Chapter 231: Reborn in the 90s: The Tyrant Flower Chapter 232 Eat at Ease

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Protagonist:

Chai Mi

"My mom's setting the table getting ready to eat..." Chai Mi said indifferently.

Su Jin got angry the moment she heard it: "Your mom too, just like your dad... what time is it already, and they can still eat? Your dad's going to be stuck behind bars and unable to get out, what are we going to do?"

Chai Mi smiled and let the three enter the house first: "Big Aunt, look at you, day after day. I'll add another dish for you, there's plenty of leftover San Jian baipian from yesterday, I'll fix you a few bowls. There's dried tofu too, if we don't eat it half a day it'll spoil... Oh right, pork hock, there's still pork hock, all fatty meat..."

Chai Mi knew Big Aunt and Cousin Liu San's eating habits. The two of them were biological mother and son, they specifically ate fatty meat, and they ate it bowl by bowl.

Chai Mi wasn't quite the same; seeing that greasy fat, she had no appetite at all.

But when Big Aunt ate fat, it was like eating dry flour — she barely chewed before swallowing it down.

This, Chai Mi admired.

Of course, Su Jin's body had also fattened up; visibly fatter these two years, and it had a lot to do with her usual habit of eating fatty meat.

In her previous life, Su Jin also got diabetes and cerebral infarction from eating too much fatty, greasy meat.

Especially the cerebral infarction, it recurred many times, but she ultimately never quit meat.

In the end, it was because of this that she passed away.

Though at the time Su Jin was already seventy-four or five; though her age wasn't especially old, for the countryside this age was already quite good.

"Chai Mi, you're really carefree... can't be bothered to lecture you." Su Jin sighed and went into the house.

Su Wan also carried the child into the east room; after a few pleasantries, Su Jin started complaining: "I heard... your old family home was in an uproar this morning, I heard people say: they beat each other until human brains turned into dog brains. The onlookers were just repeating what others said, I don't know the specifics, later I asked and they gave confused answers, but they said: Chai Youqing went in too... the moment I heard that, I came over."

(Human brains beaten into dog brains describes a very fierce fight; of course it's a derogatory term.)

"And look at you, acting like nothing happened..." Su Jin wasn't too reassured; though she had supported Chai Mi making Su Wan divorce Chai Youqing and return to her natal home back then, that was a separate matter. "If he gets sentenced to ten or eight years, how are you mother and daughters going to live..."

In Su Jin's eyes, someone who went in would forever carry a stain on their life.

Whoever mentions at a meeting: so-and-so did time behind bars... instantly seizes the moral high ground and launches moral attacks on those who once made mistakes.

Su Jin didn't want her own younger sister to end up in that same plight.

Su Wan looked at Chai Mi with an innocent face, then said somewhat resentfully: "Me... what I say doesn't count. Chai Mi said it seems... there's nothing much..."

"Big Aunt, sit on the kang, I'll go bring the dishes right away. Cousin, do you want a drink..." Chai Mi asked.

Liu San also looked bewildered, not knowing whether he should drink; after all, he also felt that with this kind of incident at Chai Mi's house, they shouldn't be drinking.

"Look at you all, what's the big deal. I was right there at the time, so many people, my dad did hit someone, but it was just a bit of hitting and tearing, no big deal. You don't need to overthink it... he's got nothing to do with it."

"Still talking nonsense, if it's nothing then how did he get locked up..." Su Jin said dissatisfied.

In Su Jin's eyes, two families in the countryside not getting along and brawling was common, and she'd never seen anyone get locked up for it.

Not to mention farther back, just the other day Song Qiuping beat her mother-in-law Wang Huirong, wasn't that also nothing happened?

Since he got locked up, it's definitely a fairly big matter.

Su Jin didn't know the specifics, so she arbitrarily concluded this time the matter was especially big.

"Just bad luck." Chai Mi smiled and started setting the table.

Then she and Chai Xiu brought out the dishes together.

Originally there was only cold-pig-ear salad and red-braised pork stewed with potatoes, but later Chai Mi lit the stove and cooked a few more dishes.

All were hard dishes.

Chai Mi also specially took a bottle of baijiu, opened it and handed it to Liu San, then took two bottles of beer, gave one to Zhang Hailan, and opened one for herself.

"Sister-in-law, you taste first, that red-braised pork, I'm telling you I don't think I got it right... those two bowls of San Jian baipian seem so-so, you re-stew them."

Chai Mi knew Zhang Hailan was exceptionally good at cooking, so she handed the things she wasn't good at to the expert.

So-called specialization in one's field.

Professional matters, leave to professionals.

Yesterday was big-pot rice, the flavor naturally wasn't as good as a separate small stove.

