Flowers are expensive

Chapter 31

Hong Ling's face turned yellowish white in an instant, and even her body shook a little.Lihua hurriedly helped her up and asked, "Are you okay? Don't get too angry, it's not worth it to be angry with yourself!" Hong Ling waved her hand and said, "It's okay, it's just a little cold."

Lihua said: "Then go and rest, don't go out, I will cook ginger soup for you in a while and send it to you. If the housekeeper wants to ask, I have something to answer her, you go."

Hong Ling left the kitchen with a pale complexion, and returned to her own room.When she was sitting alone in the room, remembering what Mrs. Gong said just now, she couldn't help covering her mouth and crying.At this time, Haitang suddenly opened the door and came in, she hurriedly turned her back to wipe her tears, but it was too late.

"What's wrong?" Haitang walked to her side and asked, "Are you still sad?"

"It's okay," she sobbed softly, wiping her tears and said, "Don't worry about it, it's okay."

"Is it because of Mei Xiang? She has that petty temper. My parents are used to it. Don't cry. I'll give her a good lesson later on."

"No need," Hong Ling lowered her head and said sadly, "Because of me, an outsider, you brothers and sisters are unhappy, so why bother? Anyway, after two years, I don't know whether I am dead or alive. .” She said and rolled two lines of sad tears.

"Where did this come from?" Haitang bent down and patted her on the back and asked, "Don't just cry, but say something! For Mei Xiang's matter, I must ask that girl to apologize to you , you are still her sister-in-law!"

"What kind of sister-in-law am I?" Hong Ling said with a self-deprecating smile, "In the eyes of others, the three of us are just dirty birds. The family's sister-in-law."

"Did someone tell you something? You are my wife, so of course you are Mei Xiang's sister-in-law." Haitang said hastily.

"I'm not worthy..." Hong Ling shook her head gently with tears in her eyes, "From the day I was sold to Mama Hu, I knew that everything was an extravagance... At that time, I really should have put a belt on it, but it's okay. clean."

"That's going too far," Haitang comforted Hongling softly with his arms around Hong Ling's shoulders, "If you really hanged yourself at that time, the two of us would never meet again, would you? Tell me what's going on!"

Just as she was talking, Lihua knocked on the door.She came in with a bowl of ginger soup, put it in front of Hongling, glanced at Haitang with dissatisfaction, and then went out the door.Unexpectedly, Haitang chased her out, stopped her and asked, "Lihua, what's wrong with Hongling?" , I didn't expect you to have such thoughts!" "What kind of thoughts? You should make it clearer."

"Then let me ask you, what kind of person is Hongling now? A lover? A daughter-in-law? A concubine? Or a sister who doesn't spend money?"

"How can you say that? I don't dislike Hong Ling as a sister..."

"But why didn't you take her back?" Lihua questioned, "Bullying the three of us is because foreigners don't understand the market, right? Yutong (Gong's real name) has told us just now, according to the rules of this village, you have already It's time to take Hong Ling home to recognize relatives and offer tea, only in this way, Hong Ling can be considered to have officially entered the door of your Cao family, am I right?"

When Haitang was about to answer, Huang Ying ran over from the side and asked Lihua: "Is what you said true? Is there such a rule?" Lihua nodded and said: "That's right! That is to say, the three of us are nothing now, at most we can be regarded as companions." These three men stayed for a few nights, and they didn't have to pay for it, it's even worse than before!" When she finished speaking, she suddenly saw Man Ting standing at the door of the room, and glanced at Man Ting coldly. With a glance at Ting, he turned and walked towards the front yard.

Huang Ying's voice came from behind: "How can this be? You are too bullying! What do you think we are? We are not as bullying as you are. Dead Liang Bai, where did he die?"

At lunch, there is still a table for men and a table for women.The meals were all on the table, but Cao Shi and Ma Liu hadn't come out yet.

Sister-in-law Xiao went there and came back and said, "We told us to eat first, so we don't have to wait for them." But no one dared to move their chopsticks, and it was always Cao Shi and Ma Liu who arrived to start the meal.

After a while, the two people hadn't come out yet, and everyone was a little impatient waiting.Lihua lost her patience long ago, picked up the chopsticks and picked up the fish in the basin.Sister-in-law Xiao hurriedly greeted her and said, "Hey, Lihua, Manager Ma and the housekeeper haven't come out yet!"

"What's the matter?" Lihua asked while holding the fish, "Want to be the second housekeeper like Cao Meixiang? I'll eat mine, what's wrong with you? Or, file a complaint now!"

Mrs. Xiao froze for a moment and said, "You have no rules..."

"I've always had no rules, why do I need so many rules?" Li Hua gave Sister-in-law Xiao a blank look, picked up a piece of fish and started to eat.Huang Ying was also angry at first, but when she saw Lihua move her mouth, she also picked up her chopsticks and said, "If you like to eat or not, you will cry to the King of Hades if you starve to death!"

Mrs. Xiao hurriedly said, "Hey, you two are really out of shape..."

"What are you in a hurry for?" Dongxiang at the table next to him said to Mrs. Xiao, "They know in their hearts whether there are rules or not! Their men are still sitting here, and they don't make a sound. Why are you meddling in so much business? I thought you really wanted to be the second housekeeper!" After he finished speaking, he glanced at Man Ting and Liang Bai, showing an extremely dissatisfied expression.

Liang Bai has always been cautious in his life, he also cares about face, and he is not willing to easily offend others.Seeing that Huang Ying had eaten without any rules, he turned around and yelled, "Put down the chopsticks! Do you hear me?" Huang Ying rolled her eyes, spat out a mouthful of thorns and said, "You don't want me to eat? Put it on the table. Don’t move your chopsticks to sacrifice to the Kitchen God? Really!”

