Chapter 54 Xiaowu is sick

Author: Unnamed.

Moonlight

Chapter 54 Xiaowu is sick

Sure enough, there was nothing else on the chopping board next to the water tank except for a kitchen knife and two empty basins and a few pairs of bowls and chopsticks. There was nothing in the compartment below either. Such a big pig leg would definitely fit in.

see.

"Ah, you two are back. The food is almost ready, so you can start eating directly." Zhao Wenlan didn't notice the two of them looking at the kitchen, put the plates on, and started filling the basin with soup.

Zhao Wenying withdrew her gaze, threw it into the pot, and asked: "There is meat in this cabbage soup. Brother, did you just go to the warehouse to get the meat?" I wanted to ask Zhao Wenlan if he knew.

"No, there is meat at home. Mom and her friends had a piece left after eating in the afternoon. I thought I had enough cooking so I didn't go." Zhao Wenlan didn't pay attention and just thought it was a casual question she saw after seeing the meat. She didn't stop after answering.

, carried half a basin of vegetable soup and entered the house.

Zhao Wenying didn't ask about the result. She looked at each other and walked towards the threshold.

Li Cuizhen's status in the family has always been determined, and no one can doubt her decision. But for such a big thing, you can't pretend not to see it. What if it doesn't happen again?

The two sisters were pretending to be busy, so they washed their hands in slow motion.

Everyone sitting on Li Cuizhen's Kang was worried: "It took you both a long time to wash your hands. The table has been cleared, and you and the one who is dawdling about it have quickly come to the table to eat."

Zhao Wenying responded: "Hey, here we go." He paused while washing his hands.

Seeing that she was still hesitant, Zhao Wenduo didn't wait any longer. He walked past her and wiped his hands. As he walked towards this side, he asked Li Cuizhen: "Mom, you gave gifts to people this afternoon, and there is less meat in the warehouse."

The words were not said completely, and the tone did not feel so stiff. It meant that she only talked about her findings, not her doubts about this behavior.

The two of them brought back the wild animals on their first trip. Li Cuizhen listened to the movement and knew that they had just gone to empty the big vat and put it in it. There were countless pieces of pork, and you could tell if there was any missing piece. Plus in the afternoon and evening

The used piece means that two whole cubes of meat are missing. It is normal to notice something is wrong.

"Yes, you have checked the numbers." There was almost no doubt, and it was a direct affirmation. Otherwise, he would not have asked her.

"You, the second wife, have been here for two days. You said you were worried about the family and wanted to go back and have a look. When we were cooking in the afternoon, we said that our meat is good. None of the children at home have ever eaten such fragrant pork. I thought about how busy she was.

I was a little tired from all the busy work, so I promised to give her some meat. No, she went to get it before leaving."

He complimented the food on how delicious it was and gave away a whole pig leg. Zhao Wenduo was speechless and didn't know what to say.

Zhao Wenying also washed her hands at this time. When she heard Li Cuizhen give an affirmative answer, she knew that it was a fact that could not be changed, but she still couldn't help feeling distressed and sighed: "Mom, you are so generous.

Yes, you just opened your mouth and gave me a whole pig leg, it’s really——ah!”

After raising pigs for more than a year, it was not easy to feed them until they weighed more than 100 kilograms. Didn’t the old lady just say a few words of obedience in vain? Why did she lose her head and do such a stupid thing?

It's not that our relationship is very good, it's just that we are the second wife's mother-in-law. We haven't been in contact with each other for a long time. We only cooked two meals this time. How tired can we be?

From Zhao Wenying's point of view, her mother just made a mistake this time and acted stupidly to give birth to a child, so she was deceived and even gave away such good things. But no matter how hard she complained,

It was just a few words of slander without actually saying it out loud.

Firstly, he is afraid of his power, and secondly, he is worried about his body.

After sending her away, don't say anything inappropriate and make her mother angry again, it will be even worse than the loss.

She didn't say all the words she was worried about, but the meaning was clear enough. The first few words alone made Li Cuizhen's eyes widen, and she was so shocked that she lost her voice: "What the hell, a whole pig's leg, you

Say it again?"

Almost at the same time, there was a voice in the outer room: "What, a pig leg was given to someone, who?" Zhao Mingyu followed the group to collect peanuts in the village, and when he returned home from work, he heard Zhao Wenying

The tail of that half-sentence was immediately explosive.

This is a person who looks at meat more noble than himself. Not to mention a whole pig leg, even the cut pieces of meat will feel distressed if he gives them to others. If his health hadn't allowed him to do so, he would have prepared himself on the day of killing the pig.

I came here so that others would eat less of that meat.

Zhao Mingyu's quarrel made the room even more chaotic. Li Cuizhen couldn't care less about whether she was yelled at or not, and hung on to the end of Zhao Wenying's words, insisting that she explain clearly.

It wasn't until this moment that the two sisters Zhao Wenying and Zhao Wenduo suddenly realized that there was something fishy about this matter. Both parties were vague and did not explain clearly enough, so that the matter was completely divided. There was something wrong with each other.

misunderstood.

In order to prevent this situation from happening again, the whole family gathered together and everyone laid out everything they knew and saw. The answer was immediately revealed.

Zhao Wennan even stood up and raised his hand: "I saw it, the second wife was carrying a big piece of meat on her shoulders when she left the village entrance. I said hello to her, but she ignored me. She walked very quickly, and she disappeared after a while.

Son."

At that time, Zhao Wennan was skating on the ice with several children in the village, and he saw Bao Dongmei walking out of the village carrying meat alone. How could a five or six-year-old child think so much?

She went over and asked. The other party ignored her and didn't care, and continued to play with her friends.

