Chapter 46 Autumn Harvest War (1)
The fact that Li Cui'er and Guicai came to cause trouble during the day and were fooled away by Taotao was just a small episode!
After driving the people away, Tang Liren checked the door lock and found that it could still be opened, but there were several large marks and shallow dents on the brand new solid wooden door... It was really heartbreaking.
Tan Fenghui was afraid of delaying work, so she said to Tang Liren, "Mom, you should go back to work! I'll get two footstools out here and put them on the slope over there for Hongdou and Huangdou to sit on and keep an eye on our house..."
Tang Liren hummed and said, "No need for that. I'll go report the situation to the leader of the production team. We can't let her and her three sons sleep in the house when the whole village is busy at this critical moment!"
Having said that, Tang Liren hurried away.
Tan Fenghui and Taotao also returned to their posts with the others and did what they were supposed to do.
At night, the whole family finished work and returned home with sore backs.
I'm so tired that I don't even want to cook.
Thinking that her mother, third sister, and Song Zhi were all strong laborers and that they would never be the most tired, and that her eldest sister-in-law had to take care of a baby at night...so Taotao took Xingxing to the kitchen to cook.
Being too tired and not wanting to be too particular, Taotao instructed Xingxing to light a fire, wash rice and steam rice. She took a kitchen knife, went to open the cellar, cut off a large piece of pork belly that she and Song Zhi brought back from the city last night, and took a pork bone back to the kitchen.
Back in the kitchen, she cut the pork belly into slices, added some ginger, onion, garlic, oil, salt and soy sauce, mixed them well, and then put them directly into the rice to steam.
Next, she ran to the vegetable garden, broke off more than twenty cabbage leaves, picked four or five cucumbers, and brought them back to wash them all.
——Just break the cucumbers and put them into a clean basket. Then dip them in shrimp and chili sauce and eat them as a cold dish.
——Tear the cabbage leaves into small pieces and throw them into the boiling water under the steamer. When the rice in the steamer is cooked, the vegetable leaf soup in the pot is also ready.
——Taotao asked Xingxing to go to the pickle jar in the corner and take a big bowl of pickled cucumbers, white radishes, beans and so on, which could also be considered a dish!
However, looking at the bland vegetable soup, Taotao beat another duck egg into the pot and blended it; thinking that her sister-in-law still needed to feed the baby, she beat two more poached eggs and covered the pot.
Taotao washed the pork bone and soaked it in water. Although the weather had turned colder and the temperature in the cellar dug at home was even lower, she was still worried that the pork she brought back from the city would go bad. Last night, Tang Liren had refined all the fat into lard, and also smeared a layer of salt on the pork and bones to prevent them from going bad.
Now Taotao tries to wash off the salt on the surface of the pork bones as much as possible to restore the freshness of the pork bones to the greatest extent.
She planned to stew the pork bone after cooking, over low heat for two hours. A small bone can be boiled into a big pot of thick bone soup, and tomorrow morning, the family will be able to enjoy a delicious pork bone soup noodles!
Only when you are well fed will you have energy to do physical work.
By the time Taotao had washed the pork shanks and cleaned the ginger and garlic, Xingxing had already prepared for dinner - the bowls and chopsticks had been washed and brought to the main room, and pickled vegetables, fresh cucumbers and homemade shrimp chili sauce were also served.
At this time, the rice is also steamed.
Taotao and Xingxing each took a piece of clean gauze to cover the scalding hot steamer, took it off the pot, placed it in the round flat sieve used for food, and then carried it to the main room together.
Then she and Xingxing went back to the kitchen, quickly sprinkled salt and chopped green onions on the vegetable leaf and duck egg soup in the pot to season it, and served it in a bowl. She then added two poached eggs into a small bowl, dripped a few drops of sesame oil, and asked Xingxing to take it first.
Taotao washed the pot with great effort, added water again, put the bones, ginger and garlic into the pot, added some rice wine, covered the pot, took out a piece of firewood from the stove, turned it to a low fire, and then hurried to the main room.
Everyone in the family sat around the kang bed waiting for Taotao.
