Chapter 283: Rebirth in the '90s: The Tyrant Flower, Chapter 284: As Long as You Don't Kill Yourself by Acting, Act to the Death!

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Protagonist:

Chai Mi

Whenever Su Wan thought of the eggs her own family had sent over, only for Chai Youqing to carry them off to the old house, she felt displeased.

So although Su Wan was usually timid, thinking about it now, she had no intention of letting Chai Youqing eat the eggs from her family.

Chai Youqing had no choice but to eat cornmeal cakes.

"Delicious..."

Chai Mi smiled: "My mom letting you eat is already good enough. You say it's delicious, what else..."

Chai Youqing could only eat awkwardly.

"Chai Mi, your dumplings sell for six yuan a bowl, quite profitable. Why not hire some people to chop the dumpling filling for you?" Su Wan asked tentatively.

After all, Chai Mi was too tired to move, but one bowl of dumplings earned more than half—over three yuan.

Every extra bowl sold meant another bowl's worth of rice money earned.

Although her daughter was tired, she could hire help to share the pressure, then sell more and earn more money.

"Right, if you hire two people to help wrap dumplings, wouldn't you sell more?" Chai Youqing chimed in.

"No." Chai Mi rejected her mother and father's greedy thoughts: "One person wrapping dumplings has one flavor. Mom, even the dumplings you wrap don't taste like the ones I wrap. That stuff, after two bites, you can tell."

Chai Mi then said: "It's possible to make some side dishes and supplementary foods. But our family doesn't have such a person..."

Chai Mi was halfway through speaking when she suddenly remembered there was such a person among the relatives. She stir-fried dishes exceptionally well, and her pickled vegetables were especially flavorful.

That was her second aunt's eldest unmarried daughter, namely Chai Mi's cousin Yao Lianhua.

Chai Mi's second aunt Su Hui married into Juren Zhangzi. It was a mountain gully within a mountain gully.

If Chai Mi's maternal grandmother's home, namely Wenjiagou, was within the Dasha Gou, then Juren Zhangzi was within a primitive village.

That place was especially impoverished.

Chai Mi had heard Su Wan say that when her second aunt Su Hui was young, she was deceived into marriage.

In later generations, that would be illegal.

The cause was that when Su Hui reached the age to discuss marriage, a matchmaker came to the door.

At that time Su Hui was eighteen, and the person the matchmaker introduced was Yao Shoucai of Juren Zhangzi.

Yao Shoucai was Chai Mi's current second aunt's husband.

This Yao Shoucai was already in his thirties then... exactly thirteen or fourteen years older than Chai Mi's second aunt Su Hui. With such an age gap, not to mention in the seventies or eighties, even in later generations it would be an extreme age difference between husband and wife.

If it were a normal arranged meeting, this could never succeed.

At that time, the matchmaker thought of a bad idea. She led Yao Shoucai's nephew to the arranged meeting.

Yao Shoucai's nephew was decent-looking, and his age was similar to Su Hui's.

Since the two families were especially far apart, they hadn't heard any useful news.

What the matchmaker told Su Hui at that time was: that Yao Shoucai was four years older than you, with good family conditions... and he was the village accountant, with three large tiled houses.

In the sixties and seventies, having a place to live was something remarkable.

It was precisely those three large tiled houses that made Chai Mi's maternal grandparents take a fancy to them...

As we mentioned before, Chai Mi's maternal grandparents' home was even poorer. Even now, they were dirt poor.

The family had only three houses; the elderly couple were both paralyzed, and Chai Mi's eldest uncle and aunt, in order to have a place for their son to marry a wife, all lived in the cowshed.

At this point, surely some reader friends would ask: in the mountains and gullies everywhere, lacking money is possible, but how could they possibly lack materials to build houses?

Stones and trees were plentiful; just be diligent and get some yourself.

The actual situation is, even when you rely on the mountains to eat from the mountains, you must consider the actual situation. First, the place where Chai Mi's maternal grandmother and grandfather lived was inside the mountain gully; the stones couldn't be moved... it was a rocky mountain, basically no stones, and very little soil. Wanting stones to build a house was absurdly difficult.

The Sanjiacun where Chai Mi was located originally had a quarry, an exception. Houses elsewhere were mostly earthen houses...

Another issue was trees.

Since everyone knew trees could be used to build houses, the local common people also knew. They had long since chopped down all the trees for building houses, generation after generation... the trees on the mountain grew especially slowly, and without several decades it was hard to become timber. So there were no trees for building houses.

Chai Mi's eldest uncle and aunt could only live in the cowshed.

This was the current situation.

When Chai Mi's second aunt married, the cowshed didn't exist yet... being able to find a family with a house for Su Hui was the lifelong wish of Chai Mi's maternal grandmother and grandfather at that time.

