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Chapter 73: Borrowing money and giving meat

Chapter 73: Borrowing Money and Giving Up Meat

"Si Niang, Si Lang!"

"ah!"

Liu Silang heard someone calling her name. She looked up and found that a bullock cart had passed by her and people from the village were sitting on it.

"Sister Shugen, Sister Li, Aunt Jinhua, Sister Suzhi, Brothers Shen, you have just gathered back."

Liu Si Niang let the sad expression on her face fade away and said with a smile.

Su Zhi said, "Fourth Lady, come on board, and let's go back to the village together."

Liu Si Niang quickly shook her hands and said, "No, thank you very much, this car is full, and it will be crowded if I sit in it. I'd better walk back by myself."

"It's okay, we can just move it a little bit so you can sit, come on up!"

Su Zhi said as she held onto Shen Zian's shoulders and sat next to him, giving up her own seat and motioning Liu Si Niang to get in the car quickly.

Sister Li smiled at Liu Si Niang and said, "Si Niang, do you want to walk outside for a while? You don't want to go home and stay with your wicked mother-in-law? That's right. Once you go home, you will be scolded and have endless work to do. It's better to walk outside and feel relaxed!"

Liu Si Niang was hit on the head by someone's words. Her sallow face turned red and then pale. She said in a panic, "No, I didn't mean to be lazy!"

Aunt Jinhua patted Sister Li and said, "Look how scared you are of Si Niang. It's not like she doesn't know that she's afraid of that old woman in her family!"

Sister Li slapped her mouth and said to Liu Si Niang, "Si Niang, I don't treat you as an outsider, nor do I treat the people around me as outsiders, so I speak frankly. I wouldn't say this in front of outsiders. In fact, I didn't finish what I said just now! I want to say that even if you want to stay outside for a while, you should still get in, otherwise Brother Zi'an will have to slow down the car."

Sister Shugen also reached out to pull Liu Siniang, and only then did Liu Siniang get into the car.

Jinhua's mother asked, "Fourth Sister, I called you several times just now but you didn't respond and your face didn't look good. What were you thinking about? You usually leave in a hurry. What happened today?"

Sister Li also said, "Yes, Fourth Mother, I saw that you looked unhappy just now. Don't I know what kind of person you are? You are not someone who would dodge. What happened today?"

Liu Si Niang saw that several aunts and sisters-in-law were looking at her, and even Su Zhi was looking at her with concern. Her eyes turned red, and she took out an old but clean handkerchief to wipe her eyes. Yawen Yanqing said what was suppressed in her heart.

It turned out that Liu Si Niang came to sell her woven silk and embroidery today, and she made fifty-two coins, but the money was lost. She looked everywhere for it anxiously, but couldn't find it. Finally, she knew that she couldn't find it, so she had to go home. When she thought about being beaten and scolded by her mother-in-law after returning home, she was panicked and afraid, and didn't dare to go home.

"That's what happened. No wonder you were acting so strange today! If your mother-in-law knew you had lost the money, there would be a big fuss. She is such a stingy person that she won't give a penny, especially since it's only fifty-two cents!"

Sister Li said. She felt very sorry for Liu Si Niang. After thinking for a while, she said, "Don't be afraid. How about we help you get some money back and give it to your mother-in-law. When you have money in the future, you can return it to us."

Jinhua's mother also said, "Yes. I bought a lot of things today, but I still have a dozen coins. You can use it first."

Liu Si Niang's tears flowed again, thinking that she was unlucky to have such a mother-in-law and sister-in-law, but the villagers were still kind to her. However, she quickly declined and said, "Thank you, aunt and sister-in-law, but I can't accept it. If I borrow from you, I'm afraid it will take a long time to pay it back, and I have no chance of having money in my hands."

Liu Si Niang was a laborer at home. Her mother-in-law kept money very tightly, and her husband also gave all the money to her mother-in-law and never left any money for her, saying that if she needed money, she should ask her mother-in-law for it. She once said that her mother-in-law would not give him money, but he did not believe it and said that she said bad things about her mother-in-law. If he gave her a few coins, her mother-in-law would search them out when he was not around, and would scold her for hiding her private money. She told her husband about it, but he would not care. After a long time, her husband was annoyed with her, and she gave up.

Sister Shugen patted Liu Si Niang's hand sympathetically and said, "You have suffered so much. Where can you find such a good daughter-in-law like you? The Zhao family has accumulated virtue for several generations to marry you, but they don't know how to cherish you." She originally wanted to say that there would be retribution, but when she thought that Liu Si Niang was also from the Zhao family, she didn't say it. However, she felt that it would be better if all the members of the Zhao family got retribution, so that Liu Si Niang might still have a way out.

Su Zhi counted out fifty-two coins, wrapped them in her own blue cloth, tied them up, turned around and stuffed them into Liu Si Niang's hand, saying, "Here are fifty-two coins. Take it. We have known each other since childhood, and you are my sister. I won't let you not take my money. When you have money, you can pay it back. If you don't have money, I will ask you to do some work for me, and I will use the work as payment."

Liu Si Niang wanted to refuse, but Su Zhi stuffed the blue bag into her hand and turned around. She looked at the back of Su Zhi's head, then at the heavy handkerchief in her hand, her eyes reddened again, and she said, "Thank you very much."

