Flowers are expensive

Chapter 35

Mrs. Cao suppressed her amusedness, and shouted at Lihua: "Scared by a goose? Where did the energy to crush the chicken last time go? Really! What are you doing jumping on that stone table? It collapsed and fell." I won’t pay if I die! Don’t run away with that goose, let Mrs. Xiao catch it and send it back to my mother!”

After Gao answered, she raised her loud voice and said, "Yeah, hurry up and catch me, Mrs. Xiao! Don't tell me that old goose pecked at that filthy thing, and turned around to be dirty." What about my goose?"

"Who is your wife scolding?" Huang Ying asked from the side.

Gao said coldly: "I'll scold whoever the goose pecks at!" Just as she finished speaking, Lihua suddenly yelled in her ear: "I'll fight you dead goose, you won't let me go! Immediately afterwards, she saw her big white goose was thrown into the sky, hit the beams and pillars under the eaves, and was bounced back to the ground, just hitting the edge of the rolling knife, crooked its neck, and died!

It turned out that Third Aunt Dong was rolling pigweed with a rolling knife in the yard just now, when she saw Mrs. Gao come in carrying a load of things, she knew there was something exciting to watch, so she hurried to the kitchen to find Aunt Duan and the others, so she forgot to close the handle of the knife .

"Oh!" Gao yelled, slapping his legs with pain in his heart, "my goose! I have raised geese for more than three months! They all weigh more than five catties! Ouch, my goose!"

Lihua was also dumbfounded, she really didn't mean it, she just got pecked anxiously, grabbed the neck of the goose and wanted to throw it aside.Unexpectedly, I used too much energy, and I used all my energy in throwing the shot put in the senior high school entrance examination.Holding her extremely innocent smiling face, she asked Hong Ling next to her, "Yes... I killed it?"

"Hahaha..." The women in Hongling suppressed their throats and started laughing.Cao was so angry that her mouth was twisted, and she pointed at Lihua and shouted: "Qin Lihua, this time you said you didn't do it on purpose? It's just a goose, is it worth shaking it so hard? Last time I wanted to eat chicken, this time Do you still want to eat goose? Next time, should you go to the pigsty with a machete to kill pigs?"

"Hahaha..." The women next to them covered their mouths and laughed again.

"Can you blame me?" Lihua blinked her innocent eyes and said, "How do I know where the knife is placed? If I was really that calculating, I would have gone to fight Srock, and I would have done hundreds of times alone. Woolen cloth!"

"You damn girl!" Gao rushed over and pointed at her and said, "You pay me a goose! You pay me a goose!"

"Hey, ma'am, is it okay to be reasonable?" Sitting cross-legged on the stone table, Lihua said with a breezy smile on her face, "I'm just defending myself. Who told it to catch me and peck me? Besides, you Didn’t you say it so beautifully just now? You used these things to thank the master of the village, and you would kill them anyway to eat them, so you die sooner or later, don’t you die the same?”

"You..." Gao was too angry to speak.

"Qin Lihua, I haven't said that I want to collect those things yet! You are in such a hurry to kill geese to eat, it's not you who pays, who pays?" Cao stared at Lihua and shouted.

"Oh, I understand. These things are just used for formalities, right? Okay, I killed the goose, and I just paid for it. Anyway, it's just me spending money to treat everyone to a meal of goose meat. But, trouble Housekeeper, please say hello in advance, yesterday it was your sister who came to make trouble, today it was your mother who made trouble, and tomorrow it will be the turn of your natal master to make trouble? Today I brought geese to peck people, should I bring dogs tomorrow? Biting someone? Shouldn't he kill someone with a knife and a gun the day after tomorrow? Then this village is very lively. In ten days and half a month, it will be demolished by the master, and the sign of Cao Mansion will be hung on the door !"

Mrs. Cao was about to refute, but Ma Liu yelled at her behind her back and said, "I'll pay for that goose and send your mother back! What else do you want to make trouble with?"

