Chapter 42: Three Grandmothers
Zhao Shenggu said flatly: "In the future, there will definitely be more and more people joining "Far Valley", where can such a small workshop deal with it." ”
Guan Ermao nodded and didn't ask more, "Are you still looking for people in our tun if you recruit people?" ”
Zhao Shenggu suddenly smiled: "No, a few nearby tuns are fine, but you have to investigate the character well." ”
Guan Ermao knew that this was Zhao Shenggu, who was bored after experiencing these women in Guanjiatun.
Guan Ermao quickly found a few tuns nearby, and the few women who were hired couldn't believe their good luck, and they worked even harder.
After this incident, the atmosphere of the workshop changed abruptly, and there were no more people who cheated and cheated, and they were all more than work, for fear that one would be accidentally fired.
After the fifteenth day of the first month, Guan Yuan and Zhao Shenggu were going to school again, early in the morning, Guan Shi and Guan Mumu came to urge them, Guan Yuan hid in the quilt and didn't want to get up, and he opened his eyes when he was covered by a hot towel from Zhao Shenggu.
"Hmm....I don't want to go...."Guan Yuan said in a daze with his eyes closed.
Zhao Shenggu had already dressed him with his hands and feet, washed him for one-stop service, and only after Zhao Shenggu fed him hot porridge in his mouth did he completely sober up.
After Guan Shi drank the porridge in the bowl, he laughed loudly Guan Yuanlai: "Hahaha, the boss is a lazy worm, and he also makes people wear clothes and feed him, ashamed"
Guan Yuan's old face turned red, and he glared at Guan Shi: "Begging for you"
Guan Mumu watched and giggled from the side.
When they arrived at the school, Guan Mumu and Guan Shi walked to the third-grade classroom, while Guan Yuan and Zhao Shenggu walked to the sixth-grade classroom, for Guan Yuan and Zhao Shenggu, it was indeed inappropriate to continue to study step by step, but the school allowed to skip two levels at most, and Guan Yuan and Zhao Shenggu still entered the sixth grade directly after the principal's inspection.
The homeroom teacher of the sixth grade is a middle-aged man with glasses, a typical intellectual, very responsible for the students, Guan Yuan and Zhao Shenggu's awesomeness is famous throughout the school, and the homeroom teacher naturally has expectations for them.
Well, looking at the smiling squinted eyes under his glasses, you can see that he is very satisfied with these two students.
Zhao Shenggu and Guan Yuan were like fish in water in the new class, and when the first day of school ended, Guan Shi held a hand like a steamed bun, and screamed.
Needless to say, Guan Yuan knew what was going on: "You didn't do your homework again." ”
Guan Shi snorted a few times: "Isn't it just that you haven't done your homework, can you use it so ruthlessly, a tigress!" ”
When Guan Mumu heard this, he glared at Guan Shi fiercely: "You are not allowed to say that about Teacher Ma." ”
Teacher Ma in Guan Mumu's mouth is their homeroom teacher, and now she has been teaching for a few years and is becoming more and more strict with her students, but she is really conscientious and takes special care of good students like Guan Mumu, so Guan Mumu has a very good relationship with this homeroom teacher.
Guan Yuan also likes this teacher, when they were about to be expelled by the school's director of teaching, this teacher also helped them speak. "That is, if you don't do your homework, Teacher Ma can beat you? I think you're still worried about whether you'll be beaten by your mother when you go back. Guan Yuan gloated.
Guan Shi looked up to the sky and sighed, "Why is my life so bitter!" ”
Zhao Shenggu patted his head: "What are you howling!" Guan Shi dared to be angry with Zhao Shenggu, and he stopped his mouth.
Back at home, the workshop was almost finished, Li Ying looked at Guan Shi's hand, he knew that he was in trouble at school again, and pulled his ear and said to clean him up when he went back, all the way Guan Shi screamed.
Guan Yuan laughed unkindly in the back, and Zhao Shenggu patted his head: "Come in, you are carefully blown by the wind outside." ”
"Oh." Guan Yuan obediently followed Zhao Shenggu into the house.
