Chapter 24 Life is so boring
"From now on, anyone who disobeys orders, refuses to work, creates trouble, or fails to respect the elderly and love the young will have their meals cut in half." Su Bucheng admitted his mistake and corrected it, immediately establishing new rules.
"Uncle, you can't bully people like this..." The stupid donkey Su He protested loudly. These words were clearly directed at her.
Su Bucheng's face was serious as he continued, "If you keep doing this, you will be expelled from the clan!"
"Hiss!" Some people in the crowd gasped. This punishment was too severe!
"Uncle, you!" Su He's eyes widened and he dared not talk nonsense anymore.
I am a girl of thirteen or fourteen years old, unable to carry anything with my hands or shoulders. Who would want me if I were kicked out of the tribe?
Xiao Qin lowered her eyes to hide her resentment and anger.
"Wow..." Su He couldn't hold back and ran back to the house crying.
Oh my god, this is so unfair! My family has been dragged down by the eldest wife, exiled to this godforsaken place, and still has to be controlled by the eldest wife. Why? What kind of broken rule is this? Su He pounded the ground and cried, feeling angry and resentful but helpless.
A girl in the boudoir cannot survive without the protection of her family.
"Let's eat!" Su Bucheng said after looking at everyone.
In the past, at home, Su Bucheng didn’t pay much attention to the so-called hierarchy.
It would be good if the three brothers were friendly and respectful to each other, and the whole family lived in harmony. There was no need to set so many rules that would cause divisions in the family.
After work every day, he had to deal with official business in the study. He was so busy that he often forgot to eat. Every time, Mrs. Du had to come to call him, and he would tell everyone not to wait for him.
Su He and Su Ying were having an unpleasant quarrel, but Su Bucheng treated it as a prank between sisters. As he was young and ignorant, he did not intervene and left it to the female family members to deal with it.
Now that he is almost fourteen years old, he is becoming more and more arrogant and often blames himself as the head of the family.
Because he was exiled, his niece lost her fear and started to act recklessly.
I didn't bother with a child, but let her get away with it.
No matter how many mistakes she made, it was all her fault! She had been indulging her in some way. If she didn't discipline her, this niece would be ruined.
Su Bucheng sighed to himself. If he couldn't even manage his own family, how could he govern a county? He still didn't handle things properly and didn't think things through.
There was half a bowl of porridge for Su He in the porridge. Su Bucheng remembered what the old lady said, picked up the porridge and directly distributed it to the bowls of the second son's family.
Xiao Qin was anxious and wanted to speak, but was pulled by Su Laoer.
Xiao Qin glared at her husband hatefully and didn't dare to say anything.
"Mother!" Su Bucheng handed the first bowl to the old lady, along with a boiled turtledove egg.
The old lady looked at her eldest son with satisfaction and took it silently.
There is no order without rules. If this had been done earlier, how could it have come to this?
Everyone waited until Su Bucheng picked up his bowl before they each picked up their own bowl to drink the porridge.
The porridge was still the same clear porridge, but because of the addition of saltwort, it tasted sour and salty. The Su family, who had not eaten salt for a long time, felt that today's porridge was particularly fresh and fragrant, and they slurped it up.
Xiao Qin drank in small sips, glancing at her husband and sons from time to time, signaling them to leave a sip for Su He.
The sons looked at their father. Su Laoer paused for a moment, then picked up the bowl and drank it all in big gulps.
Of course he felt bad that his daughter was punished, but he was doing it for her own good. She wouldn't die of starvation if she skipped a meal.
If I save this porridge, my daughter will not only have the energy to make trouble after eating it, but it will also encourage her arrogance, and punishment and discipline will be meaningless.
When the sons saw their father drink it all, they also drank it up decisively. Their sister could no longer indulge him.
"You, you..." Xiao Qin was so angry that her heart ached. What a bunch of heartless people!
"If you want to be the second one, just make some noise!" Su Laoer said coldly.
