The brothers Gu Qi and Gu Yi looked at each other with surprise in their eyes.
Ying hesitated and said angrily, "So what? The whole house belongs to me! I take care of you! And the pigs you feed are also my responsibility!"
Chen Xingling looked at Gu Qi and said gently, "We can't let them go tomorrow. If they get caught, the consequences could be serious."
"...... That." Although Gu Qi was surprised at her sudden tough attitude, he instinctively believed his wife and turned to his brother beside him and said, "Listen to your sister-in-law, don't go."
Gu Yi said "Ah?" and quickly came to his senses.
"Oh! Damn it... Then just listen to my sister-in-law. It's better to be safe than sorry!"
When Ying heard this, her temper instantly flared up.
"Why listen to her? Why listen to her? Why don't you sell the pork at a high price? It's not easy to kill a pig, and I have to save some money from it. If everything goes well tomorrow, we can make more than 200 yuan!"
"That's right!" Gu Miao quickly agreed: "The black market has been busiest these days! There are too many people, and many people are selling things! If we don't take this opportunity to go, when will we go?"
Chen Xingling calmly asked back: "What if something doesn't go well?"
Ying was speechless and stammered, "Stop talking nonsense... Stop talking so much! Others have been selling for a few days, and they are making a fortune from the black market. We just went there for a while, how could things not go well? How could we be so unlucky!"
"No, then no." Chen Xingling said firmly: "The ones that can be eaten will be eaten by our family, and the ones that can't be eaten will be dried into bacon or made into salted pork. Anyway, you are not allowed to sell them on the black market."
If she didn't stop them, they would be in trouble!
Originally, it would have been fine if it was just the siblings Gu Yi and Gu Miao, but the extremely bad mother-in-law just said that she also wanted Gu Qi to help push the pork over - that was definitely the rhythm of killing them all at once!
If she didn't stop him, her husband would be arrested. Not only would he be punished, but he might also be fined. Even the affairs of Yucheng might be delayed.
If one suffers, all suffer. We don’t know how much we will lose by then!
"You——" Gu Miao's eyes turned red with anger, and she turned to glare at Gu Qi: "Brother! Take care of her! What's going on? Why should we listen to her? Mom is the head of this family!"
Chen Xingling glared at her without mercy and repeated, "I'll say it again, other things can be discussed, but this one is absolutely not allowed. Why? Because I raised the pigs!"
Gu Miao was filled with rage, but unfortunately she couldn't find the words to vent her anger.
Before my eldest brother came, the country girl did all the chores in the house. She was the only one who raised and cared for the pig in the backyard.
Gu Qi glanced at his younger sister and said calmly, "She is your eldest sister-in-law. As the saying goes, 'eldest sister-in-law is like a mother', but you don't even have basic respect!"
"That's right!" Gu Yi echoed, "Do you still have any manners? Yelling at my sister-in-law! What nonsense! Is that what your teachers at school taught you?"
"...What?" Gu Miao really had no way to fight against her two brothers, so she could only continue to eat her rice and meat angrily.
Seeing her little daughter stand up for herself but get humiliated, Ying straightened her back and was about to get mad.
"Mom, listen to Xing'er." Gu Qi interrupted her at the right time and said calmly, "She is the one who raised the pigs, so she should be the one who takes care of them. She opposed you selling the pork and pig heads because she wanted you to have pork to eat in the next one or two months."
"Yes!" Gu Yi hurriedly said, "My elder brother and his wife are going to Yucheng. They are worried that there is not enough meat at home, so they advise you to keep the meat for yourself. It is safer to eat the pigs you raise at home. My elder brother pays us a salary every month, and our family is not short of money. If we have meat at home, the rest will be money! Mom, just listen to my elder sister-in-law."
Seeing that her two sons were on the same side as Chen Xingling, Ying thought that she and her youngest daughter could not carry so much pork, and if they didn't help, they would be unable to do it either. So she was forced to give up.
Although he didn't say it, he became more and more dissatisfied with Chen Xingling in his heart.
Chen Xingling knew what she was thinking, but he didn't care at all.
If she didn't want to protect Gu Qi from being dragged down, she wouldn't bother with them.
People like them, who have eyes on the top of their heads, have no intelligence to rely on, but love to live by relying on their anger and bad temper, must be taught a lesson. It is against the will of heaven.
After dinner, Gu Qi took Xiao Huzi to the backyard to take a bath.
After a while, the father and son came back clean, with wet eyes and brows.
Chen Xingling was fiddling with something in a small basket and said to Xiao Huzi, "Go next door and tell your uncle that the hot water on the honeycomb stove is boiling. Tell him to take a bath quickly."
"No need." Gu Qi explained: "He went out earlier with his clothes, saying he was going to a bathhouse outside because he was too dirty recently and couldn't wash it clean at home, so he asked his classmates to give each other a bath."
Chen Xingling smiled dumbly.
As a southerner, even though she had been married to the capital for more than three years, she still could not accept the northerners' culture of big bathhouses. So far, she has always insisted on taking a shower and never went to a big bathhouse.
If the mother doesn't go, little Tiger can't go either.
Little Huzi had been very curious about the big bathhouse and pulled Gu Qi to ask him all kinds of questions.
"Dad, let's go to the bathhouse, shall we?"
Gu Qi smiled and replied, "No, we have a bathing place at home, no need to go to the big bathhouse. Your uncle likes to go there, if you want to go and have a bath."
Little Tiger raised his hand and said excitedly: "I want to have a bath, too! I like it too!"
Chen Xingling pinched his little hand and rubbed the back of his fleshy hand vigorously.
"Do you like it? The master in the bathhouse rubs it harder! Do you want more? Do you still like it?"
Little Tiger laughed loudly and tried desperately to retract his hand.
"Mom! No! It's too itchy! It hurts! It's hot!"
After Chen Xingling finished teasing his son, he turned around and continued to do his work.
Gu Qi sat at the desk, unable to read a single word on the page. He glanced at the warm scene of his wife and son playing together, and the corners of his mouth rose unconsciously.
Little Tiger came running over and snuggled into his arms.
"Dad, Mom doesn't know how to scrub her body. Let's go to the bathhouse without Mom, okay? I'll scrub you and you'll scrub me, okay?"
Gu Qi was stunned for a moment, and his mind couldn't help but imagine the scene of a hot and smoky bathhouse with a chubby boy sitting on him and scratching him randomly. He couldn't help but laugh softly.
"No, Dad doesn't know how to scrub his body, and he doesn't like to scrub his body."
Little Tiger opened his cute eyes wide and asked in a baby voice, "Why?"
Gu Qi felt a little embarrassed and practiced Tai Chi slowly.
"…Dad doesn't like it, so I don't like to go. In fact, if you wash yourself clean, there's no need to scrub your body frequently."
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