Su Hui went on one arranged meeting, and then the family prepared for the wedding.

Chai Mi's mother was the third oldest among the sisters.

Chai Mi's eldest aunt, second aunt, and also an old aunt. All were younger than Chai Mi's eldest uncle.

Chai Mi's eldest aunt Su Jin married first, and then Chai Mi's maternal grandfather had money for Chai Mi's eldest uncle to marry a wife.

When Chai Mi's aunt married in and discovered there were still three younger siblings below...

Since at that time Su Wan was fourteen or fifteen, and only Su Hui was seventeen or eighteen, old enough to marry. So she was married off.

Marrying off one meant one less...

In a small rural house, there wasn't much family infighting. But there were many actual survival difficulties.

When no one could eat enough, one less mouth to eat solved a big problem.

This was also the main reason why women's status was relatively low in that era.

The family was too poor, and the parents and older brother and sister-in-law all hoped this younger sister would marry early, so the family could save some food rations.

Although they did look at the man's conditions.

But the standards at that time were generally low.

Men... alive... no disabilities is fine.

And Su Hui encountered this kind of situation; at that time, that Yao Shoucai was indeed a man, also alive, and not sick either, just old in age.

At that time, she didn't know until the wedding.

During the wedding ceremony, it was Yao Shoucai's nephew who helped perform the ceremony.

To speak of this matter, it's truly illegal...

And damn unscrupulous.

Chai Mi once heard Second Aunt Su Hui speak of this matter: after entering the bridal chamber, Su Hui took one look... damn, how did a young man turn into an old geezer?

You must know that at that time Yao Shoucai was already past thirty, didn't maintain himself much, was an old bachelor; his looks weren't ugly though.

But Su Hui knew the person she saw at the matchmaking and wedding ceremony wasn't this person...

Yao Shoucai just said Su Hui's eyesight wasn't too good, she didn't see clearly.

Su Hui went to ask her father-in-law and mother-in-law; the in-laws also said: this is their only son, absolutely genuine.

Su Hui was dumbfounded...

However, Yao Shoucai's family conditions were indeed not bad; at that time they could eat their fill.

So, Su Hui stayed at Yao Shoucai's home for three days, ate three days of full meals, and just muddle-headedly accepted this matter. She even thought her eyes had really blurred...

Afterwards, Su Hui returned to her mother's family.

Yao Shoucai didn't follow along either.

Chai Mi's maternal grandfather and grandmother also didn't look into Yao Shoucai further, so although Su Hui had doubts, the matter passed.

Until, Su Hui's son was born.

Chai Mi's maternal grandmother and grandfather went to take a look, only then discovering the person had been swapped; this son-in-law wasn't the son-in-law from the matchmaking...

But, it was really too late...

The child was already born.

Plus Yao Shoucai indeed had no illness, his body was also good, family conditions not bad, he was also an honest and dutiful person... so they accepted it.

At this time, there must be reader friends saying again: Yao Shoucai fucking committed marriage fraud, and he's honest and dutiful?

Because at that time, this kind of thing wasn't very rare. Seen a lot, not strange...

Later on Yao Shoucai was also an honest person, and that was that.

Of course, these are all digressions.

Chai Mi's second aunt and her husband have one son and one daughter; this daughter is Yao Lianhua, already twenty-six years old this year, but the result has been seven or eight years.

Have a daughter seven years old this year.......

The key is in the previous life, Yao Lianhua was very good at making this kind of small pickled vegetables or small dishes.

Mainly because the family Yao Lianhua married into was also poor.

Hmm......

It's just that Yao Lianhua married into her own family's neighbor......

Childhood sweethearts, innocent playmates.

Both families equally impoverished.

So, it gave rise to her passive skill talent.

No vegetables, so she learned to pickle vegetables; therefore she made them very well.

Chai Mi's eyes brightened, as if she had finally found the key to solving the current predicament. She fiercely slapped her thigh: "Right! I'll go find Hua, my Eldest Sister!"

Su Wan was just a bit disappointed by her daughter's refusal of the proposal to hire help to wrap dumplings, and was startled by Chai Mi's shout: "Who? Hua?"

Because of the habitual address of Yao Lianhua's pet name, the "Hua" from Chai Mi and her mother's mouths refers to Yao Lianhua.

"Mm, right. Just my second aunt's family, Hua my Eldest Sister. I remember her small pickled vegetables are comparatively delicious; I'll have her make some for me to eat....."

Su Wan tried hard to recall: "Mm... seems like it. Your second aunt's family days are tight, no decent dishes, but that girl Lianhua is clever-handed; with some wild vegetables, radishes, whatever, she can make some flavor. Those pickled mustard greens lumps, truly go down well with rice."

