Chapter 35: Openly Flattering, Secretly Preparing

Su Tang shrugged, about to let Li Lan witness her English skills: “What…”

“What’s wrong?”

Yu Miaomiao suddenly came out of the room, interrupting Su Tang.

Her stern gaze startled Su Tang, who blinked in confusion: “Second Sister-in-law?”

“Everyone else can’t, it’s not embarrassing if you can’t either.” Yu Miaomiao’s cold voice was firm.

Su Tang: …

She could! She was bad at other subjects, but her English was excellent!

“Go steam some Tianma for me.”

“Oh, okay.”

Su Tang was afraid of Yu Miaomiao’s anger, so she obediently went to steam a Tianma egg custard.

Li Lan also wanted an egg, and said to Old Lady Mu: “Mom, the doctor said I need to supplement my nutrition.”

“Third daughter-in-law, steam an egg custard for your eldest sister-in-law too, add some lard.” Old Lady Mu said.

Su Tang refused: “Mother, you’re too confident.”

Old Lady Mu: ???

“The eldest and second sister-in-law both have eggs to eat, but I don’t.” Su Tang said.

“You’re neither pregnant nor injured, why would you eat eggs?” Old Lady Mu scolded, “Besides making fire, all you can do is steam egg custards, hurry up!”

“No, I won’t!”

Su Tang proudly refused to work.

Yu Miaomiao understood her strategy, holding her head and pretending to faint: “Sigh, I felt dizzy after just making dinner. Mother, just give me one egg, I need to eat it quickly and go to sleep. Or, you go steam it?”

Old Lady Mu had worked all day, and didn’t want to move anymore.

Giving one egg would prove her fairness, and she wouldn’t have to work, so she reluctantly agreed!

Finally, Su Tang happily steamed three bowls of egg custard soup.

To thank Mu Jingzhou for defending her in front of Shen Mingzhu today, she brought the egg custard into the room: “Husband, eat!”

“Don’t you want to eat it?” Mu Jingzhou asked.

“I don’t work, eating this is useless. You eat! You work every day, you’re too tired.” Su Tang flattered him with a smile.

A beautiful woman is always beautiful, Mu Jingzhou was almost mesmerized by her smile, he pinched her face and kissed her: “I’m a man, it’s only natural for me to earn money to support my wife, you’re weak, you eat.”

“Let’s eat together!” Su Tang scooped a spoonful of egg custard and fed it to Mu Jingzhou on tiptoe.

Mu Jingzhou’s eyes deepened, and he opened his mouth to take it.

“Is it delicious?” Su Tang asked.

“Delicious.”

Su Tang was even happier, her pretty apple face seemed to be covered with a layer of honey, sweet enough to make Mu Jingzhou unable to take his eyes off her.

The two of them, one spoonful at a time, ate a small bowl of egg custard with a lingering feeling of eternity.

“Wife, you’re so good…”

“When the soap makes money, we’ll eat eggs every day!”

Compared to eggs, Mu Jingzhou now wanted to “eat” her more.

Before Su Tang could take away the bowl, he hugged her waist and groped her.

“I haven’t rinsed my mouth or taken a bath yet!” Su Tang quickly pushed him away.

Mu Jingzhou knew she was clean, and said: “I’ll go boil water, you wait. Later, let’s use that little thing.”

“Can you use it?” Su Tang asked slyly.

Mu Jingzhou: …

He hadn’t used it, he really didn’t know how. He had to ask his second brother.

It was already dark, and everyone had returned to their rooms to rest.

Mu Jingyun was also boiling water in the kitchen, holding a book and reading it by the light of the stove.

Hearing someone come in, he quickly hid the book in his bosom.

“Second Brother, let me see too.”

“It’s you? Come on, let’s read together.”

The two brothers squatted by the stove, watching with relish, their blood boiling.

Only after the water boiled did they return to their rooms.

Su Tang thought that if he really couldn’t, she would teach him.

