Chapter 113 Lady Sun is Pregnant

Old Zhao's family.

A group of people were busy with farm work. After finishing their chores at home, they planned to go to their sister-in-law's house in the afternoon to work and earn some money.

These past few days, the family has been making money every day, with a dozen or so copper coins a day adding up to a considerable sum. Moreover, Old Man Zhao has gained two hundred extra coins because of his abacus work, which is a huge amount for the Zhao family, who don't have much savings.

Grandma Zhao sat under a big tree mending clothes, thinking about when she could buy some meat to nourish her children.

Just then, Donghua returned with red and swollen eyes.

Sun was anxious when she saw it: "What's wrong with you? Who bullied you? Tell mother immediately!"

Donghua said in a muffled voice, "I just went to my aunt's house and my bowl was empty. I saw my aunt feeding the dog with meat. I wanted to have a piece too, but my aunt wouldn't give me any..."

"What?" Sun's voice was a little sharp. "How could my sister-in-law be like this? She has meat to feed the animals, but why can't she feed her own niece?"

Grandma Zhao raised her head and said coldly, "Don't you all know why we fed it to the dog? It's because the rabbit was caught by a wolf. We can feed the whole rabbit to Little Black, and no one can say anything about it!"

Sun retorted indignantly, "How can animals be considered precious? Shouldn't we feed the people first before feeding the dogs? I think my sister-in-law is deliberately withholding meat from Donghua. She doesn't treat Donghua like her own niece at all... After my brother died, my sister-in-law stopped considering herself a member of the Zhao family. She never thinks of our Zhao family when it comes to good things..."

Old Mrs. Zhao's anger flared up instantly: "So your sister-in-law asked your husband to go over and help you instead of taking advantage of you, Sun? I think you're living too comfortably and you just have to find someone to cause trouble. The family is living a peaceful and happy life, but you're the troublemaker. Pack your things and go back to your Osmanthus Village."

Just moments ago, Sun was quite assertive, but as soon as she heard her mother-in-law want to send her back to her parents' home, her eyes widened in shock.

She has been married for more than ten years, and her mother-in-law has never been so angry.

She had only spoken a few truths, so why did her mother-in-law become unhappy... She wanted to defend herself, but Zhao Youcai grabbed her hand and scolded, "You're such a troublemaker, always thinking about this and that. You want to eat rabbit meat, right? I'll go up the mountain and catch one later. Alright, you should go catch some bugs in the field and stop getting in the way."

Ms. Sun felt wronged.

She didn't actually want to eat rabbit meat; she just felt that her sister-in-law would rather feed it to the dog than to her daughter, making her feel that humans were inferior to dogs.

She felt unwell, and her abdomen suddenly felt uncomfortable. Coupled with the hot weather, a feeling of nausea suddenly welled up, so she covered her mouth and rushed to the side to dry heave.

Zhao Youcai's forehead twitched. If this woman continued to act like this, the old lady would be determined to drive her back to Guihua Village, and he would not be able to protect her.

He walked over and grabbed Sun: "Don't look like you're dying, hurry up and go to work..."

Sun raised her head, revealing an extremely pale face.

Zhao Youcai was startled: "What's wrong with you?"

Sun was usually as strong as a cow, so Zhao Youcai's first reaction was that the woman was faking illness, but her pale face was not something that could be faked easily.

Grandma Zhao put down what she was doing and came over, reaching out to touch Sun's forehead: "She doesn't have a fever, what's wrong?"

"Third Aunt, haven't you missed your period for a while?" Madam Wen whispered. "Could it be that you're pregnant?"

"What?" Sun's spirits instantly returned. "Yes, I... I must be pregnant! Quick, Zhao Youcai, get Doctor Zheng right away, hurry!"

She didn't dare to get too excited and called Xia Hua over, "Help me lie down on the bed. I'm old. If I can't keep this baby, I'll never be able to get pregnant again."

Old Mrs. Zhao frowned but said nothing.

