Chapter 1109 What if the disabled boss can’t get better? (4)
After Ye Jin went to work, Xiang Shichu had nothing to do. Xiang Nan was at his most playful age when he was seven or eight months old. He was interested in everything and was very happy to see the flowers and plants in the yard. If you picked a wild flower for him, he would play with it with great relish and would not bother Xiang Shichu at all.
It was very easy for her to take care of the children, but Wu Qingxuan next door was not so lucky. Her two step-sons were still young, one was five years old and the other was three years old. They both needed round-the-clock care. Children of this age could run and jump, and were extremely naughty. If you were not careful, you didn't know what trouble they would cause. Therefore, she was tense every day and had never felt relaxed since she married Jiang Rushong.
At this time, she was carrying a bowl of porridge to feed the younger child, but the child was just running around in the yard and didn't want to eat breakfast at all. Wu Qingxuan had to chase him to feed him.
"Xiaoyi, stop running. Let's finish the porridge first, okay?" Wu Qingxuan held her breath and coaxed Jiang Yi.
However, Jiang Yi didn't give her any face and refused outright, "No!" Then he ran around the yard laughing, as slippery as a loach, and Wu Qingxuan was panting as she chased him.
After finally catching up, she handed a spoonful of porridge to Jiang Yi's mouth. Jiang Yi still refused to eat it. He shook his head left and right with a look of disgust, and accidentally knocked the small spoon in Wu Qingxuan's hand off, and both the spoon and the porridge fell to the ground.
Wu Qingxuan felt as if a raging fire was about to burst out of her chest. She couldn't help but yelled angrily, "Jiang Yi!"
Jiang Yi was frightened by her yelling, but when he came to his senses, he burst into tears, crying and shouting: "My stepmother is bad! She is going to beat me! Dad, save me! My stepmother is going to beat me..."
He ran into the house while shouting, wanting to tell his father about it. Wu Qingxuan was stunned for a moment and hurriedly explained: "No, Xiaoyi! Mommy is not going to hit you. The spoon fell. Mommy is just a little angry. Don't be afraid..."
She didn't even bother to pick up the small spoon on the ground, and hurried in to explain to Jiang Rushong, fearing that Jiang Rushong really misunderstood that she was going to beat the child.
The Jiang family's yard and the Ye family's yard were separated by a wall, but the wall was only about one meter high, so Xiang Shichu saw everything clearly about Wu Qingxuan and Jiang Yi in the Ye family's yard.
She was watching with great interest. Even little Xiang Nan was attracted by the movements of the two people next door. He didn't even bother to play with the wild flowers in his hands. He stared with his big bright black eyes. Even after Jiang Yi and Wu Qingxuan entered the room, he was still reluctant to turn his gaze back.
Xiang Shichu pinched his little face amusedly and said, "Little guy, you are so excited about reading gossip?"
Little Xiang Nan finally came to his senses, huddled his cheek against his sister, and continued his exploration of nature.
After five or six minutes, Wu Qingxuan probably finished explaining the misunderstanding to Jiang Rushong and coaxed Jiang Yi. Then the stepmother and son came back to the yard and continued the drama of one running around and playing while the other chased and fed the child.
At this moment, no matter how naughty Jiang Yi was and how he refused to eat, Wu Qingxuan did not dare to show any dissatisfaction and had to coax him humbly. However, Jiang Yi was complacent and arrogant. It was obvious that Wu Qingxuan was controlled by this three-year-old stepson.
Xiang Shichu felt tired for her when she saw how she endured humiliation, so she kindly said to Wu Qingxuan, "Qingxuan, it must be too tiring for you to chase him around and feed him, right? Why don't you just let him eat by himself?"
When Wu Qingxuan heard Xiang Shichu's voice, she froze for a moment. It was obvious that she had just realized that the person she hated was watching her. She had just happened to be seen being bullied by her stepson. Wu Qingxuan felt ashamed, angry and aggrieved.
However, she couldn't show anything, so she could only force a stiff smile and said, "He doesn't want to eat by himself. I'm afraid he will be hungry if he doesn't eat breakfast, so I have to chase him to feed him. Children are naughty, and they are like this. It will be fine when he grows up and becomes sensible."
Xiang Shichu shook his head and advised her earnestly, "Qingxuan, in fact, it is more important to set rules for him to follow when he is a child, especially when it comes to eating. If he doesn't eat three meals by himself and has to be fed by others, it will be a waste of time. You will be busy feeding him all day, so how can you have time to do other things? And if you feed him for too long, the food will get cold, which is not good for his stomach.
So, you have to teach him well and train him to eat by himself, and you can't let him do whatever he wants."
Wu Qingxuan smiled bitterly and said, "I know what you said is right, but I have no choice. He doesn't want to listen to me at all. If I speak to him a little harshly, he will say that I have bad intentions and am a bad stepmother, and will complain to his father. How can I dare to teach him a lesson? I can only do this..."
Wu Qingxuan no longer cared that Xiang Shichu was someone she hated, and couldn't wait to complain to her: "Since I got married, I can't say that I have treated them well in every way, but I have done my best to take care of them. I wash and cook for them during the day, and cover them with quilts and coax them to sleep at night. I never say a word, but they are still very hostile to me. They think I drove away their mother and robbed their father..."
Xiang Shichu looked at her with sympathy and sighed, "It's not easy to be a stepmother, Qingxuan, you've worked hard."
When Wu Qingxuan heard her words, her eyes reddened and she almost cried. Only she knew how much suffering she had endured in the Jiang family in the past few months since she got married.
This was something she had never dreamed of in her dream. How could she know that being a stepmother would be so difficult? Thinking of this, she looked at Xiang Shichu again. Originally, she was supposed to be the stepmother of Jiang Yong and Jiang Yi, but now, she was holding her younger brother and watching her own excitement leisurely.
"Shichu, you're fine. Your brother is so well behaved that he doesn't need any care from adults." Wu Qingxuan said jealously.
Xiang Shichu immediately nodded in agreement and said, "Indeed, my brother is a good kid. He is having a lot of fun on his own. I don't have to worry about him at all."
Probably because Wu Qingxuan was too absorbed in talking to Xiang Shichu that she forgot to feed Jiang Yi, Jiang Yi himself became unhappy. He ran behind Wu Qingxuan at some point, raised one leg towards her, and kicked her hard on the leg, yelling, "Stepmother! Do you want to starve me to death? My grandmother is right, you are a bad woman..."
Wu Qingxuan was kicked unexpectedly by him, and she quickly covered the place where she was kicked in pain. Don't think that children can't hurt adults because they are not strong enough. Sometimes children don't know how to control their strength and the lethality is very large. Moreover, Jiang Yi was wearing hard-soled shoes, which made Wu Qingxuan feel even more painful.
"Xiaoyi, don't kick mom, it will hurt." Wu Qingxuan said while holding back her anger.
"Hehe, stepmother just needs a lesson..." Jiang Yi said with a smile.
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
