In the morning, the bright sun shone on Tree Shadow's face. She was half asleep and always felt like someone was pushing her.
Shuying quickly opened her eyes and saw a little kid with big dark eyes staring at her fiercely on the bed: "You are not allowed to sleep in my bed!"
Suddenly, I heard the little guy say a few words in succession, compared to the previous three days when he only uttered the word "eat", and Shuying blinked.
oops!
There is progress!
"Get out! You are not allowed to sleep in my and my uncle's bed!" the little guy said in a baby voice with a vicious look on his face.
But he was extremely fair and handsome, and his vicious and arrogant tone formed a contrast with his fair and handsome appearance. To Shuying, this look was so cute.
After all, she was an adult and could not move even when pushed by the kid.
"Who said this bed is yours?" Shuying turned over.
As a result, she had been too exhausted last night and was in severe pain all over. The tree shadow hissed.
The young man took a pillow and placed it between the two of them, and rolled up the quilt and placed it in the middle as a dividing line.
Luckily, a man remembered to dress her after tormenting her last night.
Shuying looked down casually and saw dense purple marks all over her body. She gasped.
She has fair skin and there are so many of them that it looks quite shocking.
After last night, Shuying, who was suffering from back pain, felt that she could not believe anything a man said in bed from now on.
What do you mean by gentler?
That man was really torturing her.
Chen Yi looked curiously at the marks on her neck and collarbone.
Noticing the curious gaze of the little boy, Shuying put on his coat and went downstairs for fear of corrupting the child.
Seeing that it was getting bright outside, she felt it was not appropriate for her to stay in bed any longer, so she got up to pick up the child from the bed. However, her legs went weak and she fell back into bed.
I happened to see Chen Yi's contemptuous look.
Tree Shadow: “…”
After slowing down for a long time, her legs were still shaking but she was able to stand steadily. She took out her watch to check the time and saw that it was already nine o'clock in the morning.
It's so late?
Shuying hurriedly asked the little guy on the bed if he had breakfast.
Chen Yi had a cold expression and neither looked at her nor paid any attention to her.
Looking at his appearance, Shuying guessed that the boy must have eaten. Most likely, some man went to the cafeteria early in the morning to get food and came back to eat it.
Shuying didn't forget to thank Li Hongqi for sending her off last night, so she planned to take some hygiene, do some shopping, and then make something nice to send to him as a thank you, and by the way, "clean up" this little guy who dared to look down on her and didn't want her to sleep in her bed.
I saw him lying on the bed playing by himself, with the edge of the bed not high from the ground.
Shuying was relieved.
Go wash up.
While washing up, Shuying saw that the man had gradually sorted out the things that were piled in the main room last night. The pots, bowls, and utensils were placed in the kitchen, the large vat was filled with clean water, and some weeds were removed in the front yard.
Shuying gave her man a thumbs up in her heart.
Until her eyes fell on the wet sheets hanging on the clothesline in the front yard.
It immediately reminded her that when the man was torturing her in bed last night, he still took the child into consideration and controlled his strength to torment her only once.
Just when she thought it was almost over, the man actually picked her up, got a new bed sheet from the closet, and spread it on the floor and did it to her again.
It took the two of them nearly two hours to finish. Shuying was so tired that she couldn't even lift her hands, but the other party washed her body and carried her back to the bed without even breathing hard, as if he had just finished a warm-up and was still eager to get more.
Thinking back to last night when the man was getting new sheets from the closet to spread on the floor, he held her in his arms easily with one arm the whole time.
Why does she feel that she won’t have to worry about her happiness in the future?
Shuying tried his best not to think about the inappropriate scenes from last night. After brushing his teeth and washing his face, he saw that there were indeed two lunch boxes heating up in the pot.
She touched it and it was still a little warm.
Open the lunch box lid, there is a box of porridge and a box of several large white bread buns.
Shuying had just picked up the lunch box when he heard someone knocking on the door and shouting, "Mrs. Chen, are you there?"
When Shuying first heard the words 'Chen's daughter-in-law', she didn't react, but then she immediately remembered that her husband's surname was Chen.
She casually tied her hair up, put her lunch box on the table in the living room, and hurried out to the front yard to open the door.
