Chapter 36: Crying children are given sweets, but sensible children are not hurt.
It wasn't until the sky gradually darkened that Shen Mingzhu took Pei Ziheng back home leisurely.
As soon as he entered the door, Qin Jinlian, who was busy working in the courtyard, glared over, "You still know how to come back!"
Shen Mingzhu: "Then shall I leave?"
Qin Jinlian: "..."
Seeing that the mother and daughter started fighting again when they met, sister-in-law Du Juan hurriedly called out to Shen Mingzhu, "Let Xiaoheng play with Daya. Mingzhu, help me cook dinner in the kitchen."
Shen Mingzhu responded, patted Pei Ziheng on the head, said "Don't bully Da Ya", and then followed Du Juan to the kitchen.
Pei Ziheng pursed his lips and looked at Shen Mingzhu's back for a while, then turned and walked to the little girl riding the wooden carriage.
Da Ya is the daughter of Shen Chaobei and Du Juan. She is three years old this year. Maybe because she lives in the countryside, her skin is a bit dark and she is thin. She has wide cheekbones but a sharp chin. Her eyes are big and black, and she looks a bit like a cat. , the dazzling eyebrows are very similar to Shen Mingzhu.
Although Da Ya is young, she is not like other children who have a runny nose and cries easily.
Just give her a rotten leaf and she can play quietly all afternoon.
At this moment, she was sitting alone on a homemade wooden carriage in the countryside, her dark eyes staring unblinkingly at Pei Ziheng, a beautiful cousin from the city.
Pei Ziheng was tired of looking at him. He curled his lips evilly and threatened in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Look again and I'll pluck out your eyeballs."
I don't know whether she was frightened or didn't react. Daya stared at Pei Ziheng blankly for a while, then suddenly abandoned the wooden carriage and ran to Qin Jinlian's side, hugging Qin Jinlian's legs.
Qin Jinlian looked down at her granddaughter, then at her "grandson" not far away, and asked in a low voice what happened to Daya?
Da Ya didn't say anything, just buried her face between Qin Jinlian's legs.
Qin Jinlian ignored her and continued busy with what she was doing.
Pei Ziheng felt bored, so he sat on the wooden carriage and looked up at the sky while rocking.
Daya beside Qin Jinlian's legs secretly looked at Pei Ziheng who had snatched her wooden carriage, her little face was filled with anger.
In the kitchen, Shen Chaobei was persuading Shen Mingzhu not to get angry with Qin Jinlian.
"Mom still cares about you in her heart. She always talks about you. If she hadn't been busy with Xiangnan's marriage during this period, she would have gone to the city to see you."
Shen Mingzhu said, "She probably cares about my money."
"Mingzhu, don't talk about mom like that, it makes her seem so bad."
"It's not that good anyway."
"..."
Shen Chaobei looked at Shen Mingzhu in confusion, "You have never been so good at talking back before."
Shen Mingzhu also looked at Shen Chaobei, "Don't just try to persuade me. When you have time, you might as well comfort your sister-in-law more, marry her into our family, bear children for you, and live a hard life with you. There's no reason to do this." No matter how angry you are, any good man knows how to protect his wife."
Du Juan was chopping vegetables and was startled when she heard her sister-in-law talking about her. After listening to her sister-in-law's words, her eyes couldn't help but heat welling up.
Fortunately, the light in the kitchen was dim and neither brother nor sister noticed her.
She wiped the corners of her eyes, held the kitchen knife and continued to chop vegetables.
Shen Chaobei looked embarrassed after being spoken to by Shen Mingzhu. He glanced at his wife, but he was not good at words and didn't know what to say, so he found an excuse and turned around and went out.
There were only two sisters and sister-in-law left in the kitchen.
Shen Mingzhu looked at the thin and forbearing figure of her sister-in-law, and spoke frankly, "You have to live your own good and bad days by yourself. If you don't want to suffer, you must dare to speak out your dissatisfaction and thoughts. The more you tolerate, the more likely you will be punished in the future." The more you ignore it, the crying children will get sweets, and the sensible children will not be hurt. Sister-in-law, please think carefully about whether what I said is right."
"Um."
"Mingzhu, thank you."
Du Juan turned around and smiled extremely gratefully at her.
There were two tables for dinner. In addition to Shen Mingzhu’s family, there were also relatives and villagers from the same village who would help pick up the bride tomorrow.
After dinner, everyone started preparing the picks for picking up the bride tomorrow.
Chickens, ducks, pork, sugar cakes, fruits, etc. are packed one by one in baskets, covered with red cloth, and will be carried to the bride's side to welcome her in the morning.
