Flowers are expensive

Chapter 93
Mrs. Xiao stood at the door of the kitchen and shouted at her: "Where are you doing? Hurry up and help!" Huang Ying gave Mrs. Xiao a blank look, and replied without moving: "It's not just my hands here, don't you Will you call someone else? I just came back from the orchard and I'm exhausted!"

"You're the only one working alone? Are you so tired after picking fruit in the orchard? What else can you do!" Sister Xiao looked at Huang Ying with a look of disgust and said, "Hurry up, we're all waiting. Eating! The housekeeper said, you have to help in the kitchen this month, hurry up, don't make the housekeeper angry, you will scold me later!"

"Why do I have to go to the kitchen to help after finishing the work by myself? Are I the only hands left in the village?" Huang Ying groaned.Her complexion is really not very good, she must be tired.

The others didn't speak, just resting on their own.As soon as the slightly upright men in Maliu left, there were only those Dongxiang people who had made trouble. Who would help Huang Ying?Waiting to see the joke is almost the same!
Sister-in-law Xiao waited angrily for Huang Ying to shout, "Why are you making trouble with me with these words? If you have the ability to quarrel with the housekeeper! I just scolded you yesterday and punished you to work in the orchard, you don't know How about fun? Do you have to let the housekeeper talk by your ear every day? You don’t feel sorry for the housekeeper’s anger and hurt your body, but I still feel bad for you!”

Huang Ying lay on the stone table and took a deep breath, drooping a pair of black eyelashes, looking extremely disappointed.The corners of her mouth slightly bent down seemed to hold back something, and after a while, she moved her body reluctantly.Lihua was a little surprised, if she had to follow her previous temperament, she might have quarreled with Mrs. Xiao long ago.It seems that she is really having a hard time these days.

Seeing this, Mrs. Xiao put her hips on her hips and said proudly: "I don't need to spend so much spit on moving earlier. I really can't make it up with myself. I have never seen such a short-headed girl like you! Are your feet filled with lead? If you don’t go, hurry up, we’re all waiting for dinner!”

"You don't have a head!" Huang Ying couldn't hold back her anger after all, and replied to Sister-in-law Xiao.

At this time, Dongxiang, who had been sitting under the eaves patting the mud on the soles of his shoes, suddenly raised his head, pointed at Huang Ying with the shoe in his hand, and asked viciously, "Who are you calling for not having a head? Your broken shoes are not as good as the ones on my feet." You are clean, yet you dare to spew shit out of your mouth! I’m asking you something, who are you scolding? Make it clear!”

Huang Ying's shoulders trembled slightly, as if she was frightened by Dongxiang's fierce face.She looked at Dongxiang with some fear, for fear that Dongxiang would really jump up and hit her.

"I want to ask you something! Are you dumb and can't speak anymore?" Dongxiang patted his shoes on the steps twice, as if he was threatening Huang Ying, with the expression of Ma Liu gone, I am the uncle.

"I..." Huang Ying held back her anger, and replied softly, "I didn't scold anyone..."

"Then who do you think doesn't have a head?" Dongxiang still refused to let Huang Ying go, and asked stubbornly, "Are you talking about my wife? Or about yourself?" He said with a fierce light in his eyes, as if I am warning Huang Ying, if you say the wrong thing, you will bear the consequences!
Huang Ying was so angry that her lips trembled, her eyes were clouded with mist, and she was about to cry; the anger in her chest rushed to her throat in an instant, and she wanted to turn it into a curse word and rush out of her teeth, but she desperately endured it. down.She knew that if she scolded Dongxiang, even if Dongxiang beat her, the Cao family and other people in the village would do nothing but talk about Dongxiang in words. In the end, she was the one with the bruised nose and swollen face.The experience of just a few days seemed to make her understand a lot of truths that she didn't want to understand before she died.

"Say it!" Dongxiang put on his shoes and stood up, walking towards Huang Ying.Huang Ying hurriedly backed away in fright, but tripped over the stone bench, screamed, and fell backwards.The laughter of those troublemakers in Dongxiang suddenly sounded in the yard.Dongxiang looked at her in a state of embarrassment rubbing the back of her head, and laughed loudly: "Look, who doesn't have a head? It's really stupid!"

