Flowers are expensive

Chapter 23
After taking care of Man Ting and having breakfast, Li Hua went to the kitchen with the bowls and chopsticks.Mrs. Cao was already waiting for her in the front yard, and when she saw her coming, she stopped and said, "Qin Lihua, hurry up, you are the only one waiting!"

Lihua asked: "What am I waiting for? Is there any work?" Cao smiled sinisterly and said: "Of course there is work. When you wake up on this farm, you have to work. Only You can only calm down after sleeping. You quickly pack up the things in your hands, and follow Third Aunt Dong and the others to plant rice in the field!"

"Planting seedlings?" Li Hua asked with a slight frown, "All the men are dead, why do you want women to plant rice seedlings?"

"What are you talking about? What's dead? There is no distinction between men and women in planting rice seedlings. It's busy farming and there is a shortage of people in the rice seedling fields, so you have to go! What are you talking about? Aunt Dong and the others are still waiting for you!"

"Is it just me? Where's Hongling?" Lihua knew that Cao was trying to make things difficult for her, and she asked for fear of hurting Hongling.

"Hong Ling and Huang Ying stayed to help Mrs. Xiao make lunch. You go with Third Aunt Dong and Sister Gong. Hurry up."

"Just go, isn't it just transplanting rice seedlings?" Although Li Hua said so, she still had no idea.Rice transplanting?It might be faster to let her pull out the seedlings!
Lihua handed the dishes to Hongling to wash, and then she put on a straw hat and followed Third Aunt Dong and Mrs. Gong to the field.As soon as she left, Hong Ling became worried, and said to herself: "Can her body handle such a heavy load?"

Huang Ying leaned against the grape trellis in the yard, chuckled and said, "Why are you worrying about her? Isn't she clever? Planting seedlings is not a problem for her!" Hong Ling glanced at Huang Ying and said: " You weren't such a person who made trouble in the past, why do you speak like a needle now?"

Huang Ying smiled contemptuously and said, "I'm not like you. I timidly follow behind Qin Lihua's buttocks, fawning over this one, fawning over that one, and even the little daughter-in-law surnamed Gong. I'm really not afraid of ruining myself! I, Huang Ying, at least It's a girl born and raised in the alley in Bianjing, and I can't afford to lose that person if I hang out with them!"

"Yes, you are different from me and Lihua. Lihua and I were born as girls in the country, so we are not as good as you who were born and raised in Bianjing. But the current situation is not in our own hands? You have to take care of your usual face , I'm afraid the gain will outweigh the loss!"

"Do you need to teach me a lesson? Go wash the dishes for your Qin Lihua!" Huang Ying glared at Hongling, then turned and walked to the backyard.Sister-in-law Xiao shouted at the door of the kitchen: "Huang Ying, where are you going? There is still work in the kitchen!"

"Isn't it okay to go to the latrine?" Huang Ying lost this sentence, and swayed back to her room.When she got back to her room, she sat in front of the bronze mirror, looked at her rather proud face in the mirror, opened the powder box and said, "I'm almost running out of things, and there's not even half a store in this shabby place, where can I buy them?" It’s really a place where the birds don’t shit, it’s unlucky! Still working? Whoever wants to do it, this girl was not born to work!”

Huang Ying was fixing her makeup in the room when Cao's impolite cry came from outside: "Huang Ying, come out! Are you hatching eggs in the nest?"

"Hmph, what a vulgar thing!" Huang Ying snorted, got up and opened the door, went out and said, "Housekeeper, what's the matter? I can hear you, so there's no need to shout so loudly."

"You are supposed to come here to enjoy the blessings, right?" Cao said angrily at her, "You don't work alone, and everyone works to support you? Wipe the shit out of my eyes so that I can understand what I am now ! There is work waiting for you in the kitchen, hurry up!"

"Ouch," Huang Ying said, clutching her belly, "my stomach hurts, so I have to go to the latrine, can't I? I'm suffocated, I'm suffocated. Turning around, Wang Guanshi asked, do you pay for it? Aren't there two people in that room?" Is it? Without my hands, the work can't be done?"