"You guys eat first!" Taotao said.
Tang Liren smiled and said, "How can that be possible? We have to wait for our steward!"
Taotao took off her shoes and climbed onto the kang table. Xingxing moved aside and Taotao sat over, sitting next to Song Zhi.
At this time, Bai Zhenggan stared at the food on the table, nodded, and praised: "Our little girl is really good at managing the family! Look, this meal has meat, vegetables, cold dishes, and soups. It's great!"
Tang Liren also smiled and took a rice spatula, cutting a few times in the steamer like cutting rice cakes, and then instructed everyone: "Look, Taotao has steamed meat slices on the rice, and it is quite even, so I marked the grids, and when you add rice, you add according to the grids... You can't just add meat without shoveling rice, and you can't just shovel rice without adding meat!"
Everyone responded with a smile.
Tang Liren added a bowl of rice to Bai Zhenggan, then added another bowl of rice for herself, then put down the rice shovel.
Next, it was Tan Fenghui's turn to add rice - this was the rule of the Bai family, the oldest ones should add rice first.
Because she didn't consider Song Zhi as an outsider, Tan Fenghui finished adding rice and handed the rice shovel to Song Zhi. Song Zhi said "thank you" to Tan Fenghui, and after adding more rice, he habitually handed the rice shovel to Taotao.
Taotao directly handed the rice shovel to Sister Lizi...
After a round, everyone filled their bowls with rice.
Including the small soybeans that were left at the end.
Seeing that everyone had finished their rice, Bai Zhenggan picked up his chopsticks and shouted, "Let's eat!" Then he took the lead in picking up a piece of steamed pork belly on the rice and nodded, "Good! It's delicious!"
Everyone started eating with laughter.
Steamed pork slices are of course the protagonist.
Taotao cuts each piece of pork into the size of half a palm and as thin as paper. It does not taste greasy and can make people feel extremely satisfied. The meat slices are moderately fat and lean. Because it has not been stewed for a long time, the fat part is a bit refreshing and the pig skin is chewy; the lean meat part is not too dry because of the nourishment of the fat. Plus, it has been marinated with salt overnight, so it has a very special... a strange and delicious mixture of fresh pork and bacon.
Although it was simply seasoned with salt and soy sauce, and not even marinated, it still tasted very fresh, fragrant and delicious!
And because the steamed pork slices are placed directly on the rice, even the rice is soaked in the delicious gravy!
Eat a piece of steamed pork, two mouthfuls of rice, a bite of refreshing cucumber dipped in shrimp chili sauce, and a sip of light and soft duck egg and vegetable soup...
This meal was so delicious! It’s such a pleasure!
Tan Fenghui was eating happily when she suddenly realized that there was a small bowl in front of her with two poached eggs in it.
She was stunned, "This..."
Tao Tao said, "Sister-in-law, please eat it! I made this just for you. You've been tired all day and you still have to feed the baby at night, which is the hardest part! It's just two more eggs...it's worth it!"
Tan Fenghui quickly declined, "Well, the food today is so good, no need..."
Tang Liren made the decision with a smile, "Take it and eat it! This is your sister's kindness. You are the eldest sister-in-law, and you have loved her for a long time. Now you just have to bear it!"
Tan Fenghui was very touched. "I, I... Actually, I am useless. Today, Fourth Aunt came to bully me, and I couldn't do anything about her. Fortunately, Taotao came to help me out..."
As she spoke, she felt sad and guilty.
Bai Zhenggan didn't know about this yet. Xingxing and Lili knew about it, but they were not there at the time and didn't know what happened exactly, so they asked -
"What's the matter? Is your fourth aunt here again?"
"Sister-in-law, did she bully you?"
"What did she do?"
Hongdou said crisply, "It was almost noon when Fourth Grandma and Uncle Guicai came to knock on our door. Uncle Guicai even unbuttoned his pants to show his little crucian carp to my mother, Lady Yanli, Lady Pingxiang, and Lady Yuexiu..."
The whole family was stunned.
