Liu Lu despised Li Xiaoyan from the bottom of his heart. It was not until the time when rumors spread about her causing trouble in school that he had an opinion of her until now. It was when he was planting early seeds.
During the early rice planting season, the girl from the Li family did not help at home on weekends. Brother Zhou would not ask his stepdaughter to do the work, but Aunt Meng asked Li Xiaoyan to help pull the seedlings.
When Li Xiaoyan pulled the seedlings, she imitated the ancient rich ladies with their orchid jade fingers raised and counted the seedlings one by one. It took half an hour to pull out a hand of seedlings.
Ask her to send something to the fields, and she sees the crickets shivering, the crickets jumping and screaming, the leech crying with snot and tears, and the little water snake as if it was a ghost.
Among children in rural areas, who has never seen snakes, leeches and crickets, the most common things in the fields?
If the girl from the Li family was really one of those wealthy young ladies in big cities who can’t even tell the difference between seedlings and grass, it would be normal for her to be scared when seeing earthworms and leeches, but she wasn’t. Grandma Li’s house is even more remote than Plum Village, and snakes and insects are common in summer.
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Moreover, on the day they went to help Brother Zhou pick up his bride, they saw a lot of earthworms and snake skins on the roadside and beside the fields.
Those things are just beside the road. If the Li girl is so timid, the grass will grow on her grave.
The girl from the Li family is obviously not a wealthy woman, but she still pretends to be delicate. Her delicate and squeamish look makes people upset.
Liu Lu despised Li Xiaoyan once he saw the pretentious side of the girl from the Li family. After getting along with her for a long time, he found that Meng's wife was not as sensible as she seemed, and he didn't have much favorable impressions of Meng's sister-in-law.
Liu Lu's voice was neither high nor low, and everyone heard it. Cheng Youde and others pretended not to hear the thorn in Liu Lu's words.
The smile on Mrs. Meng's face slowly stiffened, and she felt as if her heart had been stabbed by a cone. She understood clearly that Liu Lu was mocking her for being a delicate girl.
And she was speechless.
Especially there is Zhou Tianqing for comparison. She is also a sophomore in high school. Zhou Tianqing's grades are not worse than Xiaoyan's, and the Zhou Papi family does not pamper their children. Both Zhou Tianqing and Zhou Tianhong will help with any work when they go home during the holidays.
Xiaoyan's grades are not bad. She used to do farm work during holidays when she was in junior high school. After she entered high school, she rarely helped out because of the heavy academic pressure and heavy homework. She only did some odd housework.
The day after Zhou Tianqing came back from vacation, he helped others with a double robbery. Even his half-grown child Zhou Tianhong followed the adults to work under the scorching sun. Xiaoyan went to the fields because she thought the Le family was harvesting rice. She only worked for half a day before she couldn't stand it anymore.
Comparing the two, in the eyes of others, Xiaoyan is certainly squeamish.
Being told that the child is not good makes Mrs. Meng feel very uncomfortable. Xiaoyan has lost her father. As a mother, she just wants to give her double love so that the child will suffer less. Xiaoyan just doesn't help others, how can I say that?
Is it "princess disease"?
She felt bad and couldn't argue with Brother Zhou's buddies, so she was depressed.
Chen Dalian and the others didn't say anything. Aunt Ba immediately said on the spot that it is not shameful to educate her granddaughter and grandson to live in the countryside. Don't be full of little thoughts all day long, let alone pretend to imitate "a pig's nose inserting a green onion - pretending to be an elephant"
Disgusting people.
Aunt Ba, who has always hated her with hatred, came back from the capital and heard about the behavior of the Li family girl who was always sneaking around while the Le family master was not at home. In addition, the Li family girl became more and more arrogant at school and Meng Meng's wife pretended to be deaf. She also despised her even more.
Sister-in-law Meng.
