The Wicked Mother-in-Law Doesn’t Cleanse Her Image, She Only Torments Her Dastardly Children. – Chapter 688

Balance: 0 coin

Click Please login to purchase points


第688章 吃席风波
“今儿是咱孙子的大喜日子,别摆脸子。”

谷老爷子轻声叮嘱谷老太太。

“外人看着不好。”

倒不是为了给儿媳妇面子,而是给自己面子。

谷老太太撇了撇嘴,外人谁不知道佟华琼不将二老放在眼里,他们在外人面前早都没有面子了。

自家老头子就擅长自欺欺人。

“娘,今儿少作妖吧,大嫂能让咱们来参加婚礼都不错了。惹恼了大嫂,对咱们有啥好处啊。”

谷红莲这几年被佟华琼的白眼逼的成熟了。

打小大嫂多疼她啊,就这她讨好了大嫂好几年大嫂对她都不冷不热,更何况本来就有矛盾的谷老爷子和谷老太太。

“娘,我成亲时,还想让大嫂给我添妆呢。”谷红莲悄声说道。

谷老太太的气焰一下子消失了。

闺女最近在和范桐议亲,人家是秀才,红莲若想顺利嫁进去就得有嫁妆。

家底子都被谷瑞年糟蹋完了,她和谷老爷子老了,没本事给谷红莲攒嫁妆,只能寄希望于大儿媳。

这时候谷老太太看到娘家大哥一家和妹妹一家来了,丢下谷红莲颠着小脚迎了上去。

“嫂子,妹妹,你们来了。”

也算是自己给自己一个台阶下了。

“大舅母,二姨,你们来了,屋里请。”佟华琼笑眯眯将人朝屋里让。

谷老太太的嫂子丁老太太嘴里道着恭喜,喜气洋洋的对佟华琼说:“儿子成亲是大喜事,你那么忙,我们自己进去就行了,不用客气。”

这时候柳县令一家和汤姨娘来了,佟华琼让谷白霜帮忙招待谷老太太的娘家人,去迎柳县令等人。

谷老太太的妹妹杨老太太看着院子里的排场,挑着刺,说道:“听说陆家是商户,商户女怎么能配得上惊蛰这个读书人。要我说,大外甥媳妇掉进钱眼里去了,找媳妇只图家产。”

谷桃花说道:“姨奶奶你这话说的我可不爱听。商户女怎么了?商户那也是靠自己本事赚的钱,我嫂子更是经商一把好手。再说了,我嫂子的哥哥可是前年的状元,现在更是朝廷命官,她怎么配不上我哥了。”

杨老太太被谷桃花怼的不满,似笑非笑道:“你和惊蛰是龙凤胎,他都成亲了,你还没有说亲,不是我说你娘也太偏心了吧。像你这么大的,孩子都满地跑了,你娘硬生生把你拖成老姑娘看以后谁要你。”

谷桃花一点都不恼说道:“咸吃萝卜淡操心,我说不说亲都不是能轮到你能操心的。老姑娘怎么了,老姑娘那也是有钱的老姑娘,有钱就不愁嫁,要不我拒绝了你家孙子的提亲你咋那么恼火?不就觉得到手的银子飞啦气的?”

杨老太太被谷桃花噎的说不出话来。

去年她确实找媒人登佟华琼的家门,想把他孙子和谷桃花结亲,被谷桃花打出门不说,还将他孙子贬损一顿。

从此她就恼上了桃花。

本以为当着众人面说桃花亲事,桃花会不敢回嘴,却没想到这丫头简直荤素不忌,一点都不带怕的,反而主动提起两家说亲的事。

“今天是惊蛰大喜的日子,你就别给人添堵了。再这样,你将礼金收走,两家断了往来算了。”

丁老太太沉下脸呵斥小姑子。

杨老太太还是很怕大嫂的,讪讪着住了嘴。

二房也都来了。

谷有田陪着族长在和族里人说话,贾氏混在女眷里。

夫妻俩听着众人交口称赞谷惊蛰,心里又酸又胀。

贾氏看着不远处的武娜,窝了一肚子火。

上不得台面的东西,怎么谷瑞年就娶了这么个东西。

贾氏做梦都想要瑞年有出息然后休掉武娜。

武娜挺着肚子将桌子上的糕点瓜子扒拉到自己面前,吧唧吧唧吃个不停。

佟招娣和王氏被佟盼弟安排在了和武娜坐在一桌。

武娜看到佟招娣母女俩,脸瞬间垮下来。

佟招娣端了一碟子糕点,顺手递给佟志杰。

武娜撇嘴说道:“你这娘家舔狗当的可真到位。”

