Mu Xin Tang, dinner time in Fu Yuan.

Today, there is one more guest at the table in Fuyuan, and that is the little Niu Niu who has just woken up. A few children may have slept in the evening because they were too crazy in the morning, and Mama Liu was afraid that they would sleep too much and not sleep at night, so she coaxed them up.

Xiao Niu Niu may have just woken up and felt a little homesick, or found that the food on the table was different from what he usually eats, anyway, he sat very quietly at the table, and his two big eyes looked at the food on the table.

Ruoyun saw that he was so well-behaved, and liked it very much, so he asked someone to feed him an egg custard first, and then fed him the vegetables and meat in the porridge.

Although Li Mantun's family dotes on this eldest grandson very much, after all, the family conditions are limited, and even calves and cows do not eat meat and polished rice. So such a bowl of well-cooked meat porridge is very delicious for him, and he feels delicious after taking a bite, and then he has been silently eating a whole bowl of vegetable and meat porridge.

You must know that he is only a two-year-old child, and he has already eaten a bowl of egg custard and a bowl of thick meat porridge, and the frightened Mama Liu dare not give it to him anymore, for fear that his stomach will be uncomfortable at night, and he will not be able to explain to his parents at that time.

However, the little calf cow still clamored to eat, and his tearful appearance was very pitiful. In the end, Ruoyun had no choice, so he told him to let people put porridge in his bowl for him, and he could take it home to eat later. That's when he was coaxed.

Li Qingxiu came back just after dinner, and he was still followed by Niu Niu's mother, Ma's. She came to pick up the child, although Ruoyun said that she would let someone send her back, but she had nothing to do at this time, so she ran to pick it up herself. Let the family show the child for an afternoon, and she can't trouble others to send it anymore.

Xiao Niu Niu saw his mother, grinning happily, he really missed his mother a little bit after not seeing his mother in the afternoon. Ruoyun asked people to put the rabbit that the calf cow liked and the porridge that the calf cow liked into a basket and gave it to Ma's.

Seeing this, Ma Shi hurriedly excused himself and said, "Little Niu Niu, I've been in trouble for an afternoon, how can I be embarrassed to even eat and take it." ”

"Auntie doesn't need to excuse herself, it's not a lot of things, it's all made at home, it's not worth anything, it's given to Xiao Niu Niu by Tian'er." Ruoyun said.

When Ma heard this, he thanked him again and again, received something, and went back with Niu Niu.

Sent away the Ma family, Ruoyun and a few people will also go to the inner courtyard, the ancients are not good at this, there is no entertainment at night, just wait to sleep after dinner.

After returning to Dongli Xuan, Li Qingxiu said, "Ruoyun, my aunt asked me to thank you for her, thank you for the cotton clothes you sent." ”

"Isn't this what you sent, didn't you go back and make up the treasury yourself, thank me for what?" Ruoyun said with a smile.

"That's not the material you came up with, and besides, if you don't let you move the needle and thread in the first month, I won't be able to do it for a while, if it weren't for the clothes you gave, my aunt would have been frozen for the New Year." Li Qingxiu poured a cup of tea for Ruoyun and herself.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this, it's just a gesture for me, and it doesn't take much effort. By the way, Aunt Xiu'er, why are you only coming back now? Ruoyun asked, it stands to reason that there is nothing to do in the afternoon after the wedding, Li Qingxiu should have come back a long time ago, she is an unmarried girl, and she doesn't need her to greet guests.

"Hmph, it's not the Lin family who is making trouble again!" Li Qingxiu said angrily when she heard this.

"Lin? What happened to her? Ruoyun asked with his eyebrows.

"Didn't my brother worship my father and my mother's tablet when I visited the church with my sister-in-law today, the Lin family didn't know about this. She had been waiting for someone to invite her to sit in the high hall, but when the banquet was over, no one invited her, so she ran to my brother's house to make trouble, saying that the marriage was not counted, because she had never visited the high hall. Li Qingxiu said.

"Didn't Grandpa Li tell her about this? She makes trouble with Grandpa Li and doesn't care about her? Ruoyun asked puzzled.

"My dad didn't know why he didn't tell her about it in advance. After eating, my father went home to sleep because he drank alcohol, and Lin waited for my father to fall asleep and ran to make trouble. ”

"Oh, what about later?" Ruoyun asked.

"Lin didn't say that this marriage didn't count, and said that my brother hid the private silver in the family money, and asked my brother and sister-in-law to hand over the silver, or my second brother ran home to call my father over, and the Lin family stopped the matter." Li Qingxiu said.

"How did that work out?" Ruoyun asked.

"When my brother worshipped the church, he worshiped my father and my mother, which is obvious to all, and it is useless for her Lin to shout. The embarrassing thing she did in front of the young master of the Su family today, she was driven back to the house, and she still has the face to make trouble! As for my brother's private money, my father said that my brother deserved it when he went to serve as a soldier for the family, and besides, didn't he buy land and build a house for my second brother, anyway, even if the money is divided, it will be shared by the two brothers, and now they have used it, so there is nothing to say. Li Qingxiu said.

"Lin, just agreed?" Ruoyun felt that according to the Lin family's personality, he would not just agree.

