Waiting for you to come back alive (23)
Originally, the relationship between Old Man Zhao's family and the patriarch was not so dire.
Everyone is in the same village all year round, looking up and not looking down, saying hello when they meet, and they are all harmonious and beautiful.
Later, when the matter of Huzi happened, the old man Zhao's family went to the patriarch, and counted Li Zhu all over the time, the relationship between the patriarch and the old man Zhao's family was okay, and he would not give up maintaining those superficial harmony with the old man Zhao's family for the sake of an outsider like Li Zhu.
I really didn't expect that something like this would happen later.
People are getting closer and closer the distance, and there is an occasional quarrel when they are together all year round, and the relationship will definitely stink after a long time.
The same is true of Old Man Zhao's family and the patriarch.
Originally, there were fewer greetings to meet, and there was less time to deal with each other, so there was nothing in-depth.
I've heard a lot of messages, but as long as you don't have a long-term relationship, you basically can't tell who is what temper.
But during this time, because of the matter between Huzi and Huzi's daughter-in-law, Old Man Zhao's family and the patriarch have been in contact too frequently, and the consequence of several dealings is that both parties know what kind of person the other party is.
If two unrelated people know what kind of temper the other party has, it would be good to slowly reduce their contacts or not contact.
However, the patriarch is the head of a clan, and he needs to ask a little about the big and small things in the clan.
And Old Man Zhao and Huzi's family are the main people involved in the matter during this time, and the relationship with the patriarch cannot be said to be not dealt with.
As a result, it took too long to understand the depths, and Old Man Zhao's temper exploded first, and he turned to the patriarch.
The patriarch has not suffered a loss in so many years, and it is strange to see that Old Man Zhao has not left him any face at all, so he will give him a good face.
As a result, the two people who are not easy to mess with get together broke out the consequences of everyone surrounding Old Man Zhao's family today.
The big thing that Old Man Zhao and his wife are plotting is missing the most important promoter.
The patriarch not only stopped having anything to do with them, but completely stood in the team of the tiger's daughter-in-law.
If they still follow the original plan, they will go to the yamen to sue Huzi's daughter-in-law for disobedience and disobedience after the year, and want the government to judge that the old man Zhao is in charge.
If their family has some money and directly stuffs some money into the people in the yamen, then it is easy to say; The point is that they don't have much money, and they don't want to send money to the people in the yamen because of Li Zhu's incident.
Then when they go to sue, the yamen will definitely come to summon Li Zhu, and before summoning Li Zhu, they must pass the patriarch level, after all, the people above must save some face for the head of a village or the head of a clan.
If it were based on the previous relationship between their family and the patriarch's family, the patriarch would not stop the people in the yamen from taking Li Zhu away, and would also say good things about their family to the people in the yamen.
In this way, what they hoped for would surely come true.
But judging from the current relationship, the patriarch is afraid that he will not only prevent the people in the yamen from taking Li Zhu away, but will instead speak to Huzi's daughter-in-law.
If that were the case, what they hoped for would not only be chickens and eggs, but perhaps they would not be able to eat and walk around.
For the old man Zhao's family, who only want to get a couple of jujubes, this kind of thing is not cost-effective!
Grandma Huzi's mind turned quickly, and Old Man Zhao's mind should not be underestimated, and when he heard his wife tell him so much, he already understood where the crux of the matter was.
It's all bad tempers.
But when he lived so big, he never suppressed his temper, and he couldn't suppress it if he was asked to do it for a while.
Besides, things have happened, and there is no way to change them whether they regret it or not, and they only have one thing in mind now, that is, - remedy.
The key thing is β
Can it be remedied?
The sun had gradually sunset on the other side of the mountain, and the sky was dark, Zhao Gui walked into the courtyard and shouted in the direction of the stove room: "When is the time to eat?" β
"It's almost there, wait a minute," Jia's voice came from the stove.
Zhao Gui didn't ask much when he heard her reply, he went back to the East House directly, and he didn't rest after a whole day of noisy and noisy life, which would make his back hurt from tiredness, and it was no different from working in the fields during the busy farming in summer.
While the meal was not good at this time, he wanted to go and lie on the kang for a while, thank you.
