The day after Xuanyiu gave birth, she asked Zhang Chengyuan to find Gao Mingcheng.
It was all because Gao Huoyi’s wife, Hu Lijuan, pushed her and caused her to give birth prematurely.
In fact, Gao Mingcheng didn't understand at first why something that didn't happen in his previous life actually happened in this life. It was only later that he realized that this matter was actually related to him.
At this time in his previous life, he was still out there wandering the world, dazzled by the colorful world outside!
Although he had some fame in the village and everyone knew that he had made a fortune outside, he was not at home all year round, and many beauties were not protected by him, not to mention many jades.
Therefore, even if such a thing happened in Gao Huoyi's family in the previous life, many people would probably not go to watch the fun. Even if they did, they would not dare to stand in the front and mock Gao Huoyi and his wife for being bad people.
In her previous life, many of the jades could be bullied by anyone, and she didn't dare to confront them head-on.
But in this life, Gao Mingcheng did not choose to go out and venture, but developed a career in the village and county. His achievements were visible and tangible to the villagers, so his prestige in the village was naturally greater than in his previous life.
For his sake, the villagers would no longer bully Xuanyu. Gradually, Xuanyu became bolder. For example, this time when she went to see the excitement at Gao Huoyi's house, she stood at the front of the crowd with a big belly and said some unpleasant words.
Of course, Hu Lijuan didn't scold anyone else, but specifically singled out Dou Yu to scold her, which can be considered as picking on the weak.
Moreover, Hu Lijuan pushed Xuanyu even though she knew that she was pregnant. She really should be asked for an explanation.
Gao Mingcheng agreed to this matter, but he did not go alone. Instead, he took Zhang Chengyuan with him.
Zhang Chengyuan is Xuanyu's husband, so he should have been the one to come forward to claim compensation. However, he was alone and definitely did not dare to come forward to ask for compensation.
When we arrived at Gao Huoyi's house, perhaps his family had been mentally prepared. Although everyone had a gloomy face, they did not object when the issue of compensation was mentioned. They only had disputes over the amount of compensation.
Gao Huoyi was like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water. He grumbled, "Ten dollars at most! If you think ten dollars is too little, you can search my house inside and out. If you can find a hundred dollars, I will consider you a great man!"
Hu Lijuan also looked like she had lost her parents. She stood there with her face down and didn't say a word. However, there were many wounds on her face, one of her cheeks was swollen very high, and her standing posture was also a little strange. It was obvious at a glance that she had been beaten.
But Gao Mingcheng didn't sympathize with her.
Gao Huoyi ate alone, beat his wife, and didn't love his son and granddaughter. This was Gao Huoyi's fault, but what about Hu Lijuan? She knew that the red sugar pork feet and other nourishing foods were sent by the eldest daughter-in-law's family, but she gave the red sugar and red dates to the younger daughter-in-law, and the pork feet and eggs to Gao Huoyi.
It can be said that she deserved to be beaten!
Gao Mingcheng knew that Gao Huoyi's family was really poor. How could they not be poor? Gao Huoyi was lazy and didn't like to work. There were always more weeds in his field than in other fields, and the rice harvested was more than ten kilograms less than that in the fields next door!
In the past two years, he married off his two sons one after another. Plus, he liked to drink and eat good food, so the family had always lived a tight life.
Gao Mingcheng remembered that in his previous life, most people in the village moved to other places or the county, but Gao Huoyi's family stayed in the village and lived in a dilapidated bungalow.
Gao Mingcheng glanced at Zhang Chengyuan beside him. Zhang Chengyuan was undecided and also looked at him.
Gao Mingcheng looked around Gao Huoyi's house and suddenly found something wrong. There was chicken manure on the ground in front of Gao Huoyi's house, but no chickens!
No matter how poor Gao Huoyi's family was, they could afford to raise chickens. After all, before, the people in the village relied on the eggs laid by hens, and then exchanged the eggs for money to buy some needles and thread to make a living.
Chicken butt bank, this is no joke!
But Gao Mingcheng didn't know how many chickens Gao Huoyi's family had. He thought for a moment and said, "Ten dollars won't do. It's too little! If my second sister wasn't in good health, she would have died if your wife had pushed her like that!"
"I don't want more. Just give me fifty dollars and ask your wife to apologize to my second sister, and then we'll let it go."
Or maybe Gao Huoyi’s family is too poor, otherwise Gao Mingcheng would have to start with at least a hundred yuan!
But even so, Gao Huoyi still refused to do it. He acted like a rogue and insisted that he would only pay ten yuan. He also squinted at Gao Mingcheng and muttered, "I don't have any money, but I have my life. You can either beat my wife to death or else!"
Hearing this, Hu Lijuan's body trembled violently, and she looked up at Gao Mingcheng timidly.
