An Baoling didn't like what Sun Guizhi said. She didn't know anything, but she was the first to blame others? So she said with a long face: "Don't talk nonsense. My sister-in-law just came to see how my mother was doing. Why did she make my mother angry?"

Sun Guizhi was so blocked that she could no longer say anything bad about Xia Juhua. She snorted and said, "I know that you have a good relationship with your eldest sister-in-law, but your eldest sister-in-law has already separated from her family. We are the ones who are in the same boat."

Is An Baoling afraid of her snorting? She blew out cold air from her nose: "Is the porridge scooped up with the ladle thick or thin?" After saying that, she buried her head in sweeping her yard, leaving Sun Guizhi in the middle of the yard.

Other women are naturally good at beating around the bush, but Xia Juhua doesn't have that skill. When she returned home, she ran into Sun Hongmei whispering something to Wang Caifeng. Wang Caifeng's face was getting uglier and uglier, so Xia Juhua knew she was going to start making trouble, so she didn't beat around the bush and asked directly, "Hongmei, what did you say to your sister-in-law?"

Sun Hongmei didn't expect that she had said a few words to her eldest sister-in-law while her mother-in-law was out that Xia Juhua didn't care about her grandson. That morning, Liu Baoguo kept calling grandma, drooling, but her mother-in-law drank the sugar water herself. Just as she was talking, Wang Caifeng's face changed, and her mother-in-law came back.

Not knowing whether her mother-in-law heard what she said, Sun Hongmei instinctively blurted out: "She didn't say anything."

"Oh," Xia Juhua sighed after hearing this: "I thought you two sisters-in-law had a good relationship and were happy to talk to each other in private. After all, if you two sisters-in-law have a good relationship, the relationship between them brothers will be even better. I was too greedy." After saying this, she went back to her room as if she was unsteady.

Wang Caifeng silently watched her mother-in-law enter the house, her eyes flickering. When Sun Hongmei complained about her mother-in-law just now, she felt something was wrong, until her mother-in-law said that she and Sun Hongmei had a good relationship, she finally figured out what was wrong:

When did she and Sun Hongmei become so close that they both spoke ill of their mother-in-law behind her back?

Yes, they were bad words. Sun Hongmei just said that those words from her mother-in-law would not be taken as good words by anyone else, but when it came to her son, Wang Caifeng listened to them and took them to heart.

This sister-in-law is really cunning. Wang Caifeng secretly raised her guard and smiled at Sun Hongmei who was trying to hold her hand: "I still have to wash clothes for Baoguo. I don't know when a child will get into a pit. If I don't wash it for a day, the clothes will be covered with dirt."

Sun Hongmei found that Wang Caifeng suddenly became a little distant from her, and she habitually provoked her: "Sister-in-law washes the clothes herself every day. You work in the fields to earn work points, and you are busy at home and outside. It's so hard." The mother-in-law didn't help at all?

If Sun Hongmei and Wang Caifeng were more familiar with each other, she would have asked the last sentence directly, but it was not easy to say it directly now. Even so, Wang Caifeng still looked at her, forced a smile, and turned back to the east chamber.

Sun Hongmei didn't expect that Wang Caifeng could still laugh after she said that. What a fool. No wonder her mother-in-law is still the boss after three years of marriage. But it's better this way. It's more legitimate for her to take over the house from her mother-in-law than from her eldest sister-in-law.

Thinking of this, Sun Hongmei was still quite happy in her heart, and returned to the west wing where she lived. Seeing Liu Zhishuang sitting on the kang with a frown on his face, she naturally pretended to be virtuous: "What's the matter? You are so worried just after getting married. Tell me what's wrong."

Liu Zhishuang was really worried: tomorrow was the third day of his marriage to Sun Hongmei, and according to the old etiquette, they should go back to their parents' home, but his mother hadn't told them what to bring to his father-in-law. He wanted to ask his mother, but she only ate half a bowl of rice at noon and went out again in the afternoon. When she came back, her face was not much better than in the morning, so Liu Zhishuang didn't dare to ask.

When Sun Hongmei heard this, she wanted to explode, but she held back her anger because she thought about how she was always reasonable in front of Liu Zhishuang. She forced a smile and said, "What's so difficult about this? We can just take whatever the sister-in-law took, so that the sister-in-law won't feel uncomfortable when she finds out."

Straight man Liu Zhishuang only heard that he couldn't let his sister-in-law feel that his mother was partial to one over the other, and didn't hear the meaning behind Sun Hongmei's words that he might feel uncomfortable. Looking at his wife's slightly red face, he leaned over and took her hand: "My wife is really sensible. Just do as you say, mother won't be embarrassed, and my sister-in-law will also know that you are a good sister-in-law."

Who wants to be a good sister-in-law? Sun Hongmei's heart was churning, but Liu Zhishuang's hand holding hers was warm, and she finally suppressed her churning. She asked tentatively, "What did the eldest sister-in-law hold at that time?"

"I remember there seemed to be two handfuls of noodles and twenty eggs." Liu Zhishuang thought these things were a lot. If his mother hadn't been careful in her daily life, which rural family would bring so many things to their daughter-in-law when she returned home? Five eggs would be good enough.

