Chapter 39 (2)

Speaking of the quarrel two months ago, it was still in the cold winter. That night, Cheng Jia had to move the big cabinet to his house, but after being rejected by Hedi, she clinged to her parents and pestered for a long time before Cheng Tielong agreed to help her move the cabinet. He also knew that this cabinet was bought by Cheng Jiahua with the money he was originally going to give to Hetu's medical treatment, and he also said that if he didn't give them living expenses next month, it was understandable that Hetu was reluctant to give it to others. But this little daughter is really pestering, and all kinds of methods have been used, so he has to ask for the cabinet, and he has no choice but to agree. However, he said to Cheng Jiayi that he must exchange money for it, so that it would be fairer, so as not to be said by outsiders that he was partial, Cheng Jiayi reluctantly took out half of the pocket money and gave it to Hedi, the amount of money is less than one-third of the money in the cabinet, but what can Hedi do? Facing her mother-in-law and stern father-in-law who always put on a high-minded expression, she could only agree and endure this grievance. When Cheng Tielong and Cheng Jiaji moved the cabinet, she was next to her calculating how to spend this money next month, so that the family of three could not only eat enough, but also buy some new clothes for Cheng Yan. Unexpectedly, the more I calculated, the more angry I became, and I couldn't figure out why they did this. In addition, she was said by Cheng Jiahua the night before, and the anger in her heart was even more unbeatable, and she was about to explode. In the afternoon, when her in-laws were not at home, she rushed to Cheng Jiayi's house with a broom, so frightened that Cheng Jiayi scattered the snacks in her hand, stood up and looked at her stunned, not knowing what she was going to do. He Tu looked around the room, put the broom on the ground, and sneered, "Don't you want everything? Go to my house and take everything away, I don't want anything!" ”

Cheng Jiayi was stunned for a while and then reacted, she shook off the snacks on her body, frowned at Hedi, and said, "I still can't look down on the rags in your house, I still moved this cabinet to you." ”

This sentence was really the last straw that broke the camel's back, and when he rushed up, he grabbed Cheng Jiayi's hair, tore it hard, and scolded it in his mouth, regardless of his image. Cheng Jiayi didn't expect that her sister-in-law, who looked steady and gentle on weekdays, would be like this, she was stunned for a while, she didn't know how to fight back, and more than a dozen hairs were torn off. By the time she could react, Hedi had already lifted her foot and kicked her calf. Cheng Jiayi was in pain, and tried hard to break free from the shackles of Hetu, but she was still young, her body was not as tall as Hetu, and her strength was naturally not as big as Hetu, so it was not easy to break free. If Cheng Jiaye hadn't heard the sound and rushed in time to separate the two, Cheng Jiayi's hair would probably have been torn off half.

That night, the two of them were punished by Cheng Tielong for not being allowed to eat, not allowed to enter the house, not allowed to wear coats, and froze in the yard for two hours, so that they were sober and sober. Cheng Jiayi wept bitterly, kept telling her grievances, and sat on the railing of the flower garden, staring closely at a certain place in the air, her eyes fierce and cold, as if the air was the person she hated in her heart, and she wanted to tear them all apart with her gaze. Hedi's actions in the afternoon simply refreshed everyone's impression of her, Cheng Tielong didn't say it, he naturally felt that it was very inappropriate for her to do this, as an elder, she actually clashed with her sister-in-law who was only a teenager, and beat Jiayi like that, not to mention that Jiayi was his favorite little daughter. Mu Shi became even more disgusted with Hetu, and when she saw Hetu's face, she felt sick and uncomfortable. Cheng Jiahua should be the most difficult and angry one, with his wife on one side, his sister on the other, and his parents on top, he is almost difficult to be a person in the middle. So when half an hour later, Cheng Tielong couldn't bear Cheng Jiayi's cold, and asked Cheng Jiahua to go out and call her in, Cheng Jiahua didn't look at Hedi, took Cheng Jiayi's hand and went to the house. At that time, Hetu's anger had subsided, and the person had calmed down, shivering in the cold air, and suddenly saw his expression of disgust and disgust, and the cold seemed to invade the bottom of his heart in an instant, and his whole heart became cold.

"No matter what you say, my sister-in-law can't fight with Jiayi, look at Jiayi's hair." Cheng Jiaji's voice faintly came out of the room and pierced into Hedi's ears. More words of complaint and disgust followed, all of which kept piercing into Hedi's heart like countless knives. Before she knew it, her tears were already flowing all over her face, and she felt as if she was dead.

However, this is not the most chilling, after Hetu was frozen for two hours and was finally able to enter the house, the people in the main room had dispersed and returned to their rooms, and the lights in the room were gradually extinguished one by one. Only the light in his small bedroom was still on. He stood up, rubbed his numb hands, and staggered towards his room. She still had a trace of emotion in her heart, thinking that Cheng Jiahua was waiting for her with the lights on in the house. However, when she reached the door, she stretched out her hand and pushed it, and the door was locked from the inside, and it did not move. She tapped on the door and whispered, "Open the door!" ”

"I don't think you realized your mistake yet, and you're going to have to freeze outside for a few more hours." Cheng Jiahua's indifferent voice came out of the door, as if carrying a sword of wind and snow.

