Chapter 18: The White Wolf with Empty Gloves
Ling Xiu'er felt the provocation in Li Zhao's words, and her heart trembled with anger when she heard her shameless rhetoric that reversed black and white. But what made her even more angry was not Li Zhao's nonsense, but the weakness of the Cao family!
She secretly raised her eyes to look at Cao Yu, his face was gloomy and cold, but he didn't say a word.
This fell in the eyes of Li Zhao, and he softened!. Hmph, the two people who dared to fight against her just now don't have nothing to say at the moment? She Li Zhao has not lost anyone since she quarreled!
Thinking of this, Li Zhao's expression became more and more proud, like a big rooster who had won a battle and showed off his might. She has to take a good look at the arrogance of these two people today!
"Cao Lao Er, I heard that you are a well-known scholar in these ten miles and eight villages!" Li Zhao's tone was sarcastic, full of sarcasm: "You two wronged my daughter's innocence before, causing her to be almost abandoned, and today I must apologize to my daughter in front of our mother's family!" My daughter has worked hard in your Cao family for so many years to take care of the housework, you should praise her for being virtuous! ”
"Folks, do you think this is the reason?"
Li Zhao squinted at Cao Yu and Ling Xiu'er.
Ling Xiu'er couldn't help it anymore, it was really too deceitful! She bit blood on her lips with a mouthful of thin white silver teeth, and she couldn't calm the indignation in her heart!
She sneered and took a step forward from behind Cao Yu: "Heh! Mother-in-law! What you say is true! I'm going to apologize to my sister-in-law! ”
She cleared her throat, and in a voice that everyone present could hear, slowly but firmly, she said word by word: "Sister-in-law has worked hard in the past!" You have to be busy calculating how to detain your in-laws' uncle every day, saving money from your hands little by little to subsidize your mother's family, and racking your brains to try your best to deceive us and keep us in the dark as fools, can you not work hard? It's so hard! This practice of eating inside and outside is really a model for our women and a model of women's morality! ”
"You!"
Li Zhao didn't think that the little woman's mouth was so powerful, and her old face was hot with praise and derogation, but she was not afraid, relying on the old and selling the old was her habitual means.
"Ouch, you little, am I angry!" Li Zhao held his heart in his hand, and pointed at Ling Xiu'er with an angry heartache: "My daughter must have been bullied by you like this when you quarreled." Cao Li, are you dead? Don't come out to say a word! ”
Cao Liang hurriedly stepped forward and hugged Li Zhao's family, obediently like her grandson: "Mother! Don't be angry with them, old man. It's all our fault! If you say that, you're hungry now, so stay for a light meal! ”
After speaking, he shouted in the direction of Ling Xiu'er: "Why don't you go cook quickly!" Don't you see so many mouths here, still waiting to eat? ”
Ling Xiu'er really admires Cao Li's ability to be in harmony, and flatters the Li family's people like pugs, but she is very angry with her own family!
Cao Yu secretly shook his head at her, signaling that it was useless for her to say more. The so-called show talent meets soldiers, it is unreasonable. It is pointless to entangle with such a person, not to mention that the two of them and the two pig teammates who can't be brought back, Mrs. Wang and Cao Li, can't pull it back.
Ling Xiu'er also knew, so she could only pout slightly unconvinced and entered the kitchen.
Li Zhao really regarded himself as a guest, swaggered into the hall, and gestured to Li Feng: "See, this is the ability!" Li Feng followed behind him and boasted very dogleggedly: "Mother is smart!" ”
After a while, Ling Xiu'er came to the table with a large pot of porridge. It is said that it is porridge, but it is better to say that it is rice soup, and a spoonful is scooped up and poured into the bowl, and the rice grains at the bottom of the bowl can be counted clearly.
Li Feng was in a hurry, so he slapped the table at that time, and the soup in the bowl was spilled.
"What do you mean by treating us like food? Deliberately making these things up to fool us? ”
Mrs. Wang's face couldn't hold back, and she sank her face at Ling Xiu'er while coaxing the Li family: "Let you cook a good meal, won't you either?" ”
Ling Xiu'er replied violently: "Mother, when are you going to slap your swollen face and become fat!" Isn't all the money in our family circled out by my sister-in-law? There is only so much rice left in the food pocket at home, and I have already taken it all out to make porridge! ”
Mrs. Wang also smacked out, this daughter-in-law was deliberately crying poor with the Li family. She sighed: "Hey, mother-in-law, I won't tell you, I haven't cared about this family for many years." Only now did I find out that the foundation of this house has been hollowed out. Li's use of the family's money to subsidize her mother's family is what she personally admitted, which is truly undeniable. If you want to eat some good wine and food, take back some of the money that Li took from home! You should have a lot of this million taels left, right? ”
Li Zhao was caught off guard by Mrs. Wang's question, and said in his heart that this daughter was so uncompromising, she admitted it all, and glared at her fiercely, and Li was so frightened that she shrank her head and didn't dare to say anything.
Li Zhao slapped the table and said in a rough voice: "What is a hundred taels, I haven't seen a penny!" ”
You still want her to spit out the fat in her mouth? However, seeing that Wang's wife and son were not relenting, and Ling Xiu'er was not a fuel-efficient lamp, Li Zhao thought about it and opened his mouth.
"Don't think about calculating me, if you have to calculate, don't you still owe my family a hundred taels of dowry? The two are countervailing, and I'm not the kind of person who picks and searches, they are all in-laws. Li Zhao pretended to be magnanimous.
"This ......"
The dowry that is groundless is worth one hundred taels, which is a good move to empty gloves white wolf!
"Why, you don't want to?"
Li Feng glanced at Mrs. Wang coldly, and Mrs. Wang immediately coaxed, facing Li Feng, who was five big and three thick, where did he dare to say anything, for fear that he would slash a knife on the table.
"Yes, yes." The old woman replied again and again.
Ling Xiu'er looked at the uncompetitive old woman Wang, she was completely chilled, and she didn't want to talk to them anymore.
Although there was only porridge soup, the Li family still drank it three times and five divided by two, and even licked the bowl brightly.
After Li Zhao was full, he began to make a small calculation again: "Cao Jiaerlang, I heard that the champion Lang values you very much, why do you have to give you some reward?" Your family has not yet been divided, so you should take it out and confiscate it. ”
Cao Liang patted his head, why didn't he think of it! immediately echoed: "Yes, brother, you can't be so selfish!" ”