Chapter 5 Serving the Ancestors
Ma Xiulian said with a proud and smug expression, "Of course! Our darling is the most beautiful daughter!"
Li Chunhua felt that her mother-in-law's words were an exaggeration.
Just as I was wondering whether I should agree, Chen Xiaobao stumbled in and said, "Mom, I need to poop."
Ma Xiulian immediately picked up her granddaughter and stood a little further away, calling out to the outside, "Sanni, come quickly and take Xiaobao to the outhouse."
Then, looking down, I saw my granddaughter frowning, as if she had been frightened.
So she quickly lowered her voice to coax her: "Don't cry, sweetie. Grandma wasn't scolding you. Grandma was just worried that your brother might poop and make you smell bad."
Helian Jiao wanted to say, how could I, a dignified dragon princess, be frightened to tears by a mere mortal!
But what came out of her mouth was baby talk, "ah ah ah".
She angrily shut her mouth again, unhappy!
Ma Xiulian was overjoyed. "My sweet baby is talking to Grandma! Are you hungry? Let's have some milk!"
So Helian Jiao channeled her grief and anger into strength and began to drink the breast milk in large gulps.
Hmph, it's all that big bad dragon's fault!
Seeing that she was enjoying her drink, Ma Xiulian's smile never faded.
During lunch, he even bragged about it to Old Man Chen, which made Old Man Chen both jealous and envious.
Then, to the astonishment of the family, he carried the eldest son's bowl of vegetable noodles with an egg to the third son's room.
"Third son's wife, dinner's ready!"
The three Chen brothers were dumbfounded: they hadn't eaten eggs for almost three months.
To be precise, apart from the three grandsons and the two pregnant daughters-in-law, the Chen family members don't eat eggs for months at a time.
Eggs are incredibly precious these days!
Four eggs could be exchanged for a pound of salt, and five eggs for a pound of kerosene, so every household saved them up and couldn't bear to eat them.
Why isn't Mom better yet?
Envious, Zhou Zhaodi secretly pinched her husband's arm, hoping he would protest.
"father--"
Before Chen Lao Er could utter a single word, Chen Lao Tou glanced at him with his eyelids lifted and said with a blank face, "Eat."
Chen Lao Er immediately fell silent.
Zhou Zhaodi felt both bitter and angry. She had never eaten such refined food when she was pregnant with her first and second babies!
But she didn't realize that when she was pregnant, everyone was starving, and it was already a special favor from her in-laws that a pregnant woman could have enough to eat.
Even now, the Chen family, with their large workforce, can only eat until they are 80% full on weekdays.
However, that's not all.
For the next few days, her mother-in-law acted as if possessed, cooking for her third brother's wife with refined grains for every meal.
After we finished the noodles, I used the little fine white flour we had at home to make her a bag of fried pork crackling dumplings, or to cook her some noodle soup.
They practically treated her like royalty!
Seeing her mother-in-law completely changed, Zhou Zhaodi's initial envy and anger turned into panic and fear: Oh no, could her mother-in-law really be possessed by a ghost?
But she had barely mentioned it when her husband berated her.
I feel wronged and upset.
Ma Xiulian pretended not to notice her surprised and inquisitive gaze, and happily served the third son's wife during her postpartum period and took care of the baby.
If it weren't for the fact that her granddaughter was too young to handle the hassle of coming back, she would have taken her to her own room that night.
"My sweet baby, how about you live in the same room as Grandma when you turn one month old?"
Helian Jiao let out a soft, sweet "Ah".
Okay!
She could sense that Ma Xiulian, her grandmother, cared for her more than Li Chunhua, her biological mother.
Ma Xiulian was overjoyed and kept praising him.
"You're such a good girl, Grandma loves you the most."
"Our little darling is so smart."
Bookworm: Our male lead has arrived!
Demon Lord (eyes blazing with murderous intent): You don't even have a name? You call this an entrance?!
Bookworm: There's murderous intent here, run!
(End of this chapter)
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