It was not until the sky gradually darkened that Shen Mingzhu took Pei Ziheng back home leisurely.

As soon as she entered the door, Qin Jinlian, who was busy in the courtyard, glared at her, "You still remember to come back!"

Shen Mingzhu: "Then I'll leave?"

Qin Jinlian: “…”

Seeing that the mother and daughter started quarreling again when they met, the eldest sister-in-law Du Juan hurriedly called out to Shen Mingzhu, "Let Xiaoheng play with Daya. Mingzhu, help me cook dinner in the kitchen."

Shen Mingzhu responded, patted Pei Ziheng on the head, said "Don't bully Daya", and then followed Du Juan to the kitchen.

Pei Ziheng pursed his lips and looked at Shen Mingzhu's back for a while, then turned and walked to the little girl riding the wooden carriage.

Daya is the daughter of Shen Chaobei and Du Juan. She is three years old this year. Maybe it’s because she lives in the countryside, her skin is a little dark, she is thin, her cheekbones are wide but her chin is very pointed, her eyes are big and black, and she looks a bit like a cat. Her eyebrows and eyes are a bit similar to Shen Mingzhu.

Although Daya is young, she is not like other children who have a runny nose and cry easily.

Just give her a rotten leaf and she will play quietly for an entire afternoon.

At this moment, she was sitting alone on a homemade wooden carriage in the countryside, staring at Pei Ziheng, her handsome cousin from the city, with her dark eyes without blinking.

Pei Ziheng was annoyed by being stared at, and he curled his lips in an evil way, threatening in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "If you look at me again, I'll dig your eyeballs out."

Not knowing whether she was frightened or just didn't react, Daya stared at Pei Ziheng for a while, then suddenly dropped the wooden carriage, ran to Qin Jinlian, and hugged Qin Jinlian's legs.

Qin Jinlian looked down at her granddaughter, then looked at her "grandson" not far away, and asked Daya in a low voice what was wrong? Daya did not speak, but buried her face between Qin Jinlian's legs.

Qin Jinlian ignored her and continued to work on the task at hand.

Pei Ziheng felt bored, so he sat on the wooden carriage, rocking and looking up at the sky.

Daya, who was standing beside Qin Jinlian, secretly looked at Pei Ziheng who had robbed her wooden carriage, her face puffed up with anger.

In the kitchen, Shen Chaobei was persuading Shen Mingzhu not to be angry with Qin Jinlian.

"Mom still cares about you. I always talk about you. If I hadn't been busy with Xiangnan's wedding, I would have gone to the city to see you a long time ago."

Shen Mingzhu said, "She is probably thinking about my money."

"Mingzhu, don't talk about mom like that. It makes me sound like a bad person."

"It's not much better anyway."

“…”

Shen Chaobei looked at Shen Mingzhu in confusion, "You've never been so good at talking back before."

Shen Mingzhu also looked at Shen Chaobei, "Don't just try to persuade me. If you have time, you might as well comfort your sister-in-law. She married into our family, gave birth to children for you, and lived with you through hard times. There's no reason for her to be bullied. Any good man knows how to protect his wife."

Du Juan was cutting vegetables. She was stunned when she heard her sister-in-law talking about herself. After listening to her sister-in-law's words, she couldn't help but feel warm in her eyes.

Fortunately, the light in the kitchen was dim, and the brother and sister did not notice her.

She wiped the corners of her eyes and continued to cut vegetables with the kitchen knife.

Shen Chaobei looked embarrassed by what Shen Mingzhu said. He glanced at his wife, but he didn't know what to say as he was not good at speaking, so he found an excuse and turned around and left.

Only my aunt and my sister-in-law were left in the kitchen.

Shen Mingzhu looked at her sister-in-law's thin and forbearing back and spoke bluntly, "Good days and bad days are all created by yourself. If you don't want to suffer, you must dare to express your dissatisfaction and ideas. The more you endure, the more you will be ignored in the future. The crying child gets candy, but the sensible child is not loved. Sister-in-law, think about whether what I said is right."

"Um."

"Mingzhu, thank you."

Du Juan turned around and smiled at her with great gratitude.

There were two tables of people sitting at dinner. In addition to Shen Mingzhu's family, there were also relatives and villagers from the same village who would help to pick up the bride tomorrow.

After dinner, everyone started to prepare the carrying poles for picking up the bride tomorrow.

Chickens, ducks, pork, sweets, cakes, fruits, etc. were all packed into baskets and covered with red cloth. They would be carried to the bride's side to pick her up early the next morning.