The third son and his wife had been hoping for this pregnancy for six or seven years, hoping for a son, so it's perfectly normal for them to be so focused on it.

In the afternoon, when the Zhao family came to work for Cheng Wanwan, she heard about this.

However, since Madam Sun was older and had just become pregnant, the old lady didn't allow anyone to talk about it, so she secretly told Cheng Wanwan about it.

Cheng Wanwan silently grumbled to herself, "Sun Shi is only about twenty-seven or twenty-eight. In her time, some girls who were twenty-seven or twenty-eight had just gotten married, which was the best time to have children. But here, she's become an elderly mother."

The makeshift workshop was bustling with activity in an orderly fashion.

Cheng Wanwan calculated the time and realized that after another seven or eight days of busy work, the ice jelly business would have to be temporarily put on hold.

Because in seven or eight days, it will be the autumn harvest. After the rice is harvested, it needs to be dried and husked. There are a lot of things to do, and it will take at least half a month to get busy. After that, it will officially be autumn, and there will be autumn planting to do. By then, not many people will eat ice jelly anymore.

In seven or eight days, earning more than three taels of silver a day, she could earn another twenty taels, and she would have almost raised enough money to buy the land.

While people were busy in the backyard, they were boiling lantana in the front yard. People kept coming to boil it, and the boiled water was sprinkled onto the rice paddies. The lantana that wasn't finished boiling was kept to be burned at night to kill locusts.

In just a few days, the locusts in Dahe Village have become scarce, and the ducks at home are no longer driven into the fields. Firstly, there are not many locusts, and we are afraid that the ducks will eat the rice. Secondly, the wild vegetables in the fields have been contaminated with lantana, so we are afraid that the ducks will accidentally eat them. Finally, the rice fields are about to be harvested, and the water in the fields is slowly drying up, making it unsuitable for the ducks to live in.

That night, after the campfire was used to trap locusts, Cheng Wanwan and her family went to sleep.

Lying in bed, she kept thinking that after the autumn harvest, she needed to concentrate all her efforts on making adobe bricks and build the new house as soon as possible. The weather wasn't cold now, so it was fine for Cheng Zhao to sleep on the ground. But in autumn, the ground would be cold, and he could catch a cold after sleeping on it for just one night. Even though Cheng Zhao wasn't her biological son, she couldn't be so heartless.

"Waaaaah..."

Suddenly, Xiao Hei's whimpering came from outside.

Cheng Wanwan thought the guy was hungry, so she got up from the bed and tiptoed into the yard.

Under the moonlight, she saw Xiao Hei jumping around on the courtyard wall. The little guy was too small and short to jump up.

Fortunately, it couldn't jump up, otherwise it would definitely have been electrocuted. Such a small wolf would definitely be in trouble if it were electrocuted.

"Little Black, what are you doing here so late at night instead of sleeping? Are you hungry...?"

Before she could finish speaking, she felt something staring at her.

She looked out over the courtyard wall and was so frightened she almost had a heart attack.

Just a wall away, there were four wolves, their green eyes staring at her, making her break out in a cold sweat.

She picked up Xiao Hei and threw him over the courtyard wall: "Here you go, you little brat, hehehe."

Little Black ran towards the mother wolf like a frolicker. The four wolves surrounded Little Black, licking and licking him until he was soaking wet.

Cheng Wanwan was still shaken.

She really couldn't bear to part with Xiao Hei, but if Xiao Hei stayed in her house, these wolves would come to visit from time to time, causing such a commotion every night, which would scare people to death.

She actually hoped that Xiao Hei could just go with his biological mother.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Hei came walking from the gate with its tail wagging, and Cheng Wanwan had no choice but to open the door for it.

Then the dog ran back to its kennel, picked up a bone, wagged its tail, and went out again, presenting the bone to its mother like a treasure.

The bone had probably been licked countless times by Little Black and Big Black, and it was probably tasteless. The big mother wolf spat it out in disgust.