novelraw Chapter 97 This lady, why do you still like to be scolded?
Chapter 97 This lady, why do you still like to be scolded?
She was dating her high school classmate, but her family disapproved. Zhang, the accountant, would get upset whenever the topic came up. The young man was good-looking, but his parents had died young, and he was a troublemaker.
After graduation, the young man took over the job left by his father. His salary alone had to support three younger siblings, which was not a good situation.
His daughter would have to work hard for this family after she got married. They doted on her and spoiled her as she grew up, so how could they bear to let her suffer in her husband's family?
Otherwise, if his daughter could find a young man who works in the city, he would have happily started preparing her dowry long ago. Most importantly, his fighting habit is unacceptable!
Tong Yuheng knew a little about this, from what Xiao Liu Yuxuan told her. She was classmates with Zhang Xiulan, the little girl from the Zhang family, and the girl told her about it when she was gossiping about her cousin.
She also said that her uncle was a bit stubborn. Wouldn't other people's younger siblings grow up? They don't have to support them for life! He doesn't have parents to help him, but her cousin doesn't have to take care of her in-laws. What's wrong with that?
Zhang Xiulan, the young girl, was quite open-minded, but parents always think more about their children's future, regardless of whether they appreciate it or not. No one can foresee what the young man will become in the future, so everyone was unsure whether to advise them to reconcile or break up.
"Oh! If only she were a little more sensible!"
The brigade leader assigned the breeding work to Tong Yuheng. Fearing that she wouldn't understand, he called his wife over to teach her. He also said that during this period, she would only be responsible for these seedlings, and he would give her full work points. She wouldn't have to do the rice transplanting work anymore.
Transplanting rice seedlings is a very tiring job. The weather in early May is not very warm, and women are more likely to catch a cold if they walk barefoot in the muddy ground.
Tong Yuheng, feeling sorry for his family, had prepared tall rain boots beforehand, one pair for each person in the family. Tong Jiahui and her three daughters all wore them to plant rice seedlings in the fields, making the women in the village green with envy!
This family was clean-cut and dressed in fashionable and nice clothes. They were usually quiet and reserved, always nodding and smiling gently at people. This made the male members of the village look at them more often, which annoyed the sallow-faced woman beside them.
These past few days, while working in the fields, the mother and her three daughters were all assigned to the same group. Those who didn't want to be assigned with them before are now willing to work with them.
Except for the first day when they were not skilled and did not do very well, they got the hang of it on the second day and did just as much as the women in the village.
It wasn't that they were being reckless, but rather that their bodies, nourished by the spiritual spring water, had increased in endurance and strength, not to mention that the sisters practiced martial arts every day.
Linglong took leave during the rice planting season, and only Xiaowu went to school. The two of them would participate in collective labor for the ten days or so of rice planting. They would have to wait until they got back to have Xiaowu make up for the missed lessons.
In addition, they also had to learn medical principles from their grandfather at night. Even the chickens and rabbits used to improve everyone's lives were first made to practice suturing external injuries before being stewed and eaten.
Yu Ling and Yu Long were eagerly looking forward to going back to school. They were happier spending their time reading, doing exercises, and having fights!
Yu Yao found the two of them quite amusing. She was tired, wanted to slack off, and was afraid of being laughed at by her younger sisters if she couldn't learn the material. So she forced herself to keep going every day.
Haha, and there are also the regular exams from their older sister waiting for them. This has finally kept these two sisters, who hate studying the most, in check!
Tong Yuyao accepted her older sister's advice and stopped obsessively studying mechanical principles and drafting. Instead, she chose books she liked from the large pile of books she had acquired. She was indeed more interested in literary works and even philosophy and history, so she focused on reading those books.
Tong Yuheng went down less than two meters into the tunnel and dug out a basement that was about five or six square meters in size and only two meters high. The floor was paved with red bricks and the walls were also covered with a layer of bricks.
She put all the books inside, turning it into a small library. She plugged in a light bulb so she could read there whenever she wanted. Because the books inside were currently prohibited from being read outside, she couldn't take them with her.
Those selections of Marxist-Leninist works and anthologies of great figures were openly brought to the living room in the east wing for reading. Yuyao had already moved to the bedroom against the back wall of the two bedrooms in the east wing, while the sunny front bedroom was temporarily kept.
That day, Tong Jiahui was planting rice seedlings with the children when she overheard two women gossiping about her, saying things like she was a shameless vixen, and that she had set herself up for an exorbitant price, and that she was a born cheap woman who couldn't be sold.
She was naturally angry to hear that, but since the person hadn't named anyone, she couldn't lash out. Instead, she kept a cold expression and focused on her work.
Yuyao and Linglong overheard this too, and they knew they couldn't let their mother get away with such veiled insults!
"Ugh! It's not even hot yet, why are there cicadas chirping everywhere? And they're chirping so awfully!" Yu Yao straightened up, speaking in a sarcastic tone.
"Haha, there's nothing we can do about it. We still have to farm. Are we going to stop working just because cicadas are chirping?" Yu Ling chimed in, giving the women a deliberately provocative look.
"Pah! It's fine if it just barks a few times, but it's not even a beast, so I don't bother with it. If it jumps on my face, I'll stomp it to pieces!" Yu Long stomped her foot in the water and rolled her eyes at the man!
"Pfft!" Tong Jiahui couldn't help but laugh. None of her daughters were like her; they all inherited her grandmother's fierceness!
"Who are you calling a brat? You try saying it again!" The slightly chubby, sallow-faced woman threw down the rice seedlings she was holding and pointed at Yulong, yelling at her!
"Oh dear, ma'am, why do you still like to pick on insults? I'm insulting that shameless, ugly wretch who spews filth and gossips everywhere! Is that you? Did I call you by your first name or your last name?"
"You little slut! I'll tear your mouth off!" The woman's hand reached out to grab Yulong's face!
Yu Long immediately dodged and ran towards the edge of the field. She was wearing big rain boots, which made it really inconvenient to fight here!
Seeing this, Yuyao immediately shouted, "Help! The village aunties are bullying the young educated youth! Someone hit my sister!" She ran outside while shouting, and Yuling reacted and chased after her.
The two sisters chased after her, each grabbing one of her arms and pinching her armpits and waist. They didn't normally fight like that; it was Aunt Sanyuan who taught them the fighting techniques used by the village women, and they learned them perfectly every time!
After pinching them a few times, the two women let go. The woman, having been wronged, became even more furious, screaming and yelling like a madwoman, and lunging at the women.
The three sisters mostly dodged, occasionally kicking her, making sure she couldn't get the better of them. But to onlookers, this older woman was shamelessly bullying the young girl; it was incredibly tasteless!