CHAPTER XXXIV
Cai Ru and Cai He saw that their mother was no longer angry, so they got up happily.
It stands to reason that today is the fifth day of the new year, and it should be the time to welcome the God of Wealth, but the second room did not buy firecrackers, so naturally there was no sound in the early morning.
It's just that Lin Baoru has a very good mentality, and when he saw that the Wang family listened carefully to the movement of firecrackers from other people's homes, he said: "The ancestors have said that it is better to rely on others than to rely on yourself, and it is better to ask God than to seek yourself." No matter how blessed the God of Wealth is, it will be in vain if you don't do it yourself. ”
It was the first time Wang had heard of her such a statement, so he said strangely: "Where did you hear so many strange words? But it sounds like it's pretty smooth. ”
Lin Baoru chuckled in her heart at first, and then saw that the Wang family didn't think about asking, so she put a heart into her stomach. But she also found that she seemed to be too forgetful.
She sneered and pushed the words to Lin Lao again. Second, "When my father was here, didn't he often tell me about things outside, so I remembered it." ”
One said Lin Lao. Second, Wang is even less suspicious.
On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Lin Baoru discussed with the Wang family and took some things to thank the families who helped find people yesterday when they were at home.
No matter how expensive the things are, even if it's just a bud rice cake and a few firewood, it can be regarded as a good thing for them to remember others in the second room.
"That's the way it should be." Wang listened to his daughter's words and nodded with deep sympathy, "But your grandparents and uncle, what should we take?" ”
Lin Baoru didn't feel embarrassed about this, "Our family still has more firewood now, but there are fewer people chopping firewood from grandparents, so there should be a shortage of them at this time." After a while, let the eldest brother send a few bundles of firewood over, and the mother will cut another piece of meat, which should also be our filial piety and thanks. ”
Left and right, the uncle's family and the grandparents have not been separated, so it makes sense to give a piece.
Moreover, in their current situation, they really don't have the ability to repay favors in a big way.
The two discussed for a while, asked Lin Mancang's opinion again, and took the right idea before going to prepare.
This time, according to the previous way of exchanging money, the Wang family only took Lin Mancang to each household to thank him. But when they came to the door, most of them gave a small bundle of firewood as a thank you gift. It's not expensive, but it makes everyone who gets it happy.
When she went to Lizheng's house, Lin Baoru specially instructed her to cut off half of the meat she was going to give to her grandmother, and take the rest to Lizheng's house. Of course, this way of getting pork belly has to be thoroughly understood with the Li Zheng family, and it will save gossip in the future.
When I finally went back to the old house to thank me, I naturally went with a large family. Although Liu's face was still a little stinky, and he didn't even say a kind word to the Wang family, it was not a curse with his mouth open and closed.
Lin Laohan has always felt that it is not a good feeling to divide the second room, but now that he has left the second room of the old house, his life has become more and more comfortable. The children are no longer as thin and thin as before, and they feel a little better.
However, he felt better, but Liu's heart became more and more uncomfortable, "Hmph, don't pretend, the old lady knows what you are thinking about, I'm afraid I can't wait for the old lady to die quickly." ”
Wang said softly: "How could my mother think so? The daughter-in-law didn't think so......"
Not only did they not have, but they also did not dare to have.
"Don't say that there are some or not," Liu reached out and slapped the kang table with a bang, rolled his eyelids and said, "If you really don't, why don't you come to the door to serve your mother-in-law?" During the Chinese New Year, I was busy at home and abroad, and I didn't see you come to help, and said that you didn't want to tire your mother? ”
Wang glanced at his daughter, and saw that the goddess of the boudoir should not be looking, and there was no movement at all, so he sat on the bench and did not move, "Mother also knows that I haven't cleaned up in my yard for so many years, so I haven't left my hands to come over these days." ”
Liu looked at her with low eyebrows on her face, but even if she said it to this point, Wang just sat firmly on the bench in the room, and did not have the slightest intention of getting up and moving. Then in my heart, I was even more annoyed.
"Phew, there's something to clean up in that barn." Liu Shi salivaed, and said with a gloomy face, "To put it bluntly, isn't it just that you are lazy and don't want to come to help the old lady work!"
As she spoke, she yelled at Lin Laohan and Lin Dachong in a bitter tone: "Look, you are thinking about the food cooked by this good daughter-in-law, and people don't think about you......"
She was originally a person who couldn't stand the grievances, and when she thought of the hardships she had suffered these days, the resentment in her heart deepened. Of course, Zhang's side was far away, and she couldn't touch it. At the moment, Wang's family has become her punching bag.
Lin Laohan was disturbed by her yin and yang weird words, his eyelids jumped, and seeing that this mother-in-law was about to scold the black heart again, he couldn't help but scold: "What nonsense, since the family is separated, it is two families, and there is no reason to let the daughter-in-law and granddaughter who have separated the family come to the door to serve." ”
"If you are really capable, go to Zhang's house and call back your eldest daughter-in-law, so that she can serve you well. Otherwise, let your mother's brother's baby come and serve! Lin Laohan glared at Liu with a dark face.
Although it was just a matter of a glance, it directly made Liu, who was cursing, hold his breath.
At this time, there is no place for Lin Dachong, a wooden man, to speak. Therefore, after showing his face, he went with Lin Mancang to settle Chai He.
As for the solemn atmosphere in the house, he didn't encounter it.
Lin Laohan stretched out his hand and knocked the cigarette pouch pot on the edge of the kang a few times, and only then did he stop when he saw that the cigarette stick was swaying.