When he left, Zhao Shenggu covered the hearth, and when he came back, he turned on the fire and lit it, and he handed the burnt chestnuts of the kang to Guan Yuan: "Put your stomach first, I'll cook." ”
"I'll go too." Guan Yuan stood up and followed Zhao Shenggu to the kitchen.
Their kitchen borrowed from the style of later generations, it was very convenient to repair, and it was particularly pleasing to the eye, Li Ying expressed her desire more than once, saying that cooking in such a place would definitely taste a little better.
Zhao Shenggu Mali's stewed rice and washed meat, while Guan Yuan sat on a small bench on the side to choose vegetables, and the sunset shone on the two of them through the window, which couldn't help but remind people of the warmth of the quiet years.
Guan Yuan also enjoyed this moment, he liked to talk to Zhao Shenggu about inconsequential chores while choosing dishes.
"Brother, the flowers in our yard are going to branch again."
"Well, then divide it, I'll cook it with you when I'm done eating." Zhao Shenggu washed the meat in his hands, and gently replied to Guan Yuan's words in his mouth,
"Well," Guan Yuan nodded, "our flower garden is getting bigger and bigger, maybe we can hold a flower show then."
Zhao Shenggu knows no less about the affairs of later generations than Guan Yuan, so he knows about the flower show when Guan Yuan says: "Do a flower show? Who's going to see it?"
"Ourselves, can't we see it ourselves?"
"Okay, you can do whatever you want."
A meal was ready in the chatter between the two, Guan Yuan smelled the sweet and sour pork ribs, and couldn't help swallowing his saliva, Zhao Shenggu looked funny: "Okay, come over and eat." ”
As soon as the two of them put the meal on the table, the third grandmother came.
Guan Yuan and Zhao Shenggu hurriedly welcomed the third grandmother to the table, afraid that she would not be able to eat these hard things, Zhao Shenggu was going to cook tofu again, and the third grandmother hurriedly stopped him: "Shenggu, don't be busy, these are very good, this rice is also soft, I can eat it." ”
Zhao Shenggu sat down at this time.
On the table, although the third grandmother was trying her best to cover up, the speed of picking up the vegetables was still much faster than she usually did, Guan Yuan and Zhao Shenggu glanced at each other, and they both saw the heaviness in each other's eyes, in order to make the third grandmother eat well, the two did not say anything at the dinner table, until they finished eating, Guan Yuan asked the third grandmother.
The third grandmother's old eyes left muddy tears; "I have created iniquity, and I have cultivated such a son and daughter-in-law..."
The third grandmother's whole body was trembling slightly, and she suppressed deep despair when she cried.
When the third grandmother told the truth under Zhao Shenggu's comfort, Guan Yuan and Zhao Shenggu couldn't wait to chop the two wolf-hearted things with one sword.
The third grandmother has been hungry for two days, Zhao Juan asked Guan Mandi to go to her mother's house to deliver meat, locked Guan San's grandmother in the house, and after Guan Mandi came back, she wanted to let Guan San's grandmother out, Zhao Juan refused to let him live, and threatened him to go back to her parents' house, Guan Mandi compromised like this, and did not release the third grandmother until the next night.
The third grandmother is almost sixty years old, her body is already weak, how can she stand such a toss, she went to Zhao Shenggu's house in one breath, and after eating, she started a fever, and Guan Yuan fed her some spiritual spring water to get better.
Zhao Shenggu's face was full of anger: "No, we can't let that even a beast have such a good time, the third grandmother will die if she is tossed like this again." ”
Guan Yuan is harder than Zhao Shenggu's heart: "We are all outsiders, no matter what happens, we have to ask the third grandmother to be ruthless herself...."
Two lines of tears rolled out of the corners of Guan San's grandmother's eyes at this time, and Guan Yuan knew that the third grandmother had heard it.
"Third grandma, I know you heard what I said, people like Guan Mandi and Zhao Juan are not worthy of your cover, as long as you can be ruthless, my brother and I will definitely seek justice for you, and my brother and I will be your own grandsons in the future."
The third grandmother's tears flowed even more fiercely, and it took a long time to open her eyes: "Xiaoyuan, you are right, I have to be tough on myself in this matter, and I will not raise this son in the future..." After speaking, the third grandmother's eyelids seemed to be overwhelmed, and she closed her eyes again.