Hongdou said proudly, "Later, my fourth aunt scolded him for having small puppies, and asked him if he had two puppies... Then she scolded him for being a waste, and said he would never dare to let his mother see his puppies. Uncle Guicai got angry, so he let his mother see his puppies. When his mother saw his puppies, she got angry and threw a stone..."
Hongdou hadn't finished speaking yet, but suddenly she received a glare from her mother Tan Fenghui?
The little girl lowered her head and dared not speak anymore.
Taotao held the bowl of rice, turned around quietly, and ate with her back to everyone.
Even so, she could still feel everyone's eyes glaring at her back.
Especially Song Zhi who was sitting next to her.
Song Zhi looked at Taotao steadily for a while, sighed, scooped a spoonful of shrimp chili sauce into her bowl with a wooden spoon, and added a few pieces of pickled vegetables for her.
Bai Taotao happily dipped the steamed pork slices in the shrimp chili sauce...it was so delicious!
The pickled vegetables are also delicious, salty and sour, refreshing and especially crispy!
Tang Liren and Bai Zhenggan looked at each other.
Tang Liren was embarrassed and helpless, "Hehehe, Taotao is still young, I will teach her slowly..." She arrived later and Guicai was no longer there, so she didn't know that such a thing would happen.
Bai Zhenggan comforted himself and his wife with great difficulty, saying, "It's okay, it's okay! Taotao has only been sensible for less than a year. Don't worry, take your time and teach her slowly..."
Xing Xing was eating while curiously asking Hong Dou, "Is his crucian carp big? It's worth showing off like that!"
“Bang!”
Tang Liren was so angry that she slammed her chopsticks on the table, then reached out and grabbed Xingxing's ear, cursing, "Are you still a girl? You keep talking about men's stinky stuff all day long! If you don't mind, I do!"
Xing Xing cried out in pain, "Mom, mom! I won't say that anymore... It hurts, it hurts! Mom! Mom, please let go..."
Tan Fenghui quickly advised: "Mom, don't be angry, this is my fault! I didn't teach Xingxing well, please give me some more time, I will teach her well in the future, after all, she is still young!"
Lili also advised, "Mom, if you have something to say, just say it nicely. If she doesn't listen, then you can just hit her... Besides, it's not like she won't listen. She's usually very well behaved, right?"
Tang Liren let go angrily.
Bai Xingxing's ears were pulled red by her mother.
She pouted, rubbed her ears, and took two mouthfuls of greasy rice from the bowl. Her mouth was bulging and her eyes were full of tears. She chewed two mouthfuls of rice and sniffed, feeling extremely aggrieved.
Taotao quietly took a piece of steamed pork with the right amount of fat and lean meat from her bowl, threw it into Xingxing's bowl, and smiled sweetly at her again.
Xingxing quickly picked up the piece of meat that her fourth sister fed her and ate it in one gulp. Then she smiled with tears in her eyes.
The meal is almost over.
Suddenly, Chen Juxiang's voice was heard outside the door, "You stupid bitch who chopped off your head! You childless bitch! You are a bunch of ungrateful bastards who have done evil things against the will of heaven! Open the door!"
Everyone in the room fell silent.
Everyone could hear that the silly woman was scolding Taotao, and the woman holding the baby was scolding Tan Fenghui who had just given birth to a child.
so?
Is Chen Juxiang here to seek revenge for Guicai?
Tang Liren signaled to her husband and children, "Eat the rice quickly! Hui'er, eat the eggs too... If you can't finish them all, eat one, and give the other to the red beans and yellow beans! Song Zhi, quickly add all the remaining rice in the steamer... We have enough, you eat, quickly! Li, peach, apricot, quickly finish the meat slices in your bowls!"
All of a sudden, Tan Fenghui quickly cut one of the two poached eggs into two halves and gave them to her two children, and stuffed the other one into her own mouth... She choked again and quickly drank two sips of vegetable leaf soup.
Song Zhi also followed Tang Liren's instructions and ate up all the remaining rice in the steamer.
Lili, Taotao and Xingxing also quickly stuffed the meat slices in their bowls into their mouths and chewed them...
