Lin Family
Lin Yong looked at the chopped-up pieces of fried loofah with chopped eggs, stir-fried shredded potatoes, and stir-fried cabbage on the table, and his hand holding the chopsticks couldn't help shaking.
He hasn't eaten enough oily food recently and he feels like he has no strength.
"Second son's wife, did you use an egg in your fried loofah?" He couldn't help but ask Liu Qin.
Liu Qin rolled her eyes. "You asked if I used an egg, why don't you ask my sister-in-law if I used even one pound of meat in the pork belly stew with cabbage and tofu I cooked yesterday?"
Zhang Jiao: "Then you must have used it. You made pork belly stewed with cabbage and tofu yesterday, and you used three taels of meat."
In fact, it was two taels. Before it was even out of the pot, she secretly picked out the meat and ate two pieces herself, and fed two pieces to the child.
"Three ounces of meat?" Lin Jianshe sneered, "Yesterday's pork belly stewed with cabbage and tofu, but I didn't even see a piece of meat."
Lam Kwok Tung: "You didn't see it because your eyesight is poor."
He did get to eat three pieces of meat yesterday, although they were very small.
Lin Yong slapped the table with a gloomy face, "This is indeed not just the problem of the second son's wife. The first son's wife's meals are all the same. Ever since I asked you to buy your own food, you two have been competing with each other, always cooking worse than the day before."
"Not only is there very little meat, but even the amount of vegetables is getting smaller and smaller. I haven't eaten for two nights and I was woken up by hunger in the middle of the night." Lin Yong held up two fingers to emphasize.
Zhang Jiao and Liu Qin both lowered their heads. They were indeed competing with each other, and neither of them wanted to be at a disadvantage by arranging better meals than the other party when it was their turn to cook.
Rather than letting the other party take advantage of you, it is better to prepare worse food, save more money, and cook for yourself secretly.
"Otherwise, just give all the money to Liu Qin and let her be responsible for buying groceries every day."
Liu Qin's face lit up with joy. She was willing to do this.
Zhang Jiao's face turned dark and she gave all the fifteen yuan to Liu Qin. She could embezzle at least half of it every month.
"Okay, I'll give her all my living expenses, and she'll be in charge of buying groceries. From now on, I'll let her cook alone, and I won't take turns with her."
She doesn't want to do this job even though she doesn't earn a penny a month and still has to cook.
“Why should I cook alone? It’s not like I and Jianshe are going to eat it together.” Liu Qin naturally refused.
Zhang Jiao: "I've given you all my living expenses. You decide what vegetables to buy. You have to cook by yourself."
"If I have to cook for myself, you three won't be able to eat."
"Why don't you, a family of three, eat? The fifteen yuan living allowance is for your whole family, not for you, Liu Qin and Lin Jianshe!"
Liu Qin: "Don't think you don't know. People in the country don't want you to buy groceries because they are afraid that you will make money from it."
"Don't you have money? Did you spend even a dime on these dishes you cooked today?" Zhang Jiao pointed at Liu Qin's nose and asked loudly.
"You are still the same. Did you only spend a penny yesterday? You are jealous. You are jealous of the betrothal gifts and the living expenses. You want to fight for everything." Liu Qin scolded with contempt.
Zhang Jiao was furious. "You are a red-eyed person? Then you are shameless. Your whole family is shameless. You sold your daughter and only cared about money. Your brother is a thief and a labor camp inmate."
"Zhang Jiao, you bitch, I'm going to fight you." Liu Qin screamed and rushed towards her to grab Liu Qin's hair. The latter refused to be outdone, and the two sisters-in-law started a fight.
Lin Guodong and Lin Jianshe rushed to break up the fight, and it took a lot of effort to pull the two apart.
Their hair was messy, their collars were torn open, their faces were scratched, and they were still insulting each other after being pulled apart.
Several neighbors stood outside the Lin family's door with their bowls in hand, watching the fun.
Lin Yong looked at the neighbors outside the door who were watching the fun, then looked at his two daughters-in-law who were cursing and spitting, and his head was throbbing with pain.
"Shut up, everyone." He was so angry that he threw his chopsticks and tried to tell Zhang Jiao and Liu Qin to shut up, but they were both very unconvinced.
