Flowers are expensive

Chapter 20 The happy event of Cao's natal family

"Hehehe..." Lihua laughed dryly, leaned back slightly and said, "Well... 36 tricks—run away!"

"Qin Lihua!" Cao Shi was furious, ignoring the water all over her body, she chased after her with a stick and shouted, "Stop for me! If you don't shake off your skin today, you still don't know what my mother's last name is! Stop!" The yard suddenly became lively, but Aunt Dong, who was in charge of feeding the chickens just now, released the seven or eight hens out of the cage to exercise their muscles and bones, just in time for the excitement.All of a sudden, chickens were flying like dogs, and Mrs. Cao chased and cursed Lihua all over the courtyard with a stick.

Huang Ying ran out curiously when she heard the voice, took a look, covered her mouth and snickered, "You deserve it! See if you are still stubborn? I asked for two eggs, but you still didn't beat you to death. What are you proud of?"

Hearing her words, Hong Ling couldn't help but said to her: "It's not all your fault!"

"Hey, sister Hongling, are you blaming me?" Huang Ying rolled her eyelids and said in disbelief, "I wasn't even in the kitchen just now!"

"You wash the rice after all, right? What's the difference between washing rice and throwing rice? The housekeeper came and saw so many rice grains at the bottom of the water tank, she scolded me for not being frugal, and even beat me. Fortunately, Lihua stopped me." , or you won't be able to escape!"

"Hmph!" Huang Ying said goodbye in dissatisfaction, and muttered in her heart: You are unlucky, I didn't mean it!
Hongling wanted to help Lihua, but was stopped by Mrs. Gong and Grandma Yun.Mrs. Gong persuaded her: "Look, the housekeeper didn't even touch Pear Blossom, she just chased after her butt, and when she got tired, she just scolded her and let it go. You want to join in the fun again, On the contrary, she was injured all over, and made her angry!" Hong Ling was so anxious that tears came out, and she stomped her feet and said, "But you can't let the housekeeper chase after Li Hua all the time! Isn't Li Hua tired?"

Grandma Yun said in a low voice: "That girl's legs and feet are slack, she won't be able to hit her! Our housekeeper is too oily, and she's covered in fat all over her body, like a thousand catties of iron, she can't run fast!"

As soon as the words fell, the women next to her snickered.At this moment, Lihua suddenly tripped over a red sweet potato vine scattered in the yard, fell forward, and fell heavily on a hen whose legs were a little slower.There was only a tragic cock crowing, and the whole yard suddenly fell silent!
Mrs. Cao was overwhelmed with anger, and her mind was full of thoughts of cleaning up Lihua severely. How could she care about a chicken at this time?Seeing Lihua fall down, she thought she had got a big deal, so she hurried forward and raised the stick to beat her down!

"Stop!" Manting's low voice suddenly came from the gate of the second courtyard.Everyone looked back and saw him walking out slowly holding the door frame. His complexion was not very good, and he was a little pale, and his walking posture was also slightly leaning to the left.

Grandma Yun hurriedly walked over to support Manting and said, "What are you doing up, kid? You're still hurt, don't stretch the wound! The housekeeper is teaching your daughter-in-law for you. You don't have to come out, you won't be beaten to death."

"Grandma Yun!" When Cao Shi saw the whole court, for some reason, she looked a little scared, put down her hand and drank Grandma Yun, and said, "Did I say I was going to kill her? How can you be so good at breaking your mouth, old man?" What's the matter? I'm just teaching her the rules of the village! Xie Manting, look at the water I've poured all over my body, it's all for your daughter-in-law! I'm so lucky to be a housekeeper, is she such a fool? Looking for such a rationale in this book? Tell me!"

Man Ting gently pushed Grandma Yun's hand away, thanked her, and walked down the steps enduring the pain.Everyone looked at him curiously, not knowing what he was going to do.

