Chapter 14: Slander

When the pomegranate flowers arrived home, Cao's had already put the meal on the table, a bowl of fire-roasted fish fried with green peppers, a plate of scrambled eggs with pumpkin flowers, a plate of stir-fried tender pumpkin, a dish of braised eggplant and cold cucumber, and the staple food was zongzi.

Although there is no meat, it is more abundant than normal days.

The father and son who went to the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors came back early, and Tao Yougui went to the doctor to buy realgar, and the realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival must be drunk.

One of them drank the noon water from the pomegranate and began to eat.

Tao Yougui, the head of the family, poured four small wine cups, put a glass in front of one person, and then picked up the wine cup and said some auspicious words, and took the lead in raising his head and drinking down.

Cao drank it with him, but the pomegranate flower didn't drink, so he took a sip and put it down.

Tao Tianbao can't drink yet, Tao Yougui dipped his hand in wine and wiped it on Tao Tianbao's forehead, which also has the function of driving away demons and avoiding evil.

Cao's dumplings are big, and only two ingredients of cowpea and mung beans are added to it, and the pomegranate flower eats some vegetables after eating two zongzi, and feels that the stomach is a little supportive, so I stopped the chopsticks first.

Tao Yougui is still pouring himself drinks, enjoying himself, Cao's wine is not good, the stomach of the three cups of realgar wine is red, and he is eating a zongzi at this time.

Almost all of the zongzi that pomegranate flowers got back from next door yesterday were eaten by Tao Tianbao, and today he lost interest in his own zongzi, and said that he was full without eating, and put down his chopsticks and ran.

After eating, Cao and Pomegranate washed the cups and plates, boiled a large pot of hot water, and then the family took turns to take a bath, and Tao Tianbao, who ran out, was arrested.

When bathing, mix a scoop of noon water in hot water, add some realgar, and hope to avoid mosquitoes, snakes and ants throughout the summer.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather is still sunny and rainy, and sometimes the sun is still rising, but the rain comes down without warning, and the people who work outside have nowhere to hide, and they are drenched in soup.

On this morning, Pomegranate Hua went to the field to pick vegetables with a bamboo basket, and there was a woman working in the adjacent vegetable field, who was Yao Lao's third daughter-in-law.

Pomegranate Hua was not interested in Yao's third daughter-in-law, and after thinking about it, she didn't go to say hello, and looked for melons and vegetables.

At this time, the growth of various seasonal melons and vegetables is gratifying, and after a while, the red, green, purple and yellow are filled with half a basket, which is pleasing to the eye.

There are two rows of beans planted between the two vegetable fields, the bean shelf is two heads higher than the pomegranate flower, and the vine leaves are so dense that there is no gap.

After a while, a woman who was about to go back after finishing her work came to the vegetable field of Yao Laosan's house and talked with Yao's third daughter-in-law.

After picking the melons and vegetables, I was going to pick some more beans and went back, and when I came to the bean rack, I heard the conversation between Yao's third daughter-in-law and the woman, and it came clearly.

"No, don't look at it, the Tao family's daughter is still young!"

"If I see a mistake, you gouge out my eyes and throw them on the ground to feed the dogs, and I saw the Tao family's daughter come out of that door with a bowl full of zongzi in her hand."

When Pomegranate Hua heard this, she immediately understood that the two of them were talking about her, retracted her hand from the bean, and heard the woman say: "Ouch, if this is true, then Cao Guixiang doesn't care." ”

Yao's third daughter-in-law immediately accosted: "What's the matter, although they are all surnamed Tao, but that kid is Sui's mother's surname, and the two families are counted up to five generations, and they can't have a relationship with half of the son." ”

The woman smacked her touch and agreed with Yao's third daughter-in-law's words: "Also, that kid is good-looking and a scholar, so he is naturally much stronger than other male dolls in the village." ”

When the words fell, I listened to Yao's third daughter-in-law and the woman giggling and laughing.

Pomegranate clenched her fists hard and pressed her urge to go out and scold, this kind of three aunts and six women who chewed the root of people's tongues behind her back were the most annoying, and she listened to it to find leisure for herself, but she heard someone saying bad things about herself behind her back, how could her feet go away?

Instead, she leaned over again, wondering what the two women were going to say about what they were going to say.

Yao's third daughter-in-law continued with her eyebrows fluttering: "There is a saying that a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, although the family was driven out of the courtyard of the deep house, but it was built a yard and bought a field, and it was able to send her son to study, it can be seen that there is a lot of silver on her body, and the daughter of the Tao family must have taken a fancy to this." ”

The woman smiled and answered: "Absolutely, no one in the village has been willing to associate with that family in recent years, and there are daughters of noble families who have come up to make up, if you want to say that it is not silver, the ghost believes it!" ”

Yao's third daughter-in-law responded: "Tao Shanlin and his wife are really stupid, they didn't let their daughters enter the house at the beginning, but now they are cheaper for others." ”

"Tao Shanlin shouldn't have known that his daughter had so much silver on her body, but when she figured it out, the father-daughter relationship had already been broken, so how could he be embarrassed to come to the door and admit it."

"Tao Yougui raised a good daughter, married next door, and the two became a family, and he was afraid that his life would not be good?"

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about it here, just wait and see!"

When the two of them said this, they laughed again.

