Started as a thatched house and ended up as a female figure

On their way home with Cheng Erniu, Cheng Wan was teaching Erniu how to drive a car.

"Awan, you really don't know that lady? Why did that lady come to see you again today?"

"We didn't know each other before, but now we know each other. Now we should be considered... friends?"

Cheng Erniu turned to look at Cheng Wan with wide eyes, "What are we friends for? You have only met twice."

"Hey, hey, second uncle, don't look at me, look at the road!"

Cheng Erniu quickly turned his head and looked forward, still asking questions.

"Tell me, why are we friends after we've only met twice? I don't think you two have said a few words at all. If you know who they are, you're friends with them, and you're not afraid of others lying to you. ?”

Cheng Wan sighed helplessly: "With her dress and temperament, are she an ordinary person? Are you still lying to me? What can I, a peasant girl who sells bamboo tube rice dumplings, do to lie? Her parents are worried that their precious daughter will be cheated. Lie."

"As for becoming friends after only meeting twice, how do you say this? It's just a feeling. There are some people who you feel you are in love with at the first sight, and you can become friends by just saying a few words."

Cheng Wan turned to look at Cheng Erniu who was driving the car, "Second uncle, can you understand this feeling?"

Cheng Erniu shook his head with a stupefied expression, "I don't understand."

The oxcart clattered on the way back to Jiajia Village, and the faint chatter of Cheng Wan and Cheng Erniu could be heard in the wind.

Cheng Wan and Cheng Erniu didn't know that the Cheng family welcomed two uninvited guests.

In the courtyard of the Cheng family.

Mrs. Lin and her two daughters-in-law were sewing new clothes for the whole family, while Cheng Daniu and the others were also busy polishing bamboo sticks.

Not counting today, in the past two days, the net profit from selling bamboo rice dumplings was at least one tael.

There is no shortage of food and drink at home, and there is a savings of one hundred taels of silver.

The injuries on Cheng Daniu and Cheng Daping are getting better day by day.

Life was going smoothly, and the Cheng family could not hide their happiness.

"My mother-in-law? Xiaomei? Daniel? They are all at home."

When the people in the courtyard heard the noise outside, they raised their heads and glanced outside, and then the happy smiles on everyone's faces disappeared.

As soon as Xiao Lin put down her sewing work, she turned around and rushed into the house to quickly hide the good things Cheng Wan had bought in the past few days under her quilt.

Old Mrs. Lin stood up and glared at Mrs. Wang, "Why are you sitting there stupidly? Your mother and your sister-in-law are here, why don't you hurry up and greet them."

Wang stood up stiffly, forced a smile on her face and walked out.

Cheng Daniu looked at Mrs. Lin disapprovingly: "Mom, why are you angry at my wife? My mother-in-law and her sister-in-law were not called here by my wife."

Wang glared at Cheng Daniu, "What? Is your wife so valuable? I can't even say anything. That's her mother and sister-in-law. If I don't say who is she talking about?"

Cheng Daniu held a bamboo stick in his hand, glanced at Mrs. Lin, and muttered: "Then why didn't you do this when Wan was here?"

Old Mrs. Lin choked at Cheng Daniu's words and thought to herself: "Ah Wan protects her mother like a daughter. If I scold Mrs. Wang in front of her, she won't be able to tear down the house?"

"Hey, mother-in-law, are you busy?"

Mrs. Lin turned her head and looked at the visitor with a smile on her face, "Yeah, I'm busy. I didn't invite you here, so why are you here?"

What he said was so merciless.

A woman who came in behind Wang's mother-in-law, Mrs. Liu, didn't feel embarrassed at all and had a smile on her face.

"Auntie, I heard at home that Wan's stupid illness has recovered. My mother, as a grandma, misses the child, so I will accompany her to see her."

Xiao Lin hid the things and came out of the house. She happened to hear this sentence and said bluntly: "You guys come to see what A Wan is carrying? You can't come empty-handed, right?"

Mrs. Wang's sister-in-law, Ms. Sun, finally felt a little uncomfortable, but Mrs. Liu took it as a matter of course.

"Ah Wan is a loser and worthless. As a grandma, I came to see her in person. What else do you want?"

Mrs. Wang was so angry that she was shaking all over. She said with red eyes: "A Wan is not at home. When she comes back, I will tell her that mother and sister-in-law will go back first."

Mrs. Liu's mean face became more ferocious when she heard this. She turned around and wanted to scold Mrs. Wang, but as if something suddenly occurred to her, the ferocity on her face went back.

"Oh, it doesn't matter, I'll just wait for her to come back at home."

Mrs. Liu stayed in the yard and refused to leave. Mrs. Lin and the others couldn't throw Mrs. Liu out. After all, they were serious in-laws.

So Mrs. Lin and others could only hold back their temper and talk to Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Sun, but their tone was more perfunctory and perfunctory.

Mrs. Liu talked for a long time and finally revealed her true purpose of coming to Cheng's house today.

"I heard that girl Ah Wan was rewarded five taels of silver by the official?"

