Chen Guilian strode aggressively into the yard, Qiu Xiaochan thought, this expression and posture, I'm afraid that's the same as when the devils entered the village.
"Sister-in-law, you misunderstood. Mom has been ill for more than ten days. I saved up eggs and went to the town to exchange meat for mom's health."
Qiu Xiaochan specifically pointed out Zhang Daying's illness. Chen Guilian hadn't appeared since the last quarrel. Naturally, she didn't know that her mother-in-law was ill. Watching neighbors listen.
Chen Guilian snorted coldly, "Sick? Isn't it good? I can sit and eat, and I don't look sick. I'd like to call someone to judge. Our couple tightens their belts every month. I can’t bear to buy meat, this mother is so good, she eats meat at home more often, and she doesn’t even care about her grandson, how dark-hearted she is.”
Chen Guilian and Qiu Shunwen have a six-year-old son, nicknamed Hutou, who has inherited Chen Guilian from appearance to character. He is like a bully and has no respect for his grandmother and sister-in-law.
In fact, Zhang Daying also thought about sending some meat to his grandson today. Considering his daughter-in-law's temperament, he was afraid that sending it there would cause trouble, but Chen Guilian came anyway.
The house they lived in was quite far from the old house, so it must not have come from the smell, it was probably because someone said something in front of Chen Guilian.
"Sister-in-law, I almost forgot if you didn't mention it. It's been more than two months since you agreed to deliver ten catties of grain per month. Also, last time you made Mom angry and made Mom sick. It’s been half a month now without a single word of concern, and as for Huzi, he doesn’t have a grandma or a sister-in-law in his heart at all, and he doesn’t call out when he meets me in the village, and even spits on me, is that how you teach children?”
At any rate, she had been tempered during the mission, and the shrew Qiu Xiaochan in Chen Guilian's position was not afraid at all, and she could guarantee that she would not suffer even if she started to fight.
The original owner is weak, but he asked Xiaochan to have learned the art of grappling, and he also worshiped a respected old man in the mission world as his teacher. The level of Chinese medicine is at least the level of a master of Chinese medicine in the real world. He knows the acupuncture points of the human body like the palm of his hand. Strength can make Chen Guilian kneel down and sing Conquer.
Who is Chen Guilian, how can she be accused by her sister-in-law? In the eight years since she married into the Qiu family, she has never taken her mother-in-law and sister-in-law seriously. She did not expect that the weak and incompetent sister-in-law suddenly became eloquent, which could not stop Chen Guilian's fighting power , When you are strong, you will be strong, sticking your waist and stretching out your index finger, and immediately cursed.
"You little widow who can't get married dares to ruin my reputation as a tiger head. What kind of onion are you calling you? If it weren't for the old godly woman who wanted to protect you, there would be no need for us to move out!"
This is Chen Guilian's heartfelt words. The Qiu family has only one son, Qiu Shunwen. According to rural customs, Qiu Shunwen should have all the family property alone, but the old lady regards Qiu Xiaochan as her lifeline. It was only after her father-in-law left that she encouraged her husband to raise the matter of dividing the family, and took away most of the family's savings, so that she would not suffer a loss. She thought that when Qiu Xiaochan married and the old godmother died, this old house would still be hers. When the head grows up, marry a daughter-in-law, she will live with her husband, and the house over there can be given to the son and daughter-in-law.
Zhang Daying's face turned dark when she heard this. She has always adhered to the principle of "family and everything prosper", thinking that as an elder, she will have trouble with the younger generation, which feeds Chen Guilian's greed.
"It's unfortunate that my family married a daughter-in-law like you. I was blind at the time and didn't see your true face. I won't say too much. We have already separated, and we will live our own lives in the future. I don't expect You give me a pension, as long as you don't come and beat and scold me, let me live a few more days of cleanliness."
The meaning of these words is clearly that Chen Guilian is not filial. There have been quarrels in the past. The old lady has never said it so seriously. , and then Chen Guilian felt that her hand couldn't be controlled, and it was numb. After Qiu Xiaochan let go, Chen Guilian tried to turn her wrist, but it broke.
She looked horrified, and looked at Qiu Xiaochan as if she was watching some ghost, "What did you do, you broke my hand!"