Chen Juxiang had already banged on the door, shouting angrily, "Open the door! Guicai is almost dead because of you! And you still eat meat with peace of mind behind closed doors! You have absolutely no conscience..."
At this time, Tang Liren saw that her children had finished eating the meat, eggs, etc., so she went over to open the door.
Chen Juxiang was pounding on the door and cursing, but suddenly she was left with nothing?
She nearly fell flat on her face.
Seeing the eldest daughter-in-law's gloomy face, Chen Juxiang rushed in and went straight to the main room without saying a word.
Only then did Tang Liren realize that following behind Chen Juxiang were Li Cui'er and Guicai?
Li Cui'er and Guicai also quickly slipped into Taotao's main hall, looking around.
But it was already dark now, and there was no light in the yard, so it was pitch black everywhere and I couldn't see anything.
As soon as Chen Juxiang rushed into the hall, she looked around at everyone with her chin raised, as if she was catching an adulterer. She looked as if she was trying to catch him. She then lowered her eyes and stared at the mess on the table, implying, "Don't let me catch you guys."
But I only saw——
The rice steamer on the kang table was so clean that not even a grain of rice was left; the dishes included raw cucumbers mixed with chili sauce, a bowl of pickled vegetables, and a bowl of clear vegetable and egg soup without even a drop of oil or water?
Chen Juxiang frowned.
Li Cui'er also saw the food in the eldest house, rolled her eyes, snorted, and said in a sarcastic tone: "Brother and sister-in-law, it seems that... your family's life has not been very good since the separation! Just eating some vegetable leaf soup and pickled vegetables? Tsk, why did you have to rush to separate the family in the first place!"
Chen Juxiang carefully and thoroughly checked the bowls of everyone in the big house.
Except for Song Zhi, Hongdou and Huangdou, everyone else's bowls were basically empty, so clean that not even a grain of rice residue was left. But everyone's mouths were bulging and they were still chewing rice?
Chen Juxiang stared at Song Zhi, Hongdou and Huangdou again.
After all, Song Zhi was an outsider, and he gave off a distant and distant aura. Chen Juxiang didn't dare to look at him for long, so she turned her head to the side to look at Hongdou... But Hongdou had already finished eating the rice quickly?
Huangdou was still young and ate slowly, so he left the last two mouthfuls of rice in the bowl and was unable to finish it.
So Chen Juxiang saw it clearly - it turned out that the eldest family was eating plain white rice? Rice without any beans or grains mixed in!
At this time, Huangdou also desperately finished the last mouthful of rice, and then stretched out his tongue to lick all the remaining rice grains on the wall of the bowl clean...
Chen Juxiang couldn't help but get angry!
——This family has always been counting on the financial support from the eldest wife. The reason why she agreed to divide the family was that she was thinking about the three strong laborers in the first house, one was injured, one joined the army, and only Dongsheng was left. Without strong labor, the eldest wife is just a burden! What’s more, Dongsheng later went away to study at university!
Chen Juxiang and Li Cuier hid at home and mocked the eldest wife countless times... After all, they still had the third and fourth sons, two strong laborers, but what about the eldest wife? There is not a single strong laborer! Oh, there is also a Song Zhi over there, but he is not stupid. It is impossible for him to give all the work points he earned to the first wife!
[Song Zhi: I am just stupid, I just gave it all, don’t cue me]
But when I came over to take a look, I found that the eldest wife was eating rice without any grains or beans mixed in?
So the eldest wife lives better than them!
Chen Juxiang directly separated the red beans and yellow beans, sat on the kang bed, grabbed half a cucumber, dipped it in hot sauce and ate it with a crunch. She thought it tasted good.
She shouted in a deep voice: "Big Boss's wife, hurry up and light the fire and steam another basket of rice!"
Tang Liren: "No rice."
Chen Juxiang pointed at the steamer and asked, "What did you just eat?"
"Rice!" Tang Liren said generously, "But we have already eaten and have no more rice! How about you bring some rice and firewood and I will help you steam it? Oh, by the way, I only want two taels of rice for every kilogram of rice you give me... After all, we have already separated!"
