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Chapter 81 Whoops, I'm Scared of You
"Bump", before Shen could finish her sentence, the wooden door of the main room ahead was kicked open.

Wrapped in a coat, Wen Shi stood inside the door and muttered, "It's so noisy, and let no one sleep."

Mrs. Shen glared at her, and said with a dark face, "It's cold in the morning, what are you doing out, carefully freezing my grandson."

Wen's whispered softly, "Grandma, do you know it's early in the morning?"

Shen said impatiently, "It's all right, go back to sleep!"

Wen muttered something, covered his mouth and let out a sigh, then turned and went back to the house.

Chu Fu looked at Shen's appearance, and said, "Mother, don't be angry, what, Juan'er (Wen's) is pregnant with a baby, and she got up early and has a bad temper..."

Shen gave Chu Fu a look, "It's alright, you're the only one who will protect my daughter-in-law, she gets up early and has a bad temper, your old lady deserves to suffer..."

Xiu Niang was listening in the back room, and shook her head with a smile, ah, it really is one thing, one thing, one thing, Wen's soft temper can suppress Shen's tough temper.

There was a noise from the courtyard earlier, so she expected that it was Mrs. Shen coming from the house, and she also got up after Chu Ge went out. Fortunately, she first scooped up a basin of water in the house yesterday, and now it is just for brushing her teeth and washing her face. .

Xiu Niang combed her hair in a bun, and walked to the big wooden box, on which there was a clay pot filled with water, with a small porcelain bowl floating in it, and a small dish containing salt and salt on the side.

There was no toothpaste in this era, so Xiu Niang used salty salt. She dipped her fingers into her mouth, rubbed it back and forth, and then scooped water out of the clay pot to rinse her mouth.

It’s cold and cold at night in Yangcun, the water in the tank was left to dry overnight in the yard, and it was freezing in the morning, so Xiu Niang scooped up the water and brought it in, because the house was warm, so I used it just now when I got up early. it is good.

After taking out the wooden basin to wash her face and putting on her clothes, Xiuniang found a square cloth towel to tie up her hair. When she was about to go out, she saw that the quilt hadn't been folded yet, so she went to the bed and tidied it up.

Waiting for her to leave the house, Shen was still talking about Chu Fu, while Chu Ge came out of the stove just now, presumably to dip in salt.

Earlier, it took Xiuniang half a month to ask Chu Ge and his sister to wash their teeth with salt in the morning and evening.

She straightened her clothes and walked over, "Morning, father-in-law."

Father Chu responded, "Well, I'm up."

Shen gave Xiu Niang a sideways look, shook her head and cleared her throat.

Xiu Niang looked at her with a smile, and called her, "Mother-in-law, you are early too."

Shen shi snorted reluctantly, "Hmph, I'm willing to get up, hurry up, start cooking."

This early in the morning, Xiu Niang didn't bother to chat with her, she just responded, rolled up her sleeves and walked to the kitchen, since she and Chu Ge have to eat anyway.

Shen looked at her and said loudly, "Yo, you're going to eat right now, you didn't even wash your mouth and face, look so dirty..."

Although Shen's last sentence was said in a low voice, Xiu Niang still heard it. She walked up to Shen and talked, but in the middle of the conversation, she frowned, and swept her small hand in front of her nose, It's like smelling something bad.

"Mother-in-law, I left water in the house yesterday and finished washing before I came out, so I don't rinse my mouth when I wake up... Hey, if I don't rinse my mouth, who will suffer the smell?"

Shen looked at Xiuniang like that, moved uncomfortably, and put her hand in front of her mouth in embarrassment. She went to the second uncle's house last night. She didn't even know where the kitchen was, let alone find water. Gargle out.

She couldn't bear it, and said in her mouth, "Yeah, I still put it in the room to wash up, I'm really hypocritical."

Xiu Niang pretended not to hear, turned around with a smile and left.

Shen immediately waved to Chu Ge, asking him to scoop up a bowl of water for himself, while Father Chu turned his back to look for a bag of cigarettes to smoke.

Chu Fu was reprimanded by Mrs. Shen, and now he didn't feel sleepy anymore, and went to find some water to wash.

Xiu Niang rolled up her sleeves and went into the kitchen, thinking about how much rice to put in, for a family of seven or eight, five bowls of rice would be needed, but two bowls of porridge would be enough, if it wasn't enough, add more tomorrow.

After thinking about it, she washed the rice and put it in the pot, and went to the water tank to scoop a few ladles of water into it. Seeing that the water tank was almost bottomed out, she had to fetch water in a while.

Xiu Niang took the firewood from the stove, lit it with the firewood left over from Chu Fu's burning last night, threw it into the stove, added withered grass roots to make the fire burn bigger, and then thought about getting more firewood Come in and put on the shelf.

But when she came out of the stove, she saw that the place where the firewood was piled up was now empty, not even a single piece of firewood was left.

Xiuniang felt strange, Chugo went up to the mountain at noon the previous day, and there were four or five bundles of firewood stored before, so they disappeared overnight.

No matter how hard Chu Fu burned last night, he couldn't burn these three or four bundles.

Besides, she pays the most attention to the firewood, because the weather is changeable in this season, if you take advantage of the sunny weather, it will rain and wind, and there is really no place to find firewood Let's cook.

Xiu Niang was about to open her mouth to ask a question, when suddenly Mrs. Shen spoke up, and she was very happy to hear it, and she was taught a lesson.

