Chapter 15: Where there is a stepmother, there is a stepfather
One by one, like a cow, he pushes away people to clear a path, then turns around and urges the people behind him to hurry up, reaches out and pulls a boy who looks almost the same as him, and continues to rush forward.
"Liang Zhichao, you don't have a long mouth, why don't you tell us to give way?" An aunt with a bad temper almost lost her balance after being hit.
Unexpectedly, the child whose name was called turned around and made a slight face at her.
With Liang Zhichao leading the way, the four children quickly entered the yard and arrived in front of the adults.
Zheng Youdi immediately stood up, pointed at the tallest boy with a straight face and scolded, "Goudan, how did you bring up your younger brother? What if you guys rush in like this and knock someone down?"
"I didn't hit them." Goudan said unconvincedly, "I can't stop them. Grandma will scold me if they do something wrong."
The more Goudan talked, the angrier he became, "I won't take them to play anymore!"
Liang Zhichao glanced at his cousin without any intention of admitting his mistake. His eyes fell on a woman he had never seen before and asked loudly, "Are you my dad's new wife?"
Liang Zhiqiang and his brother stood side by side. He accidentally caught a cold two days ago, and now his nose was still filled with snot and he kept sniffing.
He whispered to his brother, "Brother, she seems to have biscuits in her hand."
The words in Liang Zhiqiang’s mouth refer to one by one.
When Liang Zhichao saw that it was really there, he immediately rushed towards Yiyi, like a tornado, and Yiyi cried out in fright.
"Give it to me!" Liang Zhichao snatched the biscuits from Yiyi's hand, turned around and ran back to his brother quickly, and divided the two biscuits he grabbed with his brother.
The two brothers put the biscuits into their mouths without wasting a second, took two hurried bites and swallowed them.
Not to mention everyone was frightened, even Su Shu was shocked.
It is no exaggeration to say that it was unexpected. It was like a black shadow flashed before his eyes. Before he could react, Liang Zhichao had already grabbed the things and ran away.
Su Shu quickly hugged Yiyi into her arms and coaxed her in a low voice.
At this moment, everyone in the yard was staring at Su Shu and watching her reaction.
Grandma Wu was the first to react. She stretched out her hand and pulled the two brothers over, scolding her harshly, "You two bastards, how dare you steal your aunt's things? Say sorry to your aunt and apologize to your mother!"
"She is not our mother! She is not apologizing to them! If she has something to eat, we will take it from her! Just a little bit~"
Liang Zhichao shook off Grandma Wu's hand, pulled his brother like a gust of wind, and ran away again.
Four-year-old Tiedan was ignorant. When he saw his two brothers running away, he thought they were playing and chased after them.
Only then did a neighbor say, "Hey, they are all children and they are not sensible. Just teach them more in the future. There is no need to argue with a child."
Zheng Youdi hurriedly greeted the neighbors to go home and cook. After sending the neighbors away, Zheng Youdi followed Grandma Wu and others to coax them one by one.
Grandma Wu even looked at Su Shu nervously as she listened to the cries one by one.
"Daughter-in-law of Zhenguo, brothers Zhichao and Zhiqiang were raised crookedly by their mother's side. From now on, those two children will follow you. If they do something wrong, you will beat them when they need to be beaten and scold them when they need to be scolded."
Zheng Youdi was also worried because she was afraid that Su Shu would turn around and go back to her parents' home because of this incident.
After all, this was the first time for her to see such a difficult-to-manage child.
After Zheng Youdi finished speaking, she urged Goudan, "Go and find the three younger brothers. Whatever you say today, Zhichao and the others must apologize one by one."
Goudan sat down on the chair on the side, cupping his chin and looking at the sister he had never seen before, who looked so beautiful even when she was crying, so he didn't want to leave.
He snorted, "If I don't go, I can't bring them back even if I find them. Liang Zhichao and Liang Zhiqiang don't listen to me. Tiedan now listens to them instead of me."
After saying that, Goudan turned around and asked, "Grandma, can I give my sister tomorrow's biscuits? My sister won't cry if she has biscuits."
