Chapter 1973: Catching the Bag
Liu Lu despised Li Xiaoyan from the bottom of his heart. It was not until the time when rumors spread about her causing trouble in school that he had an opinion of her until now. It was during the time when he was planting early seeds.
During the early rice planting season, the Li girl did not help at home on weekends. Brother Zhou would not ask his stepdaughter to do the work, but Aunt Meng asked Li Xiaoyan to help pull the seedlings.
When Li Xiaoyan was pulling the seedlings, she imitated the ancient rich ladies who held up their orchid jade fingers and counted the seedlings one by one. It took half an hour to pull out a hand of seedlings.
Ask her to send something to the field, and she sees the cricket shivering, the cricket jumping and screaming, the leech crying with snot and tears, and the small water snake as if it was a ghost.
Among children in rural areas, who has never seen the most common things in the fields such as worms, snakes, leeches and crickets?
If the Li family girl was really one of those rich young ladies in big cities who can't even tell the difference between seedlings and grass, it would be normal for her to be scared when seeing earthworms and leeches, but she wasn't. Grandma Li's house is even more remote than Plum Village, and snakes and insects are common in summer. .
Moreover, on the day they went to help Brother Zhou pick up his bride, they saw a lot of earthworms and snake skins on the roadside and beside the fields.
Those things are just beside the road. If the Li girl is so timid, the grass will grow on her grave.
The girl from the Li family is obviously not a rich girl, but she still pretends to be delicate. Her delicate and squeamish look makes people upset.
Liu Lu despised Li Xiaoyan once he saw the pretentious side of the Li girl. After getting along with her for a long time, he found that Meng's wife was not as sensible as she seemed, and he didn't have much favorable impression of Meng's wife.
Liu Lu's voice was neither high nor low, and everyone heard it. Cheng Youde and others pretended not to hear the thorn in Liu Lu's words.
The smile on Mrs. Meng's face slowly stiffened, and she felt as if her heart was being stabbed by a cone. She understood clearly that Liu Lu was mocking her for being a squeamish girl.
And she was speechless.
Especially there is Zhou Tianqing for comparison. He is also a sophomore in high school. Zhou Tianqing's grades are not worse than Xiaoyan's, and the Zhou Papi family does not spoil their children. Both Zhou Tianqing and Zhou Tianhong will help with any work when they go home during the holidays.
Xiaoyan's grades were not bad. She used to do farm work during holidays when she was in junior high school. After she entered high school, she rarely helped out because of the heavy study pressure and the heavy homework. She only did some odd housework.
The day after Zhou Tianqing came back from vacation, he helped others with a double robbery. Even his half-grown child Zhou Tianhong followed the adults to work under the scorching sun. Xiaoyan went to the fields because she thought the Le family was harvesting rice, and she only worked for half a day before she couldn't stand it anymore.
Comparing the two, in the eyes of others, Xiaoyan is of course squeamish.
Being told that the child was not good made Mrs. Meng feel very uncomfortable. Xiaoyan lost her father. As a mother, she just wanted to give her double love so that the child would suffer less. Xiaoyan just didn't help others, how could she say that? Is it "princess disease"?
She felt bad, and she couldn't argue with Brother Zhou's buddies, so she was depressed.
Chen Dalian and the others didn't say anything. Aunt Pa immediately said on the spot that it is not shameful to educate her granddaughter and grandson to live in the countryside. Don't be full of little thoughts all day long, let alone pretend to imitate "a pig's nose with a green onion - pretend to be an elephant" Disgusting people.
Aunt Ba, who had always been jealous of her, came back from the capital and heard that the girl from the Li family was always sneaking around while the master of the Le family was not at home. In addition, the girl from the Li family was getting more and more arrogant at school, and Mrs. Meng pretended to be deaf, which made her look down on her even more. Sister Meng.
