Chapter 31: Suspicion
Xu Xiuqin came to work for a few days, and suddenly found pomegranate flowers that day, saying that Mrs. Xu called her to go to the house again.
Pomegranate now has a headache when she hears Mrs. Xu, and she doesn't know what she came up with.
When she went to Xu's house, Mrs. Xu didn't beat around the bush this time, and directly said the request: let the pomegranate flower go to tell the foreman that the meat eaten on the construction site will be bought from the Xu family's shop in the future.
The reason why she made this request was because after Xu Xiuqin went to work, she came back to her parents' house and told her about eating meat on the construction site.
As soon as Xu Pozi heard this, she thought about it, where to buy meat, it is the same to give money, rather than giving money to others, it is better to give it to your own home. There are more than 100 people on the construction site, and they have to buy dozens of catties of meat every day.
After listening to Mrs. Xu's appeal, she felt that this mother-in-law would really rely on the old and sell the old and give herself problems.
Introducing Xu Xiuqin to work on the construction site, the mother-in-law who did chores was enough, and Yang Laosi asked for one more because of his friendship with pomegranate flowers.
Now in a few days, I want her to go to Yang Laosi again. The friendship is so much, how many times can you toss it?
Xu Pozi saw that the pomegranate flowers were silent, and she came to Xiaozhi with emotion: "Look at the pomegranate flowers, your second sister will raise a baby within the year, and the family will have a lot of expenses this time." If you make more money in the shop, when the baby is born, the life will be better, right? ”
For the sake of apricot blossoms, pomegranate blossoms had to reluctantly accept it, "Okay, mother-in-law, I'll go to the foreman to try, I dare not say if it can be successful." ”
When Mrs. Xu heard this, her eyes narrowed into a slit with a smile, and she grabbed the hand of the pomegranate flower and patted it, "I know that you are a reasonable and good girl, this matter is done, and Aunt Xu will definitely think of your goodness." ”
Pomegranate Blossom withdrew her hand and secretly slandered: Still thinking about my good, don't think about me, I'll be grateful.
went back to find Yang Laosi, Yang Laosi was suddenly embarrassed, and he handed over the matter of buying vegetables and meat to the two masters, and he never asked who the masters went to buy from.
When I called the master over and said, the master was not happy.
Because he went to the current shop to buy meat, he was given something extra every time. These things don't need to be accounted for, and his family can all rely on them to improve their lives.
Now let him go to another shop to buy, this benefit will definitely not fall on him, so he refused to agree to change shops to buy meat.
The master disagreed, and Yang Laosi couldn't help it.
Pomegranate Hua had no choice but to reply to Mrs. Xu according to the truth.
Mrs. Xu didn't give a good face at that time, and when the pomegranate flower left, she complained to Xu Butcher and Xu Pingchang: "I usually don't eat less of what we send, and I don't try my best to ask her to help me say goodbye." Isn't it to buy the meat from anyone's house, do we still have to ask for a high price, and we can't give her the bad meat? ”
Xu Pingchang persuaded: "Mother, didn't my little sister say that the two masters were in charge of buying meat on the construction site?" The foreman can't help it, what else do you want my little sister to do?"
When Mrs. Xu saw him biting a little sister, she became even more angry, and said, "Little sister, is that your sister?" I only gave birth to a daughter, Xiuqin, who is your little sister? ”
"Pomegranate is the sister of the apricot blossom, I follow the apricot blossom to call the little sister, there's nothing wrong with it!" Xu Pingchang muttered.
"Xinghua Xinghua, do you still have me in your eyes? If you marry a daughter-in-law, you forget your mother, you unfilial son! When Xu Pozi saw her son refutating her mouth, she beat her chest and cried again.
Xu Butcher has been silent, seeing that Mrs. Xu complained that her son only needs her daughter-in-law to recognize her mother, for fear that Xinghua will hear it, she scolded: "Old woman, what nonsense are you talking about, when did Pyeongchang disrespect you?" Son and daughter-in-law and He Meimei, we should be happy as fathers and mothers, don't you have to make noise and noise every day for their little couple, and you can only be comfortable when you leave your heart? ”
Mrs. Xu is thunder and rain is small, just pretentious, howling loudly, but tears are not at all, hearing Xu Butcher scolding her, the crying stopped at once.
In fact, what they said had been heard by Xinghua, who was hiding outside the door of the guest hall at this time.
Xinghua was happy and sad, happy that Xu Pingchang did not hesitate to contradict his mother in order to protect her and Pomegranate Flower; It's sad that my mother-in-law can't see that she has a good relationship with her husband.
"Okay, haven't we all been open like this for so many years? The little business on the construction site can't be done all the time, why do you want to cling to these three melons and two dates? Seeing that Mrs. Xu was still pulling her face, the butcher Xu persuaded her.
Mrs. Xu is a person with an extreme personality, and if Xu Butcher thinks like this, it doesn't mean that she will think like this.
"Even so, if she brings the business to our house, can we still lose her? Xinghua is her own sister, she doesn't want to think about it, the family is rich, Xinghua mother and son don't want to enjoy happiness? If our family didn't do this business, we wouldn't talk about it, but she would rather let the money be earned by others than given to us. The more Xu Pozi thought about it, the more angry she became, and her tone became sharper.
