Chapter 20 Difficulties
Although Ye Feng had been mentally prepared last night, and had thought of a lot of countermeasures on the way here just now, in the face of the Huang and Zhu clans' insulting methods, he found that he had no choice at all.
Not to mention that he is a child who is not taken seriously by adults, even if he grows up, how can there be a big man who scolds two shrews? It was a spicy picture, and he couldn't do that kind of thing.
Somehow, he suddenly thought of the classic admonition: If a dog bites you, do you want to bite the dog too?
What's more, the mouth grows on the other party, and you can't scold yourself, but people can't use a needle to sew the other party's mouth together! Of course, if he could, Ye Feng really wanted to do this.
Xu didn't react for a while, or was thinking of some countermeasures, Ye just stood dumbfounded.
My stupid big sister, it's not okay to stand stupidly like this!
Ye Feng stepped forward and pulled Ye's sleeve and said, "Sister, let's go in, will you congratulate Grandma Qianyan on her birthday?" ”
Anyway, no matter whether the other party accepts them or not, what the Ye family should do must still do, even if it is actually a passing scene.
Ye Feng's words made the Ye clan sober up.
Looking at his daughter and Ye Feng beside him, Ye eased his emotions, and after trying to put a smile on his face, he turned to Qianyan and said, "Let's go, let's go in and celebrate grandma's birthday." ”
glanced at Ye Feng again, "Let's go together, speaking of which, you should also officially meet your relatives." ”
Ye Feng then remembered that he had indeed not officially met these superb relatives after living in Chenjia Village. And these relatives are not outsiders, they are all Chen Jixing's closest relatives, and they can't be separated no matter what.
Therefore, sometimes family affection is indeed not love, but just bondage.
The Huang family and the Zhu family are easy to say, but they are people of the same generation. According to the seniority, Ye Feng only needs to follow the Ye family to call the eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law.
It's a little unreasonable for Grandma Qianyan here, after all, she is an elder. If the other party uses this as a starting point, how should they respond?
Ye Shi pulled Qian Yan towards the main house full of laughter, and Ye Feng followed behind without saying a word, but his face was not afraid.
Just kidding, this is not a Hongmen banquet, let alone a Longtan tiger's den. It's just to meet an old woman. Anyway, no matter what he does, it is for the sake of Ye and Chen Jixing's face.
If there is anything, he plays Laipi, and no one dares to do anything.
It wasn't until he entered the house that Ye Feng had a chance to start taking a closer look.
To say that the yard just now is already very good, just by looking at the appearance, you can know that this is a very solid family, at least not like a family that is still struggling to make ends meet.
And this room is quite spacious, worthy of the best room in the whole yard.
There is a bookshelf at the entrance, which acts somewhat like a partition in a modern entryway. There were a few books on the bookshelf, and there was actually a vase.
Although I don't know what color this vase is and where it comes from, it is always a vase. It's just that this doesn't match the style of the whole room, Ye Feng feels a little funny, this is too pretentious, he has been here for a few days, and he hasn't seen anyone put a vase in the house.
Besides, it's not here to put it.
When I crossed these, I saw an old woman in her fifties with a fierce face and a hundred hairs on the throne, crooked on a couch, accepting the worship of her children and grandchildren. Although it is not full of pearls, it is also a lot of earrings, silver hairpins, bracelets and so on.
On the other hand, Ye's head full of clear soup noodles is not as good as the old man in front of him.
Now I don't need to introduce Ye Feng to know, this is naturally the absolute heroine of today's birthday banquet, Chen Jixing's mother-in-law who is biased to the Pacific Ocean, and Ye's evil mother-in-law, Mrs. Liu.
Mrs. Liu, who looked high, was still smiling all over her face at first, laughing with this grandson, joking about that grandson, grabbing the snacks on the table and feeding her granddaughter to her mouth, but she also felt like a family.
But as soon as he saw Ye Shi bring Qianyan and Ye Feng in, his expression became a little uncomfortable. When the three of them came to the front, they turned their heads slightly, as if they didn't see it, and continued to chat with the others.
Ye Feng originally walked with the Ye family and Qianyan, but now the Ye family obviously wanted to take Qianyan to kowtow to Mrs. Liu, so Ye Feng quickly flashed to the side and stood.
If this old lady Liu hadn't been so pretentious, and hadn't let her two daughters-in-law deliberately make things difficult for the Ye family, it would have been okay for him to kneel down and fall down.