As soon as these words came out, the courtyard immediately fell silent.

Mrs. Lin had a fake smile on her face, making it impossible to guess what the old lady was thinking.

"Yes, that child was very strong and helped an official. The official rewarded her five taels of silver."

"But the five taels of silver were all spent that day. Didn't Da Niu and Da Ping get injured in a fight? The family was short of everything, so Awan and Erping used the five taels of silver to buy some medicine to treat their injuries. I came back with some food, and everyone in our village knows about it."

Mrs. Liu slapped her thigh, her face filled with anger and pity. She didn't know she thought the five taels of silver belonged to her.

"This damn girl, after getting so much money, she didn't just take it home quickly, but she was so cowardly that she spent all the money!"

"My mother-in-law, I'm not telling you, it's just that you have such a good temper that you got that damn girl to be so bold."

Mrs. Lin gritted her teeth and nodded, smiling softly, "Compared to you, I have a pretty good temper."

She wanted to see what this damn old woman could say now.

Mrs. Liu rolled her eyes and asked tentatively: "I heard that Erniu and Erping have been going home to chop bamboo these days. That girl Awan and Erniu have been running to the county town these days. What are they doing? Is it a business? I also heard that they go to the county town every day to rent an ox cart from the Jia Sheng family in your village. They have rented an ox cart, so they should be able to earn a lot of money every day, right?"

After the words fell, the courtyard was filled with an even more suffocating silence than before after asking about the five taels of silver.

Mrs. Lin and others all looked at Mrs. Liu, and Cheng Xiaoyu finally raised her head to take a second look at Mrs. Liu.

Mrs. Liu saw that everyone was silent for a while, with a look of pride on her face that she had seen through everything.

"Hey, isn't it just business? You have to get up and cook before dawn every day. I'm afraid it will be a lot of trouble, right? We are all real relatives. Is there anything we can't talk about? Let's talk about what kind of business we are doing. Let Xiaomei and her brother help you."

Mrs. Sun also helped, with a smile on her face, "My mother is right. No matter what happens, Xiaomei and her brother still have a lot of strength."

Mrs. Lin sneered coldly, "Who did you hear these things from?"

Mrs. Liu's eyes flickered a few times, "No one, no one, I just heard about it casually."

Not right.

Cheng Erniu and Cheng Erping carried so much bamboo to their house, Cheng Wan and Cheng Erniu drove the oxcart back and forth every day, and the Cheng family cooked so many bamboo rice dumplings every day before dawn, it was impossible for the villagers to miss it.

Many people speculated that the Cheng family was running a small business, but the only people who knew exactly what kind of business the Cheng family was doing were only the family of the eldest son of Village Chief Jia, Shopkeeper Jia, who lived in the county town on weekdays.

Bamboo tube rice dumplings are very popular in the county these days. Shopkeeper Jia can't help but know that he even personally came to the place where Cheng Wan and Cheng Erniu were selling bamboo tube rice dumplings.

It's just that the gap between the two families was too big in the past, and Shopkeeper Jia and the Cheng family were very unfamiliar.

When Shopkeeper Jia saw Cheng Wan and Cheng Erniu selling bamboo rice dumplings, he just asked politely, bought a few rice dumplings and left.

Shopkeeper Jia wanted to chat with his family about it when he returned to the village during the Zongzi Festival.

But today is not the Zongzi Festival yet.

In addition to those who had guesses in their minds, there were also villagers who had good faith and came directly to the house to ask questions.

They couldn't keep their business a secret. Mrs. Lin and the others would directly tell everyone who came that their family was indeed running a small business, which meant earning some hard-earned money.

As for the specific business they are doing, Mrs. Lin and the others will definitely not tell them. They can hide it for a day.

The people who came to ask were also sensible. Seeing that Mrs. Lin and the others were deliberately trying to fool her, they did not break the casserole and ask the truth.

It is normal for some talkative villagers to spread the Cheng family's business affairs as gossip to other villages.

Mrs. Lin originally just asked casually, but looking at Mrs. Liu's reaction, it seemed like someone specifically told her?

Mrs. Lin's face turned completely cold, and even her fake smile disappeared. "Who in our village told you this?"

Of course Mrs. Liu would not admit it.

"No one told me, I just heard about it casually."

Mrs. Lin stood up and pulled Mrs. Liu up from the stool.

"If you don't say yes, then leave quickly and go back to your own home!"

Mrs. Liu forcefully broke off Mrs. Lin's hand and howled: "Let go! Damn old woman, can't I stay at my daughter-in-law's house for a while longer? Do you think of me as an in-law? Even if someone tells me, I am a As a grandma, you can't know that your niece is doing business? There is no such reason in the world! Let me go!"

Mrs. Sun stood up and helped Mrs. Liu with an anxious look on her face. Upon seeing this, Mrs. Lin quickly stood up and helped Mrs. Lin.

Others stood in the outer circle in a hurry, looking at the four people who were entangled in a ball and cursing each other. They wanted to start a fight but couldn't find the right time to start.