Chapter 13: Family Affairs
In the courtyard of the Wu family, Mrs. Ye sat on a chair and pulled her daughter, "Erya, why hasn't Shi Xin come back yet?" His grandmother finally came to the house, why did he still go out? ”
Liu Fang, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Wu family, was busy in the kitchen, and when she heard Mrs. Ye's words, she felt disdainful in her heart, and secretly thought: Just because you are all here, you have to avoid it, and it is rare for the Ye family to be confused and thick-skinned. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info although there are many ideas in his heart, but the work in his hands is still done quickly, then suddenly felt that the kitchen was dark, looked up, it turned out to be a cuckoo, you can see that the cuckoo came to Wu's house today is carefully cleaned up, I saw that she was wearing a blue floral jacket with a pink cotton coat inside, and a tender pink skirt on the lower body, the clothes seemed to be deliberately small, lining her small waist and thin, chest and buttocks are bulging.
"Sister-in-law, let me help you." Liu Fang heard the cuckoo say such a sentence in a soft voice, but when she spoke, she pinched a handkerchief and covered her nose and mouth, and she didn't mean to go into the kitchen at all, Liu Fang didn't want her to help, but it was really disgusting to ask if she didn't plan to work like this, so she spoke heavily: "No, you are a guest, how can you let you into the kitchen at home." Liu Fang specially bit the words "guest" and "home", and the girl who wanted to make a face should have a good idea when she heard this, but the cuckoo was good, as if she didn't hear it, and she heard that she didn't need her help, so she hurriedly said to the old lady sitting in the yard: "Milk, I'll just say it, sister-in-law is diligent, which turn can I be!" As she spoke, she left the kitchen, thinking to herself, if it weren't for her mother saying that she would come over and pretend to be virtuous, she wouldn't want to enter the kitchen. In the future, when she marries in, the Wu family doesn't want to let herself go into the kitchen to serve the family to eat and drink.
When Mrs. Ye heard her granddaughter's words, not only did she not ask her to work, but said: "Then you go to the house to play by yourself, I see that there is still a nest candy on the coffee table in your aunt's house, you can eat it yourself." Just like the Ye family arranged things, Du Juan's eyes lit up when he heard Wo Sitang, and he entered the house with a "hey" sound, Aunt Wu looked at such a mother and niece, and felt ashamed and ashamed, and her mother's family embarrassed herself in front of her daughter-in-law again.
Mrs. Ye saw her granddaughter enter the back room, and said to the kitchen, "Daughter-in-law Shiwang, cook a few more dishes, your uncle will come over." After speaking, he turned back to his daughter and spoke: "Erya, how did you talk about it last time?" Have you discussed it with your son-in-law? Saying that, he glanced at the kitchen, and whispered: "Du Juan is your own niece, marrying in is not to help you, Shi Wang's daughter-in-law's maiden family is in the village, it doesn't look like a good person, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law get along, either the east wind overpowers the west wind or the west wind overwhelms the east wind, you have a soft temperament, don't be pinched by your daughter-in-law, I am worried about you, so I made a guarantee with your sister-in-law, saying that Du Juan married her cousin, and her aunt became a mother-in-law, and she always felt sorry for Du Juan, otherwise how would your sister-in-law be willing to let Du Juan marry in!? You have to understand my hard work. ”
When Shi Wang married his daughter-in-law, the Ye family wanted to marry their daughter, but at that time Du Juan was still young, and the Ye family was a little bit of a bargain, thinking that Shi Wang would be a guarantee, riding a donkey to find a horse, and a better son-in-law allowed Shi Wang to escape and marry the current daughter-in-law Liu Fang, Liu Fang is a native of Liushu Village, and the family has lived in Liushu Village for generations, Liu Fang's grandfather can still say a few words in the Liu family, and it is Shi Wang's blessing to be able to marry Liu Fang. When Shi Wang became a parent, the Ye family was shocked to realize that the spare tire they were optimistic about was actually pried, so they were very angry, and they also came to the Wu family to make a fuss, so Liu Fang has always looked down on her mother-in-law's mother-in-law, but she has never shown it, after all, her mother-in-law is indeed a good mother-in-law, but then again, who can fancy a family like the Ye family?
The Ye family's girl Du Juan relied on her beauty in the first few years, and she was picky and selective in family affairs, and she hooked up with those idle men outside, and no one wanted to have a bad reputation, so the Ye family thought of Shi Xin, the old lady of the Ye family was used to bullying her daughter, even if Du Juan had a bad reputation, Shi Xin was still three years younger than Du Juan, and it was correct to let Du Juan marry Shi Xin, and it looked like the Wu family had taken advantage.
Aunt Wu was held by the old lady and said for almost an hour, her palms were full of sweat, she was afraid of Mrs. Ye when she was a child, even if she had married and married a daughter-in-law, she was still afraid of her mother in her heart, when her mother-in-law was still alive, there was always a way to deal with her mother's family, even if her mother-in-law came to fight the autumn breeze, she couldn't take much things, and that time could be said to be the happiest day in her life. But as soon as her mother-in-law died, she asked her to face her mother's family from time to time to ask for money and things, she was stunned, in addition to crying or crying, Wu Shugen was still very angry at first, but the daughter-in-law cried well, and he also knew that his daughter-in-law's temperament was not good at being the master of the house, so after Shi Wang married his daughter-in-law, he began to let the eldest daughter-in-law be in charge.
