Chapter 23 Design
Besides, the Niu family and the Cao family's mother and daughter were torn together, and from time to time there were painful screams and scolding, which caused the neighbors who passed by to snicker and talk.
There are people who are familiar with the inside story, smiling and whispering to solve everyone's doubts, talking about how the two families got married, and what is the inside story, and everyone is even more interested in listening to it.
After the Niu family and the Cao family's mother and daughter were tired from fighting, pulling each other's hair and panting, they finally noticed that there was something wrong around them, and the three of them turned their heads to look at the closed courtyard door and the crowded spectators around them, and then Qi Qi let go of his hand and cursed.
"This damn girl, she fell for it!"
Niu Shi suffered a small loss with one enemy and two enemies, she touched the blood stains on her arm, and then looked at the people around her, thinking that she would lose face if she couldn't take advantage of it again, so she said, "Mrs. Cao, this matter is not over today, you wait for me!" ”
Cao Pozi touched her aching scalp, spit proudly, and responded, "Okay, I'll wait, you dare to come again and beat you all over the ground looking for teeth!" ”
Niu snorted hatefully, turned around and cursed and walked away through the crowd watching the excitement. Mrs. Cao wanted to laugh a few times to celebrate the victory, but she didn't want to pull the wound on her face and grinned in pain, so she reached out and pulled the eldest daughter who wanted to smash the door and walked away with her head down.
The crowd was no longer lively to watch, and soon they dispersed while talking.
Dong Rong took her younger brother and Silly Zhu to be busy for a long time, and finally sent away the little housekeepers who came to fetch ice, and finally pondered her thoughts while making lunch.
As the saying goes, people are good at being bullied, and horses are good at being ridden. At the beginning, she did not fail to find out about her boyfriend's betrayal, but she always deceived herself that the prodigal son would eventually turn back, and then turned a blind eye to his various loopholes, and was willing to be a cow and a horse for him to provide him with fine clothes and food, and finally ended up dying on the street. Speaking of which, she is a fool who is carried away by love and goes against the grain.
Now that she has a chance to live again, she naturally doesn't want to live back to that weak appearance. Her business had just begun, and the hard-earned money was far from enough to support a prosperous life in the next life, but Cao Pozi and Niu's were bitten early like flies seeing carrion. If she makes a fortune from running an orchard in the future, she will not be swallowed alive. She doesn't care about how Dong Rong was treated badly and grew up and how she was sold as a stupid wife. But now that the soul in this body is her, she can no longer allow anyone to be bullied.
Thinking of this, Dong Rong didn't want to make lunch again, threw down the water scoop in her hand, wiped her hand on the apron and shouted Dong Ping, "Brother Ping, you take the pillar to watch the house, I'm too lazy to cook, go to the street to buy some food and come back." ”
Dong Ping didn't know that his sister had other plans, and thought that she was too tired from doing work, so he hurriedly responded, "Okay, sister, you don't have to buy anything expensive to eat, just a few steamed buns to pad your stomach." ”
"Got it, let's eat steamed buns and buy buns for the pillar, otherwise he should make trouble." Dong Rong opened the door with a smile and went out, leaving Dong Ping to fetch water and greet his brother-in-law to wash his face.
After the two of them washed and cleaned up, and teased the ants under the tree for a long time, Dong Rong hurried back. Dong Ping greeted and picked up the package in his sister's hand and asked, "Sister, why have you been there for so long?" ”
Dong Rong wiped the beads of sweat from her head, and then took out four small silver bills from her arms, and said with a smile, "I exchanged the silver by the way, and you will go back to your home in the afternoon to make up for Niu's private room." ”
Dong Ping took the silver and was overjoyed. You must know that he has done that bad thing of stealing in his life, and he is always nervous when he thinks about it, and if he returns the silver tonight, he will not have to worry about it anymore.
"Also, Brother Ping, tell my father about going back to the academy before you come over tomorrow morning. This is a big deal, and I can't say it without telling you. ”
Dong Ping nodded, thinking of the academy that had been absent for nearly a year, and he was really emotional. The stepmother of the family is harsh and vicious, and spoils her parents and daughters, but her sisters and brothers are not as good as the old yellow dog in the family. Even the father is also afraid of his wife and confused, and for the sake of family peace, he has never made decisions for them.
And although my sister is weak and thin, she keeps him in her arms every time she wields a whip from Erniang, and now her sister has worked hard to make money, and the first thing is to send him back to the academy to study, how can the feeling in his heart be expressed with two simple words of gratitude. He had to study hard to get back on his feet.
The two sisters and brothers were talking like this, but they didn't notice that Silly Zhu had already taken a meat bun and walked under the big tree in the corner of the courtyard to tease the ants. The breeze rustled through the treetops, as if someone were whispering, and a smile was faintly on the face of the man under the tree.
Is it fake silver, what bad idea did she have in her careful eyes? It's just that it's rare for her to have such an interest, so he will help push it on, and also watch the excitement to pass the boring days...
In the afternoon, Sister-in-law Liu and others rushed back one after another after selling the ice bowls. Everyone was curious and worried about what happened in the morning, so they surrounded Dong Rong to inquire, for fear that Dong Rong would be forced to abandon the deal. If that were the case, they would probably have done their job.
Dong Rong naturally knew their thoughts, and said with a smile that her mother-in-law and her mother-in-law were reconciled as before, and she would still be in charge of the ice business in the future. Although the people did not believe it, they heard that their errand was not affected, and it was not a matter of much trouble.
