This man is obviously a wimp. When his wife yelled at him, he couldn't even straighten his back. He said with a playful smile: "I... I can't afford this responsibility. Wife, you can take your time to choose. There is no rush."
"How about you come?"
"No, no, no, how dare I? It's always the wife who makes the decision, right?"
"That's good to know." Sister Hua said, and continued to look at the two paper balls in the basin.
Seeing her like this, the village chief was anxious. "I say, Hua's wife, have you made up your mind? Do you have X-ray vision and can really tell what's written on the paper? Just grab one at random."
"Village chief, why are you so anxious? It's not your family that's being arrested, so of course you can talk without any worries. Isn't Tang family's daughter-in-law Kang Shumei not here yet? I have to take my time to choose." Sister Hua said to the village chief righteously.
"Okay, then you take your time to choose. Everyone who draws the lot, come over and register. The land written on the paper in your hand will be yours from now on." After the village chief said this, he took out a pen and started to record.
The villagers handed the paper balls to the village chief one after another and began to register.
At this moment, Shumei rushed over, panting heavily. "Village Chief, I'm so sorry. Something urgent happened at home, so I'm late. I hope I didn't delay the drawing of lots?"
"Fortunately, if you were a step later, you really wouldn't have to catch anymore. Look, there are only two left, you and the Hua family haven't caught one. The Hua family's wife hesitated for a long time and decided which one to catch. Why don't you catch it first, so that she won't have to worry about it anymore." The village chief said to Shumei with a smile.
Hearing the sound, Sister Hua turned around and glared at Shumei. Sister Hua and Shumei didn't get along very well. It was that time when Xiao Youchen beat her son while catching shrimp, and she still remembered the grudge!
Shumei wiped the sweat from her forehead with her sleeve and said with a smile, "Sure! I have no objection. As long as Sister Hua is willing, I will catch her first."
"What? You still want to catch up? Dream on. Go, go catch it." Sister Hua pushed her man and asked him to catch it.
"Wife, I...I..." Her husband looked embarrassed and didn't dare to grab her.
"What do you mean by 'I'? I told you to go, so go. Why are you dawdling?"
After Sister Hua yelled like that, her husband grabbed a ball of paper from the basin with trembling hands and handed it to Sister Hua fearfully.
"Why are you giving it to me? You caught it yourself, come and see it!" Sister Hua was unwilling to open it herself and shouted at her man.
Her husband opened the paper with trembling hands. When he saw the words on it, his face changed immediately. Although he didn't say anything, Sister Hua could already tell that he must have found the "corpse breeding ground".
Seeing that the dust had settled, Shumei calmly went to get the last piece of paper left in the basin.
Sister Hua reacted very quickly and snatched the paper ball from Shumei's hand.
"Sister Hua, what are you doing? Didn't you already catch one? This last one is mine." Shumei argued.
Seeing this, the village chief also asked Sister Hua in confusion: "Yes, Hua's wife, haven't you been arrested? What do you mean by this?"
"Who said I caught him? Which eye of yours saw me catch him? Everyone in this area knows that I am the one who makes the decision in our family. What he catches doesn't count. The one I want to catch is the one in my hand." Hua Dajie held his head high, tightly grasping the paper ball in his hand, and said righteously.
Her husband was so shocked by her words that his jaw almost dropped. Only now did he finally understand why he couldn't make the decisions in this family. Because he really didn't have the ability to cope with things as well as his wife could, to adapt to the situation and deal with it.
After hearing this, the village chief was stunned and didn't know what to say.
"Sister Hua, that's not what you said. You are a family, how can you still tell me apart? Why does what he caught not count?" Shumei was not blind, so how could she not see what was meant.
She used her toes to figure out that the piece of paper in Sister Hua's man's hand must have the words "corpse-raising ground" written on it.
"If I say it doesn't count, then it doesn't count. Anyway, I want this piece of land in my hand. Even if it's a 'corpse-raising land' that doesn't produce any food, I'll accept it. You bastard, why don't you put Kang Shumei's paper ball back into the basin? Do you still want to make decisions for her family?" Sister Hua raised her voice to respond to Shumei, and pinched her husband's ear to scold him to throw the paper ball back into the basin.
She opened the ball of paper in her hand and held it in front of the village chief so that he could record it for her.
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