"It's amazing! Are all the girls from Bianjing so eloquent? It seems that if you can't speak, you can't do your job, can you?" Cao said sarcastically, "Hmph, it's right to think about it, don't use good words to coax Look at the master, do you like the face of the master?"

"Oh! The housekeeper knows what kind of girl the master likes? Oh, that's right!" Huang Ying clapped her hands lightly and smiled, "The master will go back to the manor once or twice a year. Could it be that the master has taken a fancy to it when he comes back?" You? I don’t think so, the master’s taste has never been so greasy!”

"Looking for death!"

"What are you doing?" Huang Ying raised her face and challenged Cao, "You want to hit me, don't you? Hit me if you have the ability. If you hit you, you may not be able to end it! This girl is not the stupid girl under your hands Ladies, you are free to beat and scold me, if you dare to move a finger of this girl, I will definitely make you look good!"

Mrs. Cao looked at her disdainfully and asked: "It's come to this point, I want to see how you plan to make me look bad!" Turning around, Manager Wang sent someone to come, and this girl appointed you and Ma Liuyi to sue you and Ma Liuyi, telling you that you can't even do the job of managing the manager, so let's see how proud you are!" Huang Ying became more and more proud as she spoke, "I can tell you , I'm not Qin Lihua or Hongling, they are all country girls. My family is in Bianjing City. I just left the Wang Mansion. My brothers and sisters are still here. Once I get the chance, I can turn around immediately. When the time comes Don't regret it!"

"How dare you threaten me!" Cao Shi said, raising his thick palm.

"You just hit me in the face," Huang Ying gently tapped her own face with her pointed nails, and said, "After the beating is over, you should be able to walk away! I am a person who holds grudges, hum! "She snorted, ignored Mrs. Cao, swaggered around and went back to the house, acting like a master.

Just when she was proud, Mrs. Cao rushed up from behind and grabbed her by the bun, dragged her to the yard forcefully, and gave her a hard push.She suddenly let out a scream and fell to the ground. Just as she was about to turn her head to seek Cao's theory, she slapped Cao twice so loudly that she couldn't speak a word!
"Turn over?" Cao shook her shoulders and laughed, "You are just an aunt if you are tired of being used by the master, and you are just an aunt. Is it possible that you can still be the wife of the head of the family, the princess, the noble concubine? What if you are only a countryman?" I don’t know, are you scared to death when you hear about the city of Bianjing? Oh, how delicate is it? What about the people of Bianjing! Do all the people of Bianjing raise daughters and send them to be sparrows? Be a sparrow!"

Huang Ying held her face in her hands, her eyes were flushed with tears, and there was a look of extreme hatred in her eyes!She wanted to resist, but she couldn't tell if it was because of fear or fright, she trembled endlessly.

After hearing the sound, Hong Ling and Sister-in-Law Xiao who came over saw the battle, and they understood half of it.Hong Ling was about to step forward to say a few words, but Cao Shi stopped her and said, "Stay there! If you dare to come over, I will whip you too!" Sister Xiao grabbed Hong Ling's arm and whispered: " Don't go up and add to the fire, your own wounds haven't healed yet! Besides, it's useless to persuade you!"

While rolling up her sleeves, Mrs. Cao stared at the tearful Huang Ying on the ground, and said, "You three, do you think it's great that you are sent from the master's house in Bianjing City? Yes, the master forbids us to reveal your identities. , but don’t you know what you guys are? You have to mention it face to face and scold behind your back every day to be decent? Who do you show yourself to be so fancy every day? Picking a red morning glory at the corner of the wall is fresher and cleaner than you! Take less People from Bianjing are here to scare anyone, you have to live through these two years before talking about it!"

"Housekeeper, please spare her!" Hong Ling hurriedly begged for Huang Ying, "She just has a bad mouth, and she has no other bad intentions."

Mrs. Cao ignored Hong Ling, looked at Huang Ying coldly and continued, "You'd better remember what I said today, and you can sue whoever you like later! It's okay to step on Duoyun and go to the master in Bianjing City to sue. People stopped me! But if you can’t do the job assigned to you well, I will punish you accordingly! Don’t think that the village’s rules are just a bunch of nonsense when you meet them, go to the kitchen!”