At this time, Lihua was still lying on the ground tightly, because she knew very well that there was a fat hen under her body. Although it made her stomach feel very uncomfortable, but think about it carefully—even if she saved it, it would be crushed. Sexual fracture and lifelong disability, why not just give it a ride, hehe... In this case, Xie Manting can also have a mouthful of chicken soup!
Man Ting walked up to Li Hua with difficulty, wanted to bend down but couldn't, so he stretched out his hand and said to her, "Get up." "Xie Man Ting, didn't you hear me? Wet from head to toe, there is no human appearance, is she such a fool? You don't say a word, not even a word of training?" Cao's tone was obviously a little anxious, rather than saying that she wanted to settle accounts with Man Ting, It might be better to say that she is suing the court.

Man Ting ignored Cao Shi, looked down at Li Hua and asked, "Reluctant to get up?"

Lihua's eyeballs rolled, guessing that the chicken should be quiet, right?Only then did she clasp Man Ting's hands, lay down on her stomach, and looked down at the chicken by the way, it was already motionless, ok, the trick has succeeded!
"Chicken! My chicken!" Cao finally remembered that Lihua was holding a chicken just now!She hurriedly pulled the chicken wings up and shook them, and she had already queued up at King Yama's place to wait for reincarnation!She was so angry that her teeth were chattering, and she wished she could send Lihua to see the Tathagata Buddha.She yelled at Lihua: "You did it on purpose! Don't you know you're holding such a big chicken? You don't feel like you're panicking!"

Lihua hid behind Man Ting, and said pitifully, "I fell to the ground... I fell so dizzy, how could I care what was on my body? If you hadn't been chasing me so closely, I wouldn't have fallen and overwhelmed me." It! How about... I give it CPR?"

"Resuscitate your head! You're already dead!" Cao Shi was so angry that she really wanted to drag her out and throw her outside the weir pond, but Man Ting stood in front of Lihua expressionlessly, Cao Shi was a little scared after all.

"It's dead anyway. Is it possible that I should bury it with it? It can only be regarded as an accidental death. At worst, I'll give it a good burial and set up a monument or something, right?"

"Heh!" Mrs. Cao said to Sister-in-law Xiao and the others with her hips crossed, "Listen, what kind of nonsense are they talking about? Is burying a chicken a new way of doing things in Bianjing? Is it ridiculous? "

"You have to listen to me. Isn't it easy to bury a chicken? Take a few pieces of turmeric, a few cloves of garlic, an onion, and a pot of water to bury it. Wouldn't it be over? Add some more firewood , Gulu Gulu, and send it to the Buddha, how simple! Is there such a burial method in Bianjing alone? Don’t you have it here?”

The women standing by watching the excitement stared at the chicken eagerly, each fantasizing about the process of stewing the chicken in their hearts, wishing to snatch the chicken from Mrs. Cao immediately.After hearing Lihua's words, they almost clapped their hands and shouted!But in front of Mrs. Cao, they could only hold back their cheeks temporarily if they wanted to laugh. "To put it bluntly, you just want to eat chicken!" Mrs. Cao scolded.

"Does this make me greedy for chicken? You beat someone with a stick without saying anything, and if you beat me, will I just stand there and let you beat me? I can't run away! Wouldn't something happen if I run away? It can only be regarded as accidentally rear-end!"

"Chasing...rear-chasing? Chasing your head..."

"Okay," Ma Liu didn't know when he stood at the gate of the compound, and said with a serious face behind his back, "Isn't it just a dead chicken? It's so noisy that I don't work! The whole courtyard is still injured, Are you willing to ask him to stand there?"

Cao said angrily to Ma Liu, "You have to look at me too! What a mess my name Qin Lihua has become!"

"Drenched like this, why don't you go change your clothes and spend time swearing at people? Hurry up! Leave the chicken behind, drag it when it dies, do you want to bury it or cremate it? Do you want to burn two paper money to sacrifice it? I gave it to Mrs. Xiao and stewed it at noon, and it was just a tooth-beating sacrifice for everyone."

