Chapter 194:
“This Fengjiao is always in such a hurry. She said she’d help, but how did she run off first?” He Hua muttered a few sentences under her breath.
Zhao Fengjiao left, and the two began steaming siu mai. It wasn’t long before they were done.
Luo Zhi’er felt that having someone help with the work made it so much easier and faster.
He was just taking one from the steamer for her to eat when her mother-in-law Zhao Liu came rushing over angrily.
Seeing her eating alone, her face was as black as a coal ball. She shouted at the top of her lungs, “He Hua, what are you doing? Get back home!”
“Mom, I just came to help San Mao’s wife!”
“Help with what? If you have that free time to go busy yourself at someone else’s home, how come I never see you go pull the weeds from our field???”
“Isn’t it because her home has guests?”
“Still talking back? Did they call for you? Go back home!” There’s no such thing as working for free for others; this work is all meant to be exchanged. Zhou Meizhen certainly hadn’t let her daughter-in-law come exchange work for her home!
“Oh!”
He Hua left, and Luo Zhi’er, to thank her, packed a few siu mai for her to take back home for the little kids to taste…
Seeing there was food, her mother-in-law’s face softened a bit!!!
She had no choice but to busy herself alone, going to prepare the barbecue seasoning cumin powder for the barbecue…
First make Sichuan pepper powder: put the Sichuan pepper into the bread kiln to roast dry, then pound it into Sichuan pepper powder in the small mortar.
Then roast the wild fennel too, grind it into powder, and it can be used as cumin powder.
Add some salt, chili powder, pepper powder, mix with wild fennel powder, Sichuan pepper powder, etc., and stir evenly—that’s her barbecue seasoning.
Wipe the table clean. Miaomiao brought over a bamboo basket of washed lettuce and cabbage leaves…
The other marinated beef, pork belly, pork skin… were all brought over and placed neatly on saucers!
Put the barbecue seasoning in several small saucers too. Seeing no one yet on the path up the mountain, she took out tomatoes and started simmering tomato sauce on this simple stove…
The pizza dough fermenting in the kitchen was almost ready too, so she put it into the bread kiln to bake first.
Soon the whole courtyard was filled with overflowing aroma… Miaomiao held the pliers to help her watch the fire in the bread kiln.
She thought to herself, if she made something to drink too, it would be just perfect…
Next door at Village Chief Li Zheng Sen’s house, the main gate was tightly shut, and today no one came out to watch the excitement!
When Li Zheng Sen got home, he nearly scared Zhao Xiaomei into fainting on the ground.
As soon as she opened the door, she saw this old thing, who had gone to the village perfectly fine to demand farmland, now with blood all over his face?
His forehead was black and blue like a living dead, with saliva splatters on his head and body. With his hair disheveled like he’d seen a ghost, had he crawled and rolled all the way back?
Li Zheng Sen roared into the courtyard, scolding Li Gen, who had slipped out to play in the yard, and called him back in.
Li Gen was scared by his dad’s fierce look and burst into loud wails.
“Oh my goodness, Li Zheng Sen, you old geezer, what exactly happened to you? Say something! Wei Zi, something’s happened, come quick!”
Li Wei was curled up in the room catching up on sleep, while his wife was watching the kid by herself.
Hearing the noise, he ran out. Seeing his dad with legs too weak to stand, he impatiently helped him inside!
Who knew his dad would thud to the ground again!
Li Zheng Sen seemed to have suffered some fright, crying out repeatedly: “Wei Zi, quickly shut the main gate tight! Tight, oh immortal!”
Li Wei shut the door, fuming, “Dad, who beat you?”
“Damn it! Which blind bastard dared to beat me, Li Wei’s dad?”
He had thought the two newborn male descendants could wash away the recent string of bad luck. Looking at his mom missing an ear on one side and his dad collapsed on the other, he felt deeply frustrated!
How was it that just two days later, dad had been beaten into this state again?
This was actually… him going to demand land for those two kids and getting beaten.
