Chapter 135 Sour Son and Spicy Girl

Xia Juanjuan then told Lin Yuru that Lizhan had never suffered that kind of injury, and that she and Lizhan had held a make-up wedding in the army, which was why there was wedding candy.

Lin Yuru was still stunned after hearing this. Then she looked unconvinced and asked with some stammering: "Juan'er, are you saying... Aunt, Aunt is not injured? You can still have your own children?"

As he finished speaking, his voice started to turn sobbing.

Xia Juanjuan nodded affirmatively: "I'm pregnant, how can it be fake?"

Lin Yuru was stunned, and then she burst into tears of joy. She wiped her tears and called Xia Shuangshan with a choked voice: "Juan'er's father, you...you come out quickly! Our Juan'er is pregnant... Our Juan'er has her own child..."

When Xia Shuangshan heard this, he was also stunned at first, and then he walked outside so suddenly that he didn't even notice that he had knocked over the chair. He looked at Xia Juanjuan with trembling lips, but couldn't utter a word for a while.

"Juan'er's father, aunt is fine, aunt is fine! Our Juan'er is a widow..."

Seeing this, Zhou Qiuhe and Wu Xiaoyun also hurried over to persuade her: "Auntie, this is a good thing. Why are you crying? We are all happy for Juanjuan!"

After some persuasion, Lin Yuru finally calmed down, and Wu Xiaoyun and Zhou Qiuhe helped her distribute wedding candies door to door.

Lin Yuru wiped her tears and said regretfully, "Ah! You've been home for such a while, but you haven't said a word! I just asked you to run around in the kitchen!"

Xia Juanjuan smiled and comforted her, "Mom, I'm not that delicate. It's just cooking a meal, why would you be so tired?"

Lin Yuru was unusually domineering: "What do you know, little kid! The most dangerous time is when the baby is two or three months old. You don't have to work anymore. Mom will come and prepare three meals a day for you and the three kids. As for the spring ploughing and wheat harvesting and autumn planting, let your dad do it. This grandson of mine who was conceived with great difficulty cannot have any problems."

Xia Shuangshan listened at the side without saying anything, but just nodded, meaning that all the farm work was left to him.

Xia Juanjuan thought about it and it didn't seem so 'difficult'. She and Li Zhan had only been together a few times and they were already pregnant...

But she couldn't say this out loud, so she smiled and said, "Mom, how do you know it's a grandson, not a granddaughter?"

Lin Yuru smiled and asked, "Do you want to eat sour food these days? Or do you want to eat spicy food?"

Xia Juanjuan was stunned for a moment, and recalled that she usually liked spicy food, but recently she seemed to like eating sour vegetables as well.

"It's sour..."

Lin Yuru smiled and said, "That's right. Sour boy, spicy girl. You just added vinegar to your noodles, and now you want to eat something sour, you must be a man!"

Xia Juanjuan was embarrassed. Who knew whether this kind of folk experience was accurate?

That afternoon, Li Zhan took his wife to the army to make up for the wedding, and the news that there was no injury in that part of the body and that Xia Juanjuan was already two months pregnant spread throughout Qingshui Village along with the distribution of wedding candies.

There were honest, simple and grateful people who were truly happy for Lizhan and his wife, but there were also some people who were sarcastic and felt even more unbalanced.

One of them is Liu Lan.

When Liu Lan heard that her fourth son was not injured, she was not happy at all. Instead, she was furious!

Because all her money was stolen by Li Qiaoqiao, she was anxious and angry these days. Her hair, which had already been gray, turned completely white, and she also fell ill.

Her second son Li Qiang and Wang Guixiang were angry that she had not used up all that money to support their second wife earlier, and now it was stolen by a money-loser to support a wild man, so they were too angry to care about her.

In the end, Li Jie found a village doctor to check her out and prescribe some medicine for her, but he didn't do anything else for her.

Liu Lan had no choice but to get up despite her sick body to boil medicine and cook for herself.

She also sent a letter to Li Zhan, asking him to send her more money, but there was no reply.

Liu Lan set her sights on Li Jie's family and wanted to live with them, with the third wife cooking for her and doing farm work and taking care of her in her old age.

Fortunately, Li Jie had already seen through his mother's biased and selfish nature and refused it flatly.

Liu Lan even went to Secretary Zhao to make a scene, but Secretary Zhao spread his hands and said, "Liu Lan, don't harm your third son. Your fourth son gives you five yuan a month, and your third son gives you 100 work points a month! Both families separated from me by signing their fingerprints here, so why are you relying on your third son now? Your second son didn't give you a penny, did he? Besides, the fact that you favor your second son and your youngest daughter's family is known to the whole village and even the whole commune. You should have a good talk with your second son and live with them properly."

Liu Lan came back crying, and hated everyone in her heart!