Zhang Hailan didn't dilly-dally, rolled up her sleeves, put on an apron and helped re-stew the meat.

After a while, it was done and brought up.

Chai Mi had Su Jin sit at the very middle inside position of the kang; this position was generally for elders.

The rest of them just sat casually.

Chai Mi poured baijiu for Liu San first, then poured beer for Zhang Hailan, and poured herself a cup of beer too.

Actually, normally Chai Mi didn't touch a drop of alcohol.

But today she was happy.

"What's up? You absolutely have to drink? Chai Mi, isn't it because my third brother-in-law went in, you're celebrating?" Zhang Hailan said laughing: "I remember you don't drink..."

"Just a small sip. Today I'm really quite happy."

Chai Mi finished speaking.

Several people were a bit awkward.

Zhang Hailan: Look, this is really celebrating her own dad going behind bars...

Su Wan felt that since she'd never run a household this lifetime, letting Chai Mi run it was fine; as for how much trouble her husband Chai Youqing caused, it wasn't something she could worry about, after all there was still Chai Mi.

"Then let's drink, anyway it's come to this." Zhang Hailan picked up a bowl, poured the wine from her cup into the bowl.

"Using a bowl hits the spot."

Zhang Hailan gulped down a bowl in one go.

Chai Mi only took a tiny sip: "Bitter."

"That's because you didn't drink enough; drink a bit more and it won't be bitter."

Liu San spoke little and didn't ask much, just ate his food.

Su Jin did eat some food, but she kept feeling out of sorts, with something on her mind.

"Xiu'er, eat your meal." Chai Mi said, looking at Chai Xiu who wasn't moving her chopsticks: "You won't eat at your own home, but insist on eating happily at your maternal aunt's."

"That's for sure... my cooking is delicious." Zhang Hailan said with a smile.

A few people drank a few cups of wine, and the conversation opened up.

Talk as they might, it was actually still those same old matters.

Chai Mi couldn't stand a few people always hemming and hawing with questions, so she started speaking: "... The matter is just like that."

Chai Mi simply recounted today's events once through.

"As for what happened after, I don't know either. At the time it was a total mess anyway. My dad, he and Chai Lao San exchanged a few blows, but it was nothing serious... and my dad had a reason. At the time Old Man was lying there on the side playing dead, about to kick the bucket. As the eldest brother, giving his unfilial younger brother a few big slaps and punching him a couple times is not excessive." Chai Mi analyzed.

"So, you don't need to worry about my dad. He's got nothing wrong with him... the ones with trouble are those at the Laozhai." Chai Mi said, taking another sip of wine, even laughing unintentionally.

She could laugh herself awake in her dreams now.

Matters of her previous life, every single one, she remembered clearly.

Now it's been a month since rebirth; a few people she hated, basically nearly had their families ruined and lives destroyed.

Chai Mi was extremely happy.

Just short of carving the word "satisfying" on her own forehead.

After this bout, Chai Chunfang inexplicably committed suicide by hanging; Chai Chunfang's family was already falling apart, and as a result Sun Yuguang beat his father-in-law, and two daughters Sun Shengli and Sun Shengyue hit Chai You De with a brick.

Among them, Sun Shengyue had already reached eighteen years of age.

Chai Mi naturally knew the power of a brick.

With that one brick down, even if Chai You De's skull was hard enough, he'd likely still suffer some injury.

Moreover...

Four or five hits, or seven or eight hits.

Chai Mi hadn't seen clearly at the time exactly how many times Sun Shengyue whacked Chai You De; anyway, later Chai You De had blood spurting all over his head.

This Sun Shengyue, she's done for.

Sun Shengli is younger, so she should be fine, but it's estimated her life will be difficult from now on too.

"Chai Chunfang, their family is finished." Chai Mi said: "Chai Chunfang isn't human... not doing human things is true, but Chai Chunfang is quite capable. Their family's heavy and light work was basically all done by her. Sun Yuguang basically doesn't do work."

"Sun Yuguang does work too, just his constitution is weak. He's the village's famous charlatan; in the jianghu they call him Sun Xisong. It means his work is truly slack... don't look at how I haven't been married into your village for much time, I know it all." Zhang Hailan said: "Sun Yuguang tells fortunes, and not very accurately either. I had your eldest brother go calculate two hexagrams... a few days ago my brother-in-law took a fall, I had your cousin go ask Sun Yuguang to divine a hexagram. He said my brother-in-law is a lucky person with heaven's protection. As a result, I told my younger sister. My brother-in-law got so happy he drank some wine, plop fell into the Dagou, and smashed seven or eight front teeth..."

"Pure nonsense, who has seven or eight front teeth?" Su Jin, seeing Zhang Hailan speak, felt displeased.

