Chapter 1236: Marriage Recovered Through Fraud (2)
"Then come here, auntie will help you wash your face and brush your teeth." Shi Chu waved to Du Xiaoling and Du Xiaoling came over happily.
It was summer now, and there was no need to worry about catching a cold by washing your face with cold water, so Shi Chu did not boil hot water. He directly wiped Du Xiaoling's face with cold water. After wiping her, Shi Chu grabbed Du Xiaoshi again, and regardless of his struggle, he wiped his face before letting him go.
Du Xiaoshi was so angry that his face turned red. He frowned and scolded her: "Bad woman! I don't want you to be so kind!"
Shi Chu shrugged and said, "It's too late for you to talk. I have already cleaned your face."
"Humph!" Du Xiaoshi shouted angrily, "Then I, I won't let you wipe it tomorrow!"
"Tsk tsk, if you don't want to wipe it, then don't wipe it. Then whoever has eye boogers in the corners of their eyes will be laughed at..." Shi Chu said deliberately.
Du Xiaoling immediately made faces at her elder brother: "Wow, brother has eye boogers, people are laughing at him!"
"I don't have any eye boogers! No! If you don't believe me, look..." Du Xiaoshi was so angry that he chased after his sister, insisting that she see whether there was any eye boogers in the corners of his eyes.
Shi Chu went to fetch Du Xiaoling and asked her to brush her teeth.
"Auntie, I don't want to brush my teeth..." Du Xiaoling said with a sad face while looking at her small toothbrush.
"If you don't brush your teeth, they will be eaten by tooth decay. Then you will have black holes in your mouth. It will be so ugly..." Shi Chu threatened her.
Du Xiaoling was frightened by her words: "Are they as ugly as the cavities in Grandma Wang's mouth next door?"
"Yes, look at those toothless people in the village, which one of them is not ugly?" Shi Chu nodded and continued to fool her.
Du Xiaoling was so scared that she immediately brushed her teeth obediently: "I'll brush my teeth!"
After dealing with Du Xiaoling, Shi Chu still had to deal with Du Xiaoshi. Du Xiaoshi was a few years older than her and was not easy to fool. Plus, he was hostile towards Shi Chu. When he saw her coming with a toothbrush, he raised his chin with contempt and refused to pay any attention to Shi Chu.
Shi Chu would not treat him the same way she treated Du Xiaoling. She said directly to Du Xiaoshi, "Do you know how much this little toothbrush cost? If you don't brush your teeth, that's great. I can sell your toothbrush for candy."
It was the early 1970s when materials were scarce and children generally did not brush their teeth. Only the two siblings of the Du family could buy toothbrushes for children because Du Zhou drove a car outside all year round. Shi Chu said that the toothbrushes could be sold for candy, which was really possible.
Du Xiaoshi was obviously aware of this and he believed it immediately. He thought that if he really didn't use his toothbrush, it would most likely be sold by his stepmother. So when he didn't use it, even after Chu persuaded him a second time, he immediately snatched his toothbrush and started brushing his teeth angrily.
After solving the hygiene problem of the two children, the porridge in the kitchen was ready. Shi Chu heated up the leftovers from the evening and had breakfast with the two children.
Shi Chu did not feed them personally like the original owner did, but gave each of them a soup spoon and let them eat by themselves. Du Xiaoshi was okay, as he was five years old and could eat with a spoon quite well. But Du Xiaoling was not so good, as she was young and her hands were weak, so she could not hold the spoon steadily, so she ate a mess and got a lot of rice porridge on her body.
At this time, a neighbor passed by the door and saw Du Xiaoling eating in such a messy state. He couldn't help but said to Shi Chu, "Wan Cao'er, why don't you feed Xiaoling? How can she eat by herself when she is so young? Look at her eating half of the food and dropping the other half, and she is still dirty. Isn't this a waste of rice and clothes?"
The neighbor came in as he was talking, and looked at Shi Chu with a critical look in his eyes: "You just got married, and you don't behave well. If your mother-in-law or Duzhou knew about this, wouldn't they say you were abusing the child and had bad intentions?"
Shi Chu paused and said nonchalantly: "No matter how well I behave, they will think I have bad intentions now. Since I am the one taking care of the child, then I will do it my way. Anyone who has objections can take the child home and take care of it themselves."
As she said this, she looked at the kind neighbor meaningfully. The neighbor choked and his face darkened. He turned and walked away, saying, "Forget it, forget it. My kindness was not rewarded. Humph, let's see what good will come of you in the future? You are indeed a troublesome person..."
After driving the neighbor away, Du Xiaoling continued to eat miserably, but she enjoyed the meal very much and found it novel and interesting, so Shi Chu didn't pay much attention to her.
She had to be very patient in watching the child eat because she would play while eating. Shi Chu didn't mind because her job was to take care of two children. Apart from housework, there was nothing else to do, so there was enough time for Du Xiaoling to play.
But she never expected that the neighbor was a big mouth and quickly spread the news that she did not feed her child and let the child eat in a messy way throughout the village - this of course included Du's mother, an old lady who always cared about her new daughter-in-law and two grandchildren.
So before Du Xiaoling finished her bowl of porridge, her mother came to her house.
As soon as she entered the room, she saw Du Xiaoling eating with a spoon, with rice all over her head and face. She felt as if the sky had fallen, and she scolded Shi Chulai in a fuss: "Wan Cao'er! You lazy idiot! Xiaoling is so young, how can she eat by herself? Don't you see that her face and body are all dirty?!"
Before Shi Chu could even get out, Du's mother quickly snatched Du Xiaoling's spoon away and used the rag on the table to wipe her clothes and face vigorously...
Shi Chu looked at the brown rag in her hand and said, "Don't use the dirty rag to wipe her face..."
"Why is the rag dirty? What's the difference between wiping your face and hands and wiping the table? You are so picky! If you are so picky, why do you just watch Xiaoling get all wet and not care?" Du's mother yelled at Shi Chu angrily, "I knew you had a bad heart. Your true colors are exposed so quickly. You don't care about the two children..."
Shi Chu closed her eyes. To the unreasonable person, no matter what she said now, it would only be regarded as ill-intentioned sophistry, so she simply didn't bother to argue.
Du's mother wiped Du Xiaoling's clothes with a dirty rag, and hurriedly found a clean piece of clothes for her to change into. She also kept scolding Shi Chu and ordered her to feed Du Xiaoling in the future and not let her eat by herself.
Shi Chu could not agree to this and said, "I let her eat by herself to train her self-care ability. She is almost three years old, so why does she need an adult to feed her? You will only make her more dependent on adults for meals..."
"What abilities do you want to train? She's still so young? What abilities can she train? I think you're just lazy! Wan Cao'er, let me tell you, my son is willing to marry you because he wants you to take care of the two children, not to let you enjoy life. If you can't even take care of the children, what's the use of you? Are you here to eat for free..." Du's mother glared and scolded.
(End of this chapter)
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