Chapter 84 The Kitchen Burns
Gao Zhiyuan heard the noise and woke up Liu Ruyun, and they both ran out of the room.
At this time, many neighbors heard the shouting or saw the flames and ran over with buckets of water to put out the fire.
After more than half an hour, the fire was finally put out.
Everyone sat down on the ground exhausted.
Neighbor Liu Cui's mother asked, "Sister-in-law, what did you do? Why is there a fire?"
Mrs. Cui looked grim. She had burned the kitchen for no reason, and the roofs of the two rooms on the east side were also affected. She would have to spend money to repair them. The thought of spending money again made her heart bleed.
She howled angrily, "Who knows which black-hearted person came to set the fire? I'm afraid he's jealous of our family."
Someone questioned: "Mrs. Cui, if someone really set the fire on purpose, they should have burned the main house first, not the kitchen? Did you clean up the kitchen after dinner? Did you check the stove? Was the fire out?"
After hearing this, Gao Conghui felt nervous. She just wanted to clean up the dishes and go back to her room to rest at night, and she never thought about checking the stove.
Gao Zhiyuan glanced at Gao Conghui and understood.
He bowed and said, "Thank you uncle and aunt for helping to put out the fire. Today the house is in chaos, so I will set up a banquet another day. I sincerely thank you uncle and aunt."
When everyone heard this, they all got up and went home.
Only the village head and another neighbor next to their house did not leave.
Neighbor Sun walked up and said angrily, "Mrs. Cui, the wall behind your kitchen is my pigpen. The sparks got on top of my pigpen and burned it. It also burned my pig. Burns are the most difficult to heal. If my pig dies in a few days, you will have to compensate for the loss."
Mrs. Cui glared at him and said, "What does this have to do with our family? Maybe your pigs were burned a long time ago, and you saw our house was on fire, so you thought of doing this to blackmail us, thinking that we are so easy to fool."
"Hey, Mrs. Cui, you are being unreasonable. If you don't want to compensate, then I can only let the head of the village to judge."
Liu Lizheng pinched his eyebrows. He was woken up from his sound sleep. After finally putting out the fire, he wanted to go back and take some more sleep.
This old lady Cui is also unreasonable. People raise pigs for eating meat or selling them for money. The pigs from the New Year have been disposed of. This pig has only been raised for two months. Who would burn a pig for no reason?
Besides, anyone with eyes can tell the difference between the recent burn and the previous injury.
Gao Zhiyuan also thought that his mother was stupid and used such a stupid excuse to justify herself.
He stepped forward and bowed to Sun: "Don't be angry, Auntie. We recognize this matter, but our family is in chaos right now. Please check the damage to our family and give me a number after dawn."
"After all, you are a scholar and you know what's going on. Okay, wait until dawn to check the damage and I'll tell you the number." After saying this, Sun turned and left.
"Thank you for your hard work, Uncle Li Zheng, you should go back and have a rest too."
Liu Lizheng waved his hand and turned away.
Mrs. Cui sat down on the ground and was about to howl, but was stopped coldly by Gao Zhiyuan.
"Mom, don't you think our home is messy enough? What's the point of crying?"
"But...but it will cost a lot of money to repair the house and compensate the owner. We don't have much money."
Gao Zhiyuan pursed his lips and glanced at the kitchen, then said coldly, "Let's clean up first."
Mrs. Cui had no choice but to get up from the ground.
Liu Ruyun went straight back to the house. Fortunately, their house was fine.
Gao Conghui also wanted to go back to her room to catch up on some sleep, but Gao Zhiyuan stopped her and asked her to clean up.
Ding Hong hugged her own Dapeng, touched her belly and said, "Mom, the roof of Daqiang and I's house has burned down, where are we going to live?"
"Where to live? Why are you asking me? I'll just live wherever there's a house. Luckily the weather is getting warmer, so I won't catch a cold even if I sleep in the yard."
Gao Zhiqiang patted Ding Hong on the shoulder and said soothingly, "Don't worry, there's another room over there. You can take your son there to rest after we clean it up. The roof of our room is only a little burned. We can fix it in the morning and we can live there in the evening."
Ding Hong had no choice but to take Gao Peng to the main room to rest first.
Gao Zhiyuan looked at Gao Conghui and said, "Xiaohui, when you cleaned the kitchen last night, did you not check the stove?"
Gao Conghui wanted to deny it, but seeing the look in her brother's eyes, she had to say, "I seldom cook, especially in recent years. I forgot. Brother, you saw it too. I can't do this at all. Don't let me into the kitchen."
"You don't want me to do it?"
"Aren't there elder and younger sisters-in-law? Why do you let me, the youngest girl, cook when there are two sisters-in-law here? If you let me go into the kitchen, aren't you afraid that I will burn the whole house down?"
"You... you really have the nerve to say that. You're already seventeen years old and you can't even clean a kitchen. And you still want to marry a rich man? You're dreaming.
Li Wanyue was only sixteen when she married into our family. Look at what she did at that time. Learn now, or you will be introduced to a good family and your stupid marriage will be ruined. "
"You compare that bitch to me? What qualifications does she have to compare to me? Are you still my brother?"
Gao Conghui was so angry that tears were welling up in her eyes. Her brother actually called her stupid. She snorted angrily and ran back to the house.
Mother Cui said, "Second brother, what Xiaohui said is not wrong. She is the youngest in the family and has two sisters-in-law above her. It is not her turn to work. Then what is the point of me spending money to marry you a daughter-in-law? Are you going to worship her as an ancestor?"
"Mother, you can spoil her, but her husband's family won't spoil her. You should let her learn how to do housework, or else she can marry into an ordinary farmer's family."
"Okay, I'll teach you, but what should we do with the money now? Repairing the house will probably cost more than one tael of silver, and we have to compensate the people. We only have four taels of silver. If we take it all out, what will we eat and drink?
How about you ask Yunniang to take out her dowry? We gave her 10 taels of silver as a betrothal gift, so it’s fine if she takes out half of it. We can return it to her when we make money in the future.”
Gao Zhiyuan frowned and thought for a while: "Don't worry about it, mom, I'll find a way."
He glanced at Gao Conghui's house and turned back.
Looking at Liu Ruyun lying on the bed, he thought for a while and realized that as a man, he couldn't ask her to pay with money. Glancing at the books on the bookshelf, he sighed and decided to sell a few books first.
The next day, everyone in the village was busy. Those who had duck eggs prepared them, and those who had mung beans prepared them.
Some people also go to their mother's house to collect duck eggs and mung beans.
After breakfast, Mrs. Ma grabbed a handful of melon seeds and went out, ready to chat with her old sisters.
Seeing everyone's hurried steps, he grabbed a woman and asked, "Sister, what are you doing so early in the morning?"
"Hey, didn't your second daughter-in-law tell you? Yesterday her mother said in our village that she wanted to buy duck eggs and mung beans. The price is the same as the price we usually sell them in town. Everyone went to Lao Li's house to sell duck eggs and mung beans."
"What? What are you doing with all those duck eggs and mung beans?"
"How would I know? You might as well go ask your second son's wife. She must know." After saying this, the woman hurried away.
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