Chapter 5

Old Mrs. Xu favors boys over girls. Her mind is filled with only her sons and she doesn’t care about her daughters at all.

There are too many males in the Li family, and it costs a lot of money just to marry them off.

The fifth son, Li Xu, has been arranged to marry, and the family cannot afford to pay a penny to arrange a marriage for Li Yao.

At this time, Ning Jia’s parents came over and proposed a marriage exchange.

If Li Hong, the second daughter of the Li family, marries Ning Cheng, the Li family will not have to spend a penny to marry Ning Jia.

Li Hong has always had a lover, but the man’s family cannot afford a decent gift, so Mrs. Xu has been reluctant to allow her to get married.

A lot of unpleasant things happened in the meantime, and as a result, she became an old maid.

As a result, in order to facilitate her son’s marriage, the old lady abruptly broke up Li Hong’s marriage and forced her to marry into the Ning family.

Therefore, Li Yao was very resistant to this and was very dissatisfied with Mrs. Xu’s behavior.

However, the method of marriage exchange was proposed by the original owner, so Li Yao has always disliked the original owner.

After listening to Ning Jia’s analysis, An Ye felt that it made a lot of sense: “It seems that Li Yao is more righteous than that old woman!”

“Yeah.” Ning Jia nodded.

Before the two of them could chat for a few words, the break was over and the team leader called everyone to work.

Ning Jia and An Ye returned to the fields one after another, worked for another half a day, and finally waited for the whistle to blow.

When the whistle blew, the morning’s work was over.

This place is far from the village, and the round trip is too time-consuming, so everyone sits at the edge of the field and waits for their families to bring meals to those who are working.

Soon, the elderly from every household came up the mountain with their children to deliver food. Ning Jia stretched his neck to take a look and saw Old Mrs. Xu coming over alone with two large baskets.

Sister-in-law Bai Jinfeng saw the old lady coming and hurriedly stood up to greet her: “Mom, there are so many things to take, why don’t you let Xiaotao come with you?”

“Zhao Di’er is crying at home, so I asked Xiao Tao to stay and look after the child. You must be hungry, eat quickly.” Old Mrs. Xu took out a few steamed buns and a piece of pickled radish from the basket and stuffed them into her hands.

When An Ye saw that Old Lady Xu stuffed several steamed buns into Bai Jinfeng’s hands, she was afraid that there wouldn’t be much left, so she quickly stood up to get the food.

Li Xu raised his hand and held her down: “Wife, you must be tired after working all morning. Take a rest and I’ll get it.”

“Okay! Take a few more, I’m hungry!”

“I know.” Li Xu agreed.

Ning Jia was quite far away from them, and when she came up to them, there was nothing left in Old Mrs. Xu’s basket.

Old Mrs. Xu said sternly, “I’m giving you two steamed buns. The pickles are for you, too! So that your husband won’t say I’m treating you badly!”

Today she originally came to complain to Lao Liu, hoping that Lao Liu would teach her a lesson, but in the end, this son was really raised in vain, and he ended up blaming her for her faults instead.

Ning Jia took the steamed bread and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

It seems that this man is not bad!

Ning Jia took the steamed bread and pickles, found a tree to sit down and prepare to eat.

The people who delivered the meals started to go home one after another. She watched Old Mrs. Xu also started to walk back with her basket.

However, the old lady kept looking back every few steps, and no one knew what she was looking at.

Ning Jia followed the old lady’s gaze and saw Lin Xiaoxi standing up from the crowd and walking towards the old lady.

Immediately afterwards, An Ye’s man also stood up and followed Lin Xiaoxi.

Seeing this scene, Ning Jia immediately became alert.

She remembered that it was written in the original text that Old Mrs. Xu particularly liked Lin Xiaoxi, so she would secretly give some food from home to Lin Xiaoxi from time to time.

Could it be that he was going to secretly give it to Lin Xiaoxi now?

No, she had to go and take a look.

Lin Xiaoxi came to Old Lady Xu and called her “Auntie” affectionately.

“Why call me aunt? I’ve been waiting for you to call me mom!” Old Mrs. Xu grabbed her hand and said with a smile, “You and our seventh son have been dating for quite some time. I thought you two should get it done during the Chinese New Year.”

Lin Xiaoxi yelled shyly: “Mom! This is a big deal, I have to write a letter to tell my parents!”