Jinhua Bo Niang patted Liu Si Niang's hand and sighed.

During the journey, no one talked to Liu Si Niang about her family affairs. There was no point in talking about such things. Every family has its own problems. People like Liu Si Niang's mother-in-law were simply a scumbag. No one could convince her. Several people talked about other interesting things, and finally turned around and around and turned back to Shen Zian and Su Zhi, talking about their house and the kang that Su Zhi had made.

When they arrived at the village, her two sisters-in-law and one aunt got out of the car. Liu Si Niang's home was on the east side of the river, so she followed them across the bridge. As a result, she ran into her mother-in-law as soon as she crossed the bridge. She was so scared that she jumped out of the car immediately.

Su Zhi saw that Liu Si Niang was like a rabbit seeing a wolf when she saw the old woman, and thought to herself that God was good to her. Although she was sent to such a very wealthy Shen family, her husband loved her, her father-in-law was irritable and could not beat her, and her mother-in-law was sinister but still wanted to save face. Except for the people in Shen Ziping's third room who were extremely shameless, Shen Zian's other brothers and sisters were either definitely harmless or temporarily harmless. Compared with Liu Si Niang, whose husband did not love her, her mother-in-law persecuted her sister-in-law and made trouble for her, she was much better off!

"Why are you back so late? You went out and didn't come back! Go back and cook! Where's the meat I asked you to buy?!"

Liu Si Niang's mother-in-law's maiden name was Wang, which means Li Zhao, but everyone in the village called her Old Lady Li.

Old Mrs. Li watched her daughter-in-law coming back in the ox cart. She first glanced at the ox and the cart, then stared at the things on the cart. Her cloudy old eyes couldn't make out the look in her eyes, but the expression was greed and jealousy. Then she glanced at Shen Zian and Su Zhi, but ignored them and started scolding her daughter-in-law. Then she saw that her hands were empty and started yelling.

"Didn't I tell you to buy some pork strips after you sell something?! What's going on in your head? You're so useless! Giving you food is a waste of food! When you feed pigs, they know that knocking on the basin means food is coming! I gave you food, but you can't even remember that! You're worse than a pig! All the food I ate was in vain! Don't eat today!"

Liu Si Niang stood there and was scolded. She knew that it would be useless even if she explained, as she would only be scolded more fiercely.

Su Zhi frowned as she heard Liu Si Niang being scolded. The first time she met Liu Si Niang, she was scolded by this old woman. Now the second time she met her, she was still doing the same thing. Does this old woman feel uncomfortable if she doesn't scold Liu Si Niang every day? !

"My dear, you misunderstood Si Niang. Si Niang went to buy meat, but the good meat was sold out, so she didn't buy any. It just so happens that we bought a few good pieces of meat here, why don't we give them to you?"

Su Zhi finally spoke. She did not say that Liu Siniang bought meat, because Liu Siniang had 52 coins in her pocket. The old woman must know how much Liu Siniang could make from selling the things. Then the mother-in-law who found her daughter-in-law with nothing must know how much she could get from asking her daughter-in-law to sell the things!

Su Zhi would not be so kind as to offer to give her the meat for free. It was obvious that Liu Si Niang would not even eat a small piece of the meat. Why would she give the meat to this evil woman? The best way was to give it to her, hoping that Liu Si Niang would be scolded less. After all, Liu Si Niang was the one who showed kindness to her when she was still sick and had a bad reputation.

When Mrs. Li heard what Su Zhi said, her expression improved a lot. She also knew that the young couple were rich now and the big garden not far away belonged to them. She would still be nice to such people.

"Shen San, is this your wife? She's pretty and can talk, much better than my daughter-in-law. Your sister Xiaohua is not feeling well today and wants to eat meat, but this damn woman forgot about it, so you can just give some to me!"

Su Zhi thought to herself that she had met another shameless person who actually asked others to give her meat. She remembered that she said "let me do it"!

Shen Zian had no expression on his face. He took out a piece of pork from a basket and said, "This piece of meat weighs two catties. It's the best pork belly, with more fat and less lean meat. The cheapest one is sixteen cents. Two catties is no more, no less, so I'll charge you thirty cents."

When Mrs. Li saw that Shen Zi'an ignored her words "give me a present", and saw that he had a stern face, she knew that Shen Zi'an had killed a tiger before, so she didn't dare to cheat him. She also thought that the piece of meat was really good, weighing more than two pounds, and thirty cents was a bargain, so she shouted at Liu Si Niang to let her pay.

Liu Si Niang had already returned Su Zhi's handkerchief to her in the car. At this time, she opened her own worn-out handkerchief, counted out thirty coins, and handed them to Su Zhi. She also took the meat from Shen Zi'an.

Old Lady Li said goodbye to Shen Zian and Su Zhi and said she would visit them later. Then she called out to Liu Si Niang and left.

Su Zhi looked at Liu Si Niang's back and thought that this woman was really pitiful. Fortunately, she brought back the money today and was only scolded. If she hadn't brought back the money, she would have been beaten.

What Su Zhi didn't expect was that not long after they separated, Liu Si Niang was beaten and caused a big incident. (