Chapter 2: A battle of wits and courage with my mother-in-law
“No, I still have to let her get out of this Full Moon Wine!”
Which family asked the mother-in-law to pay for the child's full-moon wine? If you tell them, everyone should know that mother and daughter are not welcome in their husband's family. It would be a huge embarrassment!
Furthermore, her mother-in-law despised Sister Ying so much that Mrs. Wu had to cut off money from her mother-in-law to relieve her pain.
Why should her mother-in-law say that her daughter, who was born in ten months of pregnancy, is a loser?
Xiaohong looked at her indignant look and looked outside the door. When she saw no one, she whispered.
“I think it’s better for you to let my uncle speak. The old lady loves my uncle the most, so there is absolutely no harm in letting my uncle speak.”
Mrs. Wu nodded in agreement, "That's true. I'll talk to my husband tonight."
Liang Jin dotes on her and is a reasonable person. It is most useful to blow pillows with him.
Everyone knows that Mrs. Liang dotes on his son, so asking Liang Jin to ask for the money from Mrs. Liang is sure to make Mrs. Liang angry and helpless.
“Pfft~”
Wu Shi and Xiao Hong looked at each other and immediately smiled tacitly.
Sister Ying listened very interestingly, grinning with her toothless mouth.
As for her, she is also a very eccentric mother.
They are really different from the stereotyped women of the ancients.
Perhaps it’s because Ningxi Town is far away from the capital. It’s surrounded by mountains and rivers. There aren’t any big rules. There are also many nearby villages, making it a lively little place.
Most of the people here are ordinary people, and the official is just a small county magistrate. Everyone lives a relatively unrestrained life.
Wu grew up in the village and has a cheerful temperament.
When she first married into the Liang family, she also wanted to please her mother-in-law, but Mrs. Liang looked down on her as a pig farmer from the beginning and said she didn't like her at all.
Mrs. Wu is not that cheap. Since her mother-in-law doesn't like it, she won't be hot-tempered and cold-hearted. Anyway, she has plenty of money and doesn't need to look at other people's faces.
As long as Liang Jin's heart is on her side, life will still be peaceful.
Sister Ying feels that her mother-in-law is very wise and knows how to make herself happy instead of spending her time fighting wits with her mother-in-law.
For example, right now, after she was angry, she immediately asked Xiao Hong for something delicious.
“You go to the kitchen and slice the piece of pork that my mother sent before, and we’ll heat a small copper pot and eat it.”
Xiao Hong was also greedy for the copper pot and went there with a smile.
When Sister Ying was asleep, she smelled the aroma of hot pot.
The aroma is spicy and appetizing.
She opened her **** eyes, looked around, and saw her mother and Xiaohong making hot pot over there? ?
Huh? Is it possible that this place actually has hot pot? It's amazing.
She opened her baby's mouth and said, "Wow, wow, wow." Let her mother hold her.
As soon as Mrs. Wu heard her crying, she came over to hug her.
“What’s the matter? Are you hungry?”
After saying that, he reached out and poked Sister Ying's round little face.
However, Sister Ying just wanted to watch the hot pot, not eat the hot pot, so she twisted her little body and babbling, trying to make Mrs. Wu understand her intention.
Of course Mrs. Wu didn't understand what she wanted to do, but she carried her to the table and sat down, eating soup from a copper pot and looking down at her.
Sister Ying looked up and saw her mother eating the hot-boiled meat, and her mouth was watering.
Mrs. Wu lowered his head to see her staring at the meat on the chopsticks, and said with a smile, "My dear, do you want to eat meat?"
Sister Ying kicked her chubby legs excitedly.
means I want to eat, I want to eat.
Mrs. Wu laughed again when she saw how happy she was playing.
He laughed with Xiaohong and said, "Look at this little thing. He doesn't even have a single tooth. He still wants to eat meat. It's really funny to me."
