Chapter Eighty-Eight: Stepmother

Mrs. Zhou can't be offended, Wang Fengying, who prides herself on being a head above the Zhou family, doesn't care about offending others. Li Guizhi's trouble is hard for her to find now, so she immediately pointed the finger at Shen Yufen.

Shen Yufen got married but wore a jacket from Zhou Juan, and that dress didn't even have a patch, and now that Shen Yufen is married, how can Wang Fengying watch her wear her daughter's clothes? Of course she has to come back!

Shen Yufen didn't raise her eyes for Wang Fengying's request, she just went to Mrs. Zhou and asked calmly: "Mother, do you still want to take back the bride price that our Zhou family gave to our daughter-in-law?" If my mother said that I could take it back, I wouldn't say anything, and immediately brought the clothes to my mother. ”

It's for Mrs. Zhou, not for Wang Fengying. The one who asked for the bride price also became Mrs. Zhou.

Of course, Mrs. Zhou can't say that she can take it back, so she must not become the laughing stock of the whole team. So Wang Fengying returned with a feather.

But Wang Fengying is not so easy to deal with, she can't do it at home, so she goes out to pay attention to (say bad things) Shen Yufen, and she doesn't return her niece's clothes, what kind of aunt is this? My niece is going to get married, not to mention adding some dowry, but also looting my niece's things, what is this called?

A few days later, Shen Yufen's mother, Aunt Shen, came to Zhou's house in a hurry, and as soon as Aunt Shen entered the door, she pointed at Mrs. Zhou and scolded, your Zhou family bullied my daughter like this? The bride price owed hasn't been paid yet, and now I have to ask for it back! If you don't give it to you, you'll go out and pay attention to my daughter! My daughter gave birth to your Zhou family and raised children, is this how your old Zhou family treats your daughter-in-law? If you don't give me an explanation today, I'll go to your captain and find all the neighbors to give a review!

Of course, Mrs. Zhou would not let Aunt Shen make a fuss about this, and after some appeasement, she scolded Wang Fengying fiercely before Aunt Shen stopped. In the end, Aunt Shen left the Zhou family with ten catties of sorghum rice satisfied, and Mrs. Zhou also recorded the ten catties of sorghum rice on the heads of Wang Fengying and Shen Yufen.

The Zhou family was lively again for a while, and the three brothers and sisters of Zhou Yang were completely unaffected by them, and they have been very busy recently.

Since the last time they put on the rabbit and pheasant, they have reaped a lot every time they have taken the trap down. The three of them kept enough for themselves to eat, and sold the rest to Gao Jianjun. Zhou Chen's small treasury also made a lot of money, and one night, he mysteriously showed his brother and sister that they already had a full eleven big unity!

In addition to making money, the most discussed thing about Zhou Yang and his brothers these days is that Wang Fengying's mother and daughter went out to talk about Zhou Juan's bride price.

Zhou Juan took so many bride prices, of course Wang Fengying's mother and daughter had to go out to show off, if they didn't go out to say it, it would be abnormal. But this time is different from the past, the mother and daughter focused on the matter that Mrs. Zhou took all of Zhou Juan's bride price, and put this matter together with Zhou Fu's family affairs.

Of course, they won't talk about Zhou Fu's change of relatives, and they have to hide it from Zhou Ping's family. And in the countryside at that time, the change of relatives was the last thing that the daughter-in-law took back, and lived with peace of mind, and everyone would not break it, after all, it was a crime.

Even Zhou Yang felt that this matter was a little unusual, "I don't think what happened to the eldest aunt and Zhou Juan." ”

Of course, there is something wrong, Zhou Wanwan slandered, they are looking for a way back for the exchange of relatives. Zhou Wanwan can be sure that Zhou Juan and Wang Fengying are digging a pit for Mrs. Zhou.

"What's the matter, it's also something to do with milk, we have to stay away, don't let them fight and break us again." Zhou Chen has been completely uninterested in the affairs of the Zhou family recently, as long as he is sure that this matter will not affect the three brothers and sisters, he doesn't even want to watch the excitement.

There are more and more discussions about Zhou Juan's bride price in Tunzi, but the old lady Zhou doesn't know at all, she is busy looking for Wang Fengying and Shen Yufen.

On the surface, the Zhou family is jumping with chickens and dogs, but secretly it is even more turbulent. After Zhou Juan's wedding was decided, Wang Fengying began to worry about Zhou Fu's family affairs again.

