Li Xiuying gritted her teeth, unable to speak.
No matter what she said, Ye Yun didn't give her any chance to get involved with Qin Zheng.
After thinking for a moment, she rolled her eyes and said, "Ye Yun, I heard that you can't find your sister from your maternal family either. We have a lot of friends in our family. Why don't you take Cai out and try your luck? Cai can ask his friends to help you find your sister from your maternal family. What do you think?"
Are you sick?
Ye Yun's face turned cold. Would she be out of her mind to go looking for Ye Xue?
“Mother, you’re wrong. She and that Ye Xue have never gotten along since they were little. How could she possibly go to her!” Guo Youcai said through gritted teeth, tugging at Li Xiuying’s sleeve in a panic.
Li Xiuying looked embarrassed; how could she have forgotten that?
Ye Xue had tried to seduce Qin Zheng before, and Ye Yun still finds it horrifying to think about how badly Ye Xue was beaten back then.
Li Xiuying gave an awkward smile, "Zhengzi's wife, that's not what I meant..."
Ye Yun stared at her coldly.
She didn't dare say anything else, but still smiled and said, "What I mean is, even if you're not close to your sister, aren't you close to your uncle? Your uncle is the one who's saddened by your sister's disappearance. If you can help your uncle find her, that would be helping him too."
"You seem to understand things quite well."
"That's right, that's right!" Li Xiuying genuinely thought Ye Yun was praising her, and taking advantage of the situation, she said smugly, "I was your mother-in-law after all, so I'm practically your mother, and I'll think of you too!"
"Pah! Stop trying to glorify yourself!"
Ye Yun immediately let out a cold sneer, her eyes flashing with a chilling light as she glared at Li Xiuying.
In an instant, Li Xiuying's smiling old face froze, as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over her head. She stared at Ye Yun with a look of astonishment, her mouth agape for a long time.
Mu Jingsheng and Ye Xia, who were standing next to Li Xiuying, also glared at her with ambiguous expressions.
"Who do you think you are, half a mother? I don't even dare let my Xiaoyun call you mother. Where did you come from, you worthless thing?" Ye Xia sneered, her eyes filled with disdain.
When faced with her daughter's trivial matters, her mind was clearer than ever before.
Unlike typical mountain village women who are foul-mouthed and quick to get to work, Ye Xia's years of pampered life have diminished her fiery temper from her time in the mountains, giving her a more composed and unassuming demeanor.
She smiled, but there was a faint threat in her smile.
The source of this threat was unclear, but it alarmed Li Xiuying. She felt that Ye Xia's eyes were somewhat frightening, as if the other party would rush over and tear her apart at any moment.
That crazy woman, she really is a crazy woman.
Li Xiuying quickly looked away, not daring to meet Ye Xia's gaze again. She wouldn't be so foolish as to argue with a crazy woman!
“Zhengzi…”
She immediately looked at Qin Zheng again, hoping to soften his heart with her eyes.
"Come on, please." Ye Yun coldly interrupted her gaze, and sneered, "Today, our Qin family is having a happy reunion dinner. You Guo family members shouldn't be so inconsiderate as to get in the way. Anyone who didn't know better would think that your Guo family is so poor that they can only go to other people's houses to smell dumplings!"
After saying that, she didn't look at Li Xiuying again. She took Qin Zheng's hand and headed towards the kitchen.
"Yes, a family reunion dinner!"
Qin Xiang'e snorted coldly, took the sieve, and quickly stepped forward to close the fence gate.
Li Xiuying raised her hand, trying to stop her.
The dumpling soup stuck to the strainer splashed out and landed on her and Guo Youcai's exposed arms, cool and dripping with tiny water droplets.
Just by looking at the color of this noodle soup, you can tell that the dumplings were made with the finest white flour.
A fragrant aroma of pork dumplings mixed with noodle soup wafted over, making Li Xiuying sniff the mouth water. She couldn't help but look down at the stove from afar.
Her mouth immediately watered.
A bowl of steaming, plump white dumplings is scooped up, topped with half a bowl of noodle soup, and sprinkled with chopped green onions. The steam rising from the dumplings, mixed with the aroma of cooked pork, whets the appetite.
The first bowl was for Ye Yun.
The second bowl was Qin Zheng's.
The third bowl, the fourth bowl...
The last bowl was for Qin Xiang'e herself.
Each person had a bowl of dumplings, steaming hot, and they sat at the stone table in the courtyard, enjoying them with relish.
Li Xiuying watched longingly, and couldn't help but lick her lips.
Plop! Ye Yun accidentally dropped a dumpling.
"Suck, suck, suck... come here, coal!"
Ye Yun called out, and the little black dog that was playing with the chicks nearby immediately ran over happily.
She kicked a dumpling that had fallen to the ground.
Little Coal Ball, quick-witted and outspoken, happily let out a loud "Ooh!" and swallowed the still-steaming dumpling into its mouth.
"Awooo..."
"oops!"
One had burned her mouth with a dumpling, while the other was so angry she kept slapping her thigh. Li Xiuying stared at the dumpling in the dog's mouth in frustration, her heart aching so badly she felt like she was about to faint!
Those are dumplings!
Pork filling!
Let the dog eat it!
Ye Yun, that spendthrift little woman!
What's most infuriating is that she hasn't even tasted a single pork dumpling yet!
She's so angry!
She's not even as good as a dog!
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