Chapter 121: Sleep? Just sleep?

It snowed last night. Although no snow accumulated, as the sun shone through, even the frost began to melt into water, so the yard was wet.

Water gradually accumulated in some potholes.

Lu Yuanbao didn't know where he learned this method, but he picked up a bunch of small stones from every corner, filled the potholes with some soil, and then covered them with a layer of small stones.

This way, even if you step on it, your shoes won't get wet.

Lu Yuanbao worked hard on these things, and he couldn't stop even though his hands were frozen red.

Chen Fengying happened to see this scene when she entered the yard.

"Yuanbao, are you busy? Hey, look at your hands, they are red. Why did Sister Chu ask you to do this?" Chen Fengying felt distressed and concerned.

Lu Yuanbao raised his head, stood up straight and said, "I wanted to do it myself."

"Even if you don't want to, I can't let you do this. Stop and rest, go back to the house and warm yourself up. Where's Sister Chu? Where's Captain Lu? Are they home?"

Seeing that Chen Fengying was about to go inside, Lu Yuanbao walked over without saying a word and stood in front of Chen Fengying.

Lu Yuanbao didn't mean to stop Chen Fengying from going in. He knew that Chen Fengying was a good person. When Chu Yue was away, this aunt often took care of him and gave him buns and dumplings to eat.

But today's situation is a bit special.

"Shh - Aunt Chen, please be quieter." Lu Yuanbao stretched out a finger and made a shushing gesture, blocking the sound of Chen Fengying's footsteps.

Chen Fengying blinked in confusion and whispered naturally, "What's going on? What's going on in the room?"

Lu Yuanbao said seriously with a serious face, "They are sleeping."

When an adult hears this, the meaning is completely different.

In the middle of the day, a couple threw their child outside and slept alone in the room.

Can this sleep still be real sleep?

Lu Zhanlin: It’s really innocent, just sleeping with a blanket.

Even if Lu Zhanlin said this, Chen Fengying would not believe it.

When Chen Fengying heard this, her smile changed immediately. She suddenly covered her mouth and laughed secretly. She pulled Lu Yuanbao and said, "Sleep? You can't go in. I won't go in, and you don't go in either."

The two returned to the yard. Chen Fengying couldn't see Chu Yue, so her trip today was in vain.

Before leaving, Chen Fengying asked Lu Yuanbao if he wanted to go to their house to play, and Dazhuang could accompany him.

Lu Yuanbao shook his head and declined the invitation. He would rather stay at home and wait for Chu Yue to wake up.

Chen Fengying looked at the child with both fondness and relief. She touched his face and said, "Yuanbao, why are you so well-behaved? You are such a good child. It's no wonder that Sister Chu treats you so well. You stay at home well. Aunt Chen is leaving first. If your parents don't wake up until the afternoon, go knock on the door, okay? Don't push the door open, knock first."

"Yeah, I understand."

Lu Yuanbao nodded, not quite understanding.

Chen Fengying stood up and left, muttering to herself as she walked, "We've been arguing all day, and Wang Chunling's family still hasn't reached a conclusion. Sister Chu isn't here anymore, so what should I do?"

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The next day.

The New Year holiday does not exist for professional soldiers. Lu Zhanlin should not have rested yesterday. It was a special situation, so he took an extra day off.

Early in the morning of that day, he went out early to report to the military camp, and his life went on as usual.

After a day and a night of fermentation, Li Jinhua's unscrupulous behavior had spread throughout the compound.

After all, it is really shocking that a grandmother "sold her granddaughter" for a hundred yuan.

All the sisters-in-law in the compound, without exception, stood on Wang Chunling's side. Even the most timid Xia Xiaolan couldn't help but spit at Li Jinhua.

What an old beast!

However, despite everyone's shared hatred for the enemy, and despite Li Jinhua's crying, making a fuss, and even threatening to hang herself, there was no result, and they just wanted to let the matter go.

Not only could Wang Chunling not swallow this humiliation, even the sisters-in-law in the compound were dissatisfied.

"That old woman Li actually had the nerve to say she was coerced! Did someone put a knife to her neck and force her to accept a hundred yuan and sell her own daughter? She's not afraid of getting her tongue blown away by the wind when she says such things."

"Sister Chu, you weren't here yesterday, so you didn't see how Mrs. Li was crying and making a fuss. One moment she said she was stabbed by Wang Chunling with a pair of scissors, and that her daughter-in-law was going to kill her mother-in-law. Then she said her chest hurt, her hands hurt, and her whole body hurt. They were disgusted with her for still having a meal at her age and were forcing her to die. She might as well just run into a wall and die."

"Go ahead and hit her! Hit her! If Li Jinhua has the guts to get herself killed, I'll immediately pay for her funeral and give her a gift!"

Chen Fengying, Zheng Yue'e, Xia Xiaolan, Huang Aifang... and other sisters-in-law came to Chu Yue's house early in the morning as agreed, and couldn't wait to share with Chu Yue what happened yesterday.

"Sigh... Chunling had only given birth a few days ago and hadn't even finished her confinement yet. The baby she found missing on New Year's Eve, how could she have endured this?... It's so pitiful. When I saw her yesterday, she was pale as a stone, sitting on the bed like a wooden figure, holding the baby tightly in her arms and refusing to let go. She would jump if I got close. Seeing her like that, tears almost fell from my eyes."

Most of my sisters-in-law are married and have children. Mothers understand mothers best and can empathize with the importance of children.

They feel uncomfortable when they think about it.

After listening to the sisters-in-law's complaints, Chu Yue asked a very important question, "What about Captain Zhou? How did he handle it?"

When talking about this, the sisters-in-law became even angrier.

Chen Fengying blurted out, "How else can we deal with it? Of course, we have to smooth things over!"

Huang Aifang, a more gentle person, wasn't as direct and rude as Chen Fengying. She softened the situation and said, "This isn't going to be easy for Captain Zhou to handle either. On one side is his wife, and on the other is her mother. If he really forced Li Jinhua to death, Captain Zhou wouldn't be at peace for the rest of his life."

"What's wrong? He wants his mother but not his wife? Then why should he get married? Let him spend his whole life with Mrs. Li and stop harming Chunling."

This is the situation, but the difficulty lies in the fact that even an honest judge finds it difficult to judge family affairs.

Zhou Zhijian couldn't offend his biological mother, nor could he protect his wife and children. He could only try his best to maintain a balance.

But is it really balanced?

If Zhou Zhijian was really a qualified son, he should have corrected Li Jinhua's idea of ​​favoring boys over girls from the beginning, instead of letting the conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law evolve to the current irreversible point.

If he was a good husband, he should not have always asked Wang Chunling to compromise, but should have protected his wife and daughter. Previously, Wang Chunling almost died during childbirth. Isn't this a profound lesson?

Zhou Zhijian was spared the pain and danger. He never realized Wang Chunling's hardships. He was essentially a cowardly and incompetent man.

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-Character relationships: Zhou Zhijian (husband), Wang Chunling (wife), Li Jinhua (mother-in-law) [The three people have different surnames, but they are all one family.]