Huang Ying's aggrieved tears still welled up, like a doll who had been wronged all the time, and cried while clutching the back of her head that hurt from the fall.Mrs. Xiao was puzzled and yelled at her, "How old is a girl, she cries when she falls. How many times have I called you? If you don't come to the kitchen to help, I'll go tell the housekeeper!"

Lihua stood behind the gate of the second courtyard and looked at these people coldly.They watched Huang Ying's joke, but didn't notice her.She didn't rush out to help Huang Ying just now, she wanted to see if Huang Ying was worth helping.

Among the five girls from Bianjing, she has the best relationship with Hongling, so whenever something happens to Hongling, she will definitely bring a kitchen knife and call her family, Daxia Xie, to help Hongling.As for Huang Ying, she never took it to heart, and didn't like Huang Ying's selfish, conceited and bitter-speaking character.She used to persuade Huang Ying to restrain herself, but Huang Ying always had an expression that I would cry if I live up to the world, and she didn't care about it afterwards.

Today, Aunt Zhang was very angry when she heard Liang Bai bullying Huang Ying.Anyway, she, Hong Ling and Huang Ying are all foreigners who came here from thousands of miles away. After all, she couldn't bear to be bullied like this, so she said those threatening words to Cao Shi.Seeing Huang Ying's reaction now, she really felt that Huang Ying had changed a lot, not so frivolous and arrogant, and more forbearing.

When Mrs. Xiao yelled dissatisfiedly at Huang Ying again, Li Hua walked out, helped Huang Ying up from the ground in front of everyone, and asked, "Does it hurt from the fall? Do you feel sick? Is it okay to fall on the back of your head?" It's not a joke, if a blood clot accumulates in the head, even a god can't save it!" She winked at Huang Ying when she said this.

After all, Huang Ying had been with her for so long, so she immediately understood, covered her head and pretended to be in pain, and said, "It hurts! It really hurts! Also... I want to vomit too, I really want to vomit!"

"Then don't move around, I'll help you go back to the house and rest!" Li Hua really helped Huang Ying to walk to the gate of the second courtyard.Mrs. Xiao stopped Lihua, and asked dissatisfiedly: "Hey, Lihua, you haven't gone back to Xie's house yet? Is it possible that you still want to stay at the village for dinner?"

Lihua stopped in her tracks, glanced coldly at Mrs. Xiao, and said, "Even if I really want to stay for dinner, have I eaten half a grain of rice and half a vegetable from you? What I eat is from the master, why are you so anxious? Watch every day Looking at the kitchen, do you really think you are the Stove Princess?"

"Concubine Zhao?" Sister-in-law Xiao asked blankly.

"Isn't Stove Prince's daughter-in-law Princess Stove?" Lihua sneered.

"Hahaha..." Duan Qigu and the others beside them couldn't help shaking their laughter. They still felt that it was good for Lihua to be around, and it would be fun if Lihua was around.

"Qin Lihua, you scolded people as soon as you came back!"

"Hey, this is a big injustice. You are not happy to praise you as a princess? Ask everyone, do I call you a scolding? Is there anyone who scolds a princess?" Li Hua asked with a smile.

Mrs. Xiao couldn't answer for a while, Dongxiang next to her started to help, and said impatiently to Lihua: "You have gone back to live in Xie's house, what are you doing here to mess with? Huang Ying is still waiting for help in the kitchen, you mess with her Let's go, who will help my wife?"

"You just praised Concubine Stove just now, and now your son, Lord Stove, has come out to speak for his wife? You're not waiting for the gods, what are you doing in such a hurry?" Li Hua asked with a slight smile.

"Hahaha..." Duan Qigu and the others laughed again.

Dongxiang's complexion darkened, and he said with a little anger: "Qin Lihua, I know you can talk fast, and you don't use dirty words when you swear, but don't be too complacent, now that Xie Manting is not in the village, who will tell you? Back it up? It’s fine if you offend me, I can spare you for a while because of Xie Manting’s face, but if you provoke others outside, it’s your own business to get beaten up!”

"Forgive me? Don't," Lihua said provocatively to Dongxiang with a smile on her face, "There's no need to spare me for Xie Manting's face, Brother Dongxiang, if you have the ability, why don't you just hit me twice?"

