Grandma Ajin wouldn't let it go, collapsing to the ground and throwing a tantrum, "It's all your fault! Who told you to light the stove and boil the soup? Pay up! You have to pay up, or I won't leave! Everyone come and see, the Lu family is bullying us!"
Tears welled up in Lu Yu's eyes, and she didn't know what to do. Xiao Si was so frightened by the noise that she started to cry. Lu Yan wanted to run into the house to see what was happening, but Wang Lan came back from outside and pulled Lu Yan away, telling her to go find her great-uncle.
Wang Gui is Wang Lan's older brother. He treats Wang Lan fairly well. In the past two years, after the death of the two pillars of the Lu family, they have been ostracized in the village. Wang Gui has always protected the Lu family. So Wang Lan always tries to please Li Fengxian, hoping that she can get help if she needs anything.
Now that someone has come to her house to cause trouble, Wang Lan's first reaction is to go to her brother for support!
Qin Xiaozhou heard a commotion and children crying from afar as he returned with water. The noise was giving him a headache! He immediately yelled, "Shut up and get out!"
The kitchen fell silent instantly. Qin Xiaozhou glared fiercely at the person in the kitchen. Where did this brat come from? She hated people who threw tantrums like that the most.
A Jin glanced at Qin Xiaozhou, then, with his grandmother present, burst into tears again. Whenever he cried, his grandmother would give him all the good food. This was his usual trick, and it never failed him!
The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
"Shut up!" Qin Xiaozhou grabbed A Jin by the back of the collar and threw him out the door.
A few people stood outside the fence watching the commotion, sniffing the air. "No wonder Ah Jin was clamoring for meat. It turns out the Lu family made stewed meat. It smells so good!"
"Where did the Lu family get the money?"
"Who knows? Maybe it's Qin Xiaozhou's dowry. A butcher's family always has a few pieces of meat!"
"If I had known there was meat involved, I would have made do and married Qin Xiaozhou!"
"Hahaha! You're quite the compromiser! You'd marry a pig just to eat meat."
Qin Xiaozhou ignored these words.
Grandma Jin was terrified and chased after him, crying, "No, no, no! Be gentle! Oh my precious grandson! What's wrong with you, Lu family daughter-in-law! How could you lift him like that? He's still a child!"
The women from the Lu family were also quite frightened and rushed out to try and stop them.
Qin Xiaozhou stood with his hands on his hips in the doorway. "Whose kid is rummaging through other people's kitchens and touching things! What, trying to steal food?! Do you think I'm dead? Daring to cause trouble on my turf!"
Grandma Ajin is about to wail again; Ajin's mouth agape and her cries are deafening!
Qin Xiaozhou went to the yard, grabbed a stick, and stood guard at the gate like a door god with a sword in hand. "Who dares to cry again! If your whole family is dead and you come to my house to mourn, bah! Bad luck! I'll break your legs!"
"You—you!" Grandma Ajin scrambled to her feet, no longer daring to cry. "You, how could you do this? You vicious woman, how dare you curse my son and grandson, and even scalded my grandson! You have to pay compensation, even if it's just meat!"
"Pay your father!" Qin Xiaozhou completely let loose. "Your grandson trespassed on private property. If you're not happy about it, let's go! To the yamen, I'm going to sue him! We'll see how the magistrate rules then! Maybe he'll even get a good beating, just in time for a good meal of 'beaten and fried meat'!"
Grandma Ajin was completely terrified. She opened her mouth but couldn't speak, so she could only run away with her grandson in her arms.
Qin Xiaozhou returned with her head held high, looking like a victorious rooster! The women of the Lu family scattered nervously, not daring to approach her.
When Lu Yan brought Wang Gui, the onlookers at the Lu family's gate gradually left, still gossiping, "That fat woman is really ruthless, she actually wants to take a little kid to the yamen."
"Don't mess with her in the future. Just look at how she was trying to interrupt Grandma Ajin with a stick. She was scarier than the wild wolves that came down from the mountain before the New Year."
"Don't mess with them, don't mess with them! They're from the butcher's family, they might really kill someone!"
"They slaughter pigs every day, drawing blood and dismembering bones. Who knows if they might actually kill someone if they get really angry! They might even dare to dismember human bones."
Some timid people shuddered at the thought of the scene, saying, "Let's go, let's stay away from the Lu family from now on."
Hearing this, Lu Yan was also terrified. When she entered the courtyard, she saw Qin Xiaozhou scooping the oil residue out of the pot, sprinkling it with salt, and handing it to Lu Yu, saying, "Go and eat."
She can't even call someone younger than herself "aunt"!
Looking at the oil residue, Lu Yu said cautiously, "This oil residue can be refined into oil, why did you scoop it out? What a waste."
"Fried pork cracklings can be considered a dish, but if they're dried out, they become tough and not very tasty." Qin Xiaozhou cooled the oil down and washed the wild vegetables that Wang Lan had dug up. Then he instructed someone, "Eryun, peel two bamboo shoots."
The Lu family members looked at each other and hurried to work as she instructed, afraid that being a step late would displease Qin Xiaozhou.
As Wang Gui entered the courtyard, the aroma of stewed meat and pork rinds wafted towards him, making even a man with his neck buried in yellow earth unable to resist swallowing. However, he still remembered why he had come to the Lu family. "Second sister, is everything alright at home?"
Lu Yan rushed over to call for help, which startled him quite a bit.
Wang Lan hurriedly led her elder brother into the door, stammering, "Brother, it's alright, please sit down." She wanted to invite Wang Gui to dinner at home, but she didn't dare to say it. Her daughter-in-law had told her that all these things were bought by her granddaughter-in-law, and she didn't dare to invite anyone to eat on her own. She wasn't even sure if they would be given any food. Now, who in the Lu family dared to offend Qin Xiaozhou?
It's estimated that no one in the entire Wangjia Village would dare to mess with them.
After Qin Xiaozhou finished washing the wild vegetables, the oil had cooled down. She found a jar, washed and dried it, poured in the oil, sealed it with the lid, and then stir-fried the wild vegetables in the oil pan. She also grabbed a handful of oil residue and called out, "Grandma, come and knead the dough."
"Coming, coming." Wang Lan stood up and said to Wang Gui, "Brother, you sit down, I'll go to the kitchen."
Wang Gui's expression was not good, but he didn't say anything. He snorted and thought, "It's outrageous that the Lu family is being bossed around by a newlywed wife."
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