Lu Nong felt a severe headache, as if it was about to split open. He was helped up while he was in a daze, and was forced to drink a bowl of unpalatable hangover soup. He kept groaning in pain.

In her dream, someone asked her, "Where do you feel uncomfortable?"

It would have been fine if I hadn't asked. Once I asked, Lu Nong felt even more aggrieved and babbled, "I have a headache and stomachache. Don't cover yourself with a blanket. It's hot..."

She felt really uncomfortable, with a terrible headache, and it felt like there was an ice lump in her stomach that was cold and her body was hot. The alternation of cold and heat made her feel so uncomfortable that she wanted to cry, and it seemed like she actually cried.

The person in the dream comforted her, "Don't cry."

Lu Nong cried even harder. Why shouldn't she be allowed to cry?

At this moment, her forehead suddenly felt cold and she felt much better. Then a big hand was placed on her stomach and rubbed it slowly. The only bad thing was that this person never let her kick the quilt.

The headache was gone and his stomach felt better. Lu Nong relaxed his brows and gradually fell asleep.

She slept until noon the next day. When she woke up, her stomach was rumbling, so she ran to the toilet. Unexpectedly, she ran into Pei Zheng at the toilet door.

The two looked at each other, and the next second they both suddenly started moving, neither of them letting the other squeeze in front of the toilet door.

Pei Zheng relied on his height to hold Lu Nong with his arm to prevent her from entering: "Let me go first, a stepmother should act like a stepmother."

Lu Nong held the door handle with both hands, not giving Pei Zheng a chance to open the door, and angrily said, "What? Do you understand respecting the elderly and loving the young? I'm the oldest, so I should go first."

"I'm still young, you should give in to me." Pei Zheng said righteously.

Lu Nong rolled his eyes at him with disdain, realizing that this guy was becoming more and more shameless. He was too lazy to argue with him and let go of his hand, "You first, you first, you first."

"Well, that's right. Just as you said, respecting the elderly and loving the young is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation..." Pei Zheng said proudly.

Lu Nong's face was full of black lines. She had already given in, but this boy was still pushing her further. She rolled her eyes and took advantage of Pei Zheng's inattention to slip under Pei Zheng's arm into the bathroom, then closed and locked the door cleanly.

Pei Zheng: “…”

"Lun Nong, you are cheating!" Pei Zheng said with gritted teeth while banging on the door.

Lu Nong teased him slowly, "Soldiers are not afraid of deception. You still follow your father to the army every day. You don't understand this principle."

"Go away, come back later or go to the bathroom downstairs. Aren't you embarrassed standing at the door?"

Pei Zheng left angrily. After just a few steps he quickly ran downstairs. He really couldn't hold it in any longer.

After Lu Nong finished urinating and was about to wash her hands, she suddenly saw her bright red lips in the mirror and was shocked. Why were they swollen again?

Did she dream of biting her mouth again?

By the way, I think I did this last night. What happened in my dream?

Lu Nong knocked his head. He drank too much last night and not only did he not remember anything after he got drunk, he even forgot what he dreamed about.

She looked down at the pajamas she was wearing. Maybe her godmother came downstairs and saw her drunk, so she helped her back to her room and changed her into pajamas?

When I returned to the bedroom, I saw my little suspenders crumpled up on the bedside.

Lu Nong was silent. What did she do last night? Was she really not drunk?

Just as I was thinking about it, Mother Wu knocked on the door and said with a smile on her face, "Nong Nong? Do you want me to change the bed sheets?"

Lu Nong was puzzled. Weren't the sheets changed yesterday? Did he vomit on the bed last night?

Thinking of this possibility, Lu Nong quickly lifted the quilt and carefully searched the sheets for any vomit.

She looked at the bed sheet carefully from beginning to end. Fortunately, it was clean. Otherwise, Lu Nong would have felt uncomfortable at the thought of sleeping on a bed sheet stained with vomit.

Although there was no vomit, Lu Nong always felt that it smelled of alcohol, so he said to his stepmother: "Then change it, it smells like alcohol."

"Hey, let's change."

Mother Wu walked into the room and helped Lu Nong change the bed sheets. She glanced at Lu Nong and then secretly searched for something on the bed sheets.

Lu Nong:? ? I really didn’t vomit!

"Mom, what are you looking for?"

Mother Wu was a little disappointed that she didn't find what she was looking for, and said casually, "Oh, I didn't find anything."

After a while, he glared at Lu Nong with a look of disappointment.

Lu Nong was confused. Why did she not vomit on the bed and fuck her mother but she still looked unhappy? What happened?

Pei Jianan did not come back for lunch at noon, but Lu Nong did not care and even breathed a sigh of relief. Who knows if she had been drunk last night or not? She did not want anyone to tell her what weird things she had done after getting drunk.

