Chapter 8 Maybe You're Angry at Me

That’s not all.

Su Rouer swallowed her anger and took the crying Ju Ge'er back to her third room. Just as she coaxed Ju Ge'er to stop crying, not long after, Mrs. Wei came over.

Before Su Rouer could figure out how to respond to Mrs. Wei, she said with a cold face, "I went back to my parents' home the other day and brought back a piece of cloth. None of the other boys in the family had it, so I gave it to Ju Ge'er. I thought that Ju Ge was growing up, so I asked you to make two sets of clothes for him--"

But Ju Ge'er was still angry about the wild fruit, and said angrily: "Grandma, I don't want your cloth, I don't want it!!!"

He turned his little body back and ran away, wanting his grandmother to know that he was very angry and to come and comfort him quickly!

Mrs. Wei repeated slowly: "You don't want my cloth?"

Ju Ge'er turned his back to Mrs. Wei and replied firmly, "No, no, no!"

But Mrs. Wei smiled.

Before Su Rou'er could react, she saw that Mrs. Wei's eyes had already fallen on the sewing basket she had placed on the kang, and she said as a matter of course: "Well, since Ju Ge'er said he doesn't want it, then I'll take the clothes made of the scraps of cloth."

She spoke slowly, but Su Rouer felt as if struck by lightning.

No? What does mother-in-law mean?

Su Rouer looked at Mrs. Wei in disbelief as she took out the new clothes she had just made from the bamboo basket, turned it over and over to look at it, nodded disapprovingly, took it and left.

"Mother——" Su Rouer panicked, "No, you——"

Mrs. Wei turned around, her eyes a little cold: "Why, you mean I can't take it? Not to mention that this piece of cloth was originally given to you by me, even if it was your own, how can I, as your mother-in-law, not take a piece of cloth from you?"

Su Rouer was shocked by Mrs. Wei's momentum and stammered, "No, nothing - it's just, it's just, this cloth..." After stuttering for a long time, she finally found a reason and spoke fluently, "Mother, this cloth, I have already cut it according to Ju Ge'er's height, weight and body shape -"

Mrs. Wei laughed and said with a hint of sarcasm, "You heard it just now. Ju Ge'er said he didn't want it. Besides, it's okay to cut it according to Ju Ge's height, weight and body shape. I'll make some changes and it will be just right for Xing Xing to wear."

Su Rouer was like being struck by lightning!

How could she have imagined that her mother-in-law forcefully took the cloth away to make clothes for the little girl? !

Su Rouer was so angry that she was shaking and couldn't speak.

Mrs. Wei then remembered something and said lightly, "Oh, by the way, the piece of cloth I gave you earlier was enough to buy two sets of clothes for Ju Ge. There should be some material left over from this one set. Look for it and bring it back to my room."

After saying this, Mrs. Wei didn't even look at Su Rouer's face, which looked like she had lost her parents, and walked away with the cloth.

As Mrs. Wei was walking along the gravel path in the middle of the yard toward the main house, she heard the sound of a stool falling to the ground in the third room behind her.

She didn't care whether Su Rouer accidentally touched it or deliberately dropped it for her to hear. With a sneer on her face, she went to the main room with the cut cloth without looking back, and directly pulled Xingxing, who was eating wild fruits obediently on the kang, up and asked her to stand with her arms outstretched to measure the size.

Xing Xing was a little confused and let Mrs. Wei turn her around and measure something.

After Grandma Wei was satisfied and collected the three yuan ruler, as if she had finished her work, Xing Xing swallowed the wild fruit in her mouth and asked curiously, "Grandma, what are you going to do?"

Mrs. Wei took the scissors and started cutting the cloth again. Without even looking back, she said, "I'll make you a new dress. The one you're wearing is Gui Ge'er's old dress, so it's still not enough."

Xing Xing was stunned.

Mrs. Wei was a little surprised to see that Xingxing was motionless behind her. She turned around and saw the little girl wiping her tears with her hands, her nose was red.

Mrs. Wei was startled: "What's wrong, Xingxing?"

Xingxing's big almond-shaped eyes were filled with tears. She choked up and said, "Grandma, you are so good to Xingxing. Xingxing will definitely, definitely be filial to you."

When the little girl said this, she was very serious and pious, as if this was the wish that she was going to spend her entire life trying to realize.

"Okay, then grandma will wait." Grandma Wei responded with soft and loving eyes.

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Previously, the Yu family also ate three meals a day, but in recent years there has been a famine, food has been a scarce commodity, and people have to eat sparingly, so they changed to two meals a day, morning and evening.

However, when the farming season was busy and required a lot of physical effort, at noon, Mrs. Wei would still ask her daughter-in-law to prepare some food to fill her stomach and send it to the fields.

These days it is Bai Xiaofeng's turn to cook in the kitchen.

Delivering food to the fields is an easy job and has always been done by Su Rouer.

But today, Mrs. Wei gave Su Rouer a good beating, and the door of the third room was kept tightly closed. Even Ju Geer did not come out again.

It was almost time to go to the fields to deliver meals, but the door to the third room had not been opened yet.

Bai Xiaofeng was unhappy. She was afraid that her husband would be hungry in the fields, so she prepared food early. But Su Rouer was throwing a tantrum. Did she not care about her husband or what?

Li Chunhua from the first room was also anxious. She patted the door of the third room and shouted several times.

However, there was no response at all. Li Chunhua put her ear close to the door and could only hear two sobbing sounds from inside the house, as if Ju Ge'er had his mouth covered.

This obviously means that they don't want Orange Brother to open the door.

Li Chunhua was also anxious and was about to curse, but Bai Xiaofeng grabbed her arm and said, "Sister-in-law, my third brother's wife may be feeling unwell. Let her rest for a while. I just cooked and I smell like firewood. I haven't cleaned the stove yet. How about you go and take her there? That way, the men in the fields won't go hungry."

Li Chunhua also felt sorry for her man and didn't have any other thoughts, so she agreed immediately and went out with the lunch box.

Bai Xiaofeng glanced at the door of the third room, then secretly glanced at the main house, then turned around and went to clean up the stove room.

There are only three rooms, and there is no movement at all.

At dusk, Old Man Yu and his four sons were walking home, each carrying farm tools.

They all took a long-awaited shower in the stream just now, and they all felt refreshed.

The meal has been set in the house.

In the afternoon, Mrs. Wei took out five copper coins and went out to buy a piece of pig fat. There had been no meat in the house for a long time. Bai Xiaofeng was excited and used all her skills to stir-fry a large pot of wild amaranth with the pig fat. It was so fragrant.

Several men from the Yu family smelled the unique aroma of lard as soon as they smelled it. They were all very excited and sat down quickly.

Yu Sanbao, the third son of the Yu family, then realized that his eldest and second sisters-in-law were busy setting the table, but there was no sign of his wife.

He remembered that his eldest sister-in-law had brought him lunch at noon, but he didn't see his wife. When he asked her, she just said she wasn't sure, maybe there was something else going on.

What else could be going on? Why are you still nowhere to be seen when we are having dinner?

"Mother, what's the matter with Rou'er? Why hasn't she come over yet?" Yu Sanbao originally asked Mrs. Wei casually, but he never thought that this question was like poking a hornet's nest. Mrs. Wei's face immediately fell, and she slammed her chopsticks on the table and sneered: "She? She didn't want to go to the field to bring you lunch at noon, and now she doesn't come out to eat. I think she might be angry with me!"

These words almost scared Yu Sanbao so much that he jumped up from his stool!