Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 12076

"What? It's locked?" She didn't believe it. She grabbed the handles behind the door with both hands and pulled with all her might, but even though her hands were sore, the door still wouldn't budge!
"Oh my god, who the hell locked my gate? I'm going to die, I'm going to die!" Like a bull, Sixi's mother blindly pulled and shouted at the top of her lungs towards the row of houses behind her, "Daxi, Erxi, don't lie there like corpses, come quickly, our gate has been locked from the outside!"

……

Half an hour later.

Inside and outside Sixi's courtyard, villagers who came to help or just to watch the excitement gathered.

As for Sixi's father, Daxi, Erxi and the others, they were all exhausted!

A ladder was placed on the top of the wall. Da Xi and Er Xi climbed up the ladder to the outside of the yard. The father and sons took turns using axes, hammers and other tools to try to break the lock of unknown origin. However, the lock did not budge, the axe was dulled, and a corner of the hammer was smashed, but the surface of the lock was not damaged at all!
"Damn it, if I find out who tricked us, I'll skin them alive!" Si Xi's father was panting heavily, racking his brains to go through the list of 'enemies' in his mind, but he couldn't find anyone suspicious at all.

Da Xi was still pondering the lock.

Erxi was so tired that he stood to the side with his hands on his hips, panting heavily.

Inside the courtyard, Sixi's mother was stamping her feet and cursing at the sky, while Daxi's wife was trying to persuade her, looking bewildered and helpless.

Several children had already been woken up by the noise. Some of them ran out into the yard in their pajamas to watch the commotion, while the more timid ones were frightened and cried at the sight.

It was noisy outside the yard, and inside it was a chaotic mess of chickens and dogs.

When I woke up, the gate to the yard was locked. People inside couldn't get out, and people outside couldn't get in. It looked like the lock couldn't be broken. Should I just break the gate down?

But dismantling the door is a real hassle. The door frame and everything else are perfectly fitted into the mud brick wall. If you dismantle the door, you have to reinstall it, which is expensive, laborious, and doesn't look good!
Suddenly, someone in the crowd shouted, "Father of Sixi, such a strange thing has happened in your family, why don't we see your husbands Sanxi and Sixi?"

Only then did Sixi's father belatedly realize that Sanxi and her husband had gone back to their parents' home a few days ago, but shouldn't Sixi and her husband be in the yard? Why hadn't he seen them?
Exhausted, Erxi suddenly had a flash of inspiration. "Dad, I know! I know who put the lock on us!"

"Who?"

"Fourth brother and the others!"

"Huh? What did you say?" Sixi's father thought he had misheard and slapped Erxi on the head.

“I know you brothers don’t get along, but that doesn’t mean you have to smear the fourth brother and the others like this! You’re not acting like an older brother!”

Erxi felt extremely wronged after being slapped. "Father, I didn't mean to target Fourth Brother. I was telling the truth. If you don't believe me, ask Eldest Brother. He knows!"

"What? What are you hiding from me?" Si Xi's father was even angrier when he saw Da Xi's rapidly changing expression.

Da Xi was dragged in front of their father by Er Xi. "Big brother, say something!"

Da Xi didn't dare to meet Sixi's father's eyes, and could only stammer, "Last night, my fourth brother went to pick up his wife and told Mother not to lock the gate. But as soon as he left, Mother locked the gate."

"The couple came back and knocked on the door for a long time, then they left..."

"What!" Sixi's father was so angry that he slapped Daxi across the face.

Da Xi was hit and fell to the left. Si Xi's father then swung his hand and hit Er Xi's face with the back of his hand, causing Er Xi to fall to the right.

"Your mother is causing trouble, and you're all pretending to be deaf and dumb?"

"If she won't open the door, why won't you? Are you all dead?" After Da Xi had said so much, Sixi's father had completely understood.

Da Xi and Er Xi covered their faces, the two brothers timidly looking at their mother, Sixi, who was still cursing and pointing at the sky in the yard, and whispered, "Mother specifically warned us, we don't dare to go against her..."

The villagers who had been watching the commotion also heard what had happened, and immediately there was an uproar.

A few villagers, unaware of the truth, felt compassion for Sixi's mother and her children, who were trapped in the courtyard and crying their hearts out. So they even joined in condemning the person who had secretly locked the door.

Now that they understand the truth, they feel like they've been played.

"My God, how could your wife be so outrageous?"

"Exactly! I've never seen an elder like this before. It's one thing to not care about his daughter-in-law, but he even betrays his own son. He's heartless!"

"Now look what's happened! We've been outmaneuvered, and our whole family is stuck, unable to go in or out!"

