Flowers are expensive

Chapter 52

When Lihua got up and walked to the door, she saw Aunt Xie stuffing a package of things to Matchmaker Wu.The matchmaker Wu pretended to decline, and after a few words of humility, she accepted the things.

Lihua felt that this was too coincidental. According to what Mo Xiang said just now, the family was already some distance away from Zique Village. As soon as she entered Xie's house, she entrusted a matchmaker to push for the marriage. Was it too fast?She turned her mind and suddenly thought of something, she ran downstairs and stopped Man Xiang who was about to go out, and whispered a few words.Man Xiang nodded, glanced at Matchmaker Wu, and went out.

Aunt Xie and Matchmaker Wu chatted kindly at the entrance of the hall, and then sent her out.When Matchmaker Wu passed by Lihua, she cast a disdainful look, and left in a hurry without even saying hello.

Li Hua was about to go back to the attic, when Aunt Xie stopped her suddenly, she turned around and asked, "Mother, what's the matter?"

Aunt Xie looked at her with a cold expression as always and said: "Listen, I will make a rule for you now. You are not allowed to go out of this courtyard without my permission in the future. You love to do housework Don't do it, just stay in the attic for me anyway. Do you understand?" Lihua thought to herself, is your old man going to lock me up?She asked, "Mom, why don't you let me go out?"

"Do you still dare to let you go out? The face of our Xie family... that's all," Mrs. Xie waved her hand impatiently, "You can just stay at home for two months according to my rules. I will take care of it when you return to the village. Not for you. But stay at Xie's house, you have to listen to me!"

"Is it because of Moxiang being pushed for marriage?" Lihua asked.

"Hey!" Aunt Xie rolled her eyes and said with her hands on her hips, "You still have the nerve to mention this? I didn't intend to argue with you. Now that you know why Mo Xiang was pushed for marriage, you should be honest Stay at home, don't go out to show off, do you hear me? There is another rumor in the village, how can Moxiang get married?" "If you don't let me go out for two months, do I have to stay in the attic For two months?"

"I can't tell you're quite talkative! I'm your mother-in-law, and if I tell you to stay, you have to stay. Even if you don't go out for two months, you still have to stay, and you won't be suffocated to death. What are you talking about!"

"What's the difference between that and being in prison? I'm not shameful?" Li Hua insisted again, what's the difference between this and imprisoning personal freedom. "You..." Aunt Xie rolled her eyes in anger, and Jin Ling'er next to her couldn't bear her temper, she came over and said rudely to Lihua: "How dare you not listen to what mother said? You made Moxiang even have a marriage No more, are you embarrassed to argue with your mother here? With you in this house, who would dare to come to Mo Xiang to say kiss in the future, and Man Xiang is the same, it may not be easy to tell him a daughter-in-law!" After she finished speaking, she supported her. Mrs. Xie rubbed her heart for Mrs. Xie, and said with a distressed face: "Mother, don't be too angry. I'll go back and talk to my mother, and ask around. Moxiang's marriage will definitely be settled."

"You still feel sorry for me! What happened to Jin Xiu last time probably offended your mother, so why would you have the nerve to ask her for help?"

"Mo Xiang is my niece, can I not help? You go in and drink some water, and rest your breath." Jin Ling'er smiled flatteringly.

Aunt Xie looked at Li Hua with a gloomy face and said, "What are you doing here? Why don't you go back to your attic? The family treats you like a Bodhisattva and doesn't let you work. You just eat and drink. Sarah, are you sorry enough? Hurry up, don't hang around in front of me, I'm upset!"

Jin Ling'er gave Lihua a cold face and echoed, "If I were you, I would hide in the attic and not come out, so as not to be annoying and scolded by others!" Lihua was not angry, because her previous experience working in a foreign company told her She, not everyone is qualified to make herself angry.She looked at the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law with great interest, what a pair of treasures!Talking and singing together, I didn't know that I thought it was a mother and daughter!

Aunt Xie saw that she hadn't moved, and was about to scold her again, when she spoke and asked, "Mother, please answer a question."

"What else do you have a problem with?"

"For Moxiang or Manxiang, or for this family, I have always been called a sister, is that okay?" Aunt Xie burst out angrily: "Nonsense!" Jin Ling'er interjected: "You were originally a sister..."

"Have you tried it?" Lihua shook her eyebrows provocatively

"I..." Jin Ling'er was speechless.

"Do you want to say that everyone in the village said that? Then let me tell you, the people in the village also told me that you like Manting. Is it true?"

Jin Ling'er's face turned red in an instant, she was extremely embarrassed.Aunt Xie yelled angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about?" Lihua clapped her hands and said with a smile: "Look, mother, you are so wise, you can tell it's nonsense as soon as you hear it. I think so too, I don't believe that the third sister-in-law will You did such an unethical thing, so you never paid attention to it, and you never troubled Mrs. San, did you?"

Aunt Xie did not refute this point, after all, Lihua had never mentioned or made a fuss before this.But Jin Ling'er was so angry that she clenched her fists tightly.

Lihua continued: "The rumors in the village are the same as the rumors in the village. They are all boring people. It's okay. You can add another sentence, and the toad can be said to be Pixiu. The difference is that whoever is unlucky is just said. Mother, you despise me, I have nothing to say, but I know very well that I am not a sister, and the whole court also knows. Now I have officially entered the door, and we are a family behind closed doors. If you slander each other, is this still a family? If you want others not to misunderstand you, if you want Moxiang or Manxiang’s marriage to not be hindered, once and for all, the only way is to tell those people outside that I am not a sister!"