When I opened the door, I saw a middle-aged woman standing at the door. She was about thirty years old, with dark skin, ordinary facial features, but a kind look. She was wearing a blue Dacron top with black pants, and her hair was combed neatly into a low braid at the back of her head.
He also brought over a basket of cabbage and eggplant.
Shuying hurriedly said, "Sister-in-law!"
"My surname is Gao, and I'm the daughter-in-law of the Chen family. You can just call me Sister-in-law Gao!" Sister-in-law Gao said as she looked at the girl in front of her.
Just this morning, she found out that Chen Tuan’s new wife was a country girl and felt sorry for it. But she never expected that Chen Tuan’s new country girl would be so beautiful.
When I came over to open the door for her just now, her eyes were wide open at the sight of that little face. When she looked at it from a closer distance, she was even more beautiful and fair, with big black eyes, especially black hair, and a slightly red mouth.
We all have a pair of eyes, a nose and a mouth, but why do they appear on Chen Tuan’s wife’s face and are so beautiful!
Before, Deputy Commander Fang’s wife was one of the most beautiful in the military region. But after seeing the appearance of Commander Chen’s new wife, she felt that Commander Fang’s wife was not good enough.
Look at that tender little face!
It's hard to tell how old he is.
Shuying didn't know what Gao's wife was thinking, so she hurriedly said, "Gao's wife! My last name is Yang, and my name is Shuying. You can just call me by my name."
"Okay, Miss Yang!" Mrs. Gao was a very enthusiastic person. After taking a look at Chen Tuan's wife, she quickly handed her a basket and said, "These are all vegetables grown in my yard. They are not worth much. I sent them to you and Chen Tuan to taste. You and Chen Tuan just arrived and can't go to the market to buy them right away. Try my vegetables first!"
Mrs. Gao's delivery of the vegetables was really timely. Shuying was very grateful. Although she had the vegetables in her mall, she couldn't sell them openly at the moment.
With these dishes, she could also mix some vegetables from the mall, so she didn't have to go to the cafeteria to get food. Shuying decided to make something good to bring back to her family, and hurriedly thanked, "Thank you so much, Sister Gao!"
Mrs. Gao waved her hands and said, "We are neighbors, so there is no need to be polite. There is no need to say anything thankful!"
Look, Mrs. Gao said that her home is in the courtyard next to his.
Before leaving, Mrs. Gao enthusiastically told her that if she wanted to live in the front mud-brick house, she had to ask her husband to apply for it quickly.
Mrs. Gao added, "Although the mud-brick house is convenient, it's not as big as our yard, which is about 60 square meters. Each has its own advantages. You can discuss it with Chen Tuan and decide!"
He also said that the town market was an hour and a half’s walk from the military area, which was not far and that the market would be there in two days.
She is free these two days. If you want to go to the market, you can come to find her and we can all walk to the market together.
If she wanted to purchase something large or get a car, she had to ask her husband to go to the military district to apply for one.
On weekdays, the kitchen team would purchase supplies once a month or once every half a month. If there was a market, they could take a ride. If they wanted to go to the county town, they could also take a ride.
However, the military area is too far away from the county town, and it is not easy to go there.
There is a village near the military area called Shilitun. People like to go there to exchange or buy things with the villagers.
But give the money secretly and don't let anyone know.
He also asked her when she was free and wanted to take her to meet other sisters-in-law in the military region. Chen Tuan had specifically asked her for help early in the morning.
Shuying was extremely grateful for the useful and detailed information she got from Mrs. Gao. She quickly invited Mrs. Gao to sit in the main room and she poured her some water.
The man boiled the water early in the morning, and she just drank a cup of it.
Mrs. Gao knew that she had just arrived and estimated that nothing was packed in the house, so she immediately found an excuse to refuse, and said that she lived next door and there would be plenty of opportunities to sneak in later.
Only then did Shuying stop.
After closing the door, Shuying brought a basket of vegetables into the main room. The basket was full of vegetables. This Mrs. Gao was so real.
Shuying took the water to the bedroom to see if the child was thirsty. Seeing that he was not thirsty or hungry, he drank the boiled water and sat in the main room to eat breakfast.