After a pause, Tang Liren continued, "Why? Could it be that after the family split up, you can't even have food to eat?"
Chen Juxiang glared at Tang Liren.
Tang Liren glared back at Chen Juxiang.
Chen Juxiang pointed at Tang Liren with a gloomy face and said to Bai Zhenggan: "Look! This is your daughter-in-law!"
Bai Zhenggan sipped the soup leisurely, "Yes! My wife is so good, hardworking and good at managing the household. We rely on her for everything! You are jealous that your own daughter-in-law is not as good, right?"
Tang Liren felt sweet and a little embarrassed when she received the praise from her husband.
Chen Juxiang was furious and slammed the table, "You are rebelling..."
Then he pointed his finger at Tan Fenghui and cursed, "You shameless cousin! You rely on the fact that you have given birth to several children, and you deliberately harm our Guicai? You hit his crucian carp with a stone? You have harmed our Guicai's crucian carp, and he will never be able to have children in the future! I tell you, little cousin, you must be responsible for Guicai! You! Give me the money right now and send Guicai to get treatment! If he can't be cured, you will work like a slave for our Guicai for the rest of his life!"
Then, Chen Juxiang pointed at Taotao and said, "And you! You damn idiot! Don't think you can deny your bad deeds just because you are stupid! I tell you, you have to pay me 10,000 yuan to pay for Guicai's medical treatment! If you can't pay, you have to listen to me and marry the old widower in the neighboring village who pays 500 yuan for the bride price. Then I will arrange a divorce for you, and you have to marry a few more times to earn money so that Guicai can get medical treatment and marry a wife..."
——This is a brilliant idea thought up by Chen Juxiang and Li Cuier! Taotao is pretty and well-known for her beauty. She is also a fool and not very old. Let her keep getting married, marrying once a year and getting divorced once, and this cycle can go on for ten years!
What if Taotao could meet an old widower like the one in the next village who is willing to pay a betrothal gift of 500 yuan every time and get married ten times?
Isn’t that just five thousand yuan!
Then Chen Juxiang and Li Cui'er won’t have to work for the rest of their lives! Even Fuguier, Fuguier and Guicai don’t have to work anymore hahahaha…
Thinking of this, Chen Juxiang and Li Cui'er looked at Taotao together again. Seeing her fair skin and graceful figure, they couldn't help but feel overjoyed. The more they looked at Taotao, the more satisfied they became. They even exchanged determined looks with each other.
Taotao tilted her head and looked at Guicai - What's the disease? Is it really that the crucian carp is broken? But if the crucian carp was really broken, could he still be standing here so steadily?
Everyone in the first house focused their attention on Guicai, and their thoughts were similar to Taotao's.
Guicai blushed.
He was already a half-grown child, and he knew that his grandmother and mother did this in order to extort money from the eldest wife to arrange a marriage for his eldest brother Fuguier - they had to spend money to appease the widow Tang, and also spend money to quickly find a wife for his eldest brother.
But why bring him up?
Crucian carp is very important to men, and he doesn't want to let everyone know that his crucian carp is no longer good from now on.
In fact, there was nothing wrong with his crucian carp - at noon he calmed down, took out the stone and threw it away, and after resting for a while, he felt that he had returned to normal.
It was just that after grandma got off work at night, she stayed in the inner room with his mother and whispered for a long time, and suddenly dragged him to the main room? !
Guicai doesn't want to come.
He is now extremely scared of the people in the eldest wife's house, and even their house... he is afraid of them too!
Chen Juxiang kept on blabbering and cursing.
Taotao, however, just thought it was a joke. Chen Juxiang was quite interesting. Bai Taotao had a father and a mother. Was Chen Juxiang going to sell her to an old widower from the next village? Does she think that Tao's father and mother are dead? And such an old lady, extorting ten thousand yuan? Does she know how much ten thousand yuan is?
“Bang!”
Bai Zhenggan suddenly became furious and smashed a bowl!
The bowl fell directly beside Chen Juxiang, breaking into ten thousand pieces, and the flying broken porcelain hit Chen Juxiang's face!
Chen Juxiang was frightened.