After lunch, Lu Nong decided to make Bo Zai Gao for Gu Huai to enrich his childhood memories.

First, grind the soaked ordinary rice and glutinous rice into powder, and filter out the unground residue.

Then turn on the fire, pour boiling water and add sugar, then pour half of the rice milk into the pot, stir quickly in the pot until the rice milk becomes a paste-like consistency, mix the sticky rice milk in the pot with the unheated rice milk and stir until they become a paste.

Finally, pour the beaten rice milk into a small bowl prepared in advance, add red beans, mung beans, sesame seeds and other fillings, and finally steam it in a steamer for 20 minutes.

The rice-flavored Bozai Gao is ready. In addition to Bozai Gao made with rice flour alone, Lu Nong also makes Matcha Bozai Gao and White Rabbit Toffee Bozai Gao.

After it was done, Pei Zheng, the glutton, followed the aroma to the kitchen. Little Gu Huai followed Pei Zheng like a little tail. The two of them stared eagerly at the rice cake in Lu Nong's hand.

Bo Zai Gao is indeed a Cantonese snack that can make children cry. Pei Zheng ate them one after another. Zi Zi was too young to eat too much, so Lu Nong only let him take one and chew on it. As for Pei Zheng, he could only finish one in two or three bites. Lu Nong couldn't count how many he had eaten in the end.

Baby: "Mom, so cute..."

Pei Zheng: "Stepmother, can we do it again tomorrow?"

Cub: “Hmmmm!”

Lu Nong ignored the two little kids. She packed up a few plates of rice cakes and candies to send to the neighbors who lived nearby. They had moved in a few days ago, and as the new hostess, it would be inappropriate if she didn't say hello to the neighbors.

Lu Nong asked Pei Zheng: "Can you tell me who the neighbors are around here? I'll have an idea when I go to deliver the cakes."

Pei Zheng regretted that he had to give away most of the property. After thinking for a while, he started to explain to Lu Nong from next door. "Uncle Cui and his family live next door. Uncle Cui is at the same level as my father. There are eight or nine people in his family. You haven't seen them in the past few days. It should be that Aunt Huo had a quarrel with Uncle Cui and took her own child back to her parents' home. Uncle Cui was angry and went to live in the army. Only Grandma Cui and the nanny are left at home."

"Oh, by the way, Aunt Huo is the stepmother. Uncle Cui's first and second children born to his first wife don't live here. When Aunt Cui comes back, don't mess with her. She's very fierce. You definitely can't beat her in a fight."

Pei Zheng said it calmly, and Lu Nong's face was full of questions. So the old lady who was watering flowers that she saw a few days ago was not the hostess, but the hostess's mother-in-law? She thought the neighbors got along well, but how fierce could they be to the point of fighting?

"Do they often quarrel?" Although he didn't want to ask, the two families lived too close to each other. If the neighbors quarreled loudly at night, he would definitely hear something. Lu Nong was very worried about his future sleep quality.

"We quarrel, often. We don't have time to quarrel during the day at work, so we usually quarrel at night when we get home."

Pei Zheng looked as if he was used to it. To be honest, he originally thought that his home was cold and devoid of warmth. However, every now and then he would hear the neighbors quarreling so loud that the roof was about to be blown off, and he no longer felt that his home was cold.

Lu Nong was at a loss for words. "What about the other families? Are there any who have a good relationship with your father or are your father's superiors?"

The small red building is the family residence of senior military officers in the army. There are a dozen red buildings in this area that are similar to the Pei family's. Further ahead is the tube-style family residence.

A dozen small red buildings surrounded a single community compound. Soldiers carrying wood warehouses stood guard at the gate of the community. Entrance and exit were very strict. It was very difficult for outsiders to enter, and non-family members needed a pass to enter.

This was also the reason why Lu Nong never saw Nanny Sun again after she was driven away. It was not that Nanny Sun did not want to come in, but she did not have the pass and could not come in at all.

Lu Nong had observed that not all of the dozen or so buildings were occupied. Including the Pei family, there were only about ten households living there.

Pei Zheng stuffed another piece of rice cake into his mouth and said vaguely, "No superiors, people with higher military ranks than my father live in the inner city, with my grandparents."

"There are four or five families with whom I have good relationships. Zhang Kaiping and Jiang Yu's family, and Uncle Cui next door also have a good relationship. As for the other families, it's just for face. It doesn't matter if I go or not. No one will say anything."

Lu Nong raised his eyebrows and noticed that Pei Zheng didn't mention Shen Jiming's family. You have to know that the Shen family is not just a neighbor, but also Pei Zheng's uncle's family. Considering the relationship between Pei Zheng and Shen Jiming and Pei Ji'an's attitude towards Shen Jiming, they shouldn't have a bad relationship.

