Chapter 384 Threat
Even the most skillful cook can't cook without rice.
The wild vegetables that Song Lubai dug up tasted terrible. After washing them and boiling them, they tasted bitter after being made into a cold dish.
The three children were eating a mixed grain rice with bitter wild vegetables, their brows furrowed.
They thought that once their aunt came home, they would be able to eat something delicious, but to their surprise, the food was still just as bad.
"Auntie, didn't you used to cook really well?"
Song Lubai said, "It's good enough to have something to eat, why be picky?"
She's become so fussy about cooking that she even wants everyone to praise her wild vegetables for being delicious.
She's not even willing to cook anymore because the kid said that, hmph!
Wei Zhao snorted, "You used to say my cooking was terrible every day, now shut up! Eat it all, don't leave any!"
After dinner, while the children were washing the dishes, Song Lubai gave Wei Zhao the face cream, mirror, and hair clips that the little girl had bought from Shicheng. In addition, there was a bag of walnut shortbread sprinkled with melon seeds.
Walnut shortbread was a new pastry at Shicheng Department Store. Song Lubai was able to buy it using Feng Ying's pastry coupon.
She kept some of everything she brought back for herself, and in addition, she bought underwear for herself and Wei Yang.
Fabric and ready-made clothes both require cloth coupons, but undershirts worn underneath do not.
As for the things she brought back for Zhao Hongying and the remaining money, she had already given them to her when she returned home after digging for wild vegetables.
At this moment, Zhao Hongying was washing the two undershirts that Song Lubai had brought back for her.
She had a red ribbon tied around her head, which was the one Song Lubai had brought back for her before.
The couple, one humming a tune as he washed his underwear, and the other lounging on the bed with his legs crossed, happily munching on crumbs of biscuits.
Liu Zhigao was overjoyed. He was almost tanned to a crisp, but he was relieved that he wouldn't have to toil in the sun every day anymore.
"Wife, if you try to climb higher and become a big leader, you can get me a job in the government too. Then our whole family will be government employees. Just thinking about it makes me... hehehehehehehe..."
Hearing his laughter and seeing his unambitious, dreamy behavior, Zhao Hongying felt an urge to pinch him hard.
"Where's your face! Where's your face?!"
Liu Zhigao sat up and brought his face close to Zhao Hongying's, saying, "Your face is right here, hit me as much as you want!"
"Smack!"
The one who got slapped wasn't Liu Zhigao, but Zhao Dongmei, who had just entered the house with her child in her arms.
Zhao Dongmei and her child worked in the fields all morning, and she was so tired that her eyes were blurry. She only managed to regain some strength after lunch.
She slowly carried her child, who was covered in dirt, home, thinking that by this time Feng Xiaolong and Feng Yaozu should have finished eating and left home.
She doesn't really like staying at home when the father and son are there.
The baby was crying loudly from hunger, but she hardened her heart and stayed at the camp a little longer before carrying the baby back home.
Who would have thought Feng Xiaolong was still at home!
As soon as she entered, Feng Xiaolong closed the door and asked her with a long face if she had said anything bad about the regimental commander's wife's mother.
Zhao Dongmei remained silent for a long time before Feng Xiaolong, with his bulging eyes, slapped her.
"What the hell am I supposed to say? I went through all that trouble, even shoving my knees, to beg someone to let you work at the kindergarten, and you, instead, you're talking badly about others and ruining your own chances!"
Feng Xiaolong poked Zhao Dongmei's head hard and asked, "Do you even have a brain?"
Is your brain made of mush?
"No wonder that guy in front of you hit you! Looking at you like this, I want to beat you to death!"
Taking advantage of her pregnancy, Zhao Dongmei retorted defiantly, "Then hit me! Beat me to death! You'd better get rid of this child. If you do, we can get a divorce. I won't be the mother of your child anymore, since you don't like my son anyway!"
Feng Xiaolong snatched the child from Zhao Dongmei's arms, holding the child up and threatening her, "You fucking refuse to admit your mistake, huh? And you're even threatening me to divorce you! I'm not afraid of you divorcing me!"
Feng Xiaolong slapped the little brat on the bottom, and the child burst into tears.
"Just tell me, are you wrong or not!"
Zhao Dongmei tried to snatch the child, but Feng Xiaolong slapped the child again, then shoved Zhao Dongmei hard against the wall and demanded, "Didn't you say you were wrong?"
Hearing the child crying, Zhao Dongmei clutched her chest and screamed frantically.
Still not satisfied, Feng Xiaolong slapped the child again, determined to force Zhao Dongmei to admit her mistake.
"Are you wrong or not?!"
Zhao Dongmei scrambled to him to snatch the child, crying and saying repeatedly, "I was wrong, I was wrong!"
Feng Xiaolong then let go and returned the child to her.
"Don't you know how tough life is? I went to great lengths to get you into kindergarten, and it's all because of your mouth. You seem so quiet all the time, but you're always gossiping like other women, talking behind people's backs. Use your brain! Who can gossip and who can't?"
It was precisely because he knew that none of his neighbors were home that Feng Xiaolong dared to make such a big commotion.
But the commotion they caused was so great that it attracted the attention of people who hadn't yet left home for work.
Zhao Hongying and her husband were on their way to kindergarten when they passed by and heard Zhao Dongmei screaming from inside.
After listening at the door for a while, Song Lubai and Wei Zhao also came to the vicinity. The group looked at each other, and Zhao Hongying stepped forward and kicked open the door.
Inside the house, Zhao Dongmei sat on the floor holding her child and cried. When Feng Xiaolong saw the person at the door, his expression became very unnatural, and he froze on the spot.
He had been a bit reckless in the heat of the moment, and now Feng Xiaolong was covered in a cold sweat.
Wei Zhao is the head of the women's affairs department, and this incident happened near her home, so there's no reason for her to pretend she didn't see it.
"Feng Xiaolong, try hitting me again!"
Feng Xiaolong argued, "I didn't hit anyone. Look at Zhao Dongmei for yourselves. I didn't lay a hand on her."
Zhao Dongmei screamed like a madwoman, "You hit my son! You hit my son every time! I'm going to kill you!"
Feng Xiaolong's face turned ugly. He pointed at Zhao Dongmei and said, "You did something wrong and wouldn't admit it, that's why I hit your son. You've been talking badly about the regimental commander's mother-in-law behind his back, and it's all over the place. How dare you!"
Zhao Dongmei screamed wildly, "I told you! I told you! You dare kill me..."
After she finished venting, Wei Zhao said, "If you want a divorce, we can help you."
Feng Xiaolong flew into a rage, "Which couple doesn't fight? How can you two be like this? You get divorced just because you argue and fight. How many families can live a good life together then!"
"She's pregnant with my child. We're divorced. Will you raise the child from now on?"
Wei Zhao looked at Zhao Dongmei and said, "Whether you divorce or not is up to you."
Zhao Dongmei lowered her head and cried, remaining silent for a long time.
She was holding a baby who wasn't even a year old, and she was pregnant with another one. Being divorced was shameful, and the children were pitiful...
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