She dawdled as she went to get the jar, and the jar she finally managed to get was much smaller than the one that had been broken.
"Li Cuihua, are you deliberately trying to annoy me?" Yang Dongmei said coldly.
"Li Cuihua, you better bring me a jar that's the same size, or even bigger," Aunt Pang said, unable to bear it any longer.
“I want one that’s bigger than the one that broke, but the same size won’t do,” Yang Dongmei said, glaring at Li Cuihua.
Li Cuihua still wanted to cause trouble, but seeing that no one was there to help her, she knew she was in the wrong and gave Yang Dongmei a larger jar.
Yang Dongmei then let her go.
...
On their way back, Gu Laoda, Jiang Jinxiu, and Jiang Jinhua ran into Yang Dongmei and her group carrying jars back.
"Father, Mother, what's going on?"
"It's alright. The jar was stolen by a shameless person, but I went to get it back. Third brother's wife, the jar you gave me was broken, so I made her pay for a bigger one."
Fearing that Jiang Jinxiu would mind, Yang Dongmei deliberately spoke smugly.
Jiang Jinxiu secretly gave her a thumbs up.
"Village chief, Auntie Pang, we're having extra dishes tonight, why don't you come and eat with us?"
As she spoke, she held up what she was holding.
"No, no, we'll just eat at home. Da Shan has finally come back, you should celebrate," the village chief said with a smile.
Aunt Pang chimed in, "Yes, we can just eat at home."
After saying that, she and the village chief walked towards their house.
Nowadays, people rarely eat at other people's homes, since food is very scarce for every household.
The village chief and the others declined Jiang Jinxiu's invitation, but they were still a little envious. They had just smelled the meat; the Gu family had meat to eat, and Gu Laosan had married a good wife.
“Old man, we should also arrange blind dates for our youngest son (Gu Wenxi) to see if there are any good educated youths. Maybe he will meet a girl as good as our third son’s wife. Besides, if our youngest son doesn’t get married soon, he will become an old man.”
The eldest son's family just had one child, and it's more lively with more kids. We should urge them to have a second child," Aunt Pang said to the village chief.
Gu Wendong and Gu Wenxi were unaware that their mother had been provoked by Jiang Jinxiu and was now plotting against them.
"You decide what to do," the village chief replied.
Actually, he was quite anxious about his sons, but he didn't have much time to take care of them.
Suddenly, he thought of something and said, "The youngest son should find a good match for his blind date. He should definitely not go for someone like the eldest son's wife."
Yang Zhaodi's incident left a deep shadow in the village chief's heart.
Indeed, what family would like a daughter-in-law like that?
Upon hearing this, Aunt Pang nodded heavily: "Definitely don't look for someone like the eldest son's wife. If you're going to find someone, find someone like the third son's wife. She's not only beautiful, but also filial."
"Just find someone kind-hearted and filial. If you look for someone like the third son's wife, the youngest son will probably never be able to get married by the time he gets old."
Auntie Fat: "..."
This old man actually spoke the truth.
...
Yang Dongmei frowned as she looked at the things Jiang Jinxiu and the others had bought: "Third brother's wife, why did you buy so much again? It's too extravagant. Our family can just have a simple meal."
These days, people are all starving.
No other family can have meat to eat every few days like them.
Previously, when Xiao Hei went to the mountains to catch wild game, she only let it go occasionally, and it had to avoid crowds.
It's better to be safe than sorry.
Some people are prone to conjunctivitis.
Thinking of Xiao Hei, she couldn't help but feel sorry for him: "Xiao Hei has really suffered a lot. If I had been there that day, I would have even beaten that old hag. What kind of trash has she raised?"
Gu Laoda told her everything that happened that day; Xiao Hei was badly injured.
She truly hated the Yang family so much she wanted to skin them alive.
Gu Dashan sensed that his wife was in a bad mood and quickly asked, "What's wrong?"
"It's okay, I'll talk to you later."
Yang Dongmei suppressed her anger and said.
They haven't told Gu Dashan about the Yang family's affairs yet. Gu Dashan only knew the general outline while he was unconscious, and didn't know the whole story.
It's hard to explain in a short time, and it's not good to talk about it outside.
Yang Dongmei planned to tell Gu Dashan later, since he would find out sooner or later anyway.
Jiang Jinhua followed behind Jiang Jinxiu, first rolling her eyes, then unable to contain her curiosity.
He loves gossip the most.
Typical of someone who loves to stir up trouble.
He was about to say something when he caught his sister's cold gaze out of the corner of his eye, and he immediately became obedient.
He's not afraid of anyone, except his older sister.
I don't know how his older sister is so amazing, she can actually know what he wants to say.
Back home, in the yard, the group put everything on the chopping board.
When Yang Dongmei spread out the items, she was almost shocked to see that most of them were meat. She looked at the meat, said nothing, turned around and went into the house. A little while later, she came out with two 100-yuan bills and several meat coupons.
"Here you go, third son's wife. I'm sorry to have troubled you with all this spending lately, especially with all this meat you've bought. You probably don't have much money left, and you still need to build the house."
Jiang Jinxiu wouldn't accept money or meat coupons, especially since the two elders were now eating with the third branch of the family, so it was only right for her to spend money on them.
"Mom, no need. It wasn't just me who paid for it; my second brother did too. Besides, you're eating with us, so it's just a little food, it didn't cost much. Today is the day Dad is discharged from the hospital, and my brother is coming down to see me too. Let's have a good get-together tonight and have some fun."
The two weren't speaking very loudly, but everyone in the courtyard could hear them.
Jiang Jinxiu didn't think too much about it; she just felt that this was what she should do.
But Gu Laoda felt very bad after hearing this. As the eldest son, he hadn't been able to help his parents in any way. His two younger brothers and their wives had helped them to some extent, especially his third brother's wife, whom he felt very guilty about.
He is a very incompetent older brother.
He silently went back into the house, took out the only ten eggs in the house, and handed them to Jiang Jinxiu: "Third sister-in-law, cook these tonight too, so we can all eat together."
Jiang Jinxiu looked at him and frowned slightly. She knew about the situation of the eldest son's family: "Brother, let's save these eggs for Pearl. They are at the age when they are growing."
“But…” Gu Laoda wanted to say something, but Yang Dongmei interrupted him: “Take the eggs back. Tonight we’ll only eat what Lao San’s wife and the others bought today, that’s enough.”
In the end, Jiang Jinxiu did not take the eggs that Gu Laoda gave her, nor did she accept the money and tickets that Yang Dongmei gave her.
The response to Yang Dongmei was: "If you don't have enough money later, just ask her for more."
Yang Dongmei couldn't persuade her otherwise, so she had no choice but to take the money and tickets back.
"Sis, how could you be so silly? Why wouldn't you take money from someone else?"
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