Gao Mingcheng was speechless and wanted to roll his eyes. He cursed fiercely: "Why should I beat her to death? You ate your daughter-in-law's pig's feet and eggs. I'll beat you to death if I have to!"
Gao Huoyi is the principal offender, and Hu Lijuan is at most an accomplice!
If the knife doesn't cut your body, you won't feel pain. When Gao Huoyi asked Gao Mingcheng to beat Hu Lijuan to death, he looked indifferent. But when he heard Gao Mingcheng say that he wanted to beat him to death, he became a little scared.
Gao Huoyi glanced at Gao Mingcheng carefully and said in a low voice: "Murder is against the law!"
Gao Mingcheng glared at him and scolded, "Don't talk nonsense. Your family has made a fool of itself and the whole village is watching the fun. Why do you only scold my second sister? Do you have a problem with me?"
Gao Huoyi shrank back and kept silent.
Gao Mingcheng even wanted to force their family to pay fifty yuan, but their family might not be able to pay this fifty yuan, so they kept pretending to be dead and refusing to agree.
Finally, Gao Mingcheng lost his patience and didn't want to waste time with them, so he said, "Ten dollars is ten dollars, but you have to compensate my second sister for all the chickens you raised! My second sister is in confinement after giving birth, and she also wants chicken soup!"
Gao Mingcheng looked at Hu Lijuan and said directly: "Where did you hide the chicken? Take it out quickly, otherwise this matter will not end! I will go to the village committee and the brigade to call people!"
There was only chicken manure but no chickens in Gao Huoyi's house. It was very likely that Hu Lijuan hid the chickens in advance!
Under Gao Mingcheng's questioning, Hu Lijuan looked at Gao Huoyi in fear. Gao Huoyi had no choice but to purse his lips and look unhappy, but still asked Hu Lijuan to take out the chicken.
Soon, Hu Lijuan caught a rooster and two hens.
Gao Mingcheng didn't believe that her family only had these three chickens, but Hu Lijuan sat down on the ground with disheveled hair and began to cry. Her voice was so loud that it was estimated that half of the village could hear it.
Gao Mingcheng was given a headache by her howling and could only look at Zhang Chengyuan.
Zhang Chengyuan was willing to settle the matter peacefully. In his opinion, although Xuanyu was born prematurely, there was no problem. The birth was relatively smooth and he could get some compensation, so he just let it go.
Since Zhang Chengyuan had such an attitude, Gao Mingcheng decided not to be a bad guy. He took the money and chicken handed to him by Gao Huoyi, and then handed them to Zhang Chengyuan.
"Wipe your tears and go apologize to my second sister, and the matter will be over!" Gao Mingcheng looked at Hu Lijuan coldly and shouted at her to apologize.
Hu Lijuan obediently got up from the ground, raised her hand, wiped her tears and snot with her sleeve, and prepared to leave.
Gao Mingcheng felt quite disgusted when he saw her dirty appearance.
But before they had walked far, they suddenly saw a group of people walking towards Gao Huoyi's house. Most of the people in the group were strong men, and they were led by an elderly couple.
When they saw Gao Huoyi and Hu Lijuan, they immediately attacked them. From their cursing, Gao Mingcheng learned that they were the family members of Gao Huoyi's eldest daughter-in-law.
These people are from Shawan Village. If you walk along another path from Xing'an Mountains, you will reach Shawan Village. The two villages are not far apart, and it only takes about an hour to walk there.
As soon as these people arrived, they pointed at Gao Huoyi and Hu Lijuan's faces and cursed them. Now Hu Lijuan had no time to get away and apologize to Xuanyu Yu, she was busy being scolded!
Amidst the noise, Gao Huoyi's eldest daughter-in-law came out of the house dressed warmly, holding a baby girl who was less than a month old in her arms.
Her mother hugged her and cried, cursing Gao Huoyi's family, and then wanted to take her away. There was an uproar at the scene, and Gao Huoyi and his two sons were all beaten!
The eldest son doesn’t take care of his wife and daughter, he deserves to be beaten!
The younger son deserves to be beaten for greedily taking his sister-in-law’s nutritional supplements!
In short, except for the young daughter-in-law who kept hiding in the house and dared not come out, all the other members of the Gao family were beaten.
Amid the commotion, the eldest daughter-in-law's family also found some small change from Gao Huoyi's house, and caught five chickens from the firewood room at the back.
Seeing the five chickens, Gao Mingcheng clicked his tongue in his heart and thought, he said that Gao Huoyi's family couldn't possibly have only three chickens!
However, the five chickens were taken by the eldest daughter-in-law's family, and Gao Mingcheng had no intention of snatching them away because he felt that it was their right!
