mtl008 Chapter 83: Sweep Out the Door
Chapter 83: Sweep Out the Door
The villagers who were eating nearby were immediately embarrassed. Everyone knew that Jiang Yuwei cooked well and was willing to give the villagers good food. However, what Li Cuihua said was too harsh. It was not that everyone could not afford the meal, so some people stood up and pretended to leave with a stern face:
"Big Boss, I don't want to eat anymore. I'm going home first!"
"I won't eat it anymore. Leave it for your mother!"
Ning Huaizhi saw this and pushed his wheelchair to block the entrance of the courtyard, smiling apologetically:
"Fellow villagers, don't bother with a woman. She can't be our head of the family, nor can she be our master. Why get angry over someone who has nothing to do with us? Give me some face, go back, eat your fill, and then leave. This is my home, and she doesn't have the final say!"
Seeing that Ning Huaizhi was trying to persuade them to stay, everyone had to give him face, so they nodded and returned to their seats to continue eating.
Seeing that this group of people were persuaded to come back, Li Cuihua opened her mouth and said:
"You are such a shameless coward. You were persuaded to come back after a few words from others. Isn't it just for the sake of my daughter's food and drink?"
A hot-tempered man stood up and pointed at Li Cuihua and cursed:
"You damn old woman, if I give you some face, you are Yu Wei's mother. If I don't give you any face, you are just an old gossiper!"
Seeing that this person dared to scold her like that, Li Cuihua's face immediately turned red with anger and she pulled Old Man Jiang and said:
"Old man, he dared to call me an old turnip! Don't let my daughter use him to work! We won't pay him! Let him curse!"
Jiang Yuwei could no longer bear it. She had thought that these two people came from far away, and she would not drive them away without even giving them a meal. But now she was afraid that she could not keep this trouble any longer. She strode forward, picked up the bags that the two people had thrown on the ground, walked outside the yard and threw them directly into the trap pit that had been dug earlier.
Jiang Yuwei went back to the yard, picked up the big broom and started sweeping Li Cuihua and Old Man Jiang who were still sitting at the stone table. Everyone was surprised to see this, and when they came to their senses, they began to whisper and laugh.
If Li Cuihua had not said those words just now, perhaps someone would have stepped forward to help stop her, but after Li Cuihua said those words, everyone just wanted to laugh at her, and no one thought that Jiang Yuwei's behavior was inappropriate.
Li Cuihua's face was covered with dirt from the broom, which made her cough as soon as she opened her mouth:
"Ahem, you are going to kill my father and my mother!"
Old man Jiang was also busy dodging the broom that Jiang Yuwei swung at him with his hands on his head, muttering:
"Hey, hey, what are you doing? Are you going to kill your own father?"
Jiang Yuwei didn't say anything, but just kept waving the broom in her hand until she beat the two people out of the yard. Then she slammed the door shut and said to everyone with a smile:
"I'm sorry to have embarrassed you all. Let's eat quickly!"
Jiang Yuwei smiled and pushed Ning Huaizhi to the side of the stone table. She poured all the food they had just eaten into a bamboo bucket and handed it to Ning Wan, saying:
"Wan'er, take it to the backyard and feed it to Xiaojiu. We won't eat what they leave behind."
Ning Wan nodded heavily and carried the bamboo bucket to the backyard. Jiang Yuwei put some more food in the pot, sat down and started eating.
At this time, Li Cuihua was still banging on the door and shouting:
"Open the door quickly. If you can't accommodate two old people like us, then give us money so that I can redeem your sister. This way, we can have a daughter to take care of us in our old age. Why did I raise you, you ungrateful bastard?"
Jiang Yuwei completely ignored Li Cuihua's shouting and scolding, and finished the meal very calmly. The villagers looked at Jiang Yuwei's calmness and silently felt that although Jiang Yuwei looked gentle and honest on weekdays, she was actually a person who was not easy to mess with. Their respect for her deepened.
When the villagers finished their meal and opened the door to go home, they saw Li Cuihua and Old Man Jiang still squatting at the gate of the courtyard and refused to leave. After the villagers left, they stood up pitifully and tried to run back to the courtyard.
Seeing this, Jiang Yuwei stopped them and said coldly:
"I have done my best by letting you have a meal tonight. Don't even think about entering my house again. Don't ever say you raised me. Everyone in Jiangzhuang knows what kind of people you two are. I originally thought that I would not cause any trouble for you guys after I got married, but I didn't expect you to come to my house and provoke me time and again. If there is a next time, I will definitely go to Jiangzhuang and make it so that you can't live there anymore!"
Old Man Jiang wanted to say something else, but when he raised his eyes, he caught a glimpse of Ning Huaizhi behind Jiang Yuwei. His murderous eyes were fixed on Old Man Jiang, forcing him to hold back what he wanted to say.
Jiang Yuwei looked at the sky which was already dark, then looked at Li Cuihua and Old Man Jiang and said:
"There are many wild animals here at night. If you don't leave now, you will probably stay in Ningjia Village and feed the wolves!"
After saying that, Jiang Yuwei turned around and walked into the yard, closing the door heavily.
Although it was spring, the night wind was still a little chilly. The two stood outside the door, staring at each other for a while, and said helplessly;
"Let's go back. It seems this miser is too stingy to give a penny. He really raised an ungrateful person!"
Li Cuihua spat at the courtyard door and cursed:
"Bah! You think you're so great just because you live in a shabby brick house in the village? You don't even recognize your own parents! Humph, I don't want your filthy money. Wait until you have established yourself in my Yaoyao brothel, become an Oiran, and then you can get close to a nobleman or a master of a mansion. When the time comes, even if you beg to be my relative, I won't pay any attention to you!"
Old man Jiang had been thinking that he had come here today to ask for money to redeem his daughter, but after hearing what Li Cuihua said, his eyes suddenly lit up. How could he not have thought that if his daughter became successful in the brothel in the future, he would have to take the gold and silver jewelry back to honor himself, and he would never have to worry about not having money to gamble in the future.
Thinking of this, he felt happy in his heart, and even regretted not sending his little daughter to a brothel earlier, and raising her at home for so many years in vain.
The two of them each had their own little thoughts, and they supported each other and walked towards Jiangzhuang under the moonlight.
Jiang Yuwei was not at all disturbed by the sudden visit of Old Man Jiang and Li Cuihua. On the contrary, she was secretly delighted when she knew that Jiang Yaoyao was sold to a brothel. It would be best if Old Man Jiang lost the bet a few more times and sold Li Cuihua to others to pay off his debts.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yuwei divided the cooked goat milk into three bowls, one bowl for each of them. They drank it very comfortably. Counting the days, the bark in the pond was almost soaked, so it was time to start making paper tomorrow.
Jiang Yuwei thought that she had to go to Aunt Zhou's house early tomorrow morning to call Tiezhu and Ningwu to help, so that they wouldn't have to work in the fields anymore. So she lay down and went to sleep early.