Ma Xiufen was furious. Other daughters-in-law would feel a little embarrassed on the first day they got married.
Basically, no matter what the mother-in-law says, even if the daughter-in-law is unwilling, she will not look unhappy.
It turned out that Yu Xiaona, who was even worse than Li Hongli, actually fought with her.
The most annoying thing is that she hasn't achieved her goal yet.
She still has to coax Yu Xiaona, and her son is counting on Yu Xiaona's parents to find him a formal job.
"Xiao Na, I was really kind-hearted just now. I was worried that you were young and didn't know how to spend money. Now that you know everything, I'm relieved." She forced a smile, touched her head which had a big bump on it, and walked away with a fake smile: "It's late, you guys should rest, I'm going back to sleep too."
Wait until Ma Xiufen leaves.
Yu Xiaona finally breathed a sigh of relief, looked back at her room, and couldn't help but said sourly, "You and Li Hongli covered all this, didn't you?"
Xu Xiaodong is very good at making women happy. He hugged her and said, "What's wrong with covering it up? No matter what she is like, everything that belongs to her is yours now, including me, right?"
The slight discomfort in Yu Xiaona's heart immediately turned into pride.
It means that she has taken over everything that belongs to Li Hongli. She is smart and capable.
Xu Xiaodong sobered up, and the two began their wedding night. Yu Xiaona had no idea. Under the window, Ma Xiufen was squatting with her legs numb, but she didn't leave.
With a vicious look on his face, he cursed in a low voice: "Little whore, you seduced my son and made him lose his soul."
It is inevitable for newlyweds to go to bed a little late the next day.
"Bang, bang, bang—"
Yu Xiaona opened her eyes in a daze amidst such sounds. Apart from the harsh clatter of the spatula that entered her ears, the yellow floor in front of her eyes was completely different from the warm and comfortable environment of her own bedroom.
She was still sleepy and closed her eyes to sleep.
Ma Xiufen started cutting vegetables again, chopping them on the chopping board with gritted teeth.
After chopping a dozen times, she pricked up her ears, but there was no sound in the bridal chamber. She went out and started kicking the porcelain basin under the window, making a clanging sound.
The sound of the porcelain basin hitting the concrete floor was very harsh, especially because it happened right under the window, as if the sound was right next to Xiaona's ear.
"Mom, what are you doing?" Xu Xiaodong was woken up by the noise: "Keep your voice down."
Yu Xiaona was completely awake and said angrily, "Mom, if you don't sleep, I will still sleep. Can you please stop knocking?"
Ma Xiufen smiled. What she wanted was to make her daughter-in-law Yu Xiaona unhappy: "What are you talking about? I am an old lady, how can I enjoy the same happiness as you? As someone else's daughter-in-law, instead of getting up to cook a meal for the old lady, you sleep until noon and let the old lady serve you?"
"But as your mother-in-law, I feel sorry for you. Look, I've prepared the meal, why don't you come and eat?"
"Oh, I have to cook and sweep the yard. When you guys leave, I have to go outside to pick up paper shells. It's getting late now. Those who got there earlier than me have already picked up all the paper shells."
Yu Xiaona only now remembered that her mother-in-law was a ragpicker.
People who pick up rags should not be discriminated against. Several old ladies in her family compound hang around the trash cans when they have nothing to do, not leaving out a single piece of cardboard. She also occasionally collects unwanted wine bottles from her home and gives them to others.
Everyone else is polite and smiling, except her mother-in-law.
"What time is it?" Xu Xiaodong asked, worried that he would be late for his visit to his father-in-law's house.
The custom here is that the newlyweds have to return to their parents’ home on the second day of their wedding.
Yu Xiaona glanced to the side and almost fainted: "It's only seven fifteen."
It was not even seven o'clock when the mother-in-law started knocking.
When she was at home, her mother would prepare dinner at 8:30 and bring clothes to her bedside before she got up to wash her face and brush her teeth.
Sometimes she doesn’t want to get up and can sleep until one or two in the afternoon, and her parents won’t say anything to her.
Come to think of it, she had never gotten up at seven o'clock since she could remember.
School starts at 7:30.
This old woman was deliberately making life difficult for her.
It’s impossible to take a nap. Once you wake up, you can’t fall asleep again.
The newlyweds were eating, and Yu Xiaona was dissatisfied again, frowning: "Mom, where are the leftovers I packed back from the restaurant yesterday?"
The food at the wedding banquet is delicious, so many people will pack up some food to take home, especially the wedding banquet she held yesterday. Except for the Xu family's table, which was full of food, almost no one ate at her table and left halfway through.
She lost face, but the meal was left over.
There are all kinds of chicken, duck, fish and meat.
"What do you know? You can eat enough good things at once?" Ma Xiufen didn't think there was anything wrong with fried potato chips and fried tomatoes and peppers.
Unfortunately, Yu Xiaona was picky about both dishes. She pouted and picked with her chopsticks: "I don't like spicy food, and I don't like potatoes and tomatoes either."
"Then what do you usually eat?" Ma Xiufen didn't understand.
Isn't this the most common dish?
"I love scrambled eggs with leeks, Kung Pao chicken, and stewed pork ribs with lotus root. I also like cold dishes, such as cold walnut kernels or beef slices with dipping sauce." Yu Xiaona started talking.
Ma Xiufen glared: "My family doesn't even eat like this during the Chinese New Year. It's such a waste!"
"Why did you become a spendthrift?" Yu Xiaona was unhappy.
Seeing that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were about to quarrel again, Xu Xiaodong hurriedly said, "Stop quarreling, Mom, Xiaona doesn't like it. Why don't you buy two ribs and stew them for her? That will be it, right?"
Ma Xiufen felt aggrieved because she didn't even ask her son to show his filial piety by having a meal of pork ribs stewed with lotus root.
"I'm not eating anymore." Yu Xiaona threw her chopsticks in anger: "I can't eat it at all."
Xu Xiaodong didn't like it either: "Mom, why don't you take out the meat and vegetables you packed yesterday and heat them up? Do you have to let the food go bad before you eat it?"
Ma Xiufen has this problem. She can't bear to eat anything and just leaves it there and looks at it.
I only started eating after I found that the meat was a bit smelly and the snacks were a bit moldy.
Ma Xiufen went to get it out angrily, heated it up, and threw it on the table angrily: "Eat, eat! It's not a festival, but you have to eat such delicious food."
Xu Xiaodong is used to it and eats as usual.
Yu Xiaona felt a thorn in her heart, so who could she hit?
Because she was angry, even if the food was served, she only took one with her chopsticks and stopped eating: "Let's go, don't eat it, let's go to my mom's house and let her make us something delicious."
When Xu Xiaodong heard this, it didn't matter where you eat.
My mother-in-law's family also prepares ready-made food, which is definitely better than eating leftovers at home.
Xu Xiaodong and Yu Xiaona just left. Yu Xiaona was still complaining that they didn't buy enough things, just a few bags of snacks, all worthless things. Xu Xiaodong then took out the cigarettes and alcohol and took them.
Ma Xiufen's heart was bleeding, and she cursed: "You are not old, but you have a bad temper. The old man hasn't said anything, but you are just a little whore who is picky about food and drink."
They looked at the meat and dishes that had been reheated, but they didn't eat them. The taste of the food that had been reheated was already half bad, and if they were to reheat it again, it would have even less taste.
Ma Xiufen felt distressed: "This spendthrift thing only knows how to ruin good things, and is not afraid of shortening its lifespan."
Xu Xiaodong didn't eat either. Ma Xiufen didn't scold Xu Xiaodong, she only scolded Yu Xiaona.