Chapter 24 will have to wait.

Da Ni was so frightened that she stammered, "Grandma, Grandma, I, I..."

Oh no, she's been caught sneaking back to rest in the cool air by her grandma. She's definitely going to get scolded, and might even get beaten.

Seven-year-old Dani is already a little laborer.

At home, they had to help feed the chickens and sweep the floor; outside, they had to cut pig feed, catch vegetable worms, dig wild vegetables, and so on.

Even five-year-old Erni and four-year-old Sanni, when they weren't taking care of their little sister, would go out to work with her.

In contrast, six-year-old Chen Dabao spends all day playing outside and only runs home to eat.

When Ma Xiulian saw that her face was deathly pale, she frowned and reached out to touch her forehead.

Dani thought she was about to be hit, so she immediately closed her eyes in fear, but the slap she imagined never came.

A rough, dry hand touched her forehead rather harshly, and the voice that spoke was equally blunt and unkind, "Why is your face so pale? Did you have heatstroke?"

Da Ni opened her eyes and stared blankly at her grandmother: "No, I don't have heatstroke."

Seeing that her reaction didn't seem like heatstroke, Ma Xiulian withdrew her hand and casually said, "The sun is strong, remember to drink plenty of water."

Da Ni stared blankly at her, as if she didn't recognize the person in front of her at all.

Ma Xiulian didn't pay any attention, and after playing with her granddaughter for a while, she hurried back to the fields to work.

Seeing that the two girls were taking good care of their granddaughter, he gave them a word of advice before leaving: "Keep a close eye on your little sister, and don't let her go out in the midday sun."

It wasn't until quite a while after she left that Dani came to her senses and suddenly felt a little happy.

When her grandmother caught her slacking off at home, she not only didn't hit or scold her, but also allowed her to rest at home.

So she whispered to her younger sister, "Erni, I don't think Grandma is that fierce."

Erni shook her head firmly, "Grandma is so fierce!"

Especially when she has a stern face, she wants to be as far away from her grandmother as possible!

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Li Chunhua was exhausted after harvesting rice in the field for only one day, with a sore back and several blisters on her palms.

Zhao Mei, on the other hand, looked radiant and full of energy.

I immediately made up my mind to bring my little girl home and feed her myself!

"Mom, I'll feed my baby myself from now on."

Ma Xiulian retorted without any politeness: "Do you think you're the Empress Dowager, feeding people whenever you want and not feeding them whenever you don't want? Dream on!"

Li Chunhua was so embarrassed by the scathing rebuke that she could only shut her mouth in embarrassment.

But she was resentful. Why shouldn't she, as the mother, feed her own daughter?!

She angrily took a big bite of the dry sweet potato cake, only to accidentally choke.

Li Chunhua choked so badly that her eyes rolled back, and she quickly drank several mouthfuls of wild vegetable porridge before she could swallow it.

"Cough cough cough!"

She coughed painfully, her eyes red as she stared intently at the noodles cooked in pigeon soup in Zhao Mei's hand.

Eating thin noodles and rice won't strain your throat or make you choke!

No way!

She absolutely insisted on bringing her daughter back home to feed her herself!

At worst, she could just swallow her pride and try to win that brat back first.

If her daughter insists on drinking her mother's breast milk, then even her mother-in-law has no reason to stop her from feeding her.

Although it pains me that my son no longer has milk, at least he can still eat meat and eggs with me every meal.

After gulping down the wild vegetable porridge in a few mouthfuls, she cautiously looked at her mother-in-law and said, "Mom, you eat first, and I'll hold the baby."

Ma Xiulian glanced at her, thinking that she was, after all, the baby's biological mother, and nodded, "Hold her."

Li Chunhua was overjoyed and quickly reached out her hands to receive it.

It's true that the grandmother favored boys over girls, but she wouldn't mistreat her granddaughter or resort to beatings or scolding.

(End of this chapter)