Huang Ying kept staring at Cao Shi with angry eyes, but she couldn't react other than gnashing her teeth and cursing in her heart. After all, she was shocked by the momentum of Cao Shi, the housekeeper.When Hong Ling came to help her, she shook off Hong Ling's hand and walked towards the kitchen angrily.

Waiting for them to leave, Mrs. Xiao gave Cao Shi a thumbs up, and said with a smile, "The housekeeper is the housekeeper after all, she cured that little hoof into obedience in two or three strokes."

A smug smile curled up on the corner of Cao's mouth, rubbed Huang Ying's hand that just slapped Huang Ying and said, "In front of me, she is nothing! If you don't tidy it up, her tail will really stick up to the sky."

"Now that Huangying and Hongling have told you to tidy up, the only difference is Qin Lihua."

"Wait," Cao said with a light smile, "when I come back to eat at noon, I will see if she can still have the energy to jump on the beam! Transplanting rice seedlings is not an easy job. Tossing her for a few days will tire her out." She knows who to listen to in this village! Go ahead and watch Huang Ying for me. You are dishonest. Just scold her and don't give her face. That bastard has no face in the first place!"

"Then I'll make you a pot of tea. I just taught that girl that she's thirsty, right? You hurry back and rest, and I'll bring it to you right away."

"Okay, then I'll go back to my room first." Cao Shi nodded with satisfaction and smiled, then turned and left.

Xiao's sister-in-law ran back to the kitchen and heard Huang Ying rushing to persuade her Hongling to get angry, she couldn't help but scolded: "You still don't know how to restrain yourself? Do you have to be slapped twice to wake up? Hongling's advice to you is also a good intention. If you change Leave me, who cares about you? Put away your two pieces of cat urine, it’s not worth half a copper coin, hurry up and get to work!" She called Hong Ling again, "Don't bother with her, go to boil the pot, I have to Make a pot of good tea for the housekeeper. You can see clearly who is in charge of this village, and in the future, you should stop chasing yourself."

Hong Ling walked to the stove and sat down, raised her head while holding the firewood to light the fire, and asked, "Sister-in-law Xiao, is the housekeeper really planning to let Lihua help plant the seedlings all the time? Her body can't stand it!"

"I said Hongling, you just need to take care of yourself," Mrs. Xiao shook her head lightly and said, "It's good to take care of yourself in this village, how can you take care of others? Compared with the two of them No matter how you say it, the housekeeper is your man's biological sister, and because of this kiss, no one in the village dares to provoke you, so you should be content."

Hongling understands what Sister-in-law Xiao means, so it's not good to ask any more questions.When it was almost noon, the workers came back one after another.Mrs. Gong and Third Aunt Dong walked into the kitchen talking and laughing.Mrs. Xiao stopped the kitchen knife in her hand and turned her head to ask, "Are you so happy? Is there anything new in the village?"

"I can't tell you clearly," Third Aunt Dong took a sip of cold water with a wooden spoon, took two sips and handed it to Mrs. Gong with a smile, "I don't have that eloquence, you can listen to it yourself later."

"It's so mysterious, what's the matter? By the way," Mrs. Xiao asked with a curious smile, "That Qin Lihua has caused you a lot of trouble today, right? Does she know how to plant rice seedlings?"

"Forget it," said Duan Qigu who was next to her, shaking her shoulders and laughing twice, "to add to the chaos, not to mention that the seedlings she planted were not neat, and as soon as the water moved, they would float away to other places. Where is the transplanting, it is clearly floating Well!"

Everyone in the kitchen laughed.Sister-in-law Xiao asked excitedly again: "What happened later? Didn't she collapse from exhaustion?"

"I haven't waited until I'm tired and paralyzed," Gong said with a smile, "when she moved her legs, she almost fell into the seedling field. Fortunately, Haitang and Dongping reached out quickly and grabbed her, otherwise, she would have to roll away." Came back all covered in mud."

(End of this chapter)