RPAGF Chapter 154 Holy Father, Prepare to Die (3)
Chapter 154 Holy Father, Prepare to Die (3)
Looking at Xia Mingwei's expression, Li Shi felt a flicker of displeasure. These were all his brothers; what was she doing? Was she giving them attitude?
Thinking of this, Li Shi's voice also lowered.
He handed the meat to Xia Mingwei and instructed, "The brothers are having dinner at home today, so go and cook the meat!"
Xia Mingwei was quite displeased by the tone of voice, which sounded like an order to a servant.
However, this is not a society governed by the rule of law, and Xia Mingwei felt it was still necessary to maintain consistency with the original owner's personality in front of outsiders.
Otherwise, her personality might change drastically, and she might be mistaken for a monster and captured!
Xia Mingwei didn't speak, silently taking the piece of meat from Li Shi's hand. While she couldn't openly throw a tantrum, she could still sabotage him behind his back!
Li Shi was a butcher, so theoretically his family shouldn't lack meat! But every time he saved the best meat, he would only invite his brothers over for a meal, never considering the original owner of this body and Li Jing.
Several grown men, who naturally have large appetites, would hardly have any leftovers after a meal!
Forget about meat, not even a drop of broth would be left! Li Shi and his brothers always ate and drank well, while the poor original owner and Li Jing, stuck in the butcher's house, lived worse than the "poor people" Li Shi described!
Xia Mingwei thought about it for a while and then came up with a solution.
She tossed the meat in her hand and said, "There's no rice left to cook at home, so I'll just cook meat today?"
With outsiders present, Li Shi felt that Xia Mingwei was embarrassing him, and he immediately became anxious, asking, "Didn't I just buy rice from outside a while ago and fill the rice jar?"
Xia Ming lowered her head slightly and replied, "Last time you said that Grandma Li next door was sick and needed to drink some plain porridge to soothe her stomach. You also said that because her family is poor, they haven't eaten rice in a long time, so you asked her daughter-in-law to come and take some rice from their house, and then she filled all of it with bags and took it all away!"
Upon hearing Xia Mingwei's reminder, Li Shi suddenly remembered that there seemed to be such a thing.
But Xia Mingwei openly told outsiders that there was no rice left to cook at home. Wasn't that deliberately slapping him in the face?
Sure enough, after hearing that Xia Mingwei's family had no food, the group behind her shouted, "Sister-in-law said there's no rice to cook at home, is she deliberately trying to embarrass us and kick us out!"
Look, look, this group always uses the same taunting rhetoric. Knowing full well that Li Shi will definitely invite them to stay for dinner, with good meat, it would be a miracle if they were willing to leave!
They clearly wanted to take advantage of the situation, but they insisted on acting like they were the ones who suffered a loss. It's disgusting!
Hearing his words, Xia Mingwei raised her head. Unlike the original owner who silently walked away, she stared at the person who had spoken and said directly, "After saying so much, will you leave? If you won't, then shut your mouth! You say I'm embarrassing you, but you insist on eating those two pieces of meat. Isn't that just making people say you have a foul mouth?"
"you…"
"What do you mean, 'you'? You always come empty-handed, trying to freeload off our poor, run-down place. How dare you! Look at you, fat and big-eared. Let's not even talk about anything else, you've eaten a lot of meat from our house! You've come here more often than even for a funeral!"
Xia Mingwei's barrage of words left the person in front of her speechless.
There's no other reason than that everything Xia Mingwei said was true.
Looking at Xia Mingwei, the queen of witty banter, everyone felt uneasy. They'd often done this kind of freeloading at Li Shi's house before, and they knew deep down that anyone who tried to take advantage like this would be unhappy! It was understandable that Xia Mingwei had her own thoughts, but at least she'd never embarrassed them outwardly!
Xia Mingwei spoke so harshly today, tearing away even the last veil of pretense. Could it be that they pushed her too far and she exploded?
For a moment, the air seemed to freeze.
Fearing that the confrontation might continue and cause unpleasantness among the brothers, Li Shi gave Xia Mingwei a meaningful look.
"What are you still doing here? If you don't have rice, why don't you borrow some from someone else? I'm telling you right now, you're getting the food ready!"
Xia Mingwei showed Li Shi no respect whatsoever, rolling her eyes at him. "Borrow rice? Why don't you go and borrow some yourself? You know you can't borrow it, right? You can't even borrow it yourself, yet you insist on making things difficult for me! So you value your reputation, but I have to throw my face away and let others trample on it, is that it?"
Li Shi blushed, but still refused to admit it.
He argued, "How could I not borrow rice! I just don't want to go! Believe me or not, as long as I ask, very few households will refuse me! Besides, a gentleman keeps away from the kitchen, don't you understand that, woman?"
"I don't believe it! Go ahead and try if you dare! I'll be waiting for you here! Besides, 'a gentleman keeps away from the kitchen' means that a gentleman cannot bear to kill living beings and wants to maintain a virtuous character! It doesn't mean that men are not allowed in the kitchen! Moreover, what kind of gentleman are you, a peasant?"
Xia Ming smiled and shut Li Shi down.
Li Shi glanced at his brothers behind him and saw that their expressions were not good, as if they believed Xia Mingwei's words.
This sudden turn of events made Li Shi, who always tried to protect his good reputation, uneasy.
He had no choice but to let his brothers sit in the main hall for a while while he went out to borrow rice.
Remembering that it was Grandma Li's daughter-in-law who had taken away his family's rice, the first family Li Shi could think of to help him solve his immediate crisis was Grandma Li's family.
That bag of rice weighed several dozen kilograms; it certainly couldn't be eaten all at once.
With that thought in mind, he walked to Grandma Li's door and knocked.
The person who opened the door was none other than the daughter-in-law who had taken away the rice.
Upon seeing that the visitor was Li Shi, the woman immediately put on a smiling expression.
"Brother Li, you've come to my house to see my mother-in-law, right? Thanks to the rice you gave me last time, my mother-in-law's spirits have been much better lately!"
Before Li Shi could even speak, she called out to Grandma Li in the inner room, "Grandma, Li's eldest brother has come to see you! Come out quickly!"
Hearing her daughter-in-law's shouts, Grandma Li immediately came out, leaning on her cane.
Every time Li Shi comes to see her, all she has to do is pour out her troubles and shed a few tears, and she'll get a lot of benefits! This little benefactor has come; we can't let him get away!
"Stone, what brings you here to visit this old woman today?"
Grandma Li looked at Li Shi and asked with a smile. As she asked the question, she also took the opportunity to sized up Li Shi.
Seeing Li Shi's empty hands, her heart tightened. Could it be that this time he was going to send them a large sum of money?
Thinking of this, Grandma Li's heart surged with excitement, and her gaze toward Li Shi became even more ardent.