Chapter 12
The original owner's old mother and sister-in-law actually came.
Behind every top-notch person stands a bigger top-notch person. It can be said that the original owner's top-notch style of doing things is inseparable from her mother, Old Lady Zhen.
Obviously, the original owner had three sons and one daughter to support, but Old Lady Zhen would ask the original owner to send money back to support her nephew from time to time.
"Your nephew is so hungry that he can't even eat. How can you, as his aunt, pick up the rice bowl? Your granddaughter? How can a little girl be as important as our Dabao?"
After the original owner's husband passed away, Old Lady Zhen threatened to commit suicide and asked the original owner to give her parents' family 200 yuan to build a house. The original owner had no chance of defeating such an old woman like Old Lady Zhen, so after some persuasion, she finally agreed.
Who would have thought that the money had not come down for a long time, and with the instigation of Mrs. Zhen, Mrs. Zhen was sure that her daughter took the money and did not want to be filial to her, so she had not treated her daughter well for several years. This time, when she heard that the Meng family was going to marry a daughter-in-law, she wanted to take this opportunity to come and ask for money.
After finding out her purpose, Zhen Zhen walked in carrying the sack with a calm expression.
When Old Lady Zhen saw her daughter going to the county town to buy something, she said in a gloomy tone:
"You complain to your parents all day long, saying you have no money to eat, but you go to the city to spend money and enjoy life without telling us. No wonder people say daughters are money losers! You are so ungrateful, and don't even think about who raised you with all their hard work!"
Mrs. Zhen thought the same as her mother-in-law. The Zhen family has always relied on her sister-in-law for financial support. When Daguo's father was still alive, Mrs. Zhen ordered her daughter to take five yuan back every month!
The sister-in-law dared not disobey. The money went into the hands of Old Lady Zhen and then into her pocket. So even though she was a rural woman, she had never been poor in these years and had more money than other rural women.
Ever since Daguo's father passed away, my sister-in-law didn't pay any money back home, and life in this family suddenly became difficult.
Sister-in-law Zhen also glanced at the sack, "I thought you really had no money! It turns out you are enjoying yourself behind our backs! Sister-in-law, let me tell you, you are a widow, and you will have to rely on your parents and our Dabao for support in the future. You have money now but you only spend it on yourself, and don't care about the lives of your parents. Don't blame us for not treating you as one of our own in the future!"
Listen to this excellent speech! It almost made Zhen Zhen laugh.
Jiao Huilan came in carrying dishes. She had prepared the meal in the hope of waiting for her mother-in-law to return from the county town, but she met these two people instead.
Zhen Dabao struggled to break free from Zhen Dasao's arms and looked at the food on the table with shining eyes.
"Grandma! There's meat! Dabao wants to eat meat!"
Sister Zhen didn't expect that the Meng family could afford such good meat. What did she say? The sister-in-law just had money but didn't want to give it to them!
This white meat is so delicious!
When Old Lady Zhen heard Dabao say he was hungry, she said to Jiao Huilan with a stern face, "How can you be so tactless? Look at us standing here, why don't you bring a few pairs of chopsticks over! If Dabao gets hungry and gets sick, I'll punish you!"
Jiao Huilan went to get the chopsticks like a young wife.
The two of them sat down without any courtesy. Zhen Dabao used his chopsticks to stir around in the dishes, transferring all the meat into his own bowl.
Daya picked up a piece of meat with chopsticks, but he pushed her hard and she fell to the ground.
She fell and was hurt but she didn't dare cry. In the past, when Zhen Dabao came home, grandma always treated Zhen Dabao like a treasure. Even if Zhen Dabao bullied her, grandma would not blame Zhen Dabao.
Zhen Dabao snorted, "How dare you snatch my meat! I'll make you pay!"
"Dabao!" Sister Zhen glared at her grandson. After all, they were on someone else's territory. If they made her sister-in-law angry, she might never give them money again.
Old Lady Zhen disagreed. "Dabao is right. What kind of meat is a little girl supposed to eat? How dare you snatch meat from our Dabao? You really don't know what's good for you. I think the Meng family just didn't teach you well enough. You have no rules at all. If I see you snatching food from Dabao again, I'll chop off your hands!"
Zhen Dabao handed the empty bowl to Zhen Zhen, "Hurry! I'm hungry! Go and serve me some rice! If you don't fill it up, be careful of me..."
