Chapter 5 The Widow's Change of Personality
After beating up the bad guys, Tong Huaqiong, exhausted, went back to the house to continue eating.
Due to the low grain production in that era, in order to fill their stomachs while saving food, most of the grains that farmers ate were not shelled. Half a bowl of rice made Tong Huaqiong's throat sore that she couldn't bear it.
So he took prompt action and took out the fine flour from home to make egg pancakes again, and treated Chen Sufen and Maner to a hearty meal.
Chen Sufen and Man'er were reluctant to eat any, so Tong Huaqiong finished nearly a whole stack of egg pancakes by herself.
Chen Sufen was so frightened by her mother-in-law's abnormal behavior that she couldn't sleep well all night.
I’m afraid that my mother-in-law’s soul has been taken away by some demon.
If there really is such a fairy, then this fairy is a good one. She couldn't bear to see her and Man'er suffer, so she came to save her.
"Grandma, you eat eggs."
Tong Huaqiong stayed at Gu's house for three days.
Every meal is a torture.
During these three days, she was very kind to Chen Sufen and Maner.
This made Maner no longer tremble when she ate with Tong Huaqiong. Seeing that her grandmother couldn't eat, Maner obediently handed her egg to Tong Huaqiong.
"Good grandson, you eat."
Tong Huaqiong stepped into the role of grandmother and touched Maner's head lovingly.
After all, she is a girl, so she knows how to be considerate. Unlike Zhang Sun Yaozu, who eats like a starving ghost and puts all the delicious food into her own bowl.
Tong Huaqiong stared at the unshelled millet in the bowl and sighed. It was really hard to swallow.
The Gu family was too poor, and she had used up the only half bag of flour they had.
"Granny, I want to eat eggs, too."
Yaozu stared at the egg in Maner's hand and wanted to snatch it away.
All the eggs that the money-loser eats are his, all are his!
"If you want to eat it, eat it yourself." Tong Huaqiong rejected Yaozu straightforwardly.
"I haven't seen meat for several days. I can't stand it."
Gu Taohua ate the rice in the bowl with an unhappy look on her face.
Usually, whenever there is something delicious at home, she is given priority. Even if the family is poor, she will never go short of food.
Now she can't stand eating from the same pot with Chen Sufen. She feels that she has lost weight due to hunger in the past three days.
She also wanted to eat eggs, but her mother said that the eggs laid by the hens in the house were for the health of her sister-in-law and niece, and no one else was allowed to touch them.
Gu Taohua looked up and stared at her sister-in-law Chen Sufen's bowl, which contained an egg.
In the past, her sister-in-law would peel the eggs and hand them to her without her needing to give any hint. But now that her mother was pressuring her, she didn't dare to ask for it, and her sister-in-law didn't dare to give it to her either.
"You should starve with all this muscle. You won't die of starvation anyway." Tong Huaqiong looked fierce at Gu Taohua.
Gu Taohua pouted to express her dissatisfaction.
My mother is really confused. She doesn't love her own daughter but loves her sister-in-law instead.
Liu Yue'e, who was sitting next to Gu Taohua, was also dissatisfied with her mother-in-law's current transformation. Her eldest grandson was sitting right in front of her, but she treated a money-losing item as a treasure.
No wonder people say that being a widow for a long time will turn you into a mentally abnormal person. In her opinion, her mother-in-law is one of them now.
No matter how dissatisfied everyone was, they didn't dare to say anything further.
During these three days, Tong Huaqiong beat the bad bamboos in the house twice, and all the fire sticks were broken by beating them. Finally, these bad bamboos realized that Tong Huaqiong had changed.
At least no one dared to bully Chen Sufen and her daughter Maner openly like they did before.
Have a full meal.
Tong Huaqiong sat in the yard thinking.
Since I have been transported to the body of this black-hearted widow, I can't go back for a while and can only live here with gritted teeth.
It's just that the hardware conditions of the Gu family are really poor, and there is a sense of decadence everywhere.
Let me talk about my family background first. We were a poor family with only a few mud and brick houses and no money.
Of course, the blame for the poverty still lies with people. The original owner, Tong Dajiao, was a lazy woman who did nothing but work with a few bad bamboos. All the housework fell on her stepson's wife Chen Sufen, while her stepson Gu Dahan was responsible for carrying sandbags at the dock to cover daily expenses.
Even so, he still let his youngest son go to school, which made Gu Jingzhe have the evil idea of selling his niece in exchange for tuition.
Tong Huaqiong decided to find a way to change it if she wanted to continue living here. Apart from other things, she couldn't stand the leaky mud house and the millet that didn't peel and made her throat ache.
During these three days, she tried to activate all the cheat codes, systems, spaces, and other supernatural powers of time travelers in the time-travel novels, but to no avail.
Oh, she did enter a space, but she could only look at the things inside and couldn't take them away. She had reason to suspect that it was just a dream she had imagined.
She didn't even have the chance to turn things around through marriage like other time-traveling women. She was a widow, who could she marry? And she had a bunch of burdens.
