Chapter 45 The First and Second Houses Are Jealous
Xu Zhichun declined politely and told him that all the money was gone and that the rest was what she had saved for her family.
It’s not too much for her to keep enough seed potatoes for her own garden, right?
I can sell three or four pounds of potatoes. If you want them, take them. If you don’t want them, they will be sold out by tomorrow.
Liang Lizheng's words were still ringing in their ears, and these families did not dare to say any more. They could only ask for potatoes. The couples in each family who had come all the way home blamed each other all the way.
Xu Zhichun smiled in relief: "After these few days of commotion, it's finally quiet. The village head is a good man."
Liang Mingxuan also nodded: "The village head is fair in his dealings, and no one in the village disobeys him."
"I see, it's just what the village needs."
Be able to keep the situation under control.
The uncle and his wife hadn't had dinner yet, so they started to light the fire and cook.
I'm going to steam some tender egg custard tonight. I bought some tender tofu today and fried it until both sides were golden brown. I'm going to stir-fry it with meat slices and garlic sprouts over high heat, and then make some vinegar-stirred Chinese cabbage.
Xu Zhichun called out the names of the dishes, Liang Mingxuan nodded, and was about to help wash the garlic sprouts and cabbage when the uncles and aunts from the first and second wives, who had not been seen for a long time, came together again.
The uncle and sister-in-law looked at each other, both very calm and composed: We knew they would come!
I guess they couldn't sit still as soon as Liang Lizheng finished speaking. They must have seen other people from the village coming and were embarrassed to meet them, so they waited until everyone else left before they showed up.
"Uncles and aunts, please take a seat."
"Uncle, aunt, second uncle, second aunt."
Without even bothering to sit down, Zhang stepped forward and stared at Xu Zhichun, "How many sweet potatoes and potatoes do you have left? Xu, you took all the good stuff for yourself. Do you still have any respect for your elders? Hurry and give them to me."
Uncle Liang glanced at Xu Zhichun displeasedly, looking down on him: "You are young and ignorant, and we, as the elders, won't bother with you. But you have to change, and you have to listen to what we teach you. If we weren't family, who would care about you? Don't be so ignorant again and again. For example, this time, how could you act on your own without discussing it with us first? What do you know? This time you are just lucky. If it was something bad, you will see how you ended up! Not only will you end up in trouble, but you will also implicate Mingxuan! As a sister-in-law, you can't be so selfish. Even if Minglang is gone, you can't not consider Mingxuan at all."
"That's right!" Zhang was even more furious. She looked at Liang Mingxuan and openly provoked him in front of him: "Mingxuan, look at what your sister-in-law has done! She doesn't take you seriously at all."
The Bai couple also stared at Xu Zhichun with surprise.
Thinking about the sweet potato and potato incident, Xu Zhichun became a hot commodity in the village. Everyone spoke highly of her, praised her, and flattered her. Even Liang, the head of the village, looked at her differently and even rang a gong to summon the whole village to speak, so that everyone in the village would remember her kindness!
When had Li Zheng Liang ever struck the gong specifically for someone?
This has never happened before.
Xu Zhichun, that damn girl, this is such a great honor.
That's fine, it's just an empty reputation. It's best to have it, but it doesn't matter if you don't have it. It won't make you any more or less meat anyway.
However, sweet potatoes and potatoes are rare, especially sweet potatoes. How can such a good thing be sold for just a penny?!
What is one penny worth?
Such a precious and rare thing should be sold for at least ten cents per pound, and after they grow and bear fruit, each family must keep 20% of the harvest for themselves, which is fair.
This damn girl is just giving it away for free!
This is simply greed for fame.
I didn't expect her to be such a vain person.
It would have been fine if she was just vain, but she caused them to lose a chance to make a fortune and a chance to make the whole village grateful!
The Liang family could have taken this opportunity to make further progress, but she ruined everything!
It makes me so angry just thinking about it.
That's why they say one should marry a virtuous wife. Marrying someone like her is really unlucky.
Xu Zhichun was most afraid of his second aunt Bai, but the person he was most annoyed and disgusted with was his eldest uncle.
Every time this uncle opened his mouth, he would put on a high posture, as if he, as an "elder", was like a monarch or emperor, and Xu Zhichun's uncle and sister-in-law were just the lowly common people who must obey unconditionally.
It's no use telling him things like "the family has split up". He will just yell at you, roar angrily, and call you "disrespectful to elders" and "unruly". He won't listen to anything else.
Xu Zhichun suppressed his anger and said calmly, "Uncles and aunts, as the saying goes, when an elder gives something, one dares not refuse it, and vice versa. How can a younger generation intentionally take something that the elders don't like and want and bother them?"
Before Xu Zhichun could finish, Zhang glared at him and scolded him, "You dare to talk back? You're so sharp-tongued that you don't even care about your elders! What do you mean by that? You're trying to be sarcastic, aren't you? If you do that again, I'll beat you up!"
Fight? If she dared, she would have done it long ago, why would she wait until now?
After all, the family was divided. Although Liang Mingxuan was young, he was also a male. The first and second wives could only put pressure on him to force him to give up everything "voluntarily". They would never dare to do anything.
If they really took action, they would be completely in the wrong, and would become infamous in the village and unable to hold their heads up. Liang Lizheng would not allow such a thing to happen.
Liang Mingxuan turned his dark, calm eyes towards Zhang, explaining on behalf of his sister-in-law, "Aunt, you've misunderstood me. My sister-in-law's words come from the Book of Rites. 'When an elder gives, the younger dares not refuse. It's disrespectful to refuse, but it's a legitimate Confucian principle to accept. My sister-in-law is using the same principle in reverse here. I'm the most reasonable person, so please don't misunderstand me."
Zhang felt even more confused after hearing this, and at the same time she was deeply jealous.
She hardly understood a word, but subconsciously felt that it sounded so advanced, so profound, and so reasonable. She couldn't help but think to herself: This kid really learned something from his studies.
It seems that his own son has never said such words. Is it possible that his son can't study as well as him? No, his son is definitely better than him, but he doesn't like to show off like him.
Zhang was half jealous and half bitter, and said arrogantly, "If she wants to speak reasonably, can't she just speak properly? Why does she have to use such awkward words? Why is she showing off? She doesn't deserve it! And you, don't think you're so great just because you can read a few sentences. You're deliberately showing off here! Your fifth cousin is much better at studying than you, but he's not in the village. He lives in the county school and studies hard. If he were here, there would be no place for you to show off."
Xu Zhichun didn't like what she heard. "Aunt, Mingxuan was being reasonable, not showing off. How can the words of the ancient sages be considered showing off?"
"What the hell?"
Sages? What are sages?
Liang Mingxuan: "My sister-in-law said that these are the words of ancient sages and they are not meant to show off. My aunt said this and it is disrespectful to the ancient sages."
"Pfft, pfft, don't talk nonsense!"
Seeing Zhang being led further and further astray by her uncle and sister-in-law, Bai secretly cursed her for being useless! Stupid woman, no wonder no one in the first wife's family took her seriously.
(End of this chapter)
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