Chapter 93:
Matchmaker Wan returned disappointed, Zhou Shi slapped her thigh in the yard, howling nonsense like “It’s over! All over!”
Li Zheng Sen saw that his oldest brother’s home seemed to have internal matters to discuss, so he stood up to call his wife back too!
“Second Brother, eat before you go, your eldest sister-in-law made dumplings!”
Old Li Tou cleared his throat and called out.
Hearing him say that, Li Zheng Sen didn’t stand on ceremony and planned to sit down…
Zhou Shi’s shrill, piercing voice rang out: “Eat eat eat, eat a fart! Li Depei, you still have the mind to eat?”
“How about eating you to death!” As soon as she said this, Li Zheng Sen got so angry he immediately wanted to leave!
“Old Woman, what’s wrong with you this time?”
“What’s wrong? You ruined Zhenzhu’s good thing, she could have married into a golden nest to enjoy happiness!”
“Hmph! Golden nest, don’t let it be a demon’s lair!”
“What did you say? My poor Zhenzhu, you old geezer only know how to curse her! As her father, you don’t even plan for her!”
She looked ready to throw herself on the ground and wail!
Li Zhenzhu had a face full of grievance and disappointment, looking at her father with teary eyes tinged with resentment…”Dad…”
“When did I curse her? This crazy woman, too lazy to argue with you!”
“Oldest Brother, then we’ll head back first, we have things at home!” Li Zheng Sen saw his oldest brother’s face turn ashen, his eldest sister-in-law throwing a tantrum, but still said.
“Didn’t you say to eat dumplings?”
Before these words were finished, Zhou Shi wailed even louder!
“Hehe, no need, our home isn’t short a meal of dumplings, our eldest daughter Su Qing just sent over a piece of stew meat, and our Wei Wa came back the other day and bought a bag of wheat flour for home!”
Su Qing married a butcher in Zhao Xiaomei’s maternal village, no shortage of meat there!
Her son Li Wei was in town, doing pretty well too!
These words made Zhou Shi seethe with jealousy! Wasn’t this stabbing at her heart?
In her youth, she had mocked Zhao Xiaomei for giving birth to nothing but daughters, useless!
Later, at an advanced age, she had a son, and though her daughters didn’t marry into wealthy families, the home life was still quite prosperous…
“Making it sound like we can’t afford it, we came to help man the shop, not to beg for food!”
Zhao Xiaomei continued.
Li Zheng Sen tugged her sleeve!
“What’s there to show off about? Our family’s Zhenzhu is going to marry into a noble person’s home, our family’s Gui’er is going to be an official master!”
“Tch, no matter what your family is like, I’m not jealous, his father let’s go!”
“Second Sister-in-law, look what you’re saying, I called you over to help, if you don’t eat before going, how would that look?”
“Forget it! Bustling around half the day for nothing, I’ll go back and make my own!”
“Hey!”
“Oldest Brother, then I’m off!”
Li Zheng Sen followed behind Zhao Xiaomei and left!
Seeing them go far, Zhou Shi felt satisfied, her wailing voice quieted down!
“Alright, are you satisfied now?”
“Hmph! Satisfied with what? Their home has meat and flour, our home was about to have everything, but you stirred it up and now we’re poor again…”
“Shut up! Didn’t I say to inquire first?”
Old Li Tou angrily put his hands behind his back, walked out of the yard to the riverbank to smoke, pacing around in irritation!
Luo Zhi’er also stood up, went to the room to put down Miaomiao’s shoes, and prepared to check the kitchen.
She was stopped by Li Zhenzhu with a face full of fierce flesh: “Stop!”
Luo Zhi’er looked at her, tear stains still on her face, she was really heartbroken!
“Hehe! Luo Zhi’er, you say you ruined my business, what’s your motive?”
Now she was blaming it on her, if she had known she was so stubborn she wouldn’t have bothered, just a few kind reminders as fellow women, but she was thinking who knows where!
“Zhenzhu, if you want to think of me that way there’s no helping it, these few questions I asked, don’t you want to know? Aren’t you afraid?”
“If this Master Zeng has issues you won’t be able to get out…”
“Hmph! Thinking of others as dirty as you, Master Zeng is a merchant rich in one region! What’s the issue?”
“Fine! You’re the one rushing in headfirst, don’t cause trouble for your family, you saw it with your own eyes just now, that compensation is one hundred taels, if there’s an issue, where will you Li Zhenzhu get this silver from? Won’t it still be up to your brothers and sisters-in-law to pay?”
“Ugly words up front, I Luo Zhi’er don’t have it! Your third brother doesn’t either, we’re not running a money house, we don’t have the ability!”
“Your oldest brother doesn’t either!”
Xiao Zhou Shi suddenly appeared coldly at the back doorway and spoke out.
“Don’t drag us down!”
“You… all bullying me! Just you wait!”
Li Zhenzhu stomped her foot and ran out…
