Chapter 318: Reborn in the 90s: The Tyrant Flower Chapter 319 The First Baturu
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Protagonist:
Chai Mi
Liu Zhanggui and Song Qingshan, the two of them, were also approaching their sixties, but in all their years of living, they had truly never seen a person snatch food from a dog's mouth.
Dog: Wang Huirong, you are too f***ing disrespectful to me!!!
In the past, life was bitter; there was nothing to eat. They ate grass roots, tree bark, cotton batting, apricot kernels, corn leaves, pine cones, corn pith, peanut shells, melon seed skins...
Even in such poverty, they never saw anyone fight a dog for food.
Wang Huirong happily wins the title of Sanjiacun's First Baturu!
To speak of this matter, it is just f***ing bizarre.
Liu Zhanggui and Song Qingshan stared dumbfounded: "To speak of this... going to beg for food would work too. Is there a need for this?"
Actually, if Wang Huirong didn't care about face and went out to beg for food.
Those big fellows should be able to give a few corn flour cakes.
Heaven has the virtue of cherishing life.
They couldn't just watch Wang Huirong starve to death at their own doorway.
So, if Wang Huirong was truly starving, begging for food would definitely keep her from starving to death.
Of course, beggars can't be choosers about the food not tasting good; giving you two big cakes is already not bad.
Definitely no one would give her a chicken leg to eat.
Old saying: beggars still complain about the food being sour.
Meaning when you beg for food, you eat whatever you get.
Absolutely do not be picky.
As long as you don't starve to death, it's fine.
"Wang Huirong, let go of those two puppies!" Liu Zhanggui scolded.
Cough cough...
His tone still carried a trace of indifference and amusement.
The main focus is learning...
Song Qingshan also said: "Wang Huirong, what are you doing? These two puppies are still small, you must not be impulsive. You are still... young. Cough cough, absolutely do not walk onto the path of crime."
Wang Huirong saw that the ones returning were not her own son, but Liu Zhanggui and Song Qingshan. Instantly, as if she had lost her backing, she dared not be overly rampant.
She knew that quibbling now would be very difficult.
Seeing Wang Huirong had no reaction, Liu Zhanggui raised his voice: "Wang Huirong, you let go of that puppy... whatever big matter you have, it has nothing to do with the puppy, right."
"The puppy is innocent..."
This sentence from Liu Zhanggui directly provoked Wang Huirong. She abruptly let go of the hand clutching the dog's ear, and that half chicken bone stained with dog saliva "clattered" onto the ground. The two puppies, as if granted amnesty, picked up their respective snatched trophies, tucked their tails, whimpered, and swiftly scrambled back into Chai Mi's room, burrowing under the kang bed to tremble, leaving only a few chicken feathers still spinning as they floated down.
Wang Huirong froze in place, her face alternating between green and white. That intact hand clutched her clothes hem tightly, knuckles pinched white.
She dared not look at Liu Zhanggui and Song Qingshan; her gaze was somewhat dull and sluggish.
"Wang Huirong!" Liu Zhanggui stepped forward: "What are you doing? Ah?! A person in their sixties, running to your granddaughter's house to snatch bones from two nursing puppies? You... do you still want this old face?! " He was so angry his chest heaved, his finger nearly poking Wang Huirong's nose. "Where is Chai Youde? Does he not care if you've eaten? Letting you starve until you run here to lose face?!"
Theoretically speaking, in the past, Wang Huirong and Chai Zhongxiao also lived with Chai Youde and his wife.
Chai Youde and his wife accepted the family property; after that, the elderly care issue of Wang Huirong and Chai Zhongxiao was actually Chai Youde and his wife's responsibility.
It had nothing to do with the other two brothers.
However, in the past, Chai Youqing always brought his wife and children to help the old house with work; from this angle, this could actually only count as helping out.
It falls in the category of can help, can not help.
From an ethical angle, Chai Zhongxiao and Wang Huirong are Chai Youqing's biological parents; sons and daughters-in-law doing a bit of work for parents is reasonable and fair. Whether they calculate gains and losses or not, both can be justified. Later, Chai Mi began to advocate, or rather, firmly cut ties with the old house and no longer support it, which was also reasonable and fair.
They all live in the same village; whatever happened recently, everyone knows clearly in their hearts.
The matter of Chai Youde and his wife sending Chai Zhongxiao into the pigsty, everyone knows.
Liu Zhanggui naturally knows too.
But he feels that at this time, Wang Huirong should go find Chai Youde to repay grudges or air grievances, not run to Chai Mi's house to make trouble.
Moreover, there's only a seven-year-old Chai Xiu staying home alone at Chai Mi's; isn't this bullying?
Therefore, Liu Zhanggui's tone wasn't good either.