Chai Youqing gnawing on a corn cake, mumbled an interjection: "That girl... married into their neighbor's family right? Surnamed what... Old Zhang family? Anyway very poor; your second sister is just like that, suffering poverty herself, marrying off the girl like sending a gift, casually giving her away in marriage. Hua that girl was so good, yet had to marry into that mountain gully......"

"Just your family is good......" Chai Mi couldn't help but roll her eyes at Chai Youqing: "Your second sister married well, over ten years right, doesn't return home at all. Looks like she really married well, little days at her in-laws' passing damn comfortably; even my grandfather now owes a buttload of famine debt, they also don't hear or ask. Chai Chunfang is dead, your second sister is scorching enough to return home."

Chai Youqing was instantly at a loss for words, didn't know what to say.

He could only lower his head to eat, no longer speaking.

To the side, Chai Xiu even thoughtfully picked up a piece of potato for Chai Youqing: "Dad, eat more, good for plugging your mouth......"

Chai Youqing:......

"Right, I remembered, three to five days from now seems like... August 6th, or maybe the 9th, Hua your Eldest Sister's family's little son's full moon wine. The first couple days your eldest aunt mentioned it; I was just thinking of having you go. This body of mine isn't too good, it's quite far there, also no place to stay, no place to live..... your eldest aunt insists on making me and you both go." Su Wan spoke while sighing: "Your eldest aunt now has a bit of trouble walking, just wants to visit relatives, and go see your second aunt too. Don't wait until truly can't walk at all, son and daughter-in-law unfilial, then can't even leave the house."

Taking advantage of still being able to move, go take a look oneself.

"No rush, anyway at that time my eldest aunt will have my male cousin come pick us two up. Taking advantage of not shelling corn right now, going a trip to my second aunt's family is also fine." Chai Mi did want to go take a look.

Result: rice just eaten halfway, heard the old house that side crackling... crying and making a ruckus.

Should be bowls, chopsticks, and glass and whatnot all already shattered; really nothing left to smash, so can only use the most primitive crying and ruckus to toss about.

Chai Youqing holding chopsticks, half a day didn't move...

Chai Mi frowned, also didn't say anything, ate her breakfast on her own.

As for old father Chai Youqing...

He loves to eat or not, up to him.

Chai Mi finished eating, tidied bowls and chopsticks, also collected Chai Youqing's remaining half corn cake, then went to simply wash up a bit; originally wanted to sleep a bit more, but the old house that side noisy and hadn't stopped, a while ruckus once.

Listening to the noise, very easy to distinguish.

That is Chai Zhongxiao beating Wang Huirong, while Chai You De is pulling a fight...

They all say incapable men love to beat women.

Chai Zhongxiao had finally become that universally known useless man.

Chai Mi smiled bitterly: if not for Chai Youqing and her mother Su Wan helping prop up the Laozhai by farming, working uncomplainingly without thought of reward, the Laozhai would have fallen apart long ago.

Let them toss about; out of sight, out of mind.

Kill one, one less.

Finally, after a short while, Chai You De came running to Chai Mi in a panic, grabbed Chai Youqing and cried: "Big brother, big brother, it's bad... Cun Ma's arm was broken by Cun Pa..."

Chai Youqing's face flushed red, not yet waiting to say anything.

Chai Mi, meanwhile, walked out wiping her hair: "Aiyo, Third Uncle. Today you really have the leisure to come to my home... what is it? Old Man's arm is broken, then go to the hospital..."

Chai You De froze: "No money to go to the hospital..."

"Then endure it... won't die." Chai Mi said expressionlessly.

"Not..." Chai You De said somewhat angrily: "Chai Mi, how can you speak like this? Your Grandmother's arm is broken! You still say such words."

Chai Mi laughed: "No... Third Uncle, look at what you're saying. This matter can't be managed. Old Man's arm was broken by the old man himself, how can outsiders interfere?"

Chai You De was choked by Chai Mi's light, drifting attitude until his eyes bulged; he pointed at Chai Mi, his finger trembling with rage: "Chai Mi! That's your real Grandmother! How can you say such heartless words? Your Grandma's arm is broken, she's rolling in pain, almost gone! Bone is showing!"

Chai You De had some filial heart, but not much.

When Chai Zhongxiao beat Wang Huirong, Chai You De was there, he also tried to block, but he didn't stop it.

Of course, Chai You De feared Chai Zhongxiao would hit him, so he wasn't blocking wholeheartedly either.

If it were truly wholehearted, Chai You De wouldn't be uninjured now; a man in his thirties, could he still not stop Chai Zhongxiao?

After all, Chai Zhongxiao is already sixty.

Chai Mi naturally understands this.

And Chai Mi herself feels nothing about Wang Huirong's arm being broken by Chai Zhongxiao, anyway...

The Laozhai's current state is: as long as they don't kill themselves, they'll keep courting death!