Chapter 18 Are you feeling wronged?
Seeing this scene, not a single member of the Chen family spoke up to stop the brothers' bullying behavior. Even Zhao Mei, the mother, could only watch helplessly, feeling sorry for herself for not having a son to support her.
Seven-year-old Da Ni was already used to unfair treatment. When her noodle soup was taken away, she just licked the oil off her lips, thinking that she must make the most of the time to drink more next time.
Five-year-old Erni, being young, felt wronged and started to cry.
She opened her mouth wide and cried so hard and felt extremely wronged. Zhao Mei could only coax her with red eyes, "Erni, be good. Your little brother is still young. Let's give him the noodle soup. Don't cry."
The Chen brothers, Da Bao and Er Bao, slurped down their noodle soup while pointing at Er Ni and laughing loudly, "Hahaha, Er Ni's mouth is so big and ugly, let's give her some mud to eat."
Erni immediately started crying even louder.
Chen Dabao, that brat, grabbed a handful of dirt from the ground and tried to put it in her mouth, but Zhou Zhaodi stopped him and he pouted unhappily.
Helian Jiao, who was in her sleep, was annoyed by Erni's crying and frowned her delicate eyebrows tightly.
Upon seeing this, Ma Xiulian immediately scolded Chen Dabao with a stern face, "If you want to drink the soup, then drink it properly. If you don't want to drink it, then go outside and play."
Then he looked at Chen Erni, who was wailing, and said, "Don't cry. You can have all the noodle soup tomorrow. Nobody can take it from you."
They're both troublesome!
Chen Erni was genuinely afraid of her grandmother, Ma Xiulian, because her grandmother never smiled at them. Upon hearing that she could drink fragrant noodle soup tomorrow, she immediately stopped crying and only sobbed softly.
Ma Xiulian gently patted the swaddled baby to soothe her startled granddaughter, and Helian Jiao's little eyebrows gradually relaxed.
Her heart calmed down, and she began to arrange the housework, saying, "Third son, it's your turn to wash the dishes tonight."
Li Chunhua's eyes widened in disbelief as she looked at her mother-in-law. "Mom, what did you say?"
For the past month or so, she has hardly lifted a finger to do any housework. Sometimes when she is lying in bed and doesn't want to move, her mother-in-law will personally bring her food into the room for her to eat.
Ma Xiulian thought she hadn't heard her clearly, so she repeated, "I told you to go wash the dishes."
Once Li Chunhua was sure she hadn't misheard, an expression of extreme grievance instantly appeared on her face, as if Ma Xiulian wasn't asking her to wash the dishes, but rather to take the fall for a bomb.
How could her mother-in-law treat her like that?!
Not only did she give her food rations to her sister-in-law, but she also dumped the work her sister-in-law did on her!
Ma Xiulian saw right through her little scheme, so she glared at her and scolded, "What's wrong? You're acting like a rich lady during your postpartum confinement? Is washing dishes a hardship for you?!"
Her fierce expression startled Li Chunhua, who finally remembered that her mother-in-law was a formidable person, so she shook her head repeatedly, "No, no, I'll go wash it right away."
Seeing that she was cleaning up the dishes fairly quickly, Ma Xiulian didn't bother to continue scolding her, otherwise she would disturb the baby's sleep.
Li Chunhua's eyes reddened again, feeling embarrassed and wronged: all three daughters-in-law were there, so why should she be the only one washing the dishes?
But she didn't consider that, apart from her, no other daughter-in-law in the Chen family had spent a whole month in postpartum confinement and had the whole family taking care of her.
Zhou Zhaodi had been annoyed with her for a long time, and now she was secretly gloating: Serves you right, you brought it on yourself!
However, these three sisters-in-law are really stupid!
If she were to give birth to such a clever little vixen who could please her mother-in-law, she would treat the little vixen like royalty and constantly try to get benefits from her mother-in-law.
My little darlings, please don't hesitate to point out any spelling mistakes I make!
(End of this chapter)
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