But, for now, it's better to be exempt. Strictly speaking, she is an outsider, no matter how arrogant Mrs. Liu is, no matter how obedient the Huang and Zhu families are, they can't do anything with him.
And when Ye Shi saw Ye Feng quickly dodge away, he knew that Ye Feng was uncomfortable, and he didn't embarrass him. And today's trouble was for himself, so why bother to bring others along.
Knowing that Mrs. Liu didn't want to see her and didn't want them to come to celebrate her birthday, Ye had no choice but to pull a thousand words and kneel down, reciting the words of blessing that she had already thought of: "Mother, the unfilial daughter-in-law brought her granddaughter to give you birthday greetings!" I wish you a long and healthy life. ”
I have to say that Ye's words are decent, there is nothing wrong, but there is nothing brilliant about it.
After speaking, Ye took a thousand words and solemnly kowtowed to Mrs. Liu a few times. This is a very important etiquette, which shows the respect that the two have for their elders.
Hearing the sound of kowtowing, Ye Feng felt a headache on his forehead.
However, Mrs. Liu was still chatting happily with her two daughters-in-law, Zhu and Huang, as if she didn't see everything in front of her at all.
A room full of relatives and friends waited to see the joke and see how the troubled daughter-in-law and granddaughter would deal with themselves.
If Ye couldn't stand this kind of difficulty, he stood up and slammed the door, this would definitely not work. When it was passed out, everyone would only say that Ye's daughter-in-law didn't understand the rules, didn't understand etiquette, and didn't respect her in-laws.
If the word "filial piety" is pressed down, the Ye family can't bear it at all, and it will be pointed out by thousands of people. If there is a conflict with her again, she will be charged with beating her mother-in-law, and she will even be expelled from the village.
There are even more excessive, and they will take the people in the village to Ye's mother's house and scold the two old people for only knowing that they don't know how to teach. You must know that the Ye family's maiden family still has three younger sisters who have not yet left the cabinet.
If you make such a fuss, your marriage will naturally be extremely difficult, and you won't even want to marry for the rest of your life. After all, no one wants to marry a troublemaker and go home.
In addition, it will also affect the innocent thousand words.
Gossipy people will speculate wildly, how good can such a woman who does not respect her in-laws raise a child? If this is the case, the marriage of a thousand words in the future will be full of ups and downs, at least it will be pointed at.
I have to say that Mrs. Liu is very accurate, and she is sure that neither Ye nor Qianyan will dare to resist. As for Ye Feng, he was just an outsider, he was still a man, and the situation in front of him did not allow him to interfere at all.
Looking at the third daughter-in-law who knelt in front of her and didn't dare to come out, Mrs. Liu was in a very good mood at the moment.
"Hmph, dare to do it against yourself, dare to instigate your son to go out alone, this is the end. Not returning to her parents' house is already very decent. ”
She didn't want to look at the two kneeling on the ground.
A few years ago, Qianyan was still young, and from time to time he would come to the old mansion to get close to her. But since he was sensible, he didn't come to the old house anymore.
Naturally, she attributed it all to Ye's "hate" education.
Otherwise, a child like Qianyan doesn't know anything, so why doesn't he come to play with her anymore? To put it bluntly, it must be the Ye family's mother who talks about those dusty past events in front of Qianyan every day, and maybe there is some oil and vinegar, which makes Qianyan hate her own grandmother.
Since they can't get along, let's torture each other.
Mrs. Liu has always treated the Ye family as some kind of "shame". After all, like the Ye family, who instigated his son to split the family, there was only one family in the entire village.
However, it was her forgetfulness of her "evil deeds" and ignorance that allowed Ye to separate from her. It can be said that she personally killed the once extremely filial Ye family.
Not surprisingly, Ye and Qianyan knelt upright like that, no matter how dissatisfied they were. Qianyan tried to stand up several times, but was tightly pressed by Ye.
If it was unwilling to come before, and it was unwilling to be sneered at by the two sisters-in-law in the yard, then at this moment, after all these things, the Ye family calmed down.
At this moment, she has never regretted it, it is worth kneeling this time every year, after all, it was she who "took the initiative" to fall out with her mother-in-law before she had the opportunity to leave the house and move out of the old house to stand on her own.
