Chapter 99 Confinement Meals
It was just right for Huo Xinran to move in.
"Alright then, take me there and have a look," Huo Xinran said.
Huo Chunyan then led Huo Xinran away.
Mrs. Huo put the child down and looked at them with some concern, but in the end she did not follow them. Instead, she went to the kitchen to cook.
Shen Zhixia was thinking about Huo Xinran.
When she transmigrated into the book, she had read it almost to the end. Even if there were some details in it, she could recall them. However, she had no impression of Huo Xinran.
Has she appeared in the book?
She is Huo Chenzhou's sister, perhaps just an insignificant character who never even appeared.
Huo Chenzhou glanced at Shen Zhixia and said, "This is my mother's adopted daughter."
Shen Zhixia asked in surprise, "An adopted daughter?"
Did she think they didn't look very affectionate?
She remembered that the Huo family was quite poor. They lived in the countryside and were ordinary farmers. The grain they grew was just enough for the family to make a living. She never expected that Huo's mother would adopt other people.
Huo Chenzhou nodded: "She was born in the next village. That family favored boys over girls. When they saw that she was a girl, they abandoned her. Then the two of them took their son to the county town to find work and never came back. My mother found her by the river. She felt sorry for the child and raised her. She has always treated her like her own daughter."
"Oh, I see. I didn't think you two had a very good relationship," Shen Zhixia said.
Huo Chenzhou said, "She often bullied Chunyan when she was a child, but she would pretend to be innocent in front of my mother, which made Chunyan get scolded a lot. In addition, she also had the habit of stealing and lying. Our relationship was not good when we were young. After I joined the army, I didn't know about her upbringing."
He paused and said, "It's not because she's an adopted daughter that I'm not close to her. It's just that Chunyan spent more time with me at the clinic later on."
There are always degrees of closeness or distance in relationships between people. Let alone an adopted sister, even if it were a biological sister, it would be perfectly normal for Huo Chenzhou to have a sister he prefers.
Shen Zhixia nodded: "I understand. It's just that other people's children probably carry other people's bad genes. Even if you treat her well, she will still have some bad habits."
So, when it comes to children, it really is something you can only have yourself. If you just randomly pick up a child and end up with someone else's child with bad genes, that's not good. After all, many personality traits are innate, and even with education, they may not be able to be changed.
Besides, Shen Zhixia didn't think Huo Xinran had changed later. Perhaps it was a woman's intuition, but when she met Huo Xinran, she felt that her eyes were full of calculation, which made her unpleasant.
Huo Xinran and Huo Chunyan arrived at the dormitory entrance. She was initially somewhat reluctant, but her eyes lit up when she saw Huo Chunyan's dormitory.
Huo Chunyan's dormitory is very beautiful. It is clean and tidy everywhere, and there are several certificates of excellence for the dormitory on the wall.
The dormitory room had all kinds of furniture, including a television.
That's wonderful.
She really made the right choice coming here.
If she had known Huo Chunyan was doing so well, she should have come sooner.
It's infuriating that these people are enjoying their wealth behind her back.
She's also a member of the Huo family. Even if she's not their biological daughter, they can't show favoritism.
She had always lived in the village. Although Huo Chenzhou would send money back, he was married after all, so the amount he sent back wasn't much. Huo's mother was a very frugal person and basically saved all the money, not spending it on her. So she had always lived a very hard life.
But Huo Chunyan is doing so well here.
It really made her jealous.
She is also a member of the Huo family, and she should have a share of all the Huo family's wealth.
Seeing that she was in a daze, Huo Chunyan said, "Xinran, why don't you stay here for now?"
Huo Xinran then left her bag in the room. Although she was quite satisfied with the place, she still said, "I feel quite lonely living here alone, and it's not convenient to cook here. I'd rather stay with you guys most of the time."
She was unfamiliar with the place and didn't know anyone, so she needed to stay with the Huo family.
Huo Xinran had many thoughts of her own. In fact, she didn't know at first that she wasn't her biological daughter, since her mother treated her very well. However, she couldn't resist the various rumors. After learning from other people in the village that she was an adopted daughter, she went to Huo's mother to confirm the fact.
From that moment on, Huo Xinran stopped seeing herself as a member of the Huo family, and she gradually began to feel that the Huo family wasn't treating her as well as they thought.
She had actually considered going to find her parents, but when she learned that her father was a good-for-nothing and her mother was unemployed, she gave up.
At least the Huo family can support her, which is much better.
This time, after learning that Huo's mother was coming to the army, she kept pestering Huo's mother to bring her along, but Huo's mother refused. So she waited until Huo's mother left before coming over in person.
Since she's already here, even if you try to get rid of her, she won't leave.
She will never leave again this time.
She wants to find someone here to get married and live a good life.
Huo Chunyan said, "Okay, you won't be staying for long anyway. After a while, once your sister-in-law finishes her postpartum confinement, Mom will go back, and you can go back with her then."
Huo Xinran shook her head: "No, I want to play a little longer, I can't go back so early."
"Is it still early?" Huo Chunyan couldn't understand: "I don't know what you're doing here. You don't have a job here, and it's inconvenient for you to stay here for too long."
As soon as she arrived, Huo Chunyan wanted to get rid of her.
Huo Xinran rolled her eyes, somewhat unhappy, but she and Huo Chunyan had never had a good relationship since childhood. After Huo Chunyan came to work as a nurse at the clinic, they basically never saw each other again.
She was too lazy to argue with Huo Chunyan, so she vaguely said, "Let's talk about this later."
"You..." Huo Chunyan was about to say something, but Huo Xinran had already opened the door and walked out.
She frowned slightly, but still followed.
Mrs. Huo is cooking.
She steamed a chicken this time. The chicken wasn't very big; this kind of chicken is the most tender when steamed.
Huo Xinran's eyes lit up immediately: "Mom, there's poached chicken! I haven't had it in ages."
Sure enough, she should have come sooner.
When she lived in the countryside, Huo's mother was reluctant to cook chickens for her. Although they raised a lot of chickens, they were all for laying eggs and couldn't be killed casually.
It's still better here.
As Huo Xinran spoke, she stepped forward to tear the chicken apart: "Mom, let me help you. Poached chicken tastes better when it's torn into pieces."
Mother Huo said, "No, this is your sister-in-law's postpartum meal."
Huo Xinran's face immediately froze.
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