Su Lixuan shrank her neck, not daring to say that she felt quite refreshed after drinking it, as she was not a strange person.
She changed the subject: "Mom, what are you doing? I saw you sewing from just now. What are you sewing?"
Waving Su Lixuan over, Li Yanhong showed her daughter-in-law the thing she had been working on, like she was showing off a treasure: "Feel it, this is a small dress made of the finest and finest cotton I specially selected."
"I've hidden all the stitches, so they won't rub or prick your skin."
Su Lixuan held the small clothes and admired Li Yanhong's craftsmanship and meticulousness: "Is this made for a baby? It's so soft and so adorable!"
"Of course not. It's too small for you to wear. I've already prepared yours. I've made several for you. I'll show them to you later."
"It's the same one you have in your hand, except it's a few sizes bigger than children's clothes."
"I've calculated that when you're in confinement, the weather will be at its hottest."
"Don't wear shirts made of materials you don't know. They're just for show. Not only are they not breathable, but they also stick to your body. You'll get all sticky and sweaty, which is the least of your worries. You'll also get prickly heat."
Su Lixuan was a little embarrassed: "Mom, you can just make it for the baby. I'm a grown-up, so I can just buy a few ready-made ones. You're making it so carefully that I'm afraid you'll be tired."
No matter how pure the cotton cloth is, it can't be so soft right away.
I guess Li Yanhong took great pains to make the clothes, and then rubbed them gently repeatedly to make them soft.
So many things were made for her with the same intention. Su Lixuan had never been treated so attentively in her entire life.
Li Yanhong, however, showed a look of disapproval.
"Children have delicate skin and need to wear the best. Our Li Xuan also has delicate skin, so she needs to wear the best!"
"Besides, children are afraid of prickly heat, but adults aren't? You're already suffering during confinement, and if you get prickly heat from covering yourself up, it'll be even worse. Even though this is cotton, we old people know that this kind of cloth is actually the most breathable..."
Li Yanhong has now even figured out how to take care of her daughter-in-law during the confinement period.
I am determined to squeeze my mother-in-law Jiang Cui so hard that there will be no place for her to stand!
This ambition would have been easy to achieve in the past, when Jiang Cui didn't realize her daughter was a golden thigh.
But now... when the two old ladies get together, I don’t know how to compete for favor.
Ever since Jiang Cui realized the changes in Su Lixuan and how important this daughter is to her and her whole family, she now wants to visit her daughter eight times a week.
Especially after seeing that Su Lixuan and Li Yanhong had a relationship so good that it was more like a biological mother and daughter, Jiang Cui immediately lit up the skill of "competing for favor" without any guidance.
She always tried to prove in her words and deeds that she, as Su Lixuan's biological mother, was better to her than Li Yanhong.
No matter how unwilling Li Yanhong was to have an argument with Jiang Cui, she couldn't control her inner feelings and tried her best to get away from this annoying mother-in-law.
Now you know how to love your daughter, what were you doing before?!
Speak of the devil, he appears. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law heard Jiang Cui greeting someone outside from a distance.
She yelled at the top of her lungs to show off that she had brought something for her daughter again.
Su Lixuan held her forehead.
After a while, the door was opened from the outside, and then the door curtain was lifted, and Jiang Cui came in happily carrying a basket of vegetables.
It feels like going back to your own home, and you don’t feel like an outsider at all.
Jiang Cui: "Hey, what are the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law busy with when they sit together?"
After the coldness in her body subsided, she took three or two steps to the two of them and saw the small clothes in Su Lixuan's hand at a glance.
Jiang Cui's eyes flashed: "Is this the clothes that my mother-in-law made for the baby in Li Xuan's belly?"
Hiding the basket behind her back awkwardly, she said unnaturally, "It's ready now? Isn't it too early?"
"The baby won't be born until next year. If my mother-in-law makes the clothes now, it will get worse if she waits until next year."
Damn it, if she had known that Li Yanhong was so capable and cunning, she would have brought more things here today.
On one side were the small clothes she had painstakingly made for her child, and on the other side were the green leafy vegetables she had grabbed at the market that morning. Compared to them, she looked like the careless one.
Li Yanhong didn't even raise her eyelids: "It's too late. It will be too late if we wait until the baby is about to be born."
"My mother-in-law is such a joker. She even said that if I make clothes now, they will be ruined by next year."
Li Yanhong chuckled: "Our house is clean, there are no rats or moths, how could they ruin good clothes?"
Jiang Cui thought Li Yanhong and Su Lixuan weren't looking, so she rolled her eyes and said, "Okay, okay, I talked too much."
"I mean well, I've never seen children's clothes made so early."
She mumbled and began to boast about her achievements: "The most important thing at this time is to provide Li Xuan with nutrition. All the other fancy things are empty."
"Look what I brought?"
"Bok choy and cucumber!"
"It's so rare to get a bite of green leafy vegetables in the middle of winter. Only a mother like me would worry about this. I was worried that Li Xuan wouldn't be able to eat while pregnant, so I kept finding new things for her."
"Li Xuan, just eat as much as you can. If you don't have enough, just tell me and I'll get up early and rush to the market to grab some!"
Su Lixuan: “…”
Li Yanhong coughed dryly and said, "Mother-in-law, you came all the way here, why don't you drink some hot water?"
His mouth has been busy ever since he came in, chattering so much that it's really annoying.
Su Lixuan: "Yes, drink some water."
Jiang Cuimei was so happy: "My daughter really cares about me. She's not busy drinking water. I have some delicious food here!"
She pulled out a handful of candies from her pocket: "This is something Mom stole from Huang Li's house... No, I caught her."
"I heard Huang Li and her husband say that they bought it specially from another province. It's a local specialty. It's made with pure milk and has peanuts in it. It tastes delicious and is different from the ones we sell here."
"I couldn't bear to eat it, nor did I bear to give it to your nephew, so I brought it all to you."
Su Lixuan took the candy and wondered, "Why are Huang Li and Ye Shuijiang suddenly so generous?"
Given those two people's nature of being greedy, it's good enough that they don't take things from other people's homes. How can they allow others to eat and take things from their homes?
Glancing out the window.
Su Lixuan sighed, "Could it be that the sun has risen from the west?"
"What?" Jiang Cui sneered and waved her hands after she understood what her daughter meant.
She was not making fun of Su Lixuan, she was making fun of Ye Shuijiang and Huang Li.
"They didn't just suddenly change their ways. They had a happy family event, so they're rushing to make it a big event!"
happy event?
Su Lixuan and Li Yanhong looked at each other. They lived next door to Ye Wei, so if there was any happy event in the Ye family, it was impossible for them not to hear anything about it.
(End of this chapter)
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