As soon as the words were finished, Mrs. Xiao was the first to rush over and snatch the chicken from Mrs. Cao, and carried her to the kitchen.The others who hold knives hold knives, those who look for dry firewood look for dry firewood, and those who heat hot water boil hot water. They are more energetic than pinching red sweet potato vines just now!Seeing this, Mrs. Cao pulled away with a dark face and left.

Ma Liu yelled in the stove and said, "The red sweet potato vines are still waiting in the field! It takes a house full of people to cook a chicken? How about serving your uncle chicken? The two of them quickly pinched it and carried it to the ground!" He said After finishing speaking, he walked to Manting and said, "Hurry up and go back to rest, what's the big deal, you're so hurt that you're all up? Drink two more mouthfuls of chicken soup at noon, you're about to make up for it, go back to the house!" Man Ting glanced at Ma Liu, said nothing more, and was supported by Li Hua back to the room.Ma Liu yelled a few more words into the kitchen, and hurried back to his own room.

In the room, Mrs. Cao just took off the purple-red bijia that was wet outside, and threw it to the side as if annoyed.Who knew, it happened to cover the face of Ma Liu who had just entered the door!

"Don't just throw it outside!" Ma Liu angrily grabbed it off his head and threw it on the table.

"Hmph!" Cao rolled her eyes, turned her back to him, and complained as she took off her drenched clothes, "You know you lost your temper at me, aren't you a bit manly? What did you do in front of Xie Manting just now?" Don't you dare to yell at him twice? My daughter-in-law has been bullied like this, and she is still in charge!"

"Are you finished?" Ma Liu pulled Zhang Fang's stool and sat down, and said impatiently to Mrs. Cao, "Qin Lihua bullied you today, and you didn't bully others? Who can't see your little thoughts? Don't you just want to give Qin Lihua and those three girls a solid blow?"

"Hey!" Mrs. Cao turned around, spit flying with excitement, "Why don't I give them a badass first, how can I discipline them in the future? They are from Bianjing, needless to say coquettish, even ten fingers If you don’t touch the spring water, you can’t do any work, you’re too lazy to be like a pig, who will you expect to provide them with a Buddhist altar in the future? You put it lightly!”

Ma Liu snorted lightly and said, "I know you don't like the three of them, but no matter how you don't like them, you have to endure these two years. This is what Wang Guanshi told you before leaving. After two years, they are Life or death has nothing to do with me!"

"Still talking!" Mrs. Cao came over after changing her clothes quickly, and said with an unconvinced face, "I'm so angry when I mention that steward Wang. There were originally five young servants who could be matched, but I insisted on taking that red man. Lingsai to my brother! Because of this, my mother was so angry that she couldn't sleep all night, and she had a headache when she thought of that dead girl! Who would want to go to a sister who is dirty? But my mother's family will suffer such a bad thing , but I am still the housekeeper of this village! Tell me, is it funny?"

"Nagging! You're already married anyway, so what are you still talking about? These two years are going to pass. Let me remind you, don't vent your anger on Hong Ling'er because of your natal family's affairs. I'm going to lose this job in charge, I really need you to look good!"

"I don't care about this group of daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law. You don't need to tell me? By the way," Cao said while straightening her hair. All right."

Ma Liu frowned slightly and asked: "Happy event? What's the happy event? Could it be another aunt of your cousin who is far away celebrating her birthday? You also give gifts to those relatives who are far away, to fight for face It’s not that you fight for the law! Don’t you know how much money these people have lost in the end of the year? How much gold and silver do you just want to guard in this village?”

"Yo? It's my fault that I spent a few copper coins on you to give away favors? Isn't it your face to give it away? I really worked hard and didn't get a good word!" "Come on, what's wrong with who? Turn around I have to go to the orchard to take a look." Ma Liu said impatiently. "It's not someone else, it's my sister. My mother found a family for her, and they're all married. We just wait for it to be settled. I belong to my sister anyway. Can you make up for her dowry? You are the head of the family." , how much you give it is up to you!"

(End of this chapter)