Chapter 236 Into the Arms
Because she had to go out of the house to visit Liu Jingyun, she left Heng'er in Qiuhuayuan at noon. Xia Lian reported that her cousin also came early today, and seeing that Heng'er did not leave at noon, they also wanted to stay and take a nap together. As a result, there was a lot of noise, and the three children could not sleep well, and even the eldest wife was disturbed. Meimei walked into Mrs. Zheng's bedroom and saw an old and a young one catching up on their sleep on the couch. Mrs. Zheng looked peaceful. She watched Heng'er play for a while every day. She was in a calm and happy mood, and felt that she had recovered very well recently.
Heng'er was sleeping soundly, and Meimei didn't want to wake him up, so she had to go back to the second hall and wait. Mother He quickly asked Chunyue to make some fragrant tea, and brought a few plates of fresh fruit snacks and placed them on the table next to the young lady. Meimei picked up the tea bowl, opened the lid and drank a sip of tea. She turned her head and saw that Li Xu, who was more than two years old, had come running in at some point and messed up the new fruit plates. It turned out that he had ruined the tea, fruit and snacks at his parents' place on the couch. Seeing that there were four plates full of fresh fruits on the table, he couldn't help but want to play with them. He didn't eat them, but just scattered them around. Li Zhao saw this, but couldn't yell at her, but looked at Xu Xiaojuan, who was peeling almonds for her daughter, and symbolically called out twice:
"Xu'er! Xu'er come here, mother will peel the fruit for you!"
As if Li Xu didn't hear anything, Xu Xiaojuan sat still on the couch, too lazy to even shout. Xu Junxuan couldn't stand it anymore and frowned, "Children are naughty and need to be taught and corrected from a young age. How can you let them do this? We are at my uncle's house, next to my aunt, we should know the etiquette - do you remember what our father taught us when we were young?"
Xu Xiaojuan glanced at him nonchalantly, "When I was little, if I wanted the moon in the sky, my father would give it to me as long as I could pick it! Our Xu'er is still so young, how can he be naughty? Sixth brother, don't talk nonsense! He is very well behaved, he just wanted to eat fruit but couldn't reach the table, didn't you see him tiptoeing? What's wrong with my uncle's family? My dear nephew, he can't make any noise he wants? Besides, this is in my grandmother's yard!"
Meimei grabbed Li Xu's naughty little hand. Li Xu struggled desperately, but Meimei just wouldn't let go. Li Xu cried out:
"Let me go!"
Xu Xiaojuan was startled and quickly slid off the couch: "Sister-in-law, you can't do this, Xu'er is still young..."
Li Zhao glared at her: "Shut up!"
Meimei looked at Li Xu who was about to cry and said calmly: "If it was Heng'er, he wouldn't cry if I held him like this!"
Li Xu looked at her, pouted his lips, but didn't cry.
She let go of Li Xu and pointed at the scattered dried fruit snacks on the table: "Pick them up! Pick them up and put them away!"
Children over two years old are somewhat destructive, but it is obviously difficult for them to pick up and sort things. Li Xu used all his strength to tiptoe to pick up the scattered dried fruit snacks on the table and put them back on the plates one by one. When he put a snack into the fruit plate, Meimei pointed it out to him:
"This isn't its home. Look at the ones next to it, they look different from it!"
Li Xu looked left and right, quickly picked it up and put it back on another plate, placing it neatly, then clapped his hands and chuckled:
“This is its home!”
Li Zhao and Xu Junxuan found it hilarious. What was supposed to be correcting a mistake turned out to be as fun as playing a game.
Meimei watched him pick up and sort the food, and talked to him: "Snacks and fruits are the same as food, not toys. Toys can be moved around and thrown around, but food cannot! Food is a gift from heaven. Farmers work hard to get it to fill people's stomachs. If there is no food, people will starve to death. Xu'er's father and mother will also starve to death if they have no food to eat. If they die, they will never be able to hold Xu'er again. Are you afraid?"
Li Xu nodded in panic: "Scared, scared!"
"Will Xu'er dare to disrespect food and scatter it around in the future?"
"I won't dare to do that anymore, Xu'er, I won't dare to do that anymore!"
Xu Xiaojuan complained: "You, you actually cursed me in front of me..."
Meimei took a sip of tea and said calmly: "This is not a curse, it's just an analogy!"
"Why don't you talk about yourself?"
Meimei saw Cuisi coming out from the back hall and knew Heng'er had woken up, so she stood up:
"You are the one teaching your son, so you should do it yourself! If I do it, how can he know who I am? How can he remember it if it does not concern him? Whether a child is a good child depends on how you teach him. You can tell a child's future at the age of three and his character at the age of seven. Whether he will become a good child or a failure depends on you as a mother!"
Meimei took Heng'er away. Xu Junxuan looked at the time and went to Jinhua Hall as well. Only Xu Xiaojuan and her family were left in Qiuhua Hall.
Xu Xiaojuan walked over and took the dried fruit out of her son's hand: "What the hell! I'm the mother of two children, and she only gave birth to Heng'er, yet she dares to teach me a lesson! She's obviously petty and can't bear to throw away a few dried fruits. Look how scared my son is..."
Li Zhao could no longer bear it and shouted, "Shut up! How can you compare to her? You are so stupid!"
"What did you say? How dare you scold me?"
