An hour later, Pei Ying went to the aftercare class to pick up her child. Looking at the food on the table, she burst into tears.
"Wenhua, why are you so good to me?"
Seeing the three bowls of steamed egg custard on the table, the two children cheered that they had something delicious to eat, while Pei Ying's eyes were filled with tears.
What makes her so special? She's an old hag, yet she gets the same treatment as a child and can even eat eggs.
Xia Wenhua: ? ? ?
What exactly happened?
She tried to explain, "Mom, I asked Dr. Yin today, and he said you can eat steamed eggs. We don't lack eggs at home. This is the best thing for your stomach. Don't cry, this..."
"How can we not have enough eggs? If we don't have enough eggs, why don't you eat them and give them to me and the children? Wenhua, Songbai is truly blessed to have a wife like you."
"You can give them to the kids from now on, don't give them to me. I'll be fine soon, and it'll be okay if I don't eat eggs."
Pei Ying was deeply moved, and no matter how Xia Wenhua explained, it was no use.
Don't like eggs?
How could that be? These days, there's no one who doesn't love eating eggs.
Xia Wenhua is rich, but nowadays many things cannot be bought with money alone.
In Hongshan Village, every household still raises chickens, and everyone saves up the eggs to sell because they have nothing to eat.
Every egg here costs money, and egg tickets are rationed. How can everyone eat as many as they want?
Go out and ask around; whose eggs are for growing children and postpartum women? Who would give eggs to the elderly?
She's really hit the jackpot; she can even eat steamed egg custard with her daughter-in-law and child.
Pei Ying ate this meal with mixed feelings, and she shed a lot of tears.
Xia Wenhua originally intended to help Pei Ying recover, but unexpectedly, it made Pei Ying cry.
Eggs are rationed, but her eggs are unlimited.
As the most common daily food in later generations, no one regarded eggs as a nutritional supplement. Any supermarket could stock up on thousands of them, enough for her family to eat until she died.
She also discovered a loophole in the cheat code: although you can only take one bag, the cheat code doesn't care how to use the bag.
If you want to put things in it, you can't put anything else in it once it's full, but she can tear the bag open and use it as a rope to tie it up.
You can tear open a bag and get three sturdy ropes. You can easily make several boxes of eggs a week. There's no problem with that.
Xia Wenhua couldn't explain it with her own magic touch, and faced with Pei Ying's gratitude, she could only awkwardly scratch her head.
Once this awkward feeling passes, she'll have to talk to Pei Ying to calm her down, in case Pei Ying starts to overthink things.
"Mom, your health is the most important thing for our family right now, so please don't overthink it. It doesn't matter what you eat, we'll make sure you get the food we have. Try to relax and don't let this upset you."
Xia Wenhua could understand why the older generation was reluctant to spend money on food and clothing.
Later generations have occasionally reported that wealthy elderly people enjoy going out to collect garbage; for them, this is life, regardless of whether they are rich or poor.
Normally, Xia Wenhua would respect Pei Ying's ideas, but when it came to nourishing her body, she couldn't do anything reckless.
The daughter-in-law was doing it for her own good; Pei Ying was never an unenlightened old lady.
She just couldn't hold back for a moment and remembered the days when she was disliked in Hongshan Village.
Those heartless bastards even looked down on her when she slept at home, how could they have imagined that someone would give this useless old woman egg custard?
If my daughters-in-law, who are easily offended, knew that I had steamed egg custard to eat every day, they would probably be heartbroken.
After venting all her emotions during dinner, Pei Ying knew that Xia Wenhua was good to her, and she tried her best to follow in Xia Wenhua's footsteps.
"Don't worry, I'll definitely take good care of myself. Dr. Yin said that the military spouses here are all given jobs by the army. Once I'm fully recovered, I'll stay home and take care of the children. Wenhua, you go to work. I promise I won't hold you back!"
You can only talk about the future when you have good health; those who have been sick understand this even more deeply.
Touched as she was, Pei Ying knew Xia Wenhua's persistence. She accepted Xia Wenhua's kindness and would do her best to help her.
"Okay, then it's settled. Mom, take good care of yourself, and we'll live a good life together as a family from now on!"
It was a good thing that Pei Ying was able to figure it out herself, and Xia Wenhua also breathed a sigh of relief.
Knowing that their grandmother would be hospitalized the next day, the two children clung to Pei Ying from dinner time onwards and refused to sleep all night.
"Grandma, can we go to the hospital to see you tomorrow?"
"Yes, I'll go too."
After Xia Wenhua finished talking with Pei Ying, the two troublesome little ones came again.
The last time Xia Wenhua and Pei Ying went to the hospital for a check-up, they didn't take them with them, and the two of them remembered it. Now they were acting cute in front of Pei Ying, insisting that Pei Ying take them with her.
Pei Ying was very accommodating to her two grandsons in other matters, but she remained firm on the matter of taking them to the hospital.
"No, children can't go to the hospital. You all listen to your mother and will come back when Grandma gets better."
Without Xia Wenhua saying anything, she had already refused her two grandsons' requests.
Normally, Xia Wenhua wouldn't agree to something, but the two of them could get what they wanted by charming Pei Ying.
Pei Xiangchen and Pei Xiangguang were stunned when they heard Pei Ying refuse.
If Grandma won't agree, how can Mom agree?
Xia Wenhua shook her head, showing the two little ones through her actions that this was not an option.
"Mom knows that Xiaochen and Xiaoguang are both filial and good children. Why don't you stay home and help Mom prepare things for Grandma?"
"We can make a small gift for Grandma together, and surprise her when she comes back, okay?"
Children have weak immune systems, and even decades from now, hospitals will be full of viruses, not to mention that current disinfection and sanitation standards cannot keep up with those of future hospitals.
Not to mention taking two children with her, she and Pei Ying would wash all their clothes every time they came back from the hospital, afraid that the children would get sick.
A sick child is a disaster, and with two little ones in their family, going to the hospital is absolutely out of the question.
Xia Wenhua and Pei Ying tried to reason with them, and seeing that they were very persistent, Pei Xiangchen and Pei Xiangguang finally stopped arguing about going to the hospital.
They took Xia Wenhua's advice to heart and were discussing what gift to give Pei Ying in the corner.
The two were very cunning; they knew it was a surprise and they couldn't let Pei Ying know beforehand.
She kept glancing in their direction as she spoke, reminding Pei Ying, "Grandma, don't eavesdrop. If you find out, it won't be a surprise anymore."
Pei Ying smiled broadly and nodded in agreement: "Okay, okay, Grandma won't eavesdrop. We'll wait for Xiao Chen and Xiao Guang's surprise."
Xia Wenhua is now more attentive to her two children and more patient with them, which Pei Ying sees and is very happy about.
She could finally relax about things at home. The next morning, after seeing the child off, she went to the hospital with Xia Wenhua.
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