Chen Fei's face has never been as bad as it is now, but it happened that the two people in the family were all "reserved" in character, and now she had to come forward to fool the matter.

Chen Fei curled her lips: "You are Xiao Zhan's wife, so just call me aunt. I am a few years younger than your mother-in-law, but you are the first one to say that I look older than your mother-in-law."

Su Lixuan said seriously: "Yes, I like to tell the truth. I say whatever I want to say. I am not like others who only say nice things. Auntie... No, please don't mind it."

She raised her hand and made a hand gesture with her index finger and thumb: "Actually, if you look closely, there aren't that many wrinkles on your face, just a few."

Chen Fei: “…” Frustrated!

I was praised, but anyone could see how perfunctory the praise was.

Chen Fei almost couldn't hold back her forced smile. She took a deep breath, endured the frustration, and introduced everyone to each other one by one. Only then did she try to save the leftovers on the table.

Chen Fei: "...your sister-in-law just came in. You two sisters-in-law should get along well with each other in the future."

"And this table of food, it's not that we're poor at home, we prepared it long ago and kept reheating it in anticipation of your arrival. Then, when no one showed up, we thought reheating it a few more times would ruin the food, and everyone was hungry, so we finally started eating."

What she said was reasonable, even sensible.

Su Lixuan was suddenly the one at fault, as if they were ignorant and came late, which forced the host to have no choice but to start eating first.

Su Lixuan just looked at Chen Fei with pity and indulgence, nodding repeatedly: "Yes, I know, didn't I just say that my father-in-law's family is in trouble? Didn't he just pick up the chopsticks first? It's okay to eat when you're hungry. We don't pick on this matter."

Chen Fei had prepared a lot of words and they were about to come out of his mouth, but Su Lixuan interrupted him and he almost got a stitch in the side.

She said anxiously, "It's not a question of being unreasonable or not, it's because you came late and the food can't be heated up anymore..."

Do we have to put the blame on them?

Su Lixuan covered her mouth and exclaimed softly: "This is something I didn't expect."

Chen Fei was stunned for a moment, not understanding why: "What didn't you expect?"

Su Lixuan's face showed even more pity: "I didn't expect my father-in-law's family conditions to be so difficult. It's even more difficult than I thought."

She glanced at the bottom of the dishes on the table: "So this is leftover food, right?"

"Hey, leftover food can't be heated up. I understand. Aunt, you don't have to tell me. Don't worry, I know what you mean. Once we leave this room, we will never expose our family's shortcomings outside."

"I will never tell anyone that I, the new daughter-in-law, came to my father-in-law's house for the first time and that he treated me to leftover food."

What does this have to do with that?!

Chen Fei was furious. Was it because she hadn't explained herself clearly, or was it because Li Yanhong, the new daughter-in-law, simply didn't understand?!

"Enough." Lin Yuanshan couldn't bear to watch it anymore.

If he continued to allow Chen Fei to compete with his cunning second daughter-in-law, as soon as Li Yanhong and the others left, word would spread outside that he would not be able to eat at Lin Yuanshan's house.

He had never met such a difficult person in his life.

There was no point in arguing any further. He hadn't called Lin Zhan over today to argue about this.

It's harmless to let them take advantage of you verbally first. It's just a dish. The real 'hard dish' is yet to come.

Lin Yuanshan glanced at Chen Fei impatiently: "Go and make a new table of dishes. Don't you see so many people are waiting?"

No matter how unhappy Chen Fei was, the tacit understanding between her and Lin Yuanshan over the years was not to embarrass Lin Yuanshan in front of outsiders.

Some anger you hold back for a while and you get used to it.

He pursed his lips, stood up and went into the kitchen without saying a word.

When the table was filled with dishes again, Su Lixuan suspected that Chen Fei had brought out all the ingredients in the house just to prove that her family was well-off.

Many people in this era have never seen sea cucumbers, but Chen Fei actually took them out and made a meal of them.

He covered his mouth and whispered a few words to Li Yanhong. Li Yanhong's eyes widened slightly. To be honest, if her daughter-in-law hadn't reminded her, she almost wanted to ask Lin Yuanshan if their family was really as poor as her daughter-in-law said.

So poor that even big meat worms are put on the table.

It's easy to imagine that once she said this, she would be laughed at by this group of shameless people.

That was a close call.

Holding Su Lixuan's hand and shaking it gently under the table, Li Yanhong couldn't help but sigh in her heart that it was a good thing that the Ye family was so kind and gave her such a good daughter-in-law.

Otherwise, looking at Ye Wei's silly look, let alone protecting her, she would be suppressed by Lin Yuanshan's family as soon as she entered the door.

As expected.

When Chen Fei had prepared a table of dishes, Lin Xi suddenly chuckled.

It's mindless but very attention-grabbing.

Seeing everyone looking at him, Lin Xi pointed at the plate of sea cucumbers and said sarcastically, "Mom, why are you doing this?"

After she finished speaking, she deliberately paused, as if waiting for Li Yanhong, who had never seen the world, to respond.

But she paused for a long time, and neither Li Yanhong nor her annoying daughter-in-law responded.

Lin Xi's expression was not very good, and he continued, "It's not a good thing to cook it in a non-holiday season, and to feed it to people who don't know the value of it. It's a shame."

Su Lixuan didn't expect that this cheap sister-in-law, who had been staring at her with jealous eyes since she came in, was actually smarter than she thought.

Nodding, Su Lixuan agreed: "It's indeed a pity."

Lin Xi frowned in surprise, not expecting her to say that.

Li Yanhong then added, "What a pity! Such a good thing was made into this. The sea cucumber didn't even swell up, and they just boiled it whole and fried it out of the pan."

She tutted her tongue twice. "Even if your family has never seen anything good, you shouldn't waste food like this. It's only been a few years since the famine, and you're still wasting things like this."

Lin Xi: “……?”

Wait, how could Li Yanhong know that this thing is called sea cucumber?

Seeing that everyone was intimidated, Li Yanhong sneered twice, no longer paying attention to this group of jumping clowns, and picked up the chicken leg with chopsticks and put it into Su Lixuan's bowl.

"Xuanxuan, you eat. You don't have to wait for the elders to pick up their chopsticks. Otherwise, some uneducated kids will start snatching the food away."

Chen Fei was so angry that her lungs were about to explode. Seeing Li Yanhong picking up food for her daughter-in-law, she was not willing to be outdone.

He grabbed the other chicken leg and put it into his daughter-in-law's bowl.

"Xue'er, you eat too. Don't miss out on food when you're at home."

It can be seen that these are two old ladies exchanging witty remarks.

This was the first time Qi Xue gave Chen Fei such a face. She smiled and said, "Thank you, Mom. You are so kind to me."

Thinking of Li Yanhong's family conditions, Qi Xue had an idea in mind. She looked at Su Lixuan provocatively, "Mom and Dad, you should eat too. Eating more will help you replenish your energy. Jialiang and I got married a while ago, and you two must have been very tired."