Chapter 162
"You should let Zhong Lan do it. Why do you have to cook with me? You have to cook at Lei's house, and you have to cook when you go back to your parents' home. Aren't you just asking for trouble?" Aunt Xie lowered her voice and said to Yao Yi with concern.
"If I don't rush to do it and let Zhong Lan do it with a big belly, Lei Xiao will be dissatisfied again." Yao Yi said in a low voice.
"What does he have to say? Zhong Lan and he have no relationship at all, how could he have any opinion?"
"When I was pregnant, the Lei family basically didn't let me do anything. Now that Zhong Lan is pregnant, you still let her cook with you, and I don't even help. Lei Xiao will definitely think we are not good. When I came back on the second day of the Lunar New Year last year, Lei Xiao left without even eating dinner because he felt we were too mean to Zhong Lan."
"Are we still mean to Zhong Lan?" Aunt Xie couldn't help but raise her voice, and Yao Yi quickly signaled her to speak in a low voice.
Aunt Xie suppressed her anger and lowered her voice again, "He doesn't even realize that since Zhong Lan got pregnant, she doesn't want to do anything. I've been the one doing all the work. How many people in our compound treat Zhong Lan as well as I do?"
"Lei Xiao doesn't understand these things. He just thinks that we treat Zhong Lan badly, so I can only pretend in front of him." Yao Yi said in a low voice.
Aunt Xie sighed: "Does it make you uncomfortable to keep pretending like this?"
"Of course there are times when I feel uncomfortable, but there's nothing I can do. If I want to get along with the Lei family, I have to pretend."
Aunt Xie thought that the Lei family's conditions were much better than hers, and even though she felt sorry for Yao Yi, she couldn't say anything.
She thought of something else: "Is your stomach moving?"
When this matter was mentioned, Yao Yi became a little upset and anxious. She shook her head: "No movement."
"There's been no movement yet. It's been almost a year since your last one."
Yao Yi interrupted Aunt Xie impatiently: "I know, I just want to get pregnant again, but I haven't been able to get pregnant yet, so there's nothing I can do."
As her belly showed no sign of pregnancy, Yao Yi regretted more and more that she should not have been so willful as to lose the child.
If the child had been born safely, why would she have to live her life with a smile on her face and a humble attitude every day?
"You have to hurry up. If these two people don't have a child to keep them together, their relationship will fade sooner or later. You should eat more eggs and meat to replenish your body." Aunt Xie instructed.
"Yeah." Yao Yi nodded impatiently.
Yao Yi helped Aunt Xie cook a meal. In fact, Aunt Xie cooked most of the dishes, and Yao Yi only helped out. The rest of the time, she sat in the kitchen and chatted with Aunt Xie.
After lunch, Yao Yi asked Lei Xiao inquiringly, "Shall we leave? Or should we leave after dinner tonight?"
"You haven't been back for a long time. Let's leave in the evening." Lei Xiao said.
Yao Yi was very happy. This showed that she had performed well today, which was why Lei Xiao was willing to stay at her house longer.
Lei Xiao gently rubbed Yao Yi's head: "You have really changed a lot, becoming better and better."
Yao Yi enjoyed Lei Xiao's praise and thought to herself: That's right, she has been pretending to be so tired these past few months, and it finally paid off.
Lei Xiao and Yao Yi left after dinner in the evening.
Before they left, Aunt Xie packed a lot of things for Yao Yi to take back to her in-laws' home. She packed not only meat, but also eggs, brown sugar, and toffee.
Seeing that Aunt Xie packed so many things for her, Yao Yi felt particularly honored and looked at Lei Xiao with a smile.
Seeing a smile on Lei Xiao's face, Yao Yi felt better.
After Lei Xiao and Yao Yi left with their hands full of things, Aunt Xie called Zhong Lan to clean up the leftovers in the house.
"Clean up the table and the kitchen. I'm so tired today." Aunt Xie instructed Zhong Lan while pounding her shoulders.
Zhong Lan looked at the table full of dishes and bowls and said coldly, "I don't want to clean up."
Aunt Xie was furious: "You've had a day off today and haven't done anything. I asked you to clean up the dishes and the kitchen, and you're not happy about it!"
"I don't want to. I don't feel well today and don't want to do anything. If you don't want to do it either, just leave it like this." After Zhong Lan said that, she turned around and went back to the room.
Aunt Xie was cursing in the main hall, but Zhong Lan turned a deaf ear to her.
Anyway, she won't clean it up. If anyone wants to clean it up, they can do it themselves.
She said to Yao Hong in the room, "Do you know how much your mother prepared for Yao Yi when she left?"
"How much have you prepared?" Yao Hong asked casually.
Yao Yi recounted everything Aunt Xie had prepared. After she finished, she said, "Last year when we went back to my parents' home, your mother refused to prepare anything for me and told me to bring anything back. I prepared everything myself. After I came back from my parents' home, she kept staring at my hands to see what I had brought back. This time when Yao Yi came back, she knew to prepare more things for Yao Yi and bring them back."
Zhong Lan naturally knew that a daughter-in-law was different from a biological daughter. But she was just upset and wanted to talk to someone about it.
"Mom has always loved Yiyi very much, you know that." Yao Hong didn't want to comment on this matter and only said this.
"If I give birth to a daughter, I hope your mother will love her as much as she loves Yao Yi, instead of despising her." Zhong Lan said.
Yao Hong said nothing.
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After the third and fourth days of the New Year, when the festive atmosphere gradually faded, Zhao Yuan started visiting people in the compound again.
She took her daughter Caixia to chat with Cui Li.
Caixia was only four years old, and Cui Li saw how adorable she was, so she let her play with her brother Huandi. She and Zhao Yuan sat beside them, sewing soles for shoes or mending clothes while they chatted.
"Did you go back to your parents' home on the second day of the New Year?" Zhao Yuan asked Cui Li.
"No, my belly is big and my parents' home is far away, so it's not convenient to go back." Cui Li said.
Zhao Yuan glanced at Cui Li's belly.
Cui Li was only three or four months pregnant, so her belly wasn't noticeable. Although Cui Li's parents' home was a bit far away, it wasn't inconvenient for her to go back if her belly got bigger.
Zhao Yuan guessed that either Cui Li had a bad relationship with her parents' home and Cui Li herself was unwilling to go back, or Aunt Liang didn't want Cui Li to go back, otherwise she would have to prepare things for Cui Li to go back to her parents' home.
According to Zhao Yuan's observation, Cui Li's decision not to return to her parents' home should be due to both of these factors.
Zhao Yuan's mind turned over and over, and he skipped the topic without asking any further questions.
She looked at Huan Di, who was playing so well with Cai Xia, and said with a smile, "You take really good care of Huan Di. Look at her clean clothes. She wasn't this clean even when her mother was around."
Cui Li looked at Huan Di who was having fun and smiled.
Zhao Yuan asked Cui Li: "Do you know whether you are pregnant with a boy or a girl?"
"I don't know." Cui Li shook her head.
"It would be great if you were pregnant with a boy." Zhao Yuan sighed.
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