Guan San's grandmother didn't return overnight, and she didn't see Guan Mandi come out to look for it, and the third grandmother also died of that bastard, and the next day, Guan Yuan and Zhao Shenggu asked Li Ying to help take care of the third grandmother, and then went to school.
When the two came back from school, they saw the third grandmother wearing a tight dress in the sun in the courtyard, Guan Yuan asked Li Ying if Guan Mandi had been here, Li Ying snorted: "That thing without a bag, what else is there in your eyes except for that broken shoe" After speaking, he seemed to feel that it was not good to say these foul words to Guan Yuan, so he found a topic to diverge.
Guan Yuan snorted coldly in his heart, he really shouldn't have expectations for beasts.
"Auntie, my brother and I are going to find the village chief for this matter, you can help me watch the workshop," Guan Yuan said to Li Ying
Li Ying untied the apron, "I'll go too, there is nothing wrong with Ermao in the workshop"
Yesterday, Guan Yuan said the way, but it took the third grandmother to harden her mind to identify Hang Mandi and Zhao Juan. The third grandmother agreed, and Guan Yuan, Zhao Shenggu and Li Ying escorted the third grandmother to the village chief's house.
The village chief was smoking on the roof of the village chief's house, and it seemed that dinner was really being prepared, and the village chief was smoking in the courtyard, and when he saw Guan Yuan and Zhao Shenggu coming, he was busy greeting him warmly.
For these two golden dolls who can make money, the village chief admires them from the bottom of his heart, not to mention that his two daughters-in-law are still working in their workshop in Guanyuan.
After greeting him, the village chief asked, "What are you looking for me?" ”
Zhao Shenggu told the third grandmother about the crime, and after hearing this, the village chief's eyes widened in surprise: "Old sister-in-law, is this true?" ”
The third grandmother nodded: "I've done a sin......."
The village chief had green tendons on his forehead, "Guan Jiatun has not been so old in these years, I haven't had such a four-six thing that I don't know, wait, I'll broadcast it immediately, this matter has to be handled well today!" ”
Soon after, the village chief shouted on the loudspeaker to summon a meeting of the whole tun at six o'clock, when everyone was almost finished with dinner. Guan Yuan and Zhao Shenggu waited at the village chief's house until after six o'clock, and the people in the whole tun were almost all here. Although the production has now been contracted to the household, there is still something in the tunli that is still inclined to be solved by the people in the tunli, and the law has not yet entered the hearts of the people here.
Guan Mandi and Zhao Juan were naturally in the crowd, and when they saw the third grandmother who was supported by Guan Yuan and Zhao Shenggu, they were taken aback, and then they sighed in their hearts, thinking that today's incident had something to do with them.
Sure enough, the village chief began to criticize with indignation: "As the old saying goes, raising children prevents old age, but now we have a beast in Guanjiatun who wants to starve to death the old mother......"
As soon as the village chief's voice fell, there was an uproar in the crowd, who is this, who dares to be so disobedient and unfilial.
"Take Guan Mandi and Zhao Juan to bring them to me."
Immediately, the village chief's son brought Guan Mandi and Zhao Juan up in a panic.
Seeing that it was the two of them, the onlookers showed a look of surprise, and it was not news that these two things abused the third woman.
"Zhao Juan is the daughter-in-law of Guan Mandi, since she got married, she has abused her mother-in-law, bullied her husband, has not had a son and a half daughter for seven years, and does not abide by women's morals. After the village chief said this, the anger of the people below was also provoked, especially some traditional women, the most unseen woman like Zhao Juan, who spat on her.
Zhao Juan saw that it was like this, so she simply broke the jar and broke it, "I'm sorry, I see who dares to touch me, it's a new era now, why are you tying me up." ”
Guan Mandi hung his head stiffly, as if he didn't hear the abuse around him.
"Now we can't move you, but we can't afford a daughter-in-law like you in Guanjiatun, and we can still do it if we drive you back." When Zhao Juan heard this, her face immediately panicked.
Guan Mandi's head was also raised, his mouth moved, and he didn't say anything in the end, Zhao Juan scolded him: "Guan Mandi, you nest without eggs, your daughter-in-law is about to be driven away..."