"..."

The condemnation from the crowd reached the ears of Sixi's father and the others without any attempt to conceal it, and Sixi's father was so angry that his cheeks were trembling.

How shameful! How could I have married such a woman? I've been foolish from my youth to my old age!
Inside the courtyard, Si Xi's mother heard someone outside condemning her, and she immediately perked up. She jumped up from the ground, stomped her feet, clapped her hands, and launched an indiscriminate verbal attack on those outside the courtyard.

"You heartless bastards, you have no compassion at all! Why should I care what I do? I don't eat or drink from your house, why are you interfering? Stop stirring up trouble here!"

The villagers outside weren't easy to bully, and they wouldn't let themselves be insulted for no reason. Immediately, several women also stood on tiptoe and launched a verbal retort towards Sixi's mother on the inside of the wall.

Looking at the chaotic scene before him, Sixi's father was at his wits' end. He hadn't slept a wink all night, and now his temples were throbbing so badly that his eyeballs felt like they were about to pop out of their sockets.

Especially seeing the brothers Da Xi and Er happy standing to the side, with Da Xi looking completely bewildered and Er Xi even grinning and watching the commotion, Sixi's father was furious.

"Two useless good-for-nothings, being led by the nose by a woman, cowards!" Si Xi's father spat on the ground, got up and went to the other side of the wall, using both hands to climb over the wall to reach his own yard.

The courtyard was covered with thorns, and the brothers Da Xi and Er happy had pricked their hands when they came out earlier.

When Sixi's father climbed up, he screamed in pain as the needles pierced him.

He had been wondering why the wall wasn't very high. Logically, since Sixi and the others were blocked outside the courtyard, Sixi, being a man, could have easily climbed over the wall to open the door for Xiuhong. Why did he turn around and run away, even finding a lock?
At this moment, Sixi's father, his hands covered in blood from the stab wounds and wincing in pain, finally understood what had happened!

The pain triggered his memory: a few days earlier, Sixi's mother urged the father and sons to go to the woods behind the village to cut some thorns and brambles, saying that they would lay them on the wall to keep out thieves in May and June.

It's possible that this woman's act of blocking the thief is just a pretext; her real purpose might be to set a trap for Sixi and his group.

You wretched woman, you've caused so much trouble in the house. I'll break your hands when I climb over the wall later!
"Mother, Father is coming in!"

Da Xi's wife stayed by Sixi's mother's side the whole time. Sixi's mother stood on tiptoe, leaning against the wall, and was raising her mouth to curse all sorts of swear words towards the outside of the yard.

Da Xi's wife was afraid that she would lose her balance and fall, so she stood by her side with her hand raised to support her. Suddenly, she felt a chill coming straight at her from behind.

Turning his head, he was met with Si Xi's father's dark, bluish face and bloodshot eyes.

"Get out of the way!" Sixi's father shouted, shoving aside his eldest daughter-in-law who tried to block him. He then came to the wall, his large, iron-like hand reaching out from behind to grab Sixi's mother's messy, bird's-nest-like hair, and began slapping her face repeatedly...

Si Xi Niang's curses were completely drowned out by the storm of slaps...

……

At the village entrance, the Luo family's house.

Yang Ruoqing slept in again today.

The reason for sleeping in late is simple: I stayed up all night.

Why do I stay up late at night?
Those who know, know. Luo Fengtang has too much energy. If Yang Ruoqing hadn't been physically strong, and instead had been a delicate and frail queen, she probably wouldn't have been able to handle him.

Even so, whenever the two of them had a love-filled contest, Yang Ruoqing was always the first to lose.

After raising the white flag and begging for mercy several times, General Luo finally sounded the retreat.

So when she came to the kitchen in the backyard for breakfast, everyone else had already eaten, and there was food reserved for her in the pot.

Unlike Wang Cuilian and others who liked to eat all kinds of millet porridge, fried rice with eggs, steamed buns and dumplings in the morning, which were pure carbohydrates and refined carbohydrates.

Yang Ruoqing's breakfast routine has changed; she has customized it herself.

If I can eat boiled eggs in the morning, I will resolutely refuse to eat poached eggs. If boiled eggs don't taste good in my mouth, then I'll eat tea eggs instead. In any case, I will absolutely refuse to eat poached eggs.

The carbohydrate section consists of 6 chive and egg dumplings (I don't eat meat dumplings).

After you're done, eat some fruit, but not too much—about the size of a fist, a few slices of vegetable, and seven or eight nuts to supplement your fat intake. Finally, have a bowl of unsweetened milk.

