Chapter 49: Dividing the Fish
The number of fish was a bit large, piled up and jumping around the river, and the village chief arranged for people to surround the fish while asking the number of people to count the heads. After counting in one lap, a total of 97 people of all sizes were present.
Wang Yuqing looked at a large number of fish and was also a little emotional, counting the fish must not be good, the sun is also big, everyone is sweating, and if it is delayed, it will be hot, and there is that smart one, but he is hiding in the shade under a few bamboos on the side. The village chief made a visual inspection, and finally decided to divide the fish according to five fish per person, and the children to divide them according to three fish, and everyone happily agreed, and no one had any opinions.
Originally, there was a queue, and no one had any opinions, but when it was Li Lanxi's family's turn, some people were not happy.
"I said old man, your family has not been arrested at home, we all saw it when we came, you took more than we took I don't know how much, why do you still share? Besides, how many people come from your house? It's basically all here, this has to be divided again, isn't the fish all divided by your family? Working blindly with all of us, we have made a lot of money for your family! It was a woman in the village who spoke, holding the fish that had just been divided, in order to see the excitement, she had not taken it home, her face was tall and skinny, her tone was sour, and she was obviously very dissatisfied with her own share.
The villagers on the side listened, and the people of the Li family were also a little unkind, their family took so many fish back, and they came to share it, it was really excessive, they all worked together, why did their family have more points? They should take out what they took back first and divide it equally.
"Yes, Old Man Li, your family can't be divided again! Originally, the fish belonged to everyone, and there was no reason for your family to score more" A man also jumped out.
Old man Li's face was red when he was said, his own family did take a lot back, it stands to reason that it is okay to take it or not, but Mrs. Yao thinks that her family started to take it with everyone, why is it counted in it, and the villagers catch fish together, and their own family also contributes, why can't you ask for it? It has to be!
Mrs. Yao saw that Old Man Li was blocked, but she didn't do it, and stood up with her waist in her hands.
"Since you all have opinions, let's talk about it, did my family find this fish first? I caught it at home and won't let me take it back? Later, when you came, we also helped, and we didn't say we wouldn't catch fish, did we? Even the old man of my family has gone down to the river, and our family deserves this fish. Besides, the village chief is also here, whether my family can get it or not, the village chief has the final say, and the village chief wants to say that our family can't get it, then okay, we don't want it! Mrs. Yao hit the nail on the head and moved the village chief out. She wants to see what the village chief says, whether he will lead their family's good, if she doesn't help their family, there will be no need to think about the village in the future.
"Ahem..."The village chief asked everyone to be quiet, and he had a headache, "Okay, don't make noise, this is a good thing, why are you still arguing." ”。
"This fish, the Li family can divide it, as for why, as long as you have a little conscience, you can figure it out, I don't say much, I just want to change it to your family, and when you encounter such a good thing, you can call the people in the village? You touch your hearts and ask yourself, will you tell everyone about this, figure it out, and then speak, boss, continue to divide the fish." After the village chief finished speaking, the villagers were silent, no one spoke, even the woman, she pouted and did not speak, she wanted to speak, but no one from her family came, no one supported her, she could not say hard words, so she could only carry the fish home.
Li Lanxi's family smoothly divided the fish, and each took it home, and it is said that there was still a little left, which was given to the poorer families in the village by the village chief.
This matter is over, but be careful, after all, it is a minority, most people are still more grateful to Mr. Li's family, after all, it was someone else's family who discovered it first, and if you can think of the people in the village, it is a good heart.
When I got home, the whole family was in trouble with the fish, there were too many fish, the water tank and bucket washbasin were full, even the basin that is usually used for rice was used, and there were many fish that had nowhere to put them.
This was sad for the family, and in the end, Mr. Li thought about it and asked a few daughters-in-law to take some back to their parents' house, after all, fish is a thing that will die when it is out of water, and it will be a pity if it stinks when the time comes.
The daughters-in-law are very happy, and they each find a way to pack the fish with their hands and feet, and it doesn't matter if the sun is big, as long as they wear straw hats, they are not afraid of the heat.
