CH 56.3

Xu He didn't answer, and Liu Xianglan continued on by herself: "You also has seen how your sister’s life these days, the Fei's family is not good at all. Originally Fei Lian won the prize and the scholar's family has money in the account every month, so life should be moisturizing. But Fei Lian still has to continue to study in the academy, even if he doesn’t come out to find work to support his family, it’s still fine, he still has the money from the court to pend for his study. But their life is still so hard.”

"Your second sister doesn't get along with her mother-in-law. If she live under her nose every day, how can she survive?"

"It's all a family. Now both of your family are doing business, so let your second sister go to your tea shed to help with things."

Xu He laughed suddenly after hearing this, and he said how kins she could call him back for dinner: " Mother, don't you know how big my tea shed is? Can it accommodate so many people to help? There is still the second aunt."

"I tell you, why did you take care of that widow and the oil bottle so well? I don't know why you are willing to accept two more people to eat at your house." Liu Xianglan said angrily: "

"Otherwise, if the tea shed is empty, it will be more appropriate to let your second sister go, and she still can do the business, you don't know how to plan at all."

"When you go back, talk to the widow and tell her to go home and take care of the house. Your second sister will help you in the tea shed later."

Xu He said bluntly: "Why does the second sister need to do this job? If it wasn't for mother's blind habit at home, the second sister obviously didn't know how to do everything well, and she insisted on going outside to save face and tell everyone that she was capable, half of her suffering life now is due to you.”

“If you want me to ask the second aunt to go home, it’s fine to replace her with the second sister. I can help her in the tea shed and let her have food to eat, but she won't be paid. After all, I don’t need to pay the second aunt for her help. "

“It’s impossible if you don’t pay wages! Isn’t it work for nothing?” Liu Xianglan became anxious when she heard this.

"Why is it for nothing? Didn't I agree to give her food?"

"How can her mother-in-law agree to let her go out if you only give her food?"

Xu He said, "Then this is her business. What can  I do? The tea shed doesn't make money at all. My family has a big problem because of the expenses for building the tea shed, and I don’t have money for wages to subsidize my second sister.”

“If my mother has money, why don’t you ask my second sister to come home and break the corn for you? You give her money and you can take good care of her. Presumably the Fei family will have nothing to say since they still get the money."

"What kind of nonsense are you talking about?"

Xu He said unhurriedly: "Mother, you are the one who first talk nonsense."

"Now that you have a better life, you won’t give the family a way of life, won’t you?"

"The way of life is earned by yourself, not by others."

Xu He said: "It looks like the second sister not very good now, but at least she has learned everything, and she has learned a lot of farm work. Now she looks like she is not used to it, but when she get used to it, it will be fine. She was born in a farmer house, but my parents raised her as a young lady,”

“It’s okay to raise her like that, but now you gave her to a peasant family, then you only asked for trouble. Back then, if only you let the second sister marry into a rich family in the city, everything would be fine.”

Liu Xianglan’s teeth ached in anger, before she thought that since the butcher didn’t come today so she could talk to Xu He easily, but after a few months, this stinky little guy talked became more and more unpleasant.

The couple were really a snake and rat in one nest, and their words were equally annoying.

[a snake and rat in one nest: (of bad people) to be working together; to be acting in collusion with one another.]

Liu Xianglan wanted to yell again, but Liu Xiangmei walked in at this time: "What are you arguing about, everyone please take a break. He ge’er is right, I told you earlier that there is a big family in the city who is rich in money and wanted to marry Shaochun. You thought it was bad to be a stepmother, the man is older again. Where are marriages in the world that always go well with each other!"

"He ge’er, go to the room to rest and enjoy the shade, You have to go back to the tea shed in the afternoon to do some work. I'll lit the fire for your mother."

Xu He turned back and went back to the middle hall.

Seeing the people left, Liu Xiangmei said in a low voice: "I said that Zhang Fangyuan was good at the beginning, but you still looked down on him. Now you can look at it."

"What's the use of saying this now?"

Liu Xiangmei said back: "

It's useless, but you just yelled at He ge'er, what did you want when you yelled at her? Do you think he is still the same as when he was a little ge’er at your home? He was still a soft persimmon that you could squeeze as much as you wanted. I said, why don't you use your brain to think about it when you are this old now?."

“The mother-in-law in Shaochun’s family is fierce. Fei Lian listens to her mother in everything, and can't support her at all. You can't expect him to support Shaochun.”

“What is the Fei family? When they have a great future, I guess their blessing won’t be able to fall into your family, and you need to thank God if Shaochun’s life will be easier. In the future, you will have to rely on He ge’er.”

"I see that Zhang Fangyuan is a capable person, and He ge’er can also support him. The husband and wife are good, there are no in-laws above, and the days will be more prosperous in the future. A little bit leaking from their fingers is enough for you and Lao Xu to have a good time."

Liu Xiangmei hated iron couldn’t be steel: " "You are so vicious and you still treat people like slave? He has already flown out, and it’s strange that he still listens to you. If he goes home and complains to Zhang Fangyuan, maybe they will come to your door again in a while, frighten the chickens into flying, frighten the dogs to jump around, and you will be a joke again in the village."

[to frighten the chickens into flying, frighten the dogs to jump around: describe panic into a mess.]