Hearing his words, Shen Cui felt so relieved that she couldn't help laughing.
"I am such an old man, do I still need you to worry about me?"
Mu Erpang didn't dare to retort, he just raised his eyebrows and shrugged.
The meaning is so obvious, we are both the same, no one should look down on each other, we are both the kind of people who cause trouble!
Chen Cui smiled and stretched out her hand to straighten the fur hat on his head. After laughing, she said, "If you don't want to go, then don't go. You don't have to do something you don't want to do just because of the quarrel between your grandmother and I. If you want to lie down at home, then lie down. Mom won't scold you."
"That's not the case. I usually go to my grandma's house during the Chinese New Year. There are all kinds of delicious food and fun things to do there!"
It turned out that she was just being overly sentimental. This boy was not doing this entirely for her. Shen Cui pinched his fat face in amusement and then sent him out.
Before parting, Shen Cui said to Li a little embarrassedly: "This child gets hungry easily, and gets in a bad mood when hungry. I'll trouble you to take care of him more."
Li had not had a good relationship with her sister-in-law in the past. After all, she was not a saint, so it was impossible for her to say that she did not care about the past. But in the last two contacts, Shen Cui seemed like a different person, many times more polite than before.
Li was indeed of good nature, and her tone of voice became a little warmer. She told Shen Cui not to worry, and added: "Er Pang is our family's lucky star. No one else's food and drink will be short of him. Don't worry."
After saying this, Li hesitated for a long while, and it was obvious that she was still soft-hearted. She felt that it was not good to let Chen Cui spend the New Year alone, but she was also afraid that if she went back on her own initiative, she would be punished by Zheng.
Chen Cui smiled and shook her head, saying, "Don't worry, sister-in-law. I'm already a grown-up. I usually have to take care of Er Pang, so I can relax these few days."
Seeing that she was indeed open-minded, Li also laughed and once again assured her that she would keep an eye on Erpang.
After seeing them off, the house suddenly became quiet.
Chen Cui was a person who could endure loneliness, so she found something to do for herself.
Last time, she had just cleaned the kitchen and the main room, and there were still a lot of housework accumulated by her original self for her to do in other parts of the house.
Chen Cui had become accustomed to multitasking, opening his attribute panel on the light screen and glancing at it from time to time.
Mu Erpang was in a very good mood at this time. As he said, he didn't hate going to his grandparents' house.
It’s just that today’s experience is a little different.
Even though Li sincerely promised Chen Cui to take good care of Er Pang, she is also a mother of several children and is good at taking care of children, but she is actually a little unsure.
Because in her opinion, Erpang...Erpang is a little different from other children.
The first is of course the difference in body size. Although Li also regards him as a little lucky star, she has to admit that the child is indeed twice as big as other children of the same age.
Fat people get tired easily and are prone to out of breath. Usually, when Li or Zheng came to take him into the city, they would specially hire an ox cart.
They were unlucky today. They waited at the entrance of the village for a long time but no ox cart came. Moreover, the weather was changing. If they didn't leave, it might snow. So they had to walk.
Shuiyun Village is the closest village to the county town, but for a half-fat kid like Mu Erpang who has not exercised for years, it takes at least fifteen minutes to walk there.
Before getting on the ox cart, Li hung the small bag in Mu Erpang's hand around her neck, squatted in front of him, and said she would carry him on her back.
Although Mu Erpang was usually dull and stupid, he was very smart when it came to being lazy.
In the past, Mu Erpang was already accustomed to things like having adults carry him on his back.
He subconsciously stretched out his arms, but after that, Mu Erpang felt embarrassed——
His arms are fat and sectioned like lotus roots, and are thicker than his aunt's arms!
He put his fat arms back into his sleeves and said to Li slowly, "We still have a long way to go. I want to walk by myself. When I can't walk anymore, I'll talk to my aunt."
As they were talking, the weather was getting worse. Seeing that they could not delay any longer, Li did not force him to listen to her on the way. She only told him to tell her when he felt tired and not to force himself.
Mu Erpang nodded obediently, then took Li's hand and the two of them set out on the road into the city.
After walking for a short while, Mu Erpang began to pant for a while, and before Li could say anything, he said he wanted to take a break.
Of course there was no place to sit on the side of the road, so he stood for a while, and when his breathing became even, he walked on again.
Seeing him like this, Li couldn't help but look him over from head to toe.
Erpang is still the same Erpang, with a chubby white face, slender eyes, a delicate nose and mouth, about four feet tall, wearing a casual blue-gray thick coat and a fur hat, like a New Year picture doll that has been magnified several times.
No matter how you look at it, he is still the child that Li raised.
I couldn't tell what was different, but I felt like he had changed.
The two entered the city gate in the afternoon, and after walking for another quarter of an hour, they arrived at Teapot Lane where the Shen family lived.
The terrain of Teapot Lane is as its name suggests. The entrance is a long and slightly narrow lane. After passing the alley, it becomes a wide scene with houses of all sizes lined up.
