Chapter 96 Chapter 96 What does this mean for Chen...
What could Chen say about this? She couldn't say that it was because she knew her best friend's mother-in-law and sisters-in-law too well, right?
If we really let them come, I guess everything in the house will be revealed. How can we tolerate that?
As for her good friends Mo and Lu, she knew their character, so she was naturally relieved and trustworthy. She would definitely hire people like them!
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In short, the matter of hiring people was settled. The next day, Mrs. Mo and Mrs. Lu came to the Su family and started working officially. With the help of the two, the Su family finally felt much more relaxed.
Especially Mrs. Mo and Mrs. Lu were very hardworking. They were not only doing their own work, but also helping to clean the Su family and feed the pigs when they were free.
"Sixth Mother, Third Mother, what are you two doing? I told you not to do this."
Chen and Su Li had just returned from selling food in the county. As soon as they got off the mule cart and entered the yard, they saw their good sisters and Lu chopping pig grass, and hurried forward to stop them.
"It's okay, I just did it."
"Yeah, it's okay, just a small matter." Mrs. Lu also looked up and agreed, indicating that it was okay.
This made Chen feel a little embarrassed. She originally asked them to come just to help wash vegetables, but she didn't expect that they would even feed the pigs and chickens. As a result, she had nothing to do after returning home these two days.
"Come and have a rest, and drink some autumn pear soup." Chen put down the bowls and chopsticks, and brought out several bowls of the autumn pear soup that her youngest daughter had cooked in the morning.
Speaking of which, these days, my youngest daughter stews some soup every few days. In summer, it's mung bean soup that cools down and relieves heat, and in autumn, it's autumn pear soup that moistens the throat and nourishes the lungs. Drinking a bowl every few days has reduced the cold. In previous years, she would cough when the temperature dropped a little at this time, but I don't know if it's because of the autumn pear soup, she doesn't cough at all.
Here, seeing this, Mrs. Mo and Mrs. Lu also washed their hands and picked up the autumn pear soup to drink. The three of them looked at the green mountains and wild geese in the distance, and chatted about who in the village had found a new wife. They were all about family matters, and their life was very enjoyable.
Su Li and Su Hong entered the yard from behind. As soon as they entered the yard, they saw their mother Chen and the other two sitting under the eaves chatting with bowls in their hands.
Seeing them come in, Mrs. Mo greeted them with a smile, "Da Ya and Wu Ya, you're back?"
"Aunt Mo."
"Aunt Lu."
After a few people greeted each other, Su Hong and the others also went to pour a bowl of autumn pear soup. The autumn pear soup tasted sweet with the fragrance of autumn pear and was very thirst-quenching. Everyone liked to go home and drink two big bowls of it when they were tired and thirsty after a day, and they felt that all the fatigue of the day had disappeared.
At this moment, a cry of surprise suddenly came from outside.
"Oh, have you cured some bacon at home?" Mrs. Lu got up to put the bowl away, but she found a pottery jar full of meat under the eaves of the house next to her.
"You just saw it?" Mrs. Mo was also surprised. The pottery jar was placed under the corridor on the left. She found it when she came here in the morning. She didn't expect that Mrs. Mo didn't see it?
Don’t mention it, Mrs. Mo really didn’t see it, or rather, she didn’t notice it. As soon as she arrived, she went to wash the intestines and never came here.
But speaking of cured meat, thanks to the Su, Huang and Zeng families who earned money this year, they also cured several kilograms of it. You know, in the past, it was considered good if the family could only cure one or two kilograms during the New Year.
Mrs. Lu thought for a moment and said, "There are cypress trees behind my house. I'll cut some for you tomorrow."
The Su family's bacon is obviously freshly pickled and not smoked yet, while the Lu family's has been smoked a long time ago and is hanging in the kitchen. It is dripping with oil every day. Sometimes when you are craving for it, you can cut a piece and cook it in porridge. It tastes so good.
"That's great. I said I would go to the mountain to cut it in a couple of days. Now I don't have to go." Chen said with a smile.
Then the three of them discussed what to buy for the New Year and made an appointment to go to the temple to worship Buddha together in a few days. This was the first year that they all had spare money, and the first year that they didn't have to worry about where to eat and drink during the New Year. The atmosphere at home was much more relaxed than before. For the first time, there was no cloud of worry, but the feeling that the future was full of hope.
Especially in the past few days, Mrs. Mo and Mrs. Lu came to the Su family to help. Sometimes when they came to work, Old Man Su and Mrs. Wu would invite them to dinner. The braised dishes that Mrs. Chen had not sold out would be divided among the two to take home, which greatly improved the lives of the two families.
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Here, the Su family was busy preparing things for the New Year and other festivals, but Uncle Chen was all alone. Ever since he had a fight with his wife Zhao last time, he had not gone back and lived with his parents and his younger brother, Uncle Chen Er.
During this period, he still got up early every day and slaughtered pigs everywhere, as if nothing had happened. His son Chen Dalang and two daughters came to see him, and Zhao also came to his house in person to ask him to go back, but Uncle Chen was heartbroken and refused to go back.
"I know I was wrong. Will you come back with me?" Zhao ran to Chen's house and asked her uncle Chen who was building a wall. She really regretted these days. She pushed her husband away for a braised dish recipe. In the end, she didn't get the braised dish recipe and her husband didn't come home.
"What did you do wrong?" Uncle Chen finally spoke, but the first sentence he said was this.
Zhao was stunned. What did she do wrong? She thought hard and said,
"I shouldn't have said those hurtful words to you."
