"What's that smell? What are you busy in the kitchen in the middle of the night?" Ning Jia was curious and leaned over to take a look.
Old Mrs. Xu was startled and almost jumped up.
Turning her head, she saw Ning Jia had already stepped into the kitchen. She hurriedly slammed the lid on the iron pot with a bang: "What are you doing here? You have nothing to do here, get out of here!"
She didn't dare let Ning Jia see what she was doing. Who knew what kind of deadly words would come out of her mouth?
Ning Jia saw how flustered Old Lady Xu was and knew that she must be up to no good: "I want to see what you're cooking in the pot?"
Old Mrs. Xu frowned: "You can watch if you want to? Do you want to go and watch the national leaders' meeting? See if they let you watch or not?"
"Oh, you are really good at flattering yourself! How dare you compare yourself with the leaders?" Ning Jia sneered and mocked her.
Seeing that his own mother and his wife were about to fight again, Li Yao frowned and pulled Ning Jia's arm to pull her out: "Stop, go back to sleep, it's getting late."
"That's right, why aren't you asleep yet? You are a night owl. You don't sleep at night and you don't get up during the day! Now it's winter and there's nothing to do. If spring comes and you don't go out to play and only rely on your man, you will tire him to death!" Old Mrs. Xu never missed any opportunity to educate Ning Jia.
Although he favors his younger son, if she compares her son with his wife, she naturally still feels sorry for her son.
Look at what this old man has done to his wife. I can't bear to say a bad word.
If it were someone else, this kind of daughter-in-law would have been beaten eight times a day and gone hungry three times.
"Hmph!" Ning Jia snorted coldly, turned around and followed Li Yao back to the house.
She saw bursts of black smoke coming out of the big iron pot and the air was filled with a burnt, fishy smell that was indescribably unpleasant.
"Burn! Your pot is burnt!"
Old Mrs. Xu also smelled the burnt smell and no longer cared about arguing with Ning Jia. She hurriedly opened the lid of the pot, looked at the black mass at the bottom of the pot, and quickly used a spatula to turn it over.
"What a sin! What a sin!"
It’s all Ning Jia’s fault. Is he the reincarnation of a jinx?
Nothing good will happen if you meet her!
Li Yao couldn't see clearly what his mother was frying in the pot, but he still reminded her: "Mom, don't eat it if it's burnt, don't eat it and get hurt!"
Old Mrs. Xu couldn't bear to listen any longer, so she freed one hand and waved at Li Yao, signaling them to leave quickly.
When walking towards the backyard, Ning Jia tilted her head and asked Li Yao: "Why did you pull me just now?"
"It's so late, aren't you sleepy? And you still have the energy to stand there and argue with an old lady."
"Really?" Ning Jia stopped and walked around to him. "Why do I feel that you don't mean that? Are you unhappy because your mother and I are angry?"
"No." Li Yao denied.
"I don't believe it. I just wanted to see what the old lady was cooking in the big iron pot, and you heard her scold me."
In the past, no matter how much she and Old Lady Xu quarreled or made a scene, Li Yao usually did not interfere, and in a few cases he stood on her side.
But tonight, he actually pulled her out.
She couldn't help but think about it.
"Jia Jia, she has a wound on her face..."
Before Li Yao could finish his words, Ning Jia interrupted him: "You are not going to tell me that your mother has a hard time, are you? The scar on her face is purely her own fault."
If he said that, then she had something to say.
Li Yao saw Ning Jia subconsciously rolling up her sleeves, and he knew that his wife was about to switch to "combat" mode.
"No, that's not what I meant. She's old, so it's inevitable that she'll do some stupid things. She's lived like this all her life, how do you expect her to change? It's so late, and you're tired, I hope you can go to bed early. I did this just now because I didn't want you to fight at night. This is an attitude of keeping things quiet." Li Yao explained patiently.
It was the first time that Ning Jia heard him say so many words in one breath.
“It seems to make some sense.”
"So, you're not angry, right?" Li Yao guessed what she was thinking.
Ning Jia smiled and said, "I'm not angry."
"That's good. Let's go back to the house and rest!"
"I'm not angry, but I don't want to leave anymore! What do you think I should do?" Ning Jia looked up at him, but it was pitch dark and she couldn't see his eyes.
Li Yao didn't finish his words, he just bent down and picked her up.
Ning Jia hooked his arms around her neck, and finally a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
It was already late at night when she finished washing up and lay down on the bed. The kang was warm, and she lay down with her eyes closed, drifting off to sleep.
Li Yao hugged her from behind, and his big hands began to dishonestly grope her slender waist, his intention of seeking sex was obvious.
"Don't move." Ning Jia slapped him away, "What time is it? I need to rest!"
"Jia Jia, it's been several days." He placed a burning kiss on the sensitive area behind her ear, trying to arouse her passion.
Ning Jia shrank her neck and simply rolled the quilt over herself, completely exposing Li Yao outside the quilt: "Did I let you eat too much these days? You have no place to release your energy?"
Li Yao smiled helplessly. Every time he was intimate with her, she would always refuse. He didn't understand why: "When you are well fed and warm, you will think about sex. Isn't this normal?"
Ning Jia snorted: "I'm tired after a day of work and need to rest early."
After saying this, she deliberately added: "You are the one who said this. I will listen to you and go to bed early. Please don't do anything that will slap me in the face."
It turned out that she was waiting for him here!
Li Yao sat up and shook his head with laughter: "Can you bear to see me suffer?"
Ning Jia threw a sentence at him: "Have the heart? If you really feel uncomfortable, you can trouble your right-hand brother, or you can go take a cold shower."
Isn’t this what all male protagonists in novels do?
Li Yao was stunned: "Jia Jia, you are so cruel!"
After saying that, he sat quietly for a while, then lay down again. He pulled a corner of the quilt and fell asleep with Ning Jia back to back.
Xuejiao stayed in the hospital for five days before she was discharged. Old Mrs. Xu sent the third son, Li Yuan, to pick up the fourth son and Xuejiao to go home together, but unexpectedly, she had already gone to her parents' home.
The fight in the hospital completely damaged the relationship between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
Xuejiao's attitude towards the fourth brother Li Heng also became cold. If Li Heng had not followed her insistently and run around to show off in front of his wife, he would have been kicked back to Laohuaishu Village long ago.
Li Yuan came back and told Old Lady Xu about the situation. Old Lady Xu didn't seem to care at all. She just snorted and said, "Let her do whatever she wants. She will have to come back to this family sooner or later anyway, and the child will have to take the surname Li."
Li Yuan choked: "Mom, you are so cruel, it's just because the fourth child gave birth to a daughter. I know you are anxious, but you don't have to be so obvious, right?"
"Bah! What bullshit! I gave birth to seven of you brothers in one go, which brought honor to your old Li family! Now you seven brothers can't even give birth to a son. Isn't this cutting off the incense of the old Li family? If you have the ability, give me a grandson! ”
Li Yuan sighed. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to have a baby, it was just that he wanted to but didn’t have the strength.
He had prepared the recipe for giving birth to a boy and had been trying it for a month, but there was no movement in Lanlan's stomach.
He was so tired that his blood was dripping from his face, and he had no choice but to take a break for the past few days.
Seeing that he didn't look very good, Old Lady Xu guessed something: "Just take a break for a while. Are you in such a hurry? The land is not good. Even if you work yourself to death, there is nothing you can do."
The people in the house were muttering when Li Chuan came out.
He stood beside Old Mrs. Xu shyly, and opened his mouth several times, but was too embarrassed to say anything.
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