idle mistress

Chapter 50

Hongyan was very disappointed.She lowered her head and wanted to go back to her room, but she heard her mother-in-law Rong's confession from behind: "Hongyan, put more salt in today's dishes, yesterday's dishes were too salty."

The implication is to let her cook quickly.

The sister-in-law also answered: "Add more water to the rice, the meal at noon has too little water, it's too hard to eat."

Ganqing's family had to take care of themselves, Hongyan was very aggrieved, and went back to the house without responding.

She thought that if she pretended to be deaf and dumb, the two mother and daughter would help, but unexpectedly, after she stayed in the house for half an hour, her mother-in-law saw that she was still staying in the house so late, so she came over and asked her to do it. As he talked, he even gave her a scolding.

When I arrived at the stove, I looked at the cold pot and stove, opened the water tank and saw that there was still more than half of the water in the tank at noon, why did it bottom out in a blink of an eye?

Looking at all this before her, Hongyan really has the heart to die.

"Sister, go fetch water with me." She came to the west wing and found Xu Xiaoke who was fiddling with her hair in front of the mirror. When Xu Xiaoke heard this, she pointed at herself as if she had heard some joke:

"Are you talking about me? No, sister-in-law, you asked me to carry water? Didn't you see my foot? I can't even stand firmly. How can I carry such a heavy water? It's not that I don't want to help, it's just that I can't do what I want , sister-in-law, how much you take care of me."

Ever since she put on her little feet, she felt that her identity was quite different from these girls with big feet. She was destined to marry into a good family and become a wife. for her.

In desperation, Hongyan had no choice but to obediently go to fetch water, and as soon as she came back with half a bucket of water, she saw a strange man poking his head at the door of her house, and when she saw herself approaching, she hurriedly hid.

Startled, Hongyan quickened her pace and entered the door.

Seeing her frightened appearance, Xu Xiaoke in the room asked, "Sister-in-law, why do you act like you've seen a ghost?"

Hongyan panted and pointed to the door: "There is a man outside who is sneaky and doesn't know what he wants to do? Close the door quickly."

"Really? Let me see..."

Xu Xiaoke went to the window and looked out through the window lattice, and sure enough, she saw a man poking his head outside her door.

Her heart was pounding, and without even thinking about it, she picked up the bucket of water that Hongyan Gangtao had brought in, went to the door, spotted the target, and poured it out.

"Oh..." The man turned into a drowned chicken in an instant, and ran away with his butt between his hands.

Seeing him running away in despair, Xu Xiaoke felt very proud.Unexpectedly, when she turned around, she heard her sister-in-law complaining: "Sister, do you know how difficult it is to carry this water? You can't use it sparingly."

Hearing this, Xu Xiaoke immediately pulled her face down...
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When Xu Weiqiu came home, she learned that Xu Xiaoke had come to the house and took away the things she had just bought. Without saying a word, she planned to go and get them back, but Zhang couldn't hold her back.

Walking along the road, I saw a drenched man shivering and passing by.

It's early spring now, and the weather is cold in the evening, so I need to add one more thing when I go out by myself. She has experienced how uncomfortable the feeling of being drenched in the whole body, so she couldn't help but walked over, and asked with concern:

"Brother, did you fall into the pond?"

Li Damao was embarrassed to say that he was splashed with water when he went to pick someone's door, so he had to admit that he accidentally slipped and fell into the water.

"It's cold, be careful to catch a cold. Would it be better if you took off your coat and wrung it dry before putting it on again?"

Xu Weiqiu suggested, and while speaking, he took off his coat and handed it to him: "Come on, use this to wipe it off."

"This..., girl, what's the point of this?"

"It's okay, just wipe it off, I'll just wash it later." While speaking, he wiped the water off his face with his hands.

Li Damao took a peek at her, this woman looks very young, not only gentle, but also good-looking, her skin is darker or darker, her cheeks are dry and peeling, but her eyes are surprisingly beautiful.

Seeing that her black hair was all pulled up, Li Damao couldn't help but feel a little bit lost in his heart, it was a woman's hair in a bun, and girls who are not out of the cabinet usually don't have their hair done like that.

He didn't know that Xu Weiqiu combed all his hair behind his head for the convenience of work.

I don't know which man is so lucky to marry such a good wife?In addition to regretting in his heart, Li Damao was extremely envious of the woman's husband whom he had never met.

"Thank you, sister-in-law."

Hearing this, Xu Weiqiu was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that this person had misunderstood. She didn't explain much, but nodded lightly, and smiled at her: "It's okay, neighbors should help each other."

With this smile, Li Damao's mind was immediately taken away. After living for more than [-] years, he knew that when someone smiled, his face really looked as beautiful as a flower blooming.

Infatuatedly, he engraved the smiles and frowns of the people before him in his heart.
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Seeing that Xu Weiqiu came back empty-handed, the fat woman asked knowingly, "Did you get the things back?"

"No, when Xu Xiaoke saw me coming, she even locked the door, and I was so mad."

Seeing that she was wearing thin clothes, Mrs. Zhang couldn't help but said to her: "I told you not to go, it's so cold and you don't need to add more clothes."

Xu Weiqiu was afraid that she would be worried, so he didn't dare to tell the story of someone falling into the water on the way. He only said that he would pay attention next time, and when he turned around, a piece of clothing fell off.

Xu Weiqiu's heart warmed up: "It's Er Niang who loves me..."

The fat woman on the side curled her lips when she heard this.

"Hurry up and eat." Mrs. Zhang brought up the food that she had already prepared. Four women were sitting around and were about to start eating. A large cockroach crawled past her feet. Pick up this cloth shoe.

The fat woman saw that she was holding her new cloth shoe, and before she could say anything to stop her, she saw her slap the cockroach to the ground, and then threw the shoe away.

The fat woman resisted the urge to curse, and sat there pretending to be nonchalant, but her heart ached.

The next day, after Xu Weiqiu pushed the cart out the door, the fat woman secretly picked up the cloth shoe that had been used as a murder weapon and cleaned it outside the door.

When Shan Niu saw that she was working, her eyes nearly fell out.

The fat woman didn't care about her, and she complained while washing: "What a rough girl...Whoever marries you will be unlucky."

After the shoes were washed, they were placed outside the door to dry. At night, she forgot to take them back into the house. The next morning, she opened the door and picked them up to find a hole in the back of the shoes bitten by a mouse...

Fat woman angrily leaves her shoes at the door
Xu Weiqiu came back from the outside, and soon found the pair of abandoned shoes at the door.

(End of this chapter)