"You are a good one, it is our old Lin family who can't stand you first." Lin Laohan sighed, didn't care about the ugly mother-in-law at all, just said, "In the future, you will live a good life, earn money and have a profit, and let those who watch jokes take a look......
After a pause, he looked at Wang again and said, "It's not easy for you to chop firewood with your child, so don't send it here in the future." I can still move, even if I can't, and your big brother is here......"
Liu, who was holding a mouthful of old blood on the side and was obedient, his face changed several times, and finally he couldn't hold back his breath and said, "Why don't you send it?" One day she is a member of the Lao Lin family, and she has to support her in-laws one day. Even if she is not the daughter-in-law of the Lin family, then Mancang is still the grandson of the Lin family, and she has to be filial to his father, otherwise it will be something that will hit five thunders that day! ”
Liu's words are straightforward, and even a little high-sounding, as if no matter what, if the second room doesn't serve her, it will be a black heart.
Wang's embarrassed silence, but Lin Laohan couldn't listen to it anymore, and looked at her angrily, "Enough, how can there be a greedy mother-in-law like you in the world!" Yesterday, I repented of you, but I didn't expect that the old heart was still blinded by lard. Old. How is the life of the second family, are you blind and can't see? ”
Liu was stunned by Lin Laohan's sudden angry scolding, but even if he didn't dare to shout and jump to his feet, he still couldn't get over it in his heart. She stiffened her neck and muttered, "Who's to blame, old. Second, wasn't he killed by this conscienceless mother-in-law? If only she could have stopped the old. Second, old. Second, as for going out, there is no trace! ”
"If she is really a good-hearted person, she can't stand me saying a few unpleasant words? If she really has a conscience, she should take care of her in-laws at this time, and drag the other grandchildren of the Lin family who can do things. Liu also knew that what he said was somewhat unreasonable, but at this time, the general first took the lead. Therefore, as soon as her mouth was bald, she said sour words without concealing it.
The more Xu Shi said, the more she felt that she was really wronged, so she simply patted her thigh and cried with tears in her eyes, "God, you can open your eyes, being a mother-in-law is forced to live, and in the end she has to be disgusted by the old man......"
Lin Laohan's face was gloomy, and he could drip ink, and when he saw that his mother-in-law began to be a demon again, his heart was almost angry.
He yelled impatiently: "You just rely on such a little thing and such a little talk to bully the old man. The two are honest! ”
"Old. I won't talk about it when I'm here, you are relying on you to be a mother, and he can't say anything about bullying his son. But the others are gone, and you're still thinking about planting things in the old. On the head of the second daughter-in-law, you are not afraid of getting old in the middle of the night. Second, I'll come back and settle accounts with you! ”
Liu Shi was shaken by the yelling, and he didn't dare to say that some of them were gone. She was really afraid that the old man would be angry, and after she had no support, the Liu family was like a tiger with its teeth extracted, and she just held on to the shelf.
"You treat a few children in the big house as treasures, but Mancang is also the child you have brought, why don't you feel distressed? Before, you were afraid that Youcheng would suffer, so you wouldn't let him learn how to kill pigs from the butcher. But now, your eldest grandson has worshipped Zhao Butcher as a master for the sake of the situation, and he will be the most unsightly pig killer you will see in the future! ”
Lin Laohan fist snapped. smashed the kang table, stared at the Liu family with unkind eyes, and almost pointed at her nose and scolded coldly, "Let me tell you, if my eldest grandson breaks the blessing in the future, what will be difficult, then you will be the sinner of the Lao Lin family!" ”
His words can be described as very heart-wrenching. directly made Liu unwilling and couldn't say anything, so he could only sit on the kang and gasp.
However, Lin Laohan didn't plan to take it lightly, and the left and right families had already become a joke in the village, so he was not afraid of adding another matter and setting up a few firewoods.
"You scold the old man every day. The second daughter-in-law was raised by a little mother, and she was punished by God, if God really has eyes, he can't take you as an old shrew first? ”
Liu was originally scared by grasshoppers after the autumn, but now when he saw the old man staring at her and hating to hit her with his fist, he naturally shrank his neck and stopped.
Lin Laohan saw that Liu was no longer chattering, so he waved his hand a little tired and asked Wang to go back with a few children first.
When a few people left, they naturally greeted Lin Laohan and Liu. It's just that Liu, who is full of resentment, didn't talk at all.
Even if the Liu family is not happy, there is no other way. Her little bit of caution was completely lifted by the old man today, but if she went up again. Entangled, I'm afraid I won't be able to get it well.
When the Wang family went out, Lin Dachong happened to come back.
When he saw the Wang family coming over, he couldn't help rubbing his hands in embarrassment, and said dryly, "Go back." ”
Wang nodded, gave a sigh of gratitude, and didn't say anything else.
She originally wanted to persuade Lin Dachong a few words, but when she thought of her current situation, she didn't have that thought.
They are now self-reliant, even if they have something to do with the old mansion, but to put it bluntly, they are just relatives. Besides, even when she didn't split up, she didn't have a say in the affairs of the old house.
After talking like this, Lin Youcheng came back with vain steps. When he saw Lin Baoru, he said hello for the first time, but in that fake smile, there was a bit of incomprehensible look in Lin Baoru.
Xu heard the movement, and Lin Youzhi, who had been in the house, also went out. He saw that it was the Wang family who was leaving, and remembered his grandmother's temper that had become more and more irritable recently, so he thought about taking the box in the book and saying a few words.
So he frowned and took a few steps forward and stopped the Wang family.
"Auntie."