"Grandma, did you eat half of the chicken?"
Lin Yue looked at the empty aluminum basin and didn't know what to say. It seemed that the old lady was really greedy. Not only did she kill half of the chicken by herself, but she also drank half a bowl of soup. You know, this was the heaviest of the pheasants. One weighs four to five pounds if the internal organs are removed. This little old lady is skinny and has a big appetite.
But think about it, in rural families in this era, unless there are guests or important festivals, who would kill the chickens and eat them.
"Did you have a fight with your aunt?"
Lin Yue didn't answer the old lady's question. He went over to pick up the cigarette case, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth. After checking it, he lit it with a match, took two puffs and handed it to the old lady.
"A cigarette after a meal is better than a living god."
"Don't mess with me. Grandma broke her leg, but she didn't lose her eyesight."
Lin Yue shrugged: "Who told her to bully my mother all the time?"
The old lady took a puff of cigarette and just sighed quietly out the window without speaking.
Conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law can be said to be a common obstacle in every household. Over the years, for the sake of family harmony, Hu Li has endured beatings and scolding Chen Jinzhu, disrespecting her mother-in-law and father-in-law, and spending lavishly on things for her parents. The result is Hu Li is so spoiled that she can't even tolerate her sister-in-law.
A few minutes later, Chen Yulian finished cleaning the garbage in the main room and walked into the east room.
"Just make a noise, how can you do anything?"
"I didn't take action and let them beat me first? Why? Why didn't you say that the aunt is not like an elder and the cousin is bullying the younger one? Also, she knocked over the table and she didn't clean it herself. , asking you to do dirty work without food, based on these points, I have already given uncle face by not slapping her today."
Chen Yulian: "..."
She didn't know what was wrong with her son. Ever since Chen Jianghe returned to Chenjiacun, he seemed to be a different person. In the past, Lin Yue didn't even dare to look at Hu Li, let alone contradict her. When he was a child, he complained more than once that his aunt's eyes were scary. He scolded his uncle so harshly.
The old lady took two puffs of her cigarette and said, "Okay, okay, you all can stop saying a few words."
Lin Yue turned around and walked out.
Chen Yulian was afraid that he would provoke brothers Hu Li and Chen Hong again, so she hurriedly put them away: "What are you doing?"
"Go get the pheasants. You don't need to salt them in this weather. They will stink tomorrow."
Chen Yulian breathed a sigh of relief and let go of her hand holding his wrist.
"She has spilled the chicken, and there is still some soup in the pot. Let me make you a bowl of chicken noodle soup."
After Lin Yue finished speaking, he opened the door and walked out without waiting for a reply.
The old lady lit the ashtray in the ashtray beside the bed: "Yulian, if there is someone suitable, please find someone else."
Chen Yulian was shaken and looked embarrassed. She did not expect that the old lady listened to her conversation with Lin Yue.
"Mom, what did you say?"
"Didn't you find that Lin Yue is now more sensible than before?"
"..."
Well, he is more sensible than before, but he is also more capable of getting into trouble than before.
"So find someone, he won't blame you."
…
In the westmost room, Hu Li was shaming Chen Jinzhu.
"Chen Jinzhu, are you still a man? Seeing your nephew bullying you like this, I won't help you."
"I... In that situation, I can't do anything with him like Chen Hong. If he gets angry... He is a child without a father and doesn't care about anything. As an uncle, I will face him in the future. Where to put it?"
"I don't care where you put it. If you don't vent your anger on me, from today on, don't even think about getting into this bed." Hu Li was so angry that she threw his quilt on the ground.
Chen Jinzhu quickly picked up the quilt: "Yulian has already apologized to you, so what do you want to do?"
"I am his aunt, and I want him to kneel down and beg me."
"This... Hu Li, has it passed?"
"Get out, get out."
Hu Li drove Chen Jinzhu out of the room without saying a word.
Chen Ping and Chen Hong were not sleeping yet, and the father and the son looked at each other in shock.
He silently put the quilt on the bed. Tonight, only three father and son could squeeze into one bed.
Lin Yue salted the pheasant with its feathers and internal organs removed and put it in a ventilated place. This way it can be kept fresh for several days. Then he placed the torreya and hazelnuts in the bag on the linoleum, spread the torreya and piled up the hazelnuts. , after finishing the work, I washed the fresh jujubes and berries, put them into a fruit plate, took them to the east room, and put them where the old lady could get them.
He heard the quarrel in the west room and paid no attention to it.
elder? Make him kneel down and apologize?
