Chapter 177 Hospitality
Tong Fusheng and Wang were so angry that they almost vomited blood.
Look at what this question is?
They came all the way from Heilong Village. If they didn't stay, would they have to go back at night?
Besides, how could they go back without getting the silver and food?
"Sister, what you said is true. Since we are here, we should stay here naturally." Wang said.
Wang was very angry.
She worked hard for a long time to prepare a large table of dishes, but they were all eaten by Tong Huaqiong and her bunch of bad guys. Her husband and son didn't eat much.
After dinner, she still has to wash up.
What made her even more upset was that the money for buying vegetables had to be paid from her own family.
That was the only two taels of silver in the family, and it was all spent by that idiot Gu Dahan.
Fortunately, when she cooked at night, she deliberately left some meat and vegetables, including mutton, noodles and eggs. She left them because she was afraid that Tong Zhijie would be hungry at night.
I didn't expect it would come in handy.
She planned to wait until Tong Huaqiong and others fell asleep before cooking for her son.
Tong Fusheng's face also looked unhappy.
It's obvious that the girl wants to chase someone away.
He refused to leave. He had come here with great difficulty, but he hadn't gotten the money, the food, or had any business with the shop. How could he leave?
"Big Foot, do you have any misunderstandings about me? Was it because you were angry with me because I didn't speak up for you when Gu Baishuang wanted to bury her parents together in front of Old Gu's funeral hall?" Tong Fusheng asked.
After thinking about it, he realized that this was the only thing that offended the girl.
But he had his reasons.
Gu Baishuang gave him five taels of silver and asked him not to get involved in this matter.
He didn't want to accept the money, but he had to. He and Tong Zhijie needed money to study, and the girl couldn't give him the money at that time.
Tong Huaqiong frowned. There was actually such a thing.
"It doesn't matter whether you help me or not." Tong Huaqiong didn't care about the feud between him and Tong Dajiao at all. He said with embarrassment, "Since you want to stay, I can't chase you away. But there are not many houses at home and there is no place to stay. Fortunately, it's summer now. Why don't you stay in the woodshed for one night?"
Tong Fusheng almost spit out a mouthful of water.
Let him live in the woodshed?
How can you treat guests like this?
"Sister, you want us to live in the woodshed? Can people live in that woodshed?" Wang said.
Gu Dashu said, "Why not? When I went to your house to help you harvest wheat, you always let me sleep in the haystack in the threshing field. I can sleep in the haystack, so why do you sleep in the woodshed? There are many people in my family, so where can we find an extra room for you to sleep? You came to our house without even saying hello, so who is willing to make room for you?"
Liu Yue'e said, "During the rush to harvest in previous years, you, uncle and aunt, didn't even prepare bedding for Dashu and asked him to bring it from home. Now you are sleeping in my firewood room, and at least the bedding is ready."
Tong Fusheng and Wang were left speechless by the rebuke from Gu Dashu and his wife.
Wang looked towards Chen Sufen and Gu Dahan, hoping that the couple would be sensible and give up the house.
In the past, the stepson and his wife always behaved very timidly and always gave in to others unyieldingly.
But this time, Chen Sufen and Gu Dahan pretended to be deaf and dumb and said nothing.
Tong Zhijie looked left and right and said in a familiar voice, "My parents and my second sister live in the woodshed, and I live in Jingzhe's room. Anyway, he is not back from the private school, so the room is empty anyway."
Wang said to Tong Huaqiong, "Your brother and I can live in the firewood room, and your nephew can live in Jingzhe's house."
Tong Huaqiong refused, "No one is allowed to enter Jingzhe's room. He is going to take the exam for the scholar degree. The fortune teller said that if an outsider enters, it will ruin the feng shui and affect his luck in the exam. Zhijie, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but you and Jingzhe took the exam together. You are one year older than Jingzhe, and you failed the exam twice. So I can't take the risk of letting you live in. What if it affects Jingzhe? I'm counting on Jingzhe to win an imperial decree for me."
Tong Fusheng originally wanted to speak, but when he heard these words he felt short of breath and couldn't speak.
Wang was about to say something, but Tong Hua immediately said, "If you don't want to stay, you can stay in a hotel in town if you have money."
