legs were moving so fast that the back of his flowered sweatshirt took off on the spot.
"This old thing..." Li Guifang curled her lips and walked slowly towards home.
Xie Dazui jogged all the way home, his heart pounding like a drum.
She locked the door with her backhand and even moved a chair behind the door before tiptoeing into the house.
"God bless you..." she muttered, then she knelt on the ground with a thud and crawled under the bed with her butt sticking out.
The bottom of the bed was dusty and covered in spider webs. She didn't bother to wipe it off and reached out to feel around in the corner.
Her fingers touched the cold edge of the flowerpot, and seeing that the flowers were still in good condition, she breathed a sigh of relief.
Only then did Xie Dazui feel weak all over and his head buzzing.
On this day, I was extremely excited and nervous from the beginning, and my mind was extremely tense. As soon as I relaxed, I wanted to sleep.
She brushed off the dust on her body and rolled into bed without taking off her clothes.
Lying down like that was terrible, as if someone had pulled all the bones out of her.
His eyelids were so heavy that he couldn't lift them. Xie Dazui slept like a dead pig, snoring loudly.
In her dream, all she saw were banknotes falling down, and she was sticking her butt out picking up the money from the ground.
The cicadas were chirping outside and before I knew it, it was dark.
"Oh my, look at this old lady of ours, she's living comfortably at home as a capitalist's wife.
Do you really think you are a pampered rich lady who needs to be served by others?
From outside came the scolding of her eldest daughter-in-law, Hu Tingting, followed by the clattering of pots and pans.
Xie Dazui was taking a nap in the room, but was startled by the noise and ran out of the room in a hurry.
She was still muttering, "Oh, don't be angry, don't be angry, I'll go cook right away, right away!"
But Hu Tingting, like a shrew, was determined not to give up.
Still with an unhappy look on his face, he pointed at Xie Dazui and said, "You're not angry!
Look at our father-in-law. He is very old and most of his hair is white, but he is still like an old ox. He goes out early and comes back late every day, working hard just to earn a little hard-earned money to support the whole family.
Look at your son. He goes out before dawn every day and comes back after dark. He is so tired that his back is bent, but he just hopes to earn more money.
And your little son's fingers are all calloused!"
Hu Tingting spoke, her voice unconsciously rising a few notes, "They work hard all day and look forward to having a hot meal when they come home.
As a result, let alone food, the stove was cold and there wasn’t even any hot water!
Alas, I have a baby and I am busy all day long. I have to comfort the baby when he cries and feed him when he is hungry.
Do you think I'm going to have to work myself to death to cook for everyone? I've never seen anyone treat his wife like this!!"
Hu Tingting became more and more angry as she spoke, her eyes reddened, "I went back to my mother's house today, and my mother kept nagging me to come back early.
She said everyone in the family was waiting for me to come back and cook, and I told my mother that my mother-in-law understood me and didn’t need me to cook.
I was eagerly waiting for the guard to pick me up after get off work. Along the way, I was thinking happily that I would be able to have a hot meal when I got back, and it would be so nice for the whole family to sit together and have a lively time.
As a result, some people just stay at home and laze around without even washing the pots!
Oh, this family has raised a patriarch, and we can't rely on him for any work. I really don't know how we are going to get by!"
Xie Dazui stood in front of the stove, busy stir-frying with his hands, but his ears were perked up to listen to Hu Tingting cursing outside.
She secretly glanced at the side. The dead man Zhang Qiang and the eldest son Zhang Weijun and the second son Zhang Weiguo were just watching coldly as if nothing had happened. No one stood up to say a word of justice for her.
Xie Dazui felt so cold in his heart that his hands became more and more flustered and he almost cut his fingers while cutting vegetables.
After finally finishing his meal, Xie Dazui just sat down to take a breath when Hu Tingting spoke again in a sarcastic tone:
"Mom, I saw those two pots of flowers by the kitchen today. They were so beautiful. How come they're gone now?"
Xie Dazui's heart skipped a beat, but he acted as if nothing had happened. "That flower was accidentally knocked over this morning, and I was thinking of going out to dig some soil and then planting it again.
Who knew that after chatting with someone outside for a long time, when I came back in the afternoon, the flowers had wilted, so I threw them away.
When Hu Tingting heard this, her voice instantly rose several degrees, and she screamed in a shrill voice: "Throw it away? That flower is growing so well, how can you just throw it away like that! Where did you throw it?"
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