"I... I..." Wang Huirong abruptly lifted her head. The pitiful look on her face was instantly replaced by a shrew's ferocity. Her voice was sharp enough to pierce eardrums. "What's wrong with me?! Can't I look at my own granddaughter?! I'm hungry! I'm hungry to the point of heart palpitations! They eat delicacies, feed meat to dogs but won't give me, their biological grandmother, a single bite! Their hearts were dug out by wolves! It was taught by that crazy girl Chai Mi! They all learned bad from her! Not a single good thing!" The more she spoke, the more agitated she became, spittle flying everywhere.
She even deliberately waved the arm that Chai Zhongxiao had broken and left crooked, as if she had suffered a tremendous grievance.
"Pah!" Chai Xiu hugged Old Third, her little face taut. The anger she had just suppressed "whooshed" up again. "Who didn't give you food? Go beg at Third Uncle's house! Wasn't it you who eagerly ran to testify for Third Uncle back then, sending Grandpa inside, so you could follow Third Uncle and enjoy blessings? How many days has it been? Blessings? Enjoyed them all the way to fighting a dog for food? The meat in our house was earned by Eldest Sister rising before dawn and sleeping past midnight, every drop of sweat shattered into eight pieces, setting up a stall! Was it given by the Old Chai Family? Was it given by you? Did you ever give me a single eggshell? Now you smell the meat and know you're the biological grandmother? Too late!" She was young, but extremely clever; every sentence hit the mark.
Things like filial piety are all ineffective on Chai Xiu; she is too young.
Asking a seven-year-old child to be filial is pure nonsense.
So Chai Xiu reasons with her.
The reason is that Chai Xiu does not owe Wang Huirong, but Wang Huirong snatched the dog food of the puppies she raised; that is wrong.
Wang Huirong was choked until she rolled her eyes, pointing at Chai Xiu "You... you..." for half a day. A breath stuck in her throat. The blood drained from her face, leaving only a gray pallor.
Her body swayed; she looked about to collapse.
Chai Xiu rolled her eyes: "Don't bother, the big fellows are all watching. I didn't touch her. This is her running to our house to extort me."
Chai Xiu said this while stepping back two steps, the corner of her mouth twitching: "Grandma, extorting me is useless. I have no money. I still rely on my sister to support me. I swear, if I don't work for a day, my sister won't let me eat. If you want face, go lie down if you want to extort me. Anyway, I'm not afraid."
Chai Xiu and Chai Mi are different.
No matter what Chai Xiu did or said, it would all be dismissed because she was too young — sha me shi mei you.
Even if Chai Xiu angered the Old Man to death, it would still be sha me shi mei you. Chai Xiu currently had one and a half chicken legs left in her hands combined, still intended to feed the dog; at worst she would repay Wang Huirong and be done with it.
"Enough!" Song Qingshan frowned tightly, hurriedly stepped forward to support Wang Huirong's swaying body, his tone carrying helplessness and a trace of barely perceptible annoyance, "What are you quarreling about! Still not embarrassed enough! Zhanggui, you look at this matter..."
He tossed the difficult problem to the Village Chief.
Liu Zhanggui's face was iron-green, looking at Wang Huirong's impervious, rampaging yet genuinely pitiable appearance, his brain ached.
He took a deep breath, suppressing his anger: "Wang Huirong, you stop howling here too. Old Three's Family ignoring you, that's them losing their conscience! But you running to Old Chai Family to make trouble, fighting a dog for food, how does that sound spread? Old Chai Family's ancestors eight generations of face all lost by you! Xiu'er spoke correctly, this family's current good days were earned by Chai Mi that girl risking her life, has not half a cent relationship with you, with the Laozhai!"
He paused, gaze sweeping across the Courtyard, seeing Chai Youqing standing droopily in the crowd's rear at some unknown time, immediately pointing at him: "Chai Youqing! Are you dead? This is your birth mother! She's muddled, you follow along muddled? Hurry up, take your mother back! Don't stand here making a spectacle!"
Chai Youqing being named, frightened into a shiver, agreed repeatedly: "Aye, aye..." He shuffled over in small steps, wanting to support Wang Huirong, yet timidly not daring to touch her crooked arm, mumbling: "Ma... let's... let's go home first..."
"Go home? Go to which home?!" Wang Huirong shook off Chai Youqing's hand in one motion, tears and snot covering her face, voice hoarse, "Chai Youde that heaven-struck-by-lightning! His dog nest I can't stay one more day! His wife Che Lianyun, just a smiling tiger! Chai Zhongxiao that undying old thing went in, they immediately changed faces! One day only two bowls of corn grits so thin you see shadows! Pickled vegetable strips even counted by the root! I... I'm hungry!"
She slapped her thighs, wailing, this time truly grief from within, no longer feigning, "I raised him white so big! White testified for him! He won't die a good death!" She poured out her miserable state of being mistreated by Chai Youde and wife in one go, like an accusation, more like finding a fig leaf for her own unbearable behavior just now.
