Chapter 18 Selling fine grain and selling a sister
Author: foraging swallows
Chapter 18 Selling fine grain and selling a sister
But An Youcai's slightly reproachful question angered Liu Jiajia, who already felt wronged.
She started crying as loudly as she could. She had never been hungry in the first place, but her cries were really powerful.
It was as if Xia Qiyue had teamed up with her mother-in-law to bully her, so she reached out and accused the two of them.
"I wanted to buy some fine grains from my fourth sister-in-law, but my mother blocked her and said she had two children with her, so what was in my belly was not her grandson? Didn't she feel bad at all? Do you know that my son is missing?
Nutrition, can’t you grow up? You don’t regard me as a human being at all.”
After shouting, she pointed at An Youcai, who walked up to her and looked confused, "And you, just listen to your mother and don't treat me as a human being. If I can marry you, you should burn incense. You
You actually mistreat me like this, and you feed me wild vegetables every day even though you have enough money to buy fine grains. What do you think of Anjiaan?"
Xia Qiyue shook her head. Is this the sense of superiority of a pregnant woman? She thinks that she has seized the lifeline of her husband's family and can do whatever she wants when she is pregnant with a child?
There was a commotion here. Mrs. An and Wang's face turned pale because of her daughter-in-law's anger. She pointed at Liu Jiajia with trembling hands, and couldn't say a single word.
When the patriarch saw his mother-in-law acting like this, he was very angry at his ignorant daughter-in-law. In addition, after stopping here, it was the patriarch's family's business, so everyone around him who heard it stopped.
Some said Xia Qiyue was unsympathetic, while others said Liu Jiajia was ignorant. There were different opinions.
Xia Qiyue was angry. What did she do? Didn't she just walk on the road and say a few words to her mother-in-law? Liu Jiajia, a woman, just wanted to buy fine grains with a look on her face.
"That's enough! Stop howling!"
After a strong shout from the master, not only did the people next to him quiet down, but Liu Jiajia, who was sitting on the ground and howling, scolding and kicking, also stopped crying and raised her head.
After Xia Qiyue finished shouting, she glanced around with sharp eyes, and saw that everyone from Lao An's family had arrived, and Liu Mei looked at her with a half-smile that was full of fun.
Xia Qiyue was too lazy to look at the expressions of the others. She turned to look at Liu Jiajia, and a plan came to her mind.
Doesn't she want to buy fine grain? She just wants to destroy the hope of Lao An's family, so why not just sell it to her for a pound?
"Liu Jiajia, you want to buy fine grains, right?" Xia Qiyue said calmly, "If you want to buy fine grains, just say so. Why are you still crying and fussing like a three-year-old child?"
After saying that, he kindly stepped forward to help Liu Jiajia, who was stunned, and said to the puzzled eyes of the people around her, "Fourth sister-in-law didn't say not to sell it to you, right?"
With tears still hanging on her face, Liu Jiajia asked blankly, "Sister-in-law Four, do you mean to sell it to me?"
A very distressed expression appeared on Xia Qiyue's face, but she nodded gently as if she had made a decision. "Seeing you running away with a big belly, my fourth sister-in-law reminded me of the time when I was pregnant." As she said this, her face
He looked into the distance as if he was remembering.
"I'm pregnant with two children, and my belly is bigger than yours. Even if I bend down, I can't see my feet. But my fourth sister-in-law is not as lucky as you. She doesn't have a mother-in-law who loves me, and I don't have a husband to take care of me every day.
You have to get up early to cook, cut grass, feed pigs, and work as a female celebrity. There are endless tasks to do every day. How can you be lucky enough to have enough to eat every day?"
After hearing Xia Qiyue's words, the women around them all had their eyes red.
There are still a lot of women who have been tortured like her, because in this era, the status of women is so low.
Mrs. An looked at the people around her and pointed, and started to talk about how they were not human, and pointed her hair at them. She quit, pointed at Xia Qiyue and shouted.
"Bitch, what are you talking about?"
But this shout made the people around him speak more brazenly. Old Man An wanted to save face, and his daughter-in-law was right about this, so he stretched out his hand and pulled the old woman, "Isn't it embarrassing enough?"
Mrs. An was unmoved, and shook off the old man's hand and was about to rush out, but Xia Qiyue didn't take it seriously and looked at Liu Jiajia who started crying again and spoke.
"So Jiajia, it's not easy for my fourth sister-in-law to see that you are pregnant, and she also wants you to eat something good, but she only has a pound of fine grains left in her hand..." After a pause, she glanced at her younger siblings.
It was as if some important decision had been made, "My fourth sister-in-law has made the decision today. I will sell you all this fine grain! But after all, this is not the fourth sister-in-law's, but my younger brother and sister's. The price..."
Hearing this, many people around him applauded. Xia Qiyue unintentionally made her image taller and downplayed the suffering she suffered at Lao An's house, letting everyone know
, what kind of life she lived in Lao An's house, and what kind of life it is like now.
Liu Jiajia didn't wait for Xia Qiyue to finish, and wiped her tears with her sleeves, then took out all her little treasury.
"Fourth sister-in-law, you are so kind to me and you sincerely want to treat me well. I can't be sorry for you. Here are fifty copper plates, which I saved little by little through embroidery. I give them all to you!"
, and put his copper plate and wallet in Xia Qiyue's hands.
"This... is too much..." Xia Qiyue wanted to say it was too much. Normally, this rice was only five copper coins per pound, but the price was ten times higher.
But Liu Jiajia didn't give her a chance to speak, and immediately said, "Fourth sister-in-law, you are the best person to me. From now on, you will no longer be Fourth sister-in-law, you are my biological sister."
This dramatic change made everyone confused. You looked at me and I looked at you. However, they did not dare to speak too harshly about the gossip in the patriarch's family, so they all watched with their mouths closed.
Xia Qiyue didn't catch this, and turned to look at Wang An, who was furious just now, but now...has calmed down.
Mrs. An Wang nodded: "Qiyue, just take it. Jiajia has not received much attention from her parents' family, so her character is a bit weird. Please bear with her!"
Xia Qiyue understood immediately after hearing this. Isn't this a typical lack of love?
Because she was not taken seriously by her mother's family, and she may even have been treated unfairly or mistreated, so in her husband's family, especially after she became pregnant and had money, she would try her best to get the attention and favor of her husband's family.
Xia Qiyue understands this feeling. After all, she grew up in an orphanage in her previous life. She understands the feeling of being without a father and a mother.
I also know how distorted the hearts of people like Liu Jiajia, who have parents but do not receive love, will be.
It was so serious that she just said a few words and sold her a pound of fine grain, and she felt that he was the best person for her.
Xia Qiyue originally thought that Liu Jiajia was only interested in profit, but now it seems that she is not.
She easily gave her all her personal money and even recognized her as her sister.
But Mrs. An and Wang had said it, so she took it. After all, in the current situation, this pound of fine grain cost more than fifty copper coins, and that was not an exaggeration for a life.
If it weren't for the sake of breaking Lao An's family, she wouldn't have sold it. She would have kept it to replenish her family's health.