Chapter 30: Rehash
Chapter 30 Revisiting the past
Ye Jinkui twitched the corner of his mouth, "That's not true."
He scratched his face, "That girl from the Liu family, she was spoiled by her parents, when our mother Yuan called all over the village that the rebels were coming to arrest the strong men, she didn't know what was on her mind, she actually said that our Yuan Mother is talking nonsense. Her parents want to take her away, but she refuses to leave. It is said that there is a terrible disturbance, and all the neighbors of their family have seen it."
Li Shi: What is this called? no Zuo no Die?
"Forget it, let's not talk about this." Ye Jinkui shook his head, "It's getting late, let's eat."
Mrs. Li agreed, and took out all the vegetables, meat, fish, eggs, and flour that had been prepared a long time ago, and started cooking quickly.
After the late reunion dinner, Ye Jinkui did not take Mrs. Li and the children to stay up late to watch the New Year like in previous years. Everyone cleaned up briefly, and then went to find a place to rest.
The next morning, Ye Jinkui and Ye Song pushed the cart to deliver food to the people they had made friends with in the village, while Ye Anlan accompanied Mrs. Li to Su's house to visit Mrs. Su.
Mrs. Su was originally a hale and hearty little old lady who loved to talk and laugh. She usually looks capable and neat, but after all, she is already very old. After two sons were taken away and one son broke his leg, she suffered a heavy blow. It was as if Mrs. Su had all her anger taken away overnight.
Her gray hair was a little messy, and her eyes, which were originally very energetic, became cloudy and dull at this time.
Ms. Li held her hand to comfort her, while Ye Anlan bypassed Su Xiaohe's aunts, and directly handed the things they brought to Su Xiaohe's mother.
Su Xiaohe's mother has been a widow for many years, and has never had much say in the family. In the past, she was protected by the old lady, and her life was passable. Now the old lady is lying on the kang and can't get up. Her sisters-in-law run against her Naturally, he was relentless.
Even though Ye Anlan was afraid of Ye Anlan, who had a bad reputation, Su Xiaohe's aunts still couldn't help but give Su Xiaohe's mother a few supercilious glances.
Su Xiaohe's mother pretended not to see hints from her sister-in-law's eyes. She lowered her head and put the things sent by Ye's family on the kang table one by one.
Things passed the old lady Su's eyes, and the sisters-in-law of the Su family naturally couldn't stretch out their hands to take advantage of the petty advantage. The women secretly hated, one hated the old and immortal mother-in-law for controlling the financial power, and the other hated the ignorant sisters-in-law who was only the mother-in-law. Follow the lead.
These few are not scheming. When meeting Ye Anlan, who subconsciously pays attention to the troubles around them every time he goes to a place, Ye Anlan can see all their small thoughts almost immediately.
Mother and daughter came out of Su's house and walked to the deserted grain drying field. Ye Anlan whispered to Li Shi, "Grandma Su may be in trouble."
Li Shi also noticed it, she sighed, "Your Aunt Su will have a hard time in the future."
Although she didn't notice the eyebrow-eye lawsuits of Su Xiaohe's aunts, she has lived in Xiaohezhuang for so many years, and she still understands the temperament of everyone in the Su family.
The boss of the Su family is a simple and honest person, but he has an obvious shortcoming, that is, he is particularly afraid of his wife. It was fine when Mrs. Su was in charge of the house. Once Mrs. Su passed away, Mrs. Su would definitely be determined by his wife.
Second Su and Third Su can restrain their own mother-in-law, but the problem is that they have already been captured by the rebels.
The mother and daughter were feeling emotional when Su Xiaohe ran after her out of breath.
She took Ye Anlan's hand, and asked Ye Anlan hesitantly and anxiously, "Yuan Niang, you, you know my cousin Luo, right? He, he told my aunt that you admire him, you..."
Ye Anlan:? ? ? What the hell?
Seeing Ye Anlan's astonished expression, Su Xiaohe immediately had a feeling of "it's true", she stomped her foot vigorously, "You didn't, did you? Oh, I knew it! My aunt just said to ask my mother to help you The family is a matchmaker, but luckily my grandma scolded her."
Ye Anlan: It's only been a quarter of an hour since they came out of the Su's house. The Su's house has already sung such a big show?
Mrs. Li was angry and confused, "I remember that your cousin named Luo has already passed the examination of scholar? He is a scholar, how could he casually ruin the reputation of my family's Yuan Niang? This is too much!"
Su Xiaohe nodded vigorously, "Isn't that right, my grandma scolded my cousin just now, saying that he read into the stomach of a dog."
Ye Anlan: Although she is not a pure ancient woman, and she doesn't care much about the so-called fame and reputation, she still has to say that the old lady Su who helps her husband and not her relatives is really awesome!
Because of Mrs. Su and Su Xiaohe's mother and daughter, Mrs. Li didn't call the door directly. She thanked Su Xiaohe, and then went back to the mountain with Ye Anlan, holding back her anger.
Ye Anlan explained a few words to the Li family, and then brought up the old matter again, suggesting that the Ye family move out of Xiaohezhuang.
She gave Li Shi and Ye Jinkui two choices, one is to hide in the nearby deep mountains and old forests to completely avoid the troubled times, and the other is to move to a place with better law and order and take shelter of a relatively strict force under the rule.
Ms. Li was a little bit reluctant to part with her friends in the village and the newly built house. She said to Ye Anlan: "The other places are probably not peaceful, either?"
"Most places are indeed not peaceful, but there must be a few places where we can live and work in peace and contentment." Ye Anlan patiently explained to Li, "Xiaohezhuang is too close to the town, and the mountains next to it can't be called steep. What if there is a riot? In a flash of his brain, he directly searched the mountains, and the villagers of Xiaohezhuang who used the method of going into the mountains to avoid Zheng Ding will all become chickens locked in cages by then?"
Without steep terrain and insufficient strength, how can they protect themselves? At that time, it will not be entirely up to others to decide how many they want to catch and kill.
Ye Jinkui also said: "Yuanniang is right. The location and terrain of Xiaohezhuang are really not that good. And there is another point, the people in Xiaohezhuang are not in harmony. The villagers can't be twisted into a single rope and unanimously. Refugees and bandits, we can't stop them from burning, killing and looting."
Lao Li is using his own food to quell the disaster in the village. Some villagers are still jealous and want to take advantage of it, let alone let them give up their self-interest and give something to the village.
With such a group of people jumping up and down, how could other villagers have no opinion? Everyone has a steelyard in their hearts, and no one wants to suffer for a long time. If this happens, the hearts of the people will be completely scattered.
Seeing that Mrs. Li was still hesitant, Ye Anlan silently dropped a depth charge, "By the way, I heard that Grandpa Lizheng plans to move out after the first lunar month."
Li Shi was taken aback, "Who did you hear that from?"
"Their Xiaohua." Xiaohua is Lao Li's youngest grandchild, a chubby little girl who just turned three years old.
"Alas" Mrs. Li sighed, "Then let's move too."
(end of this chapter)