Pei Zheng couldn't eat his rice cake because Lu Nong was staring at him. He knew that Lu Nong had sensed something wrong in his words. "It was Shen Jiming's father... I told you about my parents yesterday, but outsiders, including my grandfather, grandmother, and aunt, didn't know that it was my mother who had the problem. They felt that my father had let my mother down."

Pei Zheng put down the cake and sighed, "Shen Jiming's father is my uncle. He always thinks that my father has treated my mother badly and always finds trouble with my father. My mother wants to reconcile with my father, so my uncle naturally hopes that my mother will get what she wants. So I advise you not to go to his house, so as not to be bullied."

Pei Zheng's words to this point showed that he completely accepted Lu Nong. Lu Nong could hear it and thought that the snacks she made were not in vain.

After carefully pondering the meaning of Pei Zheng's words, Lu Nong began to understand a little.

After hearing what happened to Pei Zheng's mother yesterday, she felt that the Pei family's attitude towards Shen Yimei was a little too good, so good that it was unbelievable. How could parents be close to a daughter-in-law who had made a mistake and alienate their own son?

It turns out that the crux lies here. No one knows the real reason why Pei Ji'an and Shen Yimei divorced.

But Lu Nong still found it strange. Even if no one knew the real reason for Pei Ji'an and Shen Yimei's divorce, divorce is a matter between two people. Why did everyone put the blame on Pei Ji'an and think that it was Pei Ji'an who abandoned Shen Yimei, while Shen Yimei got away with it with a clear conscience?

She understood the real reason why Pei Ji'an didn't tell outsiders about his divorce with Shen Yimei. After all, it involved a woman's reputation. Moreover, this woman was Pei Zheng's biological mother. If the news got out, not only would Shen Yimei be unhappy, but Pei Zheng would also be laughed at by others.

Besides, I believe Pei Ji'an would not want others to know that his wife was cheating on him.

But why didn't Pei Ji'an tell his parents and sister? Why did Pei Zheng let his family misunderstand his father?

Lu Nong hesitated to speak. He wanted to ask questions about his doubts, but he also felt that it was a bit cruel to let Pei Zheng speak about his mother in person.

She was already very surprised that Pei Zheng could conceal the fact that his mother had cheated on her yesterday.

Forget it. Lu Nong did not continue asking. That was the end of it. What Pei Jianan thought had nothing to do with her. Pei Zheng had said everything he could about her problem.

Pei Zheng could easily tell what she didn't say. Sometimes Pei Zheng was really scary sensitive, especially like his father in this respect.

"You find it strange, why don't you tell the truth to grandpa, grandma and the Shen family?" Pei Zheng said nonchalantly, "It doesn't matter if I tell you, you already know everything you need to know anyway."

"I said it once, but no one believed me. As for whether my dad said it or not, I don't know. Maybe he never said it at all."

Lu Nong was somewhat frightened. She suddenly felt that except for Pei Ji'an and Pei Zheng, the Pei family was very strange. It was similar to the feeling Pei Mingxia gave her. She was too credulous and blindly believed in things.

Lu Nong said Pei Ji'an probably didn't say it. Why didn't he say it? Did he give up at the beginning because he knew it would be useless even if he said it?

Also, Pei Zheng once told grandpa and grandma about Shen Yimei, but they didn't believe it. If they cared about their son at all, they would check whether it was true before drawing any conclusion, right?

Lu Nong shook her head, not intending to get involved in Pei's affairs, and warned herself to stay away from them in the future. She picked up the rice cake and candy box and said, "I'm going to visit my neighbors. You and Xiao Huai stay at home and look after the house."

Pei Zheng was angry: "I told you not to treat me like a child!"

Lu Nong went out and knocked on the door of the next-door neighbor. A middle-aged woman in an apron opened the door. The middle-aged woman was startled by Lu Nong's appearance at first, then she came to her senses and asked hesitantly, "Who are you..."

"Hello, I'm the wife of Pei Jinan next door. I'm here to bring some wedding candies and snacks to your house." Lu Nong handed the divided candies to the middle-aged woman.

"Oh, then please come in." The middle-aged woman took the rice cakes and candies, and hurriedly welcomed Lu Nong into the house. She shouted to the back, "Aunt Cui, it's the wife of Staff Officer Pei next door. She's here to bring us wedding candies."

Lu Nong followed the middle-aged woman into the house. The layout of the Cui family was roughly the same as that of the Pei family, but perhaps because there were more people living there, even the first floor was divided into several small rooms, making it seem a bit cramped. The living room was directly combined with the dining room, and there was no sofa, only a dining table and chairs.

The old lady who had been communicating with Lu Nong that day stood up from her chair and said to him enthusiastically, "Please sit down. What should I call you?"

