Chapter 74 Personally Teach Mom

When grandma Liu Xiulan saw her third son and his family coming back from her father-in-law's house, she quickly closed the door and hid in her room to eat noodles and fried eggs.

"Bang!"

Wang Ziru had just passed by her mother-in-law's door when she heard the sound of a door closing heavily behind her.

My old friend! You feel guilty, right?

The sudden sound of the door closing scared Baoer so much that he rushed to his father and hugged him tightly with both hands.

"Don't be afraid, Baoer, Daddy is here..." Zhai Ximo took off the padlock hanging on the door, his voice gentle.

Wang Ziru walked quickly to the door of her side room, but was still half a step too late. The man had already taken out the padlock on the door and opened it.

After entering the house, Wang Ziru hurriedly checked the rice, flour, oil, and radishes and cabbages on the ground...

When Zhai Ximo saw his wife looking here and there, and even opening the wooden cabinet to check the rice, flour and oil inside, a trace of awkwardness crossed his face.

"I'm a little thirsty. Go boil some water."

After checking around, it seems that there was no thief in the house.

Wang Ziru turned back angrily, "Okay! Let's cook noodles for lunch. We have to go to the Luo family to help later."

"Mom, cook me a poached egg." Baoer said.

"No problem, cook a poached egg for your dad too."

After saying that, Wang Ziru took the thermos and went out, walking straight into the thatched shed opposite.

Mother-in-law had just cooked noodles and there was red-hot charcoal in the stove. Wang Ziru sat at the mouth of the stove and reignited the fire.

Then he stood up and stood beside the earthen stove to scrub the pot skillfully. After scrubbing the big iron pot, he poured a few ladles of water into the pot, covered the pot, and turned to pick up eggs from the chicken coop.

Hearing the noise of their family returning, the little girl from the second son of the Zhai family went to the door of the stove room with a bowl in her hand and looked out.

"Xiaofeng, Xiaoya, your lunch is pretty good, and there's also... bacon?!"

Wang Ziru thought she was seeing things.

He walked out of the kitchen and took a closer look at the two slices of bacon in Zhai Xiaofeng and Zhai Xiaoya's bowls.

Can the second brother’s family afford bacon?

She remembered that the piece of bacon that the Zhai family had received from the village before the Chinese New Year had long been eaten.

Could it be that the mother-in-law hid the bacon and took it out to share with the eldest and second sons when the third son went back to her parents' home?

"The bacon was given to us by our great aunt."

Zhai Xiaofeng said while holding a bowl of porridge.

The little girl also learned to show off. She deliberately picked up a piece of bacon from the porridge with chopsticks and shook it in front of the third aunt.

Zhai Zhaodi also walked to the back of the house to play out of boredom.

It was a rare opportunity for Third Aunt to envy them, so Zhai Zhaodi pouted and said, "We still have bacon at home! It was given to us by grandma. She said we built a new house, and she gave it to us to congratulate us."

"Where did your grandma get the bacon? Zhaodi, did you see it correctly?" Wang Ziru was stunned. This bacon was actually a gift from her mother-in-law to her eldest uncle?

Based on her understanding of her old man, Liu Xiulan would definitely not be willing to spend money to buy bacon to please her eldest son.

"Hmph! You bad woman, grandma doesn't like you, so she didn't give you bacon! She has more in her room, but she just won't give it to you and Baoer!" Zhai Zhaodi glared at Wang Ziru with hateful eyes.

"Hasn't the bacon that was distributed to the family been eaten? So your grandma secretly hid the bacon and didn't take it out to eat?"

"That's my grandma's bacon! You three can just watch us eat the meat!"

Zhai Zhaodi felt that she had never been so proud.

She knew that this woman was unhappy because she couldn't eat the bacon, so she let her be unhappy!

The kid in the opposite house heard that my cousin was eating bacon, so he ran out to watch.

Bao Er walked up to the two cousins, standing on tiptoe, trying to get a clear look at the bacon in the bowl...

Seeing that there was bacon in the bowl, Baoer's throat gulped down.

Zhai Ximo walked to the door and couldn't help but say, "Don't listen to the kid's nonsense. Go cook some noodles. I'm hungry."

"Baby, come on, follow mom to pick eggs. Mom will cook a big bowl of noodles for you." Wang Ziru looked at the man meaningfully, then pulled the child towards the chicken coop behind the house.

"The eggs were picked up by grandma a long time ago!" Zhai Xiaofeng shouted loudly behind him.

"What did you say?"

Today's eggs were picked up by my old friend?

Thinking of the three plump and firm poached eggs in her mother-in-law's bowl, Wang Ziru gritted her teeth and said, "The old woman still doesn't know her limits. She dared to pick my eggs behind my back!"

