Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Writing a letter of complaint

In the past few years, Lin Fugui and his wife used the twenty yuan given by Jiang Qiuyue to help Lin Erzhu get married, and then saved some money.

When Lin Erzhu was free as a farmer, he would help others with manual labor. Sometimes he would be paid with two eggs, and sometimes with a pound of grain coupons, but he never received any money in return.

Lin Fugui and Wang Chunhua trust Lin Erzhu very much, but Lin Erzhu thinks his wife is right. They will have to separate sooner or later, so it would be better for him to keep some small treasury for himself.

After four years of marriage, Lin Erzhu and Qian Li had only twenty or so yuan saved together, after deducting the money Qian Li usually gave to her parents.

Lin Erzhu asked his mother to let go, but Wang Chunhua refused, "Erzhu, are you still my biological son?"

"Mom, what you said means that I am definitely your biological son!" Lin Erzhu was a little annoyed.

"He is my biological son. How could you lie to me and your father?" Wang Chunhua looked at her second son sadly. In her opinion, her second son was her biological son and must be of one mind. She never thought that she would be deceived by him.

Lin Erzhu was speechless. "I saved some money for Dabao. You know that Dabao was born prematurely and may need money at any time."

"Second brother, what you said is not right. I have seen my second brother's wife giving money to her mother several times."

Jiang Qiuyue interrupted at the right time, "Dabao was born half a month early. Mom will give Dabao all the good things first. Go to the village and see whose children are as white and fat as Dabao? If you have any little thoughts, just say it directly. Why don't you admit it and continue to deceive your parents? Is it fun?"

"Jiang Qiuyue, what on earth do you want to do?" Lin Erzhu couldn't bear it any longer and yelled at Jiang Qiuyue.

Wang Chunhua was so scared that she let go of Qian Li.

Jiang Qiuyue was not afraid of being frightened, and she also shouted, "Lin Erzhu, I am doing this for the good of this family. If you don't have me as your sister-in-law, just tell me. I can split the family at any time!"

She leaned against the door frame and saw two children coming back from outside. She waved to them and asked them to go into the room.

Lin Beibei pulled his mother's hand, indicating that he was there and could help her, but Jiang Qiuyue still pushed him into the room.

She hadn't yet reached the point where she needed a five-year-old to help her quarrel.

When the word "dividing the family" was mentioned, Lin Fugui shouted, "That's enough, all of you shut up. Old family, you went to get the money today, where is the money?"

Jiang Qiuyue still said the same thing, "It's all spent."

"What?" Lin Fugui's face darkened instantly, "Have you really spent all your money?"

"Yes, I have thought it through. The money Dazhu sent me was for me and my two children to have enough food and clothes, not for you to be slaves. I worked so hard for so many years, thinking that I could get sincerity in return, but mom and my second brother never treated me as a family member. At noon today, they didn't even want to give Beibei and Nannan a little wild vegetable porridge. How could I give them living expenses?" Jiang Qiuyue mocked unabashedly, with her arms folded over her chest.

Wang Chunhua was angry that Jiang Qiuyue went against her yesterday, so she took it out on Lin Beibei and his sister at noon, but she didn't expect that the two stubborn kids would complain.

Hearing Jiang Qiuyue say this, she still refused to admit her fault, "Other people's five-year-old children can help with things, but these two get up and go out to play. I asked Lin Beibei to fetch some firewood, but he gave me the cold shoulder. As a grandmother, can't I educate my grandson?"

Jiang Qiuyue waved to Lin Beibei in the room, "Beibei, grandma said you don't want to help with the work, is that true?"

Lin Beibei shook his head vigorously and hurriedly defended himself, "Grandma asked me to carry firewood and wash dishes. I accidentally splashed water on Second Aunt's pants, and Second Aunt pushed me hard and called me a bastard." As he spoke, he became more and more aggrieved and burst into tears, "Mom, I didn't disobey you. I helped to do the work obediently!"

"Don't cry, mommy believes you." Jiang Qiuyue squatted down and wiped the child's tears. "From now on, no matter if it's grandma or your aunt who asks you to do something, just don't do it."

Lin Beibei didn't respond, "But you always said that my sister and I should work harder so that grandma and grandpa would like us."

"It was the past, it's different now, you should listen to whoever treats you well." Jiang Qiuyue asked Lin Beibei to go back to the house, then looked at Wang Chunhua, "Mom, children don't lie, you know what you did. I have changed my mind now, in the past four years, I have paid a total of 720 yuan for living expenses, it stands to reason that my second brother should pay that much. When my second brother gives me 360 ​​yuan, I will ask for living expenses again."

360 yuan was an astronomical figure for Lin Erzhu and Qian Li. They had saved for four years and had only saved a few dozen yuan. They simply could not afford to take out that much.

Jiang Qiuyue was deliberately making things difficult for them. "If you disagree, we can call the captain and neighbors to judge. I pay 20 yuan every month, but you don't even want to give Beibei and Nannan some vegetable porridge. What's the reason?"

After saying that, Jiang Qiuyue slammed the door shut.

In the yard, Lin Fugui glared at the old woman and his son and daughter-in-law, "Get out of here!"

After closing the door, he slammed the table and cursed, "Didn't I tell you not to go too far in your actions? If you eat in such an ugly way, we will not be right. Wang Chunhua, what do you want to do? You think Jiang Qiuyue doesn't have enough evidence in her hand, so you gave her another one at noon?"

The old man got angry, and Wang Chunhua could only grumble quietly, "You also saw me not giving those two little bastards food, why didn't you say anything?"

"Are you still stubborn with me?"

Lin Fugui raised his hand but was stopped by his second son.

"Dad, what's the point of blaming mom?" Lin Erzhu's eyes flashed with hatred, "Mom used to treat my sister-in-law like this. I think there must be a reason why my sister-in-law has changed."