Qiu Xiaochan said with a slight smile, "Sister-in-law, you will be punished by God for wasting food. You should quickly find a barefoot doctor to show you your hand. Don't get sick and become handless even if you have hands."
This is what Qiu Xiaochan returned to Chen Guilian. On the first day she wore it, Chen Guilian said that she was only worthy of marrying someone who lacked arms and legs. When she reported for the original owner.
Zhang Daying looked at the angry and startled daughter-in-law, and suddenly felt relieved. What else should he care about when he lived to the age of knowing his destiny? After all, his son was born by himself, and his disobedience has an indelible relationship with him. As for the daughter-in-law, she was a girl from someone else's family, and her own children didn't treat her heartily, so how could she demand more filial piety from other people's daughters.
"Xiaochan, you can share half a bowl of this braised pork with your sister-in-law to take home. The tiger is growing up. It's okay for me, a grandma, to eat a few bites less. I can't lose my child."
Qiu Xiaochan understood Zhang Daying's meaning, no matter what Chen Guilian said, Hu Zi was the blood of the Qiu family after all, Zhang Daying could not ignore it cruelly.
Another one, Chen Guilian came to the door today, so many pairs of eyes on the team watched, if it is true that a piece of meat is not given, I don’t know how many gossips will spread in a blink of an eye. Fortunately, when she was filling the bowl, she was afraid that she would not be able to eat it, so she only filled half a bowl. , took a small bowl and set aside half of the bowl, Chen Guilian wanted to spit it out, but when she saw the fat and thin red meat and smelled the meat, the courage to refuse disappeared.
"Hmph, I won't miss you, I'll tell Huzi Shunwen when I get back."
After finishing speaking, she took it back with the uninjured hand. As for the injured hand, it is fine, and it will recover after a few days of rest.
Qiu Xiaochan yelled loudly behind her, "Sister-in-law, I thought I'd serve Mom to eat before sending it to Hu Zi, but I didn't expect you to come here first after smelling the smell."
This yell made Chen Guilian grit her teeth again, didn't she scold her in a roundabout way!
After Chen Guilian's figure was gone and the neighbors watching the excitement dispersed, Zhang Daying looked at his daughter and asked, "You made your sister-in-law's hands?"
Qiu Xiaochan bit her chopsticks and acted innocent, thinking about the reasons for denying it in her mind, but Zhang Daying was talking about it, and didn't mean to force her to answer.
"Let's eat, the food is almost cold after being stirred up by her like this."
Qiu Xiaochan quickly nodded and picked up the rice bowl. Fortunately, it was summer, and the food was still warm after ten minutes of delay, otherwise it would have to be reheated.
She was enjoying her meal when Zhang Daying said again, "In a flash you are so old, I was always worried that you were soft-tempered and easy to be bullied, but now it's fine, no matter whether I can find you a good husband's family in the future, you Whether you can live well is the most important thing.”
Qiu Xiaochan looked over and saw that Zhang Daying was smiling at her, that smile seemed to understand something, and it seemed that she had misread it.
"Eat it quickly, there is not much meat left, you will eat it all, and people will miss it if you leave it."
After finishing speaking, Zhang Daying put a few pieces of half-fat and half-lean meat in Qiu Xiaochan's bowl, and he picked the thin ones to eat.
Because of the difference in age, people in this era lack oil and water in their stomachs and love to eat fat, unlike people who are over-nourished decades later, but Qiu Xiaochan still happily accepted this love from her mother.
Following Chen Guilian's departure, there was gossip about the Qiu family, mainly surrounding the question of why the Qiu family's mother and daughter suddenly had meat.
"Zhang Daying loves his grandson so much, he didn't send the meat to Hu Zi today, and was caught by Chen Guilian."
"Which family eats meat during Chinese New Year and festivals, and even a relative doesn't come to the door."
"Someone saw that girl Xiaochan talking to Comrade Gu at the head of the village, and the two of them were still arguing, not knowing what to do."
"Didn't you go to the captain's house yesterday to defend yourself, saying that the two of you have nothing to do with each other? Why did they get involved again?"
"Hey, you also believe that kind of thing, but you are worried that you will not be able to get married because of your bad reputation. If you pull Comrade Gu to say that you are innocent, Comrade Gu will naturally follow her."