Just thinking of those two tiny rat-like brats made him feel stuffy. Born inauspiciously, he had cursed and shoved his wife; she had talked back a few words, and that led to premature birth…
Li Wei couldn’t help but get angry. These past few nights of their incessant crying had kept him from a good sleep for several nights in a row.
That woman Chun Xing now just knew to cry at the drop of a hat, only crying…
If she cries again, just watch him not teach this stinking woman a lesson.
His brows furrowed tight. Could it be that the recent bad luck was all brought by these two malformed male descendants from this birth?
He was getting superstitious!
Zhao Xiaomei still thought Li Zheng Sen had been beaten by those villagers unwilling to hand over land.
Pointing right to Li Sanmao’s home.
Rolling up her sleeves, just about to go out and curse, she was quickly scolded back by Li Zheng Sen.
“Ouch, hey, Wei Zi’s mom, you troublemaker! Don’t stir up more chaos. This mess isn’t from your restlessness?”
Li Zheng Sen groaned while unceremoniously blaming her.
“What? You old geezer, how come you pin every damn thing on me with your nonsense, pulling things out of thin air? You went out and got beat, and it’s my fault too? I didn’t even go with you today!”
Slapping her thigh as she sat on the ground crying and shouting. She had felt a bit sorry for Li Zheng Sen when he came back like this, but after this old thing said that, she instantly thought he deserved it!
Why didn’t that person beat him even harder!
“Stop putting on this act here. Let me tell you the truth: you’ve screwed me over, screwed Wei Zi over!”
Hearing him say this, Zhao Xiaomei’s crying got quieter and quieter. What exactly was going on?
“Dad, did you fail to get the land? Got beaten for it?”
“Was it Li Sanmao?”
Li Wei and his mom were thinking the same thing. Of course they knew about the village taking their land; today was probably to give everyone a definite answer.
This Li Sanmao must have refused, that’s why. “This is outrageous. I’ve yielded to him time and again, yet he and his wife dare bully me?”
Li Wei couldn’t care less now. These past days had pent him up bad; with nowhere to vent, he grabbed the axe from the corner, wanting to go fight Li Sanmao to the death!
“Wei Zi, stop right there, you brat!”
“It wasn’t him… it was the Young Master, the Marquis’s Mansion’s Young Master! The owner of that dog came!”
Just saying his name made Li Zheng Sen tremble; earlier he had practically crawled back.
After they left, not only did the Village Chief and the two ancestors Zhao and Li give him a thorough scolding, but after the village meeting, those armchair critic villagers surrounded him, either spitting on him or cursing him!
Especially those few households who got land today were the worst; someone even kicked him from behind, and no one dared help him up, afraid of getting involved.
He had crawled all the way back home himself. He had never suffered like this in his life…
“What? The Young Master?”
Zhao Xiaomei’s heart skipped half a beat. No way? It really was that person’s dog!
Li Wei snorted coldly,
“What Young Master? Impossible! I’ve worked in town for so many years, how come I’ve never heard of any Marquis’s Mansion Young Master? They must be lying!”
They might believe it, but Li Wei refused to. He turned to go out…
These people had kept the main gate tightly shut just now, so of course they didn’t see the group of people passing by outside, heading to Luo Zhi’er’s home.
“Ouch! Wei Wa, just listen to Dad this once. The farmland’s already been divided; it was the Young Master coming to see his beloved dog!”
“They found out how some days ago your mom went to provoke Luo Zhi’er and got her ear eaten by his beloved dog. I was just demanding compensation when they overheard it!”
“What?”
Zhao Xiaomei’s heart shook too.
“That guard was holding the Marquis’s Mansion’s golden shield; how could that be fake? They’re currently at Li Sanmao’s home. Wei Zi, if he finds out you sent someone to kill that dog, do you still have your life?”
Li Wei nearly stumbled to the ground… “Wha… what? How could this be… Dad, what do I do? Will the Young Master Ye…?”
“Listen to Dad: don’t go out today for sure!” He glared at Zhao Xiaomei. “You woman too!”
