Chapter 177 Will there be time to come back?

Chen Fangli is seven months pregnant and will give birth in two or three months.

When she arrived at the Chu family's house, Chen Fangli was preparing to cook. Upon seeing her appear at the door, she quickly pulled her inside.

"Weiwei? You went to your aunt's place and stayed for so long. You finally decided to come back?"

Shen Xuewei helped her up, and said in a coquettish tone, "I just missed you, so I came to see you."

Chen Fangli looked at her gently, "Okay, okay, then I'll keep your second aunt company later. I'm about to cook, and your second aunt will catch a chicken to kill later."

Shen Xuewei smiled, her eyes crinkling. "Thank you, Second Aunt."

She greeted Grandpa Chu, who peeked out, and looked left and right, but couldn't see Chu De'an.

Where is De'an?

Chen Fangli helped her take her things off. "You know him, he spends his holidays playing with other kids in the village. You probably won't see him until around mealtime."

Shen Xuewei nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

As for the other member of the Chu family, her second aunt's husband, Chu Fu, he should still be working in the fields right now, so there's no need to ask.

Chu Fu is in poor health, so usually Chen Fangli goes to the fields while Chu Fu does housework at home.

Since Chen Fangli became pregnant, she and Chu Fu have switched places.

However, Chu Fu didn't plant as much land as Chen Fangli used to; just enough for his own family to eat and drink.

After this year and the first half of next year, he and Chen Fangli switched back.

Chen Fangli first cooked the rice, then boiled a pot of water to kill the chicken.

Shen Xuewei and she killed the chicken together, and then went to the vegetable garden to pick some vegetables.

At 11:30, Chu Fu and Chu De'an returned from outside one after the other.

Chu Fu wiped the sweat from his face with a towel and greeted Shen Xuewei in the living room, "Weiwei's here! Did you have fun at your aunt's?"

Shen Xuewei nodded, "Happy."

Seeing that his lips were pale and a little dry, she went to the kitchen, poured a glass of water, added a pinch of sugar, and brought it to him.

The two were talking in the living room when Chu De'an, with one trouser leg wet, ran back from outside.

Upon seeing Shen Xuewei, his eyes lit up immediately.

"sister!"

This shout was particularly loud, and it was even shouted close to Shen Xuewei's ear, almost deafening her.

Shen Xuewei pushed his head away and said irritably, "I can hear you, you don't need to shout so loudly."

Chu De'an chuckled, then bent down and wiped the sweat from his brow onto her clothes on her shoulder.

Before Shen Xuewei could explode, he quickly ran back to his room and hid.

Seeing this, Chu Fu cursed at him twice and dragged him out of the house. He only let him go after Chu Fu apologized to Shen Xuewei with a distressed expression.

Seeing this, Shen Xuewei decided to wait until after dinner to give him the things she had originally planned to take out.

The five of them ate together in a lively atmosphere. After Shen Xuewei finished eating a chicken leg, Chen Fangli gave her two more pieces of chicken.

"Look at you, I don't know how your aunt has been taking care of you, you look like you've lost weight... but you seem to have gotten a bit paler..."

Faced with her second aunt, who always seemed to have lost weight, Shen Xuewei, who had little appetite, could only eat the chicken that her aunt had picked out for her, tears streaming down her face.

After the meal, Shen Xuewei took out the gifts she had brought for them.

After staying at the Chu family's house until the afternoon, she picked up her lighter bag and planned to walk back to the Chen family's house.

Chen Fangli was worried that it wouldn't be safe for her to walk back alone, so she insisted on taking her back.

Chu De'an, having not seen Shen Xuewei for a long time, also wanted to go to the Chu family with her.

The mother and son hit it off immediately and followed Shen Xuewei to the Chen family home.

With Wang Suhua's help recently, the Chen family has been able to complete their daily fieldwork ahead of schedule.

These past few days, there's not much work left to do in the fields.

When Shen Xuewei and her two companions strolled leisurely along the road to the Chen family's house, the three elderly people in the house had already returned from the fields and were sitting at the door enjoying the cool air.

Wang Suhua felt uneasy about going home early, thinking about the 1,000 yuan Chen Fanglan had promised her each month.

After the three elderly people from the Chen family returned from the fields, they took away their right to feed the pigs.

Just then, after feeding the pigs, he was carrying a bucket back when he bumped into Shen Xuewei and the other two who were returning.

Shen Xuewei took small steps forward, walked to Wang Suhua's side, and whispered, "Aunt Wang, don't walk so fast later, I have something to give you."

Wang Suhua nodded slightly, "Okay."

The two completed the relay right under the noses of the Chen family, and Shen Xuewei then ran up to the three elderly people with a smile.

"Grandma, Grandpa, Grandma, I'm back!"

Grandma Chen was happy to see her return and reached for a cigarette in her pocket.

Upon seeing this, Shen Xuewei quietly moved a few steps away, keeping a little distance.

She doesn't like the smell of smoke, so she keeps a distance from her grandmother whenever she smokes.

When Grandpa Chen saw her return, he simply nodded calmly. "It's good that you're back. School starts soon, so you need to prepare your own things."

When he said this, the corners of his mouth were unusually turned up.

Grandma Xi pulled Shen Xuewei over, looked her over, and laughed, "She's fair-skinned."

Since she came back this time, almost everyone has said that she has become fairer.

After exchanging a few words with Shen Xuewei, Grandma Xi pulled Chen Fangli and Chu De'an over and talked to them as well.

"Since you're here, stay at home tonight... or maybe you can stay until the kids start school, then go back and spend more time with Weiwei."

Chen Fangli smiled and pursed her lips, "Okay, I'll listen to Mom."

While they were talking, Shen Xuewei took her things upstairs.

After entering the room, I closed and locked the door.

She rummaged through her bag, pulling out one item after another, until finally she found a bag of money in a red plastic bag.

She went downstairs with the money in her pocket and casually listened to their conversation at the door. But she kept shifting her feet and moved closer to Wang Suhua, who was not far away, and quietly slipped the bag of money to her.

"Aunt Wang, this is something my aunt asked me to bring to you. There is three thousand yuan inside."

Wang Suhua took the bag of money from her hand and casually put it into her trouser pocket.

"Okay, I understand. Tell your aunt that I have perfectly completed the task she assigned me."

Shen Xuewei winked at her, "OK."

After giving the money to Wang Suhua, she returned to the Chen family members as if nothing had happened.

Having received the money and finished her work for the day, Wang Suhua raised her voice and said to Grandpa Chen and Grandma Xi:

"Uncle Chen, Aunt Xi, I'm going back now. I'll be back at the same time tomorrow morning!"

Grandma Xi forced a smile and replied, "Okay, just do it the same as usual."

As soon as I watched her get on her bicycle and ride away, the smile on my face vanished.

"Oh, this Alan..." she sighed, shaking her head.

Shen Xuewei believes that if her aunt were here, her grandmother would nag her for a long time.

After sighing, Grandma Xi suddenly asked Shen Xuewei:

"Weiwei, did your aunt tell you when she's coming back? Will she have time to come back for Mid-Autumn Festival or National Day?"