After Qiu Xiaochan had eaten, she learned about these rumors from the system. She didn't seem to care. She cleaned up the kitchen as usual and went back to the house for an afternoon nap.
The system asked, "Are you misunderstood and don't want to explain?"
Qiu Xiaochan didn't answer directly, but asked rhetorically, "Why do you have to explain it? Will others believe it after explaining it? No one can wake up a person who deliberately pretends to be asleep."
"Then why did you explain yesterday?"
Qiu Xiaochan couldn't help sighing, "I found that you are usually very smart, but you really don't understand human beings. The human brain has a very complicated structure, and no matter how powerful the data is, it cannot be accurately interpreted."
Yesterday's trip was not in her plan, but Li Chunhua took advantage of the situation after jumping out, in order to "catch" Gu Wenqian out reasonably and increase the chance of contact.
As for why she didn't explain it today, first of all, the explanation of this kind of thing is not clear, and second, her purpose is to marry Gu Wenqian. The more rumors about them in the village, the better for her. Not only is she not angry, but she has to thank those people.
Different from Qiu Xiaochan's calmness, Chen Guilian got angry with the boss when she got home, and threatened not to give the old lady a grain of rice in the future.
"And your sister, didn't you just pick up Comrade Gu who came from the city, her whole body trembled, and if I said one word, she could give me ten words, and the previous honest appearance was all pretended."
Out of the mentality of not admitting defeat, she didn't tell anyone about Qiu Xiaochan breaking her wrist. People who are used to being tough refuse to admit that they are inferior to others.
Qiu Shunwen kept his head silent, and Huzi kept stuffing meat into his mouth, even the broth was not wasted, and the rice was slippery.
Chen Guilian still has a lot of maternal love for her son. After all, it came out of her stomach. She patted her son's head distressedly when she saw her son wishing she could even lick the bowl clean.
"Eat slowly and don't choke. You want to eat it a long time ago. We will also go to buy meat and cook it when we worship ancestors in July and a half next month."
Huzi ate up all the meat, but he still couldn't get enough of it. He smacked his lips and coquettishly said to his mother, "Mom, why wait until next month, I didn't eat enough today."
Chen Guilian comforted, "You have to use meat tickets to buy meat. We only have three tickets left, and there are still more than half a year left. We have to save money."
Huzi doesn't know what meat coupons and food coupons are. His mind is full of braised pork now. In his limited memory of eating meat, today's meat is very delicious, it is the best braised pork he has ever eaten!
He asked, "Then why the old woman can eat it and we can't? I don't care. Go and ask me for another bowl."
Chen Guilian watched Qiu Xiaochan pull out the meat, knowing that they didn't have much left, and now that she looked back, there might not even be any broth left.
Qiu Shunwen glared at his son, "What old woman, that's your grandma, who doesn't understand manners at all."
Hu Zi curled his lips, "Mom will call her an old woman. Besides, she hides herself and eats meat instead of giving it to me. She is not my grandma."
Chen Guilian sneered at her husband, "Did you hear that, even the son knows that the old woman treats him badly, go to the village and find out if there is any grandma who eats meat and doesn't give it to her grandson, your family is the first one! I used to be quite good at it." Pretend, now it’s the original shape, anyway, I’m going to put this here today, and I’m not allowed to send a grain of rice over there in the future, we can’t eat enough for ourselves, how can we control other people’s life and death, if you send things over there behind my back, then don’t Blame me for turning my face."
After she finished speaking, she asked Huzi to look at her husband, and Huzi happily agreed.
Qiu Shunwen opened his mouth to say something and then closed it again. Anyway, he didn't have much right to speak in this family. The wife decided all the affairs in the house. He wanted to argue for his mother and sister, but the meat bowl his son had just finished licking was still there. Now, facts speak louder than words, what else can we say
Besides, he was also puzzled, why did the old lady eat meat? Could it be that the old man left a sum of money for the old lady that he didn't even know about when he left
His parents have always treated his younger sister better than himself since he was a child. He also loved her when he was a child, but people's feelings will change. After he has his own small family, his feelings for his sister have faded with the passage of time. If If the old lady really left the money to her sister, he would not agree to it.