He Tu was stunned and said, "My mistake? ”

Cheng Jiahua sighed with hatred that iron could not be made of steel, and said, "You continue to freeze." ”

"I-" Hedi said a word, and suddenly laughed, her smile was self-deprecating and a little desperate, she sat down on the steps, hugged her arm, and thought, "Forget it, it's better to let me freeze to death here, than to endure these grievances." ”

However, it didn't take long for the door to be opened, Cheng Jiahua stood at the door and glanced at her coldly, and said, "Come in, when you catch a cold, you have to go to the doctor again, I don't have so much money to treat you." And with that, he went in. He Tu closed his eyes and took a deep breath, holding back his tears from flowing out, dragging his two legs, which were numb from the cold, towards the house. She couldn't let herself get sick, and if she did, no one could help her.

From the next day, Cheng Jiayi began to torture her, not because of the challenge on the surface, but because of some secret deeds. When he was about to wash rice and cook rice, he opened the rice bag and saw the corpse of a dead mouse inside. She was frightened at first, and then almost threw up. Dead mice were found in the rice bag, how could this make people eat this bag of rice without any psychological barriers, but it was too wasteful to throw it away, and the price of a bag of rice was not very cheap, so He Tu had to endure the nausea and clean up the rice on the surface of the dead mouse touch, find a clean big jar, put the rest of the rice in it, and find a secret place to hide it, in case Cheng Jiayi threw some messy dirty things into it. Later, except for one pot, half a pot of soil was found in the pot, but there was no dirty thing coming to the kitchen, probably Cheng Jiayi found that it was not only Hetu who used this pot to eat the bag of rice, but also her eldest brother Cheng Jiahua. She couldn't make trouble in the kitchen, so she went to Hetu's bedroom to make trouble, either throwing garbage on the floor, or pouring water on the bed, and even once turned Hetu's wardrobe into a mess. If He Tu hadn't come in in time, she might have found the jar where He Tu had saved money, and once she found out, she would pick it up and run away, and she wouldn't return it at all. When He Tu saw that the house was destroyed by Cheng Jiayi like this, his lungs were about to explode. She grabbed Cheng Jiayi's wrist and dragged it to the main room, saying that she wanted her father-in-law to give him justice. Cheng Jiayi was naturally not afraid, she was even very proud, because she knew that her father must be on her side. Unexpectedly, after Cheng Tielong heard what happened, he criticized Cheng Jiayi fiercely and warned her to deduct next month's pocket money if she was so naughty again. This was unexpected by Cheng Jiayi, although he was very unhappy in his heart, he had to stop his childish methods. When He Di went back to the house to clean up the wardrobe that had been turned over and carried back from the storage room, she felt a chill in her heart, and she told Cheng Jiayi all the bad actions she had done, but Cheng Tielong just criticized lightly. She sighed, thinking that she couldn't mess with this pampered sister-in-law anymore, and she had to ease the relationship with Cheng Jiayi, so that there would be less trouble and less worry in her life in the future. So today, she endured her grievances to curry favor with Cheng Jiayi, although the process was not smooth, but seeing that Cheng Jiayi didn't seem to be so hostile to herself, Hedi's heart gradually settled down.

She swept the floor and was wiping the table when Cheng Jiayi jumped in and out. She crossed her waist with her left hand, and waved her right hand lightly in front of Hedi, and said triumphantly, "Give me the money." ”

"Mom and Dad agreed?" He Tu straightened his waist and his expression was faint.

"They talk about our own business, don't bother them." Cheng Jiayi shook his hand impatiently and said, "Hurry up." ”

"You move the cabinet back first." He Tu said, continuing to wipe the table, "I promised you, I will definitely not go back." ”

"Okay." Cheng Jiayi said helplessly, turned around and ran out again, she didn't know where to find a few people, cheered each other out of the big cabinet, and moved into Hedi's room. He Tu stood on the steps and watched them throw the old cabinet in the courtyard, and at last there was a sense of satisfaction in his heart, as if what he had endured for a long time had been released at this moment.

As soon as those people left, Hetu took out a few banknotes from his inner pocket and stuffed them into Cheng Jiayi's hands. Cheng Jiayi carefully counted several times, couldn't help frowning, and said, "Why did you give me more money?" ”

Hetu was wiping the cabinet, and when she heard this, she turned around and smiled slightly, and asked, "What?" Don't want it anymore? ”

"How is that possible?" Cheng Jiayi hurriedly put the money back in his pocket, looked at his sister-in-law's face carefully, and asked, "You're not angry today?" ”

"What are you angry about?"

