Chapter 47

After Zhuyu helped Cuiping get ahead, another five or six women asked Xuemei to intercede for her to work in the river.

Fame cannot be eaten as food, food stamps are the real thing that can be exchanged for food.

They are all women without the support of their husbands and their families. If they are not really forced to do nothing, they don't want to be judged.

"Is something wrong?"

Shu Yingtong asked lightly, without stopping the tip of the pen, he continued to draw lines on the straw paper.

Xuemei twisted her fingers, looked at her concentrating and cold side face, hesitated for a while, and said in a low voice: "Girl... I... I can't handle that."

"Tell me."

The tip of the pen dipped in the ink on the inkstone, and scraped the ink along the peak of the pen along the edge of the inkstone pool.

"It's the women in Cuiping who were slammed by some aunts and aunts... They all had swollen eyes when they went to work today, and they didn't ask questions. I only knew about it when I went there after lunch."

"What did you say?"

"I... I can't learn..."

"Let Zhu Yu go there."

Xuemei bit her lower lip and pondered over and over again, her face full of embarrassment, "Zhu Yu's fiery temper is going to kick him if he can't say a few words. This matter needs a girl to go."

Shu Yingtong put down the brush, got up and walked to the washbasin to wash off the ink stains on her hands, with a somewhat impatient expression, "Let's go."

Bamboo sheds have been set up in the wasteland not far from the river, which look like mushrooms of different shapes after the rain in the mountains from a distance.

Some only built simple shelves and thatched roofs, some built three-sided sheds, and some decent ones hung curtains at the door.

There are various small stoves at the door of each shed, some of which are still smoking, and various sundries are piled up in disorder.

It was the lunch break time, and there were people everywhere who were eating, those who were going to take a nap, and those who were chatting and doing work together.

After seeing Shu Yingtong and Xuemei, they got up and said hello warmly.

"Has the girl eaten?"

Shu Yingtong nodded in response, and took Xuemei to the busiest place.

"If you don't make it clear today, this matter won't get better! Sister-in-law, fight well!"

"Shameless coquettish brat, if you don't own a man, you will steal other people's men. If I don't give you some strength today, I will see that you are easy to bully when you are an old lady!"

"What nonsense are you talking about? My daughter-in-law behaves according to her duties and is worthy of my ancestors!"

"Duty? Duty can make my man come back from work and cook for her and mud?"

A bamboo shed was surrounded by a lot of spectators on three floors in front and three floors outside.

Some stood on tiptoe to look in, and some held bowls and chatted with others with a smile on their faces.

"The girl is here!"

Someone yelled, and everyone turned their heads to say hello, and silently moved out of the way, with expressions of watching the show on their faces.

Shu Yingtong didn't respond, and walked into the center of the encirclement with a cold face.

On the ground, soil clods and broken pottery fragments were scattered all over the ground, and water dripped all over the ground. The whole grains were mixed in the mud, and there was an obvious footprint on it.

An old woman wearing a forehead was sitting on the ground with her arms around a middle-aged woman, and a little girl was sitting on her knees and holding the middle-aged woman's arm, crying with tears all over her face.

The middle-aged woman was disheveled, her clothes were tattered, and her face was swollen with bloodstains. She leaned against the old woman's arms, her gray and peeling lips trembling, her eyes staring blankly at the miscellaneous grains on the ground.

Surrounded by them were two women and a young girl, with their chests and hips raised like a victorious fighting cock.

"Girl, you have to decide for us..."

Seeing Shu Yingtong and Xuemei approaching, the strong woman with a floral cloth on her head changed her proud expression, sat down on the ground, beat her chest and howled loudly.

"My family just pointed at my man to live. This unconscionable hoof hooked my man to build a stove for him. I was tired for a long time and didn't even have time to rest when I came back..."

The strong woman wiped her face, raised her finger to circle the onlookers, patted her thigh and continued to cry:
"There are so many men with daughters-in-law and children here. If you tick off this one today and that one tomorrow, how will we honest daughter-in-laws live..."

The complexion of the woman who had been watching the excitement immediately changed, and she glared at the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law at the same time.

"It's true, those few who work in the river with our men every day, maybe they will make some trouble!"

"Then no matter what, you have to teach them a lesson!"

"I said why did my man ignore me when he came back? Is it because of you? Shameless, I am!" A woman with high cheekbones pushed forward and spat hard.

"What are you talking about!" A man pushed away from the crowd and raised his eyebrows and raised his eyes. "I can't even hold my chopsticks when I come back from exhaustion. Don't you say you are considerate of me, and you still arrange me with outsiders?!"

"Okay, you still said no! When have you ever been so loud to me before! This life can't go on!" Said, sitting on the ground and crying.

"Then don't pass!" The man roared angrily, and walked away.

As soon as the man left, the woman made a fuss even more, lying on the ground, rolling and screaming that she couldn't live.

"Girl, look, you have to take good care of this matter. After all these things happen, how can we live in peace?"

The women were excited and looked at Shu Yingtong who was silent, seeing her frowning and her face getting colder and colder, they cheered in their hearts.

If the girl is angry, she must treat those few well!
Shu Yingtong looked down at the middle-aged woman with disheveled hair breaking away from her mother-in-law, stretched out her muddy hands, and slowly picked up the miscellaneous grains on the ground tremblingly.

I turned around and looked around but couldn't find anything to hold, so I had to shake off the hem of my blouse to carry the grain mixed with mud and gravel.

Tears flowed silently on his face, falling on the food drop by drop.

"It seems that I'm still too full." Shu Yingtong snorted coldly, and said heavily: "Xuemei, inform Xiuyu Qiuyan and Huzi that the lockup will start this afternoon, and let them rest tomorrow."

Xuemei was stunned for a moment, and then she came to her senses.

"Okay. The three of them have been exhausted these past few days. They dare not even drink water. They are afraid that they will go to the toilet to delay the payment of food. They should take a good rest."

"Lock the warehouse? Doesn't that mean you can't get the food!"

"No, girl, what should we do if there is no rice to cook..."

The two wretched women on the ground stopped making trouble, got up from the ground and squeezed in front of Shu Yingtong, shouting loudly: "Girl, why are you so unreasonable!"

"The girl didn't tell us to uphold justice, why did she still lock up the warehouse... Is there any reason for this~"

Shu Yingtong looked at the two people in front of him expressionlessly, and said coldly: "It will be locked the day after tomorrow."

After speaking, he turned around and left, leaving behind the two people in a daze and a group of excited people.

"Miss Xuemei, are you serious?"

"What can we do if we really lock up..."

Surrounded by the crowd, Xuemei couldn't move an inch, and her usually gentle face showed signs of anger.

Being pulled by clothes and pushed around.

"stop fighting!"

Xuemei shouted angrily, and the scene immediately fell silent.

"My girl is right! You are so full! Where do you think the food came from? Mr. An? If he can get the food, why wait now?!"

Taking a deep breath, exhaling heavily, pointing at the strong woman and shouting:

"You say my girl is unreasonable? I want to ask you, which one of you didn't come here hungry, and which one is not full now! You don't blame others for locking up positions, but you who provoke trouble!"

 ∩_∩ hahaha, the babies are awesome!

  I tested the waters and advanced!
  Well, compare your heart!

  
 
(End of this chapter)

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