“That’s for sure!” Mrs. Xu’s face lit up. She looked around and saw that no one was around. She quickly took out two eggs from her pocket and stuffed them into her hands. “Good child, this is what your mother secretly saved for you. Don’t let anyone see it!”

“Thank you, Mom!” Lin Xiaoxi was delighted and quickly clenched it tightly in her hand.

“Hey! What are you doing?” Ning Jia shouted at this time.

Lin Xiaoxi was startled and lost her grip on the egg, which fell to the ground with a plop.

“Okay! You actually stuffed eggs into her mouth secretly! You are too biased!” Ning Jia caught it right away.

She immediately picked up the two eggs, raised her hand and shouted to Bai Jinfeng and An Ye in the crowd: “Sister-in-law, Fifth Sister-in-law, come over and take a look. The old lady secretly stuffed eggs into Lin Zhiqing’s pockets without telling us sisters-in-law!”

Bai Jinfeng was stretching her neck because of the biscuit she was choking on, and when she heard Ning Jia’s shout, she was stunned for a moment, stuffed the biscuit in her hand to her man, stood up, and ran over in a hurry.

An Ye was naturally no exception. This old woman was caught by Ning Jia, and today she had to “show her face”.

“Oh, now there’s another good show to watch!”

“Let’s go, let’s go and have a look!”

People who were squatting on the ground eating followed in a crowd, holding their rice bowls.

When Old Mrs. Xu saw this situation, what was she waiting for if not to run away?

She turned around and was about to leave without saying a word, but Ning Jia was quick to grab her wrist.

“Mom, where are you going?”

“Let me go!” Old Mrs. Xu swung her arms, looking angry. “Sixth Brother’s wife, you are a troublemaker. Wherever you are, there will be no peace!”

Ning Jia looked at her with a smile: “What you said is inappropriate. If I am the troublemaker, then you and Lin Zhiqing are both shit, right?”

Old Mrs. Xu was so angry that she wanted to roll her eyes.

“Sister-in-law, you can say that to me, but you can’t say that to my aunt. She is your elder and you have to respect her…” Lin Xiaoxi said.

“Elders? The elders in my family would never feed eggs to dogs!” Ning Jia snorted coldly.

Lin Xiaoxi’s face suddenly turned red: “Sister-in-law, are you scolding me?”

“She’s not scolding you, she’s just talking about the facts!” Bai Jinfeng rushed over and saw the two eggs in Ning Jia’s hand. She looked at the guilty face of the old lady and burst out with grievance. “Mom, you are too partial! You hide the eggs and don’t give them to your family members. Instead, you give them to outsiders! Your own granddaughter can’t even eat them, and she drools every day. You must give an explanation today, or you can’t go back!”

Bai Jinfeng is the eldest sister-in-law in the family. She has no part in the good things in the family, but she is the first one that is thought of when there is work to do.

After marriage, she gave birth to a daughter for the Li family. The old lady’s face drooped longer than the sole of a shoe.

Not only did he not give the egg to his daughter, he actually secretly gave it to Lin Zhiqing.

It turns out that this granddaughter is not as close to me as a stranger!

The grievances that had been suppressed for so many years found a breakthrough at this moment and exploded instantly.

“Tsk, tsk, tsk.” Ning Jia shook his head and ranked the status of the family members. “My sons are ranked first, Lin Zhiqing is ranked second, Da Huang is ranked third, my sister-in-law and Zhao Di’er are better than me, and I am the one at the bottom. They would rather give food to Da Huang than to me.”

“What’s going on?”

“Why is it related to dogs?”

“Aunt Xu, what’s going on in your house?”

A large group of people who came to watch the fun came with their bowls in hand, talking all at once, trying to make sense of what was going on.

Old Mrs. Xu saw that things were not going well. If she continued talking, it would become her own judgment place.

No, I have to step down!

“Let go, I have to go back to see Zhaodi, hurry up!” She shook her arms hard, trying to shake Ding Jia off.

The seventh brother Li Chuan and the sixth brother Li Xu could not bear to see their mother being bullied by their daughter-in-law and embarrassed in front of the whole village, so they stepped forward to help.

An Ye rolled up his sleeves, ready to provide support at any time.

If anyone dared to touch Ning Jia, she would swing her arm and prepare to slap that person in the face.

Who could have expected that before the brothers Li Xu and Li Chuan touched Ning Jia’s arm, she rolled her eyes and fell backwards.