Chapter 15 Utterly Wronged
Helian Jiao continued to cry loudly with her eyes closed.
Li Chunhua frowned in annoyance, then suddenly reached out and covered her mouth, saying, "I told you to stop crying!!"
When Ma Xiulian pushed open the door, this was the scene that greeted her. She was instantly terrified, her face turning deathly pale, and her voice shrill and distorted, "Li Chunhua, what are you doing?!"
Li Chunhua immediately withdrew her hand as if scalded by boiling water, stammering as she tried to explain, "Mom, I... I just—"
Ma Xiulian rushed over, pushed her aside, and then carefully picked up the wailing Helian Jiao, saying, "Don't be afraid, baby, Grandma's here, Grandma's here."
Helian Jiao wanted to complain to her grandmother, but her infant instincts prevented her from stopping her crying for a while.
Looking at her little granddaughter, whose face was red from crying, Ma Xiulian felt both heartache and anger. How much injustice had her precious child suffered!
Then, with a dark expression, he glared fiercely at Li Chunhua and said, "Li Chunhua, you're something else!"
Li Chunhua was both shocked and frightened by her mother-in-law's fierce expression. She stammered, "It's...it's because Guabao cried so hard that Xiaobao was frightened. That's why I...I covered her mouth."
She firmly believed that no matter how much her mother-in-law loved her granddaughter, it could never surpass the grandson who could carry on the family line.
Ma Xiulian then turned her gaze to Chen Xiaobao, who was somewhat dazed, and then noticed the milk stains left on the corner of his mouth, which made her even angrier.
"No wonder I had so much good food and still didn't have enough breast milk. Turns out I was secretly feeding the baby!"
Li Chunhua was startled, only then realizing that she hadn't had time to wipe her son's mouth clean.
She swallowed hard, about to say something, when her mother-in-law said coldly, "If you don't want to feed her, then don't."
Ma Xiulian, holding her granddaughter, turned and walked out of the house.
At this time, the rest of the Chen family, who had finished work early due to the heavy rain, also returned.
She said to Zhao Mei, who was soaking wet, "Eldest daughter-in-law, from now on you will feed the baby, and you will get the best food in the house."
Zhao Mei was taken aback. She wanted to say that her breast milk was barely enough for her little girl, but seeing her mother-in-law's unpleasant expression, she didn't dare to refuse and could only nod stammeringly, "Okay."
Zhou Zhaodi, however, was quite bold. She immediately asked with a gossipy look, "Mom, why did you suddenly let my sister-in-law breastfeed the baby? Where is my third sister-in-law?"
The mere mention of Li Chunhua ignited Ma Xiulian's anger: "That damned woman actually secretly fed the baby her milk! My poor little baby, he's so hungry at such a young age."
Zhou Zhaodi's eyes widened in disbelief as she looked at the door of the third room. Had Li Chunhua gone mad from giving birth?
Knowing full well that her mother-in-law was completely bewitched by that vixen, she still dared to cut back on her food rations. Wasn't that just courting death?
She was secretly overjoyed, but on the surface she wore an expression of righteous indignation, saying, "How could you do this, Third Sister-in-law? Xiao Bao will be three years old in a few months, and my darling baby is only a month old. It shouldn't be like this, it's just too much!"
The rest of the Chen family were also shocked by Li Chunhua's outrageous actions. Even Ma Xiulian, who was so patriarchal, had never skimped on her granddaughter's food rations for her grandson.
However, Helian Jiao, the poor little girl who suffered such mistreatment, was someone who forgot about it in the blink of an eye.
Seeing that her grandma was only focused on being angry, she opened her rosy little mouth and cried out "Ah ya~" at her.
Grandma, she's still hungry.
Ma Xiulian quickly said to Zhao Mei, "Eldest daughter-in-law, hurry up and change into some clean clothes to breastfeed."
Then he ordered Zhou Zhaodi to the kitchen, "Second brother's wife, go and boil a bowl of brown sugar water and poach four eggs."
Li Chunhua sat blankly on the bed, holding her son. When she heard her mother-in-law say that she was going to give her own food rations to her sister-in-law, she felt extremely wronged, but she didn't dare to go out and say a word of "no".
I'm revising the text. Chapter 2 will be updated at 6 PM.
(End of this chapter)
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