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Chapter 86 Don't Ruin Chugo's Reputation
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Seeing the lotus leaves, Mrs. Shen glared at Father Chu, sat down angrily, grabbed the melon seeds on the table, threw them into her mouth, chewed them, and even ate the skins.

Father Chu sucked on his cigarette holder and looked at Shen like that, "What are you doing, why are you staring at me?"

Shen snorted, "Why are you staring at you? You have the nerve to ask, why didn't you answer me when I was about to keep the lotus girl, why did you let that little woman send you when you heard that she was leaving?"

Father Chu put his feet back on the chair, and said, "What's the matter, what time is it after dinner, she's a big girl, you're really thinking about keeping her overnight."

Shen said disapprovingly, "Then what's the matter with staying overnight, it's going to be too late, should I ask Chu Ge to send that lotus girl back?"

Father Chu pursed his lips and took a look at Shen, "Then it's even worse. You're called Er Boy and He Hua at this late night... Hey, what do you want people to watch?"

Mrs. Shen snorted, "Whatever people like to talk about, at worst, I will ask Chu Ge to take the lotus girl into the house as a wife."

Father Chu let out a "tsk", and just as he was about to say something, Xiuniang came in. She looked at the elders in the yard, "Elder-in-law, mother-in-law."

Shen stared at Xiu Niang, raised her head high, "Send her away!"

Xiu Niang tied the square cloth scarf in her sleeves to her head again, she will be cooking now, don't let the wood ash fall into her hair.

She grinned, "Well, I'm going back."

Shen Shi looked at her, and muttered indifferently, "You, just do your job, that lotus girl is such a good girl, she grew up with Chu Ge, and the two of them haven't talked about it just now. If you talk about it, you drive people away, you can really do it."

Xiuniang listened for a while, then she sneered after thinking about it, she walked a few steps closer and said to Shen, "Mother-in-law, that lotus girl is not married yet, but Chu Ge has a wife, his My daughter-in-law is me, just leave what you said just now at home, don’t spread it to the ears of troublesome women outside, and ruin Chu Ge’s reputation!”

Shen patted the table with one hand, pointed at Xiu Niang, "What are you talking about! How dare you talk to me like that!"

Father Chu's face became gloomy now, he looked at Xiuniang and said, "Second brother, why are you talking to your mother-in-law, go back to the stove and cook, I'm already hungry."

Xiu Niang responded to Father Chu with a smile, turned around and went back to the stove, "Got it, father-in-law..."

Shen looked at Father Chu noisyly, "You, you come back... ouch, you old talker too, why did you send this little woman away?"

Father Chu shook his head, "Okay, stop arguing, the words of the second child's family are a little harsh, but it is reasonable, you are always talking about things with the lotus girl and the second boy, this place can be ruined inside and out What matters is the reputation of the two families."

After thinking about it, Shen knew she was right, but she still said, "What's wrong, this lotus girl and the second boy have been together since childhood, and she came across the village early today, so she just wanted to chat with the second child, isn't it? I told her to wait for a while!"

Father Chu said "Ouch", "Okay, don't think I don't know what you're thinking, how many years have passed since the matter of Chu Ge and He Hua girl, why are you still talking about it?"

It’s okay if Father Chu didn’t say anything, but when she said that Shen got angry again, she poked and pointed at Father Chu, “It’s all your fault, you old bastard. In the past, the Guo family rushed to call a matchmaker to propose marriage, but you old man The mouth just doesn't agree!"

Father Chu also rolled his eyes, "Why should I agree? Old man Guo wants to call Chu Ge surnamed Guo, why should I agree!"

Shen muttered, "Hey, that's what I said, but that time when Matchmaker Li came to live in the house, you couldn't use a broom to drive people out. It's easy to discuss, isn't it?"

Father Chu straightened his neck angrily, "What's the point of discussing, what is there to discuss, my son has to be named after me, not to mention that the lotus girl has a crush on the second child, even if no one has a crush on him, my name is He has been a bachelor all his life, and he is not asked to go to another house!"

Xiu Niang listened in the stove, slapped her thigh, "Well said..." She yelled half a sentence, then quickly covered her mouth, peeked into the courtyard, smiled secretly, and continued to work.

Mrs. Shen saw that Father Chu was angry, and the boss and the second daughter-in-law were all around. She couldn't get over it, but she didn't dare to get angry, so she could only whisper, "Oh, you old mouth, I don't care. Just say that, why are you so angry?"

Father Chu sighed, looking at Shen Shi, "You old woman, didn't you often talk about it earlier, marrying a daughter-in-law should marry a shabby cottage, and marrying a daughter should marry a high-tiled house..."

Wen Shi heard that it was wrong, Gaowawu generally refers to big houses and big households, isn't Shen Shi saying this is alluding to her, she put away the embroidery with a cold face, got up and went back to the main room.

Father Chu didn't care about it, and continued to talk, "This second boy is not following your wishes, look, how well this second daughter-in-law has kept the family upside down, busy with the family, taking care of the big and small, and even raising Chicken, you still know how to live..."

Shen said impatiently, "Go, go, don't tell me about the broken households in the poor village, their Chenjia village can compare with ours, except for those who run in the Tianfang Mountains and have no fields or land at home. What a shame."