Cheng Jiayi shook his head, as if he was thinking about the past, and said slowly: "I think you have a bad temper, and I thought you would be angry." ”

"When have I ever been angry with you other than that one time I hit you?" He Tu turned around and looked at her, "What you want me to do, I will try my best to help you do it, don't want me to do it, I am also careful everywhere, for fear of offending you, how can I be angry with you again for no reason?" ”

Cheng Jiayi rolled his eyes, it seemed to be the case. Because of that quarrel, her impression of Hetu has been in a very violent, very bad temper stage, at this time think carefully, this sister-in-law usually does things neatly and neatly, people are not squeamish, since she came, the whole yard is clean, even if a fallen leaf falls, will not stay on the ground for more than half an hour. And my house is often so messy, and my sister-in-law often helps clean it, so when I recall, it seems that I am really too subjective and misunderstand her so much.

"Then, if I ask you for something, will you give it back?" Cheng Jiayi pouted and asked again.

He smiled, turned around and pointed to the whole room, and said, "Take whatever you want." ”

"Really?" Cheng Jiayi looked at her suspiciously, and when he saw that Hetu nodded, he touched his chin, looked at the furnishings in the room, smashed his mouth and said, "Forget it, there's nothing I want." ”

"As long as you don't mess around, if you have something to discuss, I'll give you whatever you want." He Tu coaxed again, seeing that the guard on the sister-in-law's face gradually dropped, and the hostility in her eyes didn't seem to be so much, she snickered in her heart, "What do you think?" ”

"It's fine." Cheng Jiayi laughed and clapped his hands, "Then I'm not fooling, and you are not allowed to beat me!" ”

"Don't fight." He Tu shook his head, as if he suddenly remembered something, and asked excitedly, "Do you want to eat something good?" ”

"What's good?"

"Deep-fried snacks, cakes, I can make them, and they are very delicious." He Tu said proudly, looking at Cheng Jiayi, "Do you want to eat?" ”

Because Cheng Tielong likes to eat lightly on weekdays, the eating habits of the whole family tend to be light, like the fried dim sum that Hetu said, which can only be eaten during the Chinese New Year. Hearing what He Tu said, the saliva in the mouth of Cheng Jiayi, who already loved to eat, was about to fall, she nodded hurriedly and said, "I want to eat, I want to eat!" ”

"Then you have to do something too." He said, stretching out his hand and pointing in the direction of the big kitchen, "You have to help me watch people." ”

"It depends on the person to make good food?" Cheng Jiayi didn't understand, and looked at her confusedly.

"The smell of fried oil bought outside is not delicious, only the freshly squeezed oil at home is delicious." "But Mom doesn't let me touch the barrel of oil on weekdays, so when they go out, you watch it for me, I'll do it, and you will notify me as soon as they come back, and if your parents find out, then you won't even be able to eat the scum." ”

Cheng Jiayi nodded suddenly realized, in fact, she didn't make much effort when she said that she would do her best, just to look at people, and she immediately agreed to a trivial matter. The two formed a short-lived alliance because of eating, and as soon as Cheng Tielong took Mu Shi out in the afternoon, Cheng Jiayi ran into the house, waved his hand and shouted excitedly: "Let's go!" Let's go! ”

"You shut the door." He immediately stood up and strode towards the large kitchen. She expertly lit the fire, poured oil into the pot, and then brought the dough from her small kitchen that had already been made and began to make small snacks of various shapes. This is a craft that she has practiced so carefully when she was in her mother's house. She pinched out the flower rolls and all kinds of small snacks, the shape or naughty funny or exquisite, are very good-looking, when the pan is fried, every degree is very good, neither too burnt, not too tender, always just the right degree, soft and glutinous, the entrance is very delicious. Every time Cheng Jiayi rushed in to check, he always wanted the few that had been fried to eat and walk, even if the hot snacks were jumping around in both hands. After the second pot came out, Hedi saw Cheng Jiayi leaning against the door and eating with relish from the window, and hurriedly took out a clean pocket from under the pot, grabbed a few snacks from the board and threw them in, the third pot and the fourth pot were still the same, so most of the fuel was consumed, but there were not many dim sums out of the pot, and they were quietly put away and hidden under the pot. When the noodles were all used up, Hedi began to clean up the mess, instructed Cheng Jiayi to wait outside, looked at the people carefully, and slipped to his room with a big bag of snacks and hid them well. Of course, the oil after frying the dim sum can't be wasted, she scooped it out with a spoon, put it in a large basin, and put it on the board calmly, and the fried dim sum was collected by Cheng Jiayi into her pocket and taken to the room. He snickered, washed up and went back to his room, found a thick porcelain jar and put the snack in it, sealed it, and stuffed it under the bed.

When Mu Shi first came back and didn't find out, he was still pointing fingers at her, picking stones in the cracks of her work. When she was ready to cook dinner, there was a roar in the big kitchen, and she was heard stepping on her hard-soled shoes, knocking into the room, pushing the door, slamming the curtain, and asking loudly, "Have you used oil?" ”