Bai Zhenggan looked at Chen Juxiang and said slowly, "...get out!"
Chen Juxiang's expression changed instantly, "What did you say?"
"I told you to - get out!" Bai Zhenggan said word by word.
Chen Juxiang stood up quickly, and without saying a word, she pulled out the hair tie behind her head, sat down on the ground, kicked her legs, and started howling like a ghost.
"Old man! You died too early! You begged me to marry you at the beginning! I said no, I don't want to be someone's stepmother! You coaxed me and lied to me, saying that your children would think of me as their real mother... Old man! Open your eyes and take a look! Your son told me to get out..."
Bai Zhenggan instructed Lili, "Lizi, go to the door and call your second uncle and Yongjun Aimin over."
Lili responded and left in a hurry.
Li Cui'er stepped forward and said sarcastically, "Lizi, your grandma and your dad are a family, why do you want to hurt the harmony?"
A push of white pears——
Li Cui'er lived a life of luxury, and the heaviest job she did every day was cooking. Even when washing dishes and clothes after meals, it was either Chen Juxiang or her man who did it...
Bai Lili followed her mother to work in the fields, and her hands were as strong as men's.
Li Cui'er was pushed and staggered. She lost her balance and sat down on the ground. She was so painful that her face turned pale. She couldn't even say a word of pain for a long time...
Bai Lili went outside the yard and called up her uncle Bai and her cousin.
Uncle Bai was so annoyed when he saw this scene that his brows were tightly furrowed.
——You don’t know how good it is to live alone until you separate the family!
Over the past few months, it cannot be said that the situation of their second house has undergone earth-shaking changes, but there is finally hope.
His family has always been dependent on and helpful to the first wife. Even the house they live in now was given to him by the first wife, who allocated a piece of land for him, and the title deed has also been given to him. Thanks to the first wife, he found several hundred kilograms of potatoes from the wasteland a few months ago, and learned how to make potato jelly from the women of the first wife. Only then has the food for the whole family in the second wife gradually improved.
The most important thing is that they live together as a family, they can speak loudly and laugh loudly, without having to worry about Li Cui'er or Chen Juxiang squatting under the window to eavesdrop on their conversations and then take the opportunity to control them or ridicule them...
Now, Chen Juxiang and Li Cuier are causing trouble again?
In Uncle Bai's eyes, his family and the first wife's family have always been interdependent, and although Chen Juxiang and Li Cui'er did not come to make trouble for him, in their eyes, the first wife and the second wife's family have always been twisted into a rope.
Uncle Bai didn't even look at Chen Juxiang who was throwing a tantrum on the ground. He just walked past her and "accidentally" stepped on her finger.
Chen Juxiang screamed "Ah"!
Uncle Bai seemed unaware and greeted Bai Zhenggan and Tang Liren, "Brother, sister-in-law, have you eaten?"
Bai Zhenggan nodded.
Tang Liren: "I ate it! Did you all eat it?"
Uncle Bai, "We've eaten it too!"
The children from the eldest wife also rushed to greet their second uncle. Bai Yongjun and Bai Aimin also greeted the people in the big house and even chatted about family matters without changing their expressions.
Chen Juxiang sat on the ground and howled heartbreakingly, vowing to drown out the voices of others chatting calmly; Li Cui'er also came to her senses and joined Chen Juxiang's ghostly howling...
Bai Zhenggan finished the greetings and said to his brother, "Throw them out! You should go back too! Remember to lock the gate when you go back... Don't let those mad dogs run wild in the middle of the night!"
Uncle Bai responded, and without further ado, he bent down, picked up Chen Juxiang, and walked out.
Bai Zhenggan said to Tang Liren again, "Wife, you should also throw the fourth brother's family out!"
"Support the army, love the people, you two should carry the valuables and throw them out together..." Bai Zhenggan continued to command.
Tang Liren picked up Li Cuier and half-dragged her outside like a chicken.
Li Cui'er was so frightened that she burst into tears and struggled desperately, "She's been killed! Tang Liren has killed someone... Help!"
But Tang Liren had strong hands, and she grabbed Li Cuier's hair and half-dragged her out.