Thinking optimistically, it is also a benefit to think about it every year, except for such days, and you don't have to look up or look down the rest of the time. Or, if you are comfortable for a year and kneel for a day, you can count yourself as earning.
She figured it out, what Huang and Zhu said just now naturally couldn't be true, half true and half false, but the last sentence was true: they had long wanted to separate.
If you really succeed in splitting up, then you don't have to serve the old lady all day, you don't have to put up with her bad temper, and you are even in charge of your hard-earned money.
What woman doesn't want to control the finances of her family after getting married? It's good now, the financial power is naturally tightly held by the old lady.
Not to mention that sometimes if you want to buy some food that you like, it is the time to use the silver, and the old lady also has to consider it for most of the day, and finally reluctantly take out a little less silver than expected.
Looking at people's faces and living the days of life, the Ye family can be regarded as having enough, maybe there is no one in this courtyard who has a deeper understanding than her.
Therefore, the Huang family is okay, they have never gotten along. However, she didn't blame Zhu's cynicism, because although those words were not good, they were actually envy and jealousy in disguise.
The room full of people are relatives and close relatives, so from time to time, intentionally or unintentionally, they float to the Ye family and daughter with "concerning" eyes, and in that gaze, there is ridicule, ridicule, disdain and sympathy.
But without exception, no one reminded Mrs. Liu that there was a mother and daughter kneeling under her nose, her daughter-in-law and granddaughter. But in fact, who will remind? As the saying goes, it's not about yourself.
What's more, didn't Mrs. Liu really see it?
As a saying goes through the internet: you can never wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep.
Ye Feng, who was standing on the side, could only be anxious in his heart, after all, he was an outsider, and he was soft-spoken, and he didn't say anything.
In addition, in this time and space, etiquette and filial piety are insurmountable. No matter how reasonable you are, you will definitely not be filial piety.
Even if the death of a stepparent in an official's family cannot escape Ding worry, let alone ordinary people. If I plucked up the courage to point out all this, I was afraid that the old lady would say that it was taught by the Ye family.
At that time, the Ye family knelt for so long, and it could be regarded as a white kneeling.
Ye Feng had never felt so helpless, it turned out that there was still this kind of thing in this world that he could only watch happen, but there was no way to stop it.
However, a teenage girl who had been standing next to Mrs. Liu was full of concern, but it was difficult to make it out because of the scene in the house. Seeing that Ye Feng was so anxious, he wanted to help him.
No one knows this mother better than himself, Ye Feng wants to help with his own ability, and he can fight against Mrs. Liu alone, it is almost impossible with his strength at this moment.
In her memory, since the separation, there has always been such a thing every year anyway, no matter who comes, no matter who helps to intercede, her third sister-in-law will always have to suffer some grievances.
And now it is not only the Ye family who is kneeling on the ground, but also her little niece Qianyan. Such a small person, no matter what grievances there are between adults, she is innocent.
She was afraid that if she didn't make a move, Ye Feng's faint move would make the two of them kneel for a longer time. Thinking of this, he glanced at Ye Feng, looked at Ye Feng, and then looked at Nunu outside the house.
Ye Feng was a little surprised, and then felt a little warm, it seems that this family is not all bad people, but there are also good people for Ye and Qianyan.
Seeing that she first nodded to herself, and then snorted outward, after a little thought, Ye Feng understood that this girl was going to let herself go out to find Chen Jixing.
Why didn't I think of this solution? It seems that if you really care, you will be chaotic, but you will forget about Chen Jixing, a living treasure.
I have to say, this is indeed a good way.
If Mrs. Liu wants to play a kind mother in Chen Jixing, it is naturally impossible to punish his daughter-in-law and daughter in front of him. Otherwise, it will be a ruin of the image, and it will separate the mother and child.
After so many years of separation, Chen Jixing has been thinking about Mrs. Liu, which makes the old lady feel much better.
Thinking of this, Ye Feng hurriedly retreated silently and moved the rescuers.
Old Mrs. Liu and the others naturally saw Ye Feng leave, but no one paid attention to him. In their opinion, Ye Feng naturally couldn't stand it anymore and felt bored and wanted to leave. So, at first, the person who estimated that Ye Feng would make a lot of noise relaxed his heart, and then gave birth to a little contempt.
If Ye Feng dared to make a fuss at the instigation of the Ye family, Mrs. Liu and the Huang family naturally had a way to rectify the Ye family.