Zhao had something to say. She felt that the conversation had just gotten to that point. She loved her husband in her heart and didn't mean that.
However, it was obvious that Uncle Chen was not satisfied with this answer.
Seeing that he turned his head to do something else and didn't want to pay attention to her, Zhao quickly started thinking again. However, she couldn't figure out what she had done wrong after thinking for a long time, so she felt a little angry.
"Chen Tiezhu, you don't want to go home. Are you determined not to live with me anymore?"
"If you think so, I can't help it." Uncle Chen said.
"If you have nothing else, you should go back. I want to cook."
Seeing this, Zhao immediately said harshly, "Okay, Chen Tiezhu, remember this and don't regret it."
She turned and left, but the more she walked, the angrier she became. She truly regretted her actions and had apologized, so why wouldn't her husband forgive her? Yes, that's right. It must be that Chen had said something to her husband that made him refuse to forgive her.
Thinking of this, she originally planned to go home, but turned around and went to Su's house.
"Don't think I don't know what you're up to. You think you'll win by instigating your eldest brother to ignore me? I'm telling you, you're dreaming."
"You think your elder brother divorcing me will do you any good..."
"If you have the guts, come find me. Is it fun to do this behind my back?"
Zhao started scolding Chen, saying that she was behind the divorce of her uncle Chen, and that it was all Chen's fault that they were like this, because Chen pretended not to treat her and her uncle Chen as a family and even refused to give her the recipe for the braised dishes.
Finally, they were talking about how the Zhao family had stopped people from selling pork to the Su family, and how Butcher Zhao had someone go and cause trouble for the Su family's snack stall. They even said, "Aren't you guys okay too?"
In her opinion, although her father didn't allow people to sell pork to them, didn't the Su family still buy meat in the end? And the last time her father sent people to cause trouble for them, he didn't really want to hurt them. Do they hate her so much that they want her eldest brother to divorce her?
However, who knew that it would have been fine if Zhao hadn't said anything. Once she did, Chen realized that the gangsters from the previous incident were actually hired by the Zhao family. "So those people were hired by your family?"
Upon hearing this, Zhao realized that she seemed to have said something wrong. Didn't the Su family know that that was the person her family was looking for?
Her eyes dodged, and her momentum weakened. "So what?"
How? Chen immediately raised her hand and slapped him with lightning speed, "I'm slapping him on behalf of my eldest brother."
Then, before Zhao could react, he slapped her again, "This is for myself."
Zhao was obviously confused, "You hit me?" She had never been hit by anyone in her life. Zhao never thought that one day she would be beaten by the person she had always looked down upon.
She immediately started to fight back like crazy, but Mrs. Mo and Mrs. Lu had been waiting for the opportunity to strike. In the end, Mrs. Zhao didn't gain any advantage and returned home crying with her hair in disarray.
The first thing she did after returning home was to find her father, Zhao the Butcher. Zhao the Butcher was very angry when he saw his daughter was beaten. He kept asking who beat her. But when he heard that it was a member of the Su family, he fell silent.
You know, since the last time he sent someone to cause trouble for the Su family but failed and was instead warned and blackmailed by Lai Ermaizi, he asked someone to find out. He didn't know until he asked. Once he asked, he found out that the Su family was actually related to many wealthy families in the county and even people working in the yamen. He was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat.
To be honest, the reason why Butcher Zhao has been able to do business in the county for so many years is not only because he is good at slaughtering pigs, but also because he, like Lai Ermaizi, is very good at judging the situation. Simply put, he flatters the powerful and bullies the weak. If he meets someone who is easy to bully and has no family background, he will bully him at will. If he meets someone who has a family background, he will greet him with a smile and flatter him. This is the reason why he has been able to do business for so many years without being excluded by others.
So after he learned that the Su family knew so many dignitaries in his eyes, he no longer dared to bully them like before. In fact, for more than a month, he supported his daughter in coaxing her son-in-law back.
"We were wrong in this matter, and we can't blame them for doing this." Butcher Zhao said embarrassedly.
Seeing her father like this, Zhao didn't care about crying anymore. She just felt a sense of strangeness. "Dad?" She called out in disbelief, as if she didn't know him.
Butcher Zhao's eyes were a little evasive, but he quickly remembered what his daughter had done wrong and complained:
"Also, you too. The Su family clearly didn't know that it was our family who was looking for the person, so why did you say all that? Now look what happened." What should they do if the Su family retaliates against them for this?
When Zhao heard this, she said, "You don't care about me, but you say it's all my fault?"
"If you hadn't said you wanted to snatch the recipe from the Su family, would I have become like this?"
"Are you still my real father?"
Butcher Zhao was also angered by these two sentences, and immediately said,
"Yes, I'm not your biological father, get out."
Zhao was even more sad when she heard this. "I'm leaving now, and I won't talk to you anymore."
After saying that, he ran away, leaving Butcher Zhao alone, feeling angry and heartbroken, but more sad and disappointed.
He's not her biological father? He's been so kind to her over the years that he's practically wasted, and she actually said he wasn't her biological father? Back then, she'd fallen for that pretty boy and insisted on marrying him. He didn't want her to suffer, so he spent money to buy her a house in the county town for her to live in. He'd never hit or scolded her since they were little. Now that she'd grown up and grown stronger, she actually said he wasn't her biological father.
You have to know that no matter who Zhao Laoer treated badly in his life, he had never been bad to his little daughter, so anyone could say anything bad about him, but she couldn't and couldn't.
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