Only Lin Xiaomei is the closest to her mother's house, she is not too anxious, today her father also went to help catch fish, and there should be a few of them, she took a few more and went back, enough for him to eat several meals, Lin Xiaomei thought about her father, and was a little gloomy, I don't know if he can take care of himself, he is not in good health, and he doesn't know if he has taken medicine.
Li Laosan really likes Lin Xiaomei, seeing her strange face, he knew that something must be wrong, and after she finished speaking, he decided to go back with her to take a look, by the way, he saw what farm work there was, and helped by the way, Lin Xiaomei happily agreed.
"Jinbao~ Then you go and talk to your mother, in case your mother doesn't agree!" Inevitably upsetting Mrs. Yao, Lin Xiaomei asked Li Laosan to ask first.
"Okay, then I'll ask, you pack up your things first, and we'll leave in a while" Li Laosan lifted his feet and went to the upper house, Yao Pozi listened to it, and had no opinion, opened the grain sack, scooped two scoops of miscellaneous grains from it and put them into the bag, and picked up a few big potatoes and asked him to take them to Lin's house.
This is not that Mrs. Yao is good-hearted, she thinks that Lin Xiaomei is sensible, usually obedient and diligent, so she is generous, and she is not rare daughter-in-law, but also takes care of her son, she can't let the people around him feel that his son marries someone else's daughter and doesn't care about the father-in-law, who let the daughter-in-law's family leave her father, if you really don't care, there are people in the village who say anything.
Wang saw Li Laosan take the bag back to the third room, guessed that it must be his mother who added good things, the three daughters-in-law, all went back to their parents' house, she had three rooms, and the big house must also have it, thinking in his heart, Wang went directly to the upper house.
"Mother, what is this uncle mentioning, it looks very heavy" Wang pretended not to know, and asked with a smile.
Yao Pozi wanted to scold when she saw her, how could she not know her little flowery intestines? If it weren't for the boss's face, this Wang would have been killed by her.
"What do you care so much about? Aren't you going back to your parents' house? Don't hurry up yet! If you don't want to go back, don't go back, so that there will be no one at home to work."
Wang pretended not to understand, and continued with a smile, "Mother, you see that I haven't been back for a long time, just a few fish, it seems too petty, or, give me some success?" ”。
When Mrs. Yao heard this, she was furious and scolded, "What? Are you still idle? Wow, what do you want, you say, do you want food, or do you want money? Do you want to take all the old life of the old woman? Ah, you say, do you want it?? ”。
Wang felt that this mother-in-law really didn't agree with her, she thought that she had always been a good talker, but there was no time when it wasn't a topic, she blew up, as the saying goes, don't hit a smiling person, but Mrs. Yao never talked to her well.
"Mother, why do you get angry every time, I didn't say anything wrong, just order something, even if you give some potatoes, there's no need to be so angry~ Besides, didn't you take the third room, why didn't you give it to the big house?" Wang's voice became smaller and smaller, although she said it, she was afraid of Mrs. Yao's loud voice in her heart.
"Hmph, why don't I give it? Just because the thing is mine, I love to give it to whom, no one cares, do you want it? Okay, you go and call the boss, as long as the boss tells me, I'll give you the words here, but she knows her eldest son, and Boss Li will never come to ask for it.
Wang didn't dare to go to Boss Li again, she had been beaten by Boss Li several times in the past few months, but if she didn't look for Boss Li, Mrs. Yao didn't give it, she was really uncomfortable to death, she scratched the position of the third room, and became more and more angry. The people in the big house are not the same and work? What if you're lazy, isn't your man working, isn't your daughter working, why is she like this?
But no matter what he thought in his heart, Wang was still aggrieved on his face, so he had to carry a few fish back to his parents' house.
Li Lanxi saw that her sister-in-law was gone, so she asked Mrs. Yao, "Mother, why are you so fierce to your sister-in-law, there is no shortage of that at home, you are willing to give it to the third brother, sister-in-law will give it to her if she wants, how uncomfortable it is to quarrel with yourself."