Picking Up a General to Plow the Fields

Chapter 251: Farce

“You love trouble!” Lian Li sneered.
“Landowner’s wife? You have to have that fate! If you say another word, just see how you end up!”

After hearing this, Madam Qiao was particularly upset.
Enduring the sour taste in her heart, she said: “Why can’t I have that life? When my son succeeds, I will be the mother of an official! Hmph! Isn’t that better than being wealthy in the countryside? At that time, I could have seventeen, eighteen maids and servants! I could scold as much as I wanted, and no one would be able to control me!”

Lian Li hummed: “Then wait for that day! I’m warning you, don’t make any more trouble for me, let them work well and we won’t have to worry about the fieldwork in the future!”

Thinking that in the future, someone else would do her work for her and that even that little bitch, Lian Fang Zhou, would not be able to say a word, Madam Qiao felt very happy.

She opened her eyes wide and smiled: “Old man, don’t worry! That damn girl can’t pull her face away or I will destroy her reputation! Hmph, just two slaves, can’t I scold them? Could it be that we have to show respect to her cats and dogs?”

While Madam Qiao was feeling proud and arrogant in her own home, Li Er and Li San had already reached the fields.

Regarding the matter of making lunch, Madam Qiao would certainly not do so.

When noon arrived, she did not hurry to cook.
She fried a few pieces of cabbage and bacon, and steamed them on the rice.
The oil was crystal clear and the rich fragrance was mouth watering.

This was her lunch with Lian Li.

When he picked up his bowl, Lian Li suddenly raised his head and asked: “Where are the two slaves? What did they eat?”

Madam Qiao rolled her eyes and said: “I’ll deliver it to them later!” She added: “Hmph! They really have guts, asking this old lady to send them food!”

After hearing this, Lian Li didn’t say much.
He just said: “Then you eat quickly and send it to them when you are finished.
The bacon does not need to be sent!” By this, he meant just give them rice and cabbage.

In fact, Lian Li did not have to say this.

Sure enough, Madam Qiao gave him a blank look: “I know this!” She meant, am I that stupid?

After the two of them had eaten, Lian Li urged Madam Qiao to deliver the meals to Li San and Li Er quickly.

Madam Qiao couldn’t resist, so she had to go into the kitchen and pretend to cook.

Lian Li felt relieved when he saw this so, of course he would not go and see what ‘lunch’ Madam Qiao was pretending to make.

Seeing that she had given Li Er and Li San a bowl of rice porridge in the morning and neither of them had dared to complain, Madam Qiao decided that lunch would be the same rice ‘porridge’.
She was also still annoyed by the bowl that had been broken by Li San so his bowl, when served, was deliberately less than a spoonful.

He was a slave! One bite was good enough, how dare he be picky!

Madam Qiao sneered and walked slowly towards the fields, carrying the bamboo basket.

This was the time that many families delivered meals to their family members working in the fields.
When Madam Qiao arrived and saw Li Er and Li San still working, her heart was full of satisfaction and pride: Just look at her slaves while you have to work your own fields!

Hey, this feeling was pretty good!

Some people from the village passed by and said hello, all very envious and saying that Madam Qiao’s fate was “very good!”.
Madam Qiao smiled smugly and then said disapprovingly: “What is this? When my son becomes an official it will be ‘even better’!”

The person who had greeted her smiled and walked away, feeling very uncomfortable with Madam Qiao in his heart.

But even if you couldn’t be comfortable with it, what could you do? A good fate wasn’t something you could hold.

Madam Qiao stood to the side and admired Li San and Li ER’s work for a while and then called them over for lunch.

Li San and Li Er agreed loudly and walked over, one after the other.

“Eat! Hurry up and work hard! You two are so lazy! My family only has nine acres of land, how could you not finish it in a day? See for yourself, how can the soil of this field be such a big task? Look at it, how come you haven’t finished planting yet!” Madam Qiao began to scold them again.

Li San raised his eyes and said politely to Madam Qiao: “Auntie, this is normal no matter how good at plowing you are.
You need to rake the soil to make it thin, right? It’s not like you haven’t planted fields before, how do you not know this?”

At this moment, there were two or three people walking by and they couldn’t help but laugh when they heard this.

Where there any farmers who didn’t know this?

Wang Guang’s wife teased Madam Qiao, saying: “Sister-in-law Qiao has a good life! She is a rich wife who can only enjoy blessings, how could she understand this kind of farm work?”

The two next to her joked and said: “Yes, yes, Aunt Qiao is different from us! She has a big family! Look, even the people next to her fields are using this method!”

How could Madam Qiao not know this? She was just scolding and deliberately picking out bones from the egg, cursing and sweating.
She hadn’t thought that Li San would have the courage to dare and talk back to her, letting her be ridiculed by others.

Thinking of the bowl he had clearly broken on purpose that morning, a new level of hatred grew on top of the old.

Madam Qiao stared at him and screamed: “Li San! Don’t you dare talk back to me!”

Li San seemed frightened by her yelling.
‘CRACK!’ With a cry, the bowl in his hand fell to the ground again.

The mud of the walkway was not hard and the bowl was not broken, however, the soup inside was splashed all over the place.

At this time, Wang Guang’s wife and her two companions were just walking by.
Startled, they stopped and looked over.

“I, I didn’t mean to! I didn’t mean to! I’m sorry, I’m sorry!” Li San’s face turned pale, looking scared and at a loss.

Madam Qiao was extremely angry and a series of vicious curses came out of her mouth.

Li San was still constantly apologizing and pleading guilty.
Li Er was busy persuading him, his voice rising above Madam Qiao’s: “Madam Lian, please calm down.
Brother Li San has explained that it was an accident.
He is just a bit cowardly and was frightened by the sudden sound.
It was not intentional, please stop scolding, okay…”

Madam Qiao had always been a bully and was fearful of hardship.
When she saw someone soft, didn’t it make them an easier target? The more Li Er and Li San apologized, the more she became addicted to scolding them.

The three onlookers frowned slightly.

Originally, whether it was out of envy or jealousy, Lian Li and Madam Qiao had done many unscrupulous things to Lian Fang Zhou and her siblings.
When they had dared to take Lian Fang Zhou’s servants, everyone had felt a little uncomfortable in their hearts— Of course, if Lian Fang Zhou had refused to send her servants, she would have definitely been gossiped about.

Sometimes the world was strange and unreasonable, and people often took them for granted.
Now, seeing Madam Qiao cursing other people’s servants like this, many of her words attacking Lian Fang Zhou, their feelings were really indescribable.