With guests coming to the house, Jiang Fengxia made cooking much simpler in the evening.
I cooked a pot of wild vegetable soup and mixed some cucumbers picked from the private plot. Each person had a steamed bun with pickles. Fu Baoer ate it with relish.
Liu Shengli found it difficult to swallow the food. When he was in the city, the food he ate was much better than here. There should be at least some oil in the food, right?
Fu Baoer secretly observed his appearance and laughed in his heart, if you were a good boy, you would definitely be able to cook an extra dish today, but it’s your fault for offending me!
"Comrade Liu Shengli, don't you like eating?" Fu Baoer was now very fluent, the result of her deliberate efforts to conceal her differences from ordinary people. "You must cherish your food."
Liu Shengli looked in the direction of Fu Baoer's finger. It was a piece of cucumber he had just dropped. "It's dirty and can't be eaten. Give it to the dog."
As he said that, Liu Shengli picked up the cucumber and threw it into Heiwa's bowl.
"......" Heiwa felt that it was quite sudden, but it was a good dog and could not waste food.
Heiwa ate the cucumber, licked the bowl clean, walked over behind Liu Shengli, and raised his hind legs silently.
"Ahhh! My shoes!" Liu Shengli stood up suddenly, almost knocking over the dining table. "Damn it! How did you raise a dog and let it pee wherever it wants? Pay for my shoes!!"
Heiwa raised his head, not afraid at all.
Fu Manshan pretended to be angry and yelled at Heiwa, "You deserve a beating!"
Fu Baoer came over and took a closer look: "I didn't pee on your shoes, it's just on the soles. Why are you making such a fuss?"
Liu Shengli lifted his foot and took a look. It seemed like it was peed. He was scared to death. If it was really peed, it would suffocate him to death.
After finishing the meal, Liu Shengli put down his bowl and chopsticks and walked out the door. No one knew what he was doing. Fu Baoer pouted at her grandmother, expressing her dissatisfaction: "Grandma, I don't like him, and he doesn't like our family either."
Jiang Fengxia returned to the kitchen and brought out a braised chicken foot for Fu Baoer. "My dear, he'll be leaving after a few days. Your grandfather has already promised the village chief, so it's not easy to go back on your word, right?"
Thinking about how Fu Manshan had taken the initiative to take on this matter in order to build a house, Fu Baoer stopped complaining and said, "Okay, then I will be magnanimous and forgive the villain's mistakes."
"Where did you learn those words every day?" Jiang Fengxia tapped her granddaughter's forehead. "Little clever girl."
When Liu Shengli came back, everyone in the Fu family had gone to bed. He scooped a few buckets of water from the water tank in the yard and took a shower, making the water all over the floor with a loud splashing noise.
Fu Baoer turned over and was woken up.
Liu Shengli went to the fields today and simply familiarized himself with the farm work. He was so tired that he almost fell asleep while lying on the bed. His snoring was so loud that it shook the sky.
The two elders, three children and a dog of the Fu family did not sleep well.
The next day, Zhao Zhao overslept for the first time, and it was Cheng Ru and Cheng Jie who woke her up.
Zhao Zhao was so anxious that he took a wild vegetable pancake and went out.
Fu Baoer, with a messy head, sat on a stool and ate listlessly. His grandparents had gone to work, but Liu Shengli had not even gotten up yet.
"Panpan, are you sleepy?"
"I'm sleepy. Someone is snoring." Panpan took a sip of porridge. "It must be that uncle."
Of course it's him. Everyone in our family is in good health and there's no such thing as snoring.
"Let's eat and then take a nap," Fu Bao'er finished the egg in no time. "When we wake up, let's go look for crabs by the river!"
Zhou Xueyan was holding one in her arms, holding one in her hand, and another following behind her. When she pushed open the gate of the old Fu family's courtyard, she heard Fu Baoer say this.
"Hey, who wants to go catch crabs? Can you bring your brothers and sisters too?"
Fu Baoer turned around when she heard the noise, and a trace of annoyance flashed through her mind. It turned out to be Fu Tianming's lover, the woman who always called herself "stepmother".
"Why are you here?" Fu Baoer turned her head away in disgust. "You are not welcome here."
Zhou Xueyan was amused. The little girl was younger than her son, but she spoke fluently. "I'm in my own home. What's there to be welcomed or not?"
Bah, so shameless, Li Ying doesn’t even dare to say that this is her home.
Zhou Xueyan has been in the village for some time now. She is like a sticky candy. She cannot be registered and cannot be driven away. Fu Tianming is still trying his best to protect her. I don’t know how much she is laughed at by the villagers.
Moreover, as soon as she saw Fu Baoer and the others, she started to flatter them and try to get close to them, saying "I am your stepmother" all the time, and even said that she wanted to take them back to live with her. Panpan was so scared that she didn't dare to go out for several days.
"Sister, Baoer..." Chengcai hadn't seen Baoer and Panpan for a long time and missed them a little.
Fu Baoer waved Chengcai over and asked, "Have you eaten yet?"
Chengcai nodded and said, "I've eaten at home."
Fu Baoer saw that he didn't seem to be lying, his body was relatively clean, and his little face had some flesh, so she thought that this was quite decent.
The family doesn’t know what to do with this poor child Chengcai. They can’t raise children for their son one after another every day, right?
Even though Fu Tianming was reluctant to give up Zhaozhao and Panpan, he would never let go of Chengcai. He took his son away as soon as he returned to the village.
But you can take him back and take good care of him. Fu Tianming is a mentally ill man. He gave his son to a woman he had an affair with without a matchmaker. Zhou Xueyan is not a good person. Although she didn't beat or scold Chengcai, she has plenty of ways to torture the child.
In the end, Fu Manshan found Chen Zhifang and Wang Youtian and severely criticized Fu Tianming, and only then did Chengcai's life become easier.
Zhou Xueyan was also a sensible person. She knew that she did not have a household registration in the village and had to rely on the village head and secretary if she wanted to settle down. So she changed her previous attitude and treated Chengcai better, like a "loving mother".
Fu Baoer simply couldn't understand what these people were thinking. Li Ying would be released in less than three years. What would she do then? This wasn't the era she lived in, where people could have three wives and four concubines.
Seeing that the two children ignored her, Zhou Xueyan became angry and said, "You are Bao'er, you are Panpan, right? I am your stepmother."
"This is Big Sister, and this is your brother Jiefang," Zhou Xueyan pushed her child over. "You'll play together from now on, okay?"
Fu Baoer knew that these two people, one was Sun Danniu and the other was Sun Jiefang, were the children of Zhou Xueyan's deceased husband. It was heard that the people in the Sun family died of food poisoning, leaving only Zhou Xueyan and her two children.
"If you don't leave, I'll let the dogs bite you!" Fu Baoer didn't want to say any more nonsense to them.
Heiwa immediately took a fighting stance. He really missed the days when he followed his master to fight. Here, he didn't even dare to bite anyone.
"How can you talk like that, kid? You're so rude and uneducated! You're really a motherless thing. You were born by a mother but not raised by her. Your father doesn't like you either," Zhou Xueyan had long disliked Fu Baoer. He was too smart to be a child. "I have to teach you a lesson on your father's behalf."
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