"It's a good thing that the man surnamed Jiang went back. Otherwise, if he had been in the village every day, news of what Lan Yin did would have reached his ears sooner or later," Zhang Yulan said with great relief. "Li Chunxiang's move was to prevent the man surnamed Jiang from rekindling his old flame with Xiao Nuan. Well, this has helped us too. I hope the man surnamed Jiang never finds out the truth."

"Brother, you have to find a way to keep your sister-in-law. She's given you two years, so you have to do your best!" Xiao Moxi suddenly felt immense pressure on her brother. Apart from being physically better than that Jiang guy, her brother couldn't compare to him in any other way.

“I know,” Xiao Moran said in a deep voice. “It’s late, you should all go back to your rooms and sleep. Tomorrow, Xiao Nuan is going to town to teach people how to cook, and I want to go with her.”

"Brother, I want to go with you too."

"What are you going to do?"

"Of course we're selling straw hats. Tomorrow is market day, and my sister-in-law said the order was only for fifty straw hats, but we made sixty. I'm going to take the extra ten to the market and sell them at a lower price."

"You should ask your sister-in-law before making a decision," Zhang Yulan said. "If we sell it too cheaply, how will the business owners who placed orders do business?"

"It's okay. My sister-in-law said the boss who placed the order isn't from the town, but from the city."

"Whatever you want."

“Mom, why don’t you come with us?” Xiao Moxi asked, pulling Zhang Yulan’s hand. “We’ve finished harvesting our rice, and there’s not much farm work to do anyway. Why don’t we all go to town for a visit? We’ve earned some money these past few days, so let’s go to a restaurant in town for a meal.”

"Eat, eat, all you ever think about is eating."

“I’m not doing this for myself, I’m doing it for my brother. I want to create more opportunities for my sister-in-law and my brother to be together. If we don’t go and help him, he probably won’t even have a chance to talk to his sister-in-law.”

“Mom, why don’t you come too!” Xiao Moran thought his sister made a good point. “I’ve never taken Xiao Nuan out to eat before, so let’s go to Xingwang Restaurant for a meal tomorrow.”

Zhang Yulan was reluctant to spend the money, but for her son's happiness, she gritted her teeth and agreed. "Okay, I'll go with you tomorrow."

...

Su Xiaonuan was woken up by the children again. This time, they didn't pry open her eyelids; the two mischievous kids were braiding her hair.

At night, Su Xiaonuan usually sleeps with her hair down. Dou Dou and Guo Guo each grabbed a section of her hair and were braiding it carefully. They pulled on it roughly, hurting Su Xiaonuan, who opened her eyes with a groan.

Seeing this, she was both amused and exasperated. She raised her hands, wanting to swat the two children's hands away, but was captivated by their adorable calls and laughter.

"Mom, I want to braid your hair into a pretty braid."

"Mom, I want to braid your hair into a pretty braid too."

After saying that, the two little ones tugged at their braids and shook them.

Su Xiaonuan winced in pain, but she still didn't bring her hands down to clap.

"Mom, what's wrong?"

"It hurts, it's tearing my scalp! Stop right now!" Her head was stiff, she dared not move to the left or right, her eyes darting back and forth, afraid that any movement would cause her to hurt even more.

The two children, who were having a great time, stopped abruptly. One hugged her and acted coquettishly, while the other blew on her.

"Mommy, does it still hurt?" Dou Dou stood at the head of the bed, blowing on Su Xiaonuan's scalp with her little mouth and occasionally rubbing Su Xiaonuan's scalp with her chubby little hands, her movements extremely gentle.

She was truly touched by the child's actions.

Guoguo, nestled in her arms, acted affectionately, sometimes nuzzling her head against her chest, sometimes looking up at her with a cute expression, and sometimes gently stroking her face with her little hands, and then giving her a quick kiss on the cheek.

Seeing her younger brother kissing their mother, Dou Dou also hugged her and started kissing her.

"Okay, okay, you've got Mommy's face all drooled over." Su Xiaonuan was warmed by the two mischievous children as soon as she woke up. Even though her face was covered in drool, she didn't stop the children from hugging and kissing her nonstop.

He only stopped kissing her when her face was sticky with kisses.

The sounds of laughter from the mother and her two children came from inside the room, while the Xiao siblings listened intently at the doorway.

They tried to push the door open again, just like they did yesterday morning, but it was locked from the inside and they couldn't get in.

"See, your sister-in-law is wary of you, isn't she?" Mo Xi whispered, and even made a frantic gesture at him. She also liked Dou Dou and Guo Guo very much. In the past, the two children were closest to her, their aunt, and often slept with her.

The original owner would hit the children when she was in a bad mood, and DouDou and GuoGuo used to sleep with her relatively little.

Now that the children have discovered that their mother neither hits nor scolds them, they want to sleep with her every day.

That's how kids are; if you care about them, they'll care about you too.

While eating breakfast, DouDou and GuoGuo picked up the eggs that their grandma had peeled for them and stuffed them into their mother's mouth.

"See, Mom's still the closest!" Moxi said sourly.

Holding eggs in both hands and bringing them to her mouth at the same time, Su Xiaonuan didn't know which egg to eat first. Looking left and right, she realized that eating one egg first would upset the other.

Children are filial, and we must accept that. We should cultivate this fine tradition in them from a young age. So, she came up with a solution: she put the bowl in front of her and said, "Dou Dou, Guo Guo, put them in the bowl."

The two children held onto the egg and refused to let go. This egg was their exclusive treat; even the adults didn't get any. They only wanted to give their mother a bite and didn't want to put the whole egg in her bowl.

“Look, Grandma, Dad, and Aunt don’t get any eggs, but you only give them to Mom. Isn’t that wrong?” Su Xiaonuan patiently guided them.

"Yes. Grandma said that only we can eat the eggs."

"Grandma laid an egg and stored it away for us."

"From now on, shall we share eggs as a family? Grandma, Dad, Mom, and Auntie, shall we eat together?" Su Xiaonuan knew that the grandparents doted on their grandson, but this would spoil the child. A child who grows up eating alone will be very selfish, only thinking of himself when there is something good, and never thinking of others.

She must raise these two adorable children well.

“We won’t eat it, DouDou and GuoGuo can eat it themselves.” Zhang Yulan didn’t think it was a bad thing. “You’ll grow taller if you eat it.”

"Mom, you can't spoil the children like this." Su Xiaonuan's expression was stern. "Spoiling a child is like killing a child. While they are still young, we must teach them to share and not let them eat alone."

"Yes. I support Xiao Nuan's decision," Xiao Moran said ingratiatingly.

Mersey watched without saying a word, but always wore an expression of appreciation on his face.

"Fine, do whatever you want. Anyway, you're the children's biological mother, so there's no point in me, their grandmother, saying anything." Zhang Yulan said somewhat displeased.

This is the generation gap between the elderly and the young. No matter the era, the elderly will always be like this. Therefore, this is also the root of the conflict between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law. When the young people discipline the children, it will make the elderly feel sorry for them.