Zhulan listened carefully and realized it was Wang Xin's scream. After a few screams, there was no sound. She waited for a while and then the door of her house started banging.
Zhou Shuren held Zhulan down and didn't let her get up. "It must be someone next door asking for help. Just leave it to the boss."
Zhulan didn't think so. "Let me bet, it's definitely not the neighbor asking for help, believe it or not."
Zhou Shuren knew Zhulan from what he knew. Zhulan would never say empty words. It seemed that she was not the case. "I won't bet. I don't know as much about the neighbor as you do."
Before Zhulan and Zhou Shuren could fight, Zhou Laoda knocked on the door and came in, "Dad, Wang Laosi came to borrow the ox cart. Wang Ru from next door woke up and fainted again. The wound on her forehead burst open. She needs to go to the county to see a doctor."
Zhou Shuren's face darkened. "Why do I remember that Wang Laosi's family has cows?"
Boss Zhou said in a succinct way: "Ever since Wang Zhang borrowed it, it has never been returned. Wang Lao Si went to Wang Zhang to ask for the ox cart, but he didn't get it back and was slapped several times."
The slap marks on Wang Laosi's face were particularly obvious, even blue and purple. Wang Zhangshi had hit him so hard.
Zhou Shuren, “… … ..”
At this time, Zhou Laoer came in and said, "Dad, the guy next door has left on the ox cart."
Boss Zhou was surprised, "Where did the ox cart come from?"
Zhou Laoer had been guarding the gate. When he saw the ox cart that Zhang Sanni had found, he knew what was going on: "The ox cart that Zhang Sanni had found must be Zhang Wu's ox cart."
Zhou Lao Da was naive and didn't think much about it. He even muttered, "This girl is also a kind-hearted person. She really found a bullock cart. She is much more useful than Wang Lao Si, the father."
Zhou Laoer had a wooden face and was unwilling to answer.
Bamboo orchid, "... ... ... "
Ouch, you silly son!
Zhou Shuren didn't want to see the boss's silly look, so he waved his hand in disdain, "Alright, get out!"
Zhou Laoda left the house and grabbed Zhou Laoer as he left the main room. "Dad just disliked me. Did I say anything wrong?"
Zhou Laoer secretly thought that his elder brother was good at holding the scene, but his mind was too straightforward. His father had given up hope and said earnestly, "Brother, don't judge things by appearances in the future. Zhang Sanni has signed a death contract, so how can she be grateful? Besides, you can't expect Zhang Datie to repay her kindness with his daughter, so it's better to expect a rooster to lay eggs."
Boss Zhou: "... ... ... I'll give up my position as boss to you!"
Zhou Laoer looked at the gradually rising moon and said, "The moonlight today is really nice."
After saying that, he ran away. Oh, he was scared to death. The eldest brother actually had such a terrible idea. He ran away!
Boss Zhou looked at his second brother who quickly returned to the house, and covered his chest with his hands. How despised is the position of the boss!
Zhu Lan heard the door close before she spoke, "I knew Shi Qing had another hidden trick. It turns out he was also a member of the Zhang family. If Zhang Sanni hadn't been afraid that Wang Ru would die, she would never have revealed it."
Zhou Shuren looked at the silver ingots in the brocade box, hummed, and counted the number of ingots. "This time, the male protagonist is not as honest as last time. There are only six silver ingots of five taels in a box, a total of only sixty taels. I prefer the tacky gold. Gold is more comfortable to look at."
Zhulan, "... I like it too, but I just helped a little, sixty taels for free is not bad, I really think the tacky male protagonist is good, the silver of walking, the silver of Chang Lian's betrothal gift has almost been returned."
Zhou Shuren saw Zhulan's eyes sparkling with smiles, "The male protagonist is troublesome and makes people unhappy, but he brings wealth and good luck to our family."
Zhulan chuckled, "It really brings prosperity to our family."
The next morning, Zhulan was in a good mood because of the continuous income. After dinner, she instructed Li, "Go get some money from your sister-in-law. You and the eldest brother go to the county to buy some big bones, five catties of fat, and ten catties of pork belly. Then go to the slag shop to buy some chili and peanuts."
Li asked, "Mom, what do you want to eat tonight after buying all this meat?"
These days my mother-in-law has been eating different kinds of food, and her stomach has become fatter!
