Chapter 1238: Marriage Recovered Through Fraud (4)

But later, when he heard what Shi Chu said to Du Xiaoshi, he knew that he had misunderstood her.

Duzhou is not a person who spoils his children blindly, nor does he think that washing clothes should only be left to women. What's more, Wancaoer (Shichu) only asked him to wash his own socks, which is almost like playing. So Duzhou didn't think there was anything wrong with it. When he was five years old, his life was much more difficult than Du Xiaoshi's current life. At a young age, he had to go up the mountain to collect firewood or cut grass for pigs. During the busy farming season, he had to help harvest rice. Which of these jobs is not harder than washing socks?

Duzhou was somewhat surprised at Shichu's way of educating children. He seemed to be quite knowledgeable, and was completely different from the cowardly and ignorant Wancao'er in his impression...

But no matter how different they were, Duzhou couldn't show a good face to her whenever he thought of her behavior of forcing him to marry her.

So when she asked him who he was looking for, he looked at her coldly and said, "Who else would I look for when I go back to my own home?"

Shi Chu smiled awkwardly and said, "I didn't recognize you for a moment..." The original owner had seen Duzhou several times, but that was the original owner's memory. Although Shi Chu had her memory, he was unable to combine the real person with his memory for a while, which led to this joke.

"Xiaoling, Xiaoshi, Daddy is back." Duzhou walked in carrying large and small bags and shouted into the house. His attitude towards the children was much gentler than that towards Shichu.

When Du Xiaoling and Du Xiaoshi heard his words, they immediately rushed out of the house excitedly, shouting excitedly as they rushed: "Dad! Dad, you are finally back..."

Duzhou looked at the two children running towards him with a smile on his face. He threw the things in his hands to the ground, bent down, caught a child with one hand, and picked them up: "Are you good at home? Have you eaten well? Let Dad see if you have lost weight..."

As he spoke, he actually weighed them. The two children were extremely happy. They hugged his neck and shouted, "Dad, we are very good and have eaten well... Dad, I miss you so much..."

Duzhou played with the two children for a while before putting them down. Then he found the luggage he had just put down and took things out while saying, "Dad bought you new clothes, candies, and small cakes."

"Wow, Dad, I want to eat candy!" Du Xiaoling shouted impatiently.

Du Xiaoshi also rummaged through a few bags, and Du Zhou quickly took out candies and cakes and shared them with them.

Du Zhou's return made Du Xiaoshi and Du Xiaoling very happy the whole day. The brother and sister pestered him and refused to leave. Du Zhou let them do as they pleased and patiently played with them for the whole day.

In the evening, Shi Chu really made braised pork. The fat and lean pork belly was stewed until it was soft, sticky, golden and shiny, with a fragrant aroma that made people very appetizing at first sight.

Du Xiaoshi sat down at the dinner table automatically without being called. He had been thinking about the braised pork all day long, and when he smelled the rich aroma of the meat, he could no longer resist. At this time, even his father Du Zhou could not divert his attention.

Shi Chu quickly prepared the other three dishes and started eating.

"I can have two more pieces tonight." Du Xiaoshi did not forget to remind Shi Chu, "Sister can also have one more piece."

"I remember." Shi Chu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, because when she bought the meat in the morning, she didn't know Duzhou would come back, so she didn't buy too much pork for the braised pork. She only bought enough for one large and two small ones. But this didn't bother Shi Chu. She couldn't get more meat, but she could cut the meat into smaller pieces!

So Shichu cut the braised pork into twelve pieces. Duzhou got two pieces, Shichu got three pieces for himself, Du Xiaoling also got three pieces, and Du Xiaoshi got four pieces.

Du Xiaoshi looked at the meat in the bowls of the family, touched his head, and felt something was wrong, but he didn't know what was wrong, so he had to ask: "Why does Dad only have two pieces, and Auntie, you have three pieces?"

Shi Chu answered confidently, "Originally, everyone in our family only had two yuan, but Xiaoshi, you washed your own baby today, so I can give you two more yuan, which is four yuan; your sister also originally only had two yuan, but you were willing to give her one yuan, so now she has three yuan; as for your aunt, I did a whole day of housework today, cooking, sweeping the floor, and washing clothes, so I can also give her one more yuan, which is three yuan; as for your father, he just came back today and didn't do anything, so he only got the most basic two yuan. What do you think is wrong with this division?"

Du Xiaoshi didn't quite understand what she said, but seeing that Shi Chu spoke clearly and without any guilt, he naturally assumed that she was telling the truth, so he nodded in confusion, pretending to understand, and said, "No problem."

"That's good, we can start eating." Shi Chu announced.

Du Xiaoling didn't care about Shi Chu's deception at all. She was so happy that there were three pieces in her bowl. She couldn't wait to bite them and eat them.

As for Duzhou, there was no share prepared for him in the first place. The fact that he was given two pieces was because he was a member of the family, so Chu would not care if he had any objections.

Duzhou certainly had no objection. As the man of the family, it was impossible for him to snatch the meat from his children. If he was not afraid of cultivating their selfish characters, he would even be willing to share the meat in his bowl with the two children.

Although it was a bit stingy and fussy for Shichu to share every piece of meat, he could understand it when he thought about her family who didn't treat their daughter as a human being. After all, in a family like that, if you wanted to eat a piece of meat, you had to rob or steal it, right? It was normal to be a bit fussy.

However, since she has married into the Du family, there is no need for such petty behavior, so he said to Shi Chu: "Forget it this time. In the future, we don't have to be so stingy when eating meat. If it's not enough, just buy more."

Upon hearing this, Shi Chu glanced at him and did not explain that he only distributed the meat in this way because he wanted to "reward" Du Xiaoshi with two more pieces of braised pork. If there was no need to reward him, Shi Chu naturally would not have gone to the trouble of dividing the meat.

For the sake of family harmony, she nodded and said, "Okay, I will buy more in the future."

Since he, a money-earning person, said so, it would be natural for Chu not to be reluctant.

After the meal, the whole family was full. Duzhou took his two children to visit his eldest brother's house to digest the food. Shichu exercised in the yard for twenty minutes and sweated a lot. He went back to take a shower and went to bed without waiting for them to come back.

Because Duzhou was forced to marry the original owner, he disliked her very much. After marriage, he was unwilling to fulfill his husband and wife obligations and they slept in separate rooms, which made it convenient for Shi Chu.

(End of this chapter)