This was clearly a merciless act. If they stayed, they could only live in the woodshed.
"Okay, we'll just stay in the woodshed for one night." Tong Fusheng said, gritting his teeth.
In the past, when Tong Zhaodi came to the Gu family to spend the night, she always stayed in the same room with Gu Taohua. She had originally planned to discuss with Tong Huaqiong about letting her and Gu Taohua share a room, but now she didn't dare to do so.
Tong Huaqiong was too lazy to continue paying attention to them and got up to wash up.
When the other members of the Gu family saw Tong Huaqiong stand up, they also dispersed and went back to their rooms.
Following Tong Huaqiong's instructions, Gu Dahan delivered the bedding to Tong Fusheng's family to the woodshed.
The bedding was the same one he used to carry sandbags outside; it was thin and torn.
Tong Huaqiong originally asked him to throw it away, but he was reluctant to do so as he thought it could be used in the pigsty during the winter.
This came in handy before the summer was even over.
It seems that Tong Fusheng's family will not cause any trouble in the Gu family yard for the time being. They still want to extort money from Tong Huaqiong, so Tong Huaqiong is not worried at all that they will do something wrong.
Before going to bed, she asked Maner to bring the mutton and eggs into the space, and take the rice, flour and oil to her own room.
Then turn off the lights and go to sleep.
I watched as the lights in the upper room were turned off.
Tong Fusheng cursed in the woodshed: "We didn't even get enough food to eat."
Tong Zhijie yelled, "I'm so hungry, I can't sleep."
Wang touched her rumbling stomach and stood up with Liu Zhaodi.
"There are still a lot of meat and vegetables left from the Dahan purchase. Zhaodi and I will go and cook them for you."
When the mother and daughter were washing the kitchen, they hid the meat, vegetables, eggs, rice, flour and oil.
They were just waiting for Tong Huaqiong and the others to fall asleep so that they could go to the kitchen to cook.
Tong Zhijie's eyes lit up and he said excitedly, "That's great, mom. Make me a basket of egg pancakes and add lots of oil."
Tong Fusheng also laughed, and like an old man, he sat up in the moonlight and said, "Cook all the meat and vegetables for us to eat. We can't let them get away with it."
Wang thought so too.
Wang and Liu Zhaodi came to the kitchen and found the place where the things were hidden.
I touched it and it was empty.
"Zhao Di, you hid the meat and vegetables. Did you hide them here?" Wang asked with a look of doubt.
"Yes, it's hidden there." Liu Zhaodi reached out to take it out, but found nothing.
"Could it be that he was taken away by Dahan?"
Wang talked to herself and went to touch the eggs and flour again.
She had hidden the eggs and flour, but when she reached out, the cupboard was also empty.
The mother and daughter searched the entire kitchen, but found nothing, including rice, flour, oil, eggs, meat or vegetables.
Wang was so angry that she wanted to clap her hands and scold Tong Huaqiong for being so mean that she didn't even leave a single scallion.
Liu Zhaodi said, "Mom, I'm afraid all these things have been put away by my aunt."
Wang gritted her teeth and cursed: "Who else could it be except her? These meat and vegetables were bought with our family's money."
Tong Fusheng and Tong Zhijie were leaning on the haystack waiting to eat mutton and egg pancakes when they saw Wang and Liu Zhaodi coming back empty-handed.
Tong Fusheng asked, "What's going on? Is the meat being stewed?"
Wang cursed, "Your sister is so cruel. She took away all the meat, vegetables, eggs, rice, flour and oil that I hid. There is nothing in the kitchen except cold water."
Tong Zhijie whimpered with hunger and rolled over on the haystack. He jumped three feet high and said, "I'll go kill the chicken now."
Tong Fusheng asked Wang to hold him down and said, "Do you want to alarm your aunt?"
Tong Zhijie sighed with his stomach twitching: "I'm so hungry that I can't stand it anymore."
Wang looked distressed and stamped her feet and scolded Tong Huaqiong.
Tong Fusheng said to Tong Zhaodi helplessly: "Go and scoop two bowls of water for Zhijie and me to drink."
Tong Zhaodi went out and scooped in two bowls of water.
Tong Fusheng gritted his teeth and drank it down.
Tong Zhijie knocked over the bowl.