佟招娣反唇相讥:“不比你,一点不顾及娘家人,把亲爹都给坑到了沟里。”

眼看俩人要对上,佟盼弟一个眼神飞过来。

“不想好好吃席就都给我滚。”

俩人偃旗息鼓。

佟招娣看着佟盼弟一身簇新的衣裳,在婚礼上凑热闹的孩子们看到佟盼弟恭敬的喊着师娘,心里忍不住泛酸,身边的武木生愈发让她觉得厌烦了。

恨不得赶紧将肚子里的孩子卸货,好听从佟福生的安排和离另嫁给府城财主当妾。

武木生直勾勾的看向前妻佟盼弟。

满眼都是惊艳和后悔。

佟盼弟本来就美,自打和苏夫子成亲日子过的舒心,加之表弟成亲佟盼弟承担着招徕宾客的任务,心里想着不能给姑姑丢人,特意打扮了一番,整个人不仅比从前更美,更是由内而外散发出愈发淡定从容的气质。

反观武木生。

自从亲爹被撸掉里正位置,他这个黑龙潭地头蛇第一公子才算是体会到什么叫世态炎凉。

众人的白眼和落差的生活变成落魄的绳索,紧紧缠着他,让他整个人仿佛老了十岁。

“盼弟。”武木生忍不住开口。

佟盼弟扫了武木生一眼,眼神里掩不住厌烦。

她可没有心情在武木生跟前展露自己的日子有多好,因为他不配不值得,佟盼弟完全不在意武木生对她的看法。

“怎么不见女儿。”

武木生不死心,妄图用女儿来唤起佟盼弟的心软。

佟盼弟平淡的说道:“我女儿和你屁的关系,别操心有的没的,她们被她们爹带着。”

说完就去招待其他客人去了。

武木生胸口犹如被揍了一顿闷拳,憋的喘不过气。

佟招娣恨恨的看向武木生。

冷冷的说道:“你可真贱,我肚子里的儿子不见你盼着,反倒上赶着去关心旁人的孩子。”

当众被骂,武木生面子上下不来,说道:“你又抽什么疯。什么叫关心旁人的孩子,花儿朵儿无论喊谁爹都是我的孩子。”

佟招娣翻了翻白眼说道:“你去,你去,看看她们可认你。”

武木生牛劲上身站起来说道:“去就去。”

他心里憋着一股气,他要让苏夫子看看谁才是俩孩子的爹。

The Wicked Mother-in-Law Doesn’t Cleanse Her Image, She Only Torments Her Dastardly Children.

The Wicked Mother-in-Law Doesn’t Cleanse Her Image, She Only Torments Her Dastardly Children.

恶婆婆不洗白,只虐渣儿女
Author:

Tong Huaqiong traveled to ancient times and found herself in the body of the cruel widow Tong Dajiao. She witnessed the execution scene where the vicious widow and her children were executed all at once and returned to the year Tong Dajiao had just become a widow. At the age of forty, she had already become a grandmother, embodying the traits of a wicked stepmother and a cruel mother-in-law. Naturally, her offspring were also unruly. The only thing that gave her a slight sense of consolation was that, as a widow, she didn’t have to serve an old man. In this time-travel story, she didn't possess any golden fingers like a system or noble background. She didn't even have the chance to turn her life around through marriage; as a widow, who could she marry? She was burdened with a heap of dependents. She could only rely on herself and the bunch of unruly children at home. Her goal was to restore the family honor and correct her children’s behavior. She aimed to treat her stepson, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter kindly while thwarting her youngest son’s plan to sell his daughter to a wealthy family for schooling money. She pushed her youngest son to work hard and study, using a stick to wake up her second son from laziness to become the backbone of the family, and drove away her youngest daughter's laziness and romantic distractions. She reclaimed wasteland for farming, used modern scientific knowledge to grow crops, transformed saline-alkali land into fertile fields, and led her family toward a moderately prosperous life. She started her business by setting up a stall, selling steamed buns, cakes, and marinated dishes, raising pigs and bees, gradually expanding her family’s business territory.

Comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Options

not work with dark mode
Reset