Chapter 18 Cutting the Weeds and Eradicating the Roots
Shi Bingwen instructed: "Ask someone to move all the wine and food prepared to this room." ”
The thick man bowed his head and agreed, "Yes, the small one will be fetched." ”
The rough and strong man didn't dare to raise his eyes to peek, but Xie Xiang suddenly thought that he was wearing a hat and exuding the appearance of a human being and a ghost, and his heart was suddenly ashamed and annoyed.
But he also figured out the rules of this strange place: you can't actually serve fruit and vegetables until the guests have finished their work or specifically requested it.
The tables and stools in this room are probably just for teating and flirting with guests.
No wonder the Qingjun shop Xiao Er said it was so lively before, it was just a symbolic Dusting table and stool, after pouring tea, if he asked Li Gang for wine and food, he promised Lisuo, but after he went out, he never returned.
Soon, several Tsing Yi shopkeepers came in one after another with food boxes and wine urns, Xie Xiang endured the shame and sat there, but fortunately, when he saw the shopkeepers coming in and out of the restaurant busy serving the banquet, the ugliness of the Shi brothers was slightly restrained.
Xie Xiang breathed a sigh of relief slightly.
But it soon became clear to him that he was simply falling faster towards a filthy and disgusting abyss.
Li Gang's anger seemed to have passed, he stood up with a smile, moved the wine urn, and sifted the wine in the wine cup in front of everyone, Shi Bingguang picked up his wine cup, first took a big sip, and then said to Xie Xiang with a sneer: "Xiao Xiang'er, if you are good with our brother, how about eating half of my wine?" ”
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Wuzhou Li Mansion.
The carriage that Xie Xiang was riding in when he entered the city stopped in front of the huge mansion.
There was no girl and the old woman who was busy welcoming her.
At first glance, it seems that the Wu family is just a concubine after all, and besides, above her, there is also the second aunt Tai Li Xuewei in charge, although she is the most beautiful one born among Master Li's aunts and wives, when it comes to scenery, it is really not her turn.
In fact, in the past, the most favored third aunt in the Li Mansion is too much to say that she is in and out, even if she snorts softly, the maid and servant woman will run non-stop.
However, even if there is not much loss of discipline on the outside, but in the Li Mansion, the Wu family has plummeted, and almost no one cares about it.
She can't go to the old man, and it's useless to go, the old man only braided from a baby single seedling, and then he surged up with a mouthful of blood, and he was dizzy day and night, and he didn't know anything about it for a long time.
Wu sat in the car, and through the slightly lifted curtains, he caught a glimpse of a little girl in the second aunt's house peeking out of the house, beckoning her carriage to see her, and immediately ran inside without touching the ground.
Wu sneered slightly.
Li Xuewei, who wanted to come and enjoy it in her room at the moment, was about to go to the master's sickbed in a hurry.
If you don't do enough of the drama that a big wife should do, how can you get the Li family's huge industry in the future?
Hum! People want silver, and silver wants life.
Let's do it, the more exaggerated it is, the better. Sooner or later, she will make everyone truly understand who is the real master of this family.
To be honest, the Wu family has never put their second aunt Tai Li Xuewei in their eyes.
Therefore, even if Li Xuewei is now blatantly and openly sharpening her knives, she still doesn't care.
As long as that stupid woman didn't step on her face, she would have to do it now.
The third aunt Wu put her hand on the shoulder of the girl Xiaozhu, and stepped out of the carriage, and a few family members standing in front of the Li Mansion saw this beautiful third aunt, but their expressions were very cold, and there was no respect when the old man was in good health.
Xiaozhu looked at his wife with some awe, and secretly hated that those family members were all snobbish eyes, seeing that all the power of the Li Mansion fell into the hands of the second aunt, these dogs only picked high branches to climb, and they didn't even bother to move.
Wu still swept those family members with the corner of his eyes, and only then did he understand in his heart why these daring minions dared to act so coldly, Li Xuewei's slut was so fast, she was just out of the city, and the inside and outside of the Li Mansion were supported by her brothers and sisters.
Thinking of Li Xuewei's brother Li Gang, Wu's sparkling eyes showed a sneer, that idiot, he thought he had become the master of the Li family, and now I heard that he was a little sideways when he walked, and he was looking for trouble in Wuzhou City.
The horseman Chen Gang knew that the third aunt could no longer expect those family members to come over to pick up the vehicles and horses, so he had to unload the driver himself and lead the horses to feed the grass and drink.
Seeing Xiaozhu leading the Wu family into the side door, he let out a low shout, turned the horse's head, and walked towards the livestock shed.
After settling the horses after a tiring day's work and picking up the cart, Chen Gang walked out of the barn, he took out his dry tobacco pouch, and strolled towards the kitchen of the Li Mansion while filling the tobacco pouch pot with fine and crushed dry tobacco.
After a long day of travel, not only the livestock were tired, but it was also time for him to rest and drink hot water and inhale a bag of cold cigarettes.
Joke with old acquaintances in the kitchen and have a few jokes.
