Chapter 3:
Li Gui slightly furrowed his brows. “Third Sister-in-law, in my opinion, you’d better let go of this snake. Who would eat such a filthy thing?”
Which woman in her right mind would eat a snake? Even thinking about it makes one want to vomit!
Luo Zhi’er didn’t even glance at him, her voice fierce and bold: “Uncle, Mother assigned me to cook. There’s no meat at home, no vegetables, no rice to put in the pot. Won’t you solve this for us?”
“What?”
“Cough…”
“You damned fool, you’ve turned the world upside down. Gui’er is studying, what meat are you asking him for?”
“Reincarnated Hungry Ghost or what? Are we Old Li Family going to starve you to death?”
Zhou Shi defended.
“You not eating it doesn’t mean it’s not tasty! Oh, I get it. Uncle is used to delicacies and looks down on it. Then I’ll make it myself, and you better not eat any later!”
“Heh, thanks.”
Li Gui was left without face, his face flushed red as he entered the room!
Zhou Shi was furious to death. This fool actually dared to embarrass her youngest son A’gui.
Her son had studied for many years, speaking only truths, and she still dared to refute?
Luo Zhi’er saw her about to flare up and stand up for her son, her lips curling coldly as she leaned in close.
“Mother, help me hold it!”
“Ah, stay away!”
Mother and daughter fled like smoke, turning and running into the room!
While running, they shouted loudly: “Don’t forget to feed the pigs and make breakfast! Otherwise, Mother will skin you!”
The door slammed shut!
Luo Zhi’er rolled her eyes.
Carrying the snake to the pigsty, she glanced at the pig. Its head was drooping, grunting and shrinking as it lay there, probably dozing off. It looked strangely cute!
She tossed it some pig feed…
She went to the main hall to fetch an axe, and with one chop, split the snake into two sections, head separated from body. The snake’s body still thrashed and writhed wildly on the ground…
Mother and daughter peeked through the bedroom window crack, watching her pick up the snake body, hang it on the persimmon tree, slice open the snake belly with scissors, take out the snake gall, and skin it!
Thinking for a moment, she placed the snake head on a stone and smashed it to pieces with the back of the axe!
Along with the internal organs, she threw them into the chicken coop to feed the chickens. The chickens snatched and pecked at them like spicy strips.
That ferocity and the disgusting filthy stuff scared the two so much their scalps went numb!
It also scared Xiao Zhou Shi and Chen Shi, who had come out one after another from their own rooms to watch the excitement, into clicking their tongues repeatedly!
The two exchanged glances and teased,
“Yo! I say, Third Sister-in-law, what are you doing…”
This Luo Zhi’er and Third Child truly deserved to be a couple! One killed the snake and skinned it without blinking, the other went hunting!
Speaking of which, could Third Wife have gone mad from hunger these past couple days? She wasn’t like this before.
That snake could actually be killed and eaten?
“Could she have starved silly?”
Luo Zhi’er turned back and saw it was Xiao Zhou Shi and Chen Shi. “Making breakfast!”
Then she said flatly, “Eldest Sister-in-law, yesterday’s bowls aren’t washed yet. Trouble you to wash them!”
Then to Chen Shi on the side, dressed in clean clothing, having deliberately applied oil and powder to dress up,
“Second Sister-in-law, trouble you to fetch a few buckets of water!”
“What?”
“What?”
Xiao Zhou Shi couldn’t believe it. She dared to assign her?
Chen Shi silently watched her…
Her eyes flickered. This fool, had she changed her nature?
Normally, they used tricks to dump the housework on her!
“What’s wrong? Mother told me to make breakfast. We’re all daughters-in-law. What are you doing?”
Luo Zhi’er shouted loudly toward Zhou Shi’s window base.
That voice could be heard one or two kilometers in the village.
“The floor in the room this morning hasn’t been swept either. Are you all eating dry rice?”
Before, she was silly and did whatever she was told, slow in doing things and often couldn’t get a bite to eat. That’s why she was a bit selfish, always hungry, rummaging everywhere at home for food.
Zhou Shi swallowed saliva. She actually was a bit dissatisfied with this. Just this Third Wife was so frustrating!
Xiao Zhou Shi was Zhou Shi’s niece from her maternal family, with a sweet little mouth, and had added two male descendants to Old Li Family, naturally receiving Zhou Shi’s protection and favor.
Chen Shi, though not from Zhou Shi’s maternal family, had good conditions at her maternal family. She was personally chosen by Zhou Shi as a daughter-in-law and had also added a male descendant to Old Li Family.
Her maternal family was doing a small business in town. Normally, the young couple helped out in town, probably able to help Second Brother do something in the future!
They had just returned for the double harvest this time!
Couldn’t offend them!
“Third Sister-in-law, I caught a bit of cold yesterday, had a headache all night, cough… cough!”
“My Yunliang too, groaned all night, just burned off the fever. I have to watch him.”
Zhou Shi said.
Yunliang was Second Brother, Oldest Brother was Muxin, Third Child was a girl, Liuliu, about the same age as Miaomiao. She had gone to the field to pick up wheat ears this morning!
She had told Mother-in-law this in the morning like this… Actually, Yunliang was sleeping lazily. Her man Li Daqiang had tossed her half the night last night. This morning in the quilt, her man allowed her to laze and sleep more…
Chen Shi hurriedly said: “Second Sister-in-law, my shoulder hurts. It hurts whenever it rains. Look, the wheat reaping a few days ago, and it rained again the day before yesterday. This arm hurts so much I can’t lift it!”
Zhou Shi spat in the room, “All some lazy bones!”
None were fuel-efficient lamps!
Unfortunately, Oldest Brother and Second Brother’s wives couldn’t be offended!
“You’ve been arguing all morning and still not quiet?”
Old Man Li had returned from the field with his two sons…
Oldest Brother carrying wheat stalks…
Second Brother shouldering a hoe…
Miaomiao and Liuliu had followed to the field to pick up fallen wheat ears!
The two girls were tanned black! Especially Miaomiao, the five-year-old young maid. Her mother was so fat, yet she was scarily thin!
Her face only had a pair of big eyes blinking…
The field wasn’t too far, and they could vaguely hear the commotion at home.
The closer they got, the louder the noise.
Zhou Shi saw them and felt a bit uneasy inside: “His Father, Oldest Brother, Second Brother, why did you all come back so early?”