Now that her family members had been talking about it for a long time, she realized that such a big piece of meat belonged to her own family and had been stolen away by an old lady called her mistress.

If there is less meat, there will be less food to eat in the future. Zhao Wennan was not happy and pouted and said: "The second wife is really bad. She steals our meat. I won't recognize her anymore and won't call her milk again."

"

Although it was an angry remark made by a child, it also reflected the attitude of the Zhao family from a side perspective.

"I knew she had a sweet mouth but a sharp heart, and she was always full of bad ideas when she smiled and squinted her eyes. She was like this when she was young. I thought she had changed her gender in old age, but it turns out that she is still a dog who can't change and eat shit."

Zhao Mingyu felt so regretful that her intestines were turning blue. Why didn't she tell the people in her family to be more careful?

Li Cuizhen said: "Don't say you didn't think about it, didn't I see it too? What she said was so sincere. I knew she was not a good person, but I still believed her. Both of us are like this.

, not to mention the children, they didn’t know she was a smiling tiger, and they thought she was a good person.”

"So, this old lady came here to cheat people out of her in the name of serving her confinement, right?"

Zhao Wenduo summarized it. Bao Dongmei got the news from somewhere and knew that the family had killed a New Year pig to celebrate the new baby, so she came here under the guise of her mother-in-law. In order to make them relax their vigilance, she went to cook and stewed pig trotter soup.

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Although she didn't get the expected results, Li Cuizhen couldn't bear the fat and made her stomach ache. But this guy really worked hard, and no one blamed her, and it made a good impression.

Taking advantage of this wave of goodwill, they went up the mountain to encourage Zhao Wenying to follow them until their goal was achieved. Zhao Mingyu's temporary transfer was unplanned, but it was exactly what she wanted. Even if there was no peanut collection.

If something happens, he will probably come up with other ways to send him away.

When Li Cuizhen was the only one left in the family who was in confinement, she took advantage of her sharp tongue and used the meat for cooking as an excuse to start a lobbying campaign of praise and criticism, forcing Li Cuizhen to agree to the promise of meat.

I played a word game in the middle, blurring the concept of "piece", and replaced the meat cubes with pork legs. Before the family members came back, people in confinement would not easily go out of the house, so they wore big cotton-padded clothes

To hide, he wrapped the pig legs and left in a hurry.

Meeting Zhao Wennan at the entrance of the village was purely accidental, but the little girl was of no use to her and was simply ignored. In other words, she didn't care at all.

Even if the little girl mentions this matter when she goes home, she has already left for a long time. As long as she is not caught on the spot, everything will be easy to talk about later.

It is said that if you catch a traitor, you will get the double, and if you catch the thief, you will get the dirty. Even if Bao Dongmei was found to have taken the pig leg, she would use a misunderstanding as an excuse and would never admit that it was intentional.

"That's just a piece of meat, it's a pig leg, a whole pig's hind leg." Li Cuizhen almost beat her chest. Why was she so careless at that time? She clearly saw her thieving appearance, so why didn't she think of this?

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But no matter how distressed she was, she only said that the pork leg was a thank you gift from them. Although she only cooked twice before and after, it was an indisputable fact. And Li Cuizhen did indeed agree to send the meat, but

I didn’t specify clearly. Isn’t the pork leg also meat? At most, it was a little bigger, so I really can’t say she stole it.

This is her cunning point. She has thought out her escape route in advance. She knows that even if they really choose to call the police, there is nothing they can do to her. Who told you that Li Cuizhen said she would give you meat? Then she chose the bigger choice.

A piece of it is not an exaggeration.

Realizing that she had taken advantage of the loophole, Li Cuizhen felt even more depressed. She was holding her breath and couldn't get anything she wanted.

Depending on the old woman's urine, she might not be able to get the pork legs back even if she came to her door. Maybe by this time, she would have already removed the bones, cut the meat, cooked it in a pot and eaten it.

If you ask for it even though you know you don't have it, isn't that just looking for a fight to get angry?

"Forget it, isn't it just a pig leg? Just take it away. Just treat it as if it was taken away by the old cat. Don't think about it anymore." Zhao Mingyu said it generously, as if he didn't care at all. In fact, then

My heart aches so much that it bleeds.

That's all we can do. After paying such a big price, we have completely seen what kind of person Bao Dongmei is. Naturally, we have to be more careful in the future and don't be deceived by her appearance. It can be regarded as a setback.

Be wise.

The whole family has finally accepted the loss of being dumb and is not ready to dwell on it any longer.

Unexpectedly, this matter is not over yet. The old woman not only took away a pork leg, but also took away another item.

That night, the family who slept until midnight were woken up by the crying of the baby.

Babies have weak appetites and cannot eat much at one time. Milk powder is digested quickly, so they need to be fed every three hours on average and have to get up at least three or two times at night.

Mothers usually don't sleep well at night, and the baby wakes up when it cries. If there is milk, she can feed the baby in bed even if she doesn't want to get up and hold her. But Li Cuizhen only has a little milk so far, so

It's just so sweet that it's not enough, so milk powder is still the mainstay.

Zhao Wenying has been responsible for preparing milk powder these days, and she is the one who wakes up at night to coax and feed Xiaowu. This can reduce a lot of burden and allow Li Cuizhen to sleep more and recover better.

With the mission in mind, it was natural that he could not sleep well. Zhao Wenying woke up almost as soon as Xiao Wu's first cry. But this is just a habitual reflex behavior. When the nerves react, the brain is still in a slow state, and the body is also moving.

slow.

With eyes half dim, I put on my shoes and went to the ground. I walked to the chest of drawers in a daze, took a milk bottle, filled it with milk powder, poured in the warm water from the thermos bottle, and shook it mechanically.
To be continued...