So Guan Mandi said to the village chief, "Please, village chief, don't drive my daughter-in-law away." ”
Zhao Juan looked at Guan Mandi and spoke for her, and felt a little more confident. She actually understands that holding Guan Mandi is the most important thing, and now her voice is louder again: "If you want to drive me away, it's not so easy, I and Guan Mandi have a marriage certificate, except for Guan Mandi and me to divorce, what right do you have to drive me away." ”
Guan Yuan was surprised that Zhao Juan still knew this, but after thinking about it a little, he also felt that it was understandable, Zhao Juan had broken her shoes and was caught, she must have gone to someone to ask about these things, and I heard that she had a cousin who couldn't beat the eight poles in the county court.
Where did the village chief and these villagers know this, hearing Zhao Juan say this, they all exchanged heads, and the village chief was also dumbfounded: "Shenggu, what Zhao Juan said is true?" In his eyes, Zhao Shenggu is a person who has a university question.
Zhao Shenggu nodded: "It's true..."Hearing Zhao Shenggu say this, Zhao Juan couldn't help but feel proud, but Zhao Shenggu said again: "However, abuse of the elderly is a crime, and you have to go to prison, if we go to Yan Zhan, Guan Mandi and Zhao Juan are deliberately murdered, but they didn't succeed, if so, these two people will be in prison for at least 20 years." ”
Zhao Shenggu naturally said it to Yan zhòng.
But Zhao Juan and Guan Mandi were really frightened, Zhao Juan forced: "What nonsense, do you think that if you say this, I will be scared?" ”
"Is it nonsense, you will know as soon as you send it to the police station." Zhao Shenggu said coldly.
Now the villagers are a little hesitant, this is more than their psychological tolerance to send people to the public.
Guan Mandi was already so frightened that his face turned pale, and he knelt in front of the third grandmother at the moment: "Mother, I'm not a person, I'm not a person, you spare us, I and Juan'er will be filial to you in the future, mother, you say something.!" ”
Zhao Juan saw that Zhao Shenggu was really going to come over to pull her, and she also knelt on the ground with a plop: "Mother, I'm not a person, I'm not a person, I won't treat you like this anymore, you tell the villagers to spare me." ”
"Mother, if I go to prison, who will give you a pension and send you to the end, who will burn paper for your father during the New Year's holidays, mother", Guan Mandi cried again.
The third grandmother's body trembled when she heard this, and at the end of her sunken eyes burst into tears again: "Forget it, you are wronged..., folks, for the sake of my wife, forget it this time......."
After Guan San's grandmother finished speaking, she didn't dare to look at Zhao Shenggu and Guan Yuan, and turned her back to cry. When the village chief and the people in Tunli heard what Grandma Guan San said, they were also relieved that they didn't have to deal with the public family.
Guan Mandi and Zhao Juan hurriedly stood up, supporting the third grandmother left and right.
In such an atmosphere, Guan Yuan and Zhao Shenggu, two people who were upset with the third grandmother, became a joke. When the third grandmother passed by the two, she wanted to say a few words, but Zhao Shenggu turned sideways.
The third grandmother felt a pain in her heart, she knew that this time she had broken the hearts of the two babies.
On the way back, Zhao Shenggu was sullen, Guan Yuan didn't feel anything, after all, he didn't have much feeling for people other than Zhao Shenggu, and now he did this, just to repay the kindness of the third grandmother to take care of them, since people didn't accept it, why bother to take a hot face and stick a cold butt.
"Okay, brother, that's fine, they're a family after all."
Zhao Shenggu took a breath: "Yes, people are a family." There was relief in his tone.
Guan Yuan knew that for the third grandmother, his brother's heart had been closed.
"Let's go, Xiaoyuan, go back and make something to eat, at this time, we haven't eaten yet!"
"Well, I'm going to eat the crispy pork you made last time." Since Zhao Shenggu became literate, the recipes in the space were also the object of his research, and he had hollowed out his mind in order to make Guan Yuan eat more, and now his cooking skills have surpassed Guan Yuan.
The two of them held hands and walked towards the house, where it was just the two of them.