Surrounding air instantly quieted. Even Song Qingshan sighed, shook his head. Wang Huirong made karma before, now backfired, also self-inflicted, but hearing her miserable weeping, hearts felt off.
Chai Xiu laughed: Deserved.
Wang Huirong truly fucking deserved it.
Although Chai Zhongxiao is a beast, when beating Wang Huirong he beat to kill.
But when Chai Zhongxiao was home, Chai Youde and Che Lianyun were still relatively taboo.
That Chai Zhongxiao truly not a thing, strikes ruthlessly.
So when Chai Zhongxiao was there, although eating badly, at least not starving.
Now good, drinking congee even drinking watery congee.
In a few more days will have to go out eat dirt?
Liu Zhanggui frowned tightly.
Chai Youde ignoring old mother, this matter he as Village Chief cannot ignore, but how to manage is a big difficult problem. Let Wang Huirong return Laozhai? Laozhai now only her alone, Chai Zhongxiao still inside, she returns also starve. Force Chai Youde continue support? That family what virtue, Liu Zhanggui knows clearly, forcing cow head not drink water, only makes Wang Huirong days more bitter. Send to Chai Mi home? Liu Zhanggui dares not even think, Chai Mi that girl what temper? She not take broom directly sweep Wang Huirong out already counting old sentiment! Moreover, why should she?
"Alright! Stop howling mourning!" Liu Zhanggui irritably interrupted Wang Huirong's wailing, voice carrying undeniable decision, "Crying can cry full stomach? Chai Youqing!"
"Aye, Village Chief!" Chai Youqing hurriedly responded.
"Take your mother, first help up! After eating let her return." Liu Zhanggui pointed at Chai Mi home, "Let her catch breath, drink mouth water. Xiu'er," he looked at Chai Xiu again, "Go, scoop bowl cool water for your Grandmother, also take one morning leftover Steamed Bun." He knew Chai Mi home now conditions good, but current situation, able give bowl water, give cold Steamed Bun, already for Chai Youqing and "cannot starve person in Village" share.
Chai Xiu small mouth pouted, face full unwilling, but seeing Liu Zhanggui serious face, again looking at her father that useless appearance, ultimately didn't dare stubborn mouth, holding Old Three turned entered Wu Zi.
Wang Huirong hearing has Steamed Bun, crying lessened some, sobbing half-supported half-dragged up by Chai Youqing.
Liu Zhanggui and Song Qingshan stood in Courtyard, facing each other wordless. Warehouse Construction Site side still working, busy hong huo chao tian, but this broken matter before eyes, like a ball rotten mud stuck on feet, shake can't shake off.
"What kind of matter this!" Song Qingshan lowered voice, full helplessness, "Chai Youde that couple, truly not a thing!"
"Not a thing's plenty!" Liu Zhanggui irritably took out cigarette rolled lit, fiercely sucked one mouth, "Now how handle? Really leave this god at Old Chai Family? Chai Mi returns still not blow pot? That girl eyes cannot rub sand! But let Wang Huirong return Old Three's Family? That compared to sending her to die what difference? I ponder, call meeting, summon Chai Youde, three heads face six faces, force him stand written guarantee, at least must manage his mother one mouth full rice!"
"Written guarantee?" Song Qingshan bitter smiled, "Chai Youde that kind slippery meat, written guarantee manages fart use! He later pushes onto Che Lianyun, says old mother daughter-in-law discord, he sandwiched middle difficult, you can everyday go watch?"
Two people just worried brows not unfolding low voice discussing, Courtyard Door outside transmitted burst urgent footsteps.
Current this situation, who also manage not.
Chai Xiu took two Steamed Buns, came out handed to Liu Zhanggui, Liu Zhanggui again gave to Chai Youqing.
Chai Youqing afterwards then give Wang Huirong eat.
Chai Xiu small brain turned, said: "Village Chief, how about this. Big Fellows all here, my home now designated not lack food. Give money none, but my Grandmother hungry right, regardless she born several children, my father at least also biological. My Sister not home, then I make decision once, give my Grandmother one bag White Flour, one bag Rice. This I not afraid my Sister later organizes me. You just give her take, send her back. Must not let her at my home make trouble."
Chai Xiu finished, also reminded Liu Zhanggui and Song Qingshan: "That Rice White Flour, my home can produce. She one old lady, these two bags grain, eat enough until harvest autumn, again hungry, we not manage."
Liu Zhanggui and Song Qingshan just worried no way manage, see Chai Xiu also act master decide, then also agreed.
As for wait moment Chai Mi set up stall returns, Chai Xiu ai da matter...
That wait then say...
Anyway ai da not self, Liu Zhanggui standing speak also not waist sore: "Wang Huirong, Xiu'er said, give you one bag Rice one bag Flour. Come two people, send old lady over..."
Outside have look excitement, also have Chai Family clan nephews, then enter room took one bag Rice and one bag White Flour, carrying, afterwards then lead Wang Huirong return Laozhai.
End of Chapter