Dong Ping was anxious but disappointed, and before the sun set on the top of the west mountain, he carried the festival prepared by his sister and rushed back to Huaishu Village.
Although Dong Rong hated Mrs. Cao very much, she didn't want to tear her face and let outsiders rumor that she was unfilial. The left and right rituals had been prepared for a long time, and she simply picked up a basket of japonica rice, fine noodles and tea leaves and entrusted Sister-in-law Liu to take them back to her mother-in-law's house. Sister-in-law Liu remembered that she had been taken care of by Dong Rong a lot over the past few days, so she took the initiative to talk about inquiring about the Cao family's movements for Dong Rong. Dong Rong smiled and thanked her for her kindness, and took a pack of sesame candy bought on the street and sent her back to coax the child, but Sister-in-law Liu was not polite, and took it and went home.
After having dinner and sending a few children to sleep, Liu's sister-in-law went to Cao's house with the basket on her back, and the old man Cao was sitting in the hall in a daze, and he didn't even notice the dry tobacco in his hand so that there was only a little spark left. Sister-in-law Liu knocked on the door panel and said with a smile, "Uncle Cao, have you eaten?" ”
Old man Cao came back to his senses, and when he saw that it was a neighbor who came to the door, he hurriedly greeted, "It's his sister-in-law Liu, come in and sit!" ”
After Sister-in-law Liu entered the house, she put the basket in her hand next to the chair and said with a smile, "Uncle, what are you thinking, I didn't notice when I entered the yard, if I met a thief, wouldn't I empty the house." ”
What she said was funny, and Old Man Cao also smiled when he heard it. But just as he was about to reply, Sister Cao helped Mrs. Cao out of the house, and Mrs. Cao said coldly, "The poor in this family don't even want to come, how can there be anything to steal?" Unless the thief is blind. ”
Sister-in-law Liu smiled awkwardly, and she didn't know how to answer. But Old Man Cao snorted heavily and scolded, "Don't you have a headache, why don't you lie down and come out!" ”
Mrs. Cao pouted and rolled her eyes and was about to refute, but Sister Cao was sharp-eyed, pointed to the basket at Sister-in-law Liu's feet and said, "Hey, sister-in-law, what did you send?" ”
Sister-in-law Liu looked down on her eyes as a wealth fan, but she still responded with a smile, "There are busy errands outside the city, and Sister Rong and Zhuzi can't come back with free time, so they ask me to bring some rice noodles to honor my uncle and aunt." ”
As soon as Sister Cao heard this, she rushed to Sister-in-law Liu in three or two steps, pulled the basket and began to check it, shouting from time to time, "Oh, mother, there is a big strip of meat, as well as tea, and japonica rice..."
"Really, do you have to put any silver at the bottom of the basket?" Mrs. Cao also hurriedly squeezed over, and turned the basket over with her daughter, and at the end she didn't see half a cent of silver and swept towards Sister-in-law Liu with squinted eyes, and said half-truthfully, "Oh, where did the silver go, I remember that Sister Rong said that she would honor me for ten taels of silver." Didn't you help put it up, sister-in-law Liu, this joke can't be made! ”
Sister-in-law Liu was so angry that her nose was smoking, she was kind enough to help deliver things, but she didn't hear a word of thanks, and she was charged with stealing silver. That's so deceitful! She stood up abruptly and said angrily, "Auntie, what are these words, if you suspect that I stole the silver, go and ask Sister Rong." is really kind to be a donkey's liver and lungs, no wonder Sister Rong is reluctant to come back! With that, she shook her hand and went out the door.
Mrs. Cao's face turned black from choking, and she rushed to the door and shouted, "What do you mean by this, am I still treating my daughter-in-law badly?" Our Cao family..."
"Alright, you won't let me get back!" Old man Cao slammed the cigarette pouch pot and shouted loudly. Mrs. Cao shrank her head in fright, and hurriedly turned around and defended with a bitter face, "Old man, do you see it?" It's not for me to make a fuss, listen to what she says..."
Master Cao glared at her fiercely, and said angrily, "I'll sue you again, you are not allowed to interject in the matter of Zhuzi and Sister Rong's younger family, otherwise there will be days when you regret it in the future." If I know you're going to trouble them outside the city again, don't blame me... Don't blame me for taking you off. ”
Cao Pozi opened her mouth wide in shock when she heard this, and finally patted her thigh and sat on the ground and cried, "Oh, I'm not alive!" Married into the Cao family for decades, not to mention the hardships and tiredness, but also to serve the stupid son you brought back from outside, this old man has no filial piety from his children, and he has to be divorced from the house, what is the meaning of my life! ”
Old man Cao only warned the old woman many times to no avail, and only came up with such a heavy sentence in a hurry. At this time, he also regretted it a little, but after thinking about it, he couldn't pull his face down and apologize, so he had to hide out of the door with his hands behind his back.
Leaving Mrs. Cao consciously taking advantage of the reason, she had to continue to pursue the victory, not wanting to turn her head and see that her daughter had already held the meat and tea in the basket in her arms. She hurriedly rushed over and snatched it back, scolding, "You dead girl, this is mine, where are you going to take it?" ”
Sister Cao's eyes rolled, and he smiled, "I'm just helping my mother take inventory, how dare I take it." ”
Mrs. Cao snorted, reluctantly accepting her daughter's statement, and she bent down to count the remaining things in the basket. I didn't want Sister Cao, but I took advantage of her relaxation to snatch the fat and run away. ZM