Today, in order to entertain her daughter and son-in-law, Chen Guixiang prepared a lot of delicious dishes. Zhang Qiaoer asked Jiahui to bring a chicken back home. As if they had made an agreement, Chen Guixiang also killed a chicken.
At noon, Uncle Weng and his son-in-law sat at the same table, having a good time talking and drinking, and Dong Aimin and the others accompanied Zhao Donglin to drink together.
"Come on, Donglin, we brothers must have a good drink today."
"Yes, if you don't get drunk, you won't return."
"It's the first time for the son-in-law to eat at Lao Yue's house. If he is not drunk, it seems that our brothers did not entertain well."
Zhao Donglin naturally wouldn't refuse the drinks poured by his uncles, and he really drank too much after the meal was over.
"Take Dong Lin to your room to sleep for a while, and stay at home for dinner before going back."
Dong Jiahui’s room was originally used for sundries. After Dong Jiahui came back from Lu’s house, the house was tidied up and made a room for her. After she got married, the room was still there. After a while, the room was changed. Now, it's time to prepare a room for them.
As for the miscellaneous things at home, another wooden house has been built to store them.
"Let's talk about it when Dong Lin wakes up. Whether he stays for dinner depends on whether he has work in the afternoon in the village."
Before coming here, it was agreed to go back after lunch, and she forgot to ask him about his work.
When Zhao Donglin was drunk, he fell asleep without making a fuss. After taking off his shoes and covering him with a quilt, he poured some warm water in the washbasin and wiped his hands and face with a wet towel.
His hands are slender and broad, with distinct joints, and thick calluses have been worn out on the palms and fingers, which shows that life is not easy.
After a few days of marriage, I was in a daze, and there were many things at home. The two actually didn't have much time to talk. Dong Jiahui didn't know much about his life in the army before, but judging from the calluses on his hands, it must have been very difficult. .
When the towel wiped his face, Zhao Donglin opened his eyes misty, saw Dong Jiahui who was watching him wipe his face, and reached out to hold her hand.
"young married woman."
His drunken voice was deep and hoarse, like a sigh or a lover whispering in his ear.
Dong Jiahui didn't pull out the hand he was holding, but sat down on the head of the bed, took off the towel with the other hand, and put it in the washbasin.
"young married woman."
Zhao Donglin shouted again without hearing Dong Jiahui's response.
He rubbed her palm, the air was filled with a faint smell of alcohol, Dong Jiahui looked at his face carefully.
He is a good-looking man, with sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, well-defined features, and three-dimensional features, but his usual serious attitude often makes people ignore his appearance.
In other words, he doesn't rely on his face for food, and even because he is too determined and serious, it is easy to give people the illusion that strangers should not get close.
Her first impression of him was that he was very military, and her second impression was that he was helpful and easily trusted.
"You can sleep with me for a while."
After Zhao Donglin finished speaking, he supported Jiahui's waist, wanting her to lie down with him, but Dong Jiahui hurriedly pushed her away.
"Don't make a fuss, it's in broad daylight, and someone saw it and misunderstood it."
There were people coming and going in the yard, if she really lay down with him, even if she didn't do anything, she would be laughed at.
"What's the misunderstanding, you are my daughter-in-law."
Drunk people seem to have different brain circuits than usual. The more Dong Jiahui objected, the more he insisted on his ideas.
While the two were pushing and shoving, Chen Guixiang came in with a tea mug. She made a cup of green tea for Zhao Donglin to soothe his hangover, and brought it to them specially.
The door was pushed open suddenly, Dong Jiahui got up with a blushing face, and parted her hair to cover up.
Chen Guixiang smiled with the corners of her mouth curled up. Knowing that her daughter was thin-skinned, she deliberately pretended that she didn't see anything.
"Green tea is for relieving hangovers. Let Donglin drink some to sober him up, and he will feel better."
After she finished speaking, she handed the tea mug to Dong Jiahui, and went out with a smile on her lips.
"It's all about you. My mother saw it. She thought something happened to us."
"What's the matter? Isn't it normal for the couple to do anything together?"
"I see you talking nonsense when you're drunk, and you're not ashamed."
Even though she said so, she still held the tea mug and fed him half a mug of green tea.
Zheng Yuefen came back from the field at noon with anger. Recently, in order to harvest winter wheat as soon as possible, the task of the team is very heavy, and the workload is twice as much as usual. In the future, she only needs to sit in the warehouse as a custodian, and she doesn't have to be exposed to the wind and sun like her.
After Zheng Yuefen came back, Zhang Qiaoer and Zhao Meixiang could tell that she was in a bad mood, and the mother and daughter looked at each other with puzzled faces.
"What's the matter, is this, you just slumped when you came back?"
"I don't know, did you quarrel with the second brother?"
Anyway, he bickered from time to time, and quickly reconciled after the first quarrel. It was a standard bedside quarrel.
During the meal, the mother and daughter finally understood the reason why Zheng Yuefen was in a bad mood.
"Mom, I heard that you asked the captain to arrange an easy job for my sister-in-law. From now on, my sister-in-law will not have to go to the field and become the warehouse keeper of our team?"
As soon as Zheng Yuefen's words came out of her mouth, the whole family's eyes were on Zhang Qiaoer. She had done this matter, and she didn't mention it to anyone in the family, including Dong Jiahui, another person involved.
