Breakfast was ready and the yard became lively.
Because the third and fourth sons' families had returned, one table could not accommodate so many people, so they placed two small round tables in the yard for dining.
The whole family was sitting at the table preparing to eat, and Li Yao just came out of the house.
He was "tortured" last night and fell asleep very late, so he got up late today.
"Did grandpa sleep at my house last night?" Li Xu was a little surprised, "You...you don't want to go to the fish pond?"
"I'm not going." Li Yao reached out and took a pancake, "I'm not going home these days."
Li Xu glanced at Ning Jia again, and seeing that her face looked normal, he felt a little confused.
Did this old man eat it? Still didn’t get to eat it?
An Ye touched his arm and said, "Eat quickly and stop asking about other people's business."
"I'll listen to my wife." Li Xu agreed with a grin.
Old Mrs. Xu couldn't bear to see her son's useless behavior, but she couldn't just ignore it.
She put down her chopsticks, stood up, brought out a basket from her room and put it on the table.
"Grandma, what is this?" As soon as Zhaodi saw the basket, he knew that the old lady had another delicious meal.
"White flour steamed buns." Old Mrs. Xu said with a stern face, and started to make arrangements again. "Oldest, fifth, youngest, and seventh have worked hard in the past few days, so each of you will get a steamed bun. Third and fourth, you haven't been working in the fields these two days, so there will be no bread for you. You can just eat cornmeal and vegetable dumplings."
The third and fourth children had no objections and readily agreed: "We'll listen to you, Mom."
They have been eating pretty well at my father-in-law's house these past two days, so it doesn't matter if they don't have steamed buns for one meal.
"Yes." Mrs. Xu was satisfied with her son's attitude, "Others can take it."
Li Gang got the steamed buns and Zhaodi looked at them eagerly.
"Dad, I want to eat white flour buns, too."
Li Gang glanced at the old lady, then at his wife's expression, and grabbed a piece of cake and stuffed it into his daughter's mouth: "Eat it."
Li Xu got the steamed bun and quickly handed it to An Ye as if to show his goodwill: "Wife, you eat it."
An Ye took the steamed bun and raised two fingers towards Li Xu.
Li Xu knew that his wife reminded him about the egg incident, so he gritted his teeth and nodded repeatedly: "I know, I know."
Ning Jia saw An Ye eating the steamed bun and turned to look at Li Yao.
Li Yao stuffed the bun directly into her hand: "Eat it."
Ning Jia was very happy.
When Old Mrs. Xu saw that the steamed buns she gave to her son were eaten by her daughter-in-law, she immediately became unhappy.
She tried to grab the steamed bun.
Can I let you snatch it away?
Ning Jia opened his mouth wide, bit off half of it in one gulp, and pushed the rest directly into his rice soup, turning it into a steamed bun soaked in soup.
Seeing this, An Ye followed suit.
Old Mrs. Xu's attack was in vain, and she couldn't help cursing: "You two selfish ghosts, you don't care about your men at all! If there's something delicious, hurry up and put it in your mouth!"
An Ye frowned and asked Li Xu: "I don't feel sorry for you?"
"I feel sorry for you. My wife feels sorry for me." He didn't dare to say no. He was just getting married and was getting used to it. He couldn't stand it if his wife didn't let him touch her at night.
Ning Jia chewed the steamed bun and said slowly, "I eat steamed buns because I feel sorry for my man. Everyone in the village knows that I was abused by my mother-in-law yesterday and fainted from hunger. People think my man is useless and lets my mother-in-law manipulate her! I can't let my man lose face, I have to eat! If I eat until I'm fat, my man will be proud! If I'm strong and don't get sick, my man can focus on his job and doesn't have to worry about taking care of me! Can you say I don't love my man?"
After saying that, she turned her head and looked at Li Yao.
"Yeah." Li Yao actually responded.
Old Mrs. Xu was so angry that her nose was about to be crooked. She stroked her chest to calm herself down: "Eat, eat! Don't say anything! After the meal, go to bed!"
After dinner.
Li Xu found his way into Old Lady Xu's room and pestered her to give him some eggs: "Mom, I know you have a lot of good things locked in your cabinet! Please give me two eggs. My legs have been weak lately."
Old Mrs. Xu glared at her son and said, "You've used all that energy on your wife, haven't you?"
"Mom, am I not anxious for you to have a grandchild?"
"You're the only one who can say that." The old lady felt sorry for her son after all. She opened the cupboard and took out two raw eggs. "Cover them up, don't let anyone see them. Eat them yourself, don't give them to your wife."
"I know, Mom!"
Li Xu returned to the house and gave the egg to An Ye like a treasure: "Wife, don't let others find out."
When An Ye saw the egg, she smiled. She hugged Li Xu and gave him a kiss on the face: "Here's a reward for you."
Li Xu immediately burst into laughter.
The couple hugged each other and kissed for a while, then they heard the whistle blow from above.
"I don't want to go. I was tired last night and my waist is sore." An Ye took the opportunity to say.
"I'll ask for leave for you."
"Go ahead, go ahead."
In the house across the yard, Li Yao had packed up and was ready to go to work.
Considering that she had a fever last night and was still weak, he said to Ning Jia, "Don't go today."
Ning Jia had not planned to go in the first place and was thinking about asking for leave. Since Li Yao took the initiative to ask, she immediately agreed: "Okay, then I won't go. Husband, you still care about me!"
After that, she took a coat from a rack and put it on Li Yao: "It's getting cold, you have to keep warm. Wear one more layer so you won't get cold."
Ning Jia's action was just the right amount. She seemed to care about Li Yao, but not too intimate.
After what happened yesterday, Li Yao seemed to feel that Ning Jia was not so offensive anymore.
"I'm leaving." He said stiffly, then walked out the door.
As soon as the family left, only Old Mrs. Xu and her three granddaughters were left in the yard, doing needlework in the house.
The fourth son's wife, Wang Sujuan, is five months pregnant. It is not convenient for her to work with a big belly. Apart from basking in the sun in the yard, she goes back to lie down in the house.
Ning Jia closed the door and fiddled in the room for a long time before making a fishhook and fishing line, which he put in his pocket.
She left home on the pretext of feeling unwell and going to see a doctor.
An Ye also found an excuse to slip out, and the two of them took advantage of the time when everyone else was on the bed to sneak into the water pool deep in the north mountain.
Hard work pays off, and they really found it.
The two of them squatted beside the water bubble and observed for a long time. Sure enough, they could see fish swimming in the water.
"Hurry, try and see if you can catch it!" Ning Jia said excitedly.
The two men hung two earthworms dug out of the soil on their homemade fishing rods and threw them into the water puddle.
Soon, the rod sank, and Ning Jia raised her hand, and a lively grass carp was caught by her.
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