Chapter 11

Li Yao stopped and looked back at her.

Ning Jia stuffed the things in her hand into his arms, broke off a piece of peach cake, and stuffed it into his mouth without saying anything: “This is sweet, eat it quickly.”

Li Yao was caught off guard and was stuffed in his mouth by her. He was stunned.

“Eat, why are you looking at me?” Ning Jia said, “You earn the work points of two people by yourself, it’s too hard, you need to eat something delicious to replenish yourself.”

“Cough cough…” Li Yao coughed twice before slowly chewing the biscuit into pieces and swallowing it.

The sweet taste spreads on the tip of the tongue and lingers for a long time.

“Is it delicious?” Ning Jia smiled and stuffed it into his mouth again.

Li Yao hurriedly grabbed her wrist: “I don’t want to eat.”

“You eat a lot, you work a lot, and you’re tired. Others may not feel sorry for you, but you have to know how to feel sorry for yourself.” Ning Jia said.

The string in Li Yao’s heart was touched. He didn’t expect that such caring words would come from Ning Jia’s mouth.

When they first got married, she would save the good things for him, but he knew in his heart that she was just trying to please him.

Everyone in the village knew that she liked his strong body, so she proposed to marry him in exchange for marriage.

At night, she would pester him for intimacy, and if she was not satisfied she would cry or throw a tantrum.

She was like that in front of him, but in front of outsiders she was stupid and impatient, and she didn’t hide herself at all.

So, he doesn’t like her.

Just yesterday, she seemed like a different person. She no longer clung to him, and her style of speaking and doing things had changed a lot.

Seeing Li Yao staring at her, Ning Jia felt a little guilty.

Could it be that he discovered her intention?

All right.

She admitted that she was being nice to Li Yao at the moment purely to win him over.

Otherwise, how can we sell so many fish?

With her and An Ye’s current abilities, they couldn’t do it without anyone noticing.

However, she didn’t want Li Yao to misunderstand her as a dog-licker, so when she saw that Li Yao was hesitant to speak, she stuffed the peach cake into her mouth: “Forget it if you don’t want to eat it, I just can’t stand the old lady’s partiality.”

After saying that, she took the things from Li Yao’s hand again, turned around and left, leaving Li Yao alone to think about life.

Ning Jia and Li Chuan entered the house almost at the same time.

Zhaodi was hiding in the corner of the yard playing with earthworms. When she saw Uncle Qi coming back, she immediately ran over and hugged his thighs.

“Uncle Qi, please play with earthworms with me.”

Li Chuan was in a bad mood, so how could he pay attention to her?

“Go, go, go and have fun by yourself!”

“Wait.” Zhaodi hugged Li Chuan and sniffed his body for a long time. Suddenly, she shouted, “Uncle Qi smells like peach cakes. It smells so sweet! Uncle Qi, I want to eat peach cakes!”

“You have a dog’s nose! Where can I find peach cakes?” Li Chuan felt even worse after hearing these two words, “With you…”

He glanced at Ning Jia and didn’t dare to say anything, so he asked Zhaodi to ask his aunt for it.

“Ask your grandma.” Li Chuan said unhappily.

Old Mrs. Xu just came out of the house. When she heard this, she glared at Li Chuan and said, “Where do I get this thing?”

Zhaodi drooled with greed: “Grandma, I’ll just have a small piece.”

“Grandma doesn’t have any here. We have sweet potatoes tonight. Give Zhaodier a sweet sweet potato.”

Zhaodi’s eyes were full of disappointment: “Oh.”

This damn old lady, her heart is set on the mountains and valley!

Ning Jia felt sorry for the child, so she took her aside when no one was in the yard and said, “Wait, I’ll give you a piece.”

Zhaodi’er looked at her timidly. Everyone said that this aunt was not a good person, so she didn’t dare to get close to her.

Ning Jia went back to the room and locked the things in the cabinet, then broke off half of the peach cake and stuffed it into Zhaodi’s hand.

“Let’s find a place where there’s no one to eat! Don’t let anyone see us, and don’t say it was given by me! Otherwise, you won’t have anything to eat in the future.” Ning Jia said.

Zhaodi took the peach cake and gave her a sweet smile.

She said in a baby voice: “Sixth Aunt is not that bad!”

“Who said I was bad?”

“Grandma! She said you had a fight with Aunt Five. Neither of you are good people! You also fed breakfast to the dog, leaving us with nothing to eat.” Zhaodi was a child, and she told everything Ning Jia asked.

Ning Jia smiled and said, “Go eat!”

