After dinner, the adults and children dispersed, leaving only Wu Meili standing by the table to clean up the dishes.
"Fourth sister-in-law, in our family, chores like cooking and washing dishes are taken in turns.
Today is your first day of marriage. To make things easier for you, I have already fed the chickens and pigs for you and washed your clothes. But you have to prepare dinner and wash the dishes by yourself."
"I haven't even eaten yet, and you want me to wash the dishes?"
Zhao Xiangyu snorted coldly, "Why, you are so expensive, but you can't do what others can do?"
"Once you enter our Zhuang family, you must abide by the rules of the Zhuang family. I have the final say in this family. Hurry up!"
Jiang Hongmei looked at Zhuang Guoliang outside the house as if asking for help, but Zhuang Guoliang didn't even turn his head back, went into the house and fell asleep.
He got up in the middle of the night to chop pork at the slaughterhouse, and then went to pick up Jiang Hongmei early this morning. He was exhausted.
Tears dripped into the dishwashing water, her stomach growled, Jiang Hongmei washed the dishes with red eyes, biting her tongue over and over again.
Just bear with it, wait until Zhao Xiangyu dies and Zhuang Guoliang becomes rich, then you can move back home legitimately and live a good life.
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Dashuping Production Brigade, Jiang family.
Wang Juhua was beaten black and blue, lying on the bed, groaning, groaning, when she heard the door ring outside, "Mom, Mom, I'm back."
Isn't this a gift from heaven? Wang Juhua ignored the pain in her body and stood up to greet him, "Son, why are you back?"
Jiang Tianci was a tall and strong man. He carried a bag of dirty clothes and threw them into Wang Juhua's arms, "Do you still remember that you have a son like me?
I was almost starving to death at school, and all my ration coupons and money were gone, but you didn’t even come to deliver any.”
Wang Juhua slapped her thigh, her heart aching as she thought about her son Tianci's lack of food and clothing at school.
"Son, I forgot. I'm sorry for you. It's my fault. I'll kill a chicken for you, stew some potatoes, steam some white flour buns, or roll some noodles."
Jiang Tianci looked impatient, "Roll the noodles, hurry up, I'm hungry."
"Okay, okay, Mom, please be quick. Sit down and drink some water first."
"Where are the cookies?" Jiang Tianci rummaged through the drawers and cabinets, but the cookie box in the cabinet was already empty.
Thinking of this, Wang Juhua got angry, "It's all the fault of that little whore Jiang Li. She actually went to the captain to complain that we abused her and took away her pension.
Mom didn’t have any money, so she didn’t go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy cookies.”
"What? How dare she ask for money? Isn't it enough for her to eat and drink at our house every day? I'll teach her a lesson!"
Jiang Tianci stood up suddenly, knocking over the stool behind him. He rushed to the woodshed in the east wing with great momentum, but found that there was no one inside.
"Mom, where's Erika?"
"That little whore hooked up with your sister Hongmei's fiancé and got married today. The wound on your mother's face was caused by an old woman in Qi Shaoqiang's family."
"What? How much did she give as a betrothal gift? Where is the betrothal gift?" Jiang Tianci asked hurriedly.
Wang Juhua got angry when talking about the betrothal gift. She felt angry and distressed, as if her flesh had been cut. "The betrothal gift was 188, and there were also some big items, but they were all taken to Jiang Li's in-laws' house.
It would be best if she married into the family of Qi Shaoqiang, a jinx who has lost her conscience!"
"Why did she take the betrothal gift? If she hadn't been raised by our family, would she have lived to this age?
Besides, I am the only man in the Jiang family, and everything in the house belongs to me. If she takes the betrothal gift, what will I do when I get married in the future? "
Jiang Tianci rolled up his sleeves and wanted to hit someone, "Jiang Li has married to Bailutang, right? I must teach her a lesson today."
"Son, you must not go. That little whore has help now. Qi Shaoqiang has a group of people helping her in Bailutang. If you go, you will only suffer losses."
"We can't let Jiang Li be so rampant!"
"Listen to your mother and don't make trouble now.
Now the village captains have been bribed by this damn girl and are on her side. Wait until she comes back in a few days, then we will teach her a lesson."
"At least that damn girl is gone, and the east room is now vacant. From now on, it will be your study."
Wang Juhua pulled Jiang Tianci to have a meal, but Jiang Tianci urged her impatiently, "Hurry up and make the noodles. I'm hungry."
Jiang Tianci was slurping noodles while Wang Juhua tore chicken thigh meat for him lovingly. "Look at your skinny face. You must have suffered a lot in school."
"Mom, why is there only one chicken leg? The meat looks so little." Jiang Tianci scooped up the chicken soup with his chopsticks several times, feeling a little dissatisfied.
"Mom only cooked half a chicken, thinking I could fry the remaining half for you to eat in dinner," Wang Juhua felt a little embarrassed. She sucked the chicken fat on her fingers and picked up the bone that Jiang Tianci had not eaten cleanly and continued to chew it.
"You can't even give up a chicken!" Jiang Tianci complained, "Put more chili in the stewed chicken for dinner. I want to eat steamed buns."
"Hey, hey, hey, I got it. Mom will make steamed buns for you."
"Remember to wash my clothes for me. I need to wear them when I go back to school tomorrow!"
"Okay," Wang Juhua pounded her tired and sore waist, accidentally pressing the bruises on her body, and gasped for cool air.
Jiang Tianci didn't care and just drank the chicken soup.
Suddenly there was a loud noise from the other side of the courtyard wall. Wang Juhua leaned over and found that there were layers of people standing on the west wall of the neighboring courtyard, dismantling their own courtyard wall.
"Zhao Jingui, are you crazy? How dare you tear down our wall?"
Jiang Changyi also ran over when he heard the noise. "Li Youtian, we've been neighbors for so many years, and you're tearing down our wall just to make us mortal enemies?"
Zhao Jingui walked past a group of uncles and nephews and came to Jiang Changyi, "Jiang Changyi, the pears in the two rooms on the east side have been sold to our family, and we have a clear way to the captain's place.
We are tearing down our own wall, what does it have to do with you?"
"Bullshit, this house belongs to us. Why should a little girl like Jiang Li sell it just like that?"
Wang Juhua rushed forward to snatch the thing from the living man's hands, but was pushed down by someone.
"Wang Juhua, are you losing your memory?
You and the second wife moved in more than ten years ago. These two brick and tile houses were bought by Li Zi's father and Xu Zhiqing, and they built them with their own hands. "
Wang Juhua knew, of course, that after Xu Shuzhen got married, Old Lady Zhou disliked her for only giving birth to Jiang Li and was no longer happy with her. She was always finding fault with her. Jiang Changsheng was so angry that he took his wife and daughter to tell his mother that he wanted to leave home.
He didn't ask for anything except two dilapidated mud houses that were originally used as kitchens. The courtyard wall was also built later.
Compared to the angry Wang Juhua, Jiang Changyi was calmer. Didn't he see that there were so many nephews and brothers of the Li family standing behind Zhao Jingui?