It was already 10 o'clock when all the items for welcoming the bride were prepared. The relatives and villagers who helped went home to sleep. The Shen family also got ready to rest as they had to get up at 5 o'clock the next day.

But how to sleep is a problem.

Shen Mingzhu's room is gone, and now Pei Ziheng is with her.

According to the relationship, Shen Mingzhu should sleep in the same room with Qin Jinlian, but Shen Mingzhu had feelings for Qin Jinlian, so she proposed to sleep in the same room with her elder sister-in-law Du Juan.

Shen Mingzhu didn't care and took Pei Ziheng to Du Juan's house. People in the countryside all slept on kangs, so two adults and two children could sleep on the same kang without any crowding.

The wedding on the second day was lively and festive. There were 18 tables in total. Almost everyone in the village came, including relatives from both sides.

As the sister-in-law, Shen Mingzhu had to take care of the bride and entertain the guests. She was so busy that she didn't have time to sit down and rest until the bridal chamber was over and the guests had left in the evening.

Not long after they sat down, Pei Ziheng came up to her side, looked at her with dark eyes and asked, "When are we going back?"

Shen Mingzhu teased him deliberately, saying that she would not go back and would stay in the countryside, but was mercilessly ridiculed instead.

"You don't even have your own room, so you stay and sleep in the pigsty?"

“…”

Blanch.

As soon as Shen Mingzhu stepped into Qin Jinlian's room, everyone in the room looked at her.

This was the first time she came to Qin Jinlian's house after quarreling with her.

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Qin Jinlian sat cross-legged at the table on the kang, Shen's father Shen Jianguo sat at the other end, brothers Shen Chaobei and Shen Xiangnan stood, and sister-in-law Du Juan sat on a stool holding Daya. Except for the bride Yang Lizhen, everyone was there.

Shen Mingzhu said simply, "I'll go back tomorrow."

Qin Jinlian didn't say anything. Seeing that his wife didn't say anything, Shen Jianguo didn't say anything either.

It was the eldest brother Shen Chaobei who tried to persuade Shen Mingzhu to stay, "It's a rare trip for you to come back, why don't you stay a few more days?"

Shen Mingzhu wanted to ask if they could stay and sleep in the pigsty, but she held the words back. It was a happy occasion, so why bother making things difficult for others?

"Xiao Heng has to go back to kindergarten."

"Just leave if you want to. It's like no one cares about you."

Shen Mingzhu was originally very tired and wanted to go back to her room to lie down early, but after hearing what Qin Jinzhi said, she refused to leave and sat down next to her sister-in-law Du Juan, looking like she wanted to piss off Qin Jinlian.

Qin Jinlian glared at her and continued to count the gifts she received today.

While Shen Mingzhu was teasing Daya, she whispered to Du Juan, "Sister-in-law, when you have time, come to the city to find me. I'll take you around. Xiaoheng has a lot of old clothes that can't be worn anymore. I'll go back and pack them up. You can bring them back for Daya to wear. They're all good clothes."

"OK."

Sleep till dawn.

As soon as Shen Mingzhu opened her eyes, she smelled the aroma of oil, as if someone was frying something.

She put on her clothes and went to the kitchen to get some water to wash up. As soon as she stepped over the threshold, she saw Qin Jinlian wearing an apron and busying herself in front of the stove. The round winnowing basket next to the stove was already filled with a lot of fried tofu and crispy meat.

Shen Mingzhu originally thought that Qin Jinlian made these for her new sister-in-law, but when she had breakfast, there were only yellow flour steamed bread and some leftovers from yesterday on the table, with no sign of fried tofu or crispy pork.

If you don't give her food, she won't want it.

Shen Mingzhu thought angrily, put down her chopsticks after eating and went back to the house to pack up.

In fact, there wasn't much. Although she brought back a lot of bags, they were all food and clothes for the Shen family. She and Pei Ziheng only had a set of spare clothes and small things like towels and toothbrushes.

Before I finished cleaning, Qin Jinlian came in and put a big bag of things on the table with a sour face.

The mother and daughter stared at each other for a long time.

"What are you looking at?"

"How do you know I'm looking at you if you don't look at me?"

Qin Jinlian was so upset by Shen Mingzhu's words, "Will you die if you don't talk back to me?"

"Tolerate ovarian cysts for a while, and take a step back to breast hyperplasia."

Qin Jinlian was so angry that she stared blankly, then pushed the things on the table towards her, "This is for you."

"What?"

"Stinking shit!"

“…”

(End of this chapter)