Xiaohong also laughed, "Miss, don't talk nonsense. My uncle has already said that a baby can't see clearly even if it's not a hundred days old. Maybe he likes to kick his legs."
Wu didn’t take it seriously and grinned.
"Okay, eat quickly, my husband will be back soon." Xiaohong smiled and said yes, and quickly finished cooking the soup in the copper pot.
The two of them were sweating profusely as they ate, and finally put vegetables and meat slices back on the table so that they could eat hot ones as soon as Liang Jin came back.
As soon as Liang Jin came out of Mrs. Liang's courtyard, she smelled the spicy smell.
He took a deep breath of the spicy aroma and said in surprise, "Madam, how did you know that I just wanted to eat this?"
Mrs. Wu had already rinsed her mouth, changed into clean clothes, held the child in her arms and went to greet him with a smile.
"Can I still know you? Wash your hands and eat the meat slices. Xiaohong has cut them for you."
Liang Jin smiled and said yes, but went over to see his daughter as usual.
“Sister Ying, have you eaten?”
Mrs. Wu nodded, "Have eaten. She is looking forward to your return now. She won't sleep even if you are not here."
These words are definitely full of water. Sister Ying had eaten and drank enough, so she stayed in her mother's arms and was kicked and quilted, so she didn't miss her father.
However, in order to make Liang Jin like her daughter more, Mrs. Wu always said that Sister Ying missed him.
Liang Jin is also a stupid dad.
Every time he heard that his daughter was looking for him, he would smile happily, pick up the child and put him to sleep with a fatherly look on his face.
"Look at you, you have to be coaxed to sleep by your father every day. If you don't behave, you will be spanked."
He said spanking, but he gently poked the girl's little fleshy face with his hand.
Sister Ying was held in her arms by her biological father, who coaxed her in a low voice. After a while, she closed her eyes and fell asleep innocently.
Mrs. Wu looked on with tenderness between her brows.
“Okay, she’s asleep, come over and eat.”
The relationship between the couple is only increasing, not decreasing, as if they were one person.
Liang Jin came over and sat down to cook soup in a copper pot. He said to her while eating.
“I’ve made an agreement with my mother about the full moon wine, and we’ll do it the day after tomorrow. Tomorrow I’ll ask Tongxi to go over and send invitations to my mother-in-law and father-in-law, and then we’ll have a lively time setting up a few tables.”
Because she is a girl, only a few tables are set up. If she were a boy, a whole yard of people would be invited.
Mrs. Wu doesn't mind how many tables she invites, as long as she can get her daughter a full moon drink. After all, this is the first child, and I want to provide her with everything she needs.
“Thank you for your hard work, sir.”
Mrs. Wu shyly kissed Liang Jin, and then shyly ran to the bedside to look after the child.
Liang Jin touched the feeling on his face and smiled silently.
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To the next day.
Liang Jin got up early in the morning to write an invitation, and then asked his servant to send it to the countryside to invite his father-in-law and his family to come over for a full moon feast the day after tomorrow.
Mr. Wu was naturally happy when he heard about his granddaughter's full moon wine, and carefully prepared a lot of gifts to bring over.
The next morning, as soon as Sister Ying woke up, she heard the bustle outside the door.
Today is her full moon party.
Ningxi Town is a place with civilized folk customs. Although most people like sons, they also like daughters.
Especially the younger generation, they also love their daughters very much.
Maybe this place is far away from the feudal and rigid etiquette zone of the capital, so most of the people here are not very particular about those rules.
Some people who gave birth to a daughter would serve wine if they wanted to, and no one would say anything.
When you give birth to a daughter, you have to carry a burden to distribute steamed buns to relatives and neighbors, and when you give birth to a son, you have to distribute eggs.
Of course, there are some in the older generation who favor boys over girls, and they can be found in every family.
Today, the Liang family is setting the table, and most of the Wu family, young and old, are here.
Although there are many people coming, they also bring a lot of things, and they are not coming in the autumn wind.
(End of this chapter)