Zhulan woke up in the morning and looked at the gray sky. She thought it was going to rain, so she thought about eating hot pot. She smiled and said, "We're going to have hot pot tonight. You and the boss should go and come back quickly. Don't catch up with them if it rains."
Li was obsessed with the hotpot during the Chinese New Year, and shouted in a hurry, "Boss, quickly get the cart, let's go to the county to buy meat."
After Li left, Zhulan was in a good mood and called Xuehan to go to the village to buy tofu and fish.
Yesterday's incident with Wang Ru was full of twists and turns. Everyone in the village knew that Wang Ru had gone to the county. Zhulan's home was close by, and as soon as she stepped out of the door, she was surrounded.
After Zheng moved out, they lived a good life. The Wang family's old house was renovated, and they had money and bought a lot of land. Their family wealth became more abundant, and they showed off and became more gossipy. They became the main gossipmongers in the village.
Zheng relied on the fact that they were neighbors and had some kind of friendship with each other and asked, "Sister-in-law, what happened to Wang Ru last night? Why did Wang Ru go to the county? I heard that she is dying?"
Zhulan looked at Zheng wearing new clothes and holding melon seeds in her hands. She was living a happy life. "I don't know either. You should ask the Wang family about this."
Zheng asked, knowing Yang's personality very well. Yang didn't want to say that it was useless to ask. Now she didn't dare to offend Yang. Yang was not only the wife of the scholar, but also the future mother-in-law of the county magistrate's daughter. Not to mention, Zhou Xiucai also knew the son of the marquis's mansion. She flattered him, "Sister-in-law, are you going out for a walk?"
Zhulan would not hit a smiling person, and the ancients were not stupid, especially the lower classes who knew how to survive the most. Except for those with mental problems, they would not fight to the death with those who were too different from them. Even Wang Zhang smiled stiffly when she saw Zhulan several times. She smiled and said, "It's cool today, and I haven't been out for a long time. I bought some tofu and took a walk."
Zheng quickly made way for him, "Then I won't have to delay my sister-in-law from buying tofu."
Zhulan smiled and nodded, then left with her daughter. From a distance, she could still hear people discussing the Zhou family, and some saying that Xuehan was becoming more and more like a lady from a wealthy family, and that they were just saying nice things without any regard for money.
Xue Han covered the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief. These aunts had often ridiculed and envied her mother in the past, but they didn't dare to do that now. The voices they spoke behind her back were a little loud. At the same time, she also deeply understood what her mother said, that as long as you become strong, you don't have to change many things yourself, and someone will naturally make excuses for you.
Xue Han reached out and held her mother's hand, "Mom."
Zhulan shook her hand back. If she and Zhou Shuren felt a little guilty towards Xuemei, they loved Xuehan from the bottom of their hearts. Xuehan was exactly what she had imagined her daughter to be like.
Zhulan is a celebrity in the village. Whenever she buys tofu, she will cut more of it, and whenever she buys fish, she will add a few small fish.
When Zhulan slowly returned home, the tables and chairs in the main hall had been replaced. Zhou Laoer had ordered them yesterday. Zhulan looked at the patterns and thanks to Wang Ru, the carpenters in the village no longer made tables and chairs according to the traditional style. The new ones were simpler and more elegant than the original ones. The most important thing was that they were no longer painted red, and the natural color looked much more pleasing to the eye.
Zhulan put the fish in a basin and waited until night to kill it. She didn't see Zhao in the front yard, so she went to the backyard. Zhao was picking vegetable leaves with two maids. Yulu, the eldest wife, had just learned to walk not long ago, but she spoke very fluently. Although she was not very big, she clumsily picked the vegetable leaves with her butt sticking out, and she was not afraid of falling.
Zhao had almost finished picking the fruits and saw her mother-in-law, "Mom is back."
Zhulan bent down and picked up Yulu, "Is Mingrui sleeping?"
When Zhao mentioned her son, her eyes were full of smiles. "He woke up several times last night and didn't get enough rest. He went to sleep after dinner. I asked the head of the household to watch him and make sure he didn't fall to the ground."
Zhulan just asked casually, and she would not ask unless Zhao explained. This was the difference between Li and Zhao. Zhao would remember every little thing in her heart, and she felt tired just listening to it.
Half an hour later, it started to rain. The eldest and his wife were hurrying home. Li jumped off the ox cart and said, "Mom, Wang Ru is walking behind us and is the slowest. It's good enough that she can walk half the way now. She will definitely get wet in the rain."