The girl of the Xu family in Limakeng is also an ordinary person, if Zhou Chunfa did not become a cadre - in Wang Fengying's heart, Zhou Chunfa was transferred to the township to eat and supply grain - then it can be worthy of Zhou Fu, but now Zhou Fu is a cadre's child, how can he just take a rural girl with a nest of pockets.

Wang Fengying began to inquire around, tossing and trying to find a partner worthy of their family for Zhou Fu. After tossing for a few days, there were really people who took a fancy to their future cadre families, and Zhou Fu was dragged to see each other several times. But in the end, it didn't work, either Mrs. Zhou disliked the bride price that other girls wanted, or Wang Fengying felt that the other party was not usually worthy of Zhou Fu, and they were all satisfied, and other girls didn't look down on the old-fashioned and lame Zhou Fu.

In the end, Wang Fengying could only give up, Zhou Fu was not too young, so he would deal with it first and marry Xu Chun, and then change it when there was a suitable one in the future.

Watching Wang Fengying toss and give Zhou Fu a blind date, Li Guizhi's mother and daughter breathed a sigh of relief, and finally put their minds at ease.

They have actually heard some rumors recently, saying that Mrs. Zhou took Zhou Ping to change Zhou Fu's relatives, but Mrs. Zhou has always denied it, and the person who said it is vague and uncertain, and they quickly denied it when they asked them, so they are just worried, but they can't be sure.

Just when they were panicking and preparing to ask someone to go out to inquire, Zhou Fu frequently went to see the girl, and Li Guizhi's mother and daughter put their hearts back in their stomachs. It seems that the rumors are all false, if Mrs. Zhou really took Zhou Ping for a parent, why did Zhou Fu still go to see each other?

Wang Fengying decided to marry Xu Chun, and Zhou Juan urged her to hurry up and handle Zhou Fu's marriage.

Next, after Zhao Simi's frequent entry and exit of Zhou's house several times, Li Guizhi and Zhou Ping were arranged by Mrs. Zhou to go to the township farmland infrastructure team to cook.

"It's not about cooking, but when you go to the infrastructure team, you can earn some work for your family. With the boss as the leader there, can he still treat you badly? Li Guizhi's mother and daughter could only follow Zhou Chunfa to the farmland infrastructure team, fortunately, the farmland infrastructure team was close to home, and the food point was in Dagaotun, five miles away, and they could go home every night.

After Li Guizhi's mother and daughter went to work, Mrs. Zhou and Wang Fengying let go of their hands and feet to make a series of preparations for marriage. Fortunately, there is no need to give a bride price for changing relatives, and the Zhou family will not give Zhou Ping a dowry, so the matter of letting Zhao Sini run a few more times back and forth is basically settled.

The day of the change of relatives was set on the twentieth day of the lunar month, and a few people planned it, and on that day, they tricked Zhou Ping into going to the Ma Pit, and did not hold a ceremony, first entered the cave room, and then watched people closely, and after a few months Zhou Ping was pregnant with a child, he would be able to stop living with Xu Dali.

Zhao Simao is the most experienced in this matter, and she waved her hand easily, reassuring Mrs. Zhou, "I will be honest when I come to the spring of next year, and as soon as I have a child, this woman will have to live with a man with peace of mind." When the time comes, you look at it, and she doesn't want to call her back, so she will already follow the man to work in the production team with her stomach! ”

"Come back? Where is she going? If she dares to run back, she can't let her enter at her mother's door, and if she has nowhere to go, she has to go back honestly to live. Zhou Juan was also on the side to help.

Compared with Zhou Ping's being kept in the dark, Xu Chun voluntarily changed his parents, which the Zhou family was also very satisfied with, "This is a sensible girl, she didn't feed so much in vain!" Mrs. Zhou is still very satisfied with this granddaughter-in-law.

During this time, the Zhou family had to prepare for the marriage of three people, and it was very lively for people to come and go. In the middle of the month, Yang Dajia of Xiaogaotun came to Zhou's house.

Yang Dajiao, like Zhao Simi, is a famous matchmaker within a radius of dozens of miles. Yang Dajia came to tell Zhou Chunliang about the matchmaker, "...... is called Xue Shuiqin, twenty-six this year, the man has been sick and died for a year, with a four-year-old girl, her mother-in-law can't tolerate it, so she wants to take another step. ”

Of course, Mrs. Zhou was more concerned about the bride price, and Yang Dajia was not ambiguous, and immediately gave Zhun Xin'er, "If the widow remarries, she doesn't want more, just ask for fifty yuan to make a new set of clothes for adults and children." ”

This bride price should be decent, not too high or low compared to the widow's remarriage, and Mrs. Zhou really can't say anything else. But her main focus now is still on the marriage of several grandchildren, so she sent Yang Dajia away first on the grounds that Zhou Chunliang came back to see each other.