Such terrain is naturally not a good place, so most of the people living here are ordinary people.
As Li and Mu Erpang walked out of the long alley, they ran into the neighbors nearby.
There were not many entertainment activities for city dwellers in this era. At this moment, a few women were standing in front of the door with their necks hunched and sleeves rolled up, chatting.
"Did Mrs. Shen take her nephew back again?" The speaker was a woman of the same age as Zheng, with somewhat gray hair.
As she spoke, the women with her looked at Mu Erpang from head to toe.
However, unlike the way Li looked at Mu Erpang, their gazes were not friendly, and were even a little contemptuous.
Because Mu Erpang often went in and out of the Shen family, and his features were very obvious, everyone in the neighborhood knew that the Shen family had such an obese child who could barely speak at the age of ten.
Zheng was notoriously powerful, so everyone only dared to gossip about him behind his back and no one dared to say anything to his face.
Since Zheng was not here at the moment and only Li, who was as soft as dough, was here, it did not stop them from mocking Mu Erpang with their eyes.
Seeing them like this, Li, who was as soft as a dough, also became a little angry.
But she was not good at arguing and didn't want to argue with anyone at this level, so she just glared back at him unkindly.
Mu Erpang looked at the nearby Shen family and asked, "Aunt, why don't we leave?"
As he spoke, Mu Erpang poked half of his chubby face out from behind Li, "Oh, it turns out to be Grandma Zhao, Grandma Sun, and Aunt Qian..."
Speaking of which, it is only natural for a ten-year-old child to be able to recognize people.
But the fat man in the past could not recognize them. It was not until he called them one by one that the women began to feel that they were the elders and smiled awkwardly and made way for him.
Li snorted and pulled Mu Erpang towards her door.
When they were far away, Li smiled and asked Mu Erpang, "Erpang, did you recognize those people? How come you have become so smart after just a few days of not seeing them?"
Mu Erpang smiled when he heard the compliment and replied, "I should have known them all. Besides, I was reading Hundred Family Names at home the other day, and it just so happens that their surnames are easy to remember."
After hearing this, Li knew that she was right. Erpang was really different!
My mother-in-law was in a bad mood at the time, and the entire Shen family had been very cautious before the New Year. Telling her the good news will make her happy, and the other young people can also have a comfortable new year!
Li was laughing as she entered the Shen family's front door. Suddenly, she heard a voice that was about to laugh but not laugh ask, "Pfft - incredible, your in-laws' grandson can read now?"
Li looked carefully and saw that the main hall of the Shen family was full of people.
The person sitting in the main seat was, of course, Zheng, and next to her sat another woman with a long face.
This long-faced woman is not an outsider. She is the mother of Chen, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Shen family.
Speaking of which, there is also a lawsuit involved here.
When Shen Da was sent to the city by his biological mother to be an apprentice, he took Chen's biological father as his master.
Chen, who was still a girl at that time, and Shen Da spent more time together and developed feelings for each other.
Seeing that Shen Da was studious and hardworking, and had the simplicity of a farmer, Mr. Chen did not despise him for his humble background.
The Shen family certainly had no objection and they pooled half of their fortune to propose marriage to the Chen family.
The two families had a very good relationship in the past few years.
But the bad thing was that after Chen came into the family, she gave birth to two daughters in a row.
Zheng's bad temper was revealed. He often gave her a cold shoulder and said a lot of nasty things to her.
Chen was a city girl, and she was spoiled by her parents. She could not stand this and often went back to her parents' home to cry.
Mrs. Chen was even more furious, but it was indeed her own daughter who failed to have children for the other family, which made her feel inferior to him, so she had no way to vent her anger.
It wasn't until a few years ago that Chen finally gave birth to a son, and Mrs. Chen could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
But she didn't know that Zheng didn't look like that because her eldest daughter-in-law couldn't give birth to a son, but that she was just like that!
What happened if the eldest daughter-in-law gave birth to a son? Isn't this what should be done?
And if it weren't for the lucky star Erpang in their Shen family, Chen's belly might still be as disappointing as before!
When Mrs. Chen heard this, she was furious. Didn't the credit for her daughter's son have to be attributed to the grandson of the Shen family?
It would be fine if the grandson of the Shen family was really smart, but everyone knows that the boy is fat and stupid, and it is no exaggeration to say that he is a fool!
So in recent years, the relationship between the two families has become increasingly worse, with a trend of developing from relatives to enemies.
At the end of the year, relatives would visit each other and give each other New Year gifts.
Mr. Shen had already gone to the Chen family to give a gift before, and today the Chen family came to return the gift.
The two families sat down in the main room and began to chat casually.
Just then, Li and Mu Erpang came in while talking.
Mrs. Chen was in a very bad mood at the time - she looked down on Zheng, but because her daughter was living with someone else, and for her daughter's better life in the future, she had to make this special trip.
When Mrs. Chen heard Mu Erpang's words suddenly, she laughed and knew where she could step on Zheng!
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