Xu Xiaojuan looked at Li Zhao in disbelief and threw a handful of dried fruits at him: "If you hadn't stopped me, if I hadn't taken your face into consideration, I would have torn my face off and scolded her today! Why should I be afraid of her? With the ancestors and mother here, what can she do to me? You actually helped her to irritate me, what do you mean? Am I stupid? I am stupid, but I can still lead you back to the capital, live in the mansion, eat and wear lavishly, and have servants follow you when you go out and enter the mansion. Where did you get this status and face, and who gave it to you? If it weren't for me, the stupid aunt of the mansion, would you have this situation? Call your petty mother here, and see if she can help you wear an official robe and promise you wealth and glory!"
The old women, servants and maids in the hall all lowered their heads. Mother He's figure flashed in the back hall, and she walked to the back without stopping or hesitation.
Li Zhao's face turned pale with anger. He pointed at Xu Xiaojuan but could not utter a word. He flicked his sleeves, walked out of the door quickly without looking back, and had completely forgotten that he and Xu Xiaojuan were going to Jinhua Hall to greet the old lady and stay for dinner.
Seeing their parents angry, the two children were frightened and cried loudly. Xu Xiaojuan picked up her son and went to comfort her daughter. She waited and waited but Li Zhao didn't come back. Although the couple had some quarrels in the past, he would come back as soon as the children cried. But this time he just left without caring about the children. She couldn't help but feel angry and hateful, her eyes were blazing with fire, and she pushed hard, and the table, fruit plates and teacups all fell to the ground.
How could Li Zhao not hear the children crying? He didn't bother to pay attention and walked back to Yuehua Courtyard angrily.
Xu Xiaojuan is becoming more and more outrageous. She has become just like a fierce, stupid and ignorant woman!
When she first got married, she was just a young girl, innocent, beautiful and interesting, and he was only 18 years old. They were a loving couple. She had a rich dowry and listened to the dowry maids and did not allow her parents-in-law to interfere. However, she had too many ways to spend money and was very generous. He had advised her several times, but she smiled and said: What's a mere dowry? You and I can spend it freely. There will be more after we use it up. My mother is the head of the Marquis' Mansion in the capital. She only left me a small part of the gold and silver mountains, which is enough for us to chew for several lifetimes!
He learned how to play and spend money from her. If it weren't for his mother's countless tearful persuasion, he would not have been able to concentrate on studying. Fortunately, he had studied hard since he was young and had a solid foundation. He finally passed the imperial examination. However, his grandfather passed away and he was not allowed to take the imperial examination for three years. Xu Xiaojuan said that it didn't matter whether he took the examination or not, and he would just go back to Beijing to teach his brother to find a good official position for him. So he relaxed and went sightseeing with his literary friends and students every day. After being exposed to the fireworks, willow alleys, flower houses and painted boats, he felt that there was endless fun. He accidentally got drunk and did not return home at night. That time, Xu Xiaojuan cried and made a scene, which almost everyone knew about. He was punished by the clan leader to kneel in the ancestral hall for three days. Since then, Xu Xiaojuan was jealous and suspicious. If the maids and even young servants dared to say a word to him, they would be whipped to death. The expenses outside had to be explained before they were paid. Li Zhao knew that he had hurt her feelings by sleeping with other prostitutes, so he was submissive in front of her for some time, but she would not give in. He was impatient and helpless. He knew that she was unreasonable but let her do what she wanted, thinking that it would be over. Who knew that it would become a habit. It was fine in Li's house in Jiangyuan. Xu Xiaojuan was able to take his face into consideration at first, and only acted willfully in the room, even sending her personal maid away. When she cried, he would hug her and comfort her and then come back. Now that they have arrived in the capital, the couple had agreed to come to study and seek fame. Following Xu Xiaojuan to live in the Hou Mansion, the family is guaranteed to have enough food and clothing, and he does not need to write home often to urge his mother to send money. This is a fact and a good thing. There are four or five younger brothers and sisters at home, and he does not want to make things difficult for his mother. But Xu Xiaojuan does not need to be so overbearing and unreasonable, right? It was as if she had become the eldest daughter of the Hou Mansion once again, not his wife, Li Zhao. She was always superior. He had no say in front of the servants and maids, and she had to reiterate it. She said in front of others that she was giving him face. Who could stand the momentum? He had lost his temper many times to protect his dignity and rights. Xu Xiaojuan could coax him a little, but she would forget about it after two days and return to her old ways. Could it be that living in her parents' home, she became the sky and he the earth?
Just now in Qiuhua Courtyard, her stupidity made him blush. Just like his mother had scolded him on weekdays, she was really blinded by greed - not fulfilling her mother's duty to teach her son well, she didn't know the fault, and brazenly argued with her mother's sister-in-law as a guest lady. Isn't this cutting off her own retreat? What's wrong with a husband's reprimand? She actually scolded and scolded in front of the maids in Qiuhua Courtyard, saying that he was incompetent, and even dragged his mother into it. How could he, a man of three feet, feel embarrassed?
This is the son-in-law of the Hou Mansion, the distinguished guest! His dignity and respectability have been trampled on the ground, not by others, but by his own wife!
Li Zhao was so angry that he walked woodenly. Unknowingly, he came to the gate of Xianglanxie Courtyard. He heard a woman's soft and crisp laughter from inside the gate. Suddenly, a person ran out and bumped into him. He subconsciously reached out to hold the person, but he felt the softness and fragrance of jade, and the aroma of orchids went straight into his nose.
Li Zhao's breath was caught: the smell of pandanus! His heart suddenly began to beat rapidly.
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