Is there any mistake? Hu Li still owes him a chicken. As Uncle Lin said, let alone breaking one's promise, is there ever a time when he should be discounted?
…
The next day, sparrows were chirping on the branches.
The rice harvest season is also their carnival. As long as there is no one patrolling the rice field, these guys will fly over in a swarm and plunder the fruits of farmers' labor.
Who would have thought that a thief who was hated by everyone thirty years ago would become a nationally protected animal thirty years later.
Chen Hong was awakened by them. He turned over and pulled the quilt over his head. Just when he opened his eyes slightly to see what time it was and how long he could sleep, he suddenly caught a glimpse of Chen Ping's eyes. I shuddered and suddenly woke up.
"Why do you look at me like that?"
"Brother, you and dad snored all night."
"..."
Chen Hong also knew what was wrong with him. Not only did he snore, but he also grinded his teeth. Chen Ping often pushed him in the middle of the night. Now an old man was added to the mix, and the father and son were playing doubles in a relay. This night was enough for Chen Ping.
"Where's mom?"
He glanced at the back room and found that the quilt had been folded and Hu Li was not there.
Chen Ping said: "I went to the toilet."
"oh."
"By the way, brother, do you think those rag bosses can really make money? Are you lying to me?"
Hu Li was so angry at her nephew last night. Even if Chen Yulian apologized, her anger was not easy to dissipate. After returning to the house, she gave them a lecture with a heavy face, telling them that the two brothers were useless and that they had not earned any money. A 14-year-old child was beaten, and she felt ashamed for both of them when she told them.
Chen Ping argued that he didn't dare to be serious when facing his aunt and grandma, and he just wanted to scare his cousin. Who knew that kid was so cunning.
Chen Hong was not idle either. While squeezing Hu Li's shoulders, he told her how could it be that the sock king Luo Yuzhu and the cloth-heads that the whole village wanted Chen Jianghe to snatch were useless. But he had heard from Chen Daguang that these cloth-heads It is used to make mops and sold, which can definitely make money.
"I didn't lie to my mother. Brother Daguang and Brother Jimao are good brothers who grew up naked. How can I lie to him? You can't be wrong if you say they can make money."
"Then what are you waiting for? Let's go."
Chen Ping took off the blanket and was about to go to the ground.
"Go? Why go?"
"Go to Brother Daguang. The sooner you make those cloth heads into mops, the sooner you can make money. Look at what he was proud of yesterday." Chen Ping imitated Lin Yue's tune and said: "Grandma, I bought it for you. A big front door.”
Chen Hong was not as anxious as his younger brother about this matter. He heard the conversation between Lin Yue and Chen Yulian and knew that the prey and money were given by hunters in Dongyang County to please his aunt, so that cousin was Yin Xiang. The pewter gun head has a shiny surface, and the reason why he is arrogant is because he feels that he will have a second father to support him in the future.
"It's still early, let's get some sleep."
Chen Hong pushed his brother back and was about to straighten his body and go back to sleep, when a scream sounded outside the window.
"Ah...my chicken!"
The two people's eyes suddenly opened, because the person shouting loudly was none other than Hu Li.
Chen Jinzhu also sat up like a corpse, rubbed his groggy eyes with his hands, and said with a confused expression: "What's wrong? What's wrong?"
He didn't respond when Chen Hong and Chen Ping talked, and Hu Li yelled at him at the top of her lungs, which shows how serious the henpecked disease is.
"My chicken, my chicken...who did it? Who did it!"
At this time, Hu Li's shouting came from the yard again.
The three people did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly got off the bed, got dressed, opened the door and walked out.
The sun was shining brightly and there were no clouds in the sky. It was a rare good weather. However, Hu Li's expression was exactly the opposite. It was raining heavily, extremely heavy rain, and extremely heavy rain brewing thunder and fire.
Chen Ping leaned over, looked into the pigsty, opened his mouth, and murmured after a while: "Dead, all dead..."
Chen Hong and Chen Jinzhu also discovered the seriousness of the problem.
More than a dozen hens raised by Hu Li all died.
No wonder the voice just now was so shrill and shrill, now it could kill me.
"Auntie, why are you so good at singing? Isn't it because I didn't let you eat chicken yesterday? Why did you kill all the chickens you raised in a fit of anger? In the next month, your family will not worry about having no chickens to eat. It's so domineering, we can't compare, we can't compare..."
Several people looked back and found that the person who made the sarcastic remarks was none other than Lin Yue.
Hu Li pointed at him with a trembling finger and shouted hysterically: "You...you little brat, you actually killed all my chickens. I'm not done with you."