"Hey, there is no more firewood. Let me tell you, you woman, how do you take care of this house? You see people coming in and out of the stove in the sky, making a lot of noise while cooking. Why don't you even know that the firewood is gone? ..."

"As the old saying goes, if it's sunny and rainy, you deserve it as a daughter-in-law. You have to know how much firewood you use for cooking and boiling water every day. What kind of laziness does this look like?"

Xiuniang ignored Shen's thoughts, and thought that it would be good to be like Wen's, if Shen didn't care what she said, then this difficult mother-in-law would just ask for boring chatter.

Seeing that she stopped talking, Mrs. Shen thought she was admitting cowardice, but she was full of joy in her heart, can't you be a naughty little woman, I don't think there is any firewood today, how can you cook.

She said and pointed at Xiu Niang, "I also said, you are so capable, you know that your father-in-law and I will come early, and you are thinking about getting everything ready, but the stove hasn't been lit yet. Come on, you want to starve my old couple to death..."

Xiu Niang is getting angry now. Earlier she asked Chu Ge to keep the door open because she was thinking that Father Chu and his wife slept in the second uncle's courtyard last night. They must not be able to sleep well under the fence, and they probably would get up early in the morning. , it will definitely come from someone's family at that time, so she thought about asking Chu Ge to keep the door open.

But now Shen shi not only doesn't think about it, but also rambles about it, it's no wonder she is upset.

Xiu Niang frowned and looked back at Shen Shi, and suddenly found that there were some bark scraps stuck to Shen Shi's sleeves.

She squinted her eyes, looked at the place where the firewood was placed, and then at Shen's, thinking, maybe she made such a moth.

Just now I found out that the firewood was missing, and she hadn't asked anyone yet, but Shen has already been nagging about this, and she came early, and she still has...

Xiu Niang sneered as she thought about it, and looked helplessly at her mother-in-law.

Shen Na was still muttering, "That's why I said, if this little daughter-in-law doesn't live in the hands of her mother-in-law, she won't know how to serve her man, and she won't know how to manage the family well. She doesn't know..."

Xiu Niang interrupted her with a smile, "I know mother-in-law, then I'll go find firewood to cook right away."

Shen Shi was taken aback for a moment, staring at Xiu Niang, there was another "bang" sound in the main room, as if something had fallen to the ground.

Xiu Niang looked outside and said to Chu Ge, "Chu Ge, you go back to the back room and change your clothes first."

Chu Ge thought that Xiu Niang wanted him to go up the mountain to cut firewood, so he responded and went back to the house.

Xiu Niang went back to the stove, took out a hatchet, and walked towards the foot of the courtyard.

It used to be a drying rack, but it was moved to the side of the fence by Chu Ge yesterday in order to put a set of round wooden tables and chairs that Mrs. Shen and the others brought over.

Shen frowned and looked at Xiu Niang, "Hey, the second son's family, what are you doing there, Chu Ge hasn't come out yet—"

Before she finished speaking, she saw Xiu Niang raised the knife and slashed it on the thick wooden chair leg.

Xiu Niang didn't use much force, the blade got stuck on the wood, she pulled it out with the wooden handle, and pointed at the knife hole again, this time the chair leg could be removed.

She grabbed the wooden leg and threw it to one side, then slashed down on the other side.

Mrs. Shen and Mrs. Chu were stunned, and when Xiuniang chopped off the third wooden leg, Mrs. Shen jumped up and shouted, "Oh, you, you, what are you doing!"

Xiu Niang threw the chopped wooden legs together, held up the machete and said, "Grandma, I'm chopping firewood for cooking."

Shen didn't hear what Xiu Niang said, she just watched such a good chair being destroyed, and slapped her thigh in distress.

"Oh my mother, that's a set of chairs from Yuanmu Co., Ltd. I spent a lot of money to buy it to be placed in that big house... Oh, it's over, it's over... You prodigal bitch, how can you be so good at it?" What a waste..."

Xiu Niang tilted her head and chattered, raised her hand to light the chair surface a few more times, and when she finished speaking, the chair surface was split open.

"Yuanmu? Oh, it's the one in the town... hey, that shop that specializes in making furniture (furniture) for big houses... oh, no wonder hey... no wonder it's so strong."

Shen grabbed the skirt and ran over, looking at the thick wood that Xiu Niang had split into several pieces, "Oh~~~ My one tael of silver is gone, my one tael of silver is gone!"

Xiu Niang panted heavily, and patted the wooden table beside her, "Phew, it seems that if you chop this up again, it will be burnt."

Shen watched in horror as Xiu Niang raised the hatchet, and she hurriedly shouted, "Oh, stop quickly, this is more than a tael of silver."

Xiu Niang raised her hand, "Mother-in-law, get out of the way, this sharp blade doesn't have eyes, don't cut your old man for a while, I have to find firewood to cook for you and your father-in-law!"

With a mournful face, Shen threw herself on the wooden table, "Oh, I'm afraid of you...I moved the bundles of firewood outside your house to the empty yard, so hurry up and burn them, don't Stop spoiling my old lady's things!"

After hearing this, Xiu Niang complained to Mrs. Shen, went back to the stove and put the hatchet away, and then talked to the stunned Chu Fu.

"Hey, mother-in-law, did you tell me to take a lot of effort...Then brother, please move it in for me, don't make me hungry."

(End of this chapter)