Xue Shuiqin, Zhou Wanwan's stepmother in her previous life. This person is used to making superficial articles in the past, and half of the suffering of Zhou Wanwan and her eldest brother when they were children came from her.

In this life, if she still wants to marry into the Zhou family smoothly, it will be a pipe dream. As for coaxing the young and ignorant Zhou Wanwan to call her mother in front of people, and then she used Zhou Wanwan to pinch the Zhou Yang brothers behind people, and finally helped Zhou Hongxiang persuade Zhou Chunliang to push Zhou Chen out to take the blame for Qian Tie, it is even more impossible.

Zhou Wanwan sneered, he could let go of his hatred and throw the enemy far away without retaliation, that kind of person is either a saint or the hatred is not deep enough. She's a reborn ghost, and she came back because she couldn't let go, and of course she had to take revenge on all her enemies.

Zhou Wanwan's hatred for Xue Shuiqin is different from that of the Zhou family, for the Zhou family, in order to take into account the feelings of her eldest brother, she has always been in line with the principle of recuperating first, don't mess with me in this life, and I will not take the initiative for the time being.

But for Xue Shuiqin, she didn't have any scruples. Relive a lifetime, this woman will not suddenly become kind and innocent, so this time Zhou Wanwan will be the one who strikes first.

In her previous life, when Zhou Wanwan was a lonely soul rampaging in the world with resentment and regret, she had imagined countless times how to make the lives of those who hurt her eldest brother worse than death, and now, she has the opportunity to put it into practice.

Let Xue Shuiqin die? That's too cheap for her. Let her live better than die, and live a purgatory-like life every day, that is the best revenge.

The Zhou Yang brothers did not react much to their father's remarriage. Several families in Tunzi are second-married families, and they have long been mentally prepared for this.

In the Sanjiatun area, in addition to the family conditions are too poor, whoever dies will marry another woman every other year, after all, in the countryside of this era, it is not possible to live without a woman in the family.

"If she is like Da Lingzi and her stepmother, what can she do to us behind her back?" Zhou Chen's biggest worry is that his stepmother will not be good for his sister when she enters the door. Da Lingzi's father married his stepmother and didn't care about the family's affairs at all, Da Lingzi was stubborn and stubborn, and he was beaten by his stepmother, and the children in the village knew that there was always an injury where Da Lingzi's clothes covered him.

"Then let's pay more attention." Zhou Yang's only uneasy thing is this, "I heard that I also brought a four-year-old girl, so I have to watch the girl tightly when the time comes, don't let people bully her." ”

"We don't bother her with anything, and she doesn't provoke us." Zhou Chen has long been familiar with the work at home in the past year, and the lives of the three brothers and sisters have been taken care of by him in an orderly manner, and he doesn't expect to use her for anything when he comes to a stepmother.

"I don't call her mom!" Zhou Wanwan sat in Zhou Yang's arms and pouted vigorously, looking like a wayward child, "The eldest brother and the second brother are not allowed to scream!" ”

"Don't scream!" Zhou Chen hurriedly coaxed his sister, "We have our own mother, what do you want her to do!" In the depths of Zhou Chen's heart, he also resisted calling other women's mothers very much, but the custom is like this, the children in the tunzi are called stepmothers like this. He is a sensible child, and he doesn't want to embarrass his eldest brother, so he keeps holding back and not saying it.

"Big brother is not allowed to scream!" Zhou Wanwan stared at Zhou Yang, her big black and white eyes were moist and shiny, full of children's stubbornness and stubbornness, and they were unprecedentedly serious.

"Big brother doesn't call either." Zhou Yang's eyes were hot when his sister saw it, who said that his sister didn't remember her mother at all? No matter how young she is, she knows who is really good to her, even if she can't remember her mother's appearance, she also remembers her mother's goodness and knows to protect her mother.

Zhou Wanwan sneered in her heart, Xue Shuiqin, if you want to be like in your previous life, let our brothers and sisters call you mother in front of others, and earn enough face for you, and then use our mother's identity to rectify us, it will never be possible.

