"Mom, don’t do this next ti. Going to watch the drama like this, Mrs. Lin won’t be happy with you," Xu Mumu said wearily. Having such a gossipy mother made her feel exhausted; hopefully, Xii wouldn’t hold grudges against her mom.
"What if she’s unhappy? Anyway, the team leader is quite impartial; he won’t give a hard ti," Li Caixia said calmly. Zhao Guodong, the team leader, is truly upright. Even if there are people in the team who are at odds with the Zhao Family, he remains fair and just. That’s why everyone respects him as the team leader.
Xu Mumu’s mouth twitched, her mother was just bullying honest people.
If only her mom wasn’t such a big troublemaker, she would’ve wanted the team leader to deal with her mother.
"Oh, by the way, daughter, let tell you, today I saw Song from the educated youth spot go sneaking into the woods with Liu He from your Liu Erbo’s family. Sneaky sneaky, tut tut, those educated city youths are really too unrestrained." Finished with the team leader’s family business, Li Caixia excitedly shared with Xu Mumu what she had seen on her way back.
"Liu Sange, he seems to be married, right?" Xu Mumu thought it over and realized who Liu He was.
"Who’s to say otherwise? Song is also not bad-looking, yet she fancies soone like Liu He. Her taste is really poor," Li Caixia pouted.
Liu He, in Xu Mumu’s mory, doesn’t leave a good impression. He beats his wife; when his wife was pregnant before, he beat her until she lost the baby.
If it weren’t for his wife’s brothers coming over and giving him a good beating, he’d still be out of control now.
"Indeed, not good," Xu Mumu said plainly.
"Later, I’m going to talk to your Aunt Cuihua properly; soone so shaless must make the village vigilant, lest that seductress lures their n away."
"Mom, don’t go spreading rumors. Leave this alone; you’d better find a good wife for brother," Xu Mumu said speechlessly. Song Jiayan is very narrow-minded; if she finds out that Li Caixia is spreading lies about her, she won’t let her mother go.
"Speaking of your brother gives a headache. There are quite a few educated youths at the spot, and their ages are suitable. How about we find one for your brother? Those educated youths’ families are far away, easy to handle," Li Caixia first sighed, then her eyes shifted.
"Mom, do you think you’re smarter than those girls from the city? Don’t end up marrying an ancestor," Xu Mumu said helplessly. She’s t those female educated youths at the spot, and her impression wasn’t good.
"What, are you afraid soone will control your old mother?" Li Caixia looked at her daughter speechlessly; her daughter doesn’t trust her.
"Mom, stop thinking about those things. Those educated youths have been here for at least two years; don’t you know what they’re like? Brother is the eldest son; to find him a sister-in-law like that?" Xu Mumu reasoned bitterly.
"True, we can’t deceive our family. Alas, your brother too is so picky; now marriage has beco such a big headache."
She persuaded her mom, and then Xu Mumu returned to her room.
After putting things away, Xu Mumu went to teach a few children.
By dusk, everyone at ho returned, but the atmosphere in the fourth room was sowhat gloomy.
"Grandma, what happened to Fourth Aunt? She seems very unhappy," Xu Mumu asked, puzzled. The fourth room’s couple had a good relationship; since Fourth Aunt married into Old Xu Family, they rarely argued. Could they have fought?
"What could it be if not her brothers causing trouble? The grain was sold, the money put in, but they didn’t get the job," Madam Chen said, pursing her lips. The Sun Family got no benefits, and the daughter-in-law lost money and grain, so of course, there’s trouble.
"Selling grain??" Xu Mumu said in surprise. Her mother ntioned before that Fourth Aunt’s family was quite wealthy; able to sell grain ant they definitely weren’t short on food.
"Yes, those fools were coaxed by that stupid woman to help the other side. Now they lost everything, serves them right," Madam Chen said disdainfully.
When she first heard about this, she specially called Old Fourth over to confirm that the fourth room’s savings were untouched, and the grain wasn’t taken; only then did she relax.
"I heard that the temporary job was given to soone higher up, so naturally Fourth Aunt’s sister-in-law’s brothers didn’t stand a chance, and the gifts couldn’t be reclaid either," Li Caixia said gleefully.
With Li Caixia’s addition, Xu Mumu understood the whole story. She felt helpless but didn’t say much else; it wasn’t their family’s business anyway.
The Sun Family themselves decided to sell grain; they’d figure out how to deal with hunger themselves.
Xu Mumu sympathized with her Fourth Aunt, having such foolish brothers and a sister-in-law always siding with her own family seed like bad luck.
"Big Sis, there are so few mushrooms on the mountain; they’re all picked by Qian and her group," The next day, Xu Mumu planned to take a few children to pick mushrooms on the mountain. Xu Jiaojiao said unhappily, and Tiedan was equally unhappy; Zhao Qian was his cousin, and when she saw his family eating those mushrooms, she took her friends to the mountain to pick them.
There weren’t many mushrooms on the mountain to begin with, and with so many people going, naturally, they’d pick them clean.
"Then let’s pick firewood today. We’ve already picked a lot of mushrooms, and I’ll help you sell them in the afternoon," Xu Mumu said with a smile. Those mushrooms aren’t always easy to find; you can’t keep picking them forever.
But in the eyes of the little ones, this was cutting off their source of inco, so naturally, they weren’t happy.
The firewood in the shed was down to half, and it wouldn’t last much longer; might as well gather more.
This ti, Xu Minghui also went up the mountain, borrowing the bow and arrow from Zhao Si’s house, and he even brought a machete from ho.
"Brother, why bring so many tools?" Xu Mumu’s mouth twitched; they were just picking firewood, not venturing far, yet Xu Minghui looked like he was preparing to hunt wild boars.
"Just bringing them, in case we encounter prey; without tools we’d suffer a big loss," Xu Minghui said with a smile, hanging the machete at his waist and carrying the bow and arrow on his back.
With others carrying these things, Xu Mumu didn’t bother saying much.
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