There was a lot of work to do at home today, so Shuying hurriedly ate breakfast and washed the lunch box, then returned to the kitchen, boiled a pot of water to boil dishes and scrubbed the cupboards.
She first boiled all the pots, pans, and utensils in hot water, and then scrubbed the stove and cupboards.
Wait until the cabinets are almost dry before putting the pots, bowls, pans, and seasonings on the stove.
The seasoning is just a bucket of oil and a packet of salt.
Shuying redeemed the pumpkin from the mall, cut the pumpkin into pieces, and steamed it in a pot.
While steaming, she filled a basin with water and put in the laundry detergent redeemed at the mall to wipe the bed and table in the other bedroom, and cleaned the house thoroughly inside and out.
Fortunately, the house was not big, and the main room and two bedrooms were empty with only a few tables, so she worked quickly.
When he was almost done, Shuying was sweating profusely and went back to the kitchen to turn off the fire.
Add sugar and crush the pumpkin with an iron spoon, pour it into a bowl and add flour to knead the dough.
After kneading the dough and setting it aside to rest, Shuying took out a handful of red beans and stewed them.
In addition to pumpkin pie, Shuying also plans to make egg cake.
Without a man's help, Shuying's hands were sore from beating the egg whites.
She did have an egg beater in the mall, but there was no socket in the courtyard. She could only use a few more pairs of chopsticks to beat the egg whites with sugar by hand.
Hearing the noise, Chen Yi walked from the bedroom to the living room, climbed onto the chair, and stared at her beating the egg whites with curious blinking eyes.
When he saw the clear egg white expand and turn into a paste after a few minutes, his black eyes as big as grapes immediately widened in shock.
Shuying had noticed the kid climbing onto the table, and only looked away when he saw he was sitting well and not falling.
Just then, out of the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of the little guy's round face, which looked very adorable in Shuying's eyes.
On impulse, she kissed the little guy on the cheek.
Chen Yi was stunned.
As she continued beating egg whites in the shadow of the tree, she saw the little guy glaring at her angrily and viciously with his eyes wide open. He quickly got off the table and went back to the bedroom. Before returning to the bedroom, he deliberately wiped his cheeks in front of her with a look of disgust.
Tree Shadow: “…”
By the time the egg whites were almost beaten, Shuying's hands were so sore.
She was too lazy to stuff the flour in, so when the red beans were almost cooked, she removed the coal stove, heated the oil in the pot, made the flour and sugar into a paste, added sugar and milk and stirred, then poured it back into the large bowl of egg whites and continued to stir, then washed the pot clean and put the beans in to steam.
While the egg cake was being steamed, the cooked red beans had cooled down a bit. She crushed them with an iron spoon, kneaded the dough, and wrapped the red bean paste in them and placed them one by one on the chopping board.
She made a lot of pumpkin pancakes.
After the egg cake was steamed, she placed it on another chopping board, turned on the old-fashioned exhaust fan, immediately poured some oil into the hot pan, brushed oil on both sides of the pumpkin cake dough and fried it in the pan.
I didn't really want to eat fried pumpkin pancakes after breakfast.
But the fried pumpkin pancakes taste really good.
Look, Chen Yi, who had just returned to the bedroom, smelled the fragrance and was standing at the kitchen door.
Shuying was afraid that the smell of cooking smoke would enter the living room and bedroom, so he closed the doors of the bedrooms on both sides when he went out.
She was about to close the wooden door of the kitchen, and just when she was about to ask the child standing at the door if he wanted to come in, the little boy turned around and ran away.
Okay!
Shuying closed the door and concentrated on frying the pumpkin pancakes. Hearing the sound of a door being pushed open behind him, he pursed his lips and smiled, pretending not to know.
After the pumpkin pie cooled down a bit, she picked up a pumpkin pie, turned around and handed it to the boy, asking him if he wanted to try it.
Chen Yi smelled the aroma of fried pumpkin pancakes just now, and her mouth was watering.
He was just about to grab the orange and fragrant pumpkin pie.
Shuying suddenly pinched his paw. Chen Yi was startled. Shuying filled a basin with cool water for him to wash his hands before handing him the pumpkin cake.
