"Hemai, where's your sister-in-law?" Shan Cao asked after a while.
"Xiu Er has gone out," Hemai answered blandly, then raised her head and corrected Shan Cao seriously, "She is still not my sister-in-law."
Shan Cao quickly understood Hemai's disgust towards him and blinked her eyes. "The new house is already built, isn't it all for your brother and her?"
Hemai laughed, "Beautiful her! I'm trying to make my life a little quieter, and I'm trying to make it easier to live with my grandmother. "
Shan Cao exclaimed, then asked: "Yesterday, my father said that when he was passing by second uncle's house, he heard your second uncle and second aunt quarreling at home, the commotion was huge, half the village went over, and he said something about Second Aunt Lin getting beaten up and causing trouble, and was stopped by second uncle Lin."
Hemai's eyes flashed, and said disapprovingly: "Isn't it common for them to quarrel? But I am curious about another thing, I heard that Linn Hemiao is a talented girl, what kind of talented girl is she, to be able to grow up in such a home? "
"Oh, what talented girl, what use is that," Shan Cao disdainfully curled her lips, "Look at Second Aunt Lin's greedy and vain look, no matter how talented Gramps is, he would probably marry a rich person in the end. Well, there was only money in her eyes! What close relatives, I'm afraid they have long been thrown to the back of my mind! "
Hemai heard and sighed. Even a sixteen year old girl could see the Zhao Clan's vanity and greed so clearly, but Mrs Zhao herself could not understand it at all.
In her eyes, money was the most important thing. As long as money fell into her hands and someone threatened her interests and property, she would not care what this person's name was or what it had to do with her.
And Linn Changxi was also an insatiable person, this was exactly what he said: "If it's not a family, then we won't even be in the same family!"
Hemai was even more certain that Linn Changxi inviting Helin for a meal was because she was sure that Young Master Ying was waiting for him to give it to his nephew!
"Hemai, Hemai!" A voice came from far away and came closer, "Yo, Shan Cao is here as well!"
Madam Qin walked in from outside the door with a big smile on her face. The basket on her arm was filled with new vegetables, which must have been taken from the garden just now.
"Milk, why are you here?" Hemai was astounded. "This place is filled with smoke, didn't I tell you not to come here?"
"Hey, you two little girls, how could you possibly be busy!?" Building a house is a hard work. There are many children here today, if I don't come over to take a look, will you two be so busy with the lunch? I even brought some vegetables, so wouldn't I be adding a few more dishes in the afternoon? "
Shan Cao heartlessly clapped as she said, "Granny Linn, you came at the right time! Just now, Hemai and I were worrying about what would happen if we cooked a few dishes at noon! "
Madam Qin joined in the work for the two of them. She carefully sized up the ingredients in the kitchen and asked: Is the meat enough?
"Enough, there's still a lot of wild boar meat and deer meat left from last time, and there are still two rabbits left. I have enough food for the next few days. "
Madam Qin nodded her head, "Even if there is enough meat, it still needs to be combined with meat. There are a lot of people outside, if all of us are not hungry, these children will have to complain about our master's stinginess. It was always meat, so she just had to dry her mouth when she went to work the next day. This meat is just like the big pot of rice you cooked last time. It's very good. "
Hemai laughed: "Milk, I know all of this, you can rest assured."
Shan Cao was also smiling merrily, "Granny Linn, I like Hemai's family work the most.
Hemai didn't know whether to laugh or cry and helplessly pointed at Shan Cao's nose. "You greedy little thing, you're willing to eat it, why didn't you say anything when you came to my house that day!"
Shan Cao raised her head, "One yard is one yard. "My mother said that we can't always come over, as it would disturb the two of you."
Hemai almost choked on her saliva, she acted as if she did not hear the words, and started to talk about the food in her hands.
Six courses were prepared for noon: eggplant stew in sauce, stewed potatoes, sliced melon and eggs, spinach in sesame sauce, fried soybeans and cold cucumber.
The main dish was sweet potato rice and oily scallion pancakes. According to Ma Er's liking, they had cooked extra cold porridge. When the porridge was being cooked, he had put some sweet and sour dates in it, so he didn't use anything else.
These young men had been tired for a whole day. When they heard that the meal had started, they rushed to wash their hands and faces, sitting around a small table by the eaves of the house.
Hemai brought a handkerchief to Liulang, who saw the snow-white handkerchief, and shook her head, indicating that he did not need it.
Hemai saw that her face was drenched in perspiration, she pursed her lips and directly used her hands to wipe Liulang's forehead.
"Oh oh, sister-in-law is so nice to the Liulang, it made us bachelors jealous!" Ma Er who was holding a bowl of food, chewed on it while winking and shouting.
Liulang scolded jokingly: "You can't stop me from eating!"
The yard was full of cheers and laughter, but there was only one person sitting at the side with an ugly expression on his face.
Before eating, Xiu Er who had wandered off for an unknown amount of time came back. It was just in time to eat, but no one greeted her after entering the courtyard.
Helin went to transport the stones, he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to make it in the afternoon, so he left some food for him and placed it in the kitchen.
And now, without Linn Helin to take care of his, and with no one to help her prepare the ready-made food for her, she held his head up high and pretended to not care, causing Hemai to ignore her even more.
The young lad in the courtyard was also capable of eating, after looking at the food in the pot for a while, the greasy cake had turned into a CD-ROM, and the food on the table had disappeared bit by bit. Xiu Er's face was flushed red, then angrily stood up, went to the side to get a bowl and chopsticks for Hemai to refill his bowl.
Hemai's eyelids twitched, she did not look at Xiu Er, and took the bowl for himself.
"Why are you serving me so little rice!" Seeing that the food in the bowl was almost finished, Xiu Er asked Hemai angrily.
Hemai rolled her eyes at her, "It's not like you're not working. If you've had your fill, why would you go out and stroll around in the sun? She was too lazy to make a fool of herself! When my brother comes back, you might even have maggots on your body! "
In the morning, Linn Helin was extremely busy, even when he went to get some water to wash himself, he was unwilling. He wished that someone would gift everything to her, and that he could open his mouth to ask for food.
"The life of the young lady's maid!" Shan Cao muttered to herself as she covered her mouth.
"You, you two …" "Pauper!" Xiu Er's beautiful face was twisted like a fried dough twist, and she shouted with her shrill voice: "I don't care, I'm not full for this little bit of food! I, I've been feeling sick from my stomach these past few days, I'm afraid I'm pregnant! Hmph, if you don't give me enough to eat, then just wait for me to break the incense of your Linn Family! "