Chapter 12
Although Zhou Yao and Wen Yue were very low-key when they went to the Wen family, it was still difficult to hide anything in the village.
When they started arguing, someone happened to pass by outside the Wen family yard. Hearing the sound of a table being overturned, he stopped and listened curiously. In addition, the door to the yard was not closed, so the sound could not be blocked at all.
Then everyone in the village knew that Li Huahong wanted to occupy her niece's land and not return it, and they also knew that Zhou Yao offered a dowry of one thousand yuan when proposing marriage.
Everyone despised Li Huahong for her cruelty, but was also shocked by Zhou Yao's generosity. If they had known that Zhou Yao was so generous and rich, they would have simply married their daughter to him!
Lin Fang naturally also knew about this.
She couldn't hide the sourness in her tone, "This bastard is so lucky. If I knew he had so much money, I would have introduced my niece to him! One thousand dollars is enough to send my Yaozu to college..."
Liu Cuicui went into the kitchen to prepare lunch.
Lin Fang followed behind her and kept muttering to herself over and over again.
Liu Cuicui was so upset that she almost cut her finger while cutting vegetables. She said irritably, "Stop nagging me, okay? What's the point of you nagging me? Will you get the money?"
Who doesn’t want it? She wants it too. What’s the point of just thinking about it?
"Can you really make so much money working outside?" Lin Fang was silent for two seconds and then spoke again, her face full of longing: "My eldest brother has made so much money in just five years. I remember he gave our mother 500 or 600 yuan when he came back, and he also paid for the renovation of the house... Add this betrothal money, it should be more than 2,000 yuan, right?"
Earn more than 2,000 in five years!
The more Lin Fang thought about it, the more excited she became. She thought, if she could really earn that much, then why would she bother farming? She could just let Zhou Jianghai go out to work!
You have to know that they can only save one or two hundred yuan at most throughout the year.
Liu Cuicui was speechless: "How can it be that easy? Do you know where my brother went to work? Shencheng, do you know how difficult it is to find a job in Shencheng? Without connections and education, you can't find any good jobs there."
Liu Cuicui and Zhou Qingshan's eldest son married a city girl and would talk about these things with them when he returned home.
She had heard from her eldest son before that wages in Shanghai were much higher than in other places, but it was difficult for outsiders to find jobs in Shanghai.
So Liu Cuicui actually admires her man's older brother very much. He went out to work alone, and with only an elementary school diploma he was able to find a job in Shanghai. It was amazing.
If she had married the eldest brother...
Liu Cuicui's eyes dimmed and she shook her head to get rid of these thoughts.
What's the point of thinking about these things when the person is dead? Besides, Zhou Qingshan is actually not bad, at least smarter than Zhou Jianghai.
"Ah? Really?" Lin Fang said unwillingly, "Sister-in-law, your Enci works in the city. How much does he make a month? Tell me!"
Liu Cuicui frowned and replied softly, "How much can it be? It's only about ten yuan a month. Our place is small, not as good as the big cities. I heard that the monthly salary in Shanghai is at least 100 or 200 yuan, and the highest is 300 or 400 yuan."
She turned her attention back to Shencheng.
Lin Fang was really attracted. She widened her eyes and took a deep breath. "Wow, three or four hundred a month? That's more than what I earn in a year! Oh, it would be great if I could go to Shanghai to work..."
Liu Cuicui curled her lips when she heard this, thinking, you're so stupid and you still want to go to Shencheng? Forget it.
The two sisters-in-law prepared lunch carefully.
Zhou Jianghai, his son and Zhou Qingshan also came back from the fields.
Apparently, several people heard what happened in the Wen family that morning. Their faces looked unhappy, with hatred mixed with envy. From time to time, they looked towards Wen Yue's room with the door open.
Finally, Zhou Qingshan said, "Given Zhou Yao's temper, he will spend the thousand yuan in a few days. Don't worry about it." They reluctantly put the matter aside, cursing Zhou Yao in their hearts.
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Wen Yue brought the rice into the room and placed the bowl with the sticking rice in front of Zhou Yao.
Zhou Yao picked up the chopsticks at hand and prepared to eat.
Wen Yue asked him, "Have you washed your hands?"
Zhou Yao paused, followed her line of sight and looked at his own hands. He clicked his tongue, then stood up and walked towards the kitchen.
Tsk, what a hassle.
Dozens of seconds later, Zhou Yao reappeared at the door, with water stains on his hands. He was too lazy to wipe them off, and walked into the room eagerly, picked up the chopsticks and reached for the braised pork.
The moment the meat entered his mouth, his slightly frowned brows relaxed visibly, and a satisfied expression emerged.
I always feel like the meals I had in the past twenty years were wasted.
Zhou Yao picked up two more pieces of meat to taste them separately, and then ate them together with rice, making smacking sounds in his mouth.
The sound was a bit loud, but he didn't feel it at all.
Wen Yue tried to hold back, but still couldn't help but knock on his bowl with her chopsticks.
"Don't smack your lips while eating!"
Zhou Yao looked up, with a look of "Why are you so busy?"
