Northeast: My Absurd Woman

Chapter 166 Falling into a Well Without Getting Hanged on Your Chin

Yang Dianjun stood on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed), craning his neck to look at Liao Zhi.

"Hey new guy, can you even speak properly? If you can't, go gnaw on the wall. Who are you cursing at?"

If you're riding the wind and don't rein in your donkey, why don't you just jump onto the roof?

No one blindfolded you, how could you not recognize such a grown person?

Liao Zhi overheard the conversation between Yang Dianjun and Du Qiu outside.

I don't have a good impression of Zhang Changyao's two brothers-in-law, who are both like stubborn old women.

Hearing Yang Dianjun speak so recklessly, he decided not to indulge him.

"Hey! In broad daylight, lying on the kang (heated brick bed) at my sister's house, dressed like a flamboyant lady, and you still dare to scold me?"

"Come here! Get down on the ground right now, or I'll beat you so badly your own mother wouldn't recognize you!"

Yang Dianjun rolled up his arms and went to drag Liao Zhi away.

"Brother, Liao Zhi can't move, so don't touch him."

Uncle, you need to do something about my brother. He doesn't care who he is, he just loves to hit people.

Yang Wuni stood on Liao Zhi's head, holding the child, looking at Yang Deshan and begging for his help.

"Brother, Liao Zhi is a guest of our house, you can't hit him."

His dad's really powerful; he'll send you to jail eventually.

Before Yang Deshan could step forward, Zhang Changyao pulled Yang Dianjun away and threatened him, telling him not to be violent towards Liao Zhi.

"Hmph! You little idiot, I'll spare you from a beating because of your brother-in-law, or I'll send you to meet the King of Hell."

Yang Dianjun looked disdainful, knowing that Liao Zhi was unable to move, and his expression became even more arrogant.

"Hey! Wu Ni's brother, if there wasn't a woodpile in the yard, would you two have crashed into a meat pie?"

Do you know where the brakes are on a bicycle? Oh! Right, your bike probably doesn't have brakes.

Liao Zhi wasn't afraid of Yang Dianjun beating him up, since he didn't feel any pain anyway.

"Are you out of your mind? How do you know my bicycle doesn't have brakes? Are you blind or a fortune teller?"

Yang Dianjun's anger subsided after Liao Zhi's words, and he bypassed Zhang Changyao to go and pry open Liao Zhi's eyes.

"Hey bro, really? You and Du Qiu weren't riding your bikes with brakes?"

Yang Wuni got tired of standing, so she sat down and asked Yang Dianjun curiously.

"Hmm! With my two coins, I can only buy one of these."

Kicking the wheel or brakes of the car in front with the sole of your foot has the same effect.

"The slope was too steep just now, and it rubbed the soles of my shoes raw."

Yang Dianjun grinned sheepishly, scratching his head sheepishly.

"Wu Ni, you have no idea, your brother carried me on his back a few days ago."

He was thrown directly into the sand pit, and he flew a long way away.

"I'm lucky I'm nimble enough to jump down, otherwise I'd be dead." Du Qiu added without missing a beat.

"You two brats, are you sure you want to cause trouble? Who knows when you'll get into trouble and then you'll be wondering how you'll get married."

Yang Deshan put on an apron and prepared to go to the outer room to cook.

"Zhang Changyao, go to the soy sauce jar and take out a piece of the meat she pickled a few days ago, then stew it with some Chinese cabbage and vermicelli."

Cook more rice; Xiao Ge and Du Qiu Ge can eat it.

Yang Wuni directed Zhang Changyao, thinking of what she could give to Xiao Ge and Du Qiu Ge.

She was overjoyed when she ate the dry rice and the stewed pork, cabbage and vermicelli.

After Zhang Changyao finished scooping the meat, he went to the convenience store to buy cigarettes and alcohol.

These two brothers-in-law are meeting for the first time, so they should be treated properly.

On my way back, I went to Wang Ga's house. My back hurts so much that I can't work, so I wanted to let him know.

"Changyao, you're not coming? I was thinking of going to find you."

With you and Hou Da Yanjing gone, we simply don't have enough manpower at our noodle shop.