In the stove room, Zhao Xiniu was adding firewood to the stove, and when she heard her mother replying to her father's words, she glanced at the pot and asked, "Mother, didn't this rice just come out of the pot?" It's good so soon, then I can't add this firewood. β
Jia Shi is washing the dishes! Wen Yan took his wet fingers out of the water, put a little on Zhao Xiniu's head, and said, "You don't have a number in your heart to add firewood, and the pot hasn't been opened yet!" When you are so old, you don't know how to learn the things in the stove room, and when you get married in the future, if your mother-in-law takes advantage of you, you see if you have to cry. β
Hearing this, Zhao Xiniu didn't even glance at the pot, knowing that what her mother said just now must have been perfunctory to her father.
She's also stupid, and she really takes that seriously.
But thinking of what her mother just said about her mother-in-law, Zhao Xiniu's face was bitter, and she said: "What mother-in-law is not mother-in-law, how can there be a mother-in-law, mother, you said that Xiaohong in the village is as big as me, and the children will already run away, I haven't married yet, and you don't care about it, mother, I don't care about it, if I can't marry in the future, then it's all to blame for you......"
Hearing his daughter's words, Jia glared at her fiercely, her daughter is older, can she not be worried?
The matchmaker also found several, relatives also asked several times, and there were really people who came to the house to see each other, but there was no one-time success, those people don't know if they are all blind, a big girl in her family, those people are not in a hurry to bring the dowry to her family, but find some other excuses every time, either the child has set other relatives, or the ancestor has a given baby parent, and when you hear it, you know that they are all farting.
If you have already agreed on the family matter, why ask the matchmaker to go around looking for people with girls to see each other.
But she can't scold this by name, after all, her girl hasn't married yet!
Zhao Xiniu saw that Jia Shi was glaring at her but didn't speak, so she thought that her mother didn't take what she said to heart, and she was a little anxious in her heart, coquettish, and shouted "mother" again.
Jia's family is also annoyed enough by Zhao Xiniu's family affairs! Now seeing that his daughter didn't say anything, and he didn't know how to be ashamed in his heart, he replied impatiently: "I know, I know, burn your pot well, the girl's family doesn't know how to be ashamed, and I think about a man every day." β
Zhao Xiniu's face turned red when she was told by Jia, and she couldn't help but retort: "Still shy!" I'm still ashamed, I'm so old and haven't gotten married yet, if you and your father talk to others well, then my current child is about the same age as Xiaohong's child, and I won't go out and be laughed at by people for being an old girl. β
Jia Shi widened his eyes again, raised his eyebrows and asked Zhao Xiniu, "Who said you came?" β
Zhao Xiniu pouted and replied: "Who doesn't talk about me, there are still people in their own homes." β
"Your own home?" There are so many people outside, and the Jia family doesn't know who said Zhao Xiniu, but Zhao Xiniu said that his family -
Although the people in a village are all of the same clan and can be regarded as a family, if they are said to be a family in a family, it must be closer.
Her father-in-law has no brothers, and his own man is a big brother of his father, and there is only one girl in the two families, and the others are all children.
She knows that her two sons have done the work of climbing trees and going down to the river to fish, but when it comes to breaking their mouths, his two sons are not used to it.
As for Huzi -
Although Jia doesn't like Huzi, he also knows that Huzi doesn't have the habit of gossiping behind his back, and the two families have calculated it, except for Huzi's daughter-in-law who hasn't been here for a long time, there is only her eldest daughter-in-law, Zhang.
Could it be Zhang?
Thinking of this, Jia Shi asked, "Is it your sister-in-law?" β
Zhao Xiniu pursed her mouth, she just said it in passing, and wanted to make the situation more serious, so that her mother was also anxious, not just thinking about who to point to.
Seriously, she really hadn't heard gossip from her sister-in-law, but if she didn't say so, her mother wouldn't be in a hurry, and after thinking about it, Zhao Xiniu didn't reply, and acquiesced to what her mother asked her.
Anyway, her mother didn't like her sister-in-law in the first place, no matter whether she said or not, her mother wouldn't give her a good face, since that's the case, it's okay to let her carry the black pot again.
Although Zhang is not a talkative person, Jia does not think that her eldest daughter-in-law has a good temperament, but thinks that Zhang is the kind of person with a bad belly.
