Chapter 58
Grabbing food in the mouth
Wu had no choice but to say quickly: "Five taels is just five taels. I don't have any more."
Seeing that the matter had come to an end, the village chief comforted Lin Changlu with a few words and left.
The others gradually dispersed. When Wu left, A Li looked at her and asked, "Auntie, have you really done something bad?"
Wu thought A Li was here to ridicule her, so she gave her a blank look and left.
Mrs. Pei came over and took Ah Li's hand and said, "She is a bad person. Li Li should stay away from her in the future, you know?"
Now in her eyes, Mr. Wu is a dangerous person. If he can't defeat her, he will do evil things secretly. She is afraid that if this person has his ideas on Ah Li, she quickly reminds Ah Li.
Lin Changlu hired someone to repair the foundation again.
After Mrs. Wu returned home, her men and children came back from town, and they were really angry when they found out that she had to pay five taels of silver to the Lin family.
"You prodigal bitch, we worked hard all day in the county and were exhausted, but you just gave away the money we earned at home to others in vain?"
She was really frustrated by this matter, as if she had eaten a dead fly and couldn't swallow it or spit it out.
She didn't dare to talk back.
The lesson she learned this time was so profound that she no longer dared to gossip about others.
A month later, Ah Li and his family’s house was also built.
Their yard is made of bricks and wooden structures this time, which is much better than the previous houses with mud walls.
The fence of the yard is also fenced with bricks, which makes it safer.
There were so many of them that Lin Changlu gritted his teeth and built a few more rooms this time. When Lin Sanrong got married, he no longer had to worry about the house.
After the furniture in the house was packed, they planned to choose a good day to move.
They also specially sent a letter to Lin Sanrong in Fucheng, telling him that his family had built a new house and was moving. In order not to affect his studies, they let him know so that he would not have to rush back all the way.
Lin Sanrong felt very warm after receiving the letter. His family had high expectations for him, so he worked hard and his grades improved by leaps and bounds since he studied with Mr. Chen and his senior brothers.
Mr. Chen was very satisfied with this student. In addition to the required lessons, he also taught him how to be an official.
He knew that this young man would definitely have a place in the Jinluan Palace in the future.
This is the day of housewarming.
The newly built house of the Lin family was very lively, and there were about ten tables in the open space at the door, all of which were full of people.
Everyone is discussing the new house in front of them.
"The Changlu family is really prosperous now. When I first started building the house, I thought he was going to build a house with earth walls. I didn't expect that he actually built a house with blue bricks and large tiles. Although it is not as good as the Lu family's house next door, it is still the best in our village.
There are only a few brick houses.”
"It's really thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi. Think about it, their family was so poor that they could hardly afford to eat a few years ago, but now they live in such a good house."
"Are you envious, Mr. Zhao? If you are envious, hurry up and build one."
"You say this as if you don't envy yourself. If I had money, I would build one too. The key is that I don't have money, right?"
"Hahaha"
Everyone was chatting and laughing while waiting for the meal to begin.
Ah Li and Si Lang started eating early in the room. Mrs. Pei served them several dishes, most of which were meat dishes, because Ah Li likes to eat meat.
Although there was a lot of meat at the banquet, there were too many people with chopsticks to handle it, so Mrs. Pei didn't let her children go out to the banquet.
Lin Erbao didn't see A Li and the four men outside, so he slipped into the house and looked around.
I found them eating meat in the house, and my mouth watered with greed.
Since his brother went to Fucheng to study, their family's food supply has plummeted, and his grandma said she would save the fifty taels of silver she had given him before.
He hasn't eaten meat for several days, and his grandma didn't come to the banquet today, so she sneaked in on her own.
Lin Dabao couldn't help it when he saw Ah Li chewing on the fragrant sauced pig's trotters.
Like a gust of wind, he rushed in, snatched the pig's trotters from Ah Li's hand, stuffed them and ate them.
Ah Li's hands were still in the position of chewing the pig's trotters.
What about pig's trotters?
By the time she reacted, the four men had already held Lin Dabao down.
"Why are you trying to steal my pig's trotters!"
Ah Li looked at Lin Erbao angrily with his small face.
At this time, Lin Erbao didn't care about his image at all. He held the pig's trotter while he was being held down and gnawed on it. His mouth was stuffed with meat and he didn't even want to pay attention to Ah Li.
Mrs. Pei entered the house to see if Ah Li and the others had finished eating and were about to pick up their bowls. She found four men holding down Lin Erbao.
"What are you doing? Dalang, please let go of Erbao."
"Nai, as soon as he came in, he snatched away my little aunt's pig's trotters."
"That is, if you dare to snatch food from our little aunt's mouth, I will beat you to death."
Erlang raised his fist and hit Lin Erbao.
Mrs. Pei sighed and pulled them away.
"Forget it, we don't need to worry too much about him on this big day."
Lin Erbao did not care about anything in order to eat meat. After being released by Lin Dalang and others, he finished the pig's trotters in a few times.
"Second Grandma, can you give me another pig's trotter to eat?"
"The pig's trotters are all numbered. They've been divided. You... if you're still hungry, I'll finish the little crispy pork for you!"
Although she didn't like Lin Changgui's family, she thought that the children were led astray by adults, so she didn't care about Lin Erbao.
Lin Erbao's eyes lit up when he heard the little crispy pork, and he nodded, "The little crispy pork is fine too! Thank you, Second Grandma."
"Lin Erbao, it's been a long time since you've eaten, and you actually said thank you to my milk just for the sake of eating. You didn't call me milk like this before."
"It was my grandma who asked me to call my second grandma a dead old woman. She doesn't blame me."
"Humph, you are not a good person, so you can only learn to be a bad person."
"Your grandma is not a good person, but my grandma is very kind to me."
"I'm so kind to you but I still don't give you meat to eat? Look at you snatching food like a starving ghost reincarnated."
"My grandma said that as long as she persists for a few more days, she will buy me a lot of meat to eat. If your family hadn't insisted on our fifty taels of silver, my grandma wouldn't have done this. It's all your fault."
Mrs. Pei heard this when she came in with a bowl, and with her was Mrs. Qian, the second daughter-in-law who came in to get something.
"Good boy, I'm afraid this second treasure will be ruined by his mother-in-law."
Mrs. Pei really wanted to say that with such a person's words and deeds, her family was hopeless.
With a somewhat unhappy look on her face, she put the small pieces of crispy meat in oil paper and gave it to him.
"Er Bao, go home! If you have nothing to do, don't come here anymore."
Lin Erbao curled his lips and whispered, "I wouldn't come if your family didn't have meat to eat!"
Then he took the paper bag and ran away.
"Auntie, you are still kind, this kid can't even thank you."
"Let him be! One day he will regret it when he grows up."
Mrs. Pei was afraid that Ah Li would not be full, so she brought in a chicken drumstick for each of the children.
When everyone has finished the banquet and has not yet left.
Qin and Lin Changgui ran to the door of the Lin family's new house with Lin Erbao, who was all weak, shouting at the sky and the earth.
Chapter completed!