Chapter 41 Borrowing Money

The house was just renovated not long ago and looks quite new.

Xin Xiujuan's heart skipped a beat. The girl from Liu Laifu's family just liked to covet other people's houses.

Fearing that she would really take her house, Xin Xiujuan widened her eyes in anger: "What are you thinking? You want to take my house just by borrowing that ten yuan? You are simply wishful thinking!"

Liu Yinyin shrugged: "Auntie, you also think ten yuan is not enough? That's it, your house is indeed more than ten yuan, but you must have other cheaper things, right?

If you really don’t have the money to pay back, you can use something to pay off the debt, food or eggs, whatever, I don’t mind.”

"Bah, you little girl have a nice dream." Xin Xiujuan snorted, "He has no money, and he has nothing. Who wants you to lend him money? You are just worrying about nothing."

Liu Yinyin was speechless and didn't want to argue with her anymore. She said directly, "So many people have seen it. Your son borrowed money from my family. If you keep dragging your feet and not paying it back, I will call the police."

"Who... who are you trying to scare?" Xin Xiujuan was a typical rural woman. When she thought of the policemen in the county wearing big hats and uniforms, she felt a little scared.

Liu Yinyin was not afraid that she would not pay back the money: "If you are not afraid, just give it a try. By the way... I am pregnant and it is not convenient for me to come to collect the money. If you have raised enough money, please send it to my house. Otherwise, I can only ask my mother to come and collect the debt."

Jiang Cuihua was well-known for her fierceness in the village, and few women could match her.

Not only Jiang Cuihua, but also Liu Yinyin has three brothers supporting her. If you want to bully her, you have to weigh your own weight.

Nowadays, for a married woman, having someone to support her from her parents' side gives her confidence.

Xin Xiujuan: “…”

She gave birth to five children in total, only one of whom was a boy. She was worried about not having more sons!

Originally, she was hoping that her daughter-in-law would give her a few more grandchildren, but who knew that she would be so disappointing that she gave birth to two little girls.

From now on, she will have to be cautious when she goes out. Who says that the family with more sons in the village will have more confidence?

Thinking of the hot women in Liu Laifu's family, plus the three tall and strong sons, if she wanted to cheat...

Xin Xiujuan murmured in her heart that maybe someone would really demolish her house!

Seeing that she was stunned, Liu Yinyin went home with Gu Cheng with satisfaction.

After toiling for most of the day, I went back and lay down for not long before dawn.

I don’t know what the situation is with Liu Ergou, and whether ten yuan is enough.

After finishing his breakfast, Gu Cheng had to rush to the county hospital. Before leaving, he said to Liu Yinyin, "I'm going to go to mom first. You're about to give birth, and it's not safe for you to be alone at home. I have to go to work during the day, so I'll let mom come over to accompany you in the future?"

Otherwise, Liu Yinyin would be alone at home, and if the baby was born prematurely, no one would know.

To be honest, Liu Yinyin was also a little scared: "Okay, then go quickly."

Anyway, the busy farming season is over and there isn't much work left in the fields, so Jiang Cuihua should be able to come over when she's free.

Jiang Cuihua was listening to someone chatting about what happened last night. Before she finished speaking, she saw her son-in-law coming over to ask her to help look after his daughter.

Without saying a word, he stood up, patted his butt and went to his daughter's house.

In fact, she was also thinking about her daughter, and would come to see her from time to time.

As soon as Jiang Cuihua arrived, she asked her in a rush, "What happened last night? I heard that you and your son-in-law also went to Liu Ergou's house and borrowed money from him?"

Liu Yinyin nodded and said with emotion: "Sister Guizhi had a difficult delivery. There are two lives at stake. We can't just sit there and watch."

Besides, she herself is a pregnant woman, so she really can't bear to do that.

Jiang Cuihua was also full of complaints and sighed, "Guizhi is a good girl, but it's unfortunate that she has such a mother-in-law. However, although they are pitiful, they still have to pay back the money.

Otherwise, other families will follow your example and come to your house to borrow money."

There are always some idle people in the village who want to get something for nothing.

"I know. If it weren't for a life-threatening situation, I wouldn't ask for it." Liu Yinyin said sheepishly, "But I'm afraid it won't be easy for Sister Guizhi to pay me back. I'll have to trouble you to give her a warning when the time comes."

Jiang Cuihua likes to take care of this kind of thing: "Don't worry, if she doesn't pay me back, I will stand at her doorstep at dinner time and curse her. I don't believe I won't kill her out of hatred."

Jiang Cuihua was a person who could not sit still, and she felt bored staying at her young lady's house all the time. Liu Yinyin did not go out, but she would go out for a walk from time to time.

I won't be away for too long, I'll just talk to someone and come back, mainly because I want to find out about Liu Ergou's family situation, and I don't know how Yang Guizhi is doing in the hospital, and whether the baby was born smoothly...

Now is the time for leisure, so Jiang Cuihua can leave the housework to the two daughters-in-law. She simply does not go home for lunch, but eats at her daughter-in-law's house and helps her make lunch.

For lunch, Liu Yinyin prepared two dishes for the two of them: fried eggs with leeks and braised potatoes with eggplant and beans.

The staple food is sweet potato and cornmeal steamed buns.

We eat fine grains about once a week at home, and the rest of the time we mostly eat cornmeal.

She doesn't have time to go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables now, and the few bags of dried wild vegetables she collected before have to be saved to feed the chickens in winter, so the family hasn't eaten wild vegetable dumplings for some time.

Even so, Jiang Cuihua still said that the life of the concubine's family was good.

Even though the food at the lady's house may seem similar to that at other families', there is actually a huge difference inside.

The dishes cooked by the young lady's family were very generous with the ingredients, and they used oil and salt as if they were free. Jiang Cuihua felt distressed just watching them.

The dishes are oily and the vegetables are delicious.

Other families are very frugal. When cooking a dish, they only dare to add three or two drops of oil to lubricate the pan, and they will save on other ingredients as much as possible.

There is also cornmeal. The country people grind the cornmeal themselves to have more food. They grind it into powder with the corn kernels. It will be a bit irritating to the throat when eaten.

But the cornmeal eaten by the lady's family is made from pure corn kernels. It is fine and soft, and tastes not much different from white flour.

In the afternoon, Jiang Cuihua had nothing to do, so she helped her daughter-in-law make sweet potato vermicelli.

Liu Yinyin plans to evenly distribute about 300 kilograms of sweet potatoes to make vermicelli.

The Liu family also has to make dozens of kilograms of sweet potato vermicelli every year. Jiang Cuihua is good at making sweet potato vermicelli, so she took on this job.

The mother and daughter sat in the yard, one washing the sweet potatoes and the other grinding them with a sassafras...

At about three o'clock, Li Chunfang came in a hurry.

"Cuihua, you're here just in time. Come out and help me move the fish."

After hearing the lady say that she asked Li Chunfang to help buy some fish, Jiang Cuihua wiped her hands and went out with her.