The Country Maiden: Fields and Leisure-Chapter 73 - Your Mouth is Really Sweet
73: Chapter 73 Your Mouth is Really Sweet
73 -73 Your Mouth is Really Sweet
She walked to Wang Yongzhu’s side, treading carefully, “Old Granny—” Her tone was laden with too many complex emotions.
Wang Yongzhu kept a stern face, “Seeing Zhuye with a head ornament and you without, does it make you sad?”
Jinhua nodded, then shook her head, “I, I’m not—”
Fearing that Wang Yongzhu would get angry, she didn’t even dare to express her sorrow.
“Tell the truth!”
“Sad!” Jinhua, after all, was still young.
Pressured by Wang Yongzhu’s questioning, the tears she had been holding back flowed out all at once.
“Then do you know when you guys called the Old Granny ‘bucket waist’, ‘triple chin’, ‘washbasin face’ yesterday, she felt just as sad!” Wang Yongzhu said seriously.
Standing by, Li Zhuye, the little girl, also looked embarrassed, got up, and said, “Old Granny from the Wang Family, what I did yesterday was wrong.
I shouldn’t have spoken nonsense.
I apologize to you, please don’t be angry with me and Jinhua anymore.”
Jinhua also hurriedly nodded, “Old Granny, I know I was wrong!
Really!
I swear!
I will absolutely never say you are fat again!
If I ever call you fat, then I’ll, I’ll never get to wear a beautiful head ornament for the rest of my life!”
That was the most venomous oath the young girl could think of at the moment.
Wang Yongzhu nearly failed to hold back a laugh, but seeing Jinhua, the maid, with such sincerity on her face, she coughed twice to suppress her amusement.
“Alright, this time Old Granny will forgive you!
From now on, whether it’s to me or to anyone else, you cannot mock others’ flaws, understand?
Put yourself in their shoes.
If I mocked Jinhua for being ugly, having dark skin, yellow teeth, and even less hair, would you be angry?”
Jinhua thought for a moment, then honestly shook her head, “I wouldn’t be angry!”
Wang Yongzhu…
“Then if others say something about you, would you be angry?” Wang Yongzhu swallowed the bile rising in her throat and asked, despite feeling embarrassed.
Jinhua looked down, silent.
Li Zhuye, on the other hand, was quick to speak for her, “The thing Jinhua hates the most is when others say she has no father.
Last time, a brat from the Song Family said Jinhua’s mom was useless, said it was the same whether Jinhua had a father or not, also said her dad must have someone else outside and doesn’t want Jinhua anymore.
Jinhua got so angry that she rushed up to him and pulled out all of his hair—”
“Zhuye!” Jinhua was both embarrassed and annoyed, stopping her.
The most secretive and embarrassing secret in her heart had been exposed by her best friend, especially in front of Old Granny and her own mother, making her wish she could disappear into a crack in the ground.
Li Zhuye was still young and didn’t realize that speaking for Jinhua would make her unhappy.
Wang Yongzhu and Lady Jiang were adults and naturally understood.
Lady Jiang’s eyes reddened, and she turned away to wipe her tears, blaming herself for being no use, causing her daughter to be ridiculed like this by others.
Wang Yongzhu’s heart softened.
Looking at Jinhua’s stubborn attempt not to let her tears fall, she knew she couldn’t say anything else, or the strong pride of the young girl might not withstand it.
So she acted as though nothing was wrong and shoved the red head ornament into Jinhua’s hand, “Alright, alright, this one is for you!
Stop crying now!”
Jinhua didn’t react at first, staring at the hair ornament in her hand, and it took quite a while before she realized that Old Auntie had also given her a hair flower – and it was the very red one she had longed for!
Although she was a bit angry and sad, and embarrassed about her feelings being exposed, at that moment, looking at the red hair flower in her hand, she felt extremely happy, so happy she could almost fly.
