AWB Chapter 255 Just Separate Me Out
Chapter 255 Just Separate Me Out
That evening, the table was filled with fish.
Sun Ruhua cooked the fish in various ways. As for the remaining fish, Xie Jiaojiao asked Lai Fu to deliver it to the workers next door so that they could also have a meal.
It seemed like the family hadn't sat at the same table to eat for a long time.
Sun Ruhua was very happy and kept picking up food for the three of them, as if she was afraid that they would not have enough to eat.
Xie Zhiyi smiled and said, "I haven't eaten my mother's cooking for a long time."
Sun Ruhua looked at him lovingly: "When you want to eat it, send someone back with a message and I'll make it and send it to the pharmacy for you."
Xie Zhiyi shook his head: "That won't work, Master and his wife will tell."
After the meal, there wasn't much talk anyway.
After dinner, Xie Jiaojiao asked Cuizhu and Hanlu to boil some water and bring it upstairs.
Cuizhu looked at Xie Jiaojiao and said with a smile while pouring water into the tub, "The old lady is much happier now that the young lady is back. She looks a lot younger."
Xie Jiaojiao was combing her hair with a comb: "Really?"
Cuizhu nodded and continued, "After the last lady left, the old lady couldn't eat or sleep all day. It was not until Niu Er went to the county town and came back to report that he was safe that she got better."
Xie Jiaojiao didn't say anything.
Cuizhu finished speaking and reached out to test the water temperature: "Madam, the temperature is just right."
Xie Jiaojiao nodded, got up and went to the ear room: "Okay, I can do it here by myself!"
Cuizhu then carried the bucket and went downstairs.
Xie Jiaojiao was soaking in the tub, feeling much more comfortable. While washing, she thought about what Cuizhu had just said and sighed, "Alas."
Jiang Weinan came behind her at some point and asked, "Why are you sighing?"
Xie Jiaojiao quickly tucked herself into the tub, leaving only her head exposed: "How did you get in? I'm taking a bath!"
Jiang Weinan smiled and said, "Which inch of your body have I not seen?" Then he picked up the bath scrubber next to him and said he would give Xie Jiaojiao a bath.
Xie Jiaojiao was completely speechless: "No, I'll do it myself, you go out first!"
"What? Are you still shy?"
Is this shyness? This is clearly discomfort!
Jiang Weinan saw that she was blushing and thought she was adorable, so he lowered his head and wanted to kiss her. However, he didn't expect Xie Jiaojiao to dive directly into the water, which really scared him, and he quickly pulled her out.
"Get out!" Xie Jiaojiao said, panting.
Jiang Weinan quickly raised his hands in surrender: "Come on, come on, I'm out."
Seeing that the person had left, Xie Jiaojiao also finished washing and left the ear room.
After changing the water, Jiang Weinan simply washed up and took Xie Jiaojiao to bed.
After being tormented all night, Xie Jiaojiao felt like her waist was about to break the next day, and she stayed in bed until noon before getting up.
After getting up, she didn't seem to be in good spirits. Xie Zhiyi even insisted on taking her pulse to see if she was sick!
After having brunch, Xie Jiaojiao felt bored, so she went upstairs to practice calligraphy. However, just as she laid out the paper and hadn't finished grinding it, she heard Wang Xiuer's voice.
She seemed to be running in a hurry, shouting, "Thank you, little aunt! Thank you, little aunt!"
Jiang Weinan glanced at Xie Jiaojiao.
Xie Jiaojiao stood up and walked out of the house. Looking down from the corridor on the second floor, she saw Wang Xiuer still calling her anxiously. Cuizhu and Hanlu stopped her and said, "Don't make any noise. Our young lady is still resting!"
Wang Xiuer stamped her feet anxiously. When she looked up, she saw Xie Jiaojiao and immediately knelt down, crying and saying, "Xie Xiaogu, go see Brother Niu! He's almost been beaten to death by my father."
Although the two had not officially married yet, Mrs. Wang spent fifty taels to buy Wang Xiu'er, so the relationship between Wang Xiu'er and Niu Er was a done deal. They could get married when Wang Xiu'er grew up a little, so the titles were changed directly.
