Chapter 022: Play Well
This will be past dinner time, usually Mrs. Zhang at this point in time, will go around the courtyard, go to the daughter-in-law and son of each room to give lectures, and enjoy the "female emperor-like" treatment. After completing the round, I will return home, wash my face and feet, and go to bed. Sometimes when I can't sleep, I will get two puffs of cigarettes from my wife, swallow the clouds and smoke, and then go to bed.
"Shhhh The old witch came out. Tang Wanwan gestured to his younger brother and asked him to silence him.
Tang Xiaoguan's sister called her grandmother like this, and she almost couldn't hold back her laughter, but fortunately, Tang Wanwan covered her mouth in time and was not discovered by Mrs. Zhang.
I heard the door creak open, and out of the room came an old woman with a rickety body, wearing pointed-toe cloth shoes, trouser legs tied in sock covers, and when walking, there were some inner figures.
Like a general inspecting his battlefield, she looked here and there, and then walked out of the small steps and went to the eldest daughter-in-law's house.
As she was walking, she suddenly saw something on the ground, her eyes lit up, and she even bent down to pick it up. However, as soon as she picked one up, she found that there was also one by the ditch where the water was poured on weekdays, and she immediately walked over excitedly. While picking it up, his mouth was grinning happily. He muttered to himself: "I said, I heard the magpie crowing early in the morning, and there must be something good." Most of the money that fell on the ground was lost by the guests of the Xu family today, since there is one, two, maybe, you can find more silver by turning over this courtyard.
"Come out quickly, old man."
"What's the matter, I'm sleeping."
"Hurry up!" The old lady didn't dare to speak too loudly, in case the two daughters-in-law next door heard it and knew about it. If they also come to collect money, then such a good thing will be gone.
But the old man said that he didn't dare to disobey the old woman's words. Otherwise, don't think about purity in your ears this night. That's not all, if she encounters something that doesn't go well for her, she can talk about Chen Sesame and rotten grain over and over again for three days and three nights.
"What's the matter, this is a surprise." Donald was inking in the house for a while, and then came out.
"I picked up the chanla." Mrs. Zhang smiled happily and spread out the two pennies in the palm of her hand to her wife.
"Where did it come from?" Old man Tang's eyes also lit up, this is real money, and it shines brightly in the light.
"I picked it up in our yard, maybe someone lost the money bag today. I found two, maybe more. So, you and I will look for it, you will look for it from here, and I will look for it from that side. ”
Old Man Tang rubbed his eyes with his hand, couldn't help yawning, and said, "It's not big, why didn't we see it during the day." ”
"Or I'm lucky, I took the lamp and saw a bright light on the ground, and when I pulled it, it was money, and I picked it up at once."
After Mrs. Zhang finished speaking, she touched her wife who was still a little stunned with her arm and said, "Hurry up, let's look for it separately." Old man Tang could only nod, put the coat on his body, cheered up, and the two were divided into two ends, looking at the ground with their heads down, looking hard.
"It's almost time, Xiaoyi, just wait to see a good show." Tang Wanwan could hear it clearly outside, and she knew that this Mrs. Zhang would not just give up when she saw the money dropped on the ground. Sure enough, she called her wife out, and the two worked hard to find the silver together. In this way, she was given plenty of time.
It turned out that when Mrs. Zhang came out, Tang Wanwan quietly let go of her clothes, afraid that the effect would not be great, so she let seven or eight bees out at once, and then re-wrapped the hive with her clothes. Then he and Tang Xiaoyi turned over and got off the courtyard wall, and found a hidden place to hide from the opposite side, waiting for news.
The bees really followed the taste, and at first they flew around, and after a while, they all arrived in the courtyard of Mrs. Zhang. In addition, Mrs. Zhang and Old Man Tang both have lamps in their hands, where will they go if they don't go there.
Mrs. Zhang lowered her head and looked at the ground intently, and suddenly heard a strange sound in her ears, raised her head, and saw a black winged thing crashing into her face and the lamp.
"Something."
Mrs. Zhang thought it was some kind of flying insect, so she didn't care if she hit it twice with her hand. After a while, there was a little itch on her neck, if she would have screamed on weekdays, she didn't dare to scream today. Old Donald saw her breathing in her mouth, kept waving his hand in front of him, and hurriedly ran over and asked her what was wrong.
Mrs. Zhang lowered her voice and said, "Don't come here, it's important to look for silver." ”
Old man Tang said helplessly: "What can I find on this big night, I saw that you were bitten by something, so I came to take a look." ”
"I'm fine, just a few little bugs, out of the way."
"I think you're just in the eyes of money."
I didn't think that Old Man Tang would cut off his words, and as soon as he finished speaking, he heard a miserable scream from Mrs. Zhang's mouth, and then covered her face. The oil lamp also fell to the ground at once. If it weren't for Old Man Tang's presence, the oil lamp would have burned, and it would have been possible.