Pomegranate Blossom heard the anger on the side of the bean rack, where could she bear it, rushed out of the bean frame wall in a few steps, pointed at Yao Lao's third daughter-in-law and scolded loudly: "Put your fucking bullshit, you are here in this red-mouthed and white-toothed arranger in the blue sky and white day, and you are not afraid of sores and rotten tongues, Lord Yama will hook you to the oil pot in the middle of the night." ”

The two of them were defenseless, and they were so frightened that they were so frightened that they panicked.

Yao's third daughter-in-law reacted a little faster, and hurriedly said: "Pomegranate, you are a child, and you don't greet your aunts when you come, which scared your aunts." ”

"I greeted you earlier, can you still hear you orchestrating me behind my back?" Liuhua looked at Yao's third daughter-in-law and said coldly: "If you don't make it clear to me today, none of you will want to leave." ”

The two of them glanced at each other, their expressions were a little flustered, the pomegranate flowers in front of them were easy to deal with, but her mother was the most difficult to mess with in the village. If the pomegranate flower goes back and passes on these words just now, the Cao family will immediately kill them at the door of their own house.

Thinking of the last time because of a handful of green onions, the Cao family scolded at the door of the house for a day, Yao's third daughter-in-law immediately coaxed, lowered her eyebrows and said softly: "You kid, how can you say that you are in a hurry、、、、、、 aunts didn't talk about you just now, you listened to the errand." ”

"Yes, yes, it's not about you, you're listening." The woman was also there to help.

"It's not, it's not ......"

Yao's third daughter-in-law and the woman were embarrassed to accompany the smiling face.

Is it?

Pomegranate looked at the clown-like behavior of the two of them, and sneered silently, no wonder Cao Shi would say that some people gossip about you in the open, and they will make stumbling blocks behind their backs, and these two in front of him are.

She raised her hand and pointed at Yao's third daughter-in-law and sneered, "Didn't you just say it?" Why don't you dare to admit it now? It's a shame that you still want me to call you aunt, phew! It's disgusting. ”

Yao's third daughter-in-law didn't dare to squeak, and the woman next to her came over and took Pomegranate's hand to persuade her, "Don't be angry, we really didn't talk about you...... Look, it's not too early, your mother must be waiting for you to take the melons and vegetables back to cook, what else do you want to pick? Auntie help you pick ......."

Seeing that the person who was older than herself lowered her eyebrows, she didn't want to make things stiff anymore, but the malicious slanderous words of the two just now really made her angry, glared at the two fiercely, and turned back to her vegetable patch.

Seeing this, the two men also hurried home.

Pomegranate thought that this matter had been revealed, and since then it has been calm, and the same rumors have reached Cao's ears within two days.

Cao's angrily came back to discuss with Pomegranate Blossom whose mouth the words came from, and Pomegranate Blossom remembered what happened in the vegetable field that day, and told Cao's everything.

"It must be that shameless thing, a cheap embryo who steals a handful of green onions, and there is nothing that can't be done." Cao Shi gritted his teeth in anger when he heard this, slapped the table and went out.

Pomegranate hurriedly followed.

Cao's face was iron, and a gust of wind rose everywhere he passed.

When some villagers passing by saw Cao's posture, their hearts moved, and they followed behind the pomegranate flowers to see the excitement.

Cao came to the courtyard of Yao's house, picked a good terrain, crossed his hands on his waist, and howled so loudly that the entire Taojia Village could hear: "Yao Laosan's family, you get out of the old lady." ”

As soon as she started, all the villagers who were at home ran out of the house and gathered at Yao's house.

Yao's third daughter-in-law was at home, and when she heard Cao's loud voice, she suddenly panicked and fidgeted.

As soon as Yao Laosan saw his daughter-in-law's appearance, he knew that this mother-in-law must have provoked the evil star again, so he suddenly didn't fight anywhere, pointed his nose and scolded: "Who are you messing with, what are you going to provoke this spicy man for?" Whoever sees her in the village is not hiding, but you don't have a long memory, so you always provoke her. What did you take from her this time, hurry up and return it twice, don't embarrass me Yao Laosan! ”

"How dare I go and get her things." Yao's third daughter-in-law's heart was so weak that she couldn't do it, but she was still dead: "This time it must have been done by someone else, and the account will be settled on my head." ”

Cao Shi saw that Yao's third daughter-in-law didn't respond for a long time, and the door of Yao's courtyard didn't move, so he continued to shout and scold: "Yao's third family, you shrunken turtle queen eight, you have the ability to buckle the shit basin on my daughter's head, why don't you have the courage to stand up and admit it?" Who does my daughter have to worry about? You eat dung every day, and you smoke people to death with a stinky mouth! If you have the ability, you will give birth to a girl and enter the palace as a mother, and move home with gold and silver, look at me Cao Guixiang's eyes are red, you don't! ”

Yao Laosan heard Cao's scolding in the house, he was so angry that the corners of his forehead jumped, and he grabbed his daughter-in-law's wrist and dragged him out, "Go out, go out and solve the trouble you caused by yourself, don't even take me Yao Laosan to shame." ”

Yao's third daughter-in-law cried with a sad face and begged: "His father, I just said a few more words when I was chatting with other women, and if you want to blame, blame those cheap people for passing on the words to her." ”

Yao Laosan not only did not reflect when he saw his daughter-in-law doing something wrong, but instead pushed the fault onto others, which made him even more annoyed.