Although I was worried, there was no reason to immediately go over and ask. After all, I still didn’t know what it was.
After Old Yuan muttered a few words, he took the bowl and started eating.
I saw Zhang Lihua was still cleaning the mountain mushrooms, smoke was rising from the Zhang family stove, and Miao Shixian was still making rice.
They have more families, but it is certainly not as convenient and simple as them.
Song Qiu took a big sip of porridge, stretched out his chopsticks and picked up a piece of pumpkin wrapped in shredded meat, about to put it into his mouth.
"Lihua, you damn girl! Get out of here!"
Suddenly, Old Deng's shouts from next door made her hands shake in fright, and all the chopsticks and vegetables fell into the bowl.
"What are you doing?" Old Yuan was also shocked.
Obviously, Old Deng seemed to be particularly angry and angry when he heard this.
"Lihua has been very well-behaved these past few days. She's fine. What are you doing?"
Song Qiu thought about Zhang Hugua, who had just returned from town, and somehow had a bad premonition.
The grandfather and grandson quickly put down their bowls and chopsticks and left the kitchen room.
Old Mrs. Deng was standing at the threshold of the upper room, with her hands on her hips and looking angrily at Zhang Lihua outside, her eyes like spitting fire.
Zhang Lihua was so frightened that she couldn't understand why she was so angry.
In my memory, Nai almost never spoke to her in a good tone, and always asked her to do some work, but he had never looked at her with such anger.
Inexplicably, Zhang Lihua was a little scared.
Especially, through her breasts, I saw her father sitting in the middle of the upper room with a calm expression that showed no emotion.
And her fourth uncle standing aside looked at her with deep eyes.
She bit her lip, got up and went to her breast.
"Nai, what are you calling me for?" Zhang Lihua walked over and looked up at Old Deng and asked in a low voice.
"What's the matter? Why do you have the nerve to ask me? I think you've grown up and your wings have hardened, so you don't take your grandfather and me seriously at all, right?!"
As soon as old Deng stepped on board, his saliva flew out of his mouth.
"Kneel down!" He was obviously very angry, his chest was rising and falling with excitement.
Zhang Lihua was so frightened that she shuddered again, but seeing her angry look and fearing that her anger would be suppressed, she didn't dare to hesitate and quickly knelt down.
The ground was mud, so it didn't hurt to kneel on it, but it was a little hard and jarring.
Zhang Lihua knelt down obediently, burying her head and not daring to look at Old Deng.
That honest look really makes him look a little weak and pitiful.
A dark light flashed quickly in Old Deng's eyes that no one saw. Feeling the eyes behind her, she gritted her teeth and said angrily: "You can tell yourself! What good things have you done!"
What's up?
Only then did Zhang Lihua have time to think about what she had done to make her mother so angry.
But these days, she hasn't done anything.
I picked mountain mushrooms carefully, then went to Aqiu's house to make rice dumplings, and then helped sell rice dumplings. This was what her grandma asked me to do.
Apart from that, I just went to town for a day yesterday?
But her mother agreed to this and gave her two copper coins so that she could ride the bullock cart back and forth.
She was very happy at that time, thinking that her mother still loved her and liked her.
But why is it like this today?
What on earth is going on?
Zhang Lihua was thinking, and suddenly her eyes shrank as she stared at a ball of dry mud under her body.
Fourth uncle went to town today.
I just came back, and as soon as I came back, I went into the upper room and my grandma said something, and then she came out and got angry.
So, what did Fourth Uncle say?
But although the fourth uncle was not as kind to her as he was to his other nephews and nieces, he was still tolerable. There was no reason for him to give her any eye drops behind her back.
She didn't offend him either. She just ignored him when she called him.
Zhang Lihua thought for a long time but couldn't figure it out.
Lao Deng didn't have the energy to let her pretend to be quail, so he started drinking again.
"How long are you going to keep this secret from us?! It's obvious that you are determined to go against your grandfather and me, aren't you!?"
"We have raised you so well, and you are carrying us like this?! Your heart has been eaten by a dog?!"
On this side, Song Qiu had been watching silently, and he had already guessed the reason why old Deng was angry.
Zhang Hugua went to town and came back like this. I guess he learned about Lihua's participation in the glutinous rice dumpling eating competition yesterday.
She clenched her fist slightly, thinking about how Old Deng would treat Lihua later, would he hit her?
She couldn't help but worry, and her feet made movements to be ready to rush out at any time.
Zhang Lihua was still a little confused. She thought that maybe she and Aqiu had found out about her and Aqiu's investment in the rice dumpling business?
This is not good.
She had worked hard to earn more than one tael of silver, her brother's wife's money, and her dowry money. Could it be that she had to wash it away like this?
Thinking about it, it's really a bit unacceptable.
But she is always a member of the Zhang family and has to live here. If she doesn't show her toughness, she won't be able to survive and will be drowned in spittle.
After all, there is no reason why anyone would dare to secretly hide private money without the permission of everyone's parents, unless it is not known.
Zhang Lihua was ready to take out the money, although she was unwilling to do so.
But just as she was about to open her mouth, she didn't speak yet.
Old Madam Deng, who was above, had already continued: "What did you do in town yesterday? Why don't you start from the beginning?!"
What about going to town yesterday?
Zhang Lihua was stunned, she was not stupid, she was a fool even before she thought of it.
She quickly glanced at Zhang Hugua in the room, thinking that her fourth uncle had gone to town, and now he knew that she had won five taels of silver?
Sure enough, her fourth uncle was really easy to find out.
"Did you participate in some glutinous rice dumpling eating competition and win five taels of silver?" Old Deng simply told her everything.
Zhang Lihua pursed her lips and said, "Yes."
She didn't deny it, but felt inexplicably relieved.
It turned out to be the five taels of silver for eating glutinous rice balls.
As long as it’s not about the zongzi.
Although five taels of silver is much more than one tael more, she would rather hand over these five taels of silver than handing over the one tael more to make her feel better.
A complex light flashed quickly in Old Deng's eyes, but she didn't hesitate much and immediately said angrily: "Where is the money? Why don't you hand it over quickly?! You have stiff wings, how dare you carry it on your back?"
Your grandfather hid money secretly with me? How brave you are!"
"The silver is kept in the house." Zhang Lihua said.
"Why don't you go and take it out?! Do you still want me to look for it?!"
Zhang Lihua stood up quickly and ran to the small house where she lived. After a while, she came back and handed a piece of silver to old Deng.
Seeing that it was really a piece of silver, Old Deng grabbed it, turned around, took the broom placed against the wall, and beat Zhang Lihua on her body.
While beating him, he cursed: "I'll beat you to death! You didn't learn well at a young age! You dare to hide money behind an adult's back! You are so brave, I'll beat you to death for disrespecting your elders!"
The broom fell on Zhang Lihua quickly and accurately like raindrops. Zhang Lihua protected her head and screamed in pain, but did not dare to run away.
Song Qiu couldn't stand it anymore, and he raised his foot to go over there, but suddenly he was grabbed by the old Yuan next to him.
Song Qiu looked at her breasts in confusion, but saw that her breasts were only looking at the Zhang family and not at her, but one hand was holding her tightly.