After the eldest daughter-in-law took charge of the house, the money bag was tightened, but the most urgent thing for the Ye family at present was to marry the daughter into the Wu family, and it had been a long time since she had come to ask for money. Of course, Aunt Wu knows that her niece is not a girl who can live, and her son doesn't like her yet, but she trembles when she pairs the old lady Shangye, don't say no, she can not let go and keep dragging It is already a great mother's love supporting her, so this time, she still wants to drag: "Mother..., I..." hummed for a long time, and finally continued; "It's not that I don't want to, but it's not up to me to marry a new daughter-in-law alone. It has to be agreed by the roots. ”
When Mrs. Ye heard her daughter say this, her eyes widened: "The roots of the tree are unwilling?" My cuckoo is such a good girl, and she is willing to marry Shi Xin, but Wu Shugen is still unwilling? What kind of family is the Wu family, but we have been here for decades, Wu Shugen's father is still a son-in-law! ”
"Mother, you... You... What do you say? Hearing the old lady say this about her father-in-law, Aunt Wu's eyes were red in a hurry, and tears were about to come out, but she didn't dare to say anything heavier again.
Mrs. Ye also realized that she had missed her mouth at first, but seeing her daughter's unpromising appearance, she still despised her in her heart, and said to Aunt Wu: "What are you anxious about!?" Didn't I just say that I leaked my mouth, there is no one else in this courtyard, how can Wu Shugen know what I said? As he spoke, he specially shouted to the kitchen: "This daughter-in-law, don't chew the root of your tongue, be careful of retribution." ”
"Mother, I didn't say you, I... I'm just... It's been a long time, and nothing has happened.
In the kitchen, Liu Fang listened to the conversation between Mrs. Ye and her mother-in-law clearly, and her heart was crooked, her mother-in-law was a good mother-in-law, but it was not easy for her grandmother to deal with it, it was obvious that the old woman was wrong, but the mother-in-law was said by the old woman, but it was the mother-in-law's fault, and this ability to reverse black and white is really powerful. Of course, Liu Fang knew that Mrs. Ye's last sentence was for herself, the old pious woman pointed out that Sang scolded Huai, and treated everyone as fools.
I only heard the old lady Ye in the courtyard continue to ask: "The root of the tree said that he is not willing to marry my cuckoo for Shi Xin?" Kindness? ”
"No, no, the owner didn't say that." Aunt Wu listened to her mother's words, waved her hand again and again, and stumbled again: "But mother, Shi Xin... Shi Xin regarded Du Juan as his sister, how could he marry Du Juan? ”
"What does the male doll know, his cousin looks like one of the best in these ten miles and eight villages, how face-saving it is to marry such a daughter-in-law, don't worry, I know about this, since the roots of the tree agree, then come to the house after the first month to propose, the two children are not young." Mrs. Ye talked to herself, so she made a decision for her daughter.
Liu Fang listened in the kitchen while slandering: Shi Xin is only sixteen, he is still young, he is not in a hurry, he can't wait, he will be twenty years old during the New Year.
Then I heard Mrs. Ye say: "Although Du Juan said that she was married to Shi Xin, everyone is a relative, but this gift is not less, and our family has this one daughter." Seeing that Aunt Wu opened her mouth to say something, she interrupted her and continued: "I also know that the family is not rich, so let's do it, the dowry will be given for a hundred silver." ”
Liu Fang opened her mouth in surprise when she heard a hundred pieces of silver, the old woman really dared to ask for it, a hundred cars of silver were all the market for marrying a daughter-in-law in the town, and she married in, and the Wu family gave a dowry of fifty taels of silver It was already a good thing, even if it was a sister-in-law of Amiao, the dowry at that time was only eighty taels, and this was because Aunt Liu heard that Sister-in-law A Miao refused the proposal of the boss of the cloth village in the town, and wanted to give Sister-in-law Liu a face-saving twenty taels, and it turned out that sixty taels was already a big gift for a daughter-in-law in the countryside. As soon as the old woman opened her mouth, there were a hundred cars, and it was really impossible to rob the Wu family's money.
Aunt Wu was also stunned by her mother's lion mouth, and it took a while to come back to her senses.
"Mother, this... This..."Aunt Wu was anxious, she couldn't settle down like this, if she really listened to what her mother said, she should have a family affair with Du Juan and Shi Xin, and at that time Xin couldn't hate herself to death, Aunt Wu still remembers Shi Xin's expression when she heard that her grandmother was coming over today and wanted to go to Liu's house to hide, this child really didn't want to marry Du Juan, Aunt Wu thought. The cuckoo is his niece, so it's okay to feel distressed, but he can't take his son's life because he feels sorry for the cuckoo.
Finally, Aunt Wu's brain was not completely useless, and she finally said after a long time: "Mother, I can't respond to Shi Xin's family affairs, there is still an ancestor at home (Liu Xiucai), without the consent of the old ancestor, I dare not respond, when Shi Wang married a daughter-in-law is the master of the old ancestor, Shi Xin and Shi Hong's family affairs, I also listen to the old ancestor, the old ancestor said that we will marry whoever we marry." These words were said quickly and quickly, and Mrs. Ye was not given any chance to interject at all, and immediately continued: "Mother, you are tired of talking this afternoon, right?" You rest first, I'll go to the kitchen to help Shi Wang's daughter-in-law. After saying that, he threw down the old lady who was still in a daze, and Fei seemed to have to escape.
Mrs. Ye didn't expect Aunt Wu to have this trick, she didn't react at once, and when she wanted to speak again, Aunt Wu had already gone to the kitchen, this kind of thing is not good for a woman to shout loudly after all, so she could only sigh fiercely, and she would find another opportunity to say it, but she didn't expect that she would have no chance to say it at this time, because Aunt Liu brought Ah Miao over.