When Grandpa Wu and Liang Zhenguo entered the door, they happened to hear Goudan's words and Yiyi's cries.
Grandpa Wu was so angry that he shouted at Goudan, "Goudan, are you bullying me?"
Liang Zhenguo walked quickly towards Su Shu, bent down and touched Yiyi's head, and asked in a low voice, "Why are Yiyi crying?"
Grandma Wu quickly told what Liang Zhichao had done just now. Liang Zhenguo immediately became sullen and asked, "Where are those two bastards now?"
"I know! I'll take my cousin to find them!" Goudan responded, stretched out his hand and pulled Liang Zhenguo out.
The two of them had just walked not far when a young girl's voice suddenly came from outside the yard.
"This girl is so good at crying. Isn't it just that she was robbed of two biscuits? She just lost two mouthfuls of food. She still has the nerve to cry like this. How can there be girls who are so greedy? Even adults don't know how to teach them.
Stay focused."
The girl walked in while talking, without stopping, "If this were in our home, how could we cry like this over such a trivial matter? She would have been scolded long ago."
Su Shu's hand gently patting Yiyi gradually stopped, and she slowly raised her head to look at the girl who came in.
Although she didn't know what the relationship between this man and the Wu family was, Su Shu didn't give him a good look and asked directly.
"In your family, education is passed down to men and women? In your family, education is also passed down to men but not to women? So this is the reason why you are uneducated?"
Huang Xiaoqin couldn't hold it back and burst out laughing.
Grandma Wu was afraid that Su Shu would misunderstand, so she quickly said, "Er Cui, it's better not to talk about things you don't know. Today's matter is originally the fault of brothers Zhichao and Zhiqiang."
Zheng Youdi nodded hurriedly, "This is not about the cookies, nor is Yiyi greedy for two cookies. She was frightened by Zhichao."
Huang Xiaoqin touched her belly and continued: "Besides, my cousin-in-law and her cousin are both girls from the county. My parents work both ways, so there is no shortage of these two biscuits. They are not greedy."
Er Cui didn't expect that the whole family would actually help Liang Zhenguo's new wife, and her face didn't look good at that moment.
When Huang Gui asked her what was going on here, Ercui realized that Huang Gui meant to drive people away, and she became even more unhappy.
"My mother asked me to bring the counting votes to Brother Zhenguo." After Er Cui finished speaking, he threw the things on the unoccupied chair and turned around to leave.
Su Shu glanced at the chair and saw several meat and gas tickets.
Seeing Su Shu watching, Grandma Wu explained.
"Half a year ago Ercui's second brother got married and held a wedding reception. They didn't have enough tickets at home so they borrowed some for us. They paid them back one after another in half a year. It must have been that they heard that our family was going to have a wedding reception tomorrow and they were afraid that we would also need tickets, so we borrowed some.
It was delivered to us."
The neighbors are good neighbors. If they need it, they don't even need to ask, they will take the initiative to send it over there.
It's a pity that this little daughter didn't teach her well. She just got involved in other people's housework and just came here to add fuel to the fire.
Grandma Wu never realized before that Er Cui, whom she watched growing up, actually had such an annoying side.
Liang Zhenguo dragged two tough brothers home, dragging one with one hand.
When he got home, he saw Liang Zhichao dragging his brother and running away again. Liang Zhenguo threatened with a cold face, "If you dare to run away, I will send you back to your grandma tomorrow."
This has worked.
Liang Zhichao stepped out of the threshold, then suddenly pulled it back, turning his head to glare at Liang Zhenguo bitterly.
Note:
Due to the close relationship between Liang Zhenguo and the Wu family, the two brothers Liang Zhichao called the elders of the Wu family (Grandpa Wu - great-grandfather, Grandma Wu - great-grandmother) the same as the Goudan brothers.
Wu Houchun and his wife are called uncle and uncle.
According to local custom where the author lives, Yiyi and his cousin are of the same generation, so the elders of the Liang family are called the same as their cousin.