The second daughter-in-law Zhang Qiaoer was a little shocked when she found out about this, she didn't expect her to know so quickly, she wanted to wait for the eldest daughter-in-law to come back from her natal home before talking about it.
"Yeah, what's the matter?"
Zhang Qiaoer directly admitted that, not to mention that she didn't think there was any problem with this matter, even if there was any problem, she was already very upset when the second daughter-in-law asked her directly, with a questioning tone.
As for Zheng Yuefen, hearing her mother-in-law admit it so frankly, the grievance in her heart rushed straight to her forehead.
"Mom, how can you do this? You don't mention that your eldest brother's marriage is a second marriage, but it's the same as the first marriage, and you don't mention that your sister-in-law has more gifts than me. You just said that after the new sister-in-law came in, you were too partial. What did my sister-in-law say?" It's all right, you can see that she is satisfied everywhere, I have been married to the Zhao family for so many years, and I have given birth to a stone, and I have never seen you say hello to me, and I have never seen that you feel sorry for me and won't let me Go to the ground. The same daughter-in-law, you are too partial!"
Zheng Yuefen had already started to cry when she said that, except for the stone, everyone at the dinner table had expressions of disbelief.
Zhao Donghe looked anxious, Zhao Meixiang turned to look at her mother, Zhao Manzhu took out his old cigarette stick from his waist, only Zhang Qiaoer, the person involved, looked at Zheng Yuefen calmly, calmly.
"What nonsense are you talking about? Hurry up and apologize to Mom!"
Zhao Donghe patted the table and yelled, because the voice was too loud, it didn't frighten Zheng Yuefen, but it made Shitou cry.
"Why am I talking nonsense, what am I saying wrong? They are all the same daughter-in-law, why can the new sister-in-law enjoy it when she enters the door, I will work hard!"
Seeing his daughter-in-law not only not thinking about it, but also talking more and more outrageously, Zhao Donghe raised his hand and wanted to hit her.
"Okay, stop messing around."
After finishing the sentence, Zhang Qiaoer first looked at his son Zhao Donghe, "Donghe, how many times have I told you that no matter how much your wife owes you to clean up and teach me a lesson, you are a man, so you can't reach out and hit a woman."
Zhao Donghe glanced at Zheng Yuefen, listened to his mother's words and didn't continue to do anything.
Then, Zhang Qiaoer looked at Zheng Yuefen again. She was never satisfied with this daughter-in-law. If Zheng Yuefen was not good, she hadn't made any real mistakes. If Zheng Yuefen was good, it would be against her will.
She once felt that she was not lucky as a daughter-in-law. Whether it was Wang Mei or Zheng Yuefen at the beginning, there was always something hard to say.
"Second daughter-in-law, you have to touch your own conscience when you speak. You have been married to our family for so many years, how many times have I asked you to cook breakfast? How many hands have you stretched out for the work at home? If you are asked to work in the fields, you will feel wronged ? How many daughters-in-law in the village don’t go to the fields?”
Zhang Qiaoer first threw out a series of questions, Zheng Yuefen hadn't figured out how to answer, Zhang Qiaoer immediately spoke again.
"People can't just think about taking advantage. You don't know why our family can be established in the village and why it is respected by others. Your elder brother earns your money every month for a year. He has never had any selfish intentions for this family, and all his wages are handed over. Give it to me, you can enjoy all the food and supplies I bought, like Yingbao, weaned at six months, I make food for her every day, every bite of her is a stone, do you think you can feed yourself with a few work points a day Do you feed your own stone?"
"Jiahui came into our Zhao family's door, she is the daughter-in-law of our Zhao family. She is really weak and can't do hard work, but she doesn't do anything. At least the family's food is handed over to her, and she has to take care of two children. What's wrong with being a custodian? If she is easy, don't we take it easy? Why are you jealous that she is comfortable?"
Zheng Yuefen only half listened to Zhang Qiaoer's words. She admitted that her eldest brother got a monthly salary, and her family of three did enjoy it, but what she cared about was not this, but her mother-in-law's attitude, obviously treating her new sister-in-law better than herself.
"I also work and take care of my children. Although I don't cook a lot, I also do the work at home. Mom, you can't just see other people's hard work and not see mine."
Isn't it just cooking and taking care of the children, who doesn't work so hard.
Zhang Qiaoer was at a loss for words, she had said a lot just now, at least she thought that the second daughter-in-law could understand, but the second daughter-in-law was like wearing a vajra mask, she couldn't get in, and she decided that she was partial to the eldest daughter-in-law.
What made her feel the most chilling was the question about the bride price raised by the second daughter-in-law. Back then, their wedding gift was also sixty-six. Both clothes and furniture were newly made. Compared with Donglin and Jiahui this time, they only had less food.
With Donglin's salary, a bride price of one hundred or two hundred is not too much. The reason why she set sixty-six was to consider the petty mind of the second daughter-in-law. I didn't expect that it would be useless to consider so much.
Why didn't she think about it, the Dong family didn't want any of the betrothal money, and Jiahui brought it all over, and also accompanied a sewing machine and a bed, which the Zheng family didn't have.
Zhao Donglin and Dong Jiahui came back after dinner, and when they got home, they found that the atmosphere at home was not right.
"Mom, I didn't eat lunch or dinner. It's the first time in so many years that the noise has been so serious."
After Zhao Meixiang explained the situation and the reason, Dong Jiahui was stunned. She didn't expect that the source of the conflict between their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was herself!