Wen Yue said seriously, "Smacking your lips affects your handsomeness, so please don't make any noise."
Zhou Yao: “…”
There are so many things to do when eating.
If it weren't for the fact that the dish tasted so good, I would have really wanted to walk away in anger.
Zhou Yao stared at Wen Yue for two seconds and said, "I understand."
There is really no sound when eating anymore.
Wen Yue held the bowl and ate her meal with satisfaction.
The job of washing dishes after dinner was still given to Zhou Yao.
Wen Yue stood by and supervised, with her hands on the stove: "Can I give some of the rice cakes and walnut crisps at home to others? I want to borrow a book from Li Nianqiu, but it doesn't feel good to go empty-handed."
"It's up to you." Zhou Yao replied without even looking up, "You are the mistress of the house, you can arrange those things however you want."
His tone was somewhat nonchalant, his eyes were lowered, and there was a rare softness and tenderness between his eyebrows, and the upturned corners of his eyes were somewhat alluring.
Wen Yue's heartbeat quickened. Lang Xie looked away, secretly spitting on himself.
All the handsome guys I saw on my phone before could circle the earth twice, so how could they still be so easily seduced?
What a loser!
She took a deep breath, got permission, and slipped out, went to Zhou Yao's room, opened the cupboard, and carefully took out a few pieces of rice cakes, walnut crisps, and a small pile of White Rabbit milk candies.
"I'm going out~" Wen Yue shouted to the kitchen from the yard.
Zhou Yao's half-hearted response came from the room: "Okay, I'll go out later too."
Actually, Li Nianqiu and Li Huahong are somewhat related by blood, and can be considered distant cousins. In this village, the majority of people have the surname Li and Fang.
The weather is very good today. The sunshine is not so scorching. It feels warm and comfortable under the sun. The breeze blows, and the cornfield next to me makes a rustling sound of leaves rubbing against each other.
She walked along the path along the ridge of the field and saw Li Nianqiu's yard not far downstream from the river.
It's lunch time now and the yard is quiet.
Wen Yue was just thinking about how to call for help when a little girl with a ponytail suddenly came out of the house. She was stunned when she saw someone outside the yard. After seeing who it was, she turned around and whispered into the house, "Sister, Sister Wen Yue is outside."
Wen Yue retrieved the information from her memory.
This little girl is Li Nianqiu's younger sister, Li Xiangdong, who is already thirteen years old and in junior high school. Children from poor families have to take care of themselves early. Li Xiangdong is as smart and strong as her sister. The two sisters are like weeds growing in a barren wasteland, wild, stubborn and hardworking.
Unfortunately, Li Xiangdong did not have a good ending.
Li Nianqiu was admitted to university and went to study in another place. Although he asked the village chief to take care of his sister before leaving, he could not resist the fact that there was a group of tigers, leopards, jackals and wolves at home.
While the village chief was away in the city on business, they tied up the little girl, who was not even fifteen years old, and sold her to a widower in his fifties from the next village for one hundred yuan.
When Li Nianqiu returned home for winter vacation, he learned the news of his sister's death.
Then Li Nianqiu almost went crazy.
She picked up a machete and chased the Li family through most of the village, and was finally stopped by the village chief. She then left with her sister's ashes and never returned to the village. After she became successful in her career, she caused a lot of trouble for the Li family, both openly and covertly, making them live a poor life.
But her sister, at the same age as the flower, died forever in that cold winter.
Wen Yue, who is more sentimental, almost couldn't hold back her tears when she saw this scene. Her eyes turned red and she thought that the people in Li Nianqiu's family were too cruel. The little girl was only fifteen years old, how could they have the heart to do that to her!
She looked at Li Xiangdong with red eyes, her eyes full of pity and sympathy.
Li Xiangdong was confused by the stares, and his clear voice was full of doubts: "...Sister Wen Yue, is there something wrong with me? Why are you looking at me like that? Why are your eyes red? Did you cry?"
Hearing the voice, Li Nianqiu came out of the room, raised his thick and slightly messy eyebrows, stared at Wen Yue's red eyes, and unconsciously said: "Did Zhou Yao bully you?"
After thinking about it, she felt that it was unlikely. After all, Zhou Yao had gone to the Wen family to vent his anger for her in the morning.
She also heard about this matter and had a better impression of Zhou Yao.
"No, there's sand in my eyes." Wen Yue replied softly.
"Come in and talk." Li Nianqiu opened the courtyard gate, glanced at the tightly closed wooden doors next to him, and said in a light tone.
Little girl Li Xiangdong said, "I'm going to the toilet."
She just came out wanting to go to the toilet and happened to run into Wen Yue.
Li Nianqiu nodded.
Wen Yue followed Li Nianqiu into the room and took a quick look.
There weren't many things in the room, and it was kept clean and tidy. There was a bed with a mosquito net, a desk and two stools, an old wardrobe that was badly damaged, and some odds and ends.
There were several cracks on the wall, and there were very old wooden beams exposed above the head, making the living conditions even worse.
From this perspective, the brick house she lives in now is a hundred times better.
Sure enough, nothing can withstand comparison.
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