Chapter 8

The basket was covered with a piece of cloth and it was hard to tell what was inside.

Li Chunling sighed and said, “The children are already big enough. They can survive if they are fed. Give them some of the food you cook for yourself. They will remember your kindness when they grow up.”

“This isn’t a time of famine. If I starve two children to death, I’ll be stabbed in the back and scolded.”

Xu Yi knew that Li Chunling was referring to the fact that the original owner often did not feed the two children and sold the children.

Although she had promised yesterday, Li Chunling obviously didn’t believe it, and she must have agreed to sell the child, otherwise she wouldn’t have brought this matter up today to criticize her.

In other words, he was talking about her, and she immediately felt embarrassed.

“Mom, I understand.” Xu Yi responded in a low voice, then raised his voice firmly and said, “Mom, I was confused before. I will never do such a heartless thing again.”

Li Chunling looked at her daughter-in-law with a humble look and a confident look, and felt a little confused.

In the past, the daughter-in-law would have jumped up and retorted her after hearing her nagging words.

It won’t be like now, where you just do whatever you say.

She was a little surprised when she thought about Tongtong and Guangguang saying that they had eaten the candy bought by their daughter-in-law.

This is the first time that the daughter-in-law thought of bringing snacks for the children.

Has my daughter-in-law really changed?

She originally wanted to say a few more words, but since her daughter-in-law had changed, there was no need for her to say more.

“It’s getting late, I should go back to work.”

Mother-in-law Li Chunling threw down a sentence and left in a hurry.

After Li Chunling left, Xu Yi returned with the basket and opened the covering. Underneath was half a pound of white flour, a pound of mixed noodles, and a pound of rice. Next to it were a few potatoes, two radishes, and a small bundle of greens. At the very bottom, there was even half a piece of dried bacon.

Shen Beiyuan of the Shen family has two older brothers, one younger brother and one older sister.

Shen Beiyuan’s father passed away a few years ago. His eldest son Shen Beijun, second son Shen Beiqiang and fourth son Shen Beiye have not been separated yet and all live with Li Chunling in the old house.

My eldest sister-in-law Shen Beihong married and moved to Huangwu Village on the next hill a few years ago.

It is not time to get off work yet, so the mother-in-law probably brought these things to her when she went home to drink water.

After all, he gave her so many things. It would be okay for Shen Beiye who has not yet married, but I am afraid that the wives of Shen Beijun and Shen Beiqiang who are married will not be happy.

Li Chunling originally had a lot of these things in her space.

However, if things in the space are taken out easily without any source, it will arouse suspicion.

Next time I go to the supply and marketing cooperative in town, I’ll buy some more and bring them back. Thinking this, Xu Yi carried the basket back to the kitchen.

After working for a whole afternoon, I was starving.

Xu Yi planned to go into the space to take a bath and then have a delicious dinner.

Before I could enter the space, there was a knock on the door.

Could it be that Li Chunling forgot to take something?

Xu Yi quickly emptied out the things and took the basket out.

“Mom…” Xu Yi just raised a smile and called out, only to find that the person standing outside was a stranger.

The person who came was a woman about thirty years old, wearing a blue top and black pants. She was a little thin and had high cheekbones. At the moment, her face was full of anger, and she looked like someone who was not easy to mess with.

Xu Yi frowned, and in this short time, he remembered that this was Shen Beijun’s wife, sister-in-law Sun Yanhong.

Sun Yanhong is a bit selfish, the type of person who only takes in and never gives out.

Although the original owner and Shen Beiyuan had separated and moved out right after they got married, the original owner suffered a lot from Sun Yanhong during the few times they had contact.

Now when Xu Yi saw her, his face suddenly turned cold.

“Is there anything wrong?” Xu Yi asked lightly.

Sun Yanhong recognized the basket on Xu Yi’s arm at a glance. The handle was tied with a red ribbon. It belonged to the Shen family.

“Okay, I was wondering why my basket disappeared and it turned out to be in your hands.” Sun Yanhong said in a shrill voice.

Xu Yi followed her gaze and saw a red string on the handle of the basket: “If you want it, then take it.”

Xu Yi handed her the basket.

Sun Yanhong took it angrily.

Xu Yi was about to close the door when Sun Yanhong immediately blocked it with her hand.

Xu Yi frowned: “What are you doing?”

“What should I do?” Sun Yanhong sneered, “How dare you ask that!”

Judging from Sun Yanhong’s questioning look, she was probably asking about the things Li Chunling had just given to their family.

Thinking of this, Xu Yi no longer planned to close the store.

She crossed her arms and looked at Sun Yanhong calmly: “What did I do to you?”

“You troublemaker! It’s fine if you’re hooking up with someone else, but you even dare to take our Shen family’s food?” Sun Yanhong pointed at Xu Yi’s nose and snorted, “No wonder I was wondering why my mother-in-law brought water but still went back home to drink it. It turns out she gave it to an ungrateful person like you!”

Xu Yi’s eyes glared, and he waved her hand away, saying coldly, “You need to have evidence for what you say. Who was out flirting? Which eye did you see? You have to be responsible for your words. My husband is a soldier, and what you said is clearly a false accusation. To put it more seriously, you are destroying a military marriage and defying military regulations. Imprisonment is the least of your punishment!”

Sun Yanhong’s face turned pale.

She had indeed heard some rumors in the village, but had never seen it with her own eyes. Now, hearing Xu Yi say this, she was so scared that she broke out in a cold sweat.

Looking at Xu Yi’s stern eyes, Sun Yanhong pretended to be calm: “I’m too lazy to argue with you about other things. I tell you, you have to return all the things my mother-in-law gave you!”

“Why should I give it back to you?” Xu Yi deliberately turned sideways to let Sun Yanhong see the pile of things that had not yet been put into the kitchen, especially the piece of honey-colored bacon on top, which made people salivate at the sight.

Sure enough, Sun Yanhong stared at the piece of bacon with her eyes almost catching fire.

“Mother-in-law gave the meat to me and the child, why should I return it to you?” Xu Yi raised the corner of his lips with a sneer, “These things were all bought with Beiyuan’s allowance. Since you married into the Shen family, everything you eat, wear, and use was bought with Beiyuan’s allowance. How can you have the nerve to ask me to return it to you?”

What Xu Yi said was not without basis.

Not only is Sun Yanhong selfish, she is also extremely lazy.

She became pregnant in the first year after marrying into the Shen family. She used the excuse that she was too tired from being pregnant and did not go out to work. She just cooked at home every day to take care of the baby.

After the child was born, she used the excuse that she had to take care of the child and had no time to go out to work. She used this excuse for five years.

Today, Sun Yanhong’s daughter is five years old, but she still refuses to go out to work, claiming that she has to take care of her children.