"I won't sit down, Auntie. You can just call me Xiao Lu. I'm here today to deliver wedding candies and visit my neighbors. I still have to go to the next house." Lu Nong said with a smile.

Mrs. Cui said, "I won't keep you any longer. Come over and play when you have time, Xiaolu. Xiaowang, please see Xiaolu off for me."

Nanny Wang escorted Lu Nong out the door. After closing the door, Old Lady Cui took the cake made by Lu Nong, tasted it, and said, "It tastes good. I'll save it for the eldest son to taste when he comes back."

Then he talked about Lu Nong, "She was polite, skillful, young and beautiful, how could she be so stupid as to become someone's stepmother?"

As soon as Nanny Wang heard this, she could tell there was something sarcastic in the old lady's words. She suspected that the young wife had married Staff Sgt. Pei because of his power and status.

Nanny Wang had a good impression of Lu Nong. As the old lady said, she was very polite. She kept addressing her as "Your Highness" for a long time. When she left, she knew that she was a nanny but did not change her attitude. She even stuffed some cakes and candies into her mouth so that she could taste them.

So Nanny Wang said a few fair words on Lu Nong's behalf, "She is married for the second time and has a two or three-year-old child. It won't hurt either of them if she marries Staff Officer Pei."

Mrs. Cui glanced at the nanny and said, "Yes, these two people are a good match in appearance, but I don't know if they will treat Xiao Zheng well. After all, she is a stepmother..."

Mrs. Cui didn't say the rest, and the nanny didn't dare to say anything more. Mrs. Cui said two sentences in total, and every sentence was about her stepmother. She was thinking of her own daughter-in-law from Lu Nonglian.

On the other side, Lu Nong walked towards the next house. She strictly followed the intelligence route provided by Pei Zheng and went to Zhang Kaiping's and Jiang Yu's houses successively. On the way, she passed by Shen Jiming's house and walked away without looking around, determined not to cause trouble for herself.

When they arrived at Zhang Kaiping's house, as soon as they entered the door, Lu Nong was surrounded by a group of little radishes. It turned out that the little radishes had heard from their brother that Uncle Pei's new aunt could make delicious ice cream. As for how Zhang Kaiping knew that, it was naturally Pei Zheng who told him.

Zhang Kaiping's mother waved her hand and shooed the children away, "Go, go, go, go back to your room and do your homework. Daping, keep an eye on your brothers and sisters. If you let them run out again, I'll beat you up."

Zhang Kaiping acted funny and took his younger brother and sister back to the house with a bitter face.

"Sister-in-law, I'm sorry. The kids were rude. I hope they didn't scare you," Qin Qing said embarrassedly.

She gave birth to four or five children in succession, and her figure became seriously out of shape and she looked a little bloated.

"It's okay, it's okay. The children are all very cute. By the way, sister-in-law, I made some snacks. You can give them to the children." Lu Nong handed her the rice cake.

"Hey, did you make all this? You have such a skillful hand."

Qin Qing could tell that Lu Nong was speaking from the heart, and the smile on her face was very sincere. She was a person who loved children, and when she said she would beat her children, she was just trying to scare them, she had never really beaten them. What annoyed her most were those people who praised her children with their mouths but looked down on her and her children in their hearts. What's wrong with children being fat? Being a little fat is a blessing.

This statement can refer specifically to someone. When I think of the daughter-in-law of the Shen family, Qin Qing's attitude towards Lu Nong is even better.

"I heard from our old Zhang that Ji'an got a new wife and never had the chance to meet you. This time he finally met you." Qin Qing looked at Lu Nong carefully. "My dear, how do you look like? When you walked in just now, everyone in our family kept calling you a fairy. If I hadn't held her, she would have run into you."

Lu Nong had seen the youngest child of the Zhang family before. She was a chubby little girl. Fortunately, Mrs. Qin was quick to catch her, otherwise Lu Nong might have been hit on the butt by her. Later, when she heard Mrs. Qin mention it as a joke, she was both amused and confused for a moment.

Qin Qing took the initiative to say, "We are all neighbors from now on. If there is anything, just tell us. It is natural for us to help each other."

Lu Nong and Qin Qing had a good impression of each other. After saying goodbye to Mrs. Qin, Lu Nong went to Jiang Yu's house. No one was there. Lu Nong knocked on the door for a long time but no one answered. He had to go home with the last portion of rice cake.

That night, Pei Ji'an did not go home for the first time. Instead, he asked Xiao Zhou to convey a message, punishing Pei Zheng to run five kilometers every day with a heavy load. As for the others, he did not make any other arrangements.

At first Lu Nong didn't care, but Pei Jinan didn't come home for a week. Mrs. Qin had a good relationship with Lu Nong and came to ask Lu Nong if he had any quarrel with Pei Jinan.

Lu Nong was confused, and before she could figure it out, school was about to start.