Chapter 45

At 8:10 in the morning, Shen Xiao and Qiao Baozhu were already on their way to the provincial capital.

Meanwhile, in the family compound, Bai Hongmei had just woken up.

Lying in the cold quilt, she squinted her eyes and stretched lazily.

He reached to the side and found the bed was empty. He opened his eyes and saw that his three children were gone.

“Where the hell are all these damn kids?”

Bai Hongmei sat up reluctantly and shouted outside: “Wei Dong, Wei Fang, Wei Hong? You bastards, why are you not staying at home?”

Bai Hongmei cursed three times in a row, and Wei Hong ran into the house with a broken bowl in her arms, taking small steps.

With vegetable leaves still on her lips, she spoke softly to her mother who was sitting on the kang.

“Mom, we are eating in Auntie’s room.”

As she was talking, Bai Hongmei’s stomach started to growl. She leaned over the bed and stretched her neck to look into Wei Hong’s bowl. Seeing the clear porridge inside, she couldn’t help but curl her lips.

“Just porridge?”

Wei Hong swallowed her saliva and said honestly, “There were also wild vegetable corn cakes. Auntie asked us to have one each. My eldest brother said one was not enough, so he ate three. Sister Chunmei was not happy and had a quarrel with my eldest brother.”

Bai Hongmei’s brows were twisted into a “川” shape, her heart was burning with anger, and her annoyance towards Li Yan reached its peak.

“Your brother and Chunmei were arguing, and you two sisters just stood there and watched? Didn’t your second sister help your eldest brother?”

Wei Hong shook her head, thinking of her second sister’s behavior in the morning. She complained aggrievedly: “Mom, my eldest brother and second sister stole the milk powder and didn’t give it to me. That was bought for me by Uncle Shen!”

Bai Hongmei didn’t think much of the three children being hungry early in the morning. But when she heard that the milk powder at home had been stolen, she instantly became upset.

She jumped out of bed and rushed to the cabinet. She saw that the bag of milk powder Shen Xiao gave her yesterday was almost empty. Bai Hongmei was so angry that she slammed the table and cursed: “They are all reincarnated from starving ghosts, huh?”

It was chilly outside at the end of October. Bai Hongmei rushed out of the house in a rage, not even wearing a coat, wearing a vest and shorts, with her white thighs bare. Standing at the door, she scolded her second daughter Wei Fang, who was skipping rubber rope in the yard.

Old Hao was sitting in the next room. When he heard Bai Hongmei scolding the child, he thought something had happened. He pushed the door open and was about to go out. As soon as he opened the door, he saw Bai Hongmei’s pair of white legs and was so scared that he quickly closed the door.

He walked into the house with a red face. His wife Li Yan was sitting on the kang sewing shoe soles. When she saw Lao Hao coming back, she didn’t know what had happened outside.

He hummed softly: “Why are you back again?”

Old Hao’s face flushed red, and he said in a muffled voice, “It’s not appropriate for me to go out. You go and take a look. It’s not nice to scold a child so early in the morning.”

Li Yan didn’t take it seriously, bit off a piece of string, sneered and said, “Just bear with it for a while, after she gives birth, she won’t be able to stay any longer.”

“If I had known she was like this, I shouldn’t have brought her here. Not only is she lazy and greedy, she doesn’t even care about her own children. If you criticize her, she’ll just squeeze out a few drops of cat urine. If you criticize her harshly, she’ll call Yanda long and Yanda short, and say that she’s a pitiful widow. Oh, now I feel bad for Captain Shen. He’s stuck with such a shameless person.”

Old Hao scolded his wife: “Speak softly! Why are you talking about Captain Shen again? Don’t you know what those rumors in the family compound are about?”

Li Yan looked up and glared at her husband angrily: “What can I do even if I know?”

“Yanda did save Captain Shen’s life, and we are indeed related to Yanda.”

“We deserve it and owe her.”

Li Yan sighed resignedly: “That’s it, it’s just a matter of eating a few more corn cakes. After she gives birth, it will be over.”

Old Hao doesn’t think that this matter can be resolved so easily. Bai Hongmei was so troublesome even before she had a child, so who knows what she will do after she has a child.

The shouting and cursing outside continued, and Lao Hao couldn’t get out because he was holding his urine.

He urged his wife, “Go out quickly and take her back to the house. I need to go to the bathroom. I’m holding it in.”

Li Yan looked puzzled: “If you want to go to the toilet, just go. How can she pry open the door to see you?”

Old Hao pointed at the window angrily and said, “Look at what she is wearing. How can I have the nerve to go out?”

Li Yan glanced at the window suspiciously and saw Bai Hongmei wearing a floral vest, with her long white legs bare, standing in the yard beating the child.

Her plump breasts trembled and swayed with Bai Hongmei’s movements. Not to mention the men, even Li Yan, an old lady, felt jealous when she saw it.

“This shameless slut has no shame at all.”

Li Yan was so angry that her face turned blue. She put down the work in her hands and stormed out of the house.

“Bai Hongmei, what are you doing?”