There is no room for men to intervene in wars between women, even the youngest men.
It has always been so.
Along the way, Ye Feng searched for Chen Jixing all over the house, estimating whether he was dragged by other men to drink. Although he has only seen Chen Jixing drink wine last time he was busy with farming for so long, he likes it very much.
While walking, Ye Feng thought about how he would tell him this situation if he found Chen Jixing.
First of all, it's absolutely impossible to say things like, "That damn old woman is making things difficult for your wife and daughter." Not to mention that Chen Jixing would definitely not believe it, he would only feel that Ye Feng was sowing discord. Take 10,000 steps back and think about it, even if he believes it, he won't admit it, isn't this scolding his own mother?
Secondly, you can't reveal the situation in the house, and you have to find a way to let Chen Jixing walk in by himself. Even if Mrs. Liu was unhappy, it was her own son who inadvertently entered the house and found it, and it had nothing to do with her.
It's not that I'm afraid of having something to do with myself, what Ye Feng is afraid of is that Chen Jixing will be embarrassed if he knows about it.
He is also a man, so he naturally knows that men are stubborn in this kind of thing. To put it bluntly, men are good-looking.
As for whether Mrs. Liu and her two daughters-in-law would doubt themselves, Ye Feng didn't mind. Anyway, after today, I don't think I will have any intersection with this family.
Even if she is still in this village next year, she will never come again if she can't celebrate her birthday.
Therefore, to say a thousand things, Chen Jixing walked into the house by himself is the key. In this way, Ye and Qianyan were also relieved.
After searching for a long time, Ye Feng finally saw Chen Jixing in another room.
When Ye Feng walked in, he was talking to the two peasant men, laughing from time to time, drinking two sips of wine, and stuffing some side dishes into his mouth.
When he was at home, Ye Feng rarely saw Chen Jixing who laughed with people like this. It seems that these two people should be his two brothers.
Thinking of this, Ye Feng took a closer look, and I have to say that the three of them are indeed quite similar between their eyebrows, and it seems that they are undoubtedly brothers.
However, Ye Feng didn't plan to take the initiative to greet these three people, so he pretended that he was passing by, and pretended not to see the three of them.
But he knew in his heart that Chen Jixing would definitely take the initiative to call him.
Sure enough, seeing Ye Feng walking by, as if he was lost, Chen Jixing asked casually: "Why did you come out, Qianyan?" ”
"Oh, brother-in-law, you're here. That's right, I came out to go to the toilet and just came back, looking at every room being pretty much the same, so I got a little lost. Qianyan seems to be celebrating the old lady's birthday in the house! ”
The reason why I said this is that I want to tell Chen Jixing that he has not yet congratulated his lovely mother on his birthday.
Sure enough, hearing this, Chen Jixing immediately stood up and said something to the two, and then took Ye Feng to the main house.
There were probably people "standing guard" at the door, or they were probably hearing someone walking in here, and they had already whispered a few words in the old woman's ear.
Hey, it seems that these two people who don't know what to do are cheap.
Then, the old woman seemed to "react" and said as if she was awake, "Yo, isn't this the third daughter-in-law?" Get up! Get up! Second daughter-in-law, go and help your brother and sister, look at me, I'm old and dizzy, I haven't seen it before......"
Then, as if inadvertently, he looked up and saw Chen Jixing stepping into the door with the curtain open, so he said loudly, "My son, come in, it's cold outside, come to my mother." Just now, your daughter-in-law took a thousand words to kowtow to her mother, and she is also a filial person. ”
With Zhu's help, Ye slowly stood up, his legs aching and a little numb. It's just full of grievances, but I don't dare to say it.
Qianyan pursed his lips, and his eyes were full of tears. It's just that I didn't cry out in the end. Because Ye Feng once told her that crying many times will not solve the problem, but will only make the person who makes things difficult for him more proud.
Chen Jixing and Mrs. Liu complained to each other there, and Ye Feng hurriedly stepped forward to pull a thousand words and comforted them lightly.
It's already like this, and you can no longer let the other party catch any "handles".
Qianyan has a violent temper, I don't know what will happen.
Chen Jixing kowtowed to Mrs. Liu, and sat beside her and chatted affectionately. When Mrs. Liu saw Ye's calm face, she was a little unhappy, because she glanced at Huang.
The Huang family was originally a little unhappy, because this year's "punishment" was too simple and hasty, and it was really cheap to say Ye's.
