Chapter 22: Xiaozhen Chases Away the Bad Guy Again

“What did she scold you for?”

“She told me to scram.”

Everyone: “…”

“What kind of scolding is that? You usually scold people much worse.”

“That’s right, you called her a little beast, and you also said that since her mother’s butt was so stupid, why didn’t it crush her to death.”

There were even worse things they didn’t want to say.

Sun Qing blushed and said, “I’m her mother, I scold her for her own good, it’s normal.”

“Then why don’t you scold Xiaochun and Xiaoqiang?”

Sun Qing: “…”

“You don’t understand anything, it’s because I beat her and scolded her that she can cook and wash clothes, do you want her to be so stupid that she can’t do anything, Xie Lin’an, that demon, wouldn’t even look at her. I don’t scold Xiaochun and Xiaoqiang because they’re smart, they learn things after being taught once.”

Everyone snorted, as if they believed her.

“Hey, I heard from Liu Pozi that Lin Laogui’s house is also steaming buns today.”

“Really?”

“Really.”

“Oh, I was late yesterday and didn’t get any, I have to go early today.” She said and quickly went home to get a basket.

Sun Qing was puzzled, she went back to the house and discussed with Ye Zhengguo, “It must be true, I didn’t go inside to look, but I smelled it.”

Ye Zhengguo snorted angrily, “Yes, she’s lazy at home, she does a little bit of work slowly all day, but she’s so diligent when she goes to other people’s houses. I heard that she and Lin Laogui steamed ten baskets of buns yesterday, they must have made a lot of money, right?”

“Of course, look how much Lin Laogui likes her, she’s a fool, why would he like her? They say she’s diligent and obedient at Lin Laogui’s house.”

Sun Qing spat forcefully, she said angrily, “I don’t believe she would hit people and scold people if Lin Laogui didn’t teach her.”

Ye Zhengguo said, “Maybe Xie Lin’an taught her.”

“Yes, it must be them, they’re the only ones there, they said her brother taught her, it must be Xie Lin’an who taught her to say that.”

“It must be him, Lin Laogui isn’t that bad.”

Although Ye Xiaozhen is said to be silly, she’s obedient.

She’s slow at work, but she’s willing to do it.

Their obedient and diligent daughter was taught by someone else to become a crazy person who hits and scolds people, the two of them were increasingly angry.

You know, their original plan was, they were in the same village anyway.

Xie Lin’an was often not at home, and Lin Laogui was alone at home, he was also gullible, and he was often taken advantage of by his two sons who came back from the city.

Lin Xinghua and his grandsons were all diligent, they had everything on their land.

After becoming in-laws with them, they would often go to them for help.

They would let their foolish daughter bring things back from their house.

But they didn’t expect it to turn out like this, forget about taking things, they were even beaten and couldn’t even get their medical expenses back.

Ye Zhengguo was increasingly angry, he cursed angrily, “If I had known it would be like this, I should have shot her on the wall that year.”

“Oh, it’s too late to say that now, we still need to find a way to make your foolish daughter listen to us. We only got one hundred yuan, it’s like we gave it away for free. You raised her for so long, and you gave her away for free, are you happy about that?”

Happy?

Happy my ass.

He was so angry just thinking about it.

“How can we make her listen to us?”

“She’s a fool, Xie Lin’an must have used some tricks to fool her, we just need to know how he coaxed her into listening to him.”

“That’s easy to say, will Xie Lin’an tell you?”

“I’m her stepmother, he can ignore me for the rest of his life, but you’re different, you’re her real father, he can’t ignore you as his father-in-law. As long as you, as her father-in-law, can swallow your pride and talk to him, will he really refuse?”

Ye Zhengguo thought it made sense, he said, “Then when he comes back, I’ll take a bottle of wine to invite him to drink.”

“That’s right.”

…

When they got back, Lin Xinghua lectured Ye Xiaozhen, “Next time something like this happens, you tell Grandpa.”

Ye Xiaozhen thought, I’ll tell you if I have to, but you can’t be seen as a pushover by the villagers.

“Don’t fight with them, and don’t go to their house like you did yesterday. There are four of them, if you really fight, you won’t be able to beat them, you’ll get hurt.”

Ye Xiaozhen nodded eagerly, she was good at admitting her mistakes and agreeing quickly, but she wouldn’t change.

Hit them? Why wouldn’t she hit them?

If Sun Qing hadn’t run so fast yesterday, she would have beaten her up.

Her oak stick was a bit long, it was inconvenient to run with it, she would have to prepare a shorter one.

Soon, someone knocked on the door, they were asking to buy buns.

Hearing this, Lin Xinghua quickly went to open the door, they moved the table to the yard, a basket of dumplings and a basket of buns, and started selling.

“You made dumplings yesterday? What kind of dumplings are these?”

“Pickled green bean dumplings, do you want to try one?”

“Okay, I’ll try one.”

Lin Xinghua broke a dumpling into six pieces for the person to try.

The soft dough wrapped around the sour and refreshing green beans, the taste was amazing.

The person tried it and immediately liked it.

“How much is one?”

“Vegetable dumplings are sold for fifteen cents each outside, but since we’re neighbors, I’ll sell it to you for thirteen cents.”

“Oh, forget about the three cents, the green beans are from your own garden, they’re not expensive.”

“The green beans aren’t expensive, but it’s hard to wrap them. Look at these, these beautiful folds, can you make them?”

Lin Xinghua lifted the cloth, revealing a basket of dumplings.

They had never seen such beautiful dumplings before, they were obviously made with care.

“Hey, I didn’t know you were so good at making things, Lin Laogui.”

Lin Xinghua laughed, “It’s not my skills, these were all made by Xiaozhen.”

“What? Xiaozhen made them? I live next door to them, how come I didn’t know Xiaozhen had these skills?”

“Xiaozhen, when did you learn?”

Ye Xiaozhen just smiled foolishly at her.

The other person knew they wouldn’t get an answer, so they didn’t press it.

“Okay, thirteen cents is thirteen cents. Give me seven, forget about the extra cent.”

Lin Xinghua counted on his fingers, “Okay, seven dumplings for nine mao.”

Ye Xiaozhen thought, in terms of materials, this price could definitely earn at least half the money.

But considering labor, selling buns and dumplings wasn’t really profitable.

Luckily, she didn’t have much labor cost.

Of course, the main reason was that labor was the least expensive thing in this era, labor wasn’t valuable.

They started selling their buns and dumplings, they thought that they had just sold them yesterday, and the village wouldn’t be able to consume them all today, they would have to go to the neighboring villages to sell them.

But they didn’t have to go out, they sold out at home, those who came late couldn’t buy any.

Two of the customers were from the neighboring village.

Ye Xiaozhen thought that they wouldn’t have to go out tomorrow either, there would be even more people from the neighboring village tomorrow.

They sold over eighty dumplings and ninety buns today, earning fifteen yuan.

Ye Xiaozhen gave five yuan to Lin Xinghua and kept ten yuan for herself.