Chen Yi quickly lowered his head and took a bite of the pumpkin pie. After tasting the sweet, crispy, soft and glutinous pumpkin pie, his eyes suddenly widened, as if he couldn't believe that there was such a delicious food.
"Let's go sit in the main room outside and eat. The kitchen is very fumy!" Shuying washed his hands and patted the boy's head.
While she was talking, Chen Yi had already quickly finished eating the pumpkin pie and said to her, "I want more!"
Fried pumpkin pancakes can cause sore throat, so one should not eat too much. Shuying gave him a cup of boiling water and another one, then brought the kid to the main room and let him eat while drinking the water.
You are not allowed to eat any more pumpkin pie after you finish eating it.
Chen Yi sat on a wooden chair in the main room and ate pumpkin cake.
Shuying returned to the kitchen and continued working.
She had almost finished frying the pumpkin cakes, so she wrapped six of them in wax paper bags and also cut two or three pieces to serve as little cakes.
This gift is almost done. Both egg cake and fried pumpkin pie are very rare in this era.
After all, food was tight in that era, and there were so many people in the family, so how could we afford to fry food with oil, let alone make egg cakes?
Shuying only packed three portions. After all, she had just arrived and was not familiar with the place and did not recognize anyone, so she could only deliver to Li Hongqi's home and the two neighbors next door.
At Li Hongqi's house and next door Gao Dasao's house, Shuying added an extra piece of egg cake.
After wrapping three portions, there were five or six pumpkin pancakes and one-fifth of the egg cake left at home.
Shuying washed the pot, wiped the stove clean, cut some egg cakes and took them out for the children in the main room.
Who would have thought that after licking his fingers, the little guy said in a baby voice: "I want to eat the fried yellow cake, not this one!"
Yes, when she was a child, she had no resistance to fried and pan-fried food.
However, the pancakes were too greasy, so she didn't dare give him more. She said there weren't many left and she would give him one in the evening.
Chen Yi's cheeks bulged with anger: "You are lying, I just saw you secretly packing a lot of cakes!"
Shuying said in a gentle voice: "That's for someone else."
"You gave the cakes to others but not to me. I will tell my uncle! You are also a bad woman! I want my uncle to not want you, a bad woman."
Tree Shadow: “…”
Shuying was thinking about talking to the kid properly, but the next moment she heard the kid scolding her as a bad woman and wanted her man to leave her?
Shuying was simply not used to him anymore. She pinched his angry cheeks and said, "I'm a bad woman. Why are you eating what I made?"
"I will never eat anything you cook again. You and my stepmother are both bad women. You are the best at pretending!" After saying that, the little guy got up and ran to the bedroom.
Shuying couldn't bear to think of the child stretching out his two greasy hands to climb onto her bed, so she quickly grabbed him and forced him to go to the kitchen, where she washed his greasy hands with soap before letting him go.
After washing his paws, the young man snorted at her and repeated, "I will never eat anything you cook again, you bad woman!"
Shuying thought to herself that if she cooked something delicious in the future, he would be able to hold back his anger, which would make him a real man.
When the boy returned to the bedroom, Shuying had not forgotten the word "stepmother" that he had just called out.
When she first brought the child to the military region, her parents-in-law told her family that their eldest son was divorced and it was inconvenient for him to take care of the child.
However, based on the information revealed by the young man, Shuying felt that her husband's bringing his nephew to the military region was most likely related to his stepmother.
Ask that man a question tonight.
Shuying first delivered two packages of pumpkin cookies and egg cakes to Gao Dasao's house next door.
Mrs. Gao thought that Sister Yang wanted to talk to her about something, so she saw Sister Yang giving her a package of something.
Mrs. Gao took a look and saw that it was an egg cake or some kind of shiny fried cake. She was stunned.
How could Mrs. Gao accept it? She quickly refused. Shuying said, "Mrs. Gao, I made these cakes and biscuits myself. I had nothing to do after cleaning the house this morning, so I made something to eat. Take it and let the children at home taste it."
Isn't Chen Tuan's wife from a small rural town? How come her handwork is so big?
Seeing that Mrs. Gao was still refusing, Shuying stuffed the oil-paper package into Mrs. Gao's arms and asked her about Li Hongqi's home.