The mother's family felt sorry for their daughter and specially sent her some supplements to nourish her body. But what happened? The supplements did not go into the daughter's mouth, but into the father-in-law's mouth instead.
This commotion attracted many people in the village to watch. After they beat up Gao Huoyi's family, they threatened to force their daughter to divorce Gao Huoyi's eldest son!
This was the first couple in Gaojia Village to announce that they wanted to divorce, which caused everyone to talk about it for a while.
Gao Mingcheng watched the excitement from the side and felt very happy. It turned out that eating melons is fun!
In his previous life, Gao Huoyi's eldest son was divorced, so Gao Mingcheng was not surprised to see the same thing happen again in this life. When the villagers thought that Gao Huoyi's wife's family was trying to scare him, Gao Mingcheng disagreed.
In her previous life, Gao Huoyi's eldest daughter-in-law was able to divorce and leave because her parents treated her as a human being and agreed to accept her back. Otherwise, how could she have gotten a divorce?
The situation in the village is different from that in the city. If a woman in the city has a job, then she can get a divorce and she can support herself.
But the women in the village have no income, and the houses and fields do not belong to them. Once divorced, they have nowhere to go unless their parents' family accepts them.
However, many people, even if they know that their daughters are beaten and scolded in their husband's family, will not agree to their daughters' divorce. This is because the parents and brothers at home are unwilling to accept married sisters to live back home, and they are also afraid that their daughters will be gossiped about after the divorce.
The so-called sacrifice of you for the happiness of the whole family!
After watching the excitement, Gao Mingcheng didn't plan to stay any longer. As there was still some time before lunch, he prepared to go into the mountains to pick some tea seeds.
Zhang Chengyuan also watched the fun, then went home with the money and the chicken.
When Xuan Duoyu found out that he only got ten yuan in compensation, his face changed immediately and he wanted to curse.
Zhang Chengyuan quickly told Xuanyu what happened to Gao Huoyi's family. Xuanyu felt very happy and said thankfully, "Fortunately you went there early, otherwise that family would have taken away all the money and chickens, and Gao Huoyi's family would have no money to pay!"
Sure enough, different views on the same thing can lead to different results.
One second, many people complained that the compensation was too little, and the next second, they were glad that the money was received in time!
Xuanyu immediately said, "Chengyuan, go boil some water and kill this rooster to make soup for me!"
Zhang Chengyuan did not agree, but said hesitantly: "Ming Cheng got a wild boar last night, and sent us a lot of bones and meat this morning!"
After hearing this, Xuanyu was no longer in a hurry to eat the chicken. He told Zhang Chengyuan to tie up the caught chicken with ropes to prevent them from running away again.
"Hey." Zhang Chengyuan responded honestly and went out to get a rope to tie up the chicken. After tying the chicken, he went to the kitchen to stew bone soup for Xuanyu.
It was not the first time that Zhang Chengyuan had taken care of a pregnant woman, so he naturally knew that a pregnant woman should drink more soup to have good milk. However, there were few people at home and a lot of work to do, so after Zhang Chengyuan stewed the bone soup, he stuffed a lot of firewood into the stove, and then said to the many jades in the room: "I'm going to work in the fields. Go to the kitchen later to check the fire and add some firewood."
Xuanyu was not at all pretentious and responded naturally.
Today is the second day after she gave birth, and she is still very weak. But for a villager, she can already go out to the fields and do some light work, such as burning firewood, washing diapers, etc.
It's not that the woman at this moment is strong, but she is forced to do so because of life.
Gao Mingcheng watched a lively event in the village in the morning, went into the mountains to get two bags of tea seeds in the morning, and had a good meal at Chen Dasong's house at noon.
He cut the best leg meat into strips, rubbed it with salt, and put it into a jar to marinate. After it was marinated, he could take it out and air dry it.
As for other parts, he generously distributed them to Zhang Chengyuan and Chen Dasong's family. Because he had been eating at Chen's house these days and the dogs in his family were also eating at Chen's house, he only gave Zhang Chengyuan a pair of pork ribs and two pounds of ribs, and gave the rest of the bones to the Chen family.
At noon that day, Gao Mingcheng enjoyed a hearty meal of pork ribs, while dogs such as Heihu and Jingling were happily lying in the shade of the trees gnawing on bones.
Crunch, crunch!
After having a sumptuous pork ribs meal, Gao Mingcheng took two snakeskin bags and went into the mountains to pick tea seeds!
Picking tea seeds is actually quite tiring. You have to go deep into the mountains, find tea trees, climb the trees to pick them, and then carry the bags down the mountain to go home.
After that, it needs to be exposed to the sun, shelled, dusted, and oil pressed, etc.
The reason why tea oil is expensive and has not become a common oil on the tables of ordinary people is because its production is too low! (End of this chapter)
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