"Who told you to pour a pot of boiling water without squeaking? The second wife just ordered that the water boil and quickly fade the chicken feathers, and finally got a thousand-year-old ginseng, and was in a hurry to stew black chicken soup for the old man to take. ”
From afar, he heard the servant in the kitchen, Mrs. Li Gui, scolding someone with a sharp voice, and then he heard a little girl's angry voice reply: "Our wife has just come back from outside, and she wants to wash her face and make tea, and I don't want to enjoy it in a hurry, could it be that I poured boiling water to remove my own hair?" ”
Li Gui's wife was obviously annoyed and angry when she was blocked, and suddenly jumped to her feet and shouted: "Hey, I can't talk about you anymore?" Little Hoof dares to say such a bastard thing to my mother, who spoils you? Yes? See if I don't screw your mouth? ”
Chen Gang hurriedly walked into the kitchen, only to see that Li Gui's wife was arguing with Xiao Zhen, the little girl in the third aunt's wife's room.
Seeing Li Gui's wife rushing straight towards Xiao Zhen, she was about to make a move, Xiao Zhen stared at her neck with her eyes, her face was flushed, Chen Gang hurriedly stepped forward to block in front of Li Gui's wife, and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law Li, don't be like her child, she is not sensible, talking nonsense, you have to take care of her." ”
Xiao Zhen, who was holding a breath of anger in her heart, carried the soup woman in her hand, and when she heard Chen Gang say this, her aggrieved tears suddenly fell straight down.
Li Gui's wife saw that it was Chen Gang and sneered: "Hmph, you came quickly." ”
Chen Gang was a little embarrassed: "Hehe, sister-in-law Li, don't think too much, I just came back, I passed by and wanted to beg you for a drink, everyone is a slave, why bother making noise and hurting for trivial things?" ”
Li Gui's wife glared at Chen Gang with disdain: "Do you think it is still the past?" Relying on your wife's foxy three-way manners, coaxing the master to treat her as a person? By you minions? Just look at it. ”
Xiao Zhen cried: "When do we dare to cross paths with you?" Can't the lord treat his wife as a human being? Could it be that my wife can't even make a pot of boiling water now? Is it the usual car for the wife to go out today? I didn't hear anyone say that it wasn't allowed. ”
Li Gui's wife was angry, and blurted out: "Although you and I are up, you wait, the Li Mansion drove you out of the house, it's all a matter of virtue, don't think that the master is now deaf and doesn't know anything, the second wife is like a mirror in her heart, why didn't the young master have it?" No matter how much the field chicken tosses, it can't climb the high branches and become phoenixes. ”
Chen Gang suddenly frowned: "Sister-in-law Li, you are also an old man in the house, how can you open your mouth and come if you don't do it cleanly and have no evidence?" DJing and talking, playing bowls and talking bowls, you and a little girl are talking about these things that catch the wind and shadows? Don't say that our wife didn't follow when she heard it, the second wife has always been kind and generous, I don't believe that she will listen to you subordinates to squeeze our third aunt. ”
Then he gave Xiao Zhen a look that wiped her eyes and tears: "Mrs. is waiting to use it, why don't you bring boiling water soon?" ”
Xiao Zhen also knew that the second aunt was too good in this family now, and she had to be more honest than before, so she couldn't suffer a loss, so she swallowed her anger and obediently took the soup woman back to take care of herself.
Li Gui's wife was blocked by Li Gui and had nothing to say, snorted in her nostrils, and didn't pay attention to what Chen Gang was doing when he came to the kitchen? In his mouth, he chirped crookedly and added the charcoal fire in the stove, filled it with empty water, and the hanging re-boiled water, waiting for the black chicken feathers to fade.
Li Gui held the dry tobacco pouch in his hand, and saw that the other people in the kitchen were not as familiar with the scene as usual, so they all pretended not to see him, they were busy, and some of them simply walked away under the pretext of excuses.
He secretly sighed in his heart, what is going on?
The old man hasn't braided his hair yet, and the third aunt hasn't been murdered by the eldest young master, look at their posture, isn't it.
It's really like paper.
He pondered that Li Gui's wife was a well-known person, or she wouldn't be able to get into the position of kitchen manager, and she dared to say these words to him and Xiaozhen with such fanfare, which showed that she was fearless.
The whole family is the same enemy, so they sent the old lady to lose his breath, or drive out the Wu family, or simply find an ironclad evidence, sit on the Wu family's crime of plotting to seize the family property and kill people, and put this flower-like third aunt in prison, and the quack doctor Wang asked for the autumn queen to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots.
The wall fell down and everyone pushed it, in the eyes of these people, the third aunt was already yesterday's yellow flower, and it was impossible for the salted fish to turn over. It is certain to be swept away, and it is also necessary to trample on him, and as the person next to the third aunt, they are obviously afraid of being affected.
The boiling water has been poured away by Xiao Zhen, Chen Gang was going to eat hot water, and then ask for some to go back to his place to rest his face and feet, to relieve his fatigue, but now it seems that there is no hope.
Seeing that there was no one in the kitchen who dared to ignore him, Li Gui's wife rolled her eyes, chirped crookedly, and looked unwelcome, so he smiled bitterly, took the unlit dry tobacco pouch, left the kitchen, and went straight back to his lower place.
Back to the next place, Chen Gang didn't want to smoke the pot of dry tobacco that had been pressed, so he leaned on his bed roll sullenly and lay down, full of worries.
Just as he was thinking about it, he caught a glimpse of Xiao Zhen standing at the door below him.