from widow to dame

Chapter 11

Su Huiniang didn't admit that she was eavesdropping, she just woke up early in the morning, when cleaning the yard, she happened to sweep under Pi's window, and just happened to hear the voice coming from inside.

"What, Qilang got into trouble again?" It was Wang Sanniang's voice.

"That little bastard is a hungry wolf, and he is the most ruthless." Pi said through gritted teeth, "Did you see that, mother said to kill him at the beginning, but you all stopped him, and now it's all right...huh...maybe in the future What else is there to do!"

"Mother, you must have abused him again!" Wang Sanniang knew her mother's temper well: "Didn't I tell you to treat him better, mother, don't think about it, in case his parents come to look for him in the future!" What should he do?"

"Damn! What are you looking for? There was a lot of chaos in the past few years. The parents of that little beast must have died long ago. Otherwise, why didn't they come back to pick them up after so many years."

"Did you forget what father told you before he died?" Wang Sanniang lowered her voice, and Su Huiniang vaguely seemed to hear something about the nobleman.

"Be nicer to Qilang. If one day comes, his parents won't thank our family again." Wang Sanniang said with a deepened tone: "And mother, don't forget that our Wang family can live in these five tile-roofed houses. Ten noon wheat fields, for Erlang to study... all depended on the 100 taels of silver given by Qilang's relatives. The master asked us to take good care of Qilang. If we come back to pick it up someday, seeing you treat him like this, can your son let us go home?"

Su Huiniang outside the window couldn't help being slightly stunned when she heard this, she didn't expect that child to have such a background.But this also further shows the white-eyed wolf traits of the Wang family. It is really devoid of conscience to take money from others and abuse their children after the end.

Inside, Pi yelled a few more words, but Wang Sanniang suppressed them all. After a while, he reluctantly expressed that he would not pursue Wang Qilang's matter anymore, but he did not say that he would be brought back.

"...and Wuniang's marriage..." Wang Sanniang saw her mother's steadfastness, so she couldn't help changing the subject: "She is sixteen this year, so I can't wait any longer. Mother, there is a Cheng in our village, whose family is rich. , the young man is also diligent..."

"...Let's wait. Your second brother wrote in a letter saying that next March will be... If you can find a scholar and come back, your sister's worth will be very different. Being an official wife is also worth it."

"Oh, mother, when did the second brother say that, but after taking the exam so many times, I haven't seen him pass it once, but he ruined all the money in the family!"

"Fart, what are you talking about!" Mrs. Pi raised his voice and yelled: "Before your second brother was born, Liu Banxian in the village told my mother that she was pregnant with Wenquxing, and your second brother will definitely have a baby in the future." Promising..."

"Squeak..." At this moment, there was a sound of opening the door, but it was Wang Dalang who came out of the room from the opposite side. Su Huiniang moved her steps indistinctly, bowing her head in a gesture of cleaning.

"Siblings" Wang Dalang called out honestly.

Su Huiniang shrank back, raised her head and called out, "Brother."

It was autumn now, morning and night, the weather was very cold, Su Huiniang was only wearing a patched thin shirt, she was already petite, she shrank herself at this moment, she looked a little pitiful .

Wang Dalang quickly took the broom in her hand and said, "I'll do it!"

Su Huiniang said a few words no need, but in the end she was no match for the man's strength, and he snatched the broom away.

"What? Change the house?" At the dinner table, Mrs. Pi slammed down her chopsticks when she heard Su Huiniang's request, and asked back with a full face of reluctance.

Su Huiniang looked around and said with lowered eyebrows: "Mother, that firewood house is really not a place for people to live in. In summer, I will pay attention to it, but now it is autumn, and it is getting colder every day. If I live in it, I will freeze to death." of."

"No!" Mrs. Pi glared at her fiercely: "Our house doesn't have any extra rooms for us to live in."

This is nonsense. The Wang family has a total of five rooms, one for Mrs. Pi, one for Wang Dalang, one for Wang Wuniang, one for Wang Liulang, one for Wang Erlang, and one for Wang Erlang. Wang Silang, who has passed away, why is there no place left?
"Mom, I can live with Wu Niang. Isn't there a side room in her room, so she can just sleep." Su Hui said in a calm voice.

"You have a good idea!" Wang Wuniang immediately retorted with a dark face: "Whoever wants to sleep in the same room with you, an ugly woman, a loser, will not be afraid of suffering bad luck."

"Why are you talking to your sister-in-law!" Wang Dalang frowned and didn't scold him, ignoring Tian's finger that secretly pinched his arm, turned his head to Pi and said, "Mother, what my brother and sister said is also reasonable, the weather is watching the fall. Those who come down will freeze to death if they stay there again.”