With the Lunar New Year just around the corner, there's a shortage of vermicelli to sell.

It's not that Brother Ga is trying to make things difficult for you, it's just that I have no other choice.

"Why don't you look again and see if you can find someone like Hou Jiu who doesn't ask for wages, just meals?"

Wang Ga looked unhappy and pointed to the small mountain of pink dough outside for Zhang Changyao to see.

"Okay, Brother Ga Zi, I'll look for it. If I really can't find it, I'll come here."

If we can't do the heavy lifting, we'll do the light lifting; we absolutely can't let the vermicelli run out of stock.

Zhang Changyao hung his head, thinking about home all the way.

The food was ready, but Yang Deming still hadn't returned, so Zhang Changyao had no choice but to go to Qi San's house to look for him.

"Uncle, don't worry about me. I'll stay at your third uncle's house. We two brothers get along well."

Go back and ask your brother if he delivered the message I asked him to to your fourth sister.

Yang Deming and Qi San were sitting at the table, exchanging toasts.

Upon seeing Zhang Changyao arrive, they dismissed him with a few words.

"Zhang Changyao, why are you telling Xiao Ge this? Fourth Sister is busy, she doesn't have time to come to our house."

Yang Wuni rolled her eyes at Zhang Changyao, blaming him for being so talkative.

"Hmph! Father always orders people around without taking the fall himself. He won't go himself, but makes me go instead, even though it's so close."

I'll go to your fourth sister's house in a little while and tell her that Dad has died. I'll see if she's still busy.

She married a butcher who was busier than the local government officials; he never came home for a whole year.

"You're not even as good as your father, who doesn't like you. At least you know to come home and buy him donkey meat!"

Taking advantage of Zhang Changyao's inattention, Yang Dianjun grabbed a bottle of liquor and started chugging it.

"Oh dear! Dianjun, how come you have no sense of propriety?"

"How expensive is baijiu? Your sister and brother-in-law bought it to entertain guests, how come you drank it all?"

Yang Deshan hurriedly grabbed the food, but there wasn't a single bite left.

"Hey bro, Du Qiu, is there anyone in Ganggang Village who's thinking of coming out to work?"

They provide food but don't pay wages; you can work until before or after the New Year.

The work wasn't tiring; it was just stomping on rice flour and drying rice noodles.

My back is hurting terribly, otherwise I wouldn't have asked someone to take my place.

Zhang Changyao considered everyone in the village, but couldn't find a suitable candidate.

Having no other choice, he asked Yang Dianjun and Du Qiu for help, hoping to find someone from Ganggangtun to replace him.

"He's got it right here, your brother Du Qiu, his mother always scolds him for being a freeloader."

Take him to his workplace tomorrow, so he won't cling to me like a dog.

Yang Dianjun gave Du Qiu, who only knew how to eat and didn't even look up at people, a push.

"Brother Du Qiu, can you go?"

Yang Wuni understood why Zhang Changyao had been frowning, so she helped him ask.

"I'm fine with anything. As long as I have food to eat and won't starve, I'm fine too."

Du Qiu grinned, revealing two small dimples, and her eyebrows and eyes curved into crescent moons.

"Hey buddy, why don't you come too? You can stay at my place, there's room on the kang (heated brick bed)."

Zhang Changyao knew that the rice noodle shop wasn't afraid of crowds at this time, so he wanted to keep Yang Dianjun there as well.

"Brother-in-law, let me tell you, no one can get away with ordering me around for free."

If it weren't for someone trying to set me up with a girlfriend, I would have gone to my second brother's place to make a fortune long ago.

In big cities, coins are everywhere; you can easily carry a bag full of them.

Unfortunately, I'm from the countryside, so I can't find a wife in the city.

Yang Dianjun's eyes were already glazed over, and he leaned against the corner of the wall and started snoring in an instant.

"Brother Du Qiu, my Zhang Changyao doesn't necessarily want you to work at the flour mill for him."

If you want to go, go; if you don't want to go, don't force him. He can find someone else.

Don't make it sound like my brother said, as if we're expecting to be waited on hand and foot.