Zhou Tianqing and Zhou Tianhong nodded like garlic at first. When grandma finished her lecture, Zhou Tianqing looked helpless: "Grandma, can you keep your heart in mind? We are afraid that Sister Lele will cut her off, and we are not that big of a dog to go astray. "
I'm not afraid that you have a bad memory or are complacent, so I remind you from time to time." Aunt Pa definitely didn't say that she was worried that her grandchildren would turn a deaf ear to her words and imitate others in a hurry.
Zhou Tianqing babbled speechlessly and quickly slipped away away from her grandma to avoid being caught in ideological education classes again.
Aunt Pa didn’t keep chattering about work.
Le's father, Zhou Qiufeng, didn't know what Meng's mother and daughter were thinking. The couple led a group of helpers to cut the rice for a long time in the morning. In the afternoon, the troops were divided into three groups, one team cut the rice and the other team threshed. Le dad Zhou Qiufeng first When a field is threshed, water is released into the field, and then fertilizer and plowing are carried back home.
Zhou Papi and his wife help people with their work. Village Chief Zhou has to go to the village committee every day during the non-weekend period to order rice. Since the village library is open during the summer vacation, he still has to keep an eye on the library. Only Grandma Man goes to Lejia to help with some housework. .
Grandma Zhou Man assists Mrs. Chao, Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Wu, and Mrs. Zhou Wei in managing three meals a day and taking care of the livestock. In addition to feeding pigs and chickens and ducks at noon and evening, Grandma Zhou mostly stays at Lejia. These old ladies are very energetic. I excitedly made plans to make rice dumplings, dumplings and glutinous rice cakes.
I made dumplings on the first day, and gave a dumpling as a snack to the workers in the middle of the morning.
Make rice dumplings on the 23rd and glutinous rice cakes on the 24th.
Lejia put down all the seedlings on the morning of the 24th. In the afternoon, the work was divided. Those who were not very good at transplanting were responsible for threshing, transporting millet home or tying straw. Those who knew how to transplant rice went to the fields first.
Transplanting rice seedlings is tiring and the speed is a bit slow.
Li Xiaoyan has been trying to find a chance to sneak into the Lejia, but she has not succeeded. Even if she passes by the Lejia building, the Lejia couple and the people in the Lejia will pretend they have not seen her.
Uncle Zhou and his mother did not go to help Lejia with the work, and wanted to follow Grandma Zhou there. Grandma Zhou did not take her, so she could only watch the days pass day by day.
In the blink of an eye, the 26th arrived, and Li Xiaoyan finally got her grandma.
Granny Li had no reason to go to the Zhou family on weekdays. After receiving a series of calls from her granddaughter, she came to Meicun to help her. The reason was naturally because the Zhou family was scheduled to harvest rice on the 27th, and she came to help her in-laws share some housework.
The 26th was Wei Day. Grandma Zhou, Mrs. Zhou Mannai and Mrs. Wu invited Mrs. Chao, Mrs. Wang and Zhou Wei to go shopping to see if there were any fresh mountain products.
When six old ladies were shopping, Grandma Zhouman happened to see Granny Li. She immediately pulled her sister-in-law aside and whispered, "Li Xiaoyan's grandma is here." "
Huh?" Grandma Zhou was surprised and turned to find someone. , following the guidance of her sister-in-law, she really found the target. Granny Li was carrying the bag she used to dress at Zhou's house.
Granny Li's backpack was very bulging and she was walking in the direction of Plum Village. She didn't look like she was going to the market.
"I'm going back first. I won't go to Lele's house these days." Grandma Zhou is also a smart person. She said something to her sister-in-law and quickly left the team.
Grandma Zhou Man turned around happily, found Mrs. Wang and others, and quietly told a few old ladies that Grandma Zhou was going back first.
Zhou Wei asked Grandma Zhou why she didn’t wait for them and if there was something urgent at home.
Grandma Zhou Man didn’t hide it, saying that Grandma Zhou’s in-laws were here.
