”Mom, brother and sister-in-law are back.” Hu Tou shouted.

　　Li Guihua stood up with her hands on her waist, smiling sincerely, waiting for candy and meat. After she got pregnant, she stopped raising pigs last year because she couldn’t take care of them. She only raised a dozen chickens. She killed one during the Chinese New Year, and now she has half left. She originally planned to buy two kilograms of pork for her family.

　　It was not before the New Year that Li Da came to buy meat, and Li Guihua was willing to come just by talking. Later, she thought that Li Zhouzhou and Gu Zhao would come back on the second day of the New Year with meat, so she simply did not buy meat. When Li Guihua got the candy this time, she didn’t think about giving it away, and kept it for herself to drink with sugar water eggs during the confinement period.

　　You need to take good supplements.

　　Li Guihua walked out of the house with a smile on her face. She first looked at Li Zhouzhou’s hand. Why was there only a basket? Was the meat in the basket?

　　”Happy New Year, mother.” Gu Zhao greeted his stepmother with a smile on his face.

　　Li Guihua said with a polite smile, “Good child, come in and sit down. You must be cold on the road.” As she spoke, she took the basket from Li Zhouzhou’s hand.

　　Li Zhouzhou thought the basket was not heavy, so he handed it to his mother-in-law.

　　Li Guihua took the basket and looked around. There were a handful of candied melon seeds, peanuts and dried fruits, and a bag of frozen pork offal.

　　No more?

　　That’s it?

　　What about sugar? What about meat?

　　Li Guihua couldn’t laugh anymore.

　　”I know how hard it is for mom to be pregnant. It’s not easy for her to cook with her big belly. Zhou Zhou and I won’t eat at home after paying New Year’s greetings. I heard from dad before the New Year that mom likes offal, so I brought for her here specially this time. Zhou Zhou and I are here to send our regards. Mom, please come into the house and sit down and have a rest. Don’t get tired.” Gu Zhao said with a smile.

　　Li Guihua: …

　　Gu Zhao and Li Zhouzhou did not actually have dinner at Gu’s house. They just finished their conversation and went back after the gifts were delivered.

　　The main thing is that it is really hard to make Li Guihua cook, and the food doesn’t taste good.

　　Later, Gu Si came back from a stroll outside and heard that his son Gu Zhao had brought Li Zhouzhou to visit. He took the food and left without eating, and he didn’t say anything. He had said last time that he would let Gu Zhao come back and embarrass him.

　　Now it’s fine to just give gifts and not eat.

　　So that he wouldn’t get angry when he saw it.

　　”Look at what you got. There’s not