third chapter
"Silly girl Ming, spit out the chicken legs for me!" When neighbor Wang Daya came to the door, Mingxiu was happily gnawing on the legs.
Wang Daya was howling for fear that people from all over the country wouldn't be able to hear her.
She rushed over in three steps and took out the chicken legs from Mingxiu's mouth: "My mother-in-law has worked hard to raise the old hens for so long, but you are enjoying eating them?!"
Mingxiu had been hungry all day, and finally managed to eat, but was robbed of food. She was so angry that she stepped on Wang Daya's shoe: "Are you fucking sick?!"
"Members of the Ming family, what you did is too unethical!" Wang Daya was followed by her mother Wang Zhang, who started crying before she even entered the door: "Our two families have done this.
After being a neighbor for so many years, you actually asked your stupid daughter to steal my chicken?"
"My eldest son just gave birth to a big fat boy. I raised the chicken to be fat and fat just to wait for the hen to lay eggs so that I could boil red eggs for my wife to eat," Mrs. Wang Zhang said in a loud voice.
Crying and shouting: "Now that this chicken has been eaten by you, where can I get eggs for my wife?"
Pooh!
How could Mrs. Wang and Zhang, who was known for being so picky and cruel to her daughter-in-law, boil eggs for others to eat?
It's just a cover!
Mingxiu felt that something was wrong from the beginning, but Ming's mother got ahead of her and hurriedly denied it: "Why are you talking nonsense as soon as you come up?"
"My family of three has lived in this village for so many years. They have always been the most honest and have never done anything sneaky!" The Ming and Wang families never dealt with each other, and Ming's mother was not polite when she spoke.
Mrs. Wang Zhang sneered coldly and pointed to the half-empty chicken bones in the broken pottery jar: "You still have a tough mouth? You said you didn't steal it, so what is this?"
"Who in the village doesn't know what's going on in your family? Usually during the Chinese New Year, you don't even see any traces of fishy minced meat, but when this house burned down, a chicken actually burned out?"
"This chicken wasn't stolen from my house, where else could it come from?" Wang Zhang said confidently, and her loud speaker voice attracted many onlookers.
Wang Daya became even more sure, and she spat: "This is our old hen! Even if it only has a skeleton left, I can still recognize it at a glance!"
At this time, Xie Zhan, who had been silent in the corner, hurriedly spit out a chicken head with only half of it left.
There was silence all around, but there were some villagers watching the fun, and they immediately started pointing.
"The heads of pheasants are twice as small as those of domesticated chickens. Half of the chicken heads in this pot are less than half the size of my hand. Isn't it difficult to tell them apart?"
"Perhaps the two wives of the Wang family really want to trick people."
"That's not necessarily true! It's obvious that this stupid girl can even steal people, but she just stole a chicken. What can she dare not do?"
The villagers gathered around watching the show were discussing.
Wang Daya's face turned red and she howled louder, but she seemed a little unsure:
"Even if there is really pheasant in the pot now, who knows if you ate my chicken first and then stewed the pheasant? Otherwise, just one pheasant is enough for your family?"
When a tiger falls in Pingyang and is bullied by a dog, who would not want to come and step on the Ming family when they see it?
Today we are not stealing chickens, but tomorrow we will be stealing rice and vegetables.
Don't you just want to take advantage?
Mingxiu sneered and asked falsely: "Then how do you want to deal with this matter?"
After hearing this, Mrs. Wang Zhang coughed a few times: "Stealing chickens and compensating for land is a matter of course!"
"Give me two points of land at the east end of your village, and this matter will be over with!"
Wang Daya echoed: "If you are unwilling to compensate for the land, then we will go to the village chief to argue with you now!"
“In our village, we must not keep people with unclean hands and feet!”
Her father and the village chief have a semi-related relationship.
If they really complained to the village chief, their family would definitely have to leave.
Ming Xiu smiled, rolled up her sleeves, and planned to have a good "argument" with the Wang family and her daughter.
"Yo? What? You little silly girl, you still dare to have an opinion?!" Wang Daya hugged her chest, her face turned ferocious: "We all know the character of Uncle Ming and Aunt Ming."
"My chicken must have been stolen by you and your concubine! If your family doesn't pay for it, I will not only report it to the village chief, but also take you two to the county to report it to the official, and then let my brother wrap it up
I’ll beat you to death with a sack!”
When Mingxiu's mouth reached halfway, Ming's mother dragged her behind her.
Ming's mother took out a land deed from the middle of her sleeve, her fingers trembling: "Are you sure...as long as I give you the land, you will never come to trouble my family and my daughter again?"
"It's better you know what's interesting," Mrs. Wang Zhang's eyes sparkled, and she grabbed the land deed directly and put it in her arms: "Don't worry, Sister Ming, I will definitely keep my word!"
After getting a bargain, the Wang family's mother and daughter were extremely happy.
"Sister Ming, you have really raised a good daughter!" Everything is a trap for this "good" daughter.
Ming's mother had a rare moment of humiliation. She always defended Mingxiu: "How is my daughter? I don't need you to tell me!"
"I'll wait and see what else your daughter can do?" Mrs. Wang Zhang curled her lips and walked away with Wang Daya proudly.
Mingxiu saw that the only land deed to you was getting further and further away, and she stamped her feet anxiously: "Mom! Why did you just give her the land deed?"
Ming's mother looked at Mingxiu lovingly, smiled and shook her head: "Silly boy, the land deed is not as important as you."
Hearing this, Ming Xiu's words suddenly got stuck in his throat, and he couldn't speak for a while.
The house and land they had guarded all their lives were all gone in two days.
The last bit of support in the family is gone. Now, we are really penniless!
Seeing their appearance, Mingxiu felt even more choked up in her heart, unable to get up or get down.
Mingxiu was more ashamed than angry.
It was because of protecting her that the parents of the Ming family made compromises again and again, so that now they have nothing.
What does she need to do to completely reverse the family's current decline?
Mingxiu squatted alone in the corner, racking his brains and thinking, while drawing circles with a wooden stick.
Xie Zhan glanced at Mingxiu for a few times, and finally walked over. He opened his mouth and said, "In this world, whether it's the emperor's relatives or the villagers, who doesn't have problems?"
"There is no need for you to be depressed just because of a small setback in front of you. A person must first have his family and country in his mind and the world in his heart before he can..." What Xie Zhan said next, Mingxiu didn't even listen to a word of it.
They are all meaningless truths.
Will these principles allow their family to have a full meal, or will it allow them to live a good life?
Mingxiu curled her lips. As long as she could listen to him, she might as well go to the mountains and find the whereabouts of today's dinner.
Xie Zhan turned his back to Mingxiu, and kept mumbling with his thin lips for a long time: "Can you... understand what I mean?"
He looked back and found that Mingxiu had disappeared long ago.
Chapter completed!