Su Xiaonuan sat down at the stone table and reached out to rummage through the trinkets that Mo Xi had bought. "You have good taste. They shouldn't be hard to sell."
"Following your sister-in-law will definitely improve your taste."
"Stop with the nice things, hurry up and tell me about your trip to the provincial capital."
"Sister-in-law, you don't want to hear about my trip to the provincial capital, you want to hear about Jiang Yi, right?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? Who wants to hear about Jiang Yi?" Su Xiaonuan was genuinely angry. What did Jiang Yi have to do with her? He was related to the original owner of this body, okay?
"Don't be angry, I'll tell you." Mo Xi recounted her experience with great enthusiasm, without hiding anything, and even told us about Jiang Yi stealing her skirt and bag.
She wanted to keep the dress and bag a secret, but she couldn't explain it away. It was impossible for her to lose several things at once, right?
Zhang Yulan returned from the field carrying vegetables on her back, and as soon as she entered the yard, she shouted, "What are you two little rascals doing?"
"My goods, my goods..." Murthy cried out as he rushed forward.
"Auntie, am I pretty?"
While the adults were talking, the two children quietly took the bag away.
Looking at the children's adorable faces, she couldn't bring herself to hit them, and stomped her feet in anger. "Look what you've done to my goods! How am I supposed to sell them now? These are twenty yuan worth of stuff!"
Zhang Yulan slammed her slicked-back hair to the ground and pointed at Moxi, yelling, "You spendthrift! Your sister-in-law gave you so much money so you could save more and use less. Look at what you've bought! What a bunch of junk! It's infuriating!"
Su Xiaonuan stepped forward to take a look and said calmly, "It's okay, they can still be sold. They just got it dirty. They can wipe it with a damp towel and let it dry."
Hearing that it would be useful, Zhang Yulan and Moxi joined in. One went to fetch water and towels, while the other quickly picked up all the small ornaments in the yard and put them in the dustpan used for drying things.
Fearing the two mischievous kids would continue to cause trouble, Xiao Nuan had no choice but to take them back to her room and lock them up.
DouDou and GuoGuo banged on the door together. "Mommy, we want to go out."
"Don't you dare go out!" she waved her hand. "You just made a mess of my goods all over the floor. I'm being lenient by not hitting you. You think you can get out? No way!"
"Mom, there's a door here, we want to get out." They both knocked on the door.
Pfft!
Xiao Nuan couldn't help but laugh out loud.
It's really hard to communicate with these two little chubby little things.
Her understanding of things was completely different from theirs.
"The door is broken, we can't get out!"
"Is the door broken?" They stopped bothering their mother and went to move a stool.
The wooden chair was too heavy for the two of them to move.
Xiao Nuan didn't stop them, wanting to see how the two little ones would manage to move the heavy chair over.
If one person can't lift it, two people can work together.
Seeing that the chair still hadn't moved, the two of them walked around the chair, looking at it from left to right. After a while, Guoguo leaned forward, put her hands on the chair, and pushed forward with all her might, which seemed to make a little movement.
DouDou immediately joined in, the two of them bending over together, their four little hands resting on the chair, and pushing hard together.
With a whoosh, the chair was finally pushed aside.
However, the ground was uneven, and when they couldn't push it, they knew to turn around and go around the uneven area before pushing it again.
Su Xiaonuan smiled. She was quite clever.
She assumed they would simply sit on chairs and open the bolt, but they didn't. Instead, they went to a corner and found a small hammer, taking turns hammering away like two little repairmen.
Su Xiaonuan couldn't help but chuckle. "What are you doing?"
“Mom, we’re fixing the door,” DouDou said.
"Mom, don't worry, it'll be fixed in a bit," Guoguo said.
It was the two of them who wanted to go out and play, but they acted as if it was Su Xiaonuan who wanted to go out and play. These two naughty kids really made her both laugh and cry.
After banging on it for a while, Dou Dou finally reached for the wooden bolt and pulled it out easily. He stood on the chair and gave Su Xiaonuan a victory sign. "Yay, we fixed the door! Mom, you can go out and play now!"
"Mom, if the door breaks in the future, my brother and I will fix it," Guoguo said. "Dad told us before he left that we are men and we should protect Mom and not let bad people bully her."
Xiao Nuan felt a surge of warmth in her heart, and tears almost welled up in her eyes. It wasn't because of Xiao Moran's teachings, but because of the two little bundles of joy. Having them by her side was truly the best gift God had given her.
I quickly went over and took the small hammer from the child's hand. "Don't play with this anymore. It's heavy. If it falls, it will hit your foot, or you might accidentally hurt yourself."
After saying that, he picked DouDou up from the chair and put the chair back in its place.
When she led the children out, her mother-in-law and sister-in-law had already tidied up all the scattered goods and placed the winnowing baskets on a high place to dry. Now she could let the children play freely in the yard.
During dinner, Moxi said, "Sister-in-law, could you teach me how to make that osmanthus rice cake you made?"
“Sure, you didn’t get to eat any today, you can make it tomorrow, and I’ll teach you.”
"Sister-in-law, you are so amazing, you can do everything."
"My mom is amazing!" DouDou and GuoGuo chimed in, shaking their heads and clapping.
"Stop shaking your head while eating!" Xiao Nuan tapped him. "Did you hear me?"
"Ignore them, eat first," Zhang Yulan said. "Your rice has gone cold, do you want me to get you a fresh bowl?"
"No need." She quickly picked out some vegetables and put them in her rice bowl. Otherwise, the old lady might take her bowl of rice and eat it, and then give her another bowl of hot rice.
"Sister-in-law, why don't you open a restaurant in the provincial capital? The best restaurant there has a chef from Beijing, but his food isn't as good as yours, and you still have to queue up to get a table."
"We don't have that idea yet. We'll talk about it in two years. When DouDou and GuoGuo are ready to go to school, we'll have to figure something out. We can't let them stay here forever. We must send them to better schools so they don't fall behind from the start."
Zhang Yulan glared at her daughter, scolding her for bringing it up.
"Mom, why are you glaring at me?" Mo Xi said, displeased. "My sister-in-law is right, and my suggestion is also good. My brother went to the provincial capital to work hard, right? Maybe we can really go to the provincial capital as a whole family. You don't know how prosperous the provincial capital is. Next year, I also want to take the college entrance exam in the provincial capital."
“Provincial capital, provincial capital, ever since you came back, you keep talking about the provincial capital. Do you really think you're a city person? Let me tell you, don't be ungrateful. You're a country person, you have to accept your fate.”
“Mom, there’s nothing wrong with what Moxi thinks this way. People strive for higher goals, and water flows downhill. This will motivate her to study hard.” Su Xiaonuan frowned. “Don’t discourage her right now. Encourage her. Maybe she can really get into a university in the provincial capital next year.”
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