To Wang Cuilian and her friends, this kind of breakfast was simply "a mouthful of food."

However, only Yang Ruoqing knew that this combination was the truly healthy one.

Although her family didn't approve of this way of eating, they chose to respect it. Especially after seeing Yang Ruoqing persist with this diet for a period of time, not only did it not affect her physical strength and energy, but her complexion also improved. Rong Gu and Shao Yao were even secretly imitating her!
"Qing'er, you've just had breakfast?"

Yang Ruoqing was leisurely drinking her milk when Liu came over from the front yard and went straight to the kitchen.

"Yeah, I got up a little late today," Yang Ruoqing said.

After Liu came in, her eyes were fixed on the breakfast in front of Yang Ruoqing.

Her eyes held anticipation and a hint of excitement; it was clear that if breakfast was tempting, Liu would definitely shamelessly try to sneak a taste.

Although she had already drunk two large bowls of multigrain porridge, eaten two poached eggs, and two large meat buns this morning, she could still manage to squeeze in some food.

After scanning the room, the expectation in Liu's eyes disappeared, and she pulled out a chair and sat down opposite Yang Ruoqing.

“Qing’er, what’s the point of making so much money? You only eat this little bit for breakfast, you’ll be hungry again in no time!” Liu said.

Especially when she saw those few leafy greens without any oil and a few nuts, Liu felt like her mouth was so bland it could taste like birdsong.

"Haha, I don't like greasy food in the morning. I prefer something light so I don't feel sleepy," Yang Ruoqing said with a smile, too lazy to explain healthy eating tips to Liu.

In this era, these things are only suitable for 20% of the population, because of the remaining 80%, 30% are content with a modest life.

Thirty percent of them lived a meager existence, occasionally experiencing famine.

The remaining 20% ​​may be struggling to make ends meet.

Nutritional planning methods will only find an audience in future generations when obesity becomes the norm.

"Qing'er, you haven't even left the house yet this morning, you have no idea how wonderful our village is," Liu's mouth couldn't wait to speak as soon as she sat down on the stool.

"At Si Xi's house, things started commotion at the crack of dawn. Apparently, it's because Si Xi's father couldn't get in after playing cards all night..."

Liu talked and laughed, stopping and starting, and finally told Yang Ruoqing everything that had happened at Sixi's house that morning.

"Oh dear, when I went over to see what was going on earlier, the lock was still firmly on the door." Liu Shi accepted the tea that Rong Gu brought over, thanked her with a smile, and then continued talking to Yang Ruoqing.

"It's better to arrive at the right time than to arrive early. When I heard the commotion and rushed over, I just caught Si Xi's father climbing over the wall and pinning Si Xi's mother to the ground, beating her to death!"

"Oh dear, this time Sisi's father seems to be really serious. Sisi's mother's voice is hoarse from screaming, and her face is swollen like a pig's head."

"The few people nearby, Da Xi and Er Xi, only dared to offer verbal advice; none of them dared to come forward and pull him away."

"Daxi's wife was, after all, Sixi's mother's own niece. Only she dared to come and break up the fight, but Sixi's father slapped her across the face, leaving half her face swollen. Daxi was so scared that she didn't dare to utter a sound..."

"Those two, Erxi and his wife, were even more cunning; they just huddled inside. Even if the neighbors watching from outside wanted to break up the fight, they couldn't get in. Tsk tsk, Sixi's mother really shot herself in the foot this time, getting a solid beating..."

Yang Ruoqing slowly drank her milk, her mind seemingly equipped with AI, automatically conjuring up frame after frame of dynamic images.

They even included Si Xi Niang's screams.

Finally, she picked up the handkerchief beside her, gently wiped the remaining milk from the corner of her mouth, and gave a cold laugh.

“They deserve it. No one in the whole family is innocent,” she said.

Mrs. Liu nodded repeatedly: "Of course! If even one person in the family had stood up to object, things wouldn't have turned out like that last night!"

Last night, after Yang Huaming finished eating at the third house, he ran into Xiu Hong and Sixi, a young couple, by the roadside. After returning home, Yang Huaming told Liu about most of what happened afterward.

Therefore, Liu knew that the Frost Iron Lock was made by Yang Ruoqing and Luo Fengtang.

"Qing'er, did you give the key to Xiu Hong and the others?" Liu asked again.

"Hmm. It was taken away last night along with the lock. What's wrong, Fourth Aunt?"

Yang Ruoqing also asked, that the lock was very special and rare. It was lent to Xiu Hong and the others to vent their anger last night. Once they had vented their anger, the lock would naturally be taken back.