Chapter 57 A chicken in the left hand and a skewer of meat in the right hand
Jin Fenglian saw from a distance the new wife that Old Lady Cui had found for her son.
He curled his lips and laughed at Cui Erzhu.
"No wonder our Xiuhong and your Cui family can't get along. Look at your mother's taste, it's impossible for them to get along."
Cui Erzhu was so embarrassed by his mother that he walked with his head down, not knowing what to say. He also looked down on Xinghua, because she looked like a country girl and spoke like a shrew, but he couldn't resist his mother's love for him. She loved him so much that she even drank pesticide. If he didn't marry Xinghua, he was afraid that his mother would hang herself tomorrow.
Cui Erzhu got both the divorce certificate and the marriage certificate in one go. The staff who processed the certificates looked at Cui Erzhu like he was crazy. It was the first time they saw someone who wanted a village girl instead of a fairy. Looking at the plain-looking Xinghua, they wondered if this girl had a mine at home?
"Mom, shall I take you and Xiuhong back home?"
Cui Erzhu's feet still wanted to follow Ye Xiuhong.
"Don't shout, your mother is there. We can just never have anything to do with each other again." Jin Fenglian pointed in the direction of Xinghua's mother, grabbed her daughter and ran away. Her family finally got rid of this annoying thing.
"Come on, Xiuhong, let's go home and kill a chicken to celebrate and have a good meal!"
"But Mom, we only have one laying hen left." Ye Xiuhong reminded Jin Fenglian of the family's financial situation. They had a total of three chickens, and two had already been eaten.
Jin Fenglian raised her eyebrows and said nonchalantly, "It's just a matter of borrowing a chicken from the old man's house."
Cui Erzhu watched Ye Xiuhong walk away in disappointment. He turned around and saw his new wife, and the more he looked at her, the more disgusted he felt.
Xinghua's mother rolled her eyes and said, "Oh, you were calling mom so affectionately just now, but now you're mute."
"Mom, I haven't had my wedding with Xinghua yet, so it's not polite to yell now." Cui Erzhu explained to her.
Xinghua's mother doesn't buy it.
"You're still polite when you're getting divorced and calling someone mom? Your Cui family is really polite."
Cui Erzhu was left speechless by what Xinghua's mother said and could only shut up.
"Think it over! Who will be your wife? Don't blame me for being rude to you then!"
Xinghua's mother couldn't bear to see her new son-in-law throwing himself at her. What had she been doing before? Now that Cui Erzhu had married her daughter Xinghua, he had to be obedient!
After returning to Xiahe Village, Jin Fenglian happily went to Ye Dajun's house to borrow a chicken.
Zhao Zhaodi is annoyed by Bai Wei every day, and Jin Fenglian comes to borrow a chicken again. They all want to make her angry to death.
Zhao Zhaodi stood in the yard, using a large broom to chase away the golden lotus.
"No! Your family eats chicken every day, you really think you're some precious thing! Aren't you afraid of not having the luxury to enjoy it? After eating, go to the toilet and have diarrhea!!"
Jin Fenglian, this woman, comes to think about her family's chickens after eating her own chickens. She has several mouths to feed!
"I'm so tired. I raise chickens every day just to harm you, Jin Fenglian. Why am I so unlucky after marrying into the Ye family!" Zhao Zhaodi swung the broom seven or eight times in a row and successfully drove the unarmed Jin Fenglian out of the house.
Today, my daughter successfully got divorced. Jin Fenglian likes Zhao Zhaodi very much and is willing to coax her.
After going out and seeing that there was no one around, Jin Fenglian grabbed the broom and pulled Zhao Zhaodi to the wall.
"What are you doing? You want to fight me for a chicken?"
Zhao Zhaodi was so scared that she wanted to run into the house. There was nothing that Jin Fenglian, this woman, would not dare to do.
Jin Fenglian rolled her eyes at her, pulled her arm and said, "What are you thinking? We've known each other for twenty years. How could I possibly harm you?"
Zhao Zhaodi thought to herself, I don’t believe your bullshit.
"I'm just thinking that Xiuhong finally got divorced and wanted to liven up the family, so I want to help my sister-in-law. Sister-in-law, it's not easy for you to be controlled by our mother-in-law. I thought that when the chicken is ready, I'll give you a bowl. You can also send it over there, right?" Jin Fenglian bumped Zhao Zhaodi with her shoulder and winked at her.
Zhao Zhaodi was thinking about how to subsidize her brother's family every day. When Jin Fenglian gave her a wink, she understood.
That’s right! Jin Fenglian took the chicken away and gave it to Ye Xiuhong to eat. Her mother-in-law definitely didn’t mind. She then secretly took a bowl of chicken for her brother to eat. Her mother-in-law definitely didn’t know!
Oh, she was really blinded by lard just now. Today, Jin Fenglian really came to do good things.
