Chapter 19: Are You Pretending to Be Sick?

Wang Ziru glanced at her mother-in-law unhappily and knew at a glance that she was pretending to be sick.

"You have a stomachache, but you don't go to the town clinic to see a doctor, but instead ask your son? Does he know how to treat people?"

"You short-lived ghost with a vicious heart, I knew you wouldn't care about the life or death of your mother-in-law..." Mrs. Liu covered her stomach, pointed at Wang Ziru and started cursing ferociously.

If she had kept her mouth shut, Zhai Ximo would have cared about his mother's health.

Hearing her swearing so vigorously, I thought it was nothing serious.

After a pause, Zhai Ximo said, "Go back to your room and lie down for a while. If you are not feeling well, go to the town's health center."

"You are such a heartless bastard! Your mother has such a stomachache, and you still have the mind to eat!" Mrs. Liu went back to the room and continued to curse while lying on the bed.

Thatched cottage, after the three dishes are cooked.

The whole family sat together and enjoyed this rare delicacy.

In the evening, the eldest and second eldest's families still had dinner together. Perhaps the two sisters-in-law felt safe having dinner together.

While eating, Wang Ziru thought that Xu Ping's family would definitely cook on their own newly built earthen stove tomorrow and would not come over to share the kitchen of the thatched hut with them.

"However, we have to go to town tomorrow to buy pots, bowls, pans, and other things." Wang Ziru said.

"You decide and buy it." The man said considerately.

Although their family will not live in the village for a long time, they will probably have to live in their hometown in the village for the next three months, and they still have to buy the necessary dishes and chopsticks.

Zhai Ximo quietly ate his meal with vegetables. The mushrooms and bracken roasted in lard were indeed very fragrant and went well with the rice.

This was the first time he had sat down with his wife to eat so quietly in the five years since he got married.

So, from time to time, he would secretly glance at his wife while picking up food for Baoer.

The wife was no longer unreasonable as before and buried her head in eating.

She just looked a little more mature and stable than she was five years ago. Her oval face, as delicate and smooth as an egg, was very pretty. She had delicate eyebrows and eyes, and a pair of eyelashes that were like two small fans, blinking from time to time.

It makes him look a lot more honest and cute.

"Dad, why do you always look at Mom?" Baoer noticed that his father was always staring at his mother, so he asked.

Wang Zi raised her cheeks gracefully and immediately felt them turn red. "What are you looking at me doing?"

"No, nothing..."

The man lowered his eyes guiltily and hurried to eat.

After dinner, the family cleaned up and went to bed.

They only had one side room, and on the first night the man came back from visiting relatives, the family of three had to sleep together.

The man looked at the bed, frowned slightly, and said, "I don't know how long it has been since I washed this bed. When I go to the market tomorrow, I will buy a set of quilt covers and replace this one with the new one and wash it."

As he said this, the man took out a wad of money from his military coat pocket and handed it to his wife, "Here is a hundred yuan. Use it to buy rice, flour and oil for your family."

"Such a lot of money?!" Wang Ziru took the stack of money, her excitement hard to hide on her face.

In this era, even though it's only a hundred yuan, it's very useful.

She immediately planned in her mind to rush to the town tomorrow to buy some things.

Lying on the bed, Wang Ziru felt a warmth in her heart.

She deliberately let her son sleep in the middle, hoping to relieve her tension.

But the little guy was afraid, so he slept on the inside against the wall, with his little arms tightly wrapped around his mother's warm neck.

Seeing his father lying down and blowing out the kerosene lamp, the boy whispered, "Mom, I'm scared."

In the darkness, Wang Ziru gently stroked her son's head and said, "Don't be afraid, Dad and Mom are here."

Only then did the little guy fall asleep peacefully.

After the boy fell asleep, Wang Ziru couldn't sleep.

Because there was a man next to her, she could clearly feel the man's breath, and her heart couldn't help but ripple.

She turned around slowly, glanced at the man secretly in the dark, and found that he was also looking at her.

The two people's eyes met, and instantly the air was filled with an ambiguous atmosphere.

Wang Ziru could feel her cheeks getting slightly hot, and she lowered her head quickly. "Are you still not going to sleep?"

The man whispered, "It's been a long time since I slept with you like this."

Wang Ziru's heart beat faster. She didn't know what to say and just said "hmm" softly.

After a while, the man reached out, gently held his wife's hand, and said, "Thank you for your hard work during this period."

Wang Ziru was moved and held the man's hand tightly. "I'm glad you're back."

The next morning.

Zhai Ximo got up very early; he was used to the morning exercises in the army.

After practicing in the yard for an hour, a red sun gradually rose in the sky.

He turned and walked into the main room, went to the side room to boil water for his wife and children to wash, and found toothbrushes and toothpaste for them from the suitcase.

"Baby, look at how daddy brushes his teeth. Brush the upper teeth downwards like this..."

Behind the house, father and son squatted on the grass and brushed their teeth.

Zhai Ximo squeezed a soybean-sized amount of toothpaste onto his son's toothbrush and taught him how to brush his teeth step by step.

Wang Ziru looked at the picture of the father and son brushing their teeth, and her heart was warmed.

She washed up quickly and went to the chicken coop to check if there were any eggs.

Suddenly, she saw two oval eggs in the chicken coop! "Baoer! We have eggs to eat."

When the boy heard there were eggs, he stood up and ran outside the chicken coop. His beautiful black eyes widened, "Wow! They really are eggs."

Wang Ziru went into the chicken coop and picked out two eggs.

"It would be nice if I had noodles at home..."

Zhai Ximo turned around and watched his wife carry the eggs into the kitchen of the hut. He then stood up and walked to the door, "I don't eat eggs. You and Bao'er can eat them."

"There was no share for you in the first place!" Wang Ziru said as she walked to the earthen stove.

She cooked two poached eggs and only put a little lard in the soup, but it still smelled delicious.

Carrying the fried eggs to the side room, the man had already lit the fire in the side room and was sitting inside with his son to warm himself by the fire.

Wang Ziru handed the poached egg to the man, "It's a boiled egg, it's a little hot, feed it to your son."

Zhai Ximo took the earthen bowl and chopsticks, and saw the two snow-white poached eggs in the bowl, "You don't want to eat?"

"I'm an adult! Give the child some nourishment."

Wang Ziru said this and turned back to the side room, scooped out half a bowl of corn grits, and put them into the hanging pot to cook porridge.

The second son, Zhai Jiahao, got up in the morning and went to the side room to get something. He saw Baoer eating eggs and was so jealous that he didn't know what to say.

"Bao'er is enjoying a good life. He even has eggs to eat. Your second uncle has only had eggs a few times in his life."

Zhai Ximo turned around and looked at his second brother, "You haven't finished making the earthen stove yet?"

"It's done! But we still need to use dry firewood to dry the inside, otherwise it won't work."

The two brothers chatted for a while, and then Zhai Jiahao went out to work.

As soon as Zhai Jiahao stepped out of the door, his mother walked into the toilet in the yard, holding her stomach. Suddenly, a wailing sound came from inside the toilet, "It hurts so much..."

The eldest brother Zhai Qingsong heard his mother's cry and rushed to the toilet, helping his mother out, "Jiahao! Mom seems to be sick, we have to send her to the town health center immediately."

Zhai Jiahao carried a bunch of dry grass into the house and was about to bake the earthen stove he had made yesterday.

He ran out with his wife Xu Ping, "What happened? Did you eat something wrong?"

Xu Ping said, "Yesterday I heard mom tell the third child that she was not feeling well, and then I heard the third child told mom to go back to her room and lie down. It's true that he forgot his mother after he got married."