Zhou Tianqing and Zhou Tianhong nodded at first, but when grandma finished her lecture, Zhou Tianqing looked helpless: "Grandma, can you keep your heart in mind? We are afraid that Sister Lele will cut her off, and we are not that big of a dog to go astray.
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"I'm not afraid that you will have a bad memory or be complacent, so I will remind you from time to time." Aunt Pa definitely did not say that she was worried that her grandchildren would turn a deaf ear to her words and imitate other people's mistakes.
Zhou Tianqing babbled speechlessly and quickly slipped away away from her grandma to avoid being caught in ideological education classes again.
Aunt Pa didn’t keep chattering about work.
Le's father Zhou Qiufeng didn't know what Meng's mother and daughter were thinking. The couple led a group of helpers to cut the rice for a long time in the morning. In the afternoon, the troops were divided into three groups, one group cut the grain and the other threshed. Le's father Zhou Qiufeng first harvested the rice.
When a field is threshed, water is poured into the field, and then fertilizer and plows are transported home.
Zhou Papi and his wife help people with their work. Village Chief Zhou has to go to the village committee every day during the non-weekend period to order mao. Since the village library is open during the summer vacation, he still has to keep an eye on the library. Only Grandma Man goes to Lejia to help with some housework.
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Grandma Zhou Man assists Mrs. Chao, Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Wu, and Mrs. Zhou Wei in managing three meals a day and taking care of the livestock. In addition to feeding pigs and chickens and ducks at noon and evening, Grandma Zhou also spends most of her time at Lejia. These old ladies are very energetic.
I excitedly made plans to make rice dumplings, dumplings and glutinous rice cakes.
On the first day I made dumplings, I even gave the workers a dumpling as a snack in the middle of the morning.
Make rice dumplings on the 23rd and glutinous rice cakes on the 24th.
Lejia put down all the seedlings on the morning of the 24th, and divided the work in the afternoon. Those who were not very good at transplanting were responsible for threshing, transporting millet home or tying straw, while those who knew how to transplant rice went to the fields first.
Transplanting rice seedlings is tiring and the speed is a bit slow.
Li Xiaoyan had been trying to find a chance to sneak into the Le family's house, but she never succeeded. Even if she passed by the Le family's building, the Le family's couple and the people in the Le family's house pretended not to have seen her.
Uncle Zhou and his mother did not go to help the Le family with the work, and wanted to follow Grandma Zhou there. Grandma Zhou did not take her, so she could only watch the days pass day by day.
In the blink of an eye, the 26th arrived, and Li Xiaoyan finally had her long-awaited grandma.
Granny Li had no reason to go to the Zhou family on weekdays. After receiving a series of calls from her granddaughter, she came to Meicun to help her. The reason was naturally because the Zhou family was scheduled to harvest rice on the 27th, and she came to help her in-laws share some housework.
The 26th was Wei Day. Grandma Zhou, Mrs. Zhou Mannai and Mrs. Wu invited Mrs. Chao, Mrs. Wang and Zhou Wei to go shopping to see if there were any fresh mountain products.
When the six old ladies were shopping, by chance, Grandma Zhouman saw Granny Li. She immediately pulled her sister-in-law aside and whispered: "Li Xiaoyan's grandma is here."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Huh?" Grandma Zhou was surprised, and turned to find someone. She followed her sister-in-law's instructions and really found the target. Grandma Li carried her on her back and came to Zhou's house to do fashion.
That bag of clothes.
Grandma Li's backpack was very bulging and she was walking in the direction of Plum Village. She didn't look like she was going to the market.
"I'm going back first. I won't go to Lele's house these days." Grandma Zhou was also a smart person. She said something to her sister-in-law and quickly left the group.
Grandma Zhou Man turned around happily, found Mrs. Wang and others, and quietly told a few old ladies that Grandma Zhou was going back first.
Zhou Wei asked Grandma Zhou why she didn't wait for them and if there was something urgent at home.