Zhang Hailan smiled: "That means other teeth fell out too... anyway seven or eight fell out. Later I found out, this Sun Yuguang's fortune-telling is inaccurate."

Chai Mi laughed too: "When has he ever been accurate? If he could divine accurately, why doesn't he divine whether his own wife has a calamity this year?"

"Right..."

A fortune-telling jianghu practitioner, his own wife hanged herself; this kind of person probably won't have anyone seek him for fortune-telling afterward.

He's unemployed too.

"So I'm saying, this Chai Chunfang is a chain reaction. The most capable worker in Chai Chunfang's family is gone. Two daughters, also not too good. Sun Yuguang is probably unemployed too; their family is basically finished. Sun Yuguang originally still wanted to extort some money from Chai Lao San; this time it's unclear." Chai Mi knew Sun Yuguang came to make trouble today mainly to extort money.

As for the wife being gone, it probably doesn't matter much either.

"Going by what you say, then Chai Chunfang's family is totally finished." Zhang Hailan nodded, poured a bowl and drank it.

Chai Mi also drank a mouthful.

Actually, Chai Chunfang's chain reaction is especially big; although Chai Mi still doesn't know the follow-up situation.

But according to her analysis, her several enemies have probably all fallen apart.

First, Chai Chunfang's family is definitely finished. As for Chai You De, it's unknown how heavy his injuries are specifically, but a brick is not something else, and the head is not another body part.

Other body parts, if fractured, it's no big deal.

But if the head is fractured, that's especially difficult.

Maybe death, maybe brain hemorrhage, maybe vegetative state.

At minimum it will affect future life.

So, basically Chai You De is finished too. Che Lianyun actually has quite a lot of sins; this time she sat and crushed "Chai Chunfang" with her butt...

Although it's said Chai Chunfang committed suicide by hanging and is already dead, Che Lianyun's this butt-sit wasn't for nothing; at minimum she'll have to squat the fence.

As for how long, Chai Mi doesn't know, but after squatting the fence, then what?

And Chai Zhongxiao this time thoroughly lost all face; his own daughter ran to the doorway to hang herself; afterward who will still regard Chai Zhongxiao as human?

Village adults and children, probably no one will look at the two of them straight anymore.

However, the one with some bad luck should be Da Zhi...

Everyone talked for a while more, eating while talking, but the atmosphere was much more relaxed.

Su Jin was only worried about Su Wan, not especially worried about Chai Youqing.

Su Jin feared Chai Youqing would squat the fence, making her sister upset. Since her sister isn't upset, she doesn't dwell on it either.

After eating and drinking their fill, they rested a while longer, then Su Jin said goodbye, preparing to go home.

"Chai Mi, if there's anything you just say, don't bear it yourself." Su Jin admonished: "Your mom although out of confinement, constitution is still weak; give her more good food. You're not short of money now either, improve the meals."

Then Su Jin and Liu San and the others also went home.

Chai Mi tidied up the Courtyard a bit, slept a lunch break.

By evening, the Laozhai side still had no result.

However, Chai Youqing returned home.

Much as Chai Mi had expected, Chai Youqing hadn't really done anything either; on that occasion, as the Chai Family's eldest son, seeing his mother Wang Huirong faint from excessive anger, he gave his brothers a few slaps and kicks — which wasn't excessive at all — so after a round of questioning, he was released.

Chai Mi's Second Uncle Chai You Fu had even less of an issue; at the time, Chai You Fu was pulling a fight.

Chai Zhongxiao had even less going on; he was the father-in-law beaten by his son-in-law Sun Yuguang, making him the victim… so he was released too.

However, this only concerned the brawl; the matter regarding Chai Chunfang had not been resolved.

First, that issue was bigger, requiring more time and evidence. Second, the subsequent issue involving Che Lianyun implicated many people, so they still needed to wait.

Aside from these three, everyone else went into the detention center. Including Liu Zhijing…

"How did Da Zhi end up inside too? I feel like he didn't do anything major either." Chai Mi was somewhat surprised.

Chai Youqing answered that it was because Che Lianyun fainted on the way to the detention center, claiming Da Zhi had beaten him into a heart condition…

So Da Zhi went in.

Chai Mi let out an "oh," then learned a bit more about the situation, and didn't ask further.

Chai Youqing did eat a meal — who knows if it was lunch or dinner — at four or five in the afternoon, paid for by Chai You Fu in town.

But even if Chai Youqing hadn't eaten, Chai Mi couldn't be bothered to cook separately for him.

Today Chai Youqing had no merit to speak of. At most, it was because Chai Mi was in a good mood: enemies infighting until their families were ruined and they perished — truly satisfying.

Chai Mi barely lifted a finger, and they'd already turned into a chaotic mess on their own, sending themselves in.

Chai Mi: Next up should be Chai Chunwei, right.