Mrs. Gao saw Ma Liuxun mentioning Mrs. Cao, turned around and yelled at Ma Liu: "What are you yelling at? How great is it to be the chief steward? Without the help of our plum branch, can you be a steward? Shouting that the mother-in-law is here? Think back to what your house was like back then, except for the walls with air leaks on all sides..." "Mother!" Mrs. Cao hurriedly beckoned Mrs. Xiao to pick up the two baskets and pulled the high Shi went out of the courtyard.Before going out, Gao cursed: "Ma Liu, no matter how proud you are, don't forget who paid for your father's funeral!"

Hearing these words, Ma Liu's face turned black instantly, and he walked to his room without saying a word.After he left, several women clapped their hands and laughed loudly.Gong said happily to Lihua: "You are really a lucky star! After you came, we have eaten meat a few times in the past half a month! Yesterday we ate fish, and today we ate goose. Oh, hey, I'm really afraid that we will eat meat. Your mouth has been tricked!"

Duan Qigu picked up the goose and ran over to pat it and said, "Lihua, today you have contributed the most. I cured the goose feather and dried it for you. I will keep it warm in winter by sewing a padded jacket or something!"

Lihua pointed at Third Aunt Dong and smiled, "My contribution is not the greatest, I have to thank Third Aunt! Without her knife open, the goose would not fall and die. Where are we going to eat goose meat? Goose feathers are left Give it to her."

"Then why are you so embarrassed?" Third Aunt Dong declined, "Why don't we be one and half?"

"It's all for you, half of it is only how much!"

"Then thank you!" Third Aunt Dong always liked to take advantage of small things, and seeing Lihua being so forthright, she didn't refuse.

When the women were laughing and laughing around the goose, Hai Tang, Man Ting and Liang Bai ran back.As soon as Haitang entered the door, he looked at them strangely and asked: "Didn't you say that my mother is here?" Gong said with a smile: "Brother Haitang, you are late, the third aunt has already gone back."

"Going back?" Haitang glanced at Hongling's face and asked, "Is there nothing wrong with her?" Hongling quickly looked away, and the smile on her face disappeared, and Haitang immediately realized that there must be something wrong Happened, went to the backyard.

Liang Bai's eyes suddenly fell on the goose in Duan Qigu's hand, and he asked with a smile: "Is this going to eat goose at noon? Oh, the food is getting better and better, who gave it away? Could it be Third Aunt Gao? She Not like that generous man."

Duan Qigu said with a smile: "Thanks to Lihua and Third Aunt, without them, this goose can only be watched and not eaten. There is nothing to do here, you go back to work, so as not to be talked about by others."

Man Ting glanced at Lihua, but Lihua quickly avoided his gaze, and slipped down the stone table with a smile to kill goose with Duan Qigu and the others.Man Ting didn't say anything, and called Liang Bai back to the field.

Besides, when Haitang arrived at the backyard and entered his own room, everything in front of him was really messed up.He understood immediately, and was too angry to say anything.Hong Ling then also walked in, and said in a flat tone, "You go to work in the field first, and I'll clean it up here."

Haitang turned to look at her and asked, "My mother must have scolded you with some nasty words, right?"

"What are you doing for mentioning those? If you don't scold me, I will scold you." Hong Ling squatted down and picked up a few cosmetic boxes on the ground and said, "Go back to the field quickly, lest others say you are lazy."

"I'm really sorry, Hongling." Haitang said apologetically.

"There's nothing wrong with you, you've been good enough to me." Hong Ling said with a forced smile.

Haitang helped Hongling pick up the quilt and said: "You will be wronged for a few more days, Manting and I have discussed it, and I will take you home to recognize your relatives on the day of the Spring Festival."

"Spring Festival?"

"There is a custom of offering sacrifices to the mountain god in the village all year round. On this day, the whole village, young and old, must go to worship the mountain god Zique to thank it for its blessings year after year." Hong Ling lowered her eyes sadly and said: "There is Is it necessary? Your family won't recognize me at all. For someone like me, it's my fault to turn your mother and son into trouble. Why don't you..."