Upon hearing this, Xie Jiaojiao walked downstairs in a few steps.
"What's wrong?" He said as he helped the man up.
Wang Xiuer said with tears in her eyes: "Early this morning, Niu Erge asked Dad for money, saying that he wanted to buy ducks, but Dad was unwilling to give him money when he heard that he wanted to buy ducks. Niu Erge insisted on taking it, so he was beaten by Dad!"
Xie, I spent money to buy a duck, and was beaten? Xie Jiaojiao couldn't understand.
But what she didn't know was that most families in the village would buy chickens instead of ducks. After all, chickens not only lay eggs, but many people also eat them. If a hen doesn't lay eggs that day, she can sell them in town for a good price. But it's different with ducks. Not many people eat ducks not only lay eggs. After all, if duck meat is not cooked well, it always has a smell. In ancient times, there were no more fishy things to remove the smell, unlike modern times.
However, what Wang Xiuer didn't say was that Niu Fusheng actually had no intention of beating Niu Er. At most he would just not take the silver. It was only Li Lihua who instigated him that caused Niu Fusheng to beat Niu Er.
This time, Niu Er couldn't hold back and retorted a few more times, so Niu Fusheng beat him hard and Wang Po couldn't stop him.
If it was just the Niu family's business, Xie Jiaojiao would not want to intervene. But if Niu Er was beaten because she asked him to buy ducks to raise, then she could not ignore it.
When she arrived at the Niu family, Sun Ruhua was there, as well as Xie Zhili.
Xie Zhili pulled Niu Fusheng and told him to stop hitting the child, saying that if he continued, the child would be hurt.
Niu Fusheng was still holding the mulberry branch in his hand, and he said angrily: "I'd rather beat him to death! There are so many women out there, but he insisted on marrying a woman worth fifty taels! Now he's telling me he wants to raise ducks! All the money I earned was squandered by him. I, Niu Fusheng, have worked hard all my life, but how could he give birth to a spendthrift like him!"
Li Lihua watched from the side and felt very relieved!
Mrs. Wang squatted down to look at Niu Er, only to see that Niu Er's face was covered with marks from being beaten by mulberry branches. It was early summer now and he was wearing less, so it looked like there wasn't a single piece of healthy skin on his body!
Mrs. Wang felt very uncomfortable.
When Sun Ruhua saw Jiaojiao coming to thank her, she immediately explained: "Jiaojiao, I went to dig bracken and wanted to make bracken cakes for you. I was just passing by!"
Xie Jiaojiao nodded. As soon as she entered the door, she saw the ferns in the basket at the door and the small hoe at home. After hearing what Sun Ruhua said, she naturally would not misunderstand her.
Sun Ruhua breathed a sigh of relief and ran to Wang Po. Looking at Niu Er who didn't say a word, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart.
I saw Wang Po yelling at Niu Fusheng: "If you want to beat him to death, you might as well kill me! I raised him since he was a child!"
When Niu Fusheng heard her say this, he immediately frowned, feeling that he had lost face in front of outsiders: "Mom, don't argue every time I teach him a lesson."
Mother Wang looked at him and said sadly, "If you had educated him well, would I have argued? Fusheng! Ever since his mother left, you have been working away from home all year round! I worked so hard to raise a baby like him. Niu Er already had a hard life. Now you are staying at home, but you don't treat him well and always find fault with him. Ask yourself, how many times have you beaten him like this!"
As Mrs. Wang spoke, she also burst into tears.
Wang Xiuer also ran over, but seeing that Niu Er was injured, she didn't dare to touch him. She just squatted beside him and cried.
In fact, Niu Er did not cry when Niu Fusheng beat him. However, when he heard what Wang Po said and saw Wang Xiu'er crying, he could not help but shed tears.
Xie Jiaojiao said: "Brother Niu, Niu Er bought the duck, it was me..."
She hasn't finished speaking yet.
Niu Er interrupted her and cried, "Dad, if you really can't stand me, just separate me from your parents!"