For a moment, she didn’t know whether to feel joyful or sad, her expression looking quite odd, with teardrops in her eyes but the corners of her mouth already turning up.
Looking at Wang Yongzhu, then at the hair flower in her palm, she finally felt a sense of reality and became so excited that her words jumbled, “T-tank you, Old Auntie…
Old Auntie, you are so nice, when I grow up I’ll definitely be filial to you, just like I am to my mother, when I have money in the future, I’ll buy you a whole head of flowers to wear…”
Wang Yongzhu tried to imagine herself wearing a head full of flowers, uh…
“Alright, that’s enough, go play,” she said, rubbing the goosebumps on her arm.
The kid sure had a sweet mouth!
Li Zhuye, seeing that Wang Yongzhu wasn’t really angry anymore, hurriedly pulled Jinhua aside, and the two of them went to the well to fetch a basin of water and started admiring themselves in its reflection. ƒreewebɳovel.com
Lady Jiang saw everything and felt both gratitude and a sense of heartache, “Little sister, thank you!
Alas, it’s my fault for being useless, Jinhua and the others have suffered following me, it’s good that you, an Old Auntie, care about her, look after her…”
Wang Yongzhu gave Lady Jiang a faint glance and lowered her head to continue her battle with the needle and thread, “Sister-in-law, don’t talk nonsense, it’s just a worthless hair flower.
I don’t like wearing it anyway, so who else would I give it to?
How does it show care and attention?
You don’t care for or look after your own daughter, and you expect me to do it?”
Perhaps it was the influence of Old Granny Zhang’s words yesterday, or perhaps she was simply fed up with Lady Jiang’s forbearance and humility.
It is virtuous not to fight or vie for things, but that’s only possible for people who have everything and lack nothing; they can be calm and composed.
For someone like Lady Jiang, at the bottom of the family hierarchy and a mother, not to fight or vie for things herself but to rely on others to save her was simply too tragic.
Fortunately, although Old Granny Zhang had a sharp tongue and was somewhat biased, at least she treated all her grandsons equally and didn’t skimp on their food.
If anything was withheld, it was Lady Jiang’s share.
Otherwise, with Lady Jiang’s submissive temperament, tolerating injustices in silence, it would have been a miracle for her three children to have grown up at all.
Lady Jiang, who had been full of gratitude, was choked by Wang Yongzhu’s words.
She hesitated, opening her mouth as if to say something, then fearful of making things worse by speaking more, she gave up on her trains of thought, focusing earnestly on teaching Wang Yongzhu how to tie a knot, how to sew evenly, and what tricks to pay attention to when mending clothes…
As she listened to Lady Jiang instructing on the other side, Li Zhuye stuck her tongue out at Jinhua, “How come your mom is still so soft?
She wouldn’t even know to yell if a needle pricked her.
If she were a bit fiercer on a daily basis, your life would be much better.
Like my mom, if my grandma dared to treat her like that, she would have flipped the table long ago.”
Jinhua’s eyes dimmed when she heard Lady Jiang’s words, but she quickly recovered, already used to it, wasn’t she?
She perked up with envy, “If only my mom had half of your mom’s fierceness!”
“Hey, don’t be sad.
My mom is so fierce yet these days she’s almost been angered to death by the neighbors!” Li Zhuye crinkled her nose, comforting her friend.
“What happened?”
“It’s Uncle Da Gui’s family from next door, the disgraceful incident they had.
After you guys left the other day, the He Family and their family nearly came to blows.
The He Family demanded Uncle Da Gui to return the silver, but Uncle Da Gui flatly refused, saying it was compensation.
The He Family got so mad they called off the wedding on the spot.
Li Jinzhi was both crying and kneeling, insisting she must marry He Dawei or else she would be driven to death.
She even said, if Uncle Da Gui didn’t return the silver, she might as well hang herself at the front door since she’d be too ashamed to live and would save the Li Family from embarrassment!
Pah!” Li Zhuye made a face of disgust as she spoke.