Father Chu waved his hand at Shen, got up and put the cigarette stick behind his back, said something to Chu An and left the house.

"Hey, you, I can't talk to you... Anzi, I'm on the slope of the big tree ahead, your sister-in-law has finished cooking and called me."

With a hood on his head, Chu An grabbed a small stone, squinted his eyes at the small pit in front of him, and said without raising his head, "Got it, Dad."

Seeing Father Chu go away, Mrs. Shen was also panting, stood up and walked a few steps into the courtyard, and went out after thinking about cursing.

Xiu Niang hurried out to pour water, seeing Shen like this, she thought that she and Father Chu had finished arguing, maybe she was going to go back to the house to be sullen, but now there are only two rooms in the house, and the main room is given to Chu Fu and his wife. She asked her to lock the inner room again, Shen couldn't get in, and she didn't want to face Wen in the main room, so she just went out for a walk like Father Chu...

At night, after Xiuniang finished her grooming, she took the footwashing water and poured it out in the yard, and yelled at Chu Ge for a while to remember to fasten the gate, and then went back to the house, completely ignoring Shen's flying eyes,
Since she is very happy today, firstly, when she went to the field and saw the Erbao vine growing fiercely, just in time for the last wave, she could charge more and sell it to shopkeeper Tian. Can be richer.

Secondly, when He Hua said that she wanted to find a job for Chu Fu, she was very happy for Chu Fu, because then their family would move out as soon as possible.

However, at noon, Chu Ge bought the meat back, just in time to meet Shen Shi on the road, she saw that Chu Ge was carrying such meat in his hand, and quarreled with Xiu Niang when she came back.

Said that Xiu Niang did it on purpose. When she gave Chu Ge the money to buy meat earlier, she clearly knew that the lotus was going to eat at home, but now that Chu Ge slipped back such a little meat, isn’t that slapping her old face? Fortunately, the lotus flower didn't stay for dinner, or ask her to do so.

In fact, Xiuniang didn't see how much silver was left in the money bag earlier, so she gave it to Chu Ge to buy meat. She was honest and honest. When she saw that the money was not enough, she only bought half a catty and came back, and she would not buy more. Some credits first, anyway, based on her friendship with Mrs. Dao, there is no problem.

It wasn't a big deal in the first place, but Shen still quarreled relentlessly, and finally said that she treated her parents-in-law harshly and didn't let the old couple eat well.

At first, Xiuniang didn't reply, thinking about going back to the house and taking the money to ask Chu Ge to come back again, but when she heard what Shen said, her own temper came up, and she also talked back to her .

She treats her parents-in-law harshly. If she was such a person, she would have locked the house long ago and wouldn't let them live in it. She also provided three meals a day, wasted daily necessities, and it would be her fault!

In the end, it was Father Chu who came back to the house when he heard the sound, and told both of them to stop talking.

Shen looked at her man, snorted and chattered, and when she saw Chu Fu came in, she pointed the topic at him again, and chattered again and again.

Xiu Niang sighed with some headaches, and took the half catty of meat that Chu Ge bought into the kitchen.

At noon, the seven or eight members of their family ate a plate of fried vegetables and half a plate of fried pork.

At night, Xiu Niang didn't bother, so she cooked a meal with something in the stove, anyway, it was enough to have a full meal.

After half an hour, Father Chu and Mrs. Shen went out to the second uncle's house. Chu Ge locked the courtyard door, and brought in a clay pot of water for Xiu Niang as usual, so that she could use it for washing up tomorrow.

Xiu Niang was leaning against the bed in her underwear, doing some embroidery by the oil lamp, perhaps the fine needle was a little stunned, Xiu Niang picked it up and dipped it into the oil lamp, her pretty face was pink and tender, her white lotus forearm It is faintly visible in the light, but it is very beautiful.

Seeing that Chu Ge's breathing tightened, he jumped up and down "plop plop", he wondered why he was the same as yesterday.

Feeling the wind, Xiu Niang raised her eyes and saw Chu Ge, she pursed her lips, and put her feet in front of her body, "What are you doing standing there, thinking about blocking the wind for me."

Chu Ge listened to what Xiu Niang said, he chuckled, put down the clay pot after thinking about it, turned around and closed the door first, he didn't want Xiu Niang's pretty appearance to be seen by others, even though there was no one in the yard at the moment... …

He put the clay pot on the wooden box, sat down in front of the bed thinking, "Xiu Niang, you, are you still angry with your mother?"

Listening to Chu Ge's carefulness, Xiu Niang sighed, "Oh, no, I'm not angry." She was telling the truth. Is Mrs. Shen her mother-in-law? How could she be angry? Chu Ge felt it was worthless.

Chu Ge looked at Xiu Niang, made sure that she was really not angry, smiled slightly and continued, "Xiu Niang, I was in the yard just now, and Mother told me to go to Shangyang Village with Big Brother in two days."

Xiu Niang picked up a needle, thinking that Mrs. Shen must have told about He Hua finding work for Chu Fu, she searched for the needle, "If you want to find a job, just ask elder brother to go by himself, what is mother-in-law doing?" I want you to go."

Chu Ge didn't seem to have thought about it at all, he mumbled dumbly, "I don't know about this."

Xiu Niang put down her embroidery and looked at him, "That's fine, I'll go later."

(End of this chapter)