Chapter 229 - Chapter 229: Chapter 227: Ms. Zhao’s stinginess, the war triggered by game meat. (1/2)

Chapter 229: Chapter 227: Ms. Zhao’s stinginess, the war triggered by game meat.

Since she had been out all morning, she didn’t know how the adults and children at home were doing.

YingEr initially wanted to come with her today, but considering the attitudes of those at the old house, she left YingEr behind instead.

Guihua was helping to wash the white turnips, carrots, cabbages, turnip leaves, and Chinese cabbage on the side. These were all for pickling with water in the afternoon, ready to be eaten at the table tomorrow.

Upon hearing this, she clicked her tongue.

“Tsk! Your mother-in-law is really something! She wants to use that half piece of pork — about fifty or so catties — to serve thirty tables! That’s too hard on the cooks.”

She wiped away the mud that had gotten on her face.

“She’s been eyeing the dozen rabbits and wild pheasants at our house! As soon as I came over today she brought it up, but I played dumb and brushed her off. The weather’s getting colder and Ye Lei needs nourishment. That’s why I kept these things — they’re for his health, not for others.

While Liu Sisi was talking, she put the peeled taro in a basket to one side.

Guihua continued her vigorous washing and scrubbing, “I suggest you go and talk to your mother-in-law about this! Otherwise, when the banquet is ready, she might criticize you right in the middle of things. If she accuses you of not slaughtering the chickens or rabbits…what could you say? People might even think you pocketed those meats and vegetables and have been skimming food!”

“That’s their problem! As long as I have a clear conscience, that’s enough for me.”

Whether the banquet is successful or not, the one who takes part in it is always under pressure from both sides, so why should she do it?

“That may be true, but you know your own mother-in-law, don’t you?”

Wanting Ms. Zhao to change her opinion of the third family branch seemed harder than scaling the heavens! Upon some thought, Liu Sisi realized this was the situation.

“If that’s really the case…”

She quickly thought of something, whispered in Guihua’s ear, then took off her apron, bypassed the stoves being set up by the cooks, and went to find Ms. Zhao in the main house.

Ms. Zhao was also looking upset today.

In order to save face, she had specifically ordered Little Cui — the temporarily renamed Ms. Xin — to rent a room and move out of her house for the wedding. However, what she didn’t expect was that Ms. Xin would actually invite the bouncers from the brothel to deliver her dowry. Wasn’t this slapping the Di Family in the face publicly?

Ms. Zhao was so angry that she couldn’t catch her breath, and had to suppress the urge to tear the dowry to shreds on the spot!

But she had to put on a smile! Endure the mockery of the fellow villagers!

She managed to send those people away, but her face immediately darkened! She began to swear at people.

When Liu Sisi came out of the kitchen, Ms. Zhao was cursing loudly at the door of the left wing room.

Normally, the youngest son shouldn’t live in the left wing room. However, after Di Hongyuan left and never returned, and Di Ah-Bao gradually grew older and could live independently, Ms. Zhao suggested to Elderly Mr. Di that Di Ah-Bao should be placed in the left wing room.

At this moment, naturally, the room being decorated as the bridal chamber was Di Ah-Bao’s usual residence – the left wing room.

When Liu Sisi came out of the kitchen, she raised her head, and met the eyes of Ms. Wang, who stood under the eaves leisurely peeling melon seeds, her face full of mockery.

Although Ms. Wang was her sister-in-law, there was a vast age gap between the two of them. Moreover, due to the past incident of Ms. Wang forcibly grabbing food from the Di Family upon first arriving, the two of them naturally felt uncomfortable at the sight of each other.

Liu Sisi was covered in dirt with her hands in a mess.

Ms. Wang, in her mandarin-collared, bright red, butterfly-patterned dress, was leaning against a pillar. Her beautiful features made her look attractive, an embodiment of the saying that beauty increases with age!

Of course, it would be better if her face didn’t look so scornful.