Bai Yongjun and Bai Aimin also walked towards Guicai with unfriendly looks.
Guicai had nothing to do originally, but when he saw Chen Juxiang and Li Cui'er sitting on the ground and howling loudly, he also sat on the ground and howled loudly... Now he saw Bai Yongjun and Bai Aimin coming over? He was frightened and immediately stood up from the ground.
The two brothers from the second house pushed Guicai and "escorted" him out...
In the past, Chen Juxiang and Li Cui'er relied on the fact that they were older and younger, and that Bai Zhenggan was the eldest son and elder brother, as well as a village cadre. They believed that family disgrace should not be made public, so they did their best to bully the eldest wife.
Unexpectedly, the eldest wife would be so determined this time?
They were so scared that they struggled desperately and shouted for help!
However, the houses of the first and second wives were built on the west side of the river (upstream), and only two families lived on this hill! Most of the other people in the village lived on the east side of the river (downstream)... No matter how Chen Juxiang and Li Cui'er cried and shouted, no one responded!
In the end, Chen Juxiang, Li Cui'er and Guicai were thrown at an intersection halfway up the mountain.
Chen Juxiang was carried by Uncle Bai and thrown into the bushes nearby. She was knocked unconscious and unable to recover.
She finally sat up.
Tang Liren pushed Li Cui'er again. Li Cui'er screamed and threw herself on Chen Juxiang... The two rolled into a ball again.
Guicai stood obediently aside, timid and fearful, so Bai Yongjun and Bai Aimin did not beat him.
Tang Liren took Bai Lili and said goodbye to Uncle Bai, "It's getting late, you should go back and have some rest, because you have to go to work tomorrow!"
Uncle Bai also said politely: "Okay...Sister-in-law, you go back first. We will stand here and watch until you enter the house. If there is anything, just shout again!"
Tang Liren thanked Uncle Bai and went home with Lili.
Chen Juxiang cursed, "You bastards! God is watching what you do..."
Tang Liren turned around and glanced at her coldly, "If you come to our house again for no reason, next time we won't throw you into the grass, we'll throw you directly off the cliff! Anyway, it's late at night, who knows where the grass is and where the cliff is!"
Chen Juxiang's scolding suddenly stopped.
Li Cui'er was trembling all over, and Guicai was too timid to say a word.
And because Second Uncle Bai was standing by with his two tall and strong sons, watching with a fierce look in their eyes, the three of them didn't even have the courage to chase Tang Liren. They could only watch Tang Liren take Bai Lili into the yard and slam the gate shut behind them.
Uncle Bai said coldly to Chen Juxiang: "It's no use for you to come here and make trouble every day. I'll just ignore you. Why don't you go down early and complain to the old man?"
Chen Juxiang: ...
Uncle Bai led his sons away.
Chen Juxiang and Li Cui'er sat in the haystack, surrounded by darkness and silence.
Li Cui'er sobbed and cried, "Mom, what should we do?"
Chen Juxiang was so angry that she was fuming. She took a deep breath for a long time before she yelled, "Get up first! Do you really think I'm your meat cushion?"
Li Cui'er hurriedly climbed up and then pulled Chen Juxiang up as well.
Of course Chen Juxiang refused to give up.
Her thoughts were still stuck in the past. She always felt that Bai Zhenggan was a village cadre and he had to consider his own image. Moreover, he was determined to have Ruyi Village selected as a civilized village, so he always adopted the attitude of making big things small and small things nothing, and would rather suffer losses and make concessions.
In the past, no matter how Chen Juxiang made a fuss, she always got what she wanted in the end.
So this time, Chen Juxiang decided that she must make a big deal out of this matter!
She hurried towards the village committee.
Li Cui'er and Guicai followed behind Chen Juxiang.
Chen Juxiang suddenly stopped again and looked back at Guicai.
Guicai didn't know what was going on and felt a little confused.
Chen Juxiang, "Guicai, go back!"
Guicai looked at the dark hillside and swallowed nervously.
——Although it’s a bit scary to go home alone, it’s better than going to the village committee with his grandma and mom and embarrassing himself.