Zhaodi had seen the Ning family and An Ye fighting, and was originally quite afraid of her, but now seeing her smiling, she didn’t seem so scary anymore.

She gently took a bite of the peach cake and smiled sweetly: “Sixth Aunt, it would be better if you didn’t fight with Fifth Aunt.”

Ning Jia couldn’t help laughing: “Just eat your peach cakes, don’t get involved in adult matters. Go!”

She raised her hand and touched Zhaodi’s dry and yellow hair, with a hint of tenderness in her eyes.

Zhaodi skipped away with the peach cake and found a deserted place to eat it.

As Li Yao walked in, he happened to see this scene.

The old lady is extremely patriarchal and even treats her own granddaughter the same way.

He was reluctant to give any piece of peach cake to the children, but saved it secretly for the seventh child.

In the final analysis, she was just attracted by Lin Xiaoxi’s identity – an educated youth from Beijing, and she heard that her father was the director of a large factory and her mother was a salesperson.

The old lady once had someone tell the fortunes for her children, and the fortune teller said that the seventh child had the best future and would marry the daughter of a wealthy family and bring her to the city to enjoy a good life.

She was certain that Lin Xiaoxi was the person the blind fortune teller had mentioned.

so……

Li Yao was originally dissatisfied with the old lady’s preference for boys over girls. After what happened today, the gap between him and the old lady was further deepened.

On the contrary, Ning Jia, who would make a big fuss over an egg, was actually willing to give Zhaodi a large piece of peach cake. This was something he didn’t expect.

Night fell.

An Ye locked the door and placed two pieces of peach cake and a white flour bun in front of Li Xu.

Li Xu’s eyes widened: “Wife, have you made a fortune? Or are you tired of living like this?”

An Ye stretched out her hand and pinched him: “What do you mean by having no way to make ends meet? Look in the closet, is there any money? You give all the little money you earn every month to the old lady, can you keep some for yourself?”

Li Xu: “Where did this thing come from?”

An Ye sneered: “Your mother secretly gave it to Lao Qi, and asked Lao Qi to give it to Lin Xiaoxi! I blocked it! The food is all here, you can eat it quickly.”

Li Xu was upset: “How can the old lady be so partial?”

“There are so many cases of favoritism, how much have you seen? In this family, except for you and Lao Liu, who are stubborn and pay money to the family on time every month, who else does this? Are you stupid?” An Ye scolded.

Li Xu picked up the bun and took a big bite: “Stupid! Really stupid!”

“Be more careful in the future! Eat quickly! You’ve been tired recently, so eat more to replenish your energy.” An Ye used both soft and hard tactics to keep Li Xu under control.

Late at night, the brothers Li Xu and Li Yao both suffered from insomnia and tossed and turned for most of the night before they fell asleep.

Ning Jia and An Ye achieved their goal and both slept soundly.

The next day, at breakfast, Old Mrs. Xu found that her two sons had sullen faces and were silent. After breakfast, they carried their tools and went to work.

She wondered what was going on?

I secretly asked Lao Qi, could it be that he was discovered?

Lao Qi felt guilty and didn’t dare to tell the truth, so he lied to get away with it.

In the past few days, we have been working on reclaiming wasteland. The wasteland on the hillside of the north mountain has been reclaimed into layers of terraces.

After finishing the work in the fields, it was time to dig ditches.

After all, we can’t just rely on carrying water to irrigate the fields, so the brigade bought a kerosene engine that can pump water from low places to high places, and then irrigate the fields through ditches.

After resting for a day at home yesterday, Ning Jia and An Ye followed their husbands to work.

While digging the trench, Ning Jia moved next to An Ye and whispered to her, “How is it going? Any progress?”

An Ye knew what Ning Jia meant by asking, and nodded immediately, saying quickly: “Li Xu, no problem, I’ll just wait for you.”

Ning Jia whispered, “It’s almost there, Li Yao is also wavering.”

“Okay, keep working hard! I’m waiting for your good news!”

“Uh-huh.”

After the two people finished talking, they quickly separated and moved far away from each other, as if they had a great hatred between them.

While we were working, the dark clouds finally could not hold back the moisture, and it started to rain with a loud crash.

“Disperse, disperse. It’s raining today so we can’t work anymore! Let’s take a break!” The production team leader gave the order, and everyone dispersed and ran home.

An Ye waited for Li Xu to go together, while Ning Jia ran back by himself, not caring about Li Yao at all.

She didn’t want to be a bootlicker and cause trouble, so she just let yesterday’s incident go.

Ning Jia ran back home in the rain. As soon as he entered the door, he heard a burst of lively laughter coming from inside the house.