They don't feel ashamed to quarrel like this in front of so many people!
Lin Yong, who loves face, feels very ashamed at this moment. Now that Li Shuping is gone, their family is in such a mess. How will outsiders see this?
"Build a gate."
Lin Jianshe let go of Liu Qin, closed the door, and said to the neighbors outside: "Don't look, don't look, go home and eat."
"Hey, Mr. Lin, what is it that we can't see or hear after being neighbors for decades? Why do we have to close the door?"
"that is……"
When there was no sound outside, Lin Yong said with a sullen face, "Everyone, take a seat."
Zhang Jiao and the others all sat down with cold faces, and Lin Yong scolded with a stern face, "We are all family, how can you quarrel like this? It's ridiculous. Isn't this just making people laugh at you?"
Lin Jianshe: "It was my sister-in-law who started it."
Lin Guodong glared, "How come it was your sister-in-law who started it? It was clearly Liu Qin who scolded your sister-in-law first. Do you understand that an elder sister-in-law is like a mother? You don't know how to respect others at all."
"She really acts like a mother..."
"Alright." Lin Yong slammed the table, "You two brothers want to have a fight, right?"
Lin Guodong and Lin Jianshe both shut up.
Lin Yong took a deep breath, and looked back and forth between his two daughters-in-law. He saw why the eldest daughter-in-law was unhappy and asked the second daughter-in-law to manage the living expenses and buy vegetables.
As the head of the family, in order to maintain family harmony and to eat better, he decided to pay a little more.
"The monthly living allowance will be increased by five dollars. Each of you will take ten dollars, and you will take turns cooking and buying groceries. I have one request, and that is that the food must be good and oily, so that our family can have enough to eat."
"I will observe you for another month. If you can't do it, starting from the next month, I will stop giving you living expenses. I will go shopping for groceries every morning, and you will make whatever I buy."
Zhang Jiao and Liu Qin didn't object, so Lin Yong decided to do so. He took out another five yuan and gave each of them two yuan and a half.
Lin Yong felt that his way of handling the matter was really wise and he once again resolved the family conflict.
But the feud between Zhang Jiao and Liu Qin had been formed, and the fight between them never stopped.
"Shu Ping..."
Li Shuping went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy vegetables with a basket on her shoulder. Halfway through the journey, she heard someone calling her from behind. She turned around and saw two old sisters.
"Sister Wang, Sister Zhao, good morning."
"Good morning." The two men approached Li Shuping and immediately told her about the fight between Liu Qin and Zhang Jiao last night.
Li Shuping was not too surprised, because Liu Qin and Zhang Jiao both had bad personalities. They were the kind of people who only wanted to take advantage and didn't want to suffer any loss.
Without this enemy like me to do all the housework, it was inevitable that the two of them would quarrel.
After the three of them bought vegetables and walked out of the supply and marketing cooperative together, Zhang Jiao hurriedly ran into the supply and marketing cooperative.
Seeing Li Shuping, she didn't shout, but rushed directly to the meat stall.
Mother Wang glanced at Zhang Jiao and said to Li Shuping, "She now takes turns with Liu Qin to buy groceries and cook. She has to get up early every other day to buy groceries, and then go back to cook after buying groceries. Her life is not as comfortable as when you were at home. Look, her complexion is not as good as before."
"However, since you left that home, your complexion has been getting better and better, and your skin has become brighter and smoother." Mother Wang said as she walked, staring at Li Shuping's face.
Li Shuping touched her face happily and said, "I applied some facial cream and my skin has really gotten better after that."
She felt that her skin had improved recently, probably because of the facial cream she used and the fact that she was no longer toiling after leaving the Lin family.
An old lady who had lived a more carefree and youthful life than her taught her a recipe for an ancient facial mask. She planned to buy some ingredients and try it at home.
"What brand is it? Go buy it and try it." Zhao's mother asked quickly.
"Ya Shuang's."
When Zhao's mother heard this, she said, "This brand is quite expensive. It can buy two pieces of meat."
Li Shuping: "It's not much more expensive. Isn't your face worth a few bucks? We women should be better to ourselves, pay attention to maintenance, age slower, and have a better mental state and mood."
Mother Zhao and Mother Wang looked at each other and nodded.
The truth.
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