"You still don't listen to what I said? Look at you, as if you haven't eaten meat in eight lifetimes. Are you ashamed? Put down your chopsticks!"

"Where am I ashamed?" Huang Ying rushed up angrily, and shouted at Liang Bai, "Is it ashamed to eat fish? Then let the couple eat up first, and save the fish bones for us to eat later? "

"You still dare to talk back to me?" Liang Bai's face turned red instantly, he never thought that Huang Ying would yell at him in front of so many people, why would he be ashamed?He got up abruptly, walked to Huang Ying's side, grabbed the chopsticks and threw them on the ground and said, "Didn't you hear me when I told you not to eat it? Did you get used to your young lady's temper? Dare to yell at your own man?"

"Yo, whose own man are you?" Lihua took a piece of kimchi and chewed it in her mouth a few times and said, "Is Huang Ying married by your matchmaker? You have the nerve to recognize her own man!"

"Hey, I mean Qin Lihua, I'm not Huang Ying's man, are you?" Liang Bai asked angrily.

"What kind of Huang Ying man are you?" Lihua took a break from her chopsticks and sneered, "Have you ever paid homage? Have you ever returned to the door? Have you brought them back to recognize your relatives? It seems that the rule here is that you have to bring them back to your in-law's family to recognize your relatives before your in-law's family will recognize you." Now, which one have you done?"

"Isn't that because of the busy farming season?" Liang Bai hurriedly argued.

"Forget it, I didn't intend to admit it at all, so why bother to put on such an air? I know, the three of us are all foreigners. When we come here and don't know the place, you bully us hard. Anyway, we say that every day should not , The land is not working well, one day people tied stones and sank the pond, I am afraid there is not even a grave. Don’t you always say that there will be retribution if you do too many immoral things? Try it, and see if you die. I won’t go into the frying pan!”

Liang Bai couldn't argue with Lihua, so he turned his head and said to Man Ting: "Look at your wife, you don't care about it!"

"Forgot again, didn't you?" Lihua said while getting up to scoop the fish, "What kind of wife am I? If you don't recognize it, is it possible that we still beg you to recognize it? You think highly of yourself too!" She finished speaking With these words, he swaggered out of the hall holding two bowls of fish.

It so happened that Mrs. Cao and Ma Liu finally arrived slowly.Seeing Lihua carrying two bowls of fish, Mrs. Cao hurriedly stopped her and asked, "Where are you taking it? You don't eat alone like this?"

Lihua turned her head and said, "I'll take it aside, so as not to mess with you innocent people and clean people and dirty you."

"Hey, you girl..." Before Cao's words were finished, Huang Ying also came out with a bowl of fish, and went to the backyard with Li Hua.

The two brought the fish to Hongling's house.Hong Ling is still sad, she has always been like this, sentimental.Lihua handed her the chopsticks and said, "No matter how sad you are, you have to eat something. If you are starving yourself, Mr. Ghost loves you! Hurry up and eat, the fish made by Yutong is very good!" Hong Ling took the chopsticks Sighing, "Ewha, do you have any plans?"

Huang Ying took the words and said: "If you ask her, she will say run away at most!"

Lihua said: "Don't run away, stay here until someone tramples to death, and then throw it in the pit, don't you even have a pile of graves? Even if you don't die, when you have a child later, they will only recognize the child and not the mother, so they will hug it forcibly." Go raise them, and separate the mother and child, what else can you do except lie on the ground and howl? By then, death will be the same as death! Why didn’t those three men take us back to recognize our relatives? Don’t you also have scruples in your heart? Is it? You never regarded us as your own daughter-in-law from the beginning to the end, and if you can delay it for a day!"

"Isn't it?" Huang Ying complained dissatisfiedly, "I asked that damn Liang Bai just now, and all he knew was that he didn't have time during the busy farming season, so we'll talk about it later! It's really perfunctory!"

"Didn't you listen to Qigu and the others? This time the rules of the in-laws' family to recognize relatives and take care of them were set by the grandfather, and Grandma Yun also followed the rules when she was young. When it comes to us, the rules have changed. They don't care at all. I didn't consider the three of us as my own family. Anyway, I was planning to leave, you two should weigh it yourself!" Lihua said.

"Are you going to escape again?" Huang Ying asked, "Where can you escape? The two with us can't even find a body now!" "Maybe they have already escaped, so we hang here I'm going to die!" Lihua said resolutely, "I'm going to leave anyway, and Xie Manting also said that he will let me go. You can figure it out yourself! Is there a way to survive if you stay here?"

Hong Ling bit the tip of her chopsticks and pondered for a moment, then said: "Lihua is right, we have no way out if we stay here. Huang Ying, think about it, if you really have a child, you will be separated from the child, and someone else will take care of it for you." , That was the beginning of heartbreak. If the in-laws are more ruthless and marry another one, what will we be then? Not even a concubine." "Do you also want to escape with Lihua?" Huang Ying looked at her with lingering fear. Lihua said, "This girl has never been successful in escaping. Do you still count on her?" Well, anyway, we are nothing more than worn-out shoes in their eyes. Wash them and put them on the window sill to dry. If you don’t put your feet on them, you can get by for a while. When the shoes become more worn out, they will throw them away. At that time, people are old and poor, and they may have to drag one or two children, can they still leave? It is better to make a plan now, leave here with one heart, and find another way to survive. In the past, Lihua wanted to escape alone, but now I want to too. Let’s go, as the saying goes, Zhuge Liang is better than three cobblers, and he can always think of a way.”

Huang Ying nodded and said: "You have said that, can I just stay? I also want to leave here, so I don't have to look at Cao Meizhi's face every day! However, Wang Guanshi seems to have told Ma Liu that within two years We are not allowed to leave. If we want to leave, we have to go without anyone noticing."

(End of this chapter)