Chapter Forty-Eight: When the Wife's Life
Hongyan was very disappointed. She lowered her head and wanted to go back to the room, but she heard her mother-in-law Rong explain behind her: "Hongyan, put more salt in today's dish, yesterday's dish, it was too salty." ”
The implication is to let her hurry up and cook.
The sister-in-law also answered: "Add more water to the rice, the lunch at noon was too little water, and it was so hard that it couldn't be eaten." ”
The family who dared to love had to serve by themselves, Hongyan was very aggrieved, and she didn't turn around and went back to the house.
She thought that if she pretended to be deaf and dumb, the two mothers and daughters would help, but when she stayed in the house for half an hour, her mother-in-law saw that she was still staying in the house so late, so she came over and called her to cook, and scolded her while talking.
When I arrived at the stove room, I looked at the cold pot and cold stove, opened the water tank and saw that there was still more than half a tank of water left at noon, how could I see the bottom in a blink of an eye?
Looking at all this in front of her, Hongyan really had a dead heart.
"Sister, you can go with me to fetch water." She came to the west wing and found Xu Xiaoke who was fiddling with her hair in front of the mirror.
"Do you say me? No, sister-in-law, you let me fetch water? Don't you see my foot? I can't even stand on my feet, how can I afford such heavy water, it's not that I don't want to help, it's really powerless, sister-in-law, you can bear more. ”
Since she wrapped her little feet, she felt that her identity was very different from these big-footed girls, and she was destined to marry a good family as a wife in the future, she thought so herself, and Rong had always instilled it in her.
In desperation, Hongyan had no choice but to obediently carry the water, and as soon as she came back with half of the bucket of water, she saw a strange man probing her head at the door of her house, and when she saw herself coming, she quickly hid.
Hongyan was startled and quickened her pace into the door.
Xu Xiaoke, who was in the house, saw her frightened and asked, "Sister-in-law, why do you look like you've seen a ghost?" ”
Hongyan gasped and pointed out the door: "There's a man out there who sneakily doesn't know what he wants to do?" Close the door. ”
"Really? I'll take a look at ......"
Xu Xiaoke leaned in front of the window, looked out through the window lattice, and sure enough, he saw a man poking out his head outside his door.
She beat a drum in her heart, and without thinking about it, she picked up a bucket of water that Hongyan Gangtao had entered the door, walked to the door, saw the target, and splashed it out.
"Oops......" The man instantly turned into a soup chicken, and ran away with his ass between his legs.
Xu Xiaoke saw that he was deserted and fled, not to mention how proud he was. As soon as she turned around, she heard her sister-in-law complaining: "Sister, do you know how difficult it is to pick up this water?" You can't save it. ”
Hearing this, Xu Xiaoke's face immediately pulled down......
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Xu Weiqiu returned home and learned that Xu Xiaoke had come to the house, and took the things she had just bought.
Halfway down the road, I saw a man soaking wet and cowering past.
It's early spring, and in the evening, the weather is cold, and she has to add one more thing when she goes out, how uncomfortable is the feeling of being soaked all over her body, she has personally felt it, and she can't help but walk over, and ask with concern:
"Big brother, did you fall into the pond?"
Li Damao was embarrassed to say that he was splashed with water when he went to pick up someone's door, so he had to admit that he accidentally fell into the water.
"It's cold, be careful of freezing and cold, wouldn't it be better if you take off your jacket and wring it out before putting it on."
Xu Weiqiu proposed, and as he spoke, he took off his coat and handed it to him: "Come, wipe it with this." ”
"This ......, girl, what's so embarrassing?"
"It's okay, wipe it, I'll wash it when I get back." As he spoke, he wiped the water from his face.
Li Damao secretly glanced at her, this woman looked very young, not only gentle, but also good-looking, her skin was a little darker, and her cheeks were cracked and peeled, but her eyes were surprisingly good-looking.
Seeing that all her black hair was pulled up, Li Damao couldn't help but feel a little lost in his heart, it was a woman's hair bun, and girls who had not come out of the pavilion generally did not have such hair.
He didn't know that Xu Weiqiu combed all his hair back because it was convenient for him to work.
I don't know which man is so blessed to marry such a good wife? In addition to regretting in his heart, Li Damao was extremely envious of the woman's husband who had never met.
"Thank you, sister-in-law."
Hearing this, Xu Weiqiu was slightly stunned, and then understood that this person had misunderstood, and she didn't explain much, just nodded lightly and smiled at her: "It's okay, neighbors should help each other." ”
With this smile, Li Damao was suddenly taken away from his mind, and after living for more than 20 years, he knew that some people smiled and their faces were really as beautiful as a flower.
He stupidly engraved the smile of his predecessors in his heart.
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Seeing Xu Weiqiu coming back empty-handed, the fat woman asked knowingly, "Did you get the things back?" ”
"No, when Xu Xiaoke saw me coming, he even locked the door, and he was angry with me."
Seeing that she was thinly dressed, Zhang couldn't help but say something to her: "I told you not to go, and I don't need to add more clothes when it's so cold." ”
Xu Weiqiu was afraid that she would be worried, so she didn't dare to say that she had encountered someone falling into the water in the middle of the road, so she should pay attention to it next time, and as soon as she turned around, a piece of clothing was put down.
Xu Weiqiu's heart warmed: "It's still Erniang, you love me......"
The fat woman on the side pouted when she heard this.
"Let's eat." Zhang brought up the food that had been prepared a long time ago, and the four women were sitting around, about to start eating, when a cockroach with a small head crawled under his feet, Xu Weiqiu's eyes were sharp, and he squatted down and picked up this cloth shoe casually.
The fat woman saw that she was holding her new cloth shoes, and before she could say anything to stop them, she saw her slap the cockroach flat, and then threw the shoes away.
The fat woman resisted the urge to scold, and sat there with a pretended to be nothing, but her heart ached.
The next day, when Xu Weiqiu pushed the cart out of the door, the fat woman secretly picked up the cloth shoe that had been used as a murder weapon and washed it outside the door.
When the mountain girl saw that she was actually working, a pair of eyes were about to fall off.
The fat woman didn't care about her, and whined while washing: "What a rough ghost girl...... Whoever marries you is unlucky."
After the shoes were washed, they were left outside the door to dry, but in the evening, she forgot to take back the house, and the next morning she opened the door and picked it up, and there was a hole in the back of the shoes bitten by rats......
Annoyed, the fat woman threw her shoes at the door
Xu Weiqiu came back from outside and soon found the abandoned shoes at the door.