Zhen Zhen was too lazy to listen to his nonsense and kicked him on the butt.
Zhen Dabao fell down with his buttocks, and the bowls and food spilled all over him.
"Wow!" Zhen Dabao's head was covered with soup, "Grandma, Madam, my aunt kicked me!"
Sister Zhen stood up suddenly and scolded: "Sister-in-law, what's wrong with you? Didn't our Dabao eat a piece of meat from your family? Look at how you beat the child! Is there any aunt like you?"
Zhen Zhen sneered: "I am on my own turf, I can beat whoever I want, let alone a naughty kid, I will even beat you if I get ruthless!"
This sister-in-law is quite aggressive. Mrs. Zhen was frightened by her tone for a moment and pulled Zhen Dabao to hide behind Old Lady Zhen.
Zhen Dabao cried and complained: "Madam, she hit me! She hit me!"
Old Mrs. Zhen was both angry and distressed. "You are such a bad guy, Zhen Guizhi! I, your mother, am not dead yet! How dare you hit the only child of our Zhen family in front of me! Just wait and see how I will deal with you!"
As Old Lady Zhen said this, she was about to go find a fire stick. Every time she did this in the past, Zhen Guizhi would kneel down and beg for mercy, and would even give her all her money.
Zhen Zhen shook the fire stick in his hand and said, "Mom, are you looking for this?"
Old Lady Zhen stared at the fist-sized fire stick in her daughter's hand in amazement. Something seemed wrong with the script. What was Zhen Guizhi doing with the fire stick?
Zhen Zhen took the stick, rolled up his sleeves and hit Zhen Dabao on the butt.
"You came to my territory, ate my meat, and bullied my granddaughter! Today, I will let your aunt teach you a lesson!"
Zhen Dabao grinned and started crying, "Grandma, my aunt hit me!"
"I'm beating you, you little bastard who only bullies the weak and fears the strong! I give a dog a meat bun, and the dog still knows to bow and scrape to me! What about you? I gave you so much food and drink, and so much money, and you still dare to treat me with disrespect! I might as well raise you as a dog! You rely on your relationship to come to my house and show off your power. Not only do you order my daughter-in-law around, but you even dare to bully my granddaughter! If I don't beat you, you would have no idea what my last name is!"
Aunt Zhen and Sister Zhen turned pale with anger after hearing these threatening words, but since Zhen Zhen was scolding the young man, they couldn't find anything wrong with him. They didn't dare to delay any longer and ran away with Zhen Dabao without looking back.
After scolding the man, Zhen Zhen took out a large iron pot from his pocket and said, "Huilan, take the pot to the kitchen."
Jiao Huilan didn't expect that her mother-in-law would protect herself and Daya in this way. She was happy and touched. Daya also ran over excitedly to help.
She likes this kind of grandma.
Although grandma is as fierce as before, she was fierce to outsiders and family members as well. But grandma now is different. She is only fierce to outsiders but very nice to family members.
Zhen Zhen got up early today and after breakfast, he lay in the rocking chair to bask in the sun. There was no wind today and the sun felt very warm on his body.
I don’t remember having such a leisurely time. I had to arrive at school at 7 o’clock and didn’t even have time to eat breakfast. Every day was like a war. After work, I joined the 996 army.
Nowadays, she must be rushing on the way to the company, imagining that a hundred million will fall from the sky and she will immediately throw her resignation letter on her boss's head.
From a distance, she saw a ferocious old lady rushing towards her. She squinted her eyes and recognized that it was Meng Daguo's grandmother. After hesitating for a while, she shouted:
"Mom, you're here?"
Old Lady Meng had already drawn her sword, but she fell to the ground with a thud after hearing the shout.
She pointed at Zhen Zhen with a look of horror on her face: "You, you, you...what did you call me just now?"
Zhen Zhen knew that the original owner had a bad relationship with Old Lady Meng, but in his memory, the two of them did not have any deep hatred. Although the original owner was a very good person, they separated a few years after their marriage. She did not live with her mother-in-law on weekdays, and they rarely got together once a year. She should have been polite to her. Why did Old Lady Meng have such an expression?
"I call you mom, what's wrong with that?"
