Chapter 47: Melting the Mother-in-Law’s Heart

“Ouch, so many blisters!”

Before Shen Chuning could answer, Lin Shulan leaned closer to look at Shen Chuning’s palm and exclaimed.

Shen Chuning smiled awkwardly, “Mother, I’m fine. I just wanted to turn over this piece of land to plant some vegetables, but I… I’m not very good at it.”

She had been spoiled by her father and brothers since she was a child, and she had never done any farm work, so it was understandable that a rural girl wouldn’t know how to farm.

Being seen by Lin Shulan today, she felt quite embarrassed.

“Ouch! You girl, if you can’t do it, don’t do it.” Lin Shulan exclaimed again, taking the hoe from Shen Chuning’s hand and leaning it against the courtyard wall.

“Come, Mother will help you drain the blisters on your palm and bandage it.”

As Lin Shulan spoke, she quickly broke a thorn from the orange tree outside the courtyard, pulled Shen Chuning into the house, and sat her down on a stool.

When she pulled up Shen Chuning’s hand to drain the blisters, she also reminded her, “Ningning, if you’re scared, close your eyes. Mother will use this orange thorn to drain it, it’ll be fine in a moment.

Using this won’t cause infection or suppuration.”

Shen Chuning was really quite scared.

She had been afraid of pain since she was a child, and couldn’t help but close her eyes, shrinking her neck and turning her face to the side.

“Okay.”

But before she felt any pain, she heard Lin Shulan say it was done.

Opening her eyes, she saw Lin Shulan wrapping her hand with gauze.

“This gauze was bought by Yubai from the city, I scolded him for wasting money at the time. Now it seems that it’s a good thing he bought these things, otherwise, your hand wouldn’t be easy to treat.”

Shen Chuning smiled awkwardly, her heart warm.

She guessed that Lin Shulan probably wouldn’t use this gauze even if she got blisters on her hands from working.

When she was at home before, during the spring plowing season, her father and brothers would often get blisters on their hands, and she knew that their usual way of dealing with them was to use orange thorns to drain them and then leave them alone, and they would scab over in a day or two.

“Ningning, you can’t cook with your hand like this. Come on, let’s go eat at Mother’s place.” Lin Shulan pulled Shen Chuning to go next door.

Looking at Lin Shulan, Shen Chuning couldn’t help but redden her eyes, tears of gratitude welling up.

Seeing her daughter-in-law like this, Lin Shulan was startled and hurriedly asked, “Ningning, what’s wrong? What’s wrong? Why are you crying?”

Tears couldn’t help but stream from Shen Chuning’s eyes.

She hugged Lin Shulan, her voice choked with sobs, “Mother, thank you, you’re so good to me, woo woo woo…”

“I’ve never had a mother since I was a child, and my reputation in the village isn’t very good, everyone says I’m lazy and gluttonous, I don’t have the life of a young lady but I have the illness of a young lady, you don’t dislike me, and you’re so good to me, woo woo woo…”

Lin Shulan had three sons, but no daughters.

When she was young, she also wanted a sweet and soft little daughter, but she never got her wish.

Later, when her sons got married, she wanted to treat her daughters-in-law as daughters, but the eldest son’s family was scheming and couldn’t be close to her.

The second son’s family, although carefree, was also distant from her.

Shen Chuning’s crying caused her maternal instincts to overflow, and her heart melted.

She gently patted Shen Chuning’s back, coaxing her, “Okay, okay, girl, don’t cry, from now on, Mother is your real mother. Since you married Yubai, you’re part of our old Zhou family, Mother will definitely not let you suffer.”

Then, she deliberately said fiercely, “In the future, if those gossiping women in the village gossip about you, tell Mother, and Mother will help you scold them!”

Shen Chuning stopped crying and smiled, “Thank you, Mother.”

Lin Shulan wiped the tears from her face, “Come on, go to Mother’s place, Mother will steam you some eggs.”

She wanted to cook meat for her daughter-in-law, but there was no meat left at home, only a few eggs.

“Mother, go first, I’ll clean up and come over right away,” Shen Chuning wiped her tears and said.

“Okay, then Mother will go back and cook first.”

Lin Shulan said, walking into the courtyard and seeing the piece of land Shen Chuning had dug up like a dog had gnawed on it, she shouted again, “Ningning, don’t dig this land anymore. If you want to plant vegetables, Mother will ask your father to help you turn it over in a couple of days.”

“Okay, Mother. Thank you, Mother.” Shen Chuning poked her head out from the main hall and gave Lin Shulan a sweet smile.

Lin Shulan instantly felt her heart soften.

She now understood why Shen Chuning’s father and brothers spoiled her so much. If she had such a sweet and soft little daughter, she wouldn’t let her work in the fields either!

Shen Chuning thought that she couldn’t go to her mother-in-law’s house to eat for free.

And there were six children next door, she should also bring something sweet for the children.

She went into the space and took a piece of five-flower pork weighing about a jin and put it at the bottom of the basket, and then put two jin of rice and two jin of flour.

On top, she put the fruit candies she bought from the supply and marketing cooperative, and the sponge cakes her father gave her when she returned home today.

After carrying it out of the courtyard, she went next door.

But she might have been in a bad mood today.

As soon as she went out, she met Chen Ziyun, Wang Yumeng, and Lu Qiaoqing returning to the educated youth point after work.

Shen Chuning didn’t want to have anything to do with them.

After having that dream, she had thought that if she wanted to end up like in the dream, the best way was to stay away from Chen Ziyun and Wang Yumeng.

She looked away, as if she hadn’t seen them, and went into Zhou’s courtyard with her basket.

Chen Ziyun’s gaze followed her until her figure disappeared, and greed and possessiveness shone in his eyes.

Wang Yumeng had deliberately stared at Shen Chuning’s neck for a while.

She was sure that Shen Chuning wasn’t wearing the koi pendant.

She couldn’t help but feel a little uneasy.

The book mentioned that the pendant was a relic left by Shen Chuning’s mother, and she never took it off, why wasn’t she wearing it now?

Did she discover the secret of the pendant and hide it, or what?

She narrowed her eyes, she had to figure out the whereabouts of the koi pendant as soon as possible, it was the most important golden finger in this book.

Lu Qiaoqing saw that Chen Ziyun’s eyes were almost glued to Shen Chuning, and her jealousy welled up.

She couldn’t help but say, “Tsk! Mengmeng, look at how she twists her waist, those who know know that she’s a revolutionary comrade of our working class, those who don’t know might think she’s a prostitute from a brothel in feudal society!”