Chapter 14 How dare you steal my eggs!

Liu Xiangqin was the first of the three wives to marry into the Zhai family. Although she had not been able to give birth to a son or daughter for the Zhai family over the years, she was able to control her man. She also relied on the fact that her husband was the eldest son of the Zhai family to control her mother-in-law, Liu Yulan.

Seeing that their boss and his family couldn't escape today, Liu Xiangqin made up her mind, pulled Zhaodi, and rushed to Wang Ziru.

Without waiting for Wang Ziru to question her, he pointed at his sister-in-law and started scolding her.

"What do you think of this delicious but lazy thing? How dare you ask my Zhaodi?"

"Zhao Di! Tell them you didn't push her son!"

"Do you think you are great just because you gave birth to a son? I want to see who dares to ride on our heads!"

Zhai Zhaodi raised her head, looked at her grandmother, then looked at Wang Ziru and her third uncle who was holding Baoer. She couldn't quite figure out what her third uncle's return home meant.

But inexplicably, she was forced back a few steps by the cold look of her uncle. Zhai Zhaodi curled her lips and said, "What's wrong with pushing him?"

"Grandma, don't you scold Bao Er every day for being a beggar and a bastard that no one wants?" Zhai Zhaodi pointed at Granny Liu and imitated her grandma's tone, "Little beggar, little beggar..."

Mrs. Liu's face suddenly turned dark and her teeth chattered with anger.

"What are you talking about?!"

Liu Xiangqin didn't expect that Zhaodi would...

She pulled Zhaodi out from behind her and yelled, "Speak nicely to me! Your grandma always scolds people like this, have you learned it too?"

"Mom, you and grandma both scolded Bao'er like this," Zhai Zhaodi frowned, looking annoyed, spitting at Bao'er, "I pushed him into the pond yesterday, so what? Humph, he didn't die."

At that moment, Zhai Ximo's eyes were as sharp as a knife, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Zhao Di, how can you bully Bao Er?"

"She didn't! Children can't speak!" Liu Xiangqin's eyes were filled with panic.

Wang Ziru was furious. She pointed at Zhaodi and shouted, "Zhaodi! If anything happens to Baoer, you will die too."

"She's just a kid talking nonsense! Wang Ziru, don't deliberately cause trouble here. You didn't see it with your own eyes." Liu Xiangqin hurriedly pushed Zhaodi behind her and protected her tightly.

But I heard Zhai Ximo's cold voice asking: "Zhao Di, Third Uncle will forgive you this time because you are only seven years old. But today Third Uncle wants to make one thing clear to you: Bao Er is Third Uncle's son. Don't do this kind of thing again in the future, otherwise, your father can't protect you."

When Zhai Qingsong heard the noise in the main room outside, he ran out with tools in his hand and looked at his third brother's family nervously.

After hearing what his third brother said, he wanted to rush over and pin Zhaodi to the ground and beat her up on the spot.

"Third brother, if the child does something wrong, I will teach him a lesson severely." Zhai Qingsong said in a deep voice while standing at the door of the second brother's room.

Liu Xiangqin immediately responded with a fierce counterattack, "Which eye of yours saw that it was really Zhaodi who pushed you? It was just those short-lived ghosts in the village who said that. Do you dare to touch Zhaodi and see?"

Liu Xiangqin knew that she was in the wrong, but she refused to admit it. She put down her shoulder pole, pulled Zhaodi and hurried back to their east compartment.

In the main room, Mrs. Liu felt that her third son had finally returned home, and she was going to cry in front of him.

Maybe I can squeeze some money out of the third brother...

But she didn't expect that the damn girl Zhaodi would ruin her good fortune.

Mrs. Liu said with a gloomy face, "Alright, Bao'er is fine, don't interrogate Zhaodi anymore, at least leave a child for your eldest brother, what if Liu Xiangqin can't have children in the future."

"Zhai Ximo! Have you seen it yourself? This is the kind of life Baoer and I live at home!" Wang Ziru said angrily.

