"Miaomiao, you are Miaomiao..."
The following day, the elderly Zheng couple arrived at the Ruan family mansion under the protection of Mr. and Mrs. Sun Deming and several police officers.
Upon seeing Ruan Miaomiao for the first time, Old Mrs. Zheng was overwhelmed with emotion. Her cloudy eyes filled with tears, and her gaunt face creased with deep wrinkles from the excitement.
He staggered towards Ruan Miaomiao, his rough, strong hands gripping hers tightly.
Previously, Ruan Miaomiao was willing to let Sun Deming and his wife share food with the Zheng family elders, but she wanted to steal the opportunity from the female lead Zhao Xiuyun, so that she could find a powerful backer and prepare an alternative path.
But now, with a living person standing in front of her, Ruan Miaomiao realized what she had done back then.
"Grandma Zheng..."
Ruan Miaomiao glanced at Qin Fengying, and seeing her nod at her, she then took Zheng Laotai's hand and walked towards the sofa.
Behind him, Old Zheng was also greeted by Ruan Minqiang and Chen Juan.
Previously, when they were in Jianshan Brigade, although the Zheng couple had been exonerated, they were worried that the situation was still uncertain and dared not meet with Ruan Miaomiao in Jianshan Brigade, fearing that their departure would have some impact on Ruan Miaomiao.
Now that they've returned to Haicheng and everything has settled down, the elderly couple are urging Qin Fengying to help arrange for them to become godparents.
A major reason why Ruan Miaomiao accompanied Chen Juan back to Haicheng this time was to arrange a godparent marriage.
Even though she had already discussed it with Qin Fengyin and Sun Deming, she still looked shocked when the Zheng family elders brought it up.
Now, Old Master Zheng and Old Lady Zheng felt even more that Ruan Miaomiao was a simple-minded girl who did good deeds without expecting anything in return, and they liked her even more.
Pulling Ruan Miaomiao to sit on the sofa, Old Lady Zheng directly slipped her own richly colored imperial green jade bracelet onto Ruan Miaomiao's wrist.
Ruan Miaomiao recognized at a glance that the bracelet was very valuable, probably enough to buy several courtyard houses.
While making excuses, he glanced at Chen Juan and Qin Fengying.
Seeing her daughter like this, Qin Fengying thought of when she was a child visiting relatives for the New Year. Even if Ruan Miaomiao really wanted the red envelopes, she would only accept them after her parents asked.
However, right now, she is not Miaomiao's official parent, so she cannot give the nod.
Chen Juan, however, was also stunned by Old Lady Zheng's generosity. She quickly stepped forward to help Ruan Miaomiao decline, saying:
“Auntie, this bracelet is too valuable. Miaomiao is still too young to wear something so expensive. You should keep it for yourself…”
Chen Juan was knowledgeable and knew that this bracelet was quite expensive.
In particular, the fact that Old Lady Zheng, who was sent to the countryside, has kept it until now must mean something very special to her.
She didn't want her daughter to steal someone else's love!
Ruan Miaomiao understood the reasoning behind this. She took the bracelet off her wrist and resolutely handed it back to Old Lady Zheng.
"Grandma Zheng, this is really too precious, and it must have been with you for a long time. Keeping it can be a keepsake!"
However, Grandma Zheng was determined to give it to Ruan Miaomiao. She forcefully shoved it into Ruan Miaomiao's hand, saying, "Miaomiao, without you, there would be no grandpa and grandma as we are now. No matter how good this is, it can't save a life..."
One sentence pulled everyone's thoughts back to that night when Old Zheng had a high fever, and everyone was desperate and could only wait to die.
"Miaomiao, Grandma truly treats you like her own daughter. From now on, everything Grandma has will be yours. What's wrong with giving you a little bit in advance?"
Grandma Zheng forcefully slipped the bracelet back onto Ruan Miaomiao's wrist. Seeing Grandma Zheng's firm attitude, Ruan Miaomiao couldn't refuse anymore. Grandpa Zheng, seeing Ruan Miaomiao accept the bracelet, was overjoyed and discussed the matter of becoming godparents with the Ruan family...
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Bicheng, Wangjia Village.
Li Chunmiao carried a child on her back and held a bamboo basket filled with pig feed in her hand. Her shoes were soaked with snow water, and she was shivering from the cold.
Upon entering the house, I saw my two daughters-in-law squatting in the yard washing clothes, and the crackling sound of burning firewood coming from the kitchen.
Li Chunmiao went inside and saw water boiling in an iron pot, with some snow that hadn't completely melted. She immediately threw her bamboo basket on the ground in anger, turned around, and started yelling at her two daughters-in-law in the yard:
"You two lazy good-for-nothings! It's already spring, and you don't even deserve to use firewood?"
"You're too lazy to wash clothes, so you actually light a fire to melt snow water? Carrying them to the river to wash them? Wouldn't that kill you?"
The two daughters-in-law didn't dare to look up even after being scolded, only muttering to themselves: "They'll freeze to death, not work themselves to death!"
In the dead of winter, they let people wash clothes in the river, not even worried about what the neighbors would say.
Besides, didn't they collect all that firewood themselves?
However, they dared not say these words, for if they did, their mother-in-law would only scold them a few times.
"Your lives are so cheap, yet you still block my way and get out of my sight. Get the hell out of here, I hate just looking at you..."
Perhaps because Li Chunmiao's cursing was too loud, her eldest grandson, Dabao, who was sleeping soundly on her back, started to wail loudly.
As Li Chunmiao put her eldest grandson down from her back, she coaxed him tenderly, "Oh, my dear grandson, are you hungry?"
"Your second aunt will breastfeed you later, don't cry, don't cry..."
After coaxing his eldest grandson, he looked up and roared menacingly at his second daughter-in-law:
"What are you still standing there for?"
"You blind fool, can't you see my grandson is hungry?"
Hearing her mother-in-law's shout, Wang's second daughter-in-law reluctantly got up and said hesitantly, "Mom, I still need to feed Sanya, my milk supply is a bit low..."
Wang's second daughter-in-law wanted to ask if she could have a bowl of brown sugar and eggs to help her recover.
But before he could finish speaking, Li Chunmiao scolded him back: "What do you mean, 'hey'?"
What good-for-nothing is he to compete with my precious grandson for milk?
"I'm warning you, from now on, your breast milk is exclusively for my grandson. If he goes hungry, I'll beat you to death!"
Hearing this, Wang's second daughter-in-law felt even more aggrieved and asked with tears in her eyes, "Mom, what about Sanya?"
"What to do? Just deal with it!"
Li Chunmiao raised her slanted eyebrows and said nonchalantly, "She's just a money-loser. Whether she survives or not depends on her fate."
You need to feed your mother's eldest grandson well, take good care of your health, and give your mother a healthy grandson soon.
Otherwise, I'll have my second son divorce you!
Upon hearing this, Wang's second daughter-in-law secretly thought to herself: Life in the Wang family is really worse than being divorced!
"mom!"
Li Chunmiao was admiring her eldest grandson's energetic sucking when the voice of her eldest son, Wang Daniu, came from the yard.
Startled, Wang's second daughter-in-law, who was breastfeeding, immediately turned her back to avoid the gaze of her brother-in-law, Wang Daniu.
"Da Niu, weren't you guys supposed to be repairing the irrigation ditch? Why are you back?"
Li Chunmiao looked at Wang Daniu and asked.
Wang Daniu withdrew his gaze from a certain spot belonging to Wang's second daughter-in-law and said to Li Chunmiao, "Mom, our family is going to have a good life! Zhou Shuixian has actually found a job in the city!"
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