After another two days, the production team began to settle accounts and send money. The Zhou family has 20 people and 14 laborers, which is one of the best in the entire Erdaokan Brigade. According to the calculation of two cents for a job, the 14 laborers of the Zhou family earned 698 yuan a year, deducting the food money of 20 people, and without the drag of Zhou Hongxiang's family, the Zhou family was unprecedentedly rich this year, and could get 305 yuan.

After deducting Zhou Hongying's tuition fees and the money borrowed for Zhou Ling, Zhou Juan, and Zhou Hongying's medical treatment, the Zhou family still had 263 yuan left in the end.

But all the people sitting on the big kang of the production team know that how much money can be earned and how much money can be obtained are completely different things.

Sure enough, after settling the accounts, the old captain talked about the urgent revolutionary situation at home and abroad, and then conveyed the instructions of his superiors that this year, the peasant brothers still have to tighten their belts to support national construction, and only a small part of the public grain money has been paid, so each family has to have a hard and simple revolutionary New Year.

"Old stubborn, just say it, can you send us some money for the New Year?" Lao Dingtou is usually the most familiar with the old captain, and he is straightforward, and he shouted out the most concerned issues on behalf of all the members.

"At the end of the account, if there is more than 30 yuan on the account, receive 5 yuan; if it is more than 100 pieces, he shall receive 10 pieces; If it is more than 200 yuan, receive 20! The old captain also simply said nothing else and announced the results directly.

"We have twenty-eight yuan and five cents and four cents on our books, and we can't get a penny?"

"Our family earns more than 80 yuan, how can we earn the same amount of money as 30 yuan? Then what do we all do when we get up early and work greedily at night? It's the same money as people who sleep at home! ”

"Our little four children just started to go to the field this year, and the child earns more than 20 yuan a year, so he wants a new dress. Why am I letting my child go down to the ground so early! ”

"It's better to owe money to the team!"

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No matter how much you complain, the team gets a little public food, and they can only give this money to the members, and in the end, everyone can only accept the reality.

Before the meeting, the old captain announced that the country would start collecting task pigs tomorrow, one for each family, and they must be handed over before the year.

In this era, pigs raised by farmers could not be bought and sold privately, so if they wanted to exchange pigs for money, they could only sell them to the state. People with pigs immediately saw hope, although the price of pigs is only four or five cents, and there are more than three cents a pound of pigs that are not rated as grades, but this is always a safe way to make money, you can get money if you sell a pig, how can a pig be sold for fifty or sixty yuan, this money is a big deal!

But this news is simply worse for some people who have not raised pigs, and if they can't complete the task and can't hand over the pigs, the township working group will come to the house to fine, and if they don't have money, they will carry food, how can this be done!?

The Zhou family was not affected too much, with the remaining 130 yuan of Zhou Juan's dowry, plus the 62 yuan sold back by the task pig, Mrs. Zhou's hands were unprecedentedly rich.

Mrs. Zhou put on a new set of clothes for each of the four children of the Qian family and Zhou Hongying, but the cloth ticket was not enough, and it also occupied more than ten feet of Zhou Juan's wedding quilt.

As for Zhou Juan making quilts, there is no cloth ticket to buy quilts, isn't there a Xu family! His family has such a good life, and the people he interacts with are all the public family members who eat and supply food in the township, and he can't make a few feet of cloth tickets?

Sure enough, Xu Weiguo sent dozens of feet of cloth tickets within two days, and by the way, he stayed alone with Zhou Juan in the east for a long time. These days, under the banner of preparing for marriage, Xu Weiguo frequently goes in and out of Zhou's house, and he refuses to leave as soon as he comes, so he has to stay alone with Zhou Juan for a few hours before stopping.

The four children of the Qian family wore new clothes, ate the candy brought by Xu Weiguo, and prepared to live in the Zhou family until the end of the New Year. Grandma's family has a small stove for them to make a single meal every meal, and they can eat a few pieces of meat every two days, as well as new clothes to wear, all the people in the family let them, even Qian Gang, who turned eighteen years old during the Chinese New Year, has Zhou Xia bring him face wash water to the kang every day, not to mention the pampering of five-year-old Qian Lei.

Grandma's house is heaven! Fools don't stay longer!

On the fifteenth day of the lunar month, Yang Dajia came to Zhou's house again, still for Xue Shuiqin's matter. After discussing that Zhou Chunliang will come back soon, he will take a look at each other a year ago, and he will settle down if he can settle it. (To be continued.) )