Wu Yuzheng took a broom and swept the snow in the courtyard with a reluctant face, and when he saw Ruixue coming back, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he turned his head to continue working, as if he hadn't seen it at all.

He now has more and more complicated feelings about this woman, say that she is vicious, she has never beaten him again except for the two ring rulers, on the contrary, in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation, he still takes good care of her, although he has not seen how the little maid in other people's homes is treated, but no matter how he thinks about it, he will not be the same as he is now, not only eat at the same table with the master, but also go to the school to study.

But she forced him to sign a deed of sale, beat him with a ring ruler, and even gave him a severe lecture at every turn, and threw him the trivial work at home, and if he did something perfunctory, he would starve, all of which had nothing to do with kindness.

For a while, he couldn't figure out how to judge this woman, so he simply remained silent, waiting for the day to see her sincerity, or the true face of hypocrisy...

Rui Xue didn't pay attention to him, went into the house and put down the basket, said hello to Zhao Fengnian, and ran to the next door, Zhang's sister-in-law was sitting on the kang and shed tears, her face was red with anger, Zhang Dahe stood helplessly on the side and comforted something, the three girls sat timidly in the kang, holding a cloth tiger, her little face was full of confusion, as soon as she saw Rui Xue come in, she immediately threw down the cloth tiger, ran over, and shouted crisply, "Master, you are afraid." ”

Rui Xue took her in her arms distressedly, patted her back and comforted, "Yaya is not afraid, your mother is angry with others, just wait for the master to persuade her, Yaya is obedient, go to the East House with Daddy to play for a while, okay?" ”

The little girl turned around and looked at her mother, and nodded obediently. Zhang Dahe hugged his daughter, smiled innocently, and turned around and went out.

Rui Xue sighed, sat on the edge of the kang, and said with a smile, "Sister-in-law, your temper is too anxious, you rushed back first without waiting for me, in case you quarrel with someone and comment, there is no one to help." ”

Sister-in-law Zhang saw that Rui Xue was laughing as usual, and she didn't blame her half-sentence, but she was afraid that she would suffer a loss, so her tears fell more urgently, took her hand, and cried, "It's my sister-in-law who is blind, why did she find that family to help, and caused my sister-in-law to post silver money, and also ruined the reputation of the store." ”

"Sister-in-law, there is a good saying, eat a trench, grow a wisdom, let's go through today's incident, see the character of the Wu family, and if there is this thing in the future, we don't need her. And there are at most some ingredients in the store, and there is no big loss. But you, did you go to Wu's house to quarrel, what did they say to make you angry? ”

Sister-in-law Zhang wiped a handful of tears with her sleeve, and hated to tell her what happened after she came back.

It turned out that a few days ago, Cuilan next door was worried that her little daughter was crying, and she returned late in the middle of the night against the wind and snow, and she accidentally suffered from the wind and cold, and was sick in bed. In the end, it was her own sister-in-law, and Cuilan did not hesitate to respond.

Today, she just felt better and wanted to go to her sister-in-law's house to have a look, but she was approached by Sister-in-law Zhang and asked, why didn't she report it? Cuilan was aggrieved, and after listening to Sister-in-law Zhang's talk about the dock, her face was also a little bad, so she took Sister-in-law Zhang to Wu's house.

As soon as the third sister-in-law Wu saw the two, her face turned red, and when she heard them ask about the dumpling filling, she only lowered her head, but refused to speak.

In fact, she really wanted to work hard, and was ready to earn more wages for her eldest son to marry, but as a mother, looking at her son's gluttonous drool, how could she not be soft-hearted, so she thought about hiding ten to relieve her son's hunger first, and when the time came, if Sister-in-law Zhang asked, she would say that her subordinates might not be the head, and the dumpling filling would be stuffed too much.

So, ten dumplings entered the stomachs of the three sons, and each of them devoured it, not only did he not rejoice after eating, but shouted that he didn't taste anything, and after Wu Laosan came back, he was even more angry because he didn't leave a few for him.

She saw that Sister-in-law Zhang didn't seem to find it, so she boldly hid twenty for the second time, and so on, and the last time she hid forty, Sister-in-law Zhang finally noticed it and beat her twice.

After going home, she endured the awkwardness in her heart, and was busy for a few days, the youngest son was crying endlessly, she sat in the kang and sighed and wiped her tears, Wu Laosan and the three sons did not do anything, wrapped her, and froze in the yard More than 100 dumplings were all boiled and eaten, she stomped her feet in a hurry, but there was no way, and finally had to obey the ideas of their father and son, and all the dumpling fillings were replaced.

She also had some luck in her heart, thinking that the dumplings were sold to the boat passengers to take away, even if someone found out that they were also on the way, they must not be able to find them back, Rui Xue and Sister-in-law Zhang naturally didn't know what she had done in it. It's a pity that it backfired, and this ugly thing was discovered in the end.

