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Yang Niannian tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep. Later, in a daze, she smelled a faint scent of mugwort and fell asleep unknowingly. She slept until dawn.

When Guan Ailian woke up the children to go to school, she also woke up Yang Niannian.

"Sister-in-law, get up and have breakfast. Our mother-in-law's face is as stinky as a toilet. If you sleep any longer, she will go around the village shouting. After breakfast, Ruo Ling's blind date will also be here."

Yang Niannian rubbed her eyes and instantly became more awake, "Oh, okay."

Lu Xingxing and Lu Haitian got out of bed and ran out to wash their faces. Guan Ailian closed the door and while dressing Lu Baobao, she urged Yang Niannian.

"Hurry up and change your clothes and go out for dinner."

"Uh..." Yang Niannian was a little uncomfortable, "I'll change it later, the baby is still in the room."

"Well, what does he know? Just do your thing and leave him alone."

After Guan Ailian finished speaking, she thought that Yang Niannian might be embarrassed, so she stood in front of Lu Baobao with her back facing Yang Niannian, "I'll block it for you, you can change it quickly."

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Knowing that Guan Ailian had a carefree personality and didn't care about too many things, Yang Niannian didn't want to be too delicate, so she turned around, took out her clothes, and changed with her back to Guan Ailian.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I took off my clothes, I heard Guan Ailian scream behind me.

"Sister-in-law, you are really fair, even fairer than white flour buns. Unlike me, who basks in the sun in the fields every day and has become as tanned as wheat husks. The baby you and Shi Shen have will surely be as pretty as you two. You will have to look for a daughter-in-law in every village in the future."

Yang Niannian was so embarrassed that goosebumps appeared all over her body. She quickly put on her clothes and smiled, "Sister-in-law, I'll go out first."

"Go, we're fine too." Guan Ailian picked the baby up from the bed. The child didn't even wear shoes and ran out barefoot.

Yang Niannian walked to the door, then remembered that she had forgotten to take her toothbrush, so she turned back and took out two toothbrushes from her luggage bag.

Guan Ailian was very surprised. "Hey, sister-in-law, you brought back a toothbrush?"

Yang Niannian nodded, "I thought it would be inconvenient to buy things in the village, and this thing wouldn't take up much space in my bag, so I brought it back with me."

Guan Ailian smiled and said, "You are very thoughtful. It takes us more than half an hour to walk to the town to buy things."

The two walked out together and saw Ma Xiuzhu and Lu Guozhi washing their faces by the well. The basin they were using looked a little familiar.

Yang Niannian pointed at the basin and asked, "Why is that wash basin the same as the basin I used to hold dumplings yesterday? Don't you usually use them incorrectly?"

Guan Ailian smiled and said, "This is the bowl I used to hold the dumplings yesterday. I usually use it to wash vegetables and wash my face. It's a good idea to use it for multiple purposes so that its value is not wasted."

Yang Niannian was stunned. The kitchen and the wash basin are in the same basin? ? ?

Ma Xiuzhu heard the conversation between the two and rolled her eyes at Yang Niannian. She said sarcastically, "What's the matter? Can washing vegetables in the same basin as your face poison you to death? Your face is much cleaner than vegetables. When the vegetables were in the fields, they were watered with manure. Didn't you eat them anyway?"

Yang Niannian would not indulge her and immediately retorted, "If you say so, then we can just eat manure and save the trouble of growing vegetables."

"How do you talk?"

Ma Xiuzhu was much more confident at home than in the army, and kept harping on what Yang Niannian said.

"Old Lu, look at your daughter-in-law. It's only the second day since she came home, and she's asking me, her mother-in-law, to eat shit. I can still move now. If I couldn't move and asked her to serve me, wouldn't she just pour shit into my mouth?"

Lu Guozhi was already dissatisfied with his young daughter-in-law, and when he heard his wife say that, his face darkened. Just as he was about to say something, Lu Shishen and Lu Qingyuan came back from outside.

