Chapter 247
He tried the other two dishes, but they were too salty to swallow, so he spat them all out.
"Grandma, these dishes are so salty, none of them are edible!" Liang Tianxiong complained to Aunt Liang.
Aunt Liang picked up her chopsticks and tried each dish. They were all too salty and she couldn't eat them.
Aunt Liang was furious. She put down her chopsticks with a bang and shouted into the room, "Cui Li, come out! Try the dishes you made today. They're all too salty. Not a single one of them is edible. Isn't it free to put so much salt in them?"
Cui Li came out sadly, holding Laibao, who had just finished his meal and was dozing off.
She timidly glanced at Liang's father and Liang Nan, then at Aunt Liang, before asking with a confused look on her face, "Is it very salty? I didn't put much salt in it."
"It's so salty! I can't eat it at all!" Liang Tianxiong yelled.
Cui Li picked up a piece of cucumber and put it in her mouth in disbelief. It was so salty that she frowned and swallowed the cucumber with great difficulty.
"I must have heard Laibao crying because he was hungry. He cried for more than 20 minutes and his voice became hoarse. I was too anxious and accidentally put too much salt." Cui Li said guiltily.
"Why did Laibao cry for so long?" Liang's father frowned and said, "You can feed Laibao first before cooking."
Cui Li glanced at Aunt Liang timidly and said to Liang's father, "I also want to feed Laibao first, but Mom disagrees. She said Tianxiong is hungry and asked me to cook for Tianxiong first."
When Aunt Liang heard this, she raised her neck and scolded Cui Li, "It's because you wandered around outside until very late. Tianxiong is already hungry and can't find you anywhere! I asked you to cook for Tianxiong, but Laibao is crying from hunger again. As a mother, you can't even take care of two children, and you ruined the whole table!"
"It's all my fault." Cui Li first admitted her mistake in a very good manner, and then said: "I just heard Laibao crying all the time. No matter how much I tried to comfort him, he kept crying. It made my heart ache so much that I got anxious and put too much salt."
Aunt Liang was about to scold Cui Li a few more times when Liang's father spoke up.
"Tianxiong is hungry. You can cook for Tianxiong first and let Cui Li feed Laibao first. Then let Cui Li cook for Tianxiong. You let Laibao cry for so long and didn't let his mother give him food?"
Aunt Liang didn't expect that Liang's father would blame her first. She grumbled dissatisfiedly: "I'm just worried that Tianxiong will starve, so..."
"Tianxiong is your grandson, but Laibao is not your grandson? Can you just watch Laibao cry?" Liang's father interrupted her with a gloomy face.
"Grandpa, don't talk about milk anymore. It's all my stepmother's fault. I'm almost starving to death because she hasn't come back!" Liang Tianxiong said, protecting Aunt Liang.
Father Liang glared at Aunt Liang and said to Cui Li, "You too, why are you hanging around outside instead of staying home? The child is going to starve."
Cui Li lowered her head, looking as if she was listening attentively to instructions.
Father Liang glanced at Laibao, whose face was still covered with tears, in Cui Li's arms, and said with some heartache, "Give me the child. Go and cook the vegetables again and make them less salty."
Cui Li gave Laibao to Liang's father and took all the dishes on the table into the kitchen.
Father Liang said to Aunt Liang again: "Look at the child's face, he's crying so hard. How cruel of you to be so? If you want to order your daughter-in-law around, you can't neglect your own grandson!"
Although Aunt Liang was dissatisfied in her heart, she did not dare to show it and could only silently let Liang's father scold her.
Aunt Liang thought: Liang Tianxiong still cares about her and always stands on her side. Cui Li is a scheming person, and she finds all kinds of ways to complain to Liang's father!
Cui Li in the kitchen was cooking with an expressionless face and a cold look in her eyes.
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night.
Ye Fuyue asked Chen Yao to go out and buy popsicles, while she, Chen Guifeng and Chen Shun sat in the yard to enjoy the cool air and appreciate the moonlight.
Shen Yao bought five popsicles and Shen Shun jumped up happily and ran over to pick the first one.
The popsicles that Shen Yao bought included cream, red bean, and mung bean ones.
"I want a cream popsicle!" Shen Shun happily took a cream popsicle.
Shen Yao bought three cream popsicles in total. He gave the remaining two cream popsicles to Ye Fuyue and Chen Guifeng respectively.
Ye Fuyue shook her head: "Give me the mung bean one."
She had been eating popsicles almost every day these days, mostly the most expensive cream popsicles. Since she had money in her pocket now, she wouldn't treat herself badly when it came to food.
Now she doesn't want to eat cream popsicles at all, she just wants something refreshing.
Every time she went out to buy popsicles, she would bring some for Chen Guifeng. But Chen Guifeng had bad teeth and thought the popsicles were too cold, so she didn't always order them.
Hearing Ye Fuyue say that she wanted the mung bean one, Shen Yao changed it for her.
"Where is my eldest brother?" Shen Yao asked.
"In his own room." Chen Guifeng said, taking a bite of the popsicle.
"Aren't you going out to enjoy the cool air?" Shen Yao asked.
"He said he didn't want to enjoy the cool air, he just wanted to read a book in the house. You don't have to worry about him, he can do whatever he wants." Chen Guifeng said.
"I'll go give the popsicle to big brother." Shen Yao said.
Shen Yao gave the remaining cream popsicle to Shen Kang, and sat next to Ye Fuyue to eat the red bean popsicle.
On a hot summer night, it is so pleasant to sit under the starry sky, eating popsicles and enjoying the cool breeze.
However, the comfort didn’t last long, as Ye Fuyue and Chen Guifeng’s ears moved.
"Is there a quarrel in someone's family? I think I heard some noise." Ye Fuyue said.
Chen Guifeng nodded in agreement: "I heard that too."
"It should be the Yao family." Shen Yao said disapprovingly while eating a popsicle: "When I came back, I heard his family quarreling."
"What's the Yao family arguing about?" Ye Fuyue asked. "I feel like ever since Yao Yi divorced and moved back to her parents' home, the Yao family has been arguing every once in a while."
Chen Guifeng immediately understood and said, "They must be arguing about Yao Yi going to the countryside again."
"Yes, that's what they're arguing about." Shen Yao nodded.
At this time, many households in the compound heard the quarrel from the Yao family.
Yao family.
Yao's father was furious and said to Yao Yi, "Yao Yi, do you really understand the situation you're in now? You know how many times the neighborhood office has come to urge you to get married. You don't have a job and don't want to get married, so you can only go to the countryside! Xiao Zhao, who went on a blind date with you a few days ago, is very satisfied with you and is willing to go out with you and get married soon. What are you dissatisfied with him for?!"
"Xiao Zhao," Yao Yi sneered, "He's divorced, dark-skinned, and looks old. Old Zhao is more like him! How could you introduce someone like that to me? In your eyes, am I only worthy of someone like that?!"
"Then what kind of person do you think is worthy of you? Do you think Lei Xiao is worthy of you? Would Lei Xiao want you?" Yao's father roared, "How many blind dates has your mother arranged for you? If not twenty, at least a dozen! Which one do you like? You dislike Xiao Zhao because he's divorced, but you're divorced too, so why should you dislike him? You dislike him because he's dark and old, but do those young and handsome guys like you, a married man?"
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