Who knew that as soon as Mu Jingzhou returned to the room, he seemed to have learned it without a teacher.

He even unlocked a new position.

Luckily, Su Tang had learned drama since childhood, and her splits were as skillful as walking, otherwise her legs would have cramped!

“Wife, do you like it?”

Afterwards, Mu Jingzhou asked.

Su Tang, exhausted, asked: “Did you have a woman before marriage?”

“Absolutely not!” Mu Jingzhou’s face turned serious.

“Then how do you know so many tricks?”

Mu Jingzhou recalled the frenzy just now, and also felt that he couldn’t explain it. He had to tell the truth: “Second brother has a book, we just read it in the kitchen.”

“!!!”

So this era actually had books teaching this!

“Wife…”

“I believe you, let’s go to sleep!”

Su Tang was exhausted and fell asleep immediately.

Mu Jingzhou silently went to the yard to wash the sheets.

Not long after, Mu Jingyun also came out to wash the sheets…

The moonlight bathed the earth, and the two brothers understood each other without words.

Old Lady Mu had already woken up from a nap, heard the noise, opened the window to look, and angrily closed it again.

She nudged Old Man Mu, who was already asleep, and whispered: “Control your son, is this kind of thing okay every day?”

“Didn’t we do the same thing when we first got married?” Old Man Mu mumbled sleepily.

Old Lady Mu blushed, and sat on the edge of the bed to recall…

The more she recalled, the more excited she became.

She shyly nudged Old Man Mu: “I don’t remember, help me recall…”

Old Man Mu snored loudly.

Old Lady Mu gritted her teeth in anger, but there was nothing she could do.

Suddenly, she remembered that when Li Lan returned from the hospital today, she scolded Su Tang: “It’s all your fault…”

She suddenly realized.

Li Lan didn’t fall and bleed, she had a secret affair with the eldest son!

“Bah! Shameless thing! She’s pregnant and still not restrained, making me spend money and worry…”

“No, I have to find a way to separate them. Otherwise, there will be more trouble!”

Old Lady Mu quickly calculated in her mind.

The next morning, she informed Mu Jingyuan: “From tonight on, you’ll sleep in the fourth son’s room.”

“Mother, what are you doing early in the morning…”

The last word “crazy” was silently swallowed, and he changed his words: “My room is fine.”

“Move if I tell you to! What nonsense? You’ll live there until my grandson is born!” Old Lady Mu almost twisted Mu Jingyuan’s ears.

Li Lan heard it in the room and dared not speak.

Both husband and wife realized that their mother might have found out the truth about the bleeding.

Mu Jingyuan responded awkwardly: “Understood.”

…

Two batches of soap were completed, just waiting for the saponification process to end before taking them to the county to sell.

Su Tang and Yu Miaomiao focused on clothing design.

The two of them discussed and drew a few more designs, and went to the county to find Qin Xian.

Unexpectedly, they met Shen Mingzhu again.

She had changed her clothes, and was hesitatingly pacing back and forth in front of the shop.

Su Tang facepalmed: “Why is it her again?”

“It seems she didn’t return to the provincial city last night.” Yu Miaomiao frowned and tightened the cloth bag containing the small notebook.

In the drama, Shen Mingzhu would not return until two years later. And, there was no mention of her entanglement with Qin Xian.

But yesterday they had just planned to do business with Qin Xian, and Shen Mingzhu appeared.

She suspected again that there was a “fate” line in the drama. Shen Mingzhu was most likely following Su Tang’s good luck.

“Last night I deliberately used egg custard to please Mu Jingzhou, he’s easy to coax, I think I can use sugar-coated bullets to conquer him.” Su Tang whispered, “Of course, the premise is that we do those things in the drama that harm Shen Mingzhu.”

“She’s already appeared, can you, a small supporting character, withstand her heroine’s halo?” Yu Miaomiao despised Su Tang, “Don’t tell me you’ve fallen for Mu Jingzhou?”