Chapter 1191 The Meal Replacement Lady is Not Likeable (6)
"Haha, you just have a picky taste. This is the skill of Old Zhao in the kitchen. He is very good at making roasted deer legs. If he is willing to open a shop outside, he will definitely be flocking to customers. He thinks it is too tiring to open a shop, so he becomes a cook in our house." When Mrs. Zhan heard Yuan Shichu's praise, she said happily.
"So it's Master Zhao. Our family is so blessed. It's also because the old lady is so kind and sincere to others that such a master with superb cooking skills is willing to stay in the mansion." Yuan Shichu was very sweet-mouthed when she had something delicious. Sure enough, when Madam Zhan heard what she said, she smiled so much that the wrinkles on her face were stretched out, and she looked at her with very kind eyes.
Chen was still carefully using the soup in the bowl to wash off the oil on the venison slices, but when she heard her mother-in-law and the second daughter-in-law being so loving and filial, and living in harmony and joy, she immediately became alert: She was the eldest daughter-in-law, so how could she make the second daughter-in-law more likable in front of her mother-in-law?
So she no longer cared about the greasy venison leg slices, and began to flatter Old Madam Zhan with sweet words, unilaterally competing with Yuan Shichu for favor.
After Mrs. Zhan was amused by her words, Chen glanced at Yuan Shichu proudly, as if to say: I am the daughter-in-law that my mother-in-law values most!
At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty:
This is also a fight for favor? It's really inexplicable...
With a table of delicious food in front of him, Yuan Shichu didn't bother to compete with her for favor, so he began to concentrate on enjoying the food.
Zhan Shulin, who was sitting next to her, did not see the exchange of glances between the two sisters-in-law, but he saw how often Yuan Shichu moved his chopsticks. He clearly saw that Yuan Shichu had eaten a lot of venison.
"Eat less. Although venison is delicious, eating too much will cause you to get a sore throat or blisters at the corners of your mouth tomorrow..." Zhan Shulin reminded her in a low voice.
"It's okay. I'll have someone make some cooling tea for me when I get back." Yuan Shichu answered nonchalantly. If the cooling tea didn't work, she would just prescribe some cooling medicine for herself. Anyway, she couldn't give up the delicious venison on the table just because she was going to get a sore throat. This was impossible. How could delicious food be wasted?
Zhan Shulin looked at her in an indescribable way, wondering if the Yuan family had treated her badly in terms of food, but when he saw her rather deceptively elegant movements, he felt that this shouldn't be the case.
"Second brother, how long has it been since your sister-in-law last had a meal?" Zhan Yuanning saw Yuan Shichu's unrestrained way of eating and couldn't help but ask Zhan Shulin in surprise.
"She just has a good appetite." Zhan Shulin coughed and replied, then glanced at Chen who was only concerned with pleasing Madam Zhan and didn't even dirty the bowl, and said to Zhan Yuanning, "Sister-in-law seems to have lost a lot of weight recently. Big brother, you should pay more attention to sister-in-law and let her eat more."
Zhan Yuanning immediately said indifferently, "Your sister-in-law is just afraid of getting fat. She said that women should keep a good figure and being fat doesn't look good. If mother hadn't asked her to come for dinner today, she wouldn't even eat dinner at night, and would only eat some bird's nest snacks. But your sister-in-law doesn't seem to care about being fat at all, and she has a really good appetite. Eating with her will make your appetite much better, right?"
The two brothers kept mumbling to each other while drinking and eating meat.
After more than half an hour, the banquet finally ended. Yuan Shichu rinsed his mouth with the tea brought by the maid, wiped his hands, and then drank tea with others in the old lady's yard to digest the food.
The old lady looked at her sons, daughters-in-law and daughters around her, and while enjoying the family happiness, she couldn't help feeling a little regretful, because she was already over fifty years old, but no grandchild had been born yet. In particular, her eldest son and daughter-in-law had been married for five or six years, but still had no children. She was getting anxious waiting.
And my second daughter-in-law has been married for almost a month. If she is pregnant, it can be diagnosed...
Madam Zhan stared at her two daughters-in-law's stomachs, and finally couldn't help but ask Chen: "Chen, you still have no news about your stomach recently? Have you taken medicine? What did the doctor say?"
When Chen heard her mother-in-law bring up this issue in front of the whole family, especially with her second brother and his wife also present, she suddenly felt her face flushed and uncomfortable all over. She replied with a disappointed look, "The doctor prescribed a lot of medicine, but it didn't work after I took it. I don't know why..."
"The doctor didn't tell me if there's anything wrong with your body?" Mrs. Zhan refused to give up. "If there's nothing wrong with you, why can't you get pregnant?"
"The doctor said that I'm in good health. Although I'm a little weak, there will be no problem with pregnancy. I just don't know what's wrong..." Chen said in a low voice, lowering her head and biting her lip.
Madam Zhan, Yuan Shichu, and Zhan Shulin immediately looked at Zhan Yuanning. Zhan Yuanning's scalp tingled. Seeing that these people were about to doubt his health, he quickly explained, "There's nothing wrong with my health! The doctor said so himself, don't let your imagination run wild!"
"Yeah." Zhan Shulin nodded and looked at his elder brother with sympathy.
"Then it seems that your fate with the child has not yet arrived." Madam Zhan sighed and said, then turned to Yuan Shichu, "Second brother's family, what about you?"
Yuan Shichu didn't expect that she would be so angry after watching a play. She said in surprise: "Madam, I have been married to Shulin for less than a month, you are too impatient."
"How can I not be anxious? In any case, you and the second brother should work harder and give me a grandson as soon as possible." Old Madam Zhan urged Zhan Shulin and Yuan Shichu in a final voice.
"There is an order of seniority. It is best for the eldest son and grandson of the Zhan family to come from the eldest house. So old lady, you should still look forward to the eldest brother and sister-in-law. Shulin and I are not in a hurry." Yuan Shichu diverted the trouble to others, and she didn't expect that she would have to deal with induced childbirth.
"Yes, the order can't be messed up." Zhan Shulin agreed. It's not that he didn't want to have his own child, but he didn't want to have one at this time. After all, he always felt that his wife's heart was not with him, let alone in this family. She talked about divorce all the time, which showed that her heart was not stable. He didn't know when she would really divorce him. After all, she was a determined person who could even cut off contact with her own family.
If they had a child at this time, it would be difficult to deal with if she still wanted a divorce. Zhan Shulin didn't want his child to face a complicated family situation in the future, so it would be better to wait until his marriage with Yuan Shichu was stable before talking about having children.
Mrs. Zhan didn't expect her second son and second daughter-in-law to say that. After thinking for a while, she said, "Forget it. You have to make sense. If I interfere too much, you might even dislike me. You decide for yourself!"
"Mother is doing this for our own good. How could we dislike you?" Zhan Yuanning said quickly. "Mrs. Chen and I have always hoped to fulfill Mother's wish and give birth to a child earlier, but we have never been able to do so. If my second brother and his wife give birth to a child earlier than us, I don't care whether they are the eldest grandson or not..."
(End of this chapter)
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