"What is freezing to death? That little beast didn't..."

"Mother!" Wang Sanniang interrupted Pi's chatter, frowned and said, "You didn't let Hui Niang live in the house of the fourth child?"

Pishi snorted, as if giving her a bite should be grateful.

Wang Sanniang couldn't help feeling depressed when she saw this, she knew very well the temperament of her family members.The eldest daughter-in-law is slick and powerful, and her own sister is careless, so she thought about finding a simple and capable person to support the family, and finally found Su Huiniang. If you survive, you are willing to have a ghost marriage.

"Mother, Huiniang is also the daughter-in-law of the fourth child, how can you treat her like this?" Wang Sanniang said dissatisfied: "I will change the place for someone in a while." Anyway, she always has a little more conscience than Pi's and the others.

Pi's face was still full of reluctance, but at this time, Wang Liulang rolled his eyes and said in a bad voice: "Mother, don't we still have an ancestral house, let her live there!"

The ancestral house Wang Liulang mentioned was a dilapidated thatched cottage in the backyard of the Wang family. Su Huiniang could see it from a long distance every time she went to pick vegetables in the yard.

After hearing this, Pi Shi really said, "Good!"

"That house is old and old..." Wang Dalang wanted to say something more, but his old lady preempted him and said, "That's it, well, you from the fourth family will be fine in a while, so you can go over there to clean up, tidy up." .”

Wang Sanniang thought, Su Huiniang could go to the backyard by herself, at least she would have a place to settle down, not too far from the main house, and it would be convenient for her to come and work.

"Understood!" Su Huiniang smiled lightly, and said with sincerity on her face, "Thank you mother, thank you big brother, thank you third sister..."

To say that this is a thatched cottage is to be sorry for the real thatched cottage. Su Huiniang looked at the crumbling house in front of her, and her eyes twitched violently.Pushing open the creaking door, a smell of dust immediately penetrated into the nostrils. Su Huiniang held her nose in one hand and walked in with a broom in the other. This is a three-room house with a stove in the middle and bedrooms on both sides. But there was nothing inside except for two bare kangs.

Su Huiniang walked back and forth twice. Although this place is simple and simple, it has finally distanced itself from the other side of the Wang family. It is no longer like before, where everything has to be done under Pi's nose.So, in the next two days, Su Huiniang asked Wang Dalang to renovate the house for her, patch up the holes in the roof, and reconnect the stove and kang, and then moved from the firewood house. come over.

It was dark, Su Huiniang finished her day's work, and returned to her "new home" in the dark. Seeing that the door of the house was wide open, she couldn't help but stop.

"It's you!" After entering the room, he saw a thin black figure sitting on the stove, kicking his legs, and looking at her faintly.

"Here!" Wang Qilang jumped down from the stove and kicked over a bamboo basket. Su Huiniang lit a candle in the room, and then came over to look.

"Where did you get it?" There were two pheasants in the bamboo basket, one was dead, and the other was choked and half-dead.

Wang Qilang said nonchalantly, "It was fought on the mountain!"

"You are amazing!" Su Huiniang praised sincerely.This pheasant ran fast and alert, even the trained hounds might not be able to catch it.

"Really?" Wang Qilang raised his dirty little face, his eyes gleaming in the dim house.

Su Huiniang felt pity for him, and couldn't help but raised her hand to touch his little head.

"Hungry, I'll make it for you."

"No, I'm done eating." Wang Qilang shook his head and refused.

Su Huiniang took a close look at him and knew that the child was stubborn, so she said along the way: "That's fine, let's eat tomorrow. By the way, I have something I want to ask you to do."

"What's the matter?"

"Go and wash your face first." Su Huiniang showed a slightly disgusted expression: "It's so dirty."

"There are many things." Wang Qilang muttered twice, but he obediently washed it away.Taking advantage of this time, Su Huiniang arranged the two chickens separately. The dead one would naturally be eaten. As for the live one, Su Huiniang saw that it was a hen and she wanted to raise it.Not long after Wang Qilang came back after washing, Su Huiniang put the door bolt in place and led him into the house.

"Come here, let me see if it fits?"

Looking at Su Huiniang who was gesticulating towards him, Wang Qilang took two steps back and stared: "What are you doing?"

"What are you doing?" Su Huiniang said strangely, "Trying on clothes."

"Why let me try."

This is not talking nonsense!Su Huiniang glared at him: "This is for you, who will try it if you don't?"

Wang Qilang was stunned when he heard this, but Su Huiniang took the opportunity to pull the man over and put the child on the pit. She didn't have any embarrassing thoughts in her heart, after all, in Su Huiniang's opinion, she could be the child's mother.

(End of this chapter)