"Erlang, do you despise me?" Xiao Qin was shocked when she heard this and looked at her husband with tears in her eyes.
The middle-aged woman was about to shed tears but couldn't, which made her quite adorable.
For a moment, Su Laoer wanted to soften his stance and coax her. After all, they had been married for nearly twenty years and had never had a quarrel.
But when he thought about how he had tried to please his wife in the morning but she had given him a sour face and embarrassed him in public, Su Laoer gave up the idea of trying to please her.
He walked away with his sleeves swung, and buried his head in weaving bamboo products.
The two older sons, Su Shiyan and Su Chenyan, also worked with their father.
After finishing his porridge, the younger son Su Zhaoyan saw that his parents were in a cold war and felt a little helpless. He squeezed in to play with Xiaotao and Su Bingyan.
Seeing that her husband and son were avoiding her and her sisters-in-law did not come to persuade her, Xiao Qinshi felt frustrated. She wiped away her tears and drank the porridge in silence.
"Second uncle, third uncle, what are you doing this for?" Su Ying saw the two uncles struggling to saw the bamboo tube with machetes and kitchen knives.
"I'll make you water and rice tubes." Su Laosan grinned, showing his big white teeth. "I'll cook some dry rice later and put it in the bamboo tubes for you to eat on the road tomorrow."
"Oh, I forgot about this. It's really my second and third uncles who thought of it so thoughtfully! Thank you, second and third uncles!" Su Ying felt warm in her heart.
The family was so poor that they only had one clay pot and could not even prepare any dry food for going up the mountain. Su Ying thought that if nothing worked, she could just bring rice balls.
"What are you thanking me for? Your father, second uncle and I all lived like this when we were little, carrying food and water in bamboo tubes." Su Laosan is always smiling and optimistic, and he has never complained.
Su He, who had been crying in the room for a long time, kept listening attentively, waiting for her mother, aunt or third aunt to call her for dinner.
At this time, she couldn't be so cowardly as to go out on her own. She needed a ladder, even if Su Ying had to sarcastically criticize her.
But no one called her after waiting for a long time. Her stomach was already empty and she was hungry and thirsty.
Later she heard everyone weaving bamboo products, but no one called her.
Finally, he couldn't hold it anymore and came out to look, only to find that the jar and bowl were gone.
"Aye, where's my meal?" Su He felt disappointed.
"Forgot what your grandmother said?" Su Lao Er didn't even raise his head. "Stop making trouble in the future and work honestly. Don't make trouble all day long."
"Humph! Originally..." Su He couldn't stand this. She was about to say something in rebuttal, but when she saw her uncle frowning beside her, she immediately shut up.
"Hmph!" Su He snorted coldly, turned around and walked out of the yard, going to the stream to find Xiao Qinshi.
Xiao Qin was squatting by the stream washing dishes.
"Mom, I'm hungry!" Su He acted coquettishly towards her mother.
"Do you know you're hungry? Why are you hiding in the house? There's nothing left, and I can't do anything!" Xiao Qin said angrily while washing the dishes.
"Mom! Can you really bear to watch He'er starve to death?" Su He's stomach ached again.
"What can I do? Your uncle shared your half bowl of porridge and asked your father to leave some for you, but he drank it all!
What a useless man! He can't even protect his wife and children. All he does is follow your uncle around and do whatever he wants! " Little Qin became increasingly angry as she spoke, throwing things around and hitting others.
"Mother, boil some water! I'm so thirsty!" Su He didn't want to listen to Xiao Qin's nonsense. "Give me some of those wild fruits!"
"You silly girl, if you want to eat, go get it yourself. I don't have time to serve you!" Xiao Qin picked up the earthenware jar and bowl and left.
He went back cursing, but still secretly filled a bowl of wild fruits and gave it to his daughter, and boiled water in a clay pot.
"My mother loves me the most!" Su He picked up the wild fruit and ate it greedily.
"Oh!" Xiao Qin sighed heavily.
When will this hard time end? My husband is unreliable, my son is unreliable, life is so boring.
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