Sun Hongmei actually felt that there were many of these things. Her mother's home, Sunjiazhuang, was located on the mountainside, and life was much worse than Ping'anzhuang, which was located on the plain. There were six children in the Sun family. The first three sisters left home without earning work points for the family for a few years, and the two brothers were unwilling to work hard because of their parents' habit. Life in Sunjiazhuang was poor for the Sun family.

If it weren't for the betrothal gifts from her three sisters, Sun Hongmei's two brothers wouldn't even have been able to get married. Life was like this, and the Sun family didn't even have much to eat, let alone noodles and eggs. They brought back two handfuls of noodles and twenty eggs, which was much more than what the three sisters brought back when they came back.

How proud you must be to bring so many things back with you!

After being excited for a while, Sun Hongmei asked worriedly, "But mom just came back without anything in her hands." Is it too late to buy it now? Even if she wants to buy it, she can't buy it without a ticket and money, right?

Liu Zhishuang smiled: "They are in my mother's cabinet." Seeing Sun Hongmei's unconvincing look, he squeezed her hand again: "My mother is very frugal in her life and always told us to use the best steel on the blade, so these things must be in her cabinet. No need to buy them now."

Are there noodles and eggs in the cabinets on weekdays? Sun Hongmei cannot accept this reality at all. Which rural family does not use eggs to exchange for oil and salt? Who does not replace fine grains with coarse grains to eat more for a period of time!

The mother-in-law actually had noodles and eggs in the cupboard, ready to take out at any time! But why didn't the mother-in-law make something for her to eat alone, after all, it was only the second day of her wedding!

The series of sighs made Sun Hongmei's heart churn even more violently. She completely ignored her husband's movements of kneading her hands and said unconsciously: "Your family lives a really good life."

Liu Zhishuang let go of his wife's hand with a smile and patted her shoulder proudly: "What do you mean by your home or my home? That's our home. We have four strong laborers in our family, and only Baoguo is our child. If we can't even provide these things, what kind of life are we going to live?"

There were many families who could not afford it. Sun Hongmei asked curiously, "Why are there only four strong men?"

"Mom, there are four of us, me, my elder brother, and my elder sister-in-law. Oh, and now that you're here, there will be five of us earning work points. Our life will be much better."

Sun Hongmei shook her head repeatedly: "You and your elder brother are able-bodied, so how can mother and elder sister-in-law also be considered able-bodied?" A able-bodied laborer is awarded ten work points a day, while an ordinary woman is only awarded eight work points a day.

Liu Zhishuang was so proud that he almost wagged his tail: "In order to support us two brothers, mom always works like a man. As for my sister-in-law," he said with a teasing look, "my sister-in-law is so young, she can't be worse at work than my mother-in-law, so she follows mom and does whatever work she does."

"How can her skills compare to mother's? It's just that my eldest brother loves his wife, so he helps her quietly after he finishes his own work, so no one notices. The task has been completed, and of course the production team has to give my eldest sister-in-law work points according to her hard work."

After saying this, fearing that Sun Hongmei might feel stressed, Liu Zhishuang deliberately whispered, "Don't worry, I'll help you when you get down to the ground."

Sun Hongmei was so angry. The family could always get noodles and eggs, but they still asked her daughter-in-law to work in the fields to earn work points. Was it because they lacked those two work points? Earning work points would be fine, but Sun Hongmei had to work in the fields at her parents' home, but she had to do the same work as men. What did that mean?

"We just got married. If people saw me working in the fields with a bunch of old men..." Be more tactful. You can't lose the image of being hardworking and capable before marriage.

Straight man Liu Zhi shook his head even faster: "What are you afraid of? From your mother to your sister-in-law, they have paved the way for you. People in Ping An Village will give a thumbs up to our women when they mention them. They envy our women for their abilities and will not laugh at you."

"But there are always gossipy women in the village." Men think that the more work points a woman earns, the better. Wouldn't it be unhappy if a woman is always compared with others?

Liu Zhishuang laughed even more happily: "No, no, the production team has so much dirty and tiring work. If mom and you don't do it, someone else will. Compared to the hard work, they won't gossip."

Sun Hongmei, who had completely given up hope, remained silent. Liu Zhishuang thought that his wife had been comforted by him and no longer had to worry, so he happily went to his mother to ask about the things he was going to get from his father-in-law's house tomorrow.

Sun Hongmei in the house regretted that she should not have maintained such a strong image of being diligent and capable before getting married. After hearing Liu Zhishuang's question, Xia Juhua regretted that she should not have prepared more return gifts for Sun Hongmei than for Wang Caifeng in her previous life just because her family life was better than when Liu Zhiquan got married.

Why do you want to show off? If you are a grateful person, you will be grateful to your mother-in-law for saving your face. But Sun Hongmei is not a grateful person. In her last life, she brought her two extra handfuls of noodles, but she turned around and showed off to Wang Caifeng, planting the seeds of bias in Wang Caifeng's heart. Forget it in this life.

So she calmly took out two handfuls of noodles, counted out twenty eggs and put them on the counter, then said to Liu Zhishuang, "I have two words to tell you. Don't leave in a hurry."

Mother had been in low spirits since breakfast, but now she was willing to talk. Liu Zhishuang was happy to chat with her and sat there waiting obediently.