Chapter 88
Cui Yongfang and Aunt Liang started complaining about Yao Yi and the Yao family. With a common topic of gossip, Cui Yongfang felt that washing clothes in the cold weather was not so cold for her hands.
Ye Fuyue didn't care about the gossip in the compound. She had been concentrating on drawing the furniture designs for the dressing table and wardrobe that Director Li had requested, and she was doing the same today.
Tonight, Shen Yao was on duty and would not be home for dinner. Ye Fuyue was drawing furniture designs while making soup, planning to bring food to Shen Yao when Chen Guifeng got home from work.
While Ye Fuyue was busy on both sides, there was a knock on the gate.
She ran over and opened the door. Standing outside the courtyard were two women, one large and one small. The older woman was about the same age as Chen Guifeng, while the younger woman was about the same age as Ye Fuyue.
But these two women looked so unfamiliar that Ye Fuyue had no impression of them at all.
"Who are you?" Ye Fuyue asked.
The middle-aged aunt smiled brightly at Ye Fuyue and said, "You are Shen Yao's daughter-in-law Fuyue, right? I saw you when you and Shen Yao got married. But there were too many people that day, so you may not have noticed Huiling and me."
Ye Fuyue looked at the two people with a little confusion. She really couldn't remember whether these two people were there on the day she and Shen Yao got married.
Seeing that Ye Fuyue hadn't thought about them at all, the middle-aged aunt didn't get angry. Instead, she peered over Ye Fuyue's shoulder into the yard and said with a smile, "Are you the only one at home? Where are your mother-in-law and Shen Yao?"
“They’re all at work.”
"You are so lucky that you don't even have to go out to work." The middle-aged aunt sighed.
Ye Fuyue felt puzzled.
Putting aside the fact that she has a job, even if she really doesn't have a job, there are many unemployed married women these days, but not every unemployed married woman is willing to be a full-time housewife at home. There are simply not that many jobs out there.
"Since your mother-in-law and Shen Yao haven't come back yet, let's go inside and wait for them." The middle-aged aunt said as she was about to squeeze into the yard.
Ye Fuyue blocked the gate of the courtyard tightly, like a wall, and didn't allow the middle-aged aunt to squeeze in successfully.
"Who are you?" Ye Fuyue asked with a frown.
"I am Shen Yao's aunt, and also your aunt. This is my daughter Huiling." Shen Yuhong said.
Sister-in-law?
Ye Fuyue had only heard Shen Yao mention his aunt, Yu Tong's mother. She had never heard Shen Yao mention that he had a younger aunt.
Chen Guifeng and Yu Tong's family were quite close, but Ye Fuyue had never heard Chen Guifeng mention this aunt.
Just when Ye Fuyue was distracted, Shen Yuhong pulled Du Huiling into the courtyard.
As soon as she entered the yard, Du Huiling sniffed hard and said, "Mom, it smells so good! They're making pork rib soup!"
In fact, Shen Yuhong had smelled it when she was at the gate of the yard. Now, after entering the yard, she felt that the fragrance was even more tempting, which aroused the gluttony in her stomach and made her swallow her saliva continuously.
Du Huiling was not much better than her. If they hadn't tried so hard to hold it back, they would have drooled.
It’s not their fault, since their family hasn’t seen any meat for several months.
Shen Yuhong swallowed her saliva and said to Ye Fuyue meaningfully, "This pork rib soup smells so good! It must be delicious. Huiling and I walked all the way here, and the wind made our faces red. It would be so comfortable if we could have a bowl of hot pork rib soup!"
Du Huiling also looked at Ye Fuyue eagerly, full of anticipation.
Ye Fuyue didn't know what the relationship between these two people and the Shen family was. But since Shen Yuhong said she was Shen Yao's aunt, then it must be true. Shen Yuhong couldn't lie about such a thing because it would be too easy to be exposed.
Since she is a relative of the Shen family, Ye Fuyue should not be too drastic in order to avoid a bad ending if Chen Guifeng comes back.
So, Ye Fuyue smiled and said, "Yes, the pork rib soup is not ready yet, so you can't drink it now."
"When it's ready, you have to let Huiling and I have a taste! We've been walking all the way here and are freezing. We just want to drink something hot." Shen Yuhong said hurriedly.
Ye Fuyue really disliked this kind of person with no sense of boundaries, but she maintained a friendly expression and said, "I'll pour you two bowls of hot water."
After saying that, she was about to go into the kitchen.
Shen Yuhong then said, "Pour us some brown sugar water. You should have brown sugar at home."
A hint of displeasure quickly flashed across Ye Fuyue's face.
This tone, why is it so annoying?
Fortunately, there was no brown sugar at home. Because she didn't like to drink it, she wouldn't actively buy it if it was out of the house.
"What a coincidence, we don't have any brown sugar at home." Ye Fuyue smiled politely.
"You can even afford to eat spare ribs, how is it possible that you don't have brown sugar!" Du Huiling didn't believe Ye Fuyue's words at all.
Ever since Ye Fuyue didn't directly mention that they would have pork rib soup later, she had grown increasingly dissatisfied with her cousin's wife. She and Shen Yuhong had heard about Ye Fuyue's family situation from others on the day she and Shen Yao got married. If Ye Fuyue hadn't been so beautiful and lucky to have found such a good partner like her cousin, her life wouldn't have been so good even if she hadn't gone to the countryside.
She felt that Ye Fuyue looked down on her and her mother because she had a good life, which was why she refused to give them pork rib soup or brown sugar water.
"We're really out of brown sugar." Ye Fuyue stared at Du Huiling and asked in a resolute voice, "Do you want some more hot water?"
If they didn't want it, she wouldn't even bother to pour them hot water.
"Okay, just hot water." Shen Yuhong looked very reluctant.
Ye Fuyue went to the kitchen to pour hot water for the two of them. As soon as she came out with two bowls of hot water, she saw Shen Yuhong and Du Huiling had entered her and Shen Yao's room at some point and were looking at the half-finished furniture sketch she had placed on the table.
Ye Fuyue was really unhappy now.
She put down two bowls of hot water, went into the house and pushed Shen Yuhong and Du Huiling out.
"Fu Yue, are you painting furniture? It's quite beautiful." Shen Yuhong said as she was pushed out by Ye Fu Yue.
"Cousin, why are you drawing this? The furniture you drew is different from any I've ever seen." Du Huiling said.
Ye Fuyue pushed them both out of the house and closed the door.
"I don't like people entering my house without my permission. Don't do that next time."
Only then did Shen Yuhong and Du Huiling notice that Ye Fuyue's face looked unhappy, and they both rolled their eyes secretly.
"We didn't go into your room to do anything, why are you looking at us like that?" Shen Yuhong said dissatisfiedly.
"That's right!" Du Huiling also said, "Your room is also my cousin's room. What's wrong with me entering my cousin's room?"
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