Fields of gold

Chapter 286- 290

Little Shitou also rushed out of his room and shouted, "I want to go, too! I want to go, too!"

Yu Hai chuckled and said, "Okay! Let's all go together!"

Madam Liu rolled her eyes and said, "You ah, you're always spoiling them!"

Yu Xiaocao took out the grasshopper sauce from the cellar, and brought a bag of the biscuits that she made yesterday, as well as her homemade cured meat and dried duck. These gifts were absolutely presentable!

The grain on the horse cart was covered by straw thatches and corn stalks. Yu Xiaocao and Little Shitou climbed to the top of the grain and sat on it. Madam Liu sat on the shaft, while Yu Hai drove the cart. The four members of the family traveled on the newly built road at the foot of the West Mountains and headed in the direction of the official road.

Originally, from the Yu Family's old residence, they had to travel across the entire village to go out. Later, when Imperial Prince Jing was building his mountain manor in the West Mountain, he specially opened a road, which just happened to pass by the gates of the Yu Residence. It went around the village and led directly to the official road, saving a lot of traveling time.

The gossiping matrons in the village saw a horse cart coming out of the Yu Residence from afar, and it was full of unknown goods. Madam Xiong, who was the most garrulous one, said to Madam Li, "Your brother-in-law just drove a cart of goods somewhere. Madam Liu also went with him, are they delivering grain to her maternal family?"

Madam Li's rolled her eyes and said, "Who is my brother-in-law? Yu Bo is my only brother-in-law. He is currently studying in the prefectural city and waiting to take the county-level exams next year!"

Another woman, who disliked her, smirked and said, That's right. You guys have already severed relationships with Uncle Yu, so you're no longer one family. Brother Dahai would rather subsidize his in-laws than give you guys anything!"

Madam Liu glared at her, but when she saw that the person in front of her a matron who was good at fighting, she turned cowardly again, "Calling him 'Brother Dahai', you seem quite close ah. It's a pity that no matter how much you fawn on them, they won't give you even one granule of grain."

The matron curled up her lips again and said, "I'm not like a certain someone, who is gluttonous and lazy and also being oppressed by her mother-in-law. My family collected all our sweet potatoes before the disaster, and with the food from the disaster relief, we definitely have enough to eat for three to five months. It's so sad that some people can't even eat the food that they have received ah!"

Hearing this, the rage in Madam Li's heart flared up, but she couldn't find a way to vent. Why was she able to come out to gossip with others today? It was because her mother-in-law wasn't home. She had gone to the prefectural city to send food and money to her precious son.

All the grain that she brought home was locked in the cabinet by her mother-in-law. She was going to be away for three days, but only left three catties of food for them. There were two adults and one half-grown boy at home, so three catties of grain wasn't even enough to eat for a day!

Madam Li kept complaining to her husband about how her mother-in-law had given all the food that they received to her younger brother-in-law. Madam Li had even gotten in a big fight with Madam Zhang regarding this. However, she wasn't good enough to be Madam Zhang's opponent. She became more well-behaved after being punished to go hungry for a meal.

The matron saying this was equivalent to rubbing salt on her wound. Madam Li instantly stood up with widened eyes. She was about to let out a series of curses when she saw the matron rolling up her sleeves as if saying 'if you dare to scold me, then I'll slap you silly'. Seeing this, she immediately deflated like a balloon. She glared angrily at the matron. If shooting daggers from the eyes could kill people, then that matron would have already died countless times. With a humph, Madam Li patted her bottoms and went home!