She had no choice but to consider whether she should give the five dollars that Lizhan gave her every month to her second son or just live with Liqiang.

However, thinking that this would mean that I wouldn't be able to lose a penny, I became hesitant again, so I kept putting it off.

Now, her money was stolen and she was sick. She didn't even have anyone to cook for her or do farm work. Instead, it was that vixen Xia Juanjuan who fought fiercely and not only was she not injured, but Xia Juanjuan also got pregnant and they were living a prosperous life.

With such a comparison, how could she not be extremely jealous and angry?

If I had known that Li Zhan was not injured, there would have been no chance for Xia Juanjuan to marry into the Li family!

But it was useless to be angry, Xia Juanjuan didn't even pay attention to her.

In the afternoon, Lin Yuru really stopped Xia Juanjuan from doing any work.

She asked Xia Shuangshan to go back and bring over a whole jar of pickled cabbage from her home in the winter. Xia Juanjuan didn't like pickled cabbage very much, so she had already eaten the little she had pickled.

Next, I went to the vegetable garden to cut some leeks, fried five or six eggs, chopped the leeks, mixed them with the scrambled eggs, added salt, soy sauce, sugar and other seasonings, kneaded the dough, rolled out the dumpling wrappers, and made several dumplings.

That night we had leek and egg dumplings. Lin Yuru also specially cooked a dish of stir-fried rabbit meat with sauerkraut, just for Xia Juanjuan.

Xia Shuangshan and his friends went into the mountains to catch the hares in the afternoon. In addition to two hares, they also caught three pheasants, so it could be said that they had a good harvest.

It was the first time for the three boys to catch so many preys, and their faces were flushed with excitement.

As for the remaining hare and pheasant, the pheasant was still alive and kept in a cage for a few days, to be used to make chicken soup later, while the hare was skinned and its meat made into bacon.

After dinner, Xia Juanjuan couldn't sleep either, so Lin Yuru and Xia Shuangshan went back.

Xia Juanjuan let the three kids go to bed first, then she took out some food, pork, eggs and the like from the space. After thinking for a while, she took out some White Rabbit milk candies and went to the cowshed under the cover of night.

She was in such a hurry when she went to the army before that she didn't even have time to explain anything. Shen Wanxue and the master might be worried that something bad might happen.

When they arrived, Shen Wanxue and Yang Qiushi were still awake.

She put the things down and took out some White Rabbit candies to share with them.

Shen Wanxue and Yang Qiushi looked at her with a smile and said, "We also got your and Lizhan's wedding candy this afternoon. It's very sweet."

Xia Juanjuan was stunned for a moment. She thought she wouldn't get any, so she thought of taking some for herself.

Yang Qiushi sighed and said, "Secretary Zhao of this commune is a good man. Two days ago, a female educated youth in the educated youth point made things difficult for our cowshed staff and asked us to do her share of farm work. It was Secretary Zhao who stepped in and scolded her. She also distributed the wedding candy this afternoon to us."

Shen Wanxue sighed, "Alas... I didn't expect your mother-in-law to be so mean and cruel that she didn't even hold your wedding! Fortunately, Li Zhan is a good man. Holding a wedding in the army, what woman can compare to this? She can brag about it for the rest of her life!"

As he said this, he looked at Xia Juanjuan and smiled.

Xia Juanjuan's face was burning, and she said with a smile: "Aunt Shen, how come you learned this from the master? Are you making fun of me?"

Yang Qiushi was innocent: "I didn't do anything today! Don't blame me!"

Then he couldn't help but say guiltily: "Juanjuan, Master wants to apologize to you. When I took your pulse that day, I actually felt that you were pregnant, but I didn't tell you because of some concerns. As a result, you went on a long trip the next day. I have been regretting it so much these days, fearing that something might have happened to the baby in your belly..."

Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "I thought that Master was hesitant to speak that day. But Master, don't blame yourself. After I arrived at the army, the military doctor there diagnosed the disease. I have been very careful these days!"

After hearing this, Yang Qiushi felt a little relieved. He took out a few prescriptions and handed them to Xia Juanjuan, saying, "Here, this is the prescription for the pregnancy-maintaining medicine. You have to prepare the ingredients yourself and take it twice a day, morning and evening."

Xia Juanjuan took it and thanked her.

At this time, Shen Wanxue also took out an antique rosewood box, handed it to Xia Juanjuan, and said, "Juanjuan, open it and take a look, see if you like it."

Xia Juanjuan was stunned for a moment, then opened the box and found that inside was an exquisitely carved Heshi white jade pendant with a phoenix pattern carved on it. It was obviously priceless, probably more valuable than the pair of jasper bracelets she had bought on the black market before!

Xia Juanjuan quickly declined, "Aunt Shen, this is too expensive, I can't accept it!"