Chapter 34: The New Bride Needs Nourishment

“Mm, she was tired yesterday, let her sleep a little longer.” Zhou Yubai scooped the soup, pretending to be calm as he explained for Shen Chuning.

Lin Shulan was an experienced person, how could she not understand her son’s meaning of “tired”?

She patted her son, whispering, “Ningning’s small body isn’t like yours, you can toss her around however you want. You have to be gentle! Don’t tire my daughter-in-law out.”

Zhou Yubai: …

He was originally worried that his mother would dislike his wife for being lazy, so he explained it like that, but he didn’t expect his mother…

As soon as mother and son finished speaking, Shen Chuning hurried into the kitchen, “Mother, I’m sorry, I got up late. I’ll help you cook.”

When she woke up, she found that no one was home.

Looking at the time, it was almost ten o’clock. At this time, those who had gone out early to work would be back for lunch.

She was still asleep.

She quickly got up, but found that because of last night’s intensity, she was still in pain.

She practiced walking for a while in the room before she could walk without being awkward, and then she hurried over.

She was now someone else’s daughter-in-law.  Not working in the fields was one thing, but if she didn’t even do the housework well, she didn’t know what kind of reputation for being lazy and gluttonous she would get.

Lin Shulan smiled at Shen Chuning. Shen Chuning’s face was flushed, even more delicate than before.

Although she deliberately wore a high-necked shirt to cover it, she could still vaguely see a bruised, dark area on her snow-white neck, like a dog had bitten it.

It was clear that Yubai had really tossed his wife around last night.

She glared at Zhou Yubai.

Turning to Shen Chuning, she said with a smile, “Ningning, you don’t have to cook. You and Yubai just got married, the brigade is giving you a day off!

You worked hard yesterday, go back and rest well.”

After Lin Shulan finished speaking, seeing her son not moving, she glared at him again and pushed him, “Why don’t you hurry up and take the chicken soup over, let your wife drink it and rest well, what are you still doing?”

Zhou Yubai: …

He carried the chicken soup to Shen Chuning, his face habitually cold, “Let’s go, go home for breakfast.”

Shen Chuning was a little apprehensive seeing his cold face.

Although her mother-in-law wasn’t angry with her, was Brother Yubai unhappy?

“Oh.” She obediently responded, turning to Lin Shulan, “Mother, we’ll go first, if you need me to do anything, just call me.”

Lin Shulan smiled brightly, “Now that the rice and corn have been harvested, and it’s not time to pull peanuts and dig sweet potatoes yet, it’s the slack season, there’s nothing to do. Just take advantage of Yubai being home and rest for a few days.”

Hopefully, she could get pregnant while Yubai was home.

Yubai is already this age, in the village, only the three Shen brothers of similar age haven’t gotten married yet, the others all have two or three children.

Shen Chuning didn’t know Lin Shulan’s thoughts.

She only thought that the village had said that Lin Shulan was a particularly strict mother-in-law, and that her two daughters-in-law were all obedient to her, which didn’t seem to be the case.

Wasn’t her mother-in-law quite kind?

As for her two sisters-in-law being obedient to their mother-in-law, it might be because their mother-in-law was good, so they were obedient to her.

People are all flesh and blood, sincerity begets sincerity, as long as the mother-in-law is good, the daughter-in-law will certainly be willing to be good to her mother-in-law.

Shen Chuning thought as she followed Zhou Yubai home.

Zhou Yubai stewed chicken soup and steamed rice.

Usually, the Zhou family ate a mix of fine and coarse grains, but today, considering that Shen Chuning had always eaten fine grains at home, there was no reason why she should eat mixed grains at his house.

So today, he steamed white rice, without any coarse grains.

Zhou Yubai served Shen Chuning’s rice and put it on the table, saying concisely, “Eat.”

Shen Chuning was startled by Zhou Yubai’s harsh tone.

Her eyes reddened, but her temper flared up.

She crossed her arms and sat sulkily to the side, turning her face away, “I’m not eating!”

Zhou Yubai was also a little stunned to see his wife’s teary eyes.

For a moment, he was at a loss, not knowing where he had gone wrong and made his wife angry again.

He didn’t know how to coax his wife, but he still tried to organize his words and softened his tone, “What are you doing?”

This sentence, which he thought was very gentle, instantly ignited all of Shen Chuning’s resentment.

Shen Chuning, with red eyes, looked at the man, tears uncontrollably flowing down, “I got up late today, but why did I get up late, wasn’t it because of you last night…

Even my mother-in-law wasn’t angry, why are you angry, why are you yelling at me, woo woo woo…”

Shen Chuning didn’t want to cry, she also knew that once she cried, she would lose all her momentum and be particularly useless.

But she couldn’t control it.

Every time she got angry, her tears would flow uncontrollably.

She angrily raised her hand to wipe away the tears on her face, but the more she wiped, the more fiercely they flowed.

In the end, she wasn’t angry with the man anymore, she was simply angry with her own tears, and the angrier she got, the more fiercely she cried.

Zhou Yubai had met very few women in his twenty-eight years, let alone coaxed them.

He never thought he would coax a woman in his life.

Seeing his wife crying uncontrollably, he was at a loss, so he quickly took a handkerchief to wipe her tears.

“Wife, don’t cry. It’s my fault, I’m wrong, I scared you.

But I really wasn’t angry, and I didn’t mean to yell at you.”

Was he really that harsh?

So harsh that even when he tried to speak softly to his wife, he still scared her like this?

He couldn’t help but reflect.

After reflection, he understood why his soldiers were afraid to even breathe when they saw him.

He also understood why he had scared several recruits to tears when he trained them before.

It seemed that he really needed to reflect and correct himself.  Those recruits could be scared to tears, let alone his delicate wife.

“But… but… you’re so harsh, woo woo woo…” Shen Chuning couldn’t stop crying.

Zhou Yubai wiped her tears, nervously scratching his head, “Wife, I’m sorry, I really didn’t mean to. I was just born with a cold face, which makes me look fierce.”

He then told Shen Chuning about how he trained recruits and scared them to tears.

Shen Chuning listened, her eyes widened, and gradually forgot to cry.

She also remembered that the man she married did indeed have such a harsh, cold face since he was a child.

But he was very capable since he was a child. Every time he went hunting in the mountains or fishing in the river, he had the most harvest, so her third brother always liked to follow him around.

But every time she saw his face, she would be very scared and wished to stay far away.

Realizing that she had misunderstood, Shen Chuning stopped crying, and looked at Zhou Yubai with grievance and sobs, “Then, when you talk to me, can you speak softly, gently, and say a few more words?

I’m not one of your soldiers…”