Dongxiang was stunned for a moment, clenched his fists tightly, thinking that this damn girl really dare to say such a thing?
"Brother Dongxiang," Pear Blossom called politely, "You don't know how to read, but you know the four words "Settlement after Autumn", right? If you still don't know, go back and ask what your son who has been studying for two days is. Meaning. To tell you the truth, I am not afraid of you beating me, I am only afraid that you cannot bear those four words!"

The threat between words is self-evident, no matter how stupid Dongxiang is, he can hear it.His eyes were blazing, and he clenched his fists tightly, but he didn't dare to go up to beat Lihua, unless someone told him that Xie Manting would never come back.

Lihua looked at him and smiled contemptuously, took Huang Ying's arm and said to him: "Brother Dongxiang, it's easy to say it, but it's harder to take it back than eating Coptis chinensis! We two sisters are standing here now, look at you Can you beat me or not?" When she said this, the implication was already clear: she would take care of Huang Ying's affairs.

When Huang Ying was held by her like this, her heart, which had been cold for several days, suddenly felt warm.She looked at Lihua blankly and moved, never thought that Lihua could still treat her as a sister.Thinking about how I always satirized Lihua in the past, and Lihua didn't have the same knowledge as her, I felt very guilty.

Dongxiang was stumped by Lihua's words, and was so angry that he couldn't utter a word.Lihua laughed again and said: "If you really beat us two, even if our family doesn't seek you to settle accounts, I'm afraid Ma Liu will have trouble with you. As soon as Ma Liu leaves, chickens and dogs will fly to the sky to live? What are you? Don't take his steward as the steward! Doesn't that correspond to that sentence? The emperor has gone and ascended the throne!"

"Dead woman, who are you calling a dog?" Dong Xiang threatened, shaking his fist two steps forward.

Sister-in-law Xiao watched anxiously from the side, for fear that her man would leave Lihua when she got excited, and turn around to settle accounts with them all over the court!She hastily said loudly: "All right, all right, Qin Lihua, you have a man who can beat you, that's amazing! I'll go find the housekeeper right now, I still don't believe that there is no law in this village!" She was about to Go find Mrs. Cao, Mrs. Cao has already come out.

Sister-in-law Xiao hurriedly complained: "Housekeeper, come and have a look, it's amazing! In the future, the farmer simply changed his surname to Xie, forget it! If there is a man who can hit, he will cause trouble everywhere, and after bullying this one, he will bully that one! Ouch, hello! , I can’t afford to offend this aunt! I still feel that my life is too short, and I go to Haizi Temple every day to ask the Bodhisattva to bless and reward me with two more years of life. I don’t want to spend my life just to make a meal! That’s all , from now on, I’ll be exhausted in the kitchen and finish it all by myself, it’s better than nothing!”

Mrs. Cao glanced at Lihua and Huang Ying, and when she was about to speak, Grandma Yun who was sitting at the door of the kitchen spoke.She looked at Mrs. Xiao with dissatisfaction and asked, "Hey, Mrs. Xiao, what do you mean by that? After all, you are the only one doing all the exhausting work in the kitchen? Is my old woman not considered a human being? Hey! Do you think I'm a ghost? What if I'm dead? I'm half buried in the soil, wandering around in front of you all day long, turned into a ghost?"

It was only then that Mrs. Xiao realized that she was so eager to file a complaint that she forgot that Grandma Yun was still helping in the kitchen.She hurriedly smiled at Grandma Yun: "Your words are serious, how dare I treat you as a ghost? Ma Liu has already said that you will live a long life! I was too angry just now and said the wrong thing Already!"

Grandma Yun rolled her eyes at Sister-in-law Xiao and said, "I really don't know where your anger came from? Was it directed at Lihua, or at me, a damn old woman? Do you think I'm in your way in the kitchen?" Is it? You can just say it straight, let Ma Liu drive me out of Zhuangzi later, I can still move my old bones, I won’t starve to death!"

"It doesn't mean that, it doesn't mean that," Mrs. Xiao flustered, and quickly waved her hands, "Where did I say you were in my way? The kitchen is not my own, so I have nothing to say to anyone!"

(End of this chapter)