"If you don't agree, you can't help it, Man Shubo told my father about the embarrassing things she did today, and my father was angry when he heard it, slapped her, and then went home in disgrace. My third aunt was also angry, saying that if the Lin family affected the future of Brother Qingjie and my third uncle, she would not be finished with her. ”

"What does this have to do with the future of your third uncle and Qingjie?" Ruoyun was puzzled.

"My third aunt said that Brother Qingjie is going to study at the Su family in the future, and the third uncle will also have business dealings with the Su family in the future, if it is because of the Lilin family that Young Master Su has a bad impression of our family, what should I do if I don't see my third uncle and Brother Qingjie in the future?"

Ruoyun couldn't help but laugh out loud when he heard this, this Hu family is okay and can be associated with it, this can be associated with his own family, "Don't worry about this, Su Che won't not treat your third uncle and Qingjie because of the relationship between the Lin family." "Su Che won't affect his business partners because of the inconsequential Lin family.

"My eldest brother said the same thing, and my third aunt just gave up. My third aunt has been very nice to my eldest brother recently. Li Qingxiu said. Because Li Da is now going to Hu's niece, how Hu looks at Li Da now is pleasing to the eye.

"Are they all home now?" These people can't still make trouble in the Li family, it's not good if it affects people's cave houses.

"Well, they're all back. However, my father didn't let my sister-in-law, mother and son go home, saying that he wanted to keep them at my house for a good New Year. ”

"Yes, it's not bad to have a good New Year at your house. Your sister-in-law is suffering so much in her mother-in-law's house, why don't they say anything about it? Ruoyun said.

"Hey, it's a long story, I also listened to my mother and my second aunt before, and my sister-in-law ...... at first" After dinner, the two of them had nothing to do, so they began to gossip.

It turned out that Li Qingxiu's aunt Li Manhong married the Fang family, with a total of four brothers and sisters, three brothers, and one daughter. Fang Baotian, whom Li Manhong married, is the second eldest of the Fang family.

When Li Manhong first got married, her in-laws didn't treat her well, but she also got by. As a result, I didn't get pregnant for two years after getting married, and my mother-in-law was a little unpleasant, her nose was not a nose and her eyes were not eyes all day long, and her words were not good.

In ancient times, people valued their children, and if they didn't give birth to sons, they couldn't stand at home, and they didn't have a hard waist like others. Therefore, Li Manhong consciously took the blame, and he could only swallow his anger.

It just so happened that her sister-in-law Peng gave birth to men one after another for the family, and the waist pole was particularly hard, Fang Baotian's eldest brother Fang Baofu could speak well and coax the old lady to be happy, so the eldest family specially recruited mother-in-law to see her. Mother-in-law Xu looked at the face of her two eldest grandsons and son, and treated her eldest daughter-in-law more partially.

And the only sister-in-law is a coquettish guest in the family, and the uncle is a scholar, so almost all the housework in the family is contracted by Li Manhong alone, and some dirty and tiring work at home is entrusted to her. Although I have done so much work, I still have to suffer the white eyes of my family. Just because she didn't give birth to a son and did so much, her mother-in-law still felt that she had raised her as a waste person for nothing.

Li Manhong also went back to her parents' house to cry, but because she had no children, her family really couldn't help him out, so she could only help him make peace in a low voice.

Li Manhong finally got pregnant in the third year of marriage, and when her family saw that she was pregnant, although she had to say some sour words, her mother-in-law treated her better, and the family work was also assigned to her sister-in-law. The Peng family is used to being leisurely at home, stealing and playing tricks every day, and handing over the work to the pregnant Li Manhong.

Li Manhong inherited the honest personality of the Li family, and she was no match for the slippery sister-in-law in this regard, so she could only swallow bitter water in her stomach.

was pregnant in October, and Li Manhong finally gave birth to a baby girl, which was Fang Dongying that Ruoyun saw today. As a result, her mother-in-law Xu saw that it was a girl, and she didn't even let her sit in confinement, so she got up to work. Fortunately, it was summer at that time, and the weather was not cold, Li Manhong was usually in good health, and finally survived.

But because she was not confined, her body was tired, and she was malnourished, she had no milk at all. Fang Dongying survived by relying on her mother's use of some rice soup and rubbing other people's women's milk. But because of perennial malnutrition, this child is fourteen years old, and he doesn't look as tall as the eleven or twelfth children.

And Li Manhong's husband Fang Baotian is an honest papaya who can't be honest, although he feels sorry for his wife and children, but he doesn't dare to disobey his mother, never dares to refute his mother's decision, and persuades his wife to endure it every time.

And among the brothers and sisters, he was already clumsy and didn't like his mother, so their family did the most work, ate the least, and ate the worst in the Fang family.

Li Manhong was injured by her perennial work because she didn't do a good job in confinement, and she didn't get pregnant again for three years. The in-laws don't treat her as a person, and often shout and drink to her, and humiliate her with some extremely contemptuous words, but because she didn't give birth to a son, she always bowed her head and endured it.

But people are always fleshy, and they are not made of steel, and finally Li Manhong fell ill under the pressure of perennial labor, malnutrition and mental pressure, and when the family went to see her, she was already angry, and she was about to die. RS