Chapter 22 Gambling
I'm such a stinky piece of shit that even a dog can't even look at me?Tian Rong, are you going a little too far?
Li Xizhu didn't dare to say this. He pushed the car with his head down and breathed heavily.

My heart says that you women are all like this, and you will fall out faster than turning the page in a book.

A month ago, you Tian Rong was still a fly that couldn't be driven away. Don't think that I, Li Xizhu, am stupid and can't understand your tricks.

It’s not because I ran away three days after we got married that you deliberately made me look bad and ignored me on purpose.

After all, aren't you, Tian Rong, just trying to mess with me?

I, Li Xizhu, know the little thoughts you women have.

The second son of the Li family, Li Xizhu, built a house to provide white rice and meat for everyone. Each person was given three copper coins a day. This incident spread in the village for a while.

As long as there are idle men at home, almost all of them come to Tian Rong to look for work.

But Tian Rong only built three small houses and could not afford so many people, so he simply selected a dozen strong young adults with experience in building houses to stay.

"Tian Rong, come here, come here."

After everyone finished eating at noon that day, they just rested for a short while and started getting busy again.

An aunt who was cooking saw that there was no one around and secretly pulled Tian Rong to the back of the temporary shed. She lowered her voice and said very carefully,
"Tian Rong, Auntie thinks your child is good, and your mother-in-law told me to take more care of her when she's not here, so I have to tell you something."

Tian Rong was different. She didn't know what this aunt was going to say to her, but she stretched out her ears very cooperatively.

"It's your sister-in-law. She secretly took away the meat and rice in her pocket when no one was around. My aunt has to tell you about this. There are only so many things. You said it's just these few people. When the time comes, they will be found out. , everyone would think it was us outsiders who stole it, don’t you think so?”

"Oh, this, aunt, how could this happen? You are all my mother-in-law's best friends in the village. I believe in your character. My sister-in-law must have gotten that for my mother-in-law. She told me,"

"Oh, that's it, that's okay, I know,"

Tian Rong's face gradually turned cold as she watched her aunt go to work.

It turns out that Wang Guilan, a woman who takes the initiative to cook for herself, has all her thoughts on this.

But Tian Rong doesn't quite understand. White rice and pork are all raw products. How will she, Wang Guilan, eat them if she doesn't cook them?
Could it be that she plans to send her back to her parents' home?
Impossible, although her natal family is not too far away, but considering the fact that she has not been back for the past few years.

She hated that home so much that it was impossible for her to send the things back.

It is even more impossible to take it home and feed it to her mother-in-law, because when Tian Rong was preparing the meal, she had already asked the third child to bring back a portion.

Then who is Wang Guilan secretly hiding something for?The answer was quickly found by Tian Rong.

As expected, Tian Rong discovered something was wrong after just two days of observation. As soon as Wang Guilan finished her work here, she sneaked away.

After dinner that day, Tian Rong followed him secretly under the cover of night.

Wang Guilan left the yard and walked in the other direction of her home.

While walking, she secretly looked around. When no one was around, she suddenly moved her feet and quickly came to the fence in the backyard of a house.

In an instant, Wang Guilan disappeared into the gray night, and Tian Rong hurriedly followed after seeing this.

When I got there, I realized that there was a gap in the family's fence, just enough for a person to get through.

Tian Rong looked around, and finally she determined that this was a family named Liang in the village.

The family is very simple, with only an old mother and a son living.Because the family is too poor, and the son is 27 years old, he still has not married and had children, and lives a difficult life on a few acres of thin farmland.

Tian Rong has only been in the village for a short time, and the family doesn't have much contact with the villagers, so her understanding of the family is limited to this.

At this time, looking at the open fence, Tian Rong did not choose to sneak in, but turned around and left.

"Sister-in-law, don't cook for the next few days. I have everything ready-made, so I won't leave you alone. Come and eat."

Tian Rong returned to Dr. Cui's courtyard with a bowl of freshly cooked wild vegetable and meat buns, and watched Sister-in-law Xiulian walking over as she was about to cook.

"Hey, Tian Rong, you are busy over there and we didn't go over to help. How can we eat from you?"

The land in Xiulian's home is scattered, and the two of them are still busy working on the land at home.

It was almost dark now, so she left the little doctor who was still working in the fields and ran back to cook alone.

"Sister-in-law, you've been cooking for us these days. Why, it's not right to eat something ready-made. Come on, try it. These are the newly picked bracken and meat-filled buns. Look at it. Let’s see if it tastes good.”

"Tian Rong, you are really willing to spend money,"

When she heard it was stuffed with meat, Xiulian couldn't help but lick her tongue.

With Tian Rong's repeated urging, she picked up one, and after one bite, the old glutton who had been a glutton for many years was awakened.

"Oh, it's really delicious. It's such a delicious thing. I can't eat dozens of it at once!"

Tian Rong laughed and said they were meat stuffed buns, but they were actually steamed with a small amount of white flour mixed with cornmeal.

Speaking of the meat stuffing, it only contains a little more chopped green onion, but for people who don't eat meat all year round, the taste is still indescribable.

"Then let's eat it with an open stomach. It's just a few buns, as long as my sister-in-law likes it."

"Hehehe, let me put it this way, I can really eat dozens of them anywhere. I'm not a pig."

Xiulian swallowed and patted Tian Rong on the shoulder with a smile.

"Sister-in-law, don't you think it's strange? So many people in the village came to my house to look for work. Why didn't that man from the Liang family come? That day I clearly saw him about to walk to my house, but this man turned around and went back. ”

"Tian Rong, are you talking about the two girls?"

Tian Rong nodded, Xiulian took the buns, put them in a basin, closed them with a wooden lid, and walked out again.

"That boy's name is Liang Dongzi. He has never married a wife. His family is very poor and no one wants to marry him. He is already a grown man, so it seems like this is all."

While talking, the two people sat down on the wooden pier in the yard.

"Sister-in-law, I am paid to work, why doesn't he come over to work?"

"Who knows what's going on? The two women rarely interact with people in the village. Liang Dongzi walks alone every day. When he sees villagers coming, he avoids them at a distance, like thieves. People in the village are also early They are used to him being like this, and no one pays much attention to them."

"Oh, that's it! It's quite strange. There are only two of us in the family. How can we live such a tight life?"

After hearing what Tian Rong said, Xiulian seemed to have thought of something. She quickly took Tian Rong's hand, leaned closer and whispered,
"Tian Rong, what a coincidence. One time, your elder brother went to the town to sell medicinal materials and came back a little late. He happened to see Liang Dongzi walking out of a casino. Do you think that kid went to gamble?"

(End of this chapter)

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