After dinner at Xu's house, the family of five returned to Shen's house. As soon as they entered the house, they heard Aunt Gao say, "Someone sent an invitation this afternoon, saying it's a hundred-day banquet."

After hearing this, Meng Tao guessed that it might be the same invitation that Aunt Xu had brought. When Aunt Gao delivered it, she saw that it was indeed the 100-day banquet for Wei's grandson.

The invitation said that the whole family was invited, which meant that anyone could go. Shen Yu looked at the date and said, "Saturday? I might be very busy. Let Dad go on behalf of the whole family."

Meng Tao said: "If Dad goes, he must take Mom with him."

"Mom won't go. She is not suitable to attend other people's banquets for the time being."

"Then Dad, don't go either. I'll go."

"You're too playful, aren't you?" Shen Yu flicked his wife's forehead. "You ran out to play today and left the child to your aunt, and ended up getting scared by that pervert Xu Liwen. I haven't settled the score with you yet."

"I'm not playing. I told you I was going to do some serious work. I was sending a package to Zhou Cuiling."

"Are you in such a hurry? Can't you let me send it, or call Ding Hao and ask him to come back and send it for you?"

"no!"

Shen Yu: “…”

Seeing that his parents were carrying little Yunhai back to their house, he directly pulled his wife back to the room and closed the door to "settle the account".

On Saturday afternoon, Meng Tao fed her son and handed him over to Xu Zhen and Gan Sao, then changed her clothes and went to attend the 100-day banquet for her grandson at the Wei Mansion.

Shen Yu wanted to accompany Meng Tao to the wedding, but he was really busy these two days and couldn't spare the time; Shen Heping supported his daughter-in-law to go out more and participate in social activities, and was afraid that Meng Tao would not be able to find the Wei Mansion, so he specially asked his driver to come back and take Meng Tao to the banquet.

In fact, the Shen family and the Xu family could come together, but Meng Tao knew that the person sent by the Xu family today was her second aunt. She and Deng Liyun had nothing in common, and she didn't like Deng Liyun's personality, so forget it and go alone.

She looked through the register of gifts and cash gifts given at her son's full-month banquet. The gifts and cash gifts sent by the Wei family were all quite standard. Meng Tao consulted her parents-in-law and also gave an appropriate amount of cash gifts. She also took a canvas bag and put two sets of baby suits, a can of imported milk powder and a can of malted milk.

When she was in confinement, relatives and friends gave her a lot of milk powder and malted milk, but Xiao Yunhai only drinks breast milk now, so Meng Tao put the milk powder and malted milk into the space. After storing it for a long time, it is no longer ordinary milk powder. It is guaranteed to keep the elderly and children healthy after drinking it.

That day at Lao Mo's restaurant, Meng Tao heard Hu Hongshan say that the Wei family's baby was thin and crybaby, so she decided to give him two cans if she had the chance.

Fu Yuting is a nice person. I hope that both mother and child are in good health.

When we arrived at Wei's mansion, we saw a constant stream of traffic and guests in front of the gate, making it very lively.

Meng Tao got off the car and asked the driver to go back. She could take the bus after the banquet and there was no reason to let others wait here.

The Wei Mansion is a large courtyard with three entrances and covers a vast area, so they did not ask a hotel to host the banquet, but instead held the banquet in their own mansion. I heard that they invited a chef from a well-known restaurant to be the chef.

Meng Tao presented the gift money at the gatehouse as soon as she entered the courtyard, and walked in with the other guests holding the bag. When she entered the inner courtyard, she saw a thin woman in a light red top, smiling and greeting the guests. Meng Tao took a look and confirmed that the woman was Fu Yuting.

Fu Yuting also saw Meng Tao, and hurried over to hold her, saying in surprise: "Taotao! It's so good to see you! I've been thinking about you... Where's the baby?"

"The baby is at home, with his grandmother." Meng Tao replied with a smile.

Fu Yuting saw the guests coming in one after another, and wanted to talk to Meng Tao a few more words, so she pulled Meng Tao around to the back of a small rockery and deliberately lowered her voice to talk: "Time flies, your baby is more than two months old, his name is Shen Yunhai, right? I saw the invitation to the full moon banquet, my parents-in-law went to the wedding banquet and came back saying it was a grand occasion. Our baby was too small when he was born and was sick, so we didn't have a full moon banquet."

Meng Tao said, "It's the same for the Hundred Days Banquet. My Shen Yu and my father-in-law are both busy today, so I'm here to represent the whole family. I also wanted to come and see you and your baby. You're so thin, are you trying to maintain a good figure? Aren't you too slim?"

"I'm really glad you can come!"

Fu Yuting pursed her lips, her smile bitter: "I... didn't want to be slim, I just lost weight because I had a poor appetite and couldn't eat."

"You can't eat anymore? Do you have milk to provide for the baby? What if the baby has no nutrition?"

Fu Yuting paused and said awkwardly, "When the baby was just born, he didn't want to drink milk. My mother-in-law said that my milk tasted too bitter, so she didn't want me to breastfeed him and gave him milk powder instead."

Meng Tao was speechless. There was also this: "Is the milk bitter? Can't you taste it? Do you take care of the child by yourself day and night? Is there anyone to help?"

Fu Yuting's eyes suddenly turned red: "I've tried it, it's not bitter. But I've been feeding her with formula milk, and now I have no milk. I'll leave the child at my parents-in-law's yard, there's a nanny, so I don't have to take care of him."

"As a mother, what do you do every day if you don't take care of your children?"

"They said I was in poor health and too thin to take them."

"That's not an excuse. If you're not feeling well, go to the hospital for a checkup. If you're too thin, it means you can't eat and the food isn't nutritious. If you can't eat, then just stop eating? Why don't you try to eat well and stay healthy? The child is yours, not your parents-in-law's... Don't you want a child at all?"

Fu Yuting's tears fell. She wiped them with a handkerchief and quickly put it in her pocket. Tears were not the right thing to do today, but her voice was hoarse: "How could I not miss my child? I'm almost going crazy. The crying of my child is ringing in my ears day and night, but... you don't understand our family. My mother-in-law..."

"I don't know your family, and I can't understand you even more. My son lies next to me. Even if I'm soundly asleep, if someone picks him up, I will immediately open my eyes to see who it is. I have to make sure it's safe before letting him go. I'm a mother, and this is my right. As long as I don't want anyone to take my child away! The one I gave birth to with all my efforts is the most important. Why should I care about other people who have no blood relationship with me?"

"I..." Fu Yuting looked at Meng Tao in a daze.

At this time, a shrill voice came from across the rockery: "Where is Fu Yuting? Have you seen Fu Yuting? Where else has she gone to be idle if she is not greeting guests? What does she do all day? She just eats and drinks!"

Fu Yuting bit her lip and her expression became even uglier. Meng Tao guessed that the person who spoke must be Fu Yuting's mother-in-law.

Shen Yu had gossiped to her: Fu Yuting's father-in-law had married two wives. The first wife died of illness after giving birth to Wei Ziping, and the second wife gave birth to Wei Ziyao.

So Fu Yuting’s mother-in-law is not my biological mother-in-law.

(End of this chapter)