Seeing Ma Xiuzhu's tense look, Lu Shishen walked straight to Yang Niannian and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

Before Yang Niannian could say anything, Ma Xiuzhu shouted in a shrill voice, "Your wife asked me to eat manure, what do you think is wrong?"

Guan Ailian quickly tried to smooth things over, "Mom, these are just angry words spoken out of turn. Don't take it to heart. Come in and have dinner. We still have to arrange a blind date for Ruo Ling later."

Lu Qingyuan didn't know what was going on, but he knew his mother's temper, so he spoke in a low voice without any confidence.

"Mom, my sister-in-law and brother just came back, so stop looking for trouble."

Ma Xiuzhu refused to give in. She would get ruthless with anyone who interrupted her. "Who is looking for trouble? Your dear mother was insulted like this, and you, as a son, are a coward and dare not say a word, right?"

Lu Guozhi glared at her and scolded her.

"Stop it. Why are you making a scene so early in the morning? Aren't you afraid that the neighbors will laugh at you?"

After saying that, he went straight into the main room. He knew his youngest son's temper. If he started a quarrel now, it would only cause unrest in the family and make the family a laughing stock among outsiders.

He is the head of the family and cannot join in the fun.

Ma Xiuzhu was ready to do a great job, but her husband didn't help her. Looking at her younger son's cold expression, she swallowed the words on her lips, glared at Yang Niannian, but didn't say anything else.

Seeing her parents-in-law leave, Guan Ailian smiled and nudged Yang Niannian with her elbow.

"Sister-in-law, I thought you were timid because you looked skinny and weak, but I didn't expect you to be so brave. I really like your temper. When I got married, my mother bullied me for several years. It was only after I gave birth to Haitian that I had the courage to quarrel with her."

Yang Niannian blinked her big eyes and said, "If I keep it to myself, I'll get angry, and getting angry is not good for my breasts."

Guan Ailian was overjoyed, "You have to treat our mother like this. The more you give in to her, the more she will get ahead of you."

After saying that, she remembered that Lu Shishen was still there. No matter how bad Ma Xiuzhu was, she was still his biological mother.

She smiled awkwardly, "You guys hurry up and wash up, I'll go help Ruo Ling serve the meal."

Lu Qingyuan also followed into the kitchen to help.

Yang Niannian handed the toothbrush to Lu Shishen and asked casually, "Where did you go?"

Lu Shishen took the chopsticks and replied calmly, "I went to water the vegetable fields."

"After the spiritual marriage is over, let's go to town and buy some candy and snacks. My brother and his wife are very nice people. As uncle and aunt, it would be embarrassing not to buy anything for the child." Yang Niannian murmured.

Lu Shishen nodded in response. The two of them did not use a washbasin, but simply used their hands to collect some water from the water pressure well to wash their faces.

Breakfast was a pot of cooked sweet potatoes and rice porridge, with some pickled radish. Everyone ate it with gusto. Xingxing and Haitian went to school happily after the meal.

The baby is sitting on a small stool and eating sweet potatoes.

Yang Niannian didn’t have much of an appetite. She was full after eating two small sweet potatoes and drinking some porridge.

After everyone had finished their meal, Lu Ruoling was about to clear the table, but was stopped by Ma Xiuzhu, "Don't clean it, let your sister-in-law do it. Go change into nicer clothes and dress up, because the matchmaker will be here with someone soon."

Guan Ailian had no objection. She tactfully took the dishes from Lu Ruoling and took them into the kitchen to wash.

Lu Ruoling stood still, "Mom, the clothes I wore yesterday have not dried yet after washing. Except for what I'm wearing, all other clothes have patches on them."

Such are the living conditions in the countryside. Compared with other girls in the village, Lu Ruoling's clothing is not bad.

Other girls wear clothes left over by their older sisters, but her family at least takes her to the tailor shop every summer to make her new clothes.