I learned that Sister Yang was going to send a pack of this egg cake and pancakes to Li Hongqi's family. I wonder how much oil Sister Yang spent in the morning!
No wonder she and the children smelled the scent of old incense in the yard just now.
With this in mind, Mrs. Gao still told Li Hongjia which floor of the mud-brick house she lived in.
Shuying delivered a package to Mrs. Gao's house, and then went to the other side of the house and knocked on the door to deliver another package. Unfortunately, after a long time, no one opened the door.
Shuying thought no one was there, so he took the egg cake and pumpkin pie back to the yard.
When I returned to the yard, the little guy had already come out of the bedroom. He was squatting by the yard with his butt sticking out and his back to the tree shadow, watching ants.
Li Hongqi's home was in a mud-brick house, some distance from hers, and she was worried about leaving the little one alone in the house.
She took a pack of egg cakes and pumpkin pie from the main room, walked up to the boy and said, "Come on, I'll take you for a walk outside, so you can make more friends in the future!"
Boys can't stay at home all the time.
Chen Yi ignored him, and Shu Ying said helplessly: "I'll give you another pumpkin pie."
"I don't eat bad women's food!"
Shuying thought that if this was her biological son, she would definitely find a small vine.
"You really don't want to eat it?" Shuying asked. Seeing how much the little guy liked pumpkin pie just now, she was quite impressed that he could resist eating it even when she put it in front of him.
She had no choice but to take the man to Gao Dasao's house and ask her to help take care of him.
In the Gao family's small courtyard, Mrs. Gao got Yang Meizi's egg cake and pumpkin pie, and was spotted by her third son.
Clamoring for food.
Mrs. Gao gave each of the children a piece of pumpkin pie and took out a piece of egg cake for the three children to share.
The first time Gao Zhi, Gao Xiang and Gao Yuan ate fried pumpkin pancakes or egg cakes, they were all astonished.
The three children had never eaten anything so delicious before.
Captain Gao and his wife are both from the countryside, and their family has to send some of their wages back home, so they are usually quite frugal.
The three of them devoured the food.
The youngest one, Gao Yuan, said, "Mom, these biscuits and egg cakes are so delicious. I can eat all of them by myself!"
"Mom, I want to eat more! Give us another piece!" The eldest brother Gao Zhi and the second brother Gao Xiang said in unison.
"You'll eat it all. What will your father eat? Go away!"
Mrs. Gao couldn't resist and tried a piece of pumpkin pie. It tasted really good. A lot of oil and fillings were put in it. No wonder the child liked to eat it, Mrs. Gao muttered in her heart.
Hearing the knock on the door, she hurried to open it. After learning the purpose of Shuying's visit, Mrs. Gao quickly brought the children into her home. Coincidentally, her three sons were at home.
The child was temporarily sent to Mrs. Gao's home, and Shuying hurriedly sent the portion for Li Hongqi's family to his home.
In the evening, Chen Xi had just returned from the county town in a military vehicle. At the gate, he ran into Fang Boran, who had just returned from training. Fang Boran greeted him with a smile and invited him to his home for dinner. Chen Xi did not go, so Fang Boran asked, "Chen Tuan, I heard that you got married? When did it happen?"
Chen Xi replied succinctly: "Just these few days!"
Fang Boran said: "Next time, Chen Tuan, you must introduce my sister-in-law to me!"
Chen Xi replied: "Let's talk about it when we have time!"
After Chen Xi entered the yard, Fang Boran also entered the small yard. His wife was lying on the sofa in the main room with a cucumber facial mask on her face. Looking at his wife's fair and beautiful face, Fang Boran felt quite superior. When he was in the military area, he was always inferior to Chen Xi.
Others said that he was not as capable as Chen Xi, so he tried his best to be promoted to deputy regiment commander, but in the blink of an eye, Chen Xi was promoted from deputy regiment commander to regiment commander based on his military achievements, and was also transferred to the Kyoto Military Region.
Now Chen Xi was transferred back to Ganshi Military Region and married a country girl. Fang Boran sighed in his heart, but he was in a very good mood. He asked, "Did anyone from next door come to our house today?"
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