"What do you mean?" Lin Fugui didn't understand.

The others looked at Lin Erzhu together.

Lin Erzhu: "Think about it, my eldest brother has been away from home for five years, and my eldest sister-in-law has always been tolerant and patient with him. Now she suddenly rebels. What could be the reason?"

"You mean my sister-in-law is having an affair?" Qian Li suddenly got excited. "Yes, otherwise I don't understand why my sister-in-law has changed so much!"

Lin Sanzhu, who had been silent the whole time, echoed, "I think that's possible, too."

My eldest sister-in-law is actually pretty, but she has worked too hard in recent years and her haggardness has obscured her beauty. "My classmates used to look at my eldest sister-in-law twice. Dad, to be honest, Xiao Min and I have already agreed that our family can definitely come up with 200 yuan for the betrothal gift. You gave so much to my second sister-in-law's family, you can't be unable to give me the same. You can't let my eldest sister-in-law take the money, so I will go to Xiao Min's house to bribe her!"

"Nonsense!"

Lin Fugui slapped his son hard and said, "If you dare to take advantage of me, I will break your legs first!"

"So what can you do if your sister-in-law refuses to give you money?" Lin Sanzhu had not originally planned to tell his family about his relationship so early.

As a result, the house was in chaos these past two days, and I had to use this matter to force my parents and sister-in-law to ask for money.

Lin Fugui really couldn't think of a solution. His second son guessed that Jiang Qiuyue was having an affair, but they didn't even have a clue who it was, let alone any evidence.

He used filial piety to force Jiang Qiuyue, because he was afraid that Jiang Qiuyue would really find the captain. The family shame should not be made public. By then, when the villagers knew that he had taken so much money from Jiang Qiuyue, it was not certain who they would help.

Try to rob? It's even more impossible. Jiang Qiuyue has a mouth. She will shout and call the villagers. Where will he put his face?

No matter how he thought about it, Lin Fugui had no idea.

"How about this!"

Qian Li suddenly thought of a solution, "We can't deal with the sister-in-law, but we can write to the brother. Think about it, the money was sent by the brother to the sister-in-law, we can write to the brother and tell him that the sister-in-law has changed, maybe she has someone else outside, and ask him to send the money to our parents, otherwise Lin Beibei and the other two will be abused to death by the sister-in-law."

Lin Erzhu's eyes lit up, "This method is feasible, my eldest brother was raised by our parents, he dare not disobey them!"

Wang Chunhua also thought it was feasible, and hurriedly found paper and pen, "Old man, you write it, and I'll send it to the boss tomorrow."

Thinking of her eldest son giving money to her, Wang Chunhua couldn't help laughing. When Jiang Qiuyue is out of money, let's see how she can still be so arrogant!

On the other side, Jiang Qiuyue was also writing a letter. She wanted some vanishing cream and also wrote about how Wang Chunhua had abused the original owner and the two children over the years, starting from six years ago. She also wrote that she was heartbroken and did not want to serve the Lin family anymore. She wrote a total of ten pages of letter paper.

This was to pave the way for meeting Lin Dazhu in the future. Otherwise, if Lin Dazhu came back one day and found out that she and the Lin family had gotten into such a mess, it would be too sudden.

In the original novel, Lin Dazhu, as the male protagonist, is quite resourceful and intelligent. She believes that anyone who can be the male protagonist should be able to see the truth of the matter.

After writing the letter, Jiang Qiuyue was hungry. Without a refrigerator, the meat could only be marinated with salt and then dried or smoked.

She cut the lean meat into strips, tied them up with hemp rope, and placed them by the window in the room.

Put the pork ribs in cold water, add ginger slices and rice wine to remove the fishy smell, and simmer for another hour.

While the bones were stewing, Jiang Qiuyue rolled out the noodles and picked a handful of green onions and choy sum from the vegetable garden.

The bone soup was stewed into a milky white color, and with a little salt, it immediately filled the air with fragrance. Lin Beibei and Lin Nannan were standing by the stove, drooling.

They had never drunk bone soup. During the Chinese New Year, they would cook meat soup at home, but grandma and grandpa would not give them any. When Lin Beibei was young, he cried because he was bullied, but his mother told him to be sensible and give the meat to his younger brother, Dabao, first because he was not in good health. But he did not understand why his third uncle and second uncle could eat meat, but he, Nannan and his mother could not.

He cried so hard that his grandmother scolded his mother for being a traitor. He didn't understand many of the insults, but he saw his mother crying, so he stopped making trouble. When he saw his grandmother cooking meat, he would pull Nan Nan away.

Lin Beibei glanced at his sister secretly, and the two siblings laughed together. It was great that their mother had changed. Now they could eat meat.

Jiang Qiuyue took out the big bones and gave one to Lin Beibei and Lin Nannan respectively. "You eat the meat on the bones first. I'll boil some noodles and put them in the bone soup. I guarantee you two will have enough to fill your stomachs."

People live with their mouths, so they need to eat well and sleep well to have a healthy body. If she were to live again, Jiang Qiuyue's wish would be to lie down and live a comfortable life, and live a long life.

The aroma from the kitchen wafted out, and when it reached Wang Chunhua and her husband's room, it made everyone's stomach growl.

Lin Dabao grabbed his mother's hand and said, "Mom, I want to eat!"

Qian Li sniffed hard, "Who's cooking meat? It smells so good?" If the smell could get here, it must be very close.

Qian Li pushed open the door, smelled the smell and looked in, and saw Jiang Qiuyue, her mother and her two sons sitting on a wooden stool. In front of each of them was a bowl of noodles with a stick bone bigger than her fist in the bowl.

The smell of meat aroused the gluttony in her stomach, and she swallowed hard.