Chapter 112 Let's just wait and see.
Old Wang had been waiting for this opportunity. He snorted coldly, not daring to utter a sound, and helped Aunt Wang and Wang Dani hurry home.
Seeing that Liu Ye was still holding the machete, and finding it unsettling, Village Chief Wu quickly softened his tone and said, "Hey, Liu Ye, you should put the knife down right away. We all live in the same village. As the old saying goes, a close neighbor is better than a distant relative. Don't keep threatening people with that knife; what if you accidentally hurt someone? Please put the knife away."
Liu Ye curled her lips in a sarcastic smile, putting her right hand, which was holding a wood-chopping knife, behind her back: "Hmph, I won't offend others unless they offend me; if they do, I'll dig up their ancestral graves!"
Village Chief Wu nodded with an awkward smile: "Hehe, Bai Zilin isn't home. You're his fiancée, so you should settle your own family matters. I'm going back now, and everyone should disperse. What's there to see...!"
Bai Shuisheng grabbed Village Chief Wu's arm: "Village Chief Wu, don't go! You have to stay here and uphold justice for me!"
Village Chief Wu, his face dark, shook off his hand: "Get out of the way! You've all severed ties with Bai Zilin, what justice am I supposed to offer you? I advise you to be sensible and leave now, or you'll regret it!"
After finishing his sentence, Village Chief Wu flicked his sleeves and left with the villagers who had come to watch the commotion. Soon everyone was gone, leaving only the four of them in front of Liu Ye's house. Bai Shuisheng, trying to appear calm, looked at Liu Ye and said, "If you don't let us in and give us money, we won't leave. My daughter and I can afford to wait, but this bitch on the ground can't. If you don't mind her dying in front of your door, we'll just stay here!"
Liu Ye snorted coldly and said, "Let them wait it out. Anyway, I have food and drink and a heated kang to sleep on inside. It's so cold. Let's see which bastard freezes to death and which grandson starves to death!"
After saying this, Liu Ye picked up her knife and went into the courtyard. She slammed the gate shut, locked it behind her, and went back inside to eat. She planned to head to the town from the backyard.
Bai Shuisheng was so angry that he was shivering all over when he saw Liu Yezhen ignoring them. It was also because of the cold. It was winter, but he was still wearing a thin coat and a pair of worn-out fake shoes. The cold wind chilled him to the bone.
Bai Shuisheng looked at Bai Zimei hiding by the wall: "You good-for-nothing, go and gather some firewood. We'll start a fire at the door. I don't believe she's really not afraid!"
Bai Zimei was also shivering from the cold. She was wearing a tattered single garment and a pair of thin embroidered shoes. She got up from under the wall, her eyes darting around to make sure no one was at the door, and went to steal firewood from Wang Laopi's woodpile. The father and son lit a bonfire in front of Liu Ye's house.
Bai Shuisheng was also afraid that Bai Wangshi would really die, so he had no leverage to ask Bai Zilin for money. He dragged Bai Wangshi to the fire to prevent her from freezing to death.
As the saying goes, good people don't pay with their lives, but evil people live for a thousand years. After being roasted by the fire, Bai Wangshi, weak as ever, actually opened her eyes and sat up from the cold ground: "Husband, I'm hungry~, give me something to eat~!"
Bai Shuisheng snorted coldly, took out a cornbread from his pocket, broke it in half and handed it to Bai Wangshi: "You wretched woman, this is your food for two days. You better eat it sparingly, or you'll starve to death!"
Bai Wangshi quickly snatched the pancake and stuffed it into her mouth. In the blink of an eye, half of it was gone. Bai Shuisheng was furious and wanted to slap her twice: "You stinking woman, are you a reincarnated starving ghost? Let me tell you, once it's gone, it's gone. The rest is all mine!"
"Dad, I'm hungry too!" Bai Zimei said pitifully.
Bai Shuisheng stuffed the half-eaten pancake into his pocket and said without any mercy, "No, the rest is all mine. If you're hungry, go beg for food. If you can't get any, you can learn from your whore mother and sell your ass for food. Humph, you slut!"
Bai Zimei was so upset by the scolding that tears streamed down her face. She felt incredibly wronged. What kind of father would scold his daughter like that? She glared resentfully at her mother, Bai Wangshi, who had just finished eating her bun and was now licking her fingers. Her ugly and pathetic appearance made Bai Zimei want to strangle her!
"Gurgle, gurgle." Bai Zimei pressed her stomach hard with her hands. She stood up from the ground, her legs shaking, and looked in the direction of the village. She made a decision in her heart. As the old saying goes, a living person cannot let themselves die from holding their pee. In order to survive and not starve to death, she would do whatever it took.
Bai Zimei walked step by step into the village, and went into any house with an open door.
After finishing breakfast, Liu Ye climbed over the wall from the backyard and went to town. As soon as she arrived at the noodle shop, she noticed that besides the customers queuing up, she also spotted Li Fugui and Manager Li in the crowd. What were the master and servant doing here?
The master and servant did not queue up, but stood at the entrance of the noodle shop, craning their necks to look inside, occasionally muttering to themselves, their faces full of calculation.
Liu Ye curled her lips in a mocking smile and swaggered into the noodle shop, not afraid that Li Fugui would see her at all. And Li Fugui and his servant did see her. Li Fugui gave the shopkeeper a wink, and the two of them returned to their own grain shop. Their grain shop was still not open, and the grain from the south still couldn't get through. The rumor was that the reason why the grain from the southern merchants couldn't get through was because it had been robbed by bandits.
Li Fugui sat down in the chair with a calculating look on his face: "That girl still has some grain on her hands, Lao Li. We have to find a way to get our hands on the grain she has."
Manager Li nodded and said, "She definitely doesn't have much grain in her shop. She must be hiding a lot of grain elsewhere. From today onwards, I'll have Zhang San follow her. So many people go to the noodle shop to eat. When she runs out of flour, she'll definitely send someone to deliver it to her shop or send someone to fetch it. Then we'll know where she's hiding her grain, and we can take it all from her."
"This time we'll use all our own people; we can't rely on Hei San."
Li Fugui nodded with a wicked grin: "I think that's fine. Then you can have Zhang San keep an eye on her."
Gou Dan, who was collecting money behind the counter, saw Liu Ye arrive and said, "Boss, you're here. You can collect the money now, I'll go serve the noodles. There are a lot of customers today."
Liu Ye went to the counter and opened the drawer. She saw that the drawer was already full, with a pile of copper coins. It seemed that business was good in the morning. It was almost past lunchtime, but there were still so many people queuing outside.
"Erdan, how many bags of flour did you use this morning?"
While busy cooking noodles, Erdan said, "I made two bags of flour last night, and I still have two basins of dough left. There are more customers today than yesterday. Judging from this, I estimate there will be even more customers at noon. It looks like I'll need to make three more bags of flour."
"Master Liu, why are you late today? Is something wrong at home?"
Liu Ye tied the counted copper coins together with a rope, 100 in a string and 1000 in a string: "It's nothing, it's just that someone came to my house to cause trouble, and they're still at my door right now. Oh, I forgot to tell you, I live in Erdaogou Village. If I don't come here one day, you can go to Erdaogou Village to find me. My house is on the hillside at the end of the village, and the newly built five-room brick house is my home."
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