Liang Shengdi glanced at Chen Chunhua sideways. For a long time, she had listened to her daughter-in-law. She felt that she was decisive in her words and deeds, and she kept her word. She would do whatever she said.
But today, maybe because she was still angry or what, Liang Shengdi was unhappy with Chen Chunhua.
"What's the matter? Yulan is working for the family? Are you going to send her a chicken?" She worked so hard for several months and only then could she eat a chicken. No, she only got to share a chicken with her family.
It's true that Lin Yulan is his daughter, but she was also born by him, so why should he give her a chicken for free?
No, Liang Shengdi refused.
Chen Chunhua: ...
She was actually thinking about what Liang Shengdi had said at Lin Yulan's bedside. She thought she was embarrassed to give it to her daughter to replenish her body because she was there. So now she wanted to show that they were all family and improve the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
However, now it seems that she was foolish. Liang Shengdi would not use any backdoors just because of blood relationship.
Helping Lin Yulan to scold Ma Dexiang was because she didn't need to do anything, she just had to open her mouth according to her mood.
They said they would give Lin Yulan a fish every day because fish were free and there were plenty of them in the river. She had put in so much energy recently that she didn't care about catching one more fish.
But chicken—that was absolutely out of the question. It was family property, the kind of meat you could only eat once, after much sweat. If Lin Yulan wanted to eat it, she had to either provide the equivalent labor or pay. This was Liang Shengdi's most simplistic and crude idea.
Chen Chunhua put her heart back into her stomach and grinned, "I'll ask my brother-in-law tomorrow if he wants to buy one to stew. If he does, we'll sell it to him at the same price as the supply and marketing cooperative, but we don't need meat coupons."
Liang Shengdi nodded with satisfaction. That's exactly what happened.
Of course, if Ma Dexiang were asked to buy chickens, he really couldn't afford that much money right now.
Lin Yulan spent nearly one hundred yuan on giving birth this time, including surgery fees, hospitalization fees, nutrition fees... all of which cost money. When he paid out the money one by one, he felt his heart bleeding, and at the same time, he complained about his own mother in his heart.
If she hadn't been talking about wanting a grandson every day, this money could have been saved!
His family had less than 200 yuan in savings. Yesterday, he forced his mother to take out all the work points of Da Ni and Er Ni and return them to them. Adding the money for the hospital, more than half of it was gone. When he was paying Lin Guoqing back, he heard him ask if he wanted to buy a chicken. He was afraid of being beaten by his brother-in-law and gritted his teeth and shook his head.
"I really don't have money to buy chickens, but don't worry, I just bought two pounds of brown sugar yesterday. My chicken coop can produce four or five eggs every day. I won't sell them, I'll give them all to Yulan. And the fish soup is hers too. I guarantee it will nourish her body!"
Lin Guoqing nodded. As long as there was this guarantee, he would not mind taking his sister back. Of course, his sister probably would not be happy about it.
Lin Yulan went home on the oxcart, carrying her child. Although the doctor told her to move around more, she was in so much pain that she went straight back to bed. She had expected another scolding from her parents-in-law, but they seemed to have aged significantly in just a few days and weren't very energetic.
Seeing her come back, Ma Dexiang told them to boil eggs and make brown sugar eggs without saying a word. He also said that there was nothing to look forward to anyway, so they should just eat and drink.
Under the guidance of Shen Chunhua, Liang Shengdi has been making fish soup for two or three days. Now she has become more and more proficient in it. She brings a bowl of fish soup to her daughter before evening every day and scolds her for her stupidity. Lin Yulan was unhappy at the beginning, but now she has become numb to it.
Apart from anything else, her confinement this time was actually better than the previous eight times. Her pale and weak face started to turn a little red. She had no milk at all in the past few days, but her youngest daughter had been drinking rice soup for several days, and she started to have milk in the past two days.
Lin Yulan suddenly felt so happy, and then Liang Shengdi scolded her as an idiot.
The entertainment program for Chen Chunhua and Lin Guoqing during dinner these two days was to listen to Liang Shengdi scolding people, from Lin Yulan to Ma Dexiang, and then from Ma Dexiang to the old relatives of the Ma family, as well as their ancestors who were in trouble.
Lin Shuchao and Lin Shumei stuffed their mouths with white rice and didn't care what Liang Shengdi said at all. They just felt that grandma was very annoying recently.
Lin Shuying and Lin Shugan, on the other hand, seemed to have learned a lot.
Lin Guoqing glared at the two of them, then turned around and told his mother to hold back. "Mom, the kids are here. Don't be too harsh. They might learn from you later..."
"Just learn it now. If you don't learn it now, do you have to wait until you are sold to learn how to curse? You are so hypocritical!" She also looked at Lin Shuying.
"Danny, don't be like your aunt in the future. Just give birth to one or two children. If your in-laws keep nagging you for not giving birth to a son, give them each a slap and give your husband some medicine so that he won't have any children in the future..."
Chen Chunhua could still listen at first, but later she quickly threw down her chopsticks and covered Lin Shuying's ears, "Mom! Xiaoying is only a few years old! What's the point of talking about whether to have children or not? Don't encourage your child to do anything illegal..."
"How is that illegal? I'm not wrong! Having one less child means we can eat more meat every day! The same goes for you two. If you had had two, we would have been eating chicken a long time ago..."
Lin Shuchao was eating when he suddenly felt a chill on his back. He turned around and saw the eyes of his brother and sister. Then he thought about what his grandmother had just said. He pouted and felt like crying. Lin Guoqing quickly blocked his mouth with a braised egg.
"Eat your food! Don't listen to your grandma's nonsense!"
Lin Shuying's ears were still blocked, but every word her grandmother said could fall into her ears. She didn't know what her mother was blocking. She blinked hard, and no matter how she thought about it, she felt that what her grandmother said made sense. She turned around and looked at Lin Shugan beside her.
Lin Shugan: ...Otherwise, he should not get married in the future, right?
The atmosphere in the Ma family was not very good these past two days, until Chen Chunhua mentioned it when she brought fish soup to visit Lin Yulan on behalf of her mother-in-law.
"If it doesn't work out, the worst that can happen is that I can find a live-in son-in-law in the future!"
The two old men and women in the Ma family suddenly seemed to cheer up a little. Ma Dexiang felt that what Shen Chunhua said was right. A son-in-law is half a son, and the children born in the future will still have the surname Ma. This means that the family line will not be cut off in his hands!
"It's definitely too late for Da Ni and Er Ni. I'll work for a few more years and save some money. By the time Jiu Ni grows up, our family will definitely be well-off enough to hire a live-in son-in-law!"
Ma Dexiang and Lin Yulan were instantly filled with hope for the future.
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