CHAPTER XLIV

In the old Zhou family hall here, after eating, washing, and scrubbing, Li Guimei came to the hall to ask her mother-in-law.

"Mother, the second brother and his family will come back to eat tonight, what do you think of this night?" When Li Guimei asked this, she also had a calculation in her heart.

"Then you don't have to worry about it, when their old men come back from working in the field in the evening, let them kill a chicken, and I also let the third child come back and catch a fish on the other side of the pond, you should be almost done with it." The old lady thought of her second son, and came back for dinner in the evening, and she was also happy in her heart.

Li Guimei heard this pouting, and her eyes were full of jealousy, "Isn't it that the second son is back?" The most painful thing is him, every day he says everything at home, he eats and drinks and serves him every day, it is better not to be around. ”

But in front of the old lady, he and she couldn't say these things in their hearts, so they still had to pretend to say, "Mother, my fourth brother and I have to show our hands tonight, the second brother hasn't been at home for a long time, and my mother is also happy today, she looks ten years younger." ”

The old lady also knew what her third daughter-in-law thought, but she didn't care much about her. Who doesn't like to listen to nice words, so why bother to find yourself unhappy.

Then Li Guimei still felt that she had made the old lady happy, and she was complacent, thinking that the old lady didn't know that little Jiujiu in her heart.

"Go, see if there is any dirty mess in this courtyard, you will clean him up, and wash the clothes in that basin." The old lady handily called, her third daughter-in-law, as long as she is in this family for one day, these two daughters-in-law with ghosts in their hearts will not be able to turn over any storms.

Although he was dissatisfied, he still responded obediently, "I know my mother, I'll go clean up, by the way, have you seen where the fourth brother and sister are?" Did you just see that she was still in the house? ”

Li Guimei thought to herself, can't she finish all this work alone, and the fourth daughter-in-law can't run away.

"This old fourth daughter-in-law, every day after eating, she touches her mouth, and she doesn't care when she puts her chopsticks down, isn't it? What am I doing marrying her home? Go and look for her, and call her to me. When the old lady heard this old fourth daughter-in-law, she was extremely unpleasant.

This Zhang Lan didn't agree with her entering the door at the beginning, but this fourth child was blinded for some reason, and Zhang Lan had to marry her.

The Lan family is so poor, she is the eldest in the family, and there are four younger brothers and sisters behind her, and she knows every day that she pulls her mother-in-law's things to her mother's house, and she doesn't do anything at her mother-in-law's house, and she is a lazy woman who is lazy and lazy.

When she first got married, she was unwilling, but the fourth child knelt at the door of her room and begged the old lady for three days, and the old lady felt sorry for her son before she was relieved.

As a result, the most annoying thing was that she took a bride price of 100 yuan, but Zhang Lan didn't have a dowry, just the tattered clothes on her body. Even the 100 yuan was left by her at her parents' house, and she took pity on his old Zhou family, who had been laughed at in the village for several years and couldn't raise his head.

Until now, her old lady went out to sit and chat with others, and when she mentioned the fourth daughter-in-law, she still laughed at her loss-making business.

"Hey, I'll look for it." Li Guimei felt two points less jealousy of the second family in her heart when she heard it, and there was no big expression on the surface, but her eyes were full of schadenfreude.

I thought that I, Li Guimei, can't compare to him, and Chen Huailan can compare, but are you a Zhang Lan? Knowingly, she walked to the door of the fourth room, in fact, she knew just now that Zhang Lan was still hiding in the room.

"Brother and sister, our mother asked you to come out!" Li Guimei's voice was full of schadenfreude, slamming the door in front of her.

Inside the house, Zhang Lan was lying on the bed and knocking on sunflower seeds. Zhou Xiang went out to work in the field just now, and now she and her little girl are left in the house.

I was leisurely sipping on sunflower seeds when I heard an annoying sound outside the door.

"Third sister-in-law! I know, I'll go over it. "Hurry up and put on your shoes and open the door. I saw Li Guimei gloating outside the door, but she didn't break it, and her face was still full of smiles.

"I was putting Erya to sleep just now, and she started to sleep after eating." casually found an excuse to prevaricate the past.

Li Guimei doesn't care what she's doing, anyway, she can't escape this job, "Our mother said that you should wash the clothes in the house, and clean the house, and the second brother will come back in the evening, and they can pay attention to it." ”

She knew that Zhang Lan was also jealous of her second brother's family in her heart, and she said it with added fuel and vinegar, which made Zhang Lan's heart even more unfair.

This is not Zhang Lan, a woman who can't hide things, and the jealousy is clearly written on her face. Li Guimei wouldn't be kind enough to remind her.

"Don't forget to work, I have to make clothes for my little treasure, this boy grows up fast." Li Guimei's words stimulated Zhang Lan a lot.

Every sentence was poked in her heart.

If you want to say that after this Zhang Lan married into the old Zhou family, what are the two things that she is most worried about?

The first one is the second family, talking about something that only she knows. When she was eyeing the old Zhou family, it was not Zhou Xiang who fell in love with her, but Zhou Rui, the second eldest of the Zhou family who was ten years older than her.

You must know that Zhou Rui and Chen Huailan had been married for several years at that time. But she relied on her good looks, so she wanted to seduce him, but she was rejected by Zhou Rui again and again, and she lost face, so she could only turn her target to Zhou Xiang.

Only Zhou Rui and her knew about this matter. Zhou Rui saw that she was already married to her fourth brother. He pretended not to have happened before, and it was all rotten in his stomach.

The second thing is her son, she got married right away, and it's been almost ten years. Only now have two daughters left, so Chen Huailan and Li Guimei are two sons!

She felt that her status in the family was so low now because she didn't have a son. This is not a little girl who is just 7 months old, and she is already calculating the next child in her heart.

This time, she has to ask her own mother to find a son Tufangzi, and she can't give birth to a son again, what can she do?

Zhou Fu, the third child of the Zhou family, and Li Guimei have three children, the eldest is Zhou Jun, who is as old as Sui Suihuan this year. The second child is called Zhou Jie, and he is as old as Sui Suiping. The third child's name is Zhou Ming, and he is only five and a half years old this year. I follow my house every day, and my two brothers run behind their butts to play.

Li Guimei's three sons, but she relied on the old Zhou family, and it is rare to give birth to three sons in a row in this village. When people heard it, she had so many sons who looked at her with envy.

Lao Zhou Xiang and Zhang Lan have been married for ten years, and the eldest daughter is only seven years old and named Zhou Meimei. The second daughter was born Zhou Lili last year, and she is now sleeping in the house.

Although Zhang Lan has always wanted to have a son, she also hurts her two daughters, at least not like others, because she is a girl, she is either beaten or scolded.

Fortunately, in the old Zhou family, Mr. Zhou and his wife do not have that patriarchal habit, and they treat all children in the family equally.