Jin Ling'er immediately snorted and said, "Are you really good at calling people? You are obviously a sister, but you still want us to whitewash you. What kind of blessing are you enjoying?" Be an outsider. If my net worth is said to be innocent, it will be of great benefit to the Xie family. Please consider this point yourself. You can choose to hate me, or even drive me away, but I and I The whole court will not be separated."

"You dare to threaten mother with brother Man Ting? Do you take mother seriously?" Jin Ling'er continued to fan the flames.

"Brother Man Ting?" Li Hua sneered and asked, "Sister-in-law, shouldn't this address be changed the day you married into Xie's family?"

"I... I'm used to screaming, and I can't change it for a while!"

"Oh," Lihua nodded with a mocking smile, "I see, you haven't changed your mind after marrying into Xie's family for a few months? Sister-in-law, don't worry, I have no other intentions. Talking nonsense, it’s not good for my sister-in-law. Come on, you are slowly getting angry with me here, scold me, anyway, for me, if I didn’t hear it, it didn’t happen, and if I heard it, I didn’t hear it.”

"You...you are so thick-skinned!" Jin Ling'er tried her best to scold Li Hua, but she was so anxious that she could only spit out these few words.

Lihua smiled indifferently, and when she was about to turn around and go upstairs, Man Xiang suddenly ran back.He said to Lihua: "Sister-in-law, I followed Wu Matchmaker as you said, and I saw her enter the third aunt's house. Aunt Ding went with her!"

"What is she doing there?" Lihua didn't say anything, but Mrs. Xie was surprised.

"I don't know, I just watched her and Aunt Ding go to the third aunt's place anyway."

"Why is this bitch coaxing me? I asked her where she was going when she left the house. She said she was going to her niece's house. Why did she go to the third aunt's house?"

Lihua turned around and said with a smile: "Mother, don't you know? Don't you think about how far away the family I was talking to Moxiang was from here. The news that I officially entered Xie's house will take a long time to spread." How about going over there? But why did Matchmaker Wu come here so quickly? Think again, who in this village doesn't want me to enter Xie's house the most, isn't it the family of Aunt Gao San and Aunt Ding's family? Xie's family recognized me, and they were sure Uncomfortable. Maybe Matchmaker Wu took advantage of them and tried to be a good person on both sides. She will lie to the man later, and this marriage will not be possible."

Aunt Xie was silent, secretly thinking about what Li Hua had said.Zhenshi suddenly rushed out of the room and asked Lihua, "Is what you said true?"

"My guess."

"I said, how do you know these things?" Jin Ling'er said unconvinced, "Maybe she just went to sit at the third aunt's house!"

"How do you know? Didn't you also guess? I heard from Mo Xiang that it takes a day to go back and forth between the two places. How long have I only been in Xie's house? You can't count, so you can break your fingers."

Jin Ling'er was immediately speechless from anger.At this time, Mrs. Guan came out of her room slowly, leaning on a walking stick, she came down the steps and said, "Daughter-in-law Xie Wu, what Li Hua said is quite right. Today is a good day, you should wipe her name off." Once it’s wiped off, we can’t let those people outside talk nonsense anymore.” “Mother, how do you wipe it off? It’s all from the folks in the village, so it’s hard to say!”

"Fellows from the village? Senior Aunt Gao and the others have ever cared about our Xie family for doing such immoral things that break people's marriages? They just want to be happy in their own hearts! If you don't go, I'll go, anyway, I'll make an old face, it's the same wherever I leave it. As long as those people outside can calm down, it's fine for me to be scolded a few times."

Guan said with a bold face on purpose. "Don't, don't, mother," Aunt Xie hurriedly stopped Guan Shi, "Where can I let you go? People in the village will scold me and Xie Wu for being unfilial."

"Then do you want to go? I won't force you, so you don't have to blame me later. Think about it for yourself. If Lihua's reputation improves, don't you also look more decent? You are always scolded by people for being a sister-in-law mother-in-law." , would you like to? What's the use of venting your anger on Lihua? I'm still saying the same thing, and it's Cao Meizhi's broken mouth that started it. But look, she's just sitting leisurely in the village as if nothing happened. Do you feel convinced that we have to suffer this crime? That's all, her mother will step on us again, who can bear it?"

Aunt Xie began to hesitate, and lowered her head to think.Seeing this, Jin Ling'er panicked for a while, if Qin Lihua was really vindicated, wouldn't she live in Xie's house more blatantly in the future?She quickly shook her head at Mrs. Xie and said, "Mother, it's not worth it! There's no point in offending the whole village because of Qin Lihua, a sister of her! Who in the village doesn't know..."

"Shut up!" Guan Shi suddenly tapped the stone slab on the ground with his crutches and shouted, "Irregular things! The two elders are talking, why do you interrupt? You change your address first!" Jin Ling Embarrassed, she opened her mouth to scold Guan, but she still didn't have the guts.Mrs. Guan asked Mrs. Xie again: "You have to think about who sold Man Ting to the manor? If Man Ting was not in the manor, would there be such a thing as being married to a servant? Touch your conscience, is Man Ting okay? It's easy to go home and marry the daughter-in-law you like, can't you treat him better?"

"Mother, go!" Zhen Shi was encouraged, wiped off her sleeves, and said in the posture of a hen fighting, "Arguing hard once, if you can't quarrel, you can even fight! Call the villager Everyone knows that the fourth siblings are not sisters, and we, the Xie family, will be able to hold our heads up here in the future! Only Mo Xiang's marriage can be settled!"

Zhuang's is very lively, he likes to watch, but he doesn't like to do it himself.How could she not encourage two or three words about something like this today!She said with a look of righteous indignation: "Sister-in-law is right! The two mothers and daughters of the Cao family have finished talking, and our family has been blamed. How wicked! Mom, let's go together, we must clear up the matter between Moxiang and the fourth sibling!"

(End of this chapter)