Old Mrs. Chao understood in a few seconds that when Grandma Zhou saw her new mother-in-law, she went home first because she didn't want to bring that person to Lejia.
In order not to let Granny Li see her, Grandma Zhou took a small road back to Meicun and then went directly home.
Li Xiaoyan knew that grandma was coming, so she washed the fruits and put them in the main room upstairs to wait. When she heard the footsteps, she thought it was grandma who was coming, so she jumped up happily and called "grandma".
When I ran two steps and saw that it was Grandma Zhou suddenly coming back, I was so scared that I froze.
At this moment, Grandma Zhou also understood that Granny Li was called by Li Xiaoyan!
She glanced at Li Xiaoyan and asked in a gentle voice: "You asked your grandma to come to Zhou's house today, right?" "..." Being
hit by Grandma Zhou's question, Li Xiaoyan's back felt hairy and she stammered in denial: " No...no, I didn't ask my grandma to come. It was my grandma who called and said she wanted to come and see...me." "
Oh." Grandma Zhou said in a neutral tone, and walked to the main room and pulled a chair to sit on it. He stood there without saying a word, just staring at Li Xiaoyan.
What she did was exposed, even if she found a reason to fool Grandma Zhou, but seeing Grandma Zhou sitting there staring at her, Li Xiaoyan could guess the reason why Grandma Zhou didn't believe her without using her brain.
Being stared at by Grandma Zhou made her feel creepy and panicked. She raised her feet and wanted to leave. She found a place to quietly call Grandma for ventilation.
"Why, do you want to call your grandma behind your back to inform her?" When Grandma Zhou saw Li Xiaoyan trying to run away, she rudely poked her lung tube again.
"No...no." Li Xiaoyan didn't dare to leave anymore. She moved to the side with difficulty, dragged a chair and sat on it, but she couldn't sit still and broke out in a cold sweat.
Grandma Zhou said nothing and stared at Li Xiaoyan quietly.
Because she kept a close eye on her, Li Xiaoyan couldn't make phone calls, so she could only worry. Grandma didn't know how to read, so it was useless to send messages. Even if she received the message, grandma wouldn't read it.
In the hall, one person is calm and the other person is guilty and nervous. The two of them, an old man and a young man, form a sharp contrast.
In the weird atmosphere, about ten minutes later, footsteps were heard from the door. Li Xiaoyan almost jumped up. Before she could shout, she heard a voice: "Xiaoyan, grandma is here to support you, my dear grandson." Don't be afraid, you are here, and you won't let the Zhou family and the Le family bully you."
After hearing what Granny Li said to support Li Xiaoyan, Granny Zhou stared at Li Xiaoyan with a straight face.
When Li Xiaoyan heard what grandma said, she almost went crazy. She no longer cared about being stared at by grandma Zhou, so she ran to the alley area connecting the north and south gates in two steps, and called out "grandma" in panic.
"Xiaoyan, what are you doing? You don't have to worry about being bored by hiding at home all day long. Your mother's evil mother-in-law is not at home. If you go to the front and outside of the Lejia house more often, someone will ask you to come in." Granny Li has been in the dust all the time
. She walked to the door of Zhou's house, wiping sweat and talking as she walked. She knew that Grandma Zhou was going to the market with others, and even if she came back, she would go to Le's house and not Zhou's house. There were no outsiders in the Zhou family, so she had no worries about talking.
Grandma shouted anxiously like popping beans in a bamboo tube. Li Xiaoyan had no time to stop her, and she was so anxious that a heavy cold sweat covered her forehead.
Grandma Zhou was sitting in the main room. Grandma had no control over her mouth. She spoke as casually as if they were talking behind their backs. Grandma Zhou listened to everything she said. How would she treat her in the future?
Li Xiaoyan didn't dare to look at Grandma Zhou's face and was so panicked that she almost cried: "Grandma—"
(End of Chapter)