It was already 10 o'clock when the things needed to pick up the relatives were prepared. The relatives and fellow villagers who helped had all gone home to sleep. The Shen family was also preparing to rest and would get up at 5 o'clock tomorrow.
But how to sleep is the problem.
Shen Mingzhu's room was gone, and she brought Pei Ziheng with her.
According to their relationship, Shen Mingzhu should sleep in the same room with Qin Jinlian, but Shen Mingzhu had some thoughts about Qin Jinlian, so she proposed to sleep in the same room with her sister-in-law Du Juan.
Although Qin Jinlian didn't say anything, it was clear from her face that she was unhappy.
Shen Mingzhu didn't care, so she took Pei Ziheng to Du Juan's house. In rural areas, people slept on a kang, so it would not be crowded at all for the two elders and two to sleep on the same kang.
The wedding on the second day was lively and festive, with a total of eighteen tables, and almost everyone in the village came, plus relatives from both parties.
As a sister-in-law, Shen Mingzhu had to take care of the bride and greet the guests. She was so busy that she didn't have time to sit down and catch her breath until the wedding guests had left in the evening.
After just sitting for a while, Pei Ziheng touched her side, looked at her with dark eyes and asked, "When will we go back?"
Shen Mingzhu deliberately teased him, saying that he would not go back and would stay in the countryside from now on, but he was mercilessly ridiculed.
"You don't even have your own room, so you stay and sleep in a pigsty?"
"..."
Blanch.
As soon as Shen Mingzhu stepped into Qin Jinlian's door, everyone in the room looked at her.
After the quarrel with Qin Jinlian, this was the first time she came to Qin Jinlian's house.
Qin Jinlian sat cross-legged at the kang table, Shen's father Shen Jianguo sat at the other end, brothers Shen and Shen Xiangnan stood facing north, and sister-in-law Du Juan sat on a stool with Daya in her arms. Everyone was here except the bride Yang Lizhen.
Shen Mingzhu said simply, "I'll go back tomorrow."
Qin Jinlian didn't say anything. Shen Jianguo saw that his wife was silent, so he didn't open his mouth either.
It was the eldest brother Shen Chaobei who tried to persuade Shen Mingzhu to stay, "It's rare for you to come back, why don't you stay for two more days?"
Shen Mingzhu wanted to ask if she could stay and sleep in the pig pen, but she still held back the words. Why bother others on this big day?
"Xiaoheng is going back to kindergarten."
"If you want to leave, just leave, as if no one cares about you."
Shen Mingzhu was very tired at first and wanted to go back to the house and lie down early, but after hearing what Qin Jinzhi said, she refused to leave and sat down next to her sister-in-law Du Juan, as if she wanted to be angry with Qin Jinlian.
Qin Jinlian glared at her and continued to count the gifts received today.
Shen Mingzhu teased Daya while talking to Du Juan in a low voice, "Sister-in-law, come to the city to see me when you have time, and I will take you around. Xiaoheng has a lot of old clothes that can no longer be worn. I will go back and clean them up.
Then you can bring it back to Daya to wear, the clothes will all be good."
"OK."
Sleep until dawn.
As soon as Shen Mingzhu opened her eyes, she smelled the aroma of oil, as if someone was frying something.
She got dressed and went to the kitchen to fetch water and wash up. As soon as she stepped into the kitchen threshold, she saw Qin Jinlian wearing an apron and working in front of the stove. There was already a lot of fried tofu and crispy cakes in the round dustpan next to the stove.
Meat.
Shen Mingzhu originally thought that Qin Jinlian made these for the new second sister-in-law to eat, but when she had breakfast, there were only yellow noodle steamed buns and some leftovers from yesterday on the table, and there was no sign of fried tofu or crispy pork at all.
If I don't give it to her, she won't be surprised.
Shen Mingzhu thought angrily, put down her chopsticks after eating, and went back to the house to pack her things.
In fact, there was not much. Although she came back with big and small bags, they were all food, food and clothing for the Shen family. Apart from a change of clothes, she and Pei Ziheng only had small items such as towels and toothbrushes.
Before everything was packed, Qin Jinlian came in and put a large bag of things on the kang table with a stinky face.
The mother and daughter stared at each other for a long time.
"What are you looking at?"
"How do you know I'm looking at you if you don't look at me?"
Qin Jinlian was heartbroken by Shen Mingzhu's words, "Will you die if you stop talking back to me?"
"Endure ovarian cysts for a while, and take a step back to breast hyperplasia."
Qin Jinlian glared in anger, then pushed the things on the kang table in front of her, "This is for you."