The atmosphere in the inner room was quite good. The five of them ate and chatted happily. During the meal, Jiang Fan kept praising his sister-in-law's cooking skills.

For the first time, Gu Tingzhou experienced what it meant to be proud of something, and it was Li Zhaodi who brought it to him.

The party in the outer room ended earlier than in the inner room. Li Qingyun fed and changed the diaper of the second baby, while the eldest baby stood on a small stool to help his mother clean up the dishes.

Gu's mother didn't agree at all. She took the dishes from his hand and started to clean up herself. Mrs. Gu also followed suit.

"Mom, what's in Erbao's bottle? He's slurping it up." Mrs. Gu asked curiously while washing dishes.

"It's milk powder. My second baby was weaned at three months old. His father bought the milk powder with the milk powder coupons he found. It's nutritious."

Gu's mother pointed out that it was the milk powder coupons that Erbao's father found to buy the milk powder, just to let her know that it was the other person's own ability, and asked Mrs. Gu not to think too much about it, as she was a thoughtful person.

But Mrs. Gu couldn't help but get stuck in a dead end. Her Erni also ran out of milk when she was four or five months old, and she didn't even have rice porridge for many meals, while Erbao had milk powder to drink. In the final analysis, boys are more important than girls.

Unfortunately, her body was not strong enough. After giving birth to Erni, she never got pregnant again. She wished she could have a son.

God is so unfair. Those who are affected by floods die from floods, and those who are affected by droughts die from droughts. Why can Li Zhaodi, such a cruel mother, have two sons, while she only deserves two daughters?

Although Mrs. Gu had a lot to say in her mind, due to the tyranny of her mother-in-law and the lesson she had just received, she did not say anything inappropriate.

A few people watched the children play for a while, and then chatted about some production matters and gossip in the team.

The scene in the inner room finally ended. After Mother Gu took the lead in helping to clean up, the family from the eldest house left.

Everyone here washed up and prepared to rest. There were no entertainment activities in the countryside these days, and people went to bed early at night. Otherwise, why would there be so many children in every household?

Jiang Fan and driver Xiao Song went to rest, and Li Qingyun also took the child back to the room.

Fortunately, the kang was big enough for the whole family to sleep on. Plus, there were two children in the middle, and Gu Tingzhou was a patient, so she was very calm and not nervous at all.

Dabao and Erbao have already washed up and are playing tumbling games on the kang. Dabao has adapted well and was still unfamiliar with his dad at noon, but they can play together in the evening.

Li Qingyun brought in a basin of water and pretended to take out a new towel from the kang cabinet. She wet it, wrung it out, and handed it to Gu Tingzhou: "Wipe yourself. It's very hot today, and it's uncomfortable to have sweat sticking to your body."

Gu Tingzhou was like a rain after a long drought. He had no chance to wash up while being a patient in the hospital. He had been making do with whatever he had on the road these past two days. He felt like he had gone bad. Men are still not as careful as women.

After washing himself briefly, Gu Tingzhou noticed that there was something wrong with Li Qingyun's hand when she washed the handkerchief. He pulled her hand over and turned it over, revealing several large blisters on the palm of her hand.

"How did it happen?" Gu Tingzhou's voice was very low, and his face was dark and smelly.

Li Qingyun felt aggrieved all of a sudden.

He pulled his arm back, rubbed it unhappily and said, "I was busy turning over my own land and planting vegetables for the winter this morning." In the afternoon he was busy entertaining guests, and he kept working while enduring the pain.

It was very painful when the blisters broke, especially when she was cutting vegetables and got soaked. It was excruciating pain, but she was not one to show her vulnerability to others, so she kept working.

Children without umbrellas have to run hard. No matter whether it is Li Qingyun from modern times or Li Zhaodi from the 1960s, no one truly loves them, so they have to bear everything by themselves.

The man's gloomy face was tinged with a blush, and his eyes were filled with guilt and heartache.

He was embarrassed to face Li Zhaodi. The burden that should have been borne by him was now placed on her thin shoulders.

In my previous life, I never considered how she, a woman, managed the housework and raised two children alone at home, and I passed my worst temper to her.

When she first married me, she was a beautiful girl like a delicate flower. Later, she ended up in a dead end, and I was one of the accomplices. It was my indifference and ruthlessness that made her extremely disappointed.

Start all over again, fortunately it's not too late.

Gu Tingzhou put aside the messy thoughts in his mind, took her hand again, gently put it in the water to wash and dry it, then took out a tube of unknown ointment from the bag on the bedside, and gently helped her apply it, his gentleness was touching.

Li Qingyun looked at the man in front of her like a fool the whole time. Is this the treatment she deserves?

What about the cold-blooded and iron-hearted person described in the book?

There were no words, but it somehow touched the softest part of her heart, making her reluctant to pull her hand back.

It wasn't until the man finished the last action that she reacted. She blushed and awkwardly shook her hand that had been medicated: "Thank you."

There was a hint of smile in Gu Tingzhou's deep eyes. No matter what happened to her, or whether she was reborn like himself, her current changes made him feel very comfortable and not rejected.

Dabao looked at his parents' little actions and smiled secretly. Even a child could sensitively feel the strange atmosphere between the two.

Li Qingyun escaped from the house under the pretext of peeing, and leaned against the eaves. She took a few deep breaths before she recovered. Beauty can mislead people, and the ancients were right.

In her life of more than 20 years, this was the first time a man was so gentle to her. He was also such a handsome man, full of male hormones and masculinity. He made her feel very safe and was the type she liked.

I can't stop.

No, Li Qingyun, you have to stay sober and not be corrupted. Hold on.

After calming down, she returned to the house with a kettle of warm water, made the beds, and coaxed the two children to sleep.

"My sister-in-law is not a bad person by nature. As long as she doesn't go too far, you don't have to pay attention to her. We have already separated and won't be together often." Gu Tingzhou suddenly said.

He might have noticed the wit between the two today.

"Yeah, I understand."

If no one offends me, I will not offend anyone. This has always been her code of conduct. It is best for Mrs. Gu to live a quiet life. She is not afraid of causing trouble.

But she didn't want to say these words to a man she met for the first time, even though he was her nominal husband.

She originally thought that she would not be able to sleep in the same bed with a strange man for the first time, even though there was a child between them.

But the truth is, she was so sleepy that she fell asleep right after she coaxed her second baby to sleep.

This day was really tiring. I plowed the soil and planted vegetables, entertained guests, and argued with my sister-in-law. The physical and mental labor had reached the limit of my body. I really couldn't take it anymore.

Gu Tingzhou looked at the mother and her two children in the dim light of the kerosene lamp for a while, and a satisfied smile appeared on his lips.

He gently blew out the oil lamp, slowly lay down, and slowly fell asleep. In his dream, his family lived a happy life.