While the children were washing their hands, Ye Lin carried a basket and delivered the food to Ye Jun.
However, just as everyone sat down, the courtyard gate was pushed open.
Fu Wan turned her head and thought it was Ye Lin who had returned from delivering vegetables, but she didn't expect it to be Liang Cuifen, whom she hadn't seen for a long time.
"Hey, I'm in luck, I just made it in time for lunch!"
After saying that, she went into the main house by herself and plopped down on a bench.
Upon seeing this, Li Chunhua's face immediately darkened. "Cuifen, didn't you deliver wild boar meat to your mother's house? What, they didn't invite you to lunch there?"
"Oh, Mother, the wild boar meat can be delivered anytime. You can have Ye Jun make the trip later."
After saying that, she couldn't wait to pick up a piece of wild boar meat with her chopsticks and stuff it into her mouth. "Hey, there's also chicken soup. I'm still breastfeeding. Xiao Feng, get me some soup!"
Upon hearing this, Ye Xiaofeng instinctively wanted to do as she was told.
Li Chunhua handed the empty bowl to Ye Xiaofeng and said to her gently, "Go fill your bowl with rice and vegetables and eat by yourself. I'll take care of your mother here!"
The last few words were practically spat out through gritted teeth.
"Ah Wan, Ah Ming, An Ning, come, come, sit down and eat!"
Just then, Ye Lin returned. Ye Jianguo acted as if he hadn't seen Liang Cuifen and invited Fu Wan and the others to sit down.
Fu Wan didn't care. If Liang Cuifen were normal, she wouldn't be Liang Cuifen. Li Chunhua had originally planned to get Liang Cuifen away today, but unexpectedly, she ended up having lunch at home.
After greeting Fu Wan and the others, Li Chunhua couldn't help but glare at Liang Cuifen.
Where is your daughter?
"Isn't this it?"
Liang Cuifen took a bite of the chicken in her mouth and pointed at Ye Xiaofeng indistinctly.
"Where's Xiaoli?!"
Li Chunhua snatched the bowl from her and pulled her to the door.
Liang Cuifen said nonchalantly, "At home, how could I possibly lose her?"
She spoke so casually, as if she were talking about wildflowers and weeds by the roadside, not her youngest daughter.
Upon hearing this, Li Chunhua became furious and immediately tried to find the broom next to her.
If it weren't for the fact that Liang Cuifen had just finished her postpartum confinement, she would have really wanted to beat her up.
“That’s your daughter, your own daughter. If you’re not willing to raise her, then give her to me!”
"Mom, to be honest, if you're willing to raise it, then go ahead and take it..."
"I'll raise him, but you have to divorce your second son! Look at yourself, is this how a mother should act!"
The noise from the doorway drifted into the main house. Fu Wan, Fu Ming, and Qin Anning looked at each other in bewilderment. Fu Wan, being the bolder one, tentatively asked her question.
"Uncle, Brother Lin, what's going on with Second Cousin-in-law?"
Ye Jianguo sighed. He was originally overjoyed that his nieces had come over today, but his second daughter-in-law had ruined his mood.
Ye Lin put down the bowl and sighed.
This greatly worried the Fu family members. Fu Ming simply called out, "Hey, stop sighing, what's wrong?"
"You know that my sister-in-law gave birth to a daughter last month?"
"Yes, I know. When I called, you all said you were quite happy, right?"
"Oh, we are all very happy. We don't have many daughters in the family, and she is very considerate. My mother has always dreamed of having a daughter."
The second son was also very happy. When Xiaofeng was born, he didn't understand much. Now that he's matured and has a little daughter, he's truly happy.
However, Liang Cuifen didn't want the child and even said she would sell Xiaoli.
She's obsessed with having a son; she's gone completely mad.
Ye Lin sighed again as he spoke. Damn it, if it weren't for the trouble that would follow, he and his wife would have wanted to take Xiao Li in and raise her.
Because she thought it was a boy, Liang Cuifen didn't neglect herself during her pregnancy, and she ate most of the eggs in the house.
In addition, Liang Cuifen and Ye Jun themselves were not bad-looking. When Xiao Li was born, she was fair-skinned and chubby, just like a doll in a New Year's painting.
This made Li Chunhua extremely happy. It was only because she was busy killing wild boars today that she usually held it in her arms.
After she finished speaking, the noise at the door stopped. About five or six minutes later, Li Chunhua came over carrying a small child.
They were all family, and as soon as they entered, Li Chunhua began cursing through gritted teeth.
"That damned Liang Cuifen, she's a beast."
Xiaoli had been holding her for several hours, and she told me she had fed Xiaoli. When I went over, Xiaoli was crying so hard she was starving that her voice was hoarse!
"Honey, you hold the baby for a while. There's rice porridge in the kitchen; I'll go get some."
Fortunately, she had been careful and had saved some rice water when she steamed the rice, intending to feed it to the child in the afternoon.
I thought Ye Jianguo, a grown man, wouldn't know how to hold a child, but to my surprise, he skillfully played with the baby after taking him in.
"Oh dear, our little Li is crying! Come, come, look at your aunt and uncle here, this is your cousin, and your older brother and sister too~"
The fifty-year-old man had his own way of coaxing the child. As soon as he finished speaking, Xiaoli started babbling.
Fu Wan leaned over to look at Ye Xiaoli, who was being held by Ye Jianguo. To be honest, the child was really beautiful.
With her chubby cheeks and big, bright black eyes, she looks at you as if she can talk, making you want to tease her a bit.
How could Liang Cuifen bear to let such a lovely child go hungry?
Li Chunhua acted quickly. The rice water shouldn't be too hot or too cold; she knew that children's stomachs were fragile.
Ye Xiaofeng and Ye Zhenxing were both raised by her using rice water and rice porridge.
There was no other way. The family was poor before, and their mother didn't have much milk after giving birth. However, Ye Xiaofeng and Ye Zhenxing were breastfed until they were almost half a year old. But Xiaoli was only a month old, and Liang Cuifen refused to give her milk.
The little guy was clearly starving; before Li Chunhua could even bring the spoon back, the child had already opened his mouth impatiently.
After finishing the rice porridge in just a few minutes, Li Chunhua skillfully picked her up and rocked her a couple of times, and the child immediately fell asleep.
Li Chunhua carried her into the room and covered her with a blanket before coming out to eat and complain at the same time.
"Oh dear, you wouldn't believe it, I just went to my second son's house, and the neighbor's wife was just going in with her child."
The tiles were specially collected by Qingshan Village to repair the roofs. Fu Wan vaguely remembered what the uncle looked like; he was about the same age as Ye Jianguo.
"What was Tile's wife doing at the second son's house?"
Ye Jianguo stuffed a piece of rabbit meat into his mouth and then took a sip of wine.
Li Chunhua knows how to distill liquor; drinking some in winter keeps you warm.
Speaking of this, Li Chunhua became even angrier, but she was afraid that her voice would be too loud and wake the child, so she could only suppress her anger and vent her frustration.
"That slut Liang Cuifen sold Xiaoli's food rations and is using the money to breastfeed Wa Pian'er's grandson for two cents a day!"
"What?! Damn it, has the second son's wife lost her mind?"
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