Chapter 2 Reactions from Each Room
The old man in town
"Husband, something happened at home!"
"Oh, what happened?" Shen Mingyuan responded to his wife casually while fiddling with an abacus and calculating the accounts.
"My fourth brother's wife hit her head on a stone roller. I heard that there was blood all over the floor. Doctor Chen went there but almost couldn't save her." Upon hearing the news, Li ran to find the head of the household. When she heard the question, she didn't hesitate and told him the news she had heard quickly.
"Is it so serious? How could it hit the stone roller?" Shen Mingyuan was shocked and stopped working on the abacus. Li looked around and saw that the children were not there at the moment, so she took over the conversation and whispered, "I heard from Aunt Liu next door that it seemed to be related to Mingzhu. She saw Mingzhu running out of her brother and sister-in-law's room in a panic."
"Mingzhu..." Shen Mingyuan was lost in thought as he read his little sister's name. As the eldest brother, he certainly knew what kind of personality his little sister had. She was so domineering since she was a child that even the four brothers had to stand aside. If he hadn't suffered too much, he wouldn't have gone to the town to make a living so early and couldn't go home many times a year.
"Hui Er, I'm going to ask for leave from my boss tomorrow. Come with me and take a look!"
"Okay, sir, are you still going to take care of the children?"
"No need to bring them, just let them study hard!"
"Okay, then I'll listen to you, my husband!"
Shen Mingyuan looked at his cheerful and generous wife with a smile on his face. He thought that God must have been kind to him to have met such a good wife in his life.
In the second room
At this time, the second son and his family were in his room. After his wife Xu settled the children, she returned to the room and chatted with the second son, Shen Mingliang.
"Master, I saw my fourth brother coming out of our parents' room!"
"Yeah." Shen Mingliang soaked his feet in the hot water. The hot water washed his feet, as if washing away the fatigue of the day. Shen Mingliang showed a comfortable expression on his face, and lazily responded to his wife's reply.
Xu Wan'er looked at her husband's expression with amusement, then reached in and began massaging her husband's feet as usual to soothe his nerves.
Then they chatted casually, "What do you think, will my parents still protect my little sister this time?"
"Oh, it doesn't matter if I protect her or not, you know who my little sister is." Shen Mingliang said of his little sister, obviously looking down on her. "Now her parents are still alive, and my little sister hasn't married yet. We brothers and sisters-in-law are still trying to save face. In a few years, who will still associate with her?"
Shen Mingliang thought of something and quickly reminded his wife, "Those girls and boys at home, remind them to stay away from my little sister. Just listen to what her grandma said, don't believe it. Anyone who believes it is a fool!"
"Okay, I know my limits!" Xu picked up a footcloth and wiped the head of the household's feet.
"Well, you should take care of Fourth Brother's wife. Fourth Brother is often not at home, and our mother has such a bad temper. As her brother and sister-in-law, we have to take care of her."
"Okay, I know this, head of the family, do you think our mother has..." Mrs. Xu was concerned about her husband's mother, so she just pointed at her head and didn't say anything, "You sons and grandsons don't know how to love, but you only love your little sister? You want the stars but not the moon!"
"Maybe she thinks my little sister is herself!" Shen Mingliang thought for a while before saying, "You know what happened in my grandmother's family. She gave birth to seven daughters before she got a boy. My mother is the third child in the family. She has an older sister and a younger sister, not to mention a boy at the bottom. You can imagine what kind of education she received. She probably wants to impose on Mingzhu what she didn't get!"
So she can’t bear to see the boys in her family get any benefits, nor can she bear to see her daughters being wronged!
"..." Mrs. Xu was somewhat speechless after hearing this. With her mother-in-law's doting attitude, raising a pheasant like a phoenix in a poor mountain village, what good could she get in the end?
In the old third room
After a day's work, Shen Minghua wanted to lie down on the bed as soon as he got home. Oh my god! I finally finished this batch of goods, but I was so tired.
Before leaving, I wanted to remind my father-in-law not to take such rushed jobs next time, but when I thought about the money he would get, I swallowed my words back.
Forget it, forget it. How many times can we rush in life? If you don’t rush and I don’t rush, who will make the money?
"Boss, boss?" Zhao saw the boss lying on the bed as soon as he came back, without saying anything she had been holding back for a whole day, so she pushed him away with some displeasure.
"What's wrong, wife? What kind of jewelry do you want? I'll make it for you after I rest, okay? Let me lie down for a while, I'm so tired!"
"Hey, why are you lying down? You've already got a broken head at home, and you're still lying down!"
Shen Minghua was shocked and immediately sat up, saying seriously, "What happened? Who did our Lulu fight with? My daughter is only 5 years old and someone dares to bully her. I wonder who is going to die... Hey, wife, why did you hit me?"
Zhao rolled her eyes at her husband, who was like a funny guy, and continued, "It was my younger sister who tried to snatch the wooden sign that my fourth brother's wife was carrying. When she refused to give it to me, my younger sister pushed her and she crashed into the stone roller. There was blood all over the floor, and it was scary to see. If my fourth brother hadn't come back by chance and found a doctor, who knows how it would have ended."
After hearing this, Shen Minghua's heart tightened. He didn't expect such a big thing to happen at home. He was about to put on his shoes and go to his fourth brother's room to check. Who knows how upset his fourth brother must be after such a thing happened to his sister-in-law.
"Why are you going?"
"I'll go and take a look!"
"What are you looking at? Don't you know what time it is? Fourth brother has been busy all day, just let him have a good rest first! My second sister-in-law and I went to see Doctor Chen when he came. There was such a big wound and his head was wrapped in bandages. Doctor Chen said it was some kind of brain concussion and he needed to stay in bed and rest more!"
Maybe there will be a scar! Zhao didn't say this, but she couldn't help but sigh in her heart. What if such a beautiful woman got a scar? Just thinking about it makes her feel distressed!
Shen Minghua saw that the weather was definitely not the same as before, so he took off his shoes again.
"Mingzhu wants to steal Fourth Brother's wife's wooden sign? What wooden sign?"
"It's the one that Fourth Sister-in-law wears around her neck all day long. They say she's been wearing it since she was a child to keep her safe." Zhao couldn't help smacking her lips when she said this. "You have good taste, I think. Fourth Sister-in-law's wooden plaque is not simple!"
"Oh, what do you mean?"
"I've seen the wooden plaque that Fourth Brother's wife brought. Do you know what it's made of? It's actually top-grade agarwood! Those are used by the great masters in Beijing to carve exquisite toys. I estimate that a small piece of it is worth several hundred taels of silver.
Not to mention the carving on it, it's actually openwork! My God, it's actually openwork! Something that even master craftsmen may not be able to master, actually appeared on a small wooden sign. You have no idea how surprised I was when I saw it!
The landscapes of mountains, fields and peonies on the card are so lifelike. It's absolutely amazing! When I first saw it, I almost thought I could see the ups and downs of the mountains and the gurgling of the water.
Zhao recalled the wooden sign she had seen at the beginning, and still couldn't help but sigh, "It's indescribable!"
Shen Minghua gradually became serious after hearing this, and pulled his wife over and asked solemnly, "Have you ever told anyone this?"
"How dare I!" Zhao put away her expression and said seriously, "Although I don't know why my fourth sister-in-law would bring such a thing, I still understand the principle of not showing off your wealth, so how dare I say anything? I even warned my fourth sister-in-law at the beginning, but who knew why my younger sister would set her eyes on it?"
"Why would the little sister suddenly want the wooden sign? She doesn't understand these things!"