After traveling through time, I rely on force to survive

"Zhang, are you leaving or not?" Li Qingqing had a cold face, and there was a hint of impatience and threat in her tone.

The surrounding villagers also started to jeer, "Hurry up and leave! If you don't leave, we'll kick you out!"

Zhang got up quickly and saw that everyone was surrounding her angrily. She was afraid of being beaten, so she said to Zhou Yimo angrily:

"You, the Zhou family, are such bullies. You deserve your mother to be paralyzed in bed for the rest of her life!"

Zhou Yimo's face changed when he heard this. This is intolerable!

He no longer cared about his identity as a scholar and shouted angrily:

"Zhang, how dare you curse my mother!"

Zhang struggled: "What? Did I say something wrong? She will never be able to get up!"

"Snapped!"

Li Qingqing didn't say a word and took action directly!

She stared at Zhang steadily, her eyes seemed to be a silent warning that if Zhang dared to talk nonsense again, she would continue to take action without hesitation!

When Zhang saw this, she resorted to the most primitive means, crying out, "The Zhou family is beating me! The Zhou family is beating me! They not only refused to give the betrothal gift, but they are also beating me!"

Li Qingqing frowned, with a barely perceptible rage flickering in her eyes. She looked at Zhang coldly without saying a word.

She had never seen such a shrewish old woman before; it was simply unbelievable.

Zhang is like a stubborn cockroach.

Still not backing down, he continued to ask the Zhou family for the betrothal gift.

Zhang Xingyuan had already hidden behind the crowd and did not dare to step forward to help.

When Zhou Yimo saw that Zhang's face was swollen, he suddenly became much more sober.

My wife knows kung fu, but please don't hurt anyone. It will be troublesome if the government comes to arrest him.

He took a deep breath and said:

"My fellow villagers, I'm sure everyone has seen what happened today. The Zhou family has already paid the full amount of the betrothal gifts according to custom. Zhang is being unreasonable today."

Matchmaker Zhou said, "It's absolutely true! I'm in charge of this matter."

Everyone started talking at once and condemning Zhang.

The village chief frowned and asked Zhang, "Zhang, why don't you leave?"

When Zhang saw the village chief, she wiped her tears and pointed at Li Qingqing and said:

"Village chief, she started the fight first. I just told her the truth."

Li Qingqing sneered and retorted, "Truth? Are your curse words the truth?"

When Zhang heard this, she started throwing a tantrum again and asked, "Could it be that Zhou can still get up and walk?"

Li Qingqing's eyes instantly became extremely cold, and her voice was icy as she slowly said:

"My mother's illness will be cured within two months!"

Hearing this, Zhang's face showed a hint of sarcasm and she snorted disdainfully, "Two months? Do you think Doctor Zhang is a god? If your mother can get out of bed and walk in two months, I will give her ten taels of silver!"

Zhang didn't believe it at all. She thought to herself: With Doctor Zhang's level, haha!

"Then let's make a bet!" Li Qingqing sneered.

"Let's gamble, don't you think I'm afraid of you?" Zhang's eyes rolled around as she said, "If your mother doesn't recover in two months, you have to give me twenty taels of silver!"

Li Qingqing was so angry that she laughed, haha! Zhang Shi really had the guts to speak.

I will endure!

Li Qingqing suppressed her anger, looked at Zhang steadily, and said slowly:

"Okay! I agree! However, if my mother recovers, not only will you give her ten taels of silver, you must also apologize to her and promise that from now on your Zhang family will never again come to the Zhou family and cause trouble!"

Zhang's smile froze. She glanced at Zhou Yimo and noticed that his face seemed a little pale. She felt that she had made the right bet.

With the Zhou family's financial situation, even if there is a miracle doctor in Qiu Shui Town, they cannot invite him without money!

Twenty taels of silver! She, Zhang, wanted it.

Zhang hesitated for only a moment, then nodded in agreement: "Since your village chief is here, let him be a witness!"

So Li Qingqing immediately asked Zhou Yimo to write the contract.

The contract details the rights and obligations of both parties and sets a two-month deadline for winning or losing.

If Zhang wins, the Zhou family will pay her 20 taels of silver. If Zhang loses, she will apologize to Zhou's mother, promise to cut off all ties with the Zhou family, and pay her 10 taels of silver as an apology.

Zhou Yimo had no choice but to do as he was told, and the village chief signed his name reluctantly.

After all, they both knew that Doctor Zhang was truly helpless, otherwise why would the case have dragged on for half a year?

Afterwards, Zhang and Li Qingqing each pressed their fingerprints on the contract.

Zhang led Zhang Xingyuan away happily.

The surrounding villagers looked at Li Qingqing with some sympathy.

They thought it was a good thing that Zhou's daughter-in-law hoped that Zhou would recover soon, but they couldn't gamble with twenty taels of silver. Wouldn't it be better to use the money to supplement the family income?

"It's okay, let's continue eating!" Li Qingqing's face was calm.

When the villagers heard Li Qingqing say this, they didn't ask any more questions and returned to their seats to continue eating.

Before long, the atmosphere at the banquet became lively again.

By the time they had enjoyed their meal, everyone had forgotten about Zhang's little incident.

The villagers of Lihua Village all enjoyed the banquet very much.

On weekdays, everyone is very frugal, and only during the Chinese New Year will they eat a little more extravagantly like this.

Almost half of the villagers had come, and when the wild boar meat was almost gone, the cook had no choice but to ask Li Qingqing.

Li Qingqing kept the eggs and pickled vegetables given by the villagers, took all the vegetables into the kitchen, and asked them to mix them with the meat and continue cooking.

The weather is getting a bit hot now, and the cut vegetables cannot be kept for too long, otherwise it will be a waste if they are not eaten.

The cook was a person who was very good at saving money for the master's family. She just cooked all the wild boar meat and vegetables. She didn't use much of the rice that Zhou Yimo bought, as it was mainly used to make porridge.

They first cooked a large pot of rice and then set it aside.

Use one pot for cooking and another for porridge. First, scoop a few spoonfuls of cooked dry rice into the pot, then add enough water to boil.

The purpose of doing this is to shorten the time of cooking porridge so that the villagers can keep up with the supply as soon as possible when they eat in batches.

Before eating the porridge, add a small amount of flour and stir evenly. When the flour is cooked, the porridge will become very thick.

Pork bones with the meat removed are also added to the porridge. During the cooking process, the bone marrow and fat in the bones slowly dissolve into the porridge, making it taste particularly delicious.

This is basically what everyone in the village does when hosting a banquet, except they don't put pig bones in it.

After the banquet, Li Qingqing paid the bill to the cook.

According to the previously agreed wage of fifty coins per table, a total of one thousand nine hundred and fifty coins were paid.

That is to say, there were eight people sitting at each table, and there were thirty-nine tables in total. The people who came to the banquet accounted for 80% of the entire Lihua Village.

Li Qingqing sat at the table and counted carefully twice, making sure that she only had less than 800 coins left in her hand.

Fortunately, I didn’t use much of the rice and flour I bought.

The banquet cost nearly two taels of silver in labor and a few hundred coins in food, and the family also got some extra eggs and dried vegetables.