She finally understood that here, she could only rely on herself and these bad guys.
"Grandma, let me give you a back massage."
Maner stood behind Tong Huaqiong.
In the past, Tong Huaqiong always asked Man'er to help her massage her back and legs, so as soon as Tong Huaqiong sat on the chair and got ready, Man'er would curl up her fists as if by reflex.
"No need." Tong Huaqiong said kindly.
Man'er's eyes were filled with tears: "Grandma, did Man'er make you angry?"
Tong Huaqiong: “…”
There was no way, Maner's fear of her would not disappear in a short time.
"Maner, you didn't make me angry. You don't have to be so scared when you see me next time." Tong Huaqiong's face became more kind.
Maner smiled. She liked her grandmother now.
Chen Sufen, who was sweeping the yard, was so scared that her scalp went numb.
When she was about to send Maner to the Zheng family, Tong Huaqiong had the same kind look in her eyes.
She always felt that her mother-in-law was planning something bad, waiting for her to let her guard down so that she could do something big.
During these three days, Chen Sufen worked even harder, even staying at the door of her mother-in-law's room at night. She would rush to serve her mother-in-law as soon as she made the slightest movement.
Pour water, carry urinal, cover quilt...
Just to make the mother-in-law feel comfortable, she decided not to change her decision to keep Maner at home.
Tong Huaqiong's eyes bulged, and she shouted at Gu Dashu who was basking in the sun in the corner: "Gu Dashu, you are a grown man, how can you lie there in broad daylight? Are you blind and can't you see your sister-in-law working all day? Get up and sweep the yard. After sweeping the yard, chop the firewood for me."
Gu Dashu's butt was still swollen from being beaten. He endured the pain and stood up to take the broom from Chen Sufen's hand.
Chen Sufen silently moved a stool and placed it next to the wash basin, then sat down and began to wash the clothes of the whole family.
Tong Huaqiong took a look at Gu Taohua and shouted, "Gu Taohua, you are such a grown-up, and you still let your sister-in-law rub your pants. Aren't you ashamed? Do you think you are a pig just because you are fat? Get out here, and don't even think about eating after you finish rubbing these two basins of clothes."
Gu Taohua rubbed the red marks on her arms and reluctantly walked out of the house to wash clothes.
Chen Sufen picked up the bucket and went to fetch water.
Liu Yue'e was leaning against the doorstep of her house eating melon seeds. She was afraid that her mother-in-law's anger would get her, so she quickly bent over and tried to escape.
He was caught and scolded by Tong Huaqiong.
"We are both daughters-in-law of the Gu family. Look at your sister-in-law, and then look at yourself. Are those melon seeds growing in your mouth? They keep knocking at your mouth all day long, so your teeth must be knocked out. Go fetch some water for me right now."
Liu Yue'e had no choice but to put the melon seeds in her pocket and took over the burden from Chen Sufen's shoulders with tears in her eyes.
"And you, Yaozu, if you dare to call Man'er a loser again, you'll have to try. I'll tear your mouth to pieces!"
Gu Yaozu looked at the fire poker in his grandmother's hand, covered his butt and nodded quickly.
It was not until this time that Tong Huaqiong felt a little relieved.
The only good thing about this era is that filial piety is practiced all over the world. A few bad bamboos are no longer a big deal. Once a mourning hat is put on them, they dare not disobey Tong Huaqiong.
As long as you listen to her, she is confident that you can make it right.
"Mom, tell me the truth. You've been beating and scolding us these past few days. Are you just pretending to paralyze my sister-in-law so that it would be easier for her to send Man'er to the Zheng family, or have you really changed your ways?"
After Gu Dashu finished sweeping the yard, he took the opportunity when Chen Sufen went to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables and asked his mother with a shameless face.
Man'er, who was standing next to Tong Huaqiong, turned pale with fright when she heard the name Zheng family.
Tong Huaqiong gave Gu Dashu a slap in the face.
"Fuck you. I told you that Man'er won't go to the Zheng family if he doesn't want to! You are a black-hearted bastard, and you are targeting your niece. If you envy the good life of the Zheng family, you might as well go and be their son."
Gu Dashu thought, you black-hearted rotten turtle is just scolding yourself.
"But mother, we have already received 200 taels of silver from the Zheng family. Can the Zheng family let us go?"
"Just return the money."
"Mother, you think too simply. What kind of family is the Zheng family? If they stamp their feet, our entire Pingchuan will tremble. The news of their eldest son's marriage has been leaked. If you return the money now and don't give it to them, will they let us go? Will they let my third brother go?"
According to him, Maner should be sent over.
Gu Dashu looked worried, and if you didn't know him well, you would really think he had good intentions.
Tong Huaqiong frowned.
However, what Gu Dashu said was true.
The Zheng family is not an easy family to deal with. After suffering such a huge loss, they will definitely not let it go.
Properly resolving the Zheng family’s issues is the most important matter at this moment.