So Guicai lowered his head and walked towards home.
Chen Juxiang stopped him, "Stop!"
Guicai was stunned again.
In the past, Chen Juxiang particularly favored the grandchildren from the fourth room because they were compared with the four money-losing pieces from the third room. But now, the third house has fallen into complete ruin, and all four girls have disappeared.
Without the fourth room as a control group, these three grandchildren are really... making Chen Juxiang dislike them no matter how hard she tries!
——In the past, the family was large and noisy, and Chen Juxiang had her own filter, so no matter which child she saw, she felt that they were not as good as her dear grandchildren. Now that the eldest and second daughters have moved out and there are no other children to compare with, the greed, selfishness and laziness of those fat kids have been exposed.
Now they just wander around doing nothing all day long, and when it is time for dinner, they come back and lie down waiting for the food to be ready. While eating, he kept complaining and asking why it was not pure rice? Why do we have to add beans? Why do we eat wild vegetables for every meal? Why can’t we eat meat every meal... Are you implying that Chen Juxiang is incompetent?
——In the past, when the first and second rooms had not been separated, the house and outside were kept clean, there was always enough water in the water tank, there was always boiling water in the thermos, someone washed clothes, and the daughters-in-law took turns cooking. As soon as Chen Juxiang finished her farm work, she could go home and eat ready-made hot soup and rice!
Moreover, the girls from the first and second rooms are all clever and can find ways to cook the not-so-palatable grains and wild vegetables to make them taste great, or at least look like they do!
Now what?
Li Cui'er was unwilling to work in the fields, so she was the one who cooked. But she was incredibly lazy. She just stewed rice, beans and wild vegetables in a pot, mixed them with some pickled vegetables and ate them like that... It was exactly the same as the pig food in the production team!
——In the past, the girls from the first and second rooms opened a vegetable garden near the ancestral home. Although there were many people in the family, they could still eat some seasonal vegetables, such as winter melon, pumpkin, loofah, cucumber, bitter melon, beans, cabbage, radish, celery... It was better than digging wild vegetables every day, right?
Now what?
Chen Juxiang is over 60 years old, and she still goes to the fields with the third and fourth brothers every day to earn work points. After returning home, she has to go to the mountains to collect firewood and dig wild vegetables...
The more Chen Juxiang thought about it, the angrier she became.
At this moment, looking at the fat and stupid Guicai, and then thinking about the children of the first and second wives, all of them are handsome, smart, and have a slim and healthy body...
Chen Juxiang was inexplicably upset and yelled at Guicai, "Idiot, did I ask you to go back?"
Guicai is a bully at home.
"Are you mentally ill?" Guicai jumped up and scolded Chen Juxiang, "Didn't you tell me to go back? You old bastard... You brought me here to embarrass me like this, do you want the whole village to know that my crucian carp is no longer good? I tell you! If I can't blame the eldest wife's family, I will blame you for the rest of my life! At least people didn't spread the word that my crucian carp was no longer good! Besides, is my crucian carp no longer good? Is it really no longer good? You know shit..."
Seeing Chen Juxiang's face turn pale, Li Cui'er hurried over to persuade her, "Son, don't blame your grandma for this! We know you are still fine. We did this to make money! Besides, you are still young..."
"I'll go next door to you, Mary!" Guicai yelled, "If you just want to make money, you should at least pull out the culprit! Why don't you say it was Fugui's kid who broke his neck?"
Li Cuier explained, "No... Fugui'er is going to get married soon. If we say that about him... who would marry him? Guicai, you are still young. Who will remember this in a few years?"
"Don't even think about it!" Guicai scolded, "If you dare to say that my crucian carp is broken again, I will go back and break Fugui'er's crucian carp for him!"
As he spoke, Guicai walked towards the ancestral home.
"Stop right there." Chen Juxiang said, suppressing her anger. "What's the point of you going back there? Don't you want to live in the big house, rest in a beautiful and spacious room? Don't you want to eat white rice three times a day? Don't you want someone to wash your clothes, cook for you, and wait on you every day?"
Guicai paused.
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