She remembered her man's instructions last night, as long as she didn't admit it, Sister-in-law Zhang would definitely have nothing to do with her, so she closed her mouth tightly and refused to say the first half of a word even if the two of them asked.

Sister-in-law Zhang was angry and scolded loudly, but Wu Laosan came out of the East House with his three sons, scolding, pushing and shoving, this said that Zhang's sister-in-law is now hugging the big tree and looks down on her neighbors, that said, her own family is wronged, and the whole village will come out to judge, Sister-in-law Zhang was so angry that she trembled, but just as Rui Xue worried, when she took the dumpling filling to Wu San's sister-in-law, only the two of them were present, and now Wu Laosan's father and son are determined that the filling she gave is rotten cabbage, and she has no one to testify, so she is blocked in her chest, Shengsheng was choked so much that he almost lost his breath.

Cuilan was also so angry in her heart, the third brother's family was really muddy and couldn't support the wall, originally she still planned to do this job well with her sister-in-law, and when the tofu workshop opened, it was logical to go in and be a helper, wouldn't it be that there would be money every month in the future, but I didn't expect this family to be lazy and short-sighted, so I just cut off this financial road.

But these are all her own brothers and sisters-in-law, her nephews, she can't beat, she can't scold, and in the end, she is ashamed and embarrassed, and she falls ill again and can't get up.

Rui Xue heard what Sister-in-law Zhang said, she was angry and helpless, she was also wrong to say it, she originally thought that there might be such a thing, but she didn't insist, you know, human nature has always had weaknesses, people in this time and space are indeed more simple and kind, but because of the hardship of life, it is easier to be tempted, only a few dumplings can make a family a scoundrel, sad and lamentable.

"Forget it, sister-in-law, such people are scoundrels, and it's no good to quarrel with them, let's just have more eyes in the future. Cuilan's character is not bad, she can't be equated with her brother and sister-in-law, at night, you put some of our frozen dumplings and send them away, just say I don't blame her, let her recuperate. ”

Sister-in-law Zhang nodded, she has been next to Cuilan for many years, but she also knows Cuilan's character, this time she was really affected by her brother and sister-in-law's family, when she came back just now, her face turned white with anger, "Okay, I'll go in a while." ”

"However, this Wu family is too scoundrel, let's prevent them from biting back, let's find an opportunity to spread the word, so that everyone in the village has a number in their hearts."

After the matter was discussed, Rui Xue went back, Sister-in-law Zhang washed her face, packed up thirty frozen dumplings, and went to visit Cuilan in a small clay pot.

Cuilan was already guilty, hearing Rui Xue so sensible and generous, she couldn't help crying out with gratitude, and after Zhang's sister-in-law left, when her mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and second sister-in-law came to visit the patient, she told them the truth as it was.

The second sister-in-law of the Wu family had a grudge because she quarreled with the third family when they split up, and the two families have been at odds all these years.

On the second day, when I was doing needlework with the little daughter-in-law in the village, I couldn't help but talk about it, so in less than half a day, the whole village knew that Wu Laosan's family was ungrateful, stealing and playing tricks, and even the children had to smile and spit two mouthfuls of saliva when they saw the three sons of the Wu family.

Wu Laosan's father and son didn't know what was going on at first, but then they finally understood, they were so angry that they ran to the second brother's house to make a fuss, and were kicked out by Wu Laoer, not only did they not reflect, but they counted their hatred on Ruixue and Zhang's sister-in-law's heads, jumping up and down, causing many incidents, of course, this is all a later story.

On the morning of Laba, the light snow that drifted for two days finally stopped, and the sky was much brighter than before, Ruixue deliberately got up early, poured the grains prepared yesterday into the pot, and boiled Laba porridge carefully.

In her previous life, her father died early, her mother was seriously ill, and her younger siblings were young, which was extremely tragic in the eyes of outsiders, but she was extremely strong, but everything she could do must be perfect. Although the family conditions are not good, he has never made his younger siblings feel more miserable than others. For all traditional festivals, she takes great pains to prepare food and a variety of products, which are often more lively and interesting than other people's homes. My younger siblings' classmates were envious, and they ran to her house as soon as the festival came, which made my younger siblings always very proud.

The porridge of this Laba Festival is also very good at her, sweet, salty will do, the morning before yesterday she deliberately took the stone into the city, bought lotus seeds, jujubes, red beans, mung beans, walnuts, peanuts, plus the japonica rice and bread noodles at home, just enough to make up eight kinds, at this time, slowly add firewood at the bottom of the stove, boiled sticky and glutinous, the aroma wafted out very far.

Zhang Dahe made this tofu, while smelling the aroma, he couldn't help swallowing his saliva, the life of each family in the village is hard, although there are also boiled eight porridge, but most of them are some grain noodles, mung beans, brown rice and other things, often less than eight kinds, how can it be like the Zhao family, even lotus seeds and walnuts such as expensive things are bought back and put in.