Chapter 15

The customers were quite disappointed to hear that the spicy strips were sold out.

The nearest bus back to the compound would take more than an hour to arrive, so Yan Xi took the sketch Yuan Jingui had drawn for her, recalled the route Yuan Jingui had taken her in the morning, and walked back to the compound by herself.

As soon as she entered her yard, Yan Xi noticed the cotton wool and sheets drying on the clothesline in the yard.

Yan Xi was stunned.

She had to go out early in the morning and hadn’t done any laundry. Could it be that Fu Caihe washed the sheets?

Yan Xi was thinking this when she suddenly noticed a puddle of dried water on the cotton wool.

She leaned forward slightly, sniffed, and smelled a faint smell of urine.

Yan Xixin understood and chuckled. She turned around and was about to go into the house when she ran into Fu Caihe and Nuannuan, who had run out of the house at some point and were looking at her with wary and terrified expressions.

Fu Caihe stretched out his arms and protected Nuannuan behind him, and said in a stern tone as if ready to die: “I wet the bed!”

Nuannuan shrank her neck, her big eyes were full of panic, and her body began to tremble out of habit.

What else does Yan Xi not understand?

The one who actually wet the bed should be Nuannuan.

In the past, Nuannuan had wet the bed once. When the original owner found out, she beat and scolded Nuannuan and even asked her to wash the sheets that were wet by her own urine.

The bed sheet was soaked with water and was extremely heavy. There was no way a four-year-old child could wash it. This naturally caused the original owner to curse at Nuan Nuan, twist her ears, and pull her hair.

After that, in order to stop wetting the bed, Nuannuan stopped drinking water after 3:00 p.m. every day, no matter how thirsty she was.

It turned out that this method was effective, even though she was extremely thirsty every day.

But yesterday, she was so excited about having her first cup that she drank too much water. Even though she hadn’t drunk any water for two or three hours before going to bed, she still wet the bed.

After waking up, Nuannuan found that she had wet the bed. Thinking of the time when she was beaten and scolded by the original owner, she cried out of fear.

“Brother, what should I do? I wet the bed again… wuwuwu… I shouldn’t have drunk so much water… wuwuwu… Brother, I was wrong. I will never drink so much water again… wuwuwu…” Nuannuan’s little face turned red from crying, and she kept wiping her tears.

Fu Caihe panicked when he thought about the beatings and scolding that Nuannuan would suffer if the original owner found out.

He kept comforting Nuannuan and suddenly thought of a solution.

“After a while, my aunt came back and I told her that I wet the bed.”

“But auntie will beat you!” Nuannuan cried.

“I’m an adult now and I’m not afraid of being beaten. Let’s dry the quilt and wash the sheets before aunt comes back. Maybe aunt won’t know about it.” Fu Caihe coaxed.

Nuannuan stopped crying and nodded half-believingly.

Fu Caihe took the urine-soaked cotton wool outside to dry in the sun and washed the urine-soaked sheets.

Both of them prayed in their hearts that Yan Xi would come back very late today, so that by then the cotton wool and the sheets would have dried, and they could pretend that nothing had happened.

Unfortunately, things went against our wishes. It was only noon and Yan Xi came back!

The two children who were cooking dumplings in the kitchen heard the noise in the yard and ran out. When they saw that it was Yan Xi who came back, they were scared to death.

Right now, facing Yan Xi, Fu Caihe and Nuannuan were unsure.

One was worried whether Yan Xi would believe his lies, and the other was worried that if Yan Xi really believed it, his brother would be beaten badly. So he decided to stand up and admit it!

Nuan Nuan suddenly stood in front of Fu Caihe from behind him: “It was me who wet the bed, not my brother.”

The little baby’s soft voice was full of determination.

“Nuannuan!” Fu Caihe was anxious.

“Brother, it was me who wet the bed, so I can’t let you take the beating for me. Although I am still a child, I am very brave.” Nuannuan tilted her head and said to Fu Caihe behind her.

Fu Caihe was anxious and scared, but he didn’t know what to do, so he could only stare at Yan Xi defensively.

Yan Xi smiled with relief.

Both children can consider each other and stand up for each other. Who can not be moved?

“If he wets the bed, he wets it. What child doesn’t wet the bed? But, leave the sheets for me to wash when I come back.” Yan Xi said.

Although Yan Xi didn’t like washing clothes by hand, it was too difficult for such young children to wash and dry the sheets.

It seems that buying a washing machine has to be added to her to-do list.

“Have you had lunch?” Yan Xi asked.

Yan Xi’s reaction and the sudden change of topic stunned the two children.

Fu Caihe was the first to react and answered subconsciously, “I’m cooking dumplings.”

Yan Xi nodded and asked, “Did you eat eggs this morning?”

Both children shook their heads subconsciously.

When they woke up in the morning, they were so scared by the bed-wetting incident that they didn’t even have time to eat breakfast. They were busy washing and drying the sheets and cotton wool, so they didn’t even remember to eat eggs.

Yan Xi frowned: “You must eat eggs in the morning from now on, understand? Look at how thin you have become. If you lose more weight, a gust of wind can blow you two down. How can you protect each other?”

The two children nodded blankly.

“I’ll go cook dumplings and eggs. You can eat later.” Yan Xi said and went to the kitchen.

Fu Caihe and Nuannuan were still standing there stupidly, looking at each other, their brains short-circuited.

“Brother…” Nuannuan called out hesitantly, not knowing why Yan Xi didn’t beat or scold her this time.

Fu Caihe was also confused, feeling puzzled and mixed emotions.

…

That afternoon, Fan Fuying had diarrhea and ran to the toilet several times.

In the evening, when the family of three was sitting around the table eating, Fan Fuying couldn’t hold it anymore and ran to the toilet twice.

“What’s wrong? Do you have a stomachache?” Sun Gui asked.

Fan Fuying held her stomach and sat down on the chair with trembling calves: “Yes, it will start in the afternoon.”

She went to the toilet so often that her legs became weak.

“Did you eat something that made you upset?” Sun Gui asked.

Fan Fuying suddenly thought of the spicy noodles she had eaten in the morning.

“I must have gotten a stomachache from eating the spicy strips sold by Sister Yan, absolutely!” Fan Fuying was so excited that his saliva was flying out.

“What spicy strips?” Sun Gui didn’t know this yet and asked curiously.

“Sister Yan has been selling her spicy noodles at the market in town these past two days, and her business is pretty good. It must be because Captain Fu stopped paying her and she has no money left, so she went out to sell things. She still refuses to admit it, and insists that she is responding to the call to be a woman who holds up half the sky! Bah!”

Before Sun Gui could say anything, Shuai Shuai put down his chopsticks heavily and shouted angrily: “Mom, you bought spicy noodles and didn’t let me eat them! You ate them all secretly!”

A look of guilt flashed across Fan Fuying’s face.

She was so busy denouncing Yan Xi that she let the cat out of the bag.

To be honest, the spicy strips were so delicious that she couldn’t eat enough by herself and didn’t even think of saving any for Shuai Shuai.