Grandma Zhou Man didn't hide it, saying that Grandma Zhou's in-laws were here.
Old Mrs. Chao understood in a few seconds that when Grandma Zhou saw her new mother-in-law, she went home first because she didn't want to bring that person to Lejia.
In order not to let Granny Li see her, Grandma Zhou took a small road back to Meicun and then went home directly.
Li Xiaoyan knew that grandma was coming, so she washed the fruits and put them in the main room upstairs to wait. When she heard the footsteps, she thought it was grandma who was coming, so she jumped up happily and called "grandma".
When I ran two steps and saw that it was Grandma Zhou who suddenly came back, I was so frightened that I froze.
At this moment, Grandma Zhou also understood that Granny Li was called by Li Xiaoyan!
She glanced at Li Xiaoyan and asked in a gentle voice: "You asked your grandma to come to Zhou's house today, right?"
"..." Being hit by Grandma Zhou's question, Li Xiaoyan's back felt hairy and she stammered in denial: "No... no, I didn't ask my grandma to come. It was my grandma who called and said she wanted to come... to see me."
"Oh." Grandma Zhou said in a neutral tone. She walked to the main room and pulled a chair to sit on it. She didn't say anything, just stared at Li Xiaoyan.
When what she did was exposed, even if she found a reason to fool Grandma Zhou, seeing Grandma Zhou sitting there staring at her, Li Xiaoyan could guess the reason why Grandma Zhou didn't believe her without using her brain.
Being stared at by Grandma Zhou made her feel creepy and panicked. She raised her feet and wanted to leave. She found a place to quietly call Grandma for ventilation.
"Why, do you want to call your grandma secretly to inform her?" When Grandma Zhou saw Li Xiaoyan trying to run away, she rudely poked her lung tube again.
"No...no." Li Xiaoyan didn't dare to leave anymore. She moved to the side with difficulty, dragged a chair and sat on it, but she couldn't sit still and broke out in a cold sweat.
Grandma Zhou said nothing and stared at Li Xiaoyan quietly.
Because she kept a close eye on her, Li Xiaoyan couldn't make phone calls, so she could only worry. Grandma didn't know how to read, so it was useless to send messages. Even if she received the message, grandma wouldn't read it.
In the hall, one person is calm and the other person is guilty and nervous. The two of them, an old man and a young man, form a sharp contrast.
In the weird atmosphere, about ten minutes later, footsteps were heard from the door. Li Xiaoyan almost jumped up. Before she could shout out, she heard a voice: "Xiaoyan, grandma is here to support you, my dear grandson."
Don't be afraid, I'm here with you, and I won't let the Zhou family and Le family bully you."
Hearing what Granny Li said to support Li Xiaoyan, Grandma Zhou stared at Li Xiaoyan with a straight face.
When Li Xiaoyan heard what grandma said, she almost went crazy. She no longer cared about being stared at by grandma Zhou, and ran to the alley connecting the north and south gates in two steps, and called out "grandma" in panic.
"Xiaoyan, what are you doing? You don't have to worry about being bored by hiding at home all day long. Your mother's evil mother-in-law is not at home. If you go to the front and outside of Le's house a few times, someone will ask you to come in."
Granny Li walked all the way to the door of Zhou's house, wiping sweat and talking as she walked. She knew that Granny Zhou went to the market with others, and even if she came back, she would go to Le's house and not Zhou's house. There were no outsiders in the Zhou family, and she didn't talk at all.
Got scruples.
Grandma yelled like popping beans in a bamboo tube, and Li Xiaoyan had no time to stop her. She was so anxious that a heavy cold sweat covered her forehead.
Grandma Zhou is sitting in the main room. Grandma has no control over her mouth. She talks as casually as if they were talking behind their backs. Grandma Zhou has listened to everything she said. How will she treat her in the future?
Li Xiaoyan didn't dare to look at Grandma Zhou's face and was so panicked that she almost cried: "Miscellaneous—"