Oh my God! Zhen Guizhi actually called her mother! Old Mrs. Meng was so frightened that her legs went limp and she couldn't get up for a long time.
"Zhen Guizhi, why are you yelling for no reason? You must be possessed by a ghost!"
If an old person falls, the injury can be serious or minor. Zhen Zhen was really worried that she might get hurt, so she wanted to go over and help her, but Mrs. Meng jumped two meters away as if she had seen a ghost.
Jiao Huilan heard grandma's voice and came out with a copper spoon, "Grandma, how did you fall?"
Old Lady Meng pulled her aside and said, "Huilan, is your mother possessed by evil spirits? Why is everything wrong with her?"
Jiao Huilan was puzzled: "What's wrong?"
"Don't you think she's different? And she just called me mom!"
"It's okay to call me mom!"
"How can there be no problem? There is a huge problem!" The more Mrs. Meng thought about it, the more horrified she became. The evil woman Zhen Guizhi did not spit at her or scold her, but instead called her "mother" in a friendly manner. Why did she feel that she was going to shorten her life? "You don't know! She has been married to the Meng family for 24 years and has never called me "mother". Now she suddenly changes her nature. I am panicking!"
Jiao Huilan understood. Thinking back to when her mother spoke to her in a soft voice, she felt uneasy and always wanted her mother to scold her a few times before she would feel at ease.
"Grandma, Mom didn't mean any harm. She is very kind to me and Daya now. She even knitted a beautiful woolen hat for Daya a few days ago!"
"She can give her granddaughter a woolen hat?" Why did Old Lady Meng not believe it? In any case, Zhen Guizhi was too weird today. Something must be wrong if something was out of the ordinary. We can only fight again another day!
Old Lady Meng ran away, and after returning home, she drank a few gulps of cold water before saying, "Old man, what happened to Zhen Guizhi? She suddenly called me mom, and I was panicking!"
Old Lady Meng puffed on her pipe with a look of understanding, "I can tell you don't understand the art of war! This is called strategy and tactics! Let me ask you, what does Zhen Guizhi need most right now?"
"Eryong is getting married, so he must be in great need of money!"
"Does she have money? She didn't have enough money when the second son was alive, let alone now that he's gone! It's not easy to get the 24 yuan betrothal gift. She's desperate, isn't she trying to hint at you?"
"Hint?" Old Mrs. Meng was still thinking about this matter late at night. She remembered that they had a quarrel fifteen years ago. Zhen Guizhi pointed at her nose and cursed her, saying that she would find an opportunity to make her spit out all the allowances given by Daguo's father!
When the second son was alive, he would support the couple without telling Zhen Guizhi. The money was not much, after all, they had three sons to support. It was only a few dollars a month, but over time, after twenty years, they had saved some money.
Could it be that Zhen Guizhi wanted her to spit out all the money she swallowed?
Sure enough! There is nothing good in this little hoof's belly! I thought it had become better, but it turned out that it was waiting for her here!
Old Mrs. Meng was so angry that her teeth were itching. She thought about it all night. When the rooster crowed, she got up and cursed: "I should have chopped this chicken up a long time ago! It's been screaming all day long! I can't even sleep!"
Zhen Zhen has been a little obsessed with knitting recently. She got up early in the morning and knitted under the porch. Suddenly, something hit her body. When she touched it, it turned out to be twenty yuan!
When she looked up, she saw Old Lady Meng standing ten meters away, guarding against her like a fighting chicken.
"I knew you had bad intentions, you little bitch! You even tried to use strategy and tactics on me! Don't think I'm afraid of you! If I wasn't afraid of losing face, I wouldn't care whether you lived or died!"
Zhen Zhen was stunned by the scolding, "Mom, I can't have it!"
"Don't want it? You're still pretending to be nice to me! Don't want it? You're pretending to be nice, and you call me mom in a disgusting way? Don't want it? You're still smiling at me, and you want to tell the world that you want to set a trap for me to fall into? I'm telling you, Zhen Guizhi! Go ask around outside, your mother-in-law is not a pushover!"
Zhen Zhen wanted to chase her to return the money, but Mrs. Meng was so frightened that she almost fell down again. The old lady with bound feet felt like she was stepping on a hot wheel and ran a hundred meters away in a blink of an eye.
If you don't even take the money, is that disrespectful to money? Zhen Zhen happily accepted it.
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