It was easy to persuade Hui Niang, and invited her son-in-law and his two brothers into the house, and made a bowl of hazelnut and red date tea for one of them, and Xie Wang pulled her son-in-law and daughter aside for questioning.

From the narrative of one grievance and one guilt between the two, Xie Wang and Xie Xuan roughly understood what happened to the Li family in the morning.

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In the morning, the sky was just bright, and there were still a few stars dotted with it.

Hearing the first chirp of the chicken, Xie Huiniang got up, and it was her turn to cook today.

Sheng Lin'er and her husband were still sleeping, and when Li Ying and Li Lian heard her get up, Li Ying hurriedly dressed and prepared to help her mother light the fire. Li Lian rubbed in the quilt for a long time, felt the cold air outside, and shrank back.

When she came to the kitchen and saw that the water tank was empty, Xie Huiniang couldn't help but sigh helplessly.

"Mother, the second aunt didn't carry water yesterday!" Li Ying couldn't help but say angrily: "It's all said, the water tank will be filled every evening for the next day, and the second aunt will deliberately not pick it every time!" We have to fetch water early in the morning! ”

"That's it, I'll go! If you delay the time, your grandmother will scold again. Hui Niang said, picked up the burden and picked up two empty buckets, opened the courtyard door and walked out.

The Sun family relied on himself to give birth to three sons with handles for the second child of the Li family, and did not give birth to a single money-losing goods, and he has always been rampant at home, except for looking at the face of his mother-in-law, he didn't even look at the eldest daughter-in-law. She is sharp and sharp-tongued, if she wants to provoke her, she can not live peacefully for a few days, she just wants to live quietly, more things are better than less.

When I came to the locust tree in the west of the village, there were already people shaking their wheels by the well to draw water.

Hui Niang recognized Aunt Liu, a neighbor not far away, who was a warm-hearted person, but she had always loved to gossip, and she couldn't hide anything from her in the village.

"Hui Niang, why are you fetching water again? I see you frying water back and forth every day, and your two concubines enjoy leisure at home all day long, which is weird! Aunt Liu shook her wheels and saw Xie Huiniang carrying two buckets on her emaciated shoulders and walking briskly in the cold fog, and couldn't help but wonder.

"Aunt Liu, you are also here to fetch water!" Hui Niang didn't reply to her words, so she just smiled and said hello.

Seeing that Aunt Liu's two buckets were full, Hui Niang was about to walk over and take the bucket and prepare to fetch water, but she didn't want Aunt Liu to get up and pick up the water, so she threw the bucket into the well again, and said with a smile: "You just bring the bucket over, I'll help you shake it!" ”

Hui Niang was a little surprised, and hurriedly said: "Aunt Liu, it's good that I come by myself, and it doesn't take much effort, aren't you busy going back to cook?" ”

"Not busy, not busy, three meals a day, if you don't die of hunger, it's the same sooner or later." Aunt Liu said with a smile, took Hui Niang's bucket to her feet, shook a bucket of water for her with her hands and feet, and threw the bucket into the well to shake the second bucket.

"Hui Niang? Your Zhuangzi is so busy, you didn't go back to have a look? Aunt Liu took the time to ask.

"Busy? What's busy? ”

Hui Niang hurriedly asked, she heard that her family bought Zhuangzi some time ago, and later her mother-in-law hid from her and took her uncle and uncle to make trouble, and wanted to use Xie Xuan to blackmail her mother's money, and was kicked out by her father.

After returning home, my mother-in-law was very angry, picking and choosing from their three rooms all day long, picking bones in eggs, and standing in front of her door for half a month and scolding.

However, when she heard that her mother-in-law and her eldest and second uncle were deflated at her mother's house, she was happy in her heart, but her face was faint and she didn't give others a handle.

"You don't know?" Aunt Liu sighed, "No wonder you don't know, just your mother-in-law looks at you all day long, either shouting or scolding, and she is jealous of the new wealth of her mother's family, afraid that you will know your long face, and I want to hide it from you." In fact, your in-laws have already gotten the news, so they only hide it from you! ”

"Aunt Liu, tell me quickly, what's wrong with my family? What's wrong? Hui Niang thought too much for a while, worried in her heart, and urged.

"It's okay! No, it's a great thing! Aunt Liu smiled and said, "Didn't your family buy Zhuangzi?" Your father and mother asked the workers to dig a house on the village and build a grass shed, ready to plant vegetables in the shed! I've heard that the wages are forty miles a day! I also manage three meals a day. I think if you go back to your parents' house, ask your father, do you still want workers? My old man and the boss are idle at home, and finally have a good job, they all want to go! ”

"I haven't been back to my parents' house for a while, I'll help you ask when I go back today......," Hui Niang said, seeing that the buckets were full, she picked up the burden and staggered back.

Because of the confusion in her heart, Hui Niang made breakfast with a tense face, Li Ying lit the fire, and saw that her mother's face was very bad, so she only stepped forward to help.

It was easy to make breakfast, cooked sorghum noodle soup, distilled mixed noodles with millet and sorghum noodles, and served with pickled radish pickles in the jar, this is the Li family's daily breakfast.

As the meal was cooked, the people of the Li family got up one after another.

"Squeak", Li Zhangshi went out, she first came to the kitchen with a strained face to look at the food cooked by Hui Niang, and for a while thought that Hui Niang put too much sorghum noodles, "I don't know that oil and salt are expensive, your belly is a pig?" Put so much sorghum noodles, this is to prepare a meal to eat a lifetime of food? My family is not like the pickled family, I don't know what kind of shady means to make a fortune, I trembled for a while, and I wore a fur hat on the pheasant all day long-filled eagle, and looked down on the relatives......"

Hui Niang heard something in her mother-in-law's words, and insinuated that her family was rich but did not give him the Li family.

Xie Huiniang had long been accustomed to Li Zhang's reprimand, and because she had something to ask her after a while, she could only pretend that she hadn't heard it, and lowered her head to serve dinner to the big guys.

Li Zhangshi scolded, Hui Niang only didn't squeak, she gradually lost her meaning, and asked for water to wash her face.

"Warm water in the stove? Pour me a basin! Li Zhangshi wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth, and scolded while instructing: "Why don't you look at it, if you have to say a word, you will move, if I don't say anything, you will be like an elm pimple......"

Hui Niang secretly hated her in-laws for being ruthless, if it weren't for a few children, she would have wanted a piece of paper and a book - even if she closed the book, she would have left this hellish place, and left this child's charming pickled goods. But at this moment, she had to put up with it for the time being.

Thinking of what she was thinking about just now, Hui Niang barely held up a smile and replied: "Mother, I'll pour water!" So saying, he paced back and forth to fetch the crockpot in the stove that was baked with residual charcoal.

Li Ying, who was going to get the basin, hurriedly said: "Mother, let me come, you just have to serve the rice." ”

Because Li Ying is also a person who is used to doing work, Hui Niang stopped and asked Li Ying to pour water.

Hui Niang pondered in her heart for a while, put up a smile and said, "Mother, I heard that my mother's family hired someone to work in the Zhuangzi. I thought, anyway, it's winter leisure, and there is no work at home, so it's better to let Changping go to my house to help for two days, and save our family a ration......"

You've got a good idea! Before Hui Niang finished speaking, she saw Li Zhang's jumping up violently, with round triangular eyes, "Pull up that eye and take a closer look, the flea face of the Kai family - such a big face, where is the face for my Li family to work for the Xie family?" You're a hanged ghost and a flower arrangement - it's shameless to dare to mention this! ”