Chapter 113 Trouble (Part 5)
Looking at his wife running away with tears, he just stood there like nothing had happened and didn’t know to chase her. What did he mean? What did he think the Hua’s is?
Mrs. Hua broke out into full of resentment. She didn’t care whether Yang Huaishan was new son-in-law or not now. He outraged her so much that she even gnashed her teeth with anger.
What made her more angry was that the Lian’s, the shameless bitch of her family had gone into the courtyard for a long time, but he was still standing there in a daze!
Suddenly came to himself, Yang Huaishan took a glance at Mrs. Hua without any response to her, but silently walked toward the Hua’s house.
“You -” Mrs. Hua was so angry with Yang Huaishan’s attitude that she was about to scold her. When she saw the bloodstain on Yang Huaishan’s face, she shut up smartly.
To be honest – it was really hard to say that there were more mistakes of the Hua’s or of Yang Huaishan. No matter what, my daughter was already a member of their family. As tough the life would be, they should still go on.
The Lian’s didn’t care a little that how the Hua’s deal with their internal contradictions. When they got back home, even Lian Ze and other brothers or sisters knew to comfort their elder sister. Looking at their careful flattery, Lian Fangzhou was amused and said that it was OK. Thus, the children felt reassured after seeing her smile.
“Does your hand still hurt? What a fool you are! ” Lian Fangzhou pulled Lian Che’s hand with a slight sigh.
She said Lian Che was stupid. In fact, she knew why Lian Che did this.
Of the three brothers and sisters, Lian Che was the cleverest. Although Lian Fangqing was mischievous, she liked to order Lian Che in everything. In fact, when they confronted something, Lian Che was the one who could make up their minds.
At that time, if Lian Che didn’t rush up to stop Mrs. Liu, she would rush up to grab and fight with Lian Fangzhou. If they started the fight, the Lian’s would be unreasonable. The most likely result was that only the Hua’s scolded enough would they left with anger under the persuasion of the public. Thus, Lian Fangzhou would only dumbly suffer her loss.
Even if she finally stopped them to argue for justice, then what kind of reputation could she, such a girl, get after the fighting?
But thanks for Lian Che’s behavior, his bloody palm made Mrs. Liu unable to scold the Lian’s all of a sudden, and then there was no troublesome things.
Lian Che did all these for Lian Fangzhou.
Looking up with smiling, Lian Che shook his head and said: “Elder sister, I’m OK. I just scratched my skin a little!”
“You,” Lian Fangzhou said with a soft smile, “Wash it with hot water; wrap it with a pad and put some medicine on it. Don’t touch the water or do anything else these days. Be careful of the wound!”
Ah Jian picked up a lot of herbs. He taught them all of these herbs one by one. And Lian Fangzhou dried them carefully for any emergency.
“Yes, third brother. You need to read and write with your hands. You can’t hurt them!” Lian Fangqing teased. People there all laughed. Lian Che also smiled with embarrassment.
“I’ll bring hot water, just wait!” said the third grandaunt. In her heart, she was overwhelmed by Lian Fangzhou. Today, she knew that it’s OK to quarrel like this! The opposite couldn’t fight back at all.
In this way, the third grandaunt totally ignored that Lian Fangzhou was the reasonable party. Moreover, Lian Fangzhou was betting that Yang Huaishan was a gentleman so that he would not lie or play a rogue.
The third grandaunt brought the water back. Then Lian Fangzhou carefully helped Lian Che clean it. Ah Jian had already crushed the herbs into a small bowl of coarse pottery and moistened them with hot water then handing them to Lian Fangzhou.
Lian Fangzhou looked up at him. Their gaze met. Ah Jian nodded and smiled at her. The concern in his eyes was self-evident. Lian Fangzhou smiled gratefully and nodded gently.
Then Ah Jian said nothing more.
Lian Fangzhou put the herbal medicine on Lian Che’s palm, wrapped it with a clean pad, and told him to play with Lian Fangqing himself.
She sighed softly and stood up to drink.
“Are you going out today?” The third grandaunt came to clean up the basin and asked.
“Of course, go out! I have to go to the county town today! I’ll go to Chief Zhang’s home first.” Lian Fangzhou said and looked at Ah Jian.
Why didn’t she not go out? She hadn’t done anything shameful! What could she be afraid of!
Don’t wait for her to say, Ah Jian smiled:” Then you rest for a while and wait for me to set up the car.”
” M-hm.” Lian Fangzhou smiled and said to Lian Ze, “You company with Ah Jian to get a car and learn a little from him.”
“I know, sister, I’ve been learning from brother Ah Jian all the time!” Lian Ze nodded.
Lian Fangzhou smiled approvingly. then she concentrated on drinking and didn’t say anything.
Things delayed by such a farce, it was almost lunch time. Lian Fangzhou didn’t hesitate any more. She simply packed up and went to Chief Zhang’s home with the money bag.
Many people in the village including the the Niu’s already knew that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Hua family had made such a big trouble.
Seeing Lian Fangzhou coming, Mrs. Niu was stunned and said with a smile: “Yo, Fangzhou is coming!” The tone was more polite than usual.
“Hi aunt! Is Uncle Zhang there? ” Lian Fangzhou laughed as usual. She laughed in her heart: “Is it true that only the wicked in the world are more likely to be respected? I think that after the things happened two days ago and today, few people in this village may dare to provoke her easily!
“Is Fangzhou here? Come on in! ” Chief Zhang heard and replies, which sounded the same as before. It was an official that he could still be calm as before.
“I thought you would come in the evening! At this time, it’s good as well. It’s almost all ready! ” Chief Zhang spread the pamphlet recording the monogram in his hand with laughing.
“Uncle Zhang has been bothered these days!” Lian Fangzhou smiled gratefully.
Mrs. Niushi also came in and took a stare at Chief Zhang with anger and smiled, “You are right. We are in charge of the work everyday these two days. Our threshold is almost be broken by those who come and go for cotton selling. We are both in charge of the work of weighing and signing up, which looks like a busy bee…”
“Come on, why are you so wordy! Have you fed the pigs yet? If no, you should still talk here!” Chief Zhang impatiently waving his hand to interrupt Mrs. Niu.
Couldn’t Lian Fangzhou know the meaning of Mrs. Niu? So she smiled at once: “For our family’s matter, Uncle Zhang have really done a hard work these two days!” I remember all these in my heart that I must thank Uncle Zhang very much! “
“Fangzhou, you are so smart and sweet!” Mrs. Niu smiled contentedly. Being stared by Chief Zhang, she went away.
“That’s a jerk. Don’t pay attention to her!” Chief Zhang shook his head with sigh.
Lian Fangzhou answered with a vague smile. Naturally, she would not take Chief Zhang’s words seriously.
After several polite greetings, they went on the business.
All the cotton seeds in our village had been collected. There were three or four other families who were not going to sell. So the total was 1580 Jins. Chief Zhang handed over the booklet and the silver account to Lian Fangzhou and explained it clear one by one.
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