"Mother, the construction site is not my sister's, how can she be the master?" Xu Pingchang couldn't help but say.
"She can't be the master, can't her owner be the master? She follows the inn every day, which shows that the owner values her, as long as she talks to the owner, what can't be done on the construction site? Mrs. Xu was angry, the owner casually appreciated so many pomegranate flowers, so she didn't believe that the owner would accept such a trivial matter as pomegranate flowers.
Xu Pingchang was speechless, got up silently and went out.
"You mean that Pomegranate also lives in the Yuanxiang Inn?" Xu Butcher frowned and asked Mrs. Xu.
Xu Pozi said angrily: "No, how expensive the room of the Yuanxiang Inn is, what owner is willing to let the workers live so well!" ”
Xu Butcher was silent.
Xu Pingchang returned to the room and sat silently.
Seeing this, Xinghua hurriedly poured a cup of tea and brought it to him, and said softly: "I'm sorry, Xianggong, I've embarrassed you." ”
Xu Pingchang looked up at Xinghua and said in surprise: "Did you hear it?" ”
Xinghua nodded, she knew that it was wrong to eavesdrop on her in-laws, but the matter was related to her little sister, and she couldn't care much about it.
Xu Pingchang didn't blame Xinghua, but comforted his daughter-in-law: "My mother just said angry words for a while, don't take it to heart." Our mother actually loves her children very much, and she doesn't treat you as an outsider. When the baby in your belly is born, your mother will think about holding her grandson every day, and she won't care about us anymore. ”
"I know that my mother is good to me, and I don't let my hands touch the slightest bit of work at home, and my waist is thick near the row." Xinghua smiled and turned around in front of Xu Pingchang and asked him to look at his waist.
"Fool, you're pregnant, not meaty." Xu Pingchang also smiled.
Xinghua didn't believe it, she was only more than three months old now, how could she show her pregnancy, it must be that her appetite became better after not being happy, and she ate fat.
How did she know that after she left, Mrs. Xu sang such a play, and returned to the construction site to continue to be her supervisor honestly.
It's June, and the heat is coming, and the air is filled with heat waves that make it almost breathless.
The workers also started work early, did the work for an hour and then came to breakfast, waited for the sun to rise in the sky and rested, waited for lunch, and then rested for an hour after the meal before starting work, and then finished when it was dark.
Yang Laosi also asked the master to boil a large pot of heat-relieving soup with herbs every day, so that the workers could drink it as water to avoid heat stroke.
Since Xu Xiuqin came to the construction site, the number of workers who came to the stove shed to drink water has increased significantly, and the frequency has also become frequent.
It turned out that several mothers-in-law were in their forties, and they joked with men to have a complete range of meat and vegetables, and it was often the men who admitted defeat.
Suddenly, a little daughter-in-law in her early twenties came, and the men blushed as soon as they said meaty words, lowered their heads and did not dare to make a sound, and their manly advantage came up.
Especially for those who are younger, their daughters-in-law are not around, so they can only have a good time.
This morning, Xu Xiuqin was washing and cutting with a few mothers-in-law, and a man surnamed Zhao came in slowly.
This man surnamed Zhao looks like he is in his thirties, his mouth is smooth and smooth, and he usually jokes with a few mothers-in-law in their forties to play with ease, so that the mother-in-law can't take advantage of it.
He came in and scooped a bowl of soup to relieve the heat and took a sip, then took the bowl and looked east and west among several mothers-in-law, and finally stood still beside Xu Xiuqin.
Xu Xiuqin was chopping vegetables on the board, and when she saw a man standing beside her, she moved to the other side.
"Yo, the little lady's hands are white and tender, how can she come to do such rough work? Your man is really a man who doesn't know how to pity people, if this is my daughter-in-law, I will definitely let her take care of her at home, just serve me comfortably. The man surnamed Zhao stared at Xu Xiuqin's hand and said.
His words hit the pain in Xu Xiuqin's heart.
Xu Xiuqin's hand holding the knife stopped slightly, pursed her lips, and continued to bow her head to chop vegetables.
When the mother-in-law next to them heard it, they immediately coaxed: "You will feel sorry for people, you will take Xiuqin's sister home to raise it, and at night when you go to the bed, one on the left and one on the right, not more comfortable than the son-in-law." ”
"Hey, with his size, where can he submit two after work."
"It's not that medicine."
"As far as the salary he works on, he can't eat it for a few days to buy medicine, how can he raise a baby!"
Mother-in-law, you and I will hurt the man surnamed Zhao.
The man surnamed Zhao was not in a hurry, and said seriously: "Ladies and gentlemen, don't say that, I have a thick skin and can stand it, and Sister Xiuqin is thin-skinned and a family person, so don't ruin her reputation." ”
"I'm afraid of ruining people's reputation, you still come to her, I think your kid is also a urine turtle and wine, not a serious thing."
"It's just that looking at his kid's eyebrows, he didn't have a good heart."
"Look at what this eldest sister said, I, Zhao Dajun, am a dignified seven-foot man, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a righteous face, where is the thief's eyebrows and rat eyes." Zhao Dajun did not fall behind at all under the siege of his mother-in-law.
Xu Xiuqin, who was chopping vegetables, laughed out loud.