After a few days of being bombarded with milk tea, fried chicken, hamburgers, barbecue, hot pot, and various home-cooked dishes and delicacies,
Meng Kexin successfully gained weight (oh no, rounder).
She was somewhat unaware of it.
At noon on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, the three of them were taken back to the Meng family by Uncle Lin with their luggage.
"Grandpa~Aunt~Yeah, everyone is here." Meng Kexin threw her luggage on the floor of the living room and threw herself into her mother's arms.
"This girl ate up all your sister-in-law's food rations in one trip? She's gained weight so much." Aunt Meng saw her daughter, who had just raised her head in her arms. Wow, her face had become so much rounder!
"Kexin, you're still acting like a naughty monkey even though you're so old. Be careful you won't be able to get married in the future~"
Shen Qingli and Meng Xiao just walked to the door when they heard such a sarcastic remark and saw that the sofa was full.
There were also unfamiliar faces. She guessed that the person who had just spoken was probably her Third Aunt.
After handing the luggage to Aunt Zhang and following Meng Xiao to call a group of people, Shen Qingli walked over and sat down next to her mother-in-law Ye Qiu.
Ye Qiu patted her hands:
"You look so thin, I'll ask Aunt Zhang to cook your favorite dishes. Eat more later."
"Okay, thank you, Mom."
Shen Qingli nodded obediently.
"The baby is more than three months old, right?" Ye Qiu was so excited that he counted the days.
"It's been more than three months. Meng Xiao and I plan to go to the hospital this afternoon to check on the baby's development. Mom, would you like to go and take a look?"
Ye Qiu was just waiting for her to say this, and for a moment he was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling.
"Go, go, go. Mom will go with you this afternoon."
"Brother Xiao, my wife, Auntie San has something to say to you. How can you go to the hospital during Chinese New Year?
We never had a checkup from pregnancy to birth, and the babies were still fine. Listen to Third Aunt and don't go. It's unlucky to go to the hospital during Chinese New Year."
Hearing this, Third Uncle Meng Jianshe tugged at his wife Wu Zhaodi's sleeve, signaling her to stop talking. "Can't you see how unhappy everyone's faces are?"
Meng Xiao's eyes were cold. "Third Aunt, what you said is not true. A hospital is a place to treat illnesses and save lives. How can it be unlucky? And I just carried out a mission yesterday and killed two spies! Killing people and seeing blood, doesn't that mean it's unlucky for me too?"
Shen Qingli's smile was so faint that it was almost invisible, and his tone was slightly cold:
"Aunt, now is now, and the past is the past. We didn't have the conditions and awareness before. Who wouldn't go to the hospital for a checkup when they're pregnant now?
We can't always live in the past, we have to keep pace with the times, right? In the past, people were so poor that they ate Guanyin soil, tree roots, and mice. Would Aunt San be willing to eat them now?
The ones who were born grew up fine. Doesn't Auntie San know that those who were born with deformities, died young, or had congenital diseases had no chance of growing up? Are these the minority?
"What you know is fine, and we won't know what's wrong. It's a rough statement, but the truth is there, isn't it? What do you think, Aunt San?"
The series of words left Wu Zhaodi speechless, with a breath stuck in her chest. She was used to picking fights, and no one in the Meng family bothered with her. The only troublemaker she encountered was Ye Qiu who dared to challenge her. She didn't expect that her daughter-in-law was as tough as her.
Shen Qingli didn't expect that he would meet the "legendary Third Aunt" as soon as they met.
"You're saying so much, but you're just worried about the baby in your belly."
She muttered something under her breath.
Ye Qiu heard it, and patted Shen Qingli's hand to signal her to calm down.
I took over the conversation: "You are right, Third Brother. My daughter-in-law is pregnant with the fourth generation of the Meng family. It is a treasure that the whole family must hold in their arms. This is my precious gold nugget. You must take it seriously."
"Isn't it just a child? Can you give birth to..."
"Old Third, shut up!"
Wu Zhaodi was so shocked by the old man's slamming of the table that she couldn't say the rest of the words.
But half of the sentence was said, and no one present was a fool. Who could not guess what the second half was?
Except for the third room, everyone in the living room looked straight at her.
"If you can't speak at your age, just shut up!"
The old man's face flushed with anger. "How could a man in his forties not think before he speaks? How could he be so vicious?"
Wu Zhaodi didn't dare to confront the old man.
For a moment, the atmosphere was somewhat tense.
"We're back." Several juniors came in one after another, and their arrival eased the tense atmosphere in the living room.
"Brother! Ke Xin!" A young man strode up to Meng Xiao.
"Xiao Cheng, you've become much stronger!" Meng Xiao stretched out his fist and gently bumped the young man's shoulder.
Meng Cheng had a dark complexion, but when he smiled, he had a pair of bright white teeth. "Brother, I'm very strong now. Let's have a fight someday. Kexin, are you stupid? Don't you recognize me?"
"I know you! I saw you talking to my elder brother. Brother, I miss you so much." Meng Kexin jumped onto Meng Cheng's back.
Meng Cheng quickly supported her legs. "Come down quickly, why are you still acting like a child?"
"Big brother."
"Brother Meng Xiao."
The next person who came up to talk was a cousin, two cousins from the third room, and a girl? I didn't know them.
"Yeah." Even if it weren't for what happened to Third Aunt just now, Meng Xiao wouldn't be very close to these people. The first reason was that they were not familiar with each other because they had not been together since childhood and had little contact.
Secondly, these three people have inherited their mother's temperament. Every time they come home for the New Year, they are never happy.
Meng Xiao still remembered a time when the three siblings set someone else's firewood on fire. The fire was huge, but when the adults questioned them, they all said it was him. That day, their father's belt was so strong that it broke, but the three of them refused to speak a word on his behalf and even made hypocritical sarcastic remarks.
More than once, what they did made Meng Xiao hate them more and more.
Thoughts turn back
"Brother, this is my girlfriend. Shen Jiayao." As soon as Meng Hao finished speaking, Shen Qingli, who had been talking to Ye Qiu with his eyes lowered, paused and slowly raised his head to look at the profile not far away.
Coincidentally, Shen Jiayao turned her head at this moment, and their eyes met.
"Sister?!" Shen Jiayao screamed!
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