When Zhao Xiniu said this, Jia Shi believed it directly, raised his hand and nodded at Zhao Xiniu, Jia Shi said: "When she says you gossip, you won't go up and tear her mouth." β
Zhao Xiniu said: "Mother, no matter what she says, she is my sister-in-law!" β
Jia Shi snorted to the side and said: "What kind of sister-in-law is she, she has been married for several years, and she won't even lay eggs, don't call her sister-in-law in the future, she looks like an unlucky person, I have also thought carefully about it during this time, I can't always waste time on her alone, I have to find a matchmaker in a few days, go out to other villages to give your eldest brother a look......"
Zhao Xiniu said disrespectfully: "Mother, you are obviously talking about me, and you are involved in the eldest brother again, so you let the eldest brother and sister-in-law make do with each other, and show me first......"
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Jia Shi, "How many times have you said that the girl's family can't always talk about looking at men, so that people will laugh at your poor family education when they hear it." β
Zhao Xiniu was not angry, she told her mother such a thing, and her mother counted her over and over again, thinking that she was not ashamed.
But her mother didn't want to think about it, if it weren't for her mother always hanging on to his eldest brother, how could she be so anxious.
Even she took the initiative to tell her mother now, her mother can talk to her eldest brother, her eldest brother has married a daughter-in-law, and the sister-in-law is still at home, but she, the eldest is not small, and she is still alone in the empty boudoir, her father doesn't care much, her mother doesn't care, she doesn't think about herself, so when will he be able to get married?
Anyway, Zhao Xiniu has made up her mind in her heart, and she will mention this matter in her mother's ear in the next three days, saying that her mother is upset and her ears are calloused, so that her mother can be hearted, and she can marry out as soon as possible.
The mother and daughter are preparing the meal for the family in the stove room, and the conversation between the old man and the old man Zhao in the hall has come to an end, no matter what happens, it will not be done until the new year, and it is useless to think about it now, a few days are not long or short, but it is more than enough to say a variable, so they plan to put this matter aside for a few days and then think about it.
However, sometimes things are just like this, don't people often say that, people are not as good as heaven.
They had already planned to put Li Zhu's incident until the end of the year, but they didn't expect that before the family had eaten dinner, something happened again.
Li Zhu followed behind the patriarch, watching the others push and shove the two people walking in front, and he didn't know whether to sigh or be happy.
Today's incident is so troublesome that I have to go back half of the things, but the really affordable ones don't have to go back much.
But looking at the patriarch like that, he didn't plan to help her solve the follow-up matters at the end of the year.
In this way, she only needs to go back to the house and some household goods, but there is no food and silver! The needs of life are still not completely solved, and if he wants to get back the rest of the things, he can only find another reason to make trouble next time, but he has to go back to such a little thing, she hung herself on the beam of the house and floated for a while, will it be difficult to make her bleed next time?
That's too much to pay!
But just as Li Zhu was thinking about how to change the follow-up, while packing up the things at home, a neighbor on the other side of the broken house came to find her and whispered something to her.
Hearing this, Li Zhu was shocked and happy at first, she was really sleepy and sent a pillow, and she just thought about what to do next, someone handed her a ladder.
Zhao Gui's two sonsββ
Zhao Dashan took his younger brother to the dilapidated house and destroyed the place where she lived temporarily, and the roof was leaked.
There was still some firewood in the courtyard, and there was also half a bag of grain that Li Zhu put on the surface, which was burned by the two brothers.
Originally, they thought that Li Zhu would not be able to make a fuss even if he went to make trouble, and in the end he would return to live in this dilapidated house.
They just wanted to take revenge on Li Zhu for the last time Li Zhu hanged himself at the door of his house, and also beat his mother and his sister and scared the Zhang family once, if they just pierced through the roof, did not set fire to the firewood and the rest of the food, they would not be discovered, but the two brothers only pierced the roof, but they were not relieved, and they happened to see Li Zhu put half a bag of grain on the side of the kang again, thinking that Li Zhu would not live and have no food, and he set a fire for the New Year cold and hungry.
But the two brothers were happy to see the fire burning, and they were discovered by a neighbor who lived not far from Li Zhu.
The north wind is howling in the cold winter, and it is the time to be careful of the candles.
The two brothers did a good job of violating the taboo of the villagers.