After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the back of the house. Baoer was so anxious that he shouted in his father's arms: "Mom! Don't be angry, Baoer will never play by the pond again..."

Zhai Ximo turned around and glanced at his elder brother coldly, then followed Wang Ziru to the back room of the house with Bao'er in his arms. l

In the yard, as the third brother and his wife entered the house, they all fell silent.

Zhai Qingsong was helping his second brother light the stove in the east room, feeling furious. The two brothers were silent and their faces were tense.

At this moment, Xu Ping couldn't ask Liu Xiangqin to come out and help with the work, so she had to carry the clay and mud from the yard into the east room by herself to make the stove for the two brothers.

In the side room at the end of the yard, Wang Ziru came out carrying some dry firewood.

She walked to the fire in the side room and looked at the man who came in with the baby in his arms. "You come and light the fire. Baoer and I are almost frozen to death."

The man quickly put the baby down and said softly, "Baby, sit on the stool first. Dad will light a fire for you..."

"Yeah." The little guy blinked his beautiful grape-like eyes and sat obediently on the small stool. He watched his father skillfully bring some dry grass over, and soon a big fire started in the fire.

Watching the young man stretching out his hands to warm himself by the fire, Zhai Ximo put the dry firewood on the table and sat on a chair next to the fire.

The couple got married like that in the first place and had no feelings for each other. Now the man is faced with a mess at home, and no one would be in a good mood.

After a while, Wang Ziru's hands were somewhat warmed up, and she asked, "Have you...had breakfast?"

"I ate it." The man replied seriously. At the same time, he also saw that Wang Ziru's fingers were cut. He said, "You have been taking care of the children at home alone for the past few years. It's hard."

Wang Ziru lowered her head slightly, focused on warming herself by the fire, and said nothing.

The man must have heard clearly how the family was divided last night in the yard, so there was no need for her to say anything.

"Go to the chicken coop later, catch a chicken, slaughter it and braise it for Baoer." Wang Ziru said sullenly.

"Um."

"As for the rest, we only have some corn and potatoes at home, nothing else. Let's go to the town tomorrow and buy some rice and flour..."

The family of three sat by the fire. While warming themselves, Zhai Ximo listened to his wife's chatter. It seemed that marrying this woman was not such a bad thing.

After roasting the fire for a while, Zhai Ximo got up and went to the chicken coop.

Baoer excitedly got up from the small stool and held his father's hand, "Dad, I'll take you to the chicken coop."

"Okay, Baoer is really a smart child." Zhai Ximo was particularly touched.

Wang Ziru turned around and watched the father and son leave, and said with emotion: "Fortunately this man has returned home, otherwise, the life of an orphan and a widow would have been difficult."

With this acquaintance, Wang Ziru felt extremely happy.

I got up, went to the thatched shed opposite to fetch some well water, filled the hanging pot, and started boiling chicken feathers.

After completing these tasks, she walked to the open-air chicken coop surrounded by a fence behind the house.

When I turned around, I saw Mrs. Liu picking eggs in the chicken coop and quickly putting the eggs into her cotton jacket.

"Why are you picking our eggs!"

Zhai Ximo was standing outside the fence holding his son, and he couldn't feel very good when he saw this scene.

The father and son watched helplessly as Mrs. Liu picked up the eggs that the hen had just laid...

"Let mom pick up these eggs today." Zhai Ximo turned around and said to his wife.

"We were given these five chickens last night, and she took the eggs laid by the hens today. What are we going to eat?" Wang Ziru sneered, walked to the exit of the fence, and stopped her mother-in-law directly, "Hand over the eggs."

Mrs. Liu quickly covered her cotton padded pockets and said fiercely, "I fed the chickens last night! If I didn't feed these animals, how could they lay eggs?"

"You also know that happened yesterday! What does it have to do with what happened today? Will you hand it over or not? If not, I will sue you in town..." In short, Wang Ziru was tougher than her mother-in-law and reached out to take the eggs back.