The strange feeling in my heart suddenly got the answer.

Wang Ziru was wondering why the rice, flour and oil in the house seemed to have not been touched.

She still felt a little unreal.

I hurried to the fence of the chicken coop, and sure enough, the three hens in the chicken coop were so hungry that they had no energy to make a noise.

There is no trace of eggs.

Baoer's face sank, "Mom, we don't have any eggs to eat..."

Wang Ziru opened the gate, walked into the chicken coop, and searched every corner, but there was no sign of the eggs.

"The water in your pot is boiling, come back and cook the noodles." The man appeared beside the chicken coop and said, holding a thermos filled with boiling water.

Several little girls were waiting for Wang Ziru to explode.

However, after waiting for a long time, I didn't hear any noise at home.

The little girls went back to their rooms angrily.

I found that my eggs were secretly stolen by my mother-in-law again.

Wang Ziru learned her lesson this time and did not lose her temper or make a fuss at home.

Isn’t there a man at home?

Let's first listen to how he smooths things over.

Sure enough, the family of three made do with the fire in the stove to keep warm, and they didn't have to go to the kitchen to light a fire and waste firewood.

Zhai Ximo went to the main room and brought back a high stool, which he placed in front of the stove. The three of them sat on the small stools, placed their noodle bowls on the high stool, and slurped the noodles.

Although the eggs laid by the hen that day were picked up by my mother-in-law.

But there were still eggs bought at home, so Wang Ziru put a poached egg in everyone's bowl.

"Zhai Ximo!"

Zhai Ximo was shocked. The woman called him by his full name, which showed how much anger she was holding in her heart.

He understood that the egg incident was not over yet.

But he couldn't ask his mother to vomit out what she had eaten.

He was slurping noodles, slightly panicked, and quickly put the egg in his bowl into his son's bowl. He said with a somewhat unnatural expression: "You can call me Ximo..."

"Well, what should we do if your mother always steals our things like this?"

Baoer looked at his father with clear eyes, "Sister Zhaodi said there is still some bacon left. Ask her to compensate us with the bacon."

"Haha, you are worthy of being my son, Wang Ziru, you have a sharp mind." It was the first time that Wang Ziru discovered that her adopted son was actually better at handling household chores than his father.

Wang Ziru is also good at comforting people.

She rubbed her son's head lovingly and said, "You want to eat bacon. Let's go to town to buy some next time. Tomorrow, Mom will steam glutinous rice for you."

"Glutinous rice?!"

The young guy's eyes widened.

That's what he dreams of eating.

"I'm asking you a question, why don't you say anything?" Wang Ziru slowly retracted the doting expression on her face and glanced at the man.

Although Zhai Ximo was an officer in the army, when it came to family matters, each had his own reasons.

And the other party is his biological mother.

"My mother ate the eggs too. I can't ask her to spit them out." Zhai Ximo sighed helplessly and looked at his wife nervously. "She is my mother. I can't really do anything to her."

"Besides, she has never been to school and has no education. She doesn't understand these things."

"How about we kill and eat these three hens? Then we don't have to worry about her stealing our eggs when we're not home."

After hearing what the man said, Wang Ziru felt that there was no need to argue with her mother-in-law.

She shook her head. "It seems that I have to protect my home by myself. I can't rely on men."

Bao Er looked unhappy and patted his father's hand, "Dad, am I a man?"

"Puff." He spat out the noodles in his mouth.

Eat noodles.

Wang Ziru asked the man to wash the dishes, clean the stove and look after the children, and then went to Luo's house carrying a small bamboo basket.

Zhai Ximo hurriedly followed her to the yard and watched his wife really go to the Luo family.

Turn around and go back to the main room.

A tall figure quickly appeared outside his mother's room, raised his hand, and knocked loudly on the wooden door, "Mom! Come out for a moment."

"Dad, what are you doing?" Baoer saw that his father was emitting a cold air, and was so scared that he stood in their own room, trembling.

After finishing her noodles, Liu Xiulan had already fallen asleep soundly wrapped in quilt.

When I heard the knock on the door, I was startled at first.

Then, the second brother Zhai Jiahao asked from outside, "Third brother, what do you want to do?"

Zhai Ximo turned around and glanced at his second brother with dark eyes, "What do you think I want to do? Mom picked up our eggs, and I can't ask her to come back?!"

"Are you crazy? Can't I eat a few eggs from your house?"

The quarrel between the two brothers startled the eldest brother who was doing chores in the new house.

Zhai Qingsong's busy figure quickly walked into the main hall. "What happened? Why are brothers still quarreling?"