No matter how unhappy Zhang Chunnuan felt and how pitiful the mistress was, she couldn't care about other people's family affairs.

After the funeral of the third grandma, she had to take care of two children, make clothes and cook, and prepare food for the New Year. It was the New Year's Eve when she was so busy.

Early in the morning on Xiaonian, Zhang Chunnuan took out a piece of frozen mutton that had been frozen during Laba and prepared to defrost it and make braised mutton.

It gets dark early in winter, so I stewed it now and had it just in time for dinner.

She had just gone to the cellar and brought out a few potatoes, intending to put them on the mutton stew, when she heard beatings, scolding and crying coming from next door.

Father Shen, who was about to go around from the front yard to the backyard to cook pig food, stopped when he heard the sound and looked towards the next yard with hesitation on his face.

Upon seeing this, Zhang Chunnuan moved two stools. The mother-in-law and her husband stepped on the stools to look next door.

In the yard next door, I saw the thinly dressed young man lying on the cold, snow-covered ground, rolling around to avoid the wooden stick that fell on him.

His eyes were filled with unwilling tears, and he gritted his teeth to prevent himself from crying, like a wounded little animal.

The other end of the wooden stick was tightly held in Li Suizui's hand. She was cursing and beating the mistress:

"I asked you to eat secretly! I asked you to eat secretly! You are an ignorant white-eyed wolf!"

Except for two people, no one else was present.

Zhang Chunnuan was wondering, didn't Li Suizui's mother-in-law think highly of her mistress? Why did she let Li Suizui hit her like this now?

"Stop!" Unlike Zhang Chunnuan, Father Shen's eyes were splitting when he saw the scene in the courtyard, and he shouted angrily: "Are you going to beat him to death?!"

Father Shen's voice sounded, and Li Suizui's hand movements paused, and then an elderly female voice came from the room:

"Daughter-in-law, you've been hit and the breath has come out. The baby in your belly is worried. Go back to the house and rest!"

When Zhang Chunnuan heard this, she suddenly realized that it was Li Suizui who was pregnant!

No wonder her mean mother-in-law let her beat the mistress like this.

When you have your own grandson, who wants a cheap grandson who already remembers things?

Li Suizui put down the wooden stick, made a sound, and cursed at the mistress on the ground: "Why are you lying on the ground pretending to die?! Go fill the water tank and chop the firewood!"

After scolding the mistress, she looked up at Zhang Chunnuan and muttered in a low voice: "It's really a dog trying to catch a mouse, so meddle in other people's business!"

Zhang Chunnuan's ears twitched, "What did you say? Say it again and let me hear it!"

Li Sui opened her mouth to speak, remembering how fiercely she had dealt with the grown men of the Min family before, and went back to the house with her head in a timid mood.

As for Father Shen, as early as when Li Suizui's mother-in-law spoke, he jumped off his stool and ran out of the house. He looked in the direction and saw that he was going to the village chief's uncle's house.

Zhang Chunnuan glanced at the trembling mistress. Just as he was about to speak, the cry of two children suddenly came from the room, and he ran back to the room without hesitation.

While she was breastfeeding her two children, she heard an argument coming from next door.

The speakers included Father Shen, the village chief, the production team captain and several other elderly voices, presumably from the elderly in the village.

During this period, there were also the voices of Li Suizui and her mother-in-law, which were so sharp and harsh that people couldn't help but frown.

After a while, there was no sound from the next door. Zhang Chunnuan walked out and looked outside. A large group of people walked toward the big house where the village held meetings.

Zhang Chunnuan glanced at the empty yard next door, picked up the potatoes, and returned to the kitchen to start stewing the mutton.

Cut the mutton thawed in hot water into mahjong-sized pieces, blanch it again in water and add onion, ginger and cooking wine, take it out and set aside.

Add oil to the pan and add the rock sugar processed by the farm. After frying the sugar color, add the blanched mutton. After stir-frying for a few times, add the onion and ginger ingredients prepared in advance. Stir-fry for a dozen times again and add water.

Bring to a boil over high heat, add soy sauce and chili sauce, then add potatoes peeled and cut into large pieces, cover the pot and turn to low heat.

While Zhang Chunnuan was simmering the mutton, she took out the key and opened the old cabinet in the kitchen.

He took out two wax rabbits, a bag of wax fish, and a small jar of salted duck eggs from the warehouse and put them in.

The four pairs of rabbits bought at the market on Laba Day have already multiplied on the farm, giving birth to three litters of little rabbits.

After the little rabbits were weaned, Zhang Chunnuan killed all the big rabbits except the pair of long-haired rabbits.

Seeing the wax rabbit in his hand, Zhang Chunnuan naturally thought of the road in the same outside world.

She also thought about going to the market the next day to see if she could find an opportunity to sell the farm's produce, but it had been half a month since today and she still hadn't had the chance to go.

Is it possible to wait until after the New Year?

Zhang Chunnuan shook his head. It was going to be busy again at the beginning of the new year. By then, there would be dozens of people and animals in the house, so where would she have any free time?

Why don't you take the time to check it out tomorrow? I can definitely run back and forth in two hours.

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Father Shen, the village chief uncle, and the production team captain divided into two groups. One group took the younger son to the brigade clinic, and the other group led Li Suizui and his family to the Mo family ancestral hall where the group was discussing matters.

The ancestral hall is the ancestral hall of the landlord Mo family. After the Mo family became empty, the team removed the house number, put away the memorial tablet, and turned it into the warehouse and meeting hall of Shanjiao Village.

Production captain Zhou Lixue, also known as Shuanzi, is the nephew of the village chief. Looking at Li Suizui's family standing in the house, his brows were so furrowed that he could pick up a fly.

"Long Tiezhu! It was you who said you wanted to adopt the mistress and raise him as your own son, so the team decided to let you take him away! Now you are raising him like this?!"

Long Tiezhu, Li Suizui's husband, curled his lips, stood there idly, and retorted:

"Brother Shuanzi, I want a mistress. That's because I don't have a son. Now that my wife is pregnant, I want to have a biological son. Where can I find food to feed him?"

When Zhou Lixue heard this, he was so angry that he slammed the table, "How dare you say that! Did your family provide the food for the third son? Wasn't it lent to him by the team? Wait until he is an adult and can earn work points by working in the fields!"

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"The food provided by the team is enough for what you can eat!" Li Suizui interrupted: "I'm a poor boy living in poverty. Besides, no one in the village has ever beaten his own child. I just beat him. As for..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhou Lixue angrily: "Shut up! You have no right to interrupt when a man is talking!"

"The great man said that women can hold up half the sky!" Li Suizui wanted to say more, but Long Tiezhu threw him away with an angry look on his face.

"I'm talking to Brother Shuanzi, if you try to interrupt again, I'll beat you to death!"

Long Tiezhu turned to look at Zhou Lixue and continued: "Brother Shuanzi, you see, I am going to be a father. The old and the young at home really don't have enough food to support the third son..."

"You can't fight to death if you don't want to raise her!" After hearing what he said, Father Shen wanted to push the mistress away, and then interjected: "Since you don't want to raise her, then let me raise her!"

"Daddy Tiger!"

As soon as Father Shen finished speaking, the village chief uncle who had taken the third son to the health center came back. When he heard that Father Shen wanted to adopt the third son, he quickly pulled him aside.

"Are you confused? Twenty years ago you said you wanted to raise a tiger, and I followed your wishes and didn't let anyone know that he was not your biological child.
Chapter completed!