"Here, one bowl for Dou Dou and one bowl for Guo Guo." After listening to Xiao Nuan's explanation, Zhang Yulan quickly ladled out chicken soup with gastrodia elata for her two beloved grandsons, and ladled out the chicken soup without gastrodia elata for herself and her daughter.
"You all drink together, there's such a big bowl." Su Xiaonuan was touched by her mother-in-law's actions. As long as it was good food, she would insist on giving it to her and her two children, while leaving the bad food for herself and her daughter.
"No, you guys eat first." Zhang Yulan wiped her mouth and walked out.
"Mom, where are you going?" Xiao Nuan called out to her.
"I'll be right back." Zhang Yulan didn't answer directly, but waved her hand without turning her head.
"She must have gone to inform Brother Li Ming. Dongdong has all those symptoms you just mentioned. She's been to big hospitals, but they haven't been able to cure her." Mo Xi scoffed. "She's just so kind-hearted. Doesn't she worry about being blamed later? What if it doesn't work? Then she'll be the one being gossiped about."
...
When Zhang Yulan returned, Li Jianguo and Li Ming were following behind her.
Li Ming came over and knelt down before Su Xiaonuan with a "thud".
"Li Ming, what are you doing?" Su Xiaonuan quickly put down her chopsticks and reached out to help him up. "Get up and talk, don't do this, I can't take it."
"Xiao Nuan, let Li Ming finish speaking first," Li Jianguo said.
"Then hurry up and tell me."
"Little Nuan, I'm sorry." Li Ming bowed to her.
"I told you, don't do this. If you keep doing this, I'm going to get angry," Su Xiaonuan said, feigning anger. "Get up!"
"Li Ming, just stand up and talk!" Zhang Yulan's eyes were full of smiles. Now, she was respected wherever she went. All this face was earned for her by her daughter-in-law, Su Xiaonuan.
"Okay." Li Ming stood up, standing properly with his hands at his sides. "I want to go back to the village. I wonder if Xiao Nuan will accept me?"
"This is a good thing, why shouldn't I accept you?"
"Can you really accept it?" Li Ming thought Su Xiaonuan would make things difficult for him. Back then, he and Wang Dabao followed Lan Guangxue, clearly intending to be on the opposite side of the Xiao family.
"The distillery needs porters. You can start working at the distillery tomorrow."
"Thank you, Xiao Nuan! Thank you, Xiao Nuan!" Li Ming began to bow and kowtow to her again.
"Don't try that on me again." Su Xiaonuan pointed at him. "As long as you do your job well, you don't need to deliberately try to please anyone. But if you don't do your job well, then I won't be polite, understand?"
"Don't worry, I will definitely do my best."
"Xiao Nuan, thank you so much!" Li Jianguo said gratefully.
"Would you like to sit down and eat?" Su Xiaonuan was too lazy to be polite with them and used another way to see them off.
"No, no, dinner's ready at home." Li Jianguo quickly pulled his son away from the Xiao family compound happily.
"What kind of person is he?" Mo Xi scoffed. "Didn't he want to follow the Lan family? Now that he sees everyone is doing so well with you, he wants to come back and rely on you. Sister-in-law, you can't be soft-hearted with this kind of person. Let him go back to the coal mine and work with Lan Guang."
The two adorable children, who were drinking soup, rushed down together and knelt down in front of Su Xiaonuan, imitating Li Ming and saying in unison, "Thank you, Xiaonuan! Thank you, Xiaonuan!"
puff!
Xiao Nuan spat out a mouthful of chicken soup; if she hadn't turned around quickly, the soup would have sprayed into her food.
DouDou: Little Nuan, slow down.
Guoguo: Little Nuan, drink some water.
Mo Xi and Zhang Yulan laughed so hard they bent over; they were truly a pair of clowns.
Xiao Nuan's eyes were bloodshot and watery as she pointed at the two unruly children and coughed.
Seeing their mother like this, the two little ones couldn't bear it anymore and immediately kowtowed to admit their mistake. "Mom, I'm sorry."
After saying that, they quickly got up from the ground. One of them reached out and gently patted Xiao Nuan's chest, while the other held a glass of water to feed her.
After Xiao Nuan recovered, the two children clapped their hands and sang the birthday song happily, and it was even the English version of the birthday song.
"My goodness, DouDou and GuoGuo, when did you learn to sing English songs?" Moxi's mouth was so wide open it could fit an egg.
"It's the English birthday song," DouDou corrected.
"Auntie's so out of touch, she doesn't even know this," Guoguo said disdainfully. "You read books every day, didn't your teacher teach you?"
Su Xiaonuan's face was full of smiles. The children were so cute. She found that the children had a strong ability to learn. Some things, as long as she taught them once, or at most twice, they could remember them.
She had only taught them the English version of the birthday song twice, and they could still sing it. Moreover, Guoguo could even remember her trendy words. It seems that they are two promising talents. She secretly reminded herself that she must nurture them into talents.
"What's 'out'?" Mersey yelled in frustration, raising her fists. She felt utterly defeated by these two little brats; she was truly a failure as an aunt.
“Auntie, you don’t even know this?” Dou Dou shook her head. “Then don’t learn from the teacher, learn from my mom instead. My mom knows everything.”
Guoguo looked disgusted. "Auntie, 'out' means backward or old-fashioned, remember that? If you still don't understand next time, I won't explain it anymore."
This is infuriating!
Mersey was so angry she was practically blowing air, but she didn't have a beard, otherwise she would have been so angry she was practically glaring and puffing out her beard.
With his hands on his hips, he stopped drinking the soup and eating the rice, and started walking around the yard, circling it again and again.
She had studied with the most prestigious teacher in town for three months, yet she was outdone by DouDou and GuoGuo. It was truly embarrassing.
"Alright, come and eat!" Xiao Nuan waved to her with a smile. "Why are you, as the aunt, angry with two younger people? You should be happy to have such a smart nephew."
DouDou: Auntie will turn into an ugly monster when she's angry.
Guoguo: Auntie gets wrinkles when she's angry.
Zhang Yulan: You've really wasted all these years arguing with kids who are only a few years old. I think they're right, you're just dumber than them. Go back and ask your sister-in-law more questions if you don't understand something. Maybe she'll be more helpful than your teacher.
Moxi was also unconvinced, so she ran into the house and took out the notebook. "Then, sister-in-law, can you explain these questions to me? They were assigned by the teacher, and I don't know how to do them."
She would do it, deliberately testing her sister-in-law's abilities.
Su Xiaonuan looked at it, picked up a pen and wrote out the relevant formulas in detail on the draft paper, telling her that as long as she memorized the formulas, these questions would be easy to solve.
"My God, after all these years, you still remember the formula?" Mo Xi asked, puzzled. "Sister-in-law, you're so amazing, why don't you go to university?"
"I'm already a mother of two, why would I need to take the college entrance exam?" Su Xiaonuan stroked her two chubby little faces. "Let them fulfill my wish."
"Oh." Mo Xi stopped asking questions and sat down with some guilt. In her opinion, her sister-in-law was completely dragged down by her brother. Otherwise, her sister-in-law would definitely be studying at a university in the provincial capital right now, living the life of a rich young lady.
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