"Oh, look at my brain. Xiuhong's divorce is really a happy event. Eating chicken alone is not enough. The dried meat that Fourth Sister gave to Mom last month is still hanging on the beam. I'll go get you a bunch and make it as a snack. Haha, wait for me, sister-in-law. I'll catch you a fat chicken first. I guarantee it will be juicy!"
Zhao Zhaodi was so coaxed by Jin Fenglian that she wanted to take out all the good things in the house. She got Jin Fenglian a stool and asked her to sit for a while, then ran off happily to catch chickens.
Jin Fenglian sat leisurely in the yard, watching Zhao Zhaodi's one-stop service of catching and plucking chickens.
When Bai Wei went out to find something to eat, she saw her mother-in-law, who had always been at odds with the third brother's family, handing a fat, naked chicken to Jin Fenglian. The chicken had been plucked and tied with straw.
"Sister-in-law, please go back and make it quickly. Are you missing any ingredients?" Zhao Zhaodi was unusually gentle today.
"Oh, sister-in-law is too polite. I have everything I need. Xiuhong is so lucky to have an aunt like sister-in-law who loves her so much!" Jin Fenglian took the chicken without hesitation and started the business mode of mutual praise.
"Haha, our Xiuhong is always lovable. Come, take this bacon and use it to nourish Xiulan." Zhao Zhaodi strung a string of dried meat with a straw rope and forced it into Jin Fenglian's hand.
"I'm so embarrassed. I have to thank my sister-in-law on behalf of my child." He said embarrassedly but took it with his hand.
"We're a family, why should we thank each other? Just go back." Zhao Zhaodi wanted to send the chicken to her brother immediately.
Jin Fenglian walked away with a chicken in her left hand and a string of meat in her right hand.
Bai Wei watched the whole thing and had only one thought in her mind: has her mother-in-law gone completely crazy today?
"For us common people, today is a good day." Zhao Zhaodi came back from the gate humming a song, calculating how long it would take to go to the third brother's house to get the chicken.
I looked up and saw Bai Wei standing in the yard.
"Hey, the young lady is out, what are the instructions?"
Bai Wei didn't want to talk to her at all, but she felt sorry for the chicken and the meat. She and her daughter hadn't eaten meat for a long time, so why did her mother-in-law give it away!
"Mom, how can you give away your family's belongings?"
Zhao Zhaodi was unhappy to hear this. How could anyone else be given food to her brother?
"What do you mean by others? You've been reading so much that you've lost your stomach. What's wrong with your dear Third Aunt eating a chicken? You've been reading so much that you don't even recognize your relatives!"
Bai Wei was so angry that she stamped her feet at her stubborn mother-in-law and tried to reason with her, "Mom! Are you crazy? We only have two chickens. What will we do if you give her one?"
Zhao Zhaodi thought, as long as her brother could eat the chicken, why bother with anything else?
"Think carefully, little hoof! This chicken is raised by me. I can give it to whoever I want, but not to the rich young lady!"
"You! Why are you cursing again!" Bai Wei couldn't argue with her, so she covered her face and ran out.
Bai Wei ran back to the educated youth center crying all the way, but the gate was closed and everyone had gone to work.
Bai Wei squatted at the entrance of the educated youth site, looking around in confusion, not knowing where she could go. Almost all of her fellow educated youth had married locals, and only two or three were still staying at the site.
Leaning against the wall, Bai Wei recalled her life.
Originally, she didn't have to marry Ye Yang. Although she went to the countryside, her family was well-off and often sent her money and tickets. She never relied on work points to eat. Later, her family didn't send her anything by mail for a long time. She waited for a long time before receiving a letter from her uncle. Her parents were reported and dismissed from their posts, and her uncle's family was also liquidated and was about to be sent to labor reform. From then on, she could only rely on herself to survive.
But the work in the fields was so tiring that she couldn't do it at all, and she didn't have enough to eat every day. She had been brought up in a pampered environment and had never experienced such hardship. Just when she was about to give up, Ye Yang appeared, helped her with the work, washed her clothes, brought her food from home, and was handsome.
She really liked him, but life in the countryside was too hard. Ye Yang had never seen the prosperity of Shanghai or the skyscrapers of the United States. He didn't understand her world. In Ye Yang's eyes, an egg was the best thing and ten dollars was a lot of money. He didn't know that she hated eating eggs, and he didn't know that she used to spend two hundred dollars on a piece of clothing. She could never get used to riding in an ox cart. She grew up riding in cars and planes. After they got married, their friction became more and more.
How could she live her whole life without even a few dozen dollars? How could she live with someone who didn't even know what an elevator was? She and Ye Yang couldn't communicate their thoughts, and she was incompatible with Xiahe Village. This was not her life, this was a nightmare. She must return to Lu City at any cost.
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