"It's better than what? Do you want to say that it's better to let you go?"

"You knew already?"

"Manting told me that Lihua has been clamoring to leave, do you want to go with her too?"

"I……"

"I never said I wouldn't take you back home to meet relatives and offer tea, but I just wanted to pick a suitable time so that you wouldn't be so angry when you go back! Hongling, to be honest, do you really plan to go with Lihua? "Haitang looked at Hongling seriously and asked.

Hong Ling folded the quilt slowly, thought for a while and said: "I... I am planning to walk..."

"That can't be done!" Haitang stretched out his hand to hold Hong Ling's arm, and said with a gloomy expression, "If you want to leave, people will laugh at me for running away from my wife."

"Your mother appointed that she will marry you again. You are such a nice person, you won't have to worry about not being able to find a wife."

"I didn't agree either! Besides, I'm from this village, and it's up to my mother to decide whether to marry a daughter-in-law or not. If you don't leave, will you? If you don't leave, Lihua won't leave either, so Manting will not Sad, isn't it?"

Hong Ling looked up at Haitang, and asked curiously: "Will Xie Manting be sad when Lihua is gone? Why can't I see it?"

Haitang smiled and said, "You don't know much about him. I haven't heard him mention any girl's name since he came back to the village for two years. But Lihua, he mentioned it to me the most in the past two days. See It’s really embarrassing.”

"Back to the village? What does this mean?"

"Oh, it's quite miserable to say it. When I was five years old, I followed Grandma Yun into the mountains to look for fungi. I don't know why they got lost. At that time, the villagers searched the mountains and couldn't find them. Everyone guessed it was for the fungus. Zique Mountain God took it away and couldn't come back. But two years ago, he came back again."

"Find your way back by yourself?"

"Yeah, it's strange to say that he still remembers the way home. When Jin Ling'er found him, he was lying down by the Qingcong River in the south of Zique Mountain. Later, Jin Ling'er called the villagers He carried him back, and Mrs. Xie felt that he looked like her lost son at a glance, and she also found the wooden engraved sign she had brought with her when she was a child, and now she knew that Man Ting had found it by herself."

"But why is he in the village?"

"Man Ting and I, as well as Liang Bai, were sold to the village when they were young. When Man Ting came back, he is naturally still a boy in the village."

"No wonder Grandma Yun is so kind to Xie Manting."

"Is it okay? I was lost with her at the beginning. It is a great fortune to be able to come back now. Hongling, think about it carefully. If you and Lihua leave, what will Manting and I do?"

Hong Ling wanted to laugh but didn't, she lowered her head to straighten the bedding and said, "I'll think about it."

"You still have to persuade Lihua, why do you have to leave? Did Manting treat her badly?"

"Well, I'll tell her, you should go back to work in the field."

Only then did Haitang leave the room in peace.When he walked to the front yard, he happened to see Mrs. Cao walking back with a gloomy face.Mrs. Cao glanced at him and said, "There's no point in running back now!" He asked, "Where's mother? Have you gone back? She made my house look like a chicken coop. What the hell is she going to do?"

"How do I know, you can ask her yourself!" After leaving this sentence, Cao went to her room angrily.As soon as she entered the door with her front foot, Ma Liu slapped her on the face, making her dizzy, staggered a few steps, leaned against the wall and slid down.

With a bang, Ma Liu closed the door and bolted it.Cao finally regained her composure, stood up with her aching face in her hands, glared at Ma Liu and asked, "Are you trying to beat your daughter-in-law?"

With a dark face, Ma Liu said with a sneer: "Where did I hit you? I thank you, thank you Cao's family for paying for my father's burial! It has been so long, I have forgotten it myself, but Your mother remembers it clearly! Don't I have to thank you Cao family?"

(End of this chapter)