It turned out that Mrs. Zhang had just finished saying that it was not in the way, and she was stabbed on her forehead by something, this part is very sensitive, and her skin is thin.
"It's not good, it's a bee, where did the bee come from in the middle of the night." However, it was pitch black everywhere in front of him, and the bee flew here and there for a while, and he had to beware of being stung by him, and he would not be able to catch it at all for a while.
I only heard a ghost scream from Mrs. Zhang's mouth.
"Help, Jianmin, Jianyong, eldest daughter-in-law, second daughter-in-law, I'm going to die."
Here the Wang family is picking out clothes in the room with their daughter Tang Ruyi, what they never expected is that Tang Ruyi's blind date today was very successful, but the two of them were very happy, knowing that the old lady had to come to lecture every night, and they couldn't go to bed so early to wait for things to go to bed again, and their mother and daughter also happened to be homely.
Tang Ruyi is high-spirited, and now that he has a good relationship, seeing that the clothes at home are not good-looking, he is clamoring to buy new clothes and bracelets. Tang Ruyue saw that her sister was going to buy new clothes and jewelry, and she suddenly muttered in dissatisfaction, "Mother, you promised her that I would give me a new dress on my thirteenth birthday this year." The family is not well-off, but the second sister has to buy this and that. ”
Tang Ruyue's worries are not unreasonable, seeing that it has been a few days, the family's money is already tight, and the second sister will buy clothes and bracelets again, how can she have her share.
Tang Ruyi immediately took his sister's hand and said in a good voice: "Little sister, you let the second sister go this time, you have to celebrate your birthday every year, and it's not bad this time." The second sister promised you that when you celebrate your birthday next year, I will definitely give you a set of clothes. ”
"Xu Gongzi is not an ordinary family, if the second sister dresses decently, others can also look up to us, right, if I marry in the past, I will definitely give you a good family affair."
Tang Ruyue suddenly raised her mouth. "Mother, look at my second sister, she looks like this every time, but she never counts what she says."
"Hey, you're still doing it, aren't you? Do you think that my temper has changed recently, and I dare not hit you. Let me tell you, don't think about always learning to go against me with that little slut Tang Wanwan, without your good fruit to eat. ”
Tang Ruyi's temper came up, so she gave her sister a slap, and Tang Ruyue suddenly cried.
"Oh, you two ancestors, don't quarrel. I have a headache when I am noisy, I promise you, I will buy it for you. ”
With Wang's words, the two daughters did not continue to quarrel, and everyone thought about their own thoughts. Tang Ruyue ran outside angrily, and Tang Ruyi was also in a bad mood.
Wang felt that one head and two were big, this one wanted clothes, and that one wanted a new bracelet, and after calculation, he always felt that the silver that could be used at home was too little, and it was less than two taels in total. If only I could get some silver somewhere.
The Wang family was thinking in his heart, how to make some money, and he didn't want his son Tang Cheng to run in. "Mother, it's not good, my grandmother is making trouble again, saying that she is going to die, let you go and save your life."
"Hmph, what is this old woman doing, one day she will lose this family."
Xiao Wang was bringing her daughter Tang Dani the meat she secretly steamed and asked her to eat it quickly. The meat was steamed together in the radish, and although there was only a little bit at the bottom of the bowl, it was very fragrant. The flesh and bones were brought by her brother when he came today. The eldest brother opened a butcher shop, hid a little meat in his sleeve without telling his mother-in-law, brought it to his sister, and brought two big bones.
Xiao Wang was afraid that the meat would be discovered by her mother-in-law, so she hid it, so she cut a little bit and steamed it for her daughter to eat, but the bone broth was boiled together by the family, and she brought some back before she finished drinking.
Hearing Mrs. Zhang's ghost crying wolf, Xiao Wang's frightened hand shook, and the broth turned over and poured Tang Dani's body. Tang Dani even cried, saying that her mother didn't want to give her meat.
Tang Jianyong also said that his wife, saying that she couldn't even feed her well.
Xiao Wang's family came out with a stomach full of anger, and when she arrived in her mother-in-law's yard, she saw a mess, and she didn't know what everyone was fighting, so she was also joined into their battle group in a daze.
In the end, in addition to Mrs. Zhang being bitten, Wang's arm was also bitten, and little Wang was trampled by the eldest brother, saying that his foot was trampled lame, and asked the eldest brother to pay for the medical expenses.
Wang immediately tore up with his brother and daughter-in-law.
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After reading it, Tang Wanwan had no expression on her face, and took her brother's hand and prepared to go back. When she decided to do this, she could already expect such a result, and she didn't want to really show the ugliness of human nature, human selfishness and greed when things happened.