Chapter 338: He’ll bear this blame!

The three people at the door of the kitchen room shivered together, looking at the chicken on the chopping board. It was no longer a chicken. The whole chicken skin was completely peeled off and thrown aside. The chicken head was also chopped off and opened. Things inside could be seen clearly.

It was horrifying.

Grandma Liu was nonplussed. “Even the skin and the chicken head are gone. Can we still stew the whole chicken and serve it?”

“We can’t braise the whole fish either. It’s all broken into a hundred or eighty pieces.” Chen Xiulan huffed and looked at the large grass carp that was ripped to pieces on the board. She couldn’t understand how killing a chicken and a fish became a bloody slaughter site.

Du Juan exhaled, grabbed the broom from the door of the kitchen and weighed it in her hand. “Qinglian, come here. I promise not to hurt you.”

Xue Qinglian blinked, looked around, and leapt out of the only small window in the kitchen with a swoosh. “Grandma Liu, Auntie, I’ll come back at dinner time!”

“Come back!” Damn it!

Xue Qinglian ran away, but Liu Erlin couldn’t. His wife chased and beat around the yard twice. “Loafing on the job, huh? I will make you lazy!”

“Wife, it’s really not my fault this time. That brat, Qinglian, swore he would do a good job, so I gave him a chance to practice…” Liu Erlin begged for mercy while running and cursing Xue Qinglian.

He bore this blame!

Wait next time, you brat.

Liu Dalin shook his head and sighed, “I’m going to catch another chicken out. Nannan, keep an eye on your prospects. You can’t have a man as unreliable as your second uncle. He has to be more honest, sincere and kind, hardworking, reliable, and dedicated to his family like me. I’ll never let my female family members do hard labor.”

After brushing his face and stepping on someone far away in the capital, Liu Dalin walked slowly to the kitchen.

His speech in the hall was neither too loud nor too soft, so Liu Erlin heard it all.

What a finishing blow!

“Elder Brother, you are really sinister!…”

Right after being chased by a broom, Liu Erlin understood the naked truth. He was the most honest and sincere and kind man in the family. Otherwise, how did he live so morosely this year?

One or two looked at him and picked on him, all jumping over his head!

Liu Yusheng silently covered her face in the hall.

Tracing the root cause, the source was her.

It was she who opened a new door to Xue Qinglian and let him go off the rails about anatomy, which led to today’s tragedy.

Second Uncle … let him suffer alone.

Looking at the scene outside and listening to the beating sounds, a smile surfaced on Fu Yuzheng’s face unconsciously.

The Lius’ house, where every day was extremely lively, even the bickering and spitting flowed with warmth.

This was a place one could fall in love with easily and become attached to.

After the noon meal, Wei Hong took a pile of fruit wine and nourishing wine and rushed to the county town in a carriage to send return gifts to various houses.

If she rushed back after sending these gifts, she would definitely not miss the New Year’s Eve dinner.

Even if she went back late, she still wouldn’t miss it.

She was now part of the family, so if she didn’t return, the Liu family would wait for her together.

The rich man’s family, Li residence, was the last in town she gave presents to. After her deliveries, based on a new found discovery of conscience, Wei Hong still went to patronize the year-round pancake stall opposite the restaurant.

The man selling pancakes wrapped in a thick cotton jacket was huddled next to the fireplace. His mouth was spraying white mist, as he watched three or two people coming and going on the street.

He was left chilled and isolated yet again.

He was truly miserable.

Seeing Wei Hong approaching, he raised his eyes and said, “This stall is not open on New Year’s Eve. Please turn back and go away.”

“Come over tonight, and I’ll leave some good food for you.” No matter what, he was also a fellow sufferer and a friend. She was eating delicious food and drinking wine, while he was squatting on the streets to celebrate the New Year, so consider it pitying him.

“Have you finally discovered a conscience? I’m feeding on the winter’s northwestern wind every day, and am satiated.”

“Are you coming or not?”

“No.” Wei Lan coldly snorted. “Do you think I don’t have money to eat? Do you think I’ll fly all the way to Xinghua Village, just for you to reward me with a sauced pig’s trotters?”

It was not that he hadn’t been there in the past. The best treatment he received was a pig’s trotters in sauce, or a cold one.

Go to hell!

Scraps of cold food – I, Wei Lan, won’t care about it.

“You’re not coming? Then forget it. I originally also left you a jar of top quality nourishing wine, but let me drink it myself.”

“Keep it! I’ll come!”

Wei Hong turned around and climbed into the carriage and left.

Wei Lan slowly got up and tidied the small stall that had not been opened for a day. “She really knew how to take advantage of my weakness, using a nourishing wine to tempt me. I wonder what a top-grade nourishing wine tastes like…”

He swallowed his drool and accelerated his movements.

He was able to stay in this hellhole until now – it was all the credit of the Xinghua Village wine. 

The Liu family’s New Year’s Eve dinner was as lively as ever. Before starting, the grandpa said the usual opening remarks, and finally made a wish, “At the end of the year, country folks do not have much desire. I just hope that good weather for the crops will continue next year, and every family will have food to eat.”

The family started solitaire on their personal wishes for a good start to the New Year.

Liu Dalin: “My wish is nothing grand. I hope my family is neat and happy every year.”

Chen Xiulan: “Everything is fine at home now. What is urgent is the children’s affairs.  I hope Dalin and I will have a great grandson next year.”

Du Juan laughed, “I also have this wish, but the first grandson is not urgent. I just hope Zhiqiu’s nature can improve a bit. If he can at least bring home a wife in advance, I will be happy enough.”

Liu Erlin immediately took a stand, “My wife wants what I want. Son, if you don’t fulfill my wife’s wish, I’ll break your damn legs.”

Liu Zhiqiu wiped his face. He really didn’t want to admit that his father was a henpecked husband. He certainly didn’t want to follow in his father’s footsteps. He must be responsible for reviving the backbone of a husband in their family in the future. “Okay, father, mother, I keep your wishes in mind and try to fulfill them. As for me, I hope the orchard and medicine fields will continue to have a good harvest next year, and usher in a better prospect than this year.”

Liu Yusheng: “I hope that next year is also the same as this year. The family smiles every day without worries.”

Wei Hong: “I hope to continue to have food and drink every day in the future.” She had no other hobbies, but loved to eat the Liu family’s food and drink the Liu family’s tea and wine.

Xue Qinglian: “I hope to develop the world’s unparalleled poison next year.” The first he would poison would be Feng Qingbai!

When it was Fu Yuzheng’s turn, she looked around, feeling a little uncomfortable with the wishes made by the Liu family before meals. But everyone looked at her, so she had to follow their customs. She pursed her lips and said, “I hope that next year, I can settle down.”

She hoped that after her revenge, she would no longer be like a floating duckling without support.

Finally, all eyes fell on Liu Zhixia, waiting for him to finish, so that they could start eating.

Liu Zhixia glanced around the crowd and unfolded the corners of his lips, “I hope that the wishes of everyone here will come true.”

His eyes finally rested on Fu Yuzheng’s face for a moment.

Just for a moment, and his eyes then slid away.

But Fu Yuzheng felt scalded all over.

He always said such specious words to stir people’s hearts and make them palpitate.