Unexpectedly, my mother-in-law glanced at herself, meaningful, and instantly understood, she was also holding her stomach and had nowhere to go, so she asked proudly: "Brother and sister, I don't know if I'm dazzled, why do I look at you a little unhappy." It can't be sick, right? ”
Ye Feng felt weird when he heard her say this, it stands to reason that the Huang family would not make a move easily. In this way, there must be a move.
It's just that Ye has just knelt on the ground for so long, his body is out of control, and his brain can't react for a while, so he didn't answer Huang's words.
However, Huang didn't care.
Seeing that Ye Shi didn't answer, his spirit seemed to be in a trance, but he was in the middle of it, and after thinking about it, Huang Shi continued proudly: "Ah, brother and sister, you can't be a strange mother who didn't see you two just now." I look at you so angry. ”
With this foreshadowing, without waiting for Ye to speak, Huang continued to say "seriously": "Brother and sister, don't complain about your sister-in-law for saying you, it's not right for you to do this. You and your third brother are separated to live a happy life, so it is possible that you don't know. Mother is old, recently, there are people who can't see clearly for a while, don't go to your heart. ”
Huang's voice was notoriously loud, and when she said this, everyone in the room heard it if they were not deaf.
The girl who helped Ye Feng just now rubbed her temples with a headache. I thought that the third brother would be fine when he came in, but now it seems that my mother does not plan to let go of the third sister-in-law easily.
It's just that this sister-in-law is too noisy.
Hearing this, Chen Jixing was a little unhappy, he broke up his family against his will at the risk of disobedience to the Ye family, and he didn't know how many white eyes he suffered. It's okay on weekdays, but today is my mother's birthday, and it's okay to kneel for a while more as a daughter-in-law.
Therefore, there was something wrong with the look in Ye's eyes.
Ye naturally knows that this is not the time to care, but he is afraid that there will be some "shows" waiting for him next. If even Chen Jixing doesn't support himself and misunderstands himself, it will be really embarrassing.
Therefore, he didn't bother to rub his stinging and cold knees, and said respectfully with a low eyebrow: "How can it, mother, my daughter-in-law is fine, it's just that I didn't sleep well last night." It's just that sister-in-law, you're too careful. Instead of having time to see if I'm angry, I should take more time to care about myself, kid. ”
After speaking, regardless of Huang's angry expression, he continued: "By the way, after talking about it for a long time, why haven't you seen Qianqi?" I don't know if he kowtowed to his mother? ”
Ye's words successfully blocked Huang's mouth, and also made her hate it in her heart. Everyone knows that Huang's eldest son, Chen Qianqi, was caught red-handed by the fat aunt last month for peeking at the fat aunt's daughter-in-law taking a bath, and was almost beaten half to death by the fat aunt's three sons.
In the end, it was just because he had just set up a stool and was discovered by the fat aunt before he could see it, so he threw him outside the gate of the old mansion with injuries all over his body.
If you really see something, it is estimated that you will not be able to save your eyes, at least you will be missing arms and legs.
Hearing this, Chen Jixing felt better and stretched his brows that had been frowning before. Instead of blaming her mother, Ye also cared about her injured nephew, which was what she should do.
However, only Chen Jixing can think like this. After all, there are not many people like him who have a pig's brain.
And the Huang family was so angry that he grinned, but he didn't know what to say, because the topic of the Ye family was too tricky. Therefore, no matter what she says, as long as the Ye family has a heart, she can only bring humiliation on herself.
Therefore, after thinking about it for a long time, Huang held back a few words: "He is very good, don't worry about you." ”
Zhu smiled secretly in his heart, saying that his third brother and sister looked weak, but it was also good at the critical moment, and he knew that it was a rebellion.
However, Mrs. Liu was stunned by this sudden topic, and she didn't know what to say if she wanted to cooperate with Huang's words, so the room was quiet all of a sudden, and the atmosphere was a little weird for a while.
Seeing this, Ye Feng breathed a sigh of relief, although Ye Shi and Qianyan were a little tired, they were finally in danger. Therefore, the eyes that looked at the girl just now were full of gratitude.
Chen Wumei understood what Ye Feng meant, she just pursed her lips and smiled, and did not make any other moves.
But what she doesn't know is that her future fate is really bumpy.
And because of today's small favor, he planted the seeds of hope for his rebirth.