Chapter 56: The Sesame Filling of the White Rice Dumplings Revealed

On New Year's Eve, the Zhao family had a quarrel and the lunch ended in a bad mood.

Zhao's mother Wang Caihong sighed as she looked at the mess in the house. Zhao Lili took the initiative to lend a hand, which was rare for her, and quickly cleaned up the house. Ma Dongmei put away the pile of dishes on the dining table and went to the kitchen to wash them.

The Zhao Xing family and Zhao Tiezhu and his wife who stayed behind chattered for the whole afternoon, but no one knew what they talked about.

After Lin Yiyi took Zhao Sheng back to her room, Tiedan let go of Lin Yiyi's clothes. He remembered what had just happened vividly, and in a hurry he revealed his true nature in front of him.

She also cut off her way of pretending to be weak, and didn't know how to face Zhao Sheng for a moment.

Using Tiedan who was well-behaved beside her to divert her attention, Lin Yiyi bent down, picked him up and sat him on the edge of the kang. She looked at his two ears carefully. Apart from the redness and swelling from being twisted, there was no skin breakage or bleeding. There seemed to be no problem on the outside. She wondered if he had been injured elsewhere.

"Tiedan, tell your sister, were you hit anywhere other than your ears? Does it hurt?" Lin Yiyi hugged Tiedan and carefully observed his reaction. She didn't know if the child would be traumatized by seeing adults fighting each other.

Tiedan shook his head and said nothing.

Zhao Sheng frowned. Calling her sister and calling him dad was confusing the generations.

"Be good, don't be afraid. She bullied you just now, and I taught her a lesson. Next time you see that bad woman, stay away from her, okay?" Lin Yiyi coaxed Tiedan softly, patted his back to comfort him, and looked at Zhao Sheng beside her, instructing him to heat up the kang.

"Yeah." Tiedan seemed to have just come to his senses. He nodded heavily, leaned close to Lin Yiyi's arms, and held her tightly with his little hands.

Tiedan was actually not afraid at all. He bit the bad guy, but unfortunately all the meat was scattered on the kang and he didn't get to eat it.

My ears started to hurt, but now they don’t hurt anymore. But when will my sister let him call her mom?

Lin Yiyi had no idea what the little boy was thinking. She could only sigh that married life was very colorful.

The room became warmer, and Lin Yiyi coaxed Tiedan to take a nap. The man came in from outside and they looked at each other, but no one took the initiative to speak.

With doubts in her heart, Lin Yiyi felt that if she didn't speak first, Zhao Sheng wouldn't say a word. The two looked at each other for a while, and Lin Yiyi compromised and said in a light tone: "You and your eldest brother have a bad relationship?"

Obviously, she actually wanted to ask if her parents had always been so partial.

Zhao Sheng crossed his legs, leaned lazily on the back of the chair, and nodded slightly.

"Have they always bullied you like this before?" She was the one who hit people, and it had nothing to do with Zhao Sheng. She also asked him to apologize to his eldest brother. It's not the right way to fool people by trying to smooth things over.

“I’m used to it.”

Can you get used to this? If you are oppressed, you should stand up instead of accepting it silently. Lin Yiyi doesn't quite agree with his attitude of accepting everything.

"You need to learn to defend yourself in the future. You can't just follow whatever they say. You need to be reasonable in everything. Parents are not always right. You didn't express your opinion about what your mother said just now. Are you going to do it?"

Zhao Sheng's expression did not change, as if they were discussing someone else's business. Seeing that he was unmoved and no reply for a long time, Lin Yiyi felt a surge of anger in her heart. She did not insist on being a good person. She took off her coat and lay down on the kang, covered with a quilt, closed her eyes and took a nap, unilaterally ending the topic.

Next time she encounters this kind of thing, she will not step forward. The emperor is not anxious, but the eunuch is.

…

"Won't."

The man's steady voice sounded in Lin Yiyi's ears. It took a while before she got an answer. Lin Yiyi was a little speechless. She thought Tiedan spoke slowly because he had not developed well. It seemed that he took after his father.

Zhao Sheng stood up and walked to the woman, looking down at her and making his position clear.

He could still be saved, not as foolishly filial as she imagined.

Lin Yiyi is now worried that what she said before would make the man think that she is dissatisfied with Wang Caihong. She is afraid that the man will have a knot in his heart. If his son and his own mother are at odds, it is also a blood relationship, and if the daughter-in-law speaks to the mother-in-law without giving her face, that is another matter.

This made Zhao Sheng prejudiced against her, and he would think that her, his daughter-in-law, was deliberately causing trouble no matter what happened in the future.

Not wanting to leave hidden dangers for herself, Lin Yiyi gathered her emotions, sat up, looked up at him, and began to explain herself, "I was really angry today. Tiedan was so young, not even as tall as a table leg, but was bullied by Liu Meifeng. Afterwards, she felt no shame and even used the elders' hands to force us to apologize to her. This is too much."

The only fault can be blamed on Liu Meifeng, and Lin Yiyi did not mention the actions of the elders at all.

The woman's voice was soft and helpless, revealing some grievance, "Why are you so arrogant and unreasonable?"

"Don't take mother's words to heart."

Zhao Sheng knew it clearly, but he didn't want to bring up the old conflict with Lin Yiyi, so he interrupted her.

The man's face showed no emotion at all. Lin Yiyi couldn't guess what he was thinking. She met the man's calm eyes and continued to act. She tried her best to squeeze out crystal tears. During the movement, she was pulled somewhere and cried out in pain, "hiss", as if she was seriously injured and the pain was unbearable.

Only then did Zhao Sheng notice her scratched snow-white neck. He stretched out his calloused fingertips, lifted the woman's clothes, and took a closer look. He saw how delicate and tender her skin was, and the few bloody marks were shocking.

Fortunately, it only looks scary, so the man was relieved that it would not leave scars. It would probably take about half a month to recover.

Lin Yiyi continued to stretch out her right hand with red scratch marks and wave it in front of Zhao Sheng, intending to gain sympathy, but all she got was the man's ruthlessness.

The man uttered in a deep voice: "You deserve it."

Lin Yiyi's face changed immediately. How could she continue to act weak? Seeing that Zhao Sheng had no sympathy at all, she glared at him fiercely, turned her back angrily, and snorted coldly from her nose.

If she says one more word to this man today, she will be considered not a human being.

Zhao Sheng saw the woman's reaction, trying not to laugh in his heart, but keeping a serious face.

"Don't sleep too long during lunch break, or you'll miss making dinner." Zhao Sheng left this sentence and walked out the door with his long legs. Lin Yiyi was so angry that she kept calling him Zhou Baopi's reincarnation.

Who was she fighting for? Not only did he not comfort her, he also reminded her not to forget to work.

Lin Yiyi was so angry that she tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. She knitted a sweater to vent her anger, and every stitch was directed at Zhao Sheng.

Compared to the minor quarrels in the Zhao family, Wang Rulan, who was thousands of miles away, suffered a great crime. She was locked up at home by her parents and brother. They were afraid that she would make trouble, so they gagged her and tied her up. Except for solving physiological problems, she was locked in the house all day long, waiting to be sent to be the factory director's idiot wife on the eighth day of the first lunar month after the Chinese New Year.

Wang Rulan was filled with sorrow, but she forced herself to remain calm and no longer threw things around like she did at the beginning. The Wang family thought that she had compromised and accepted her fate, so they stopped starving her and changed the way they fed her one meal of porridge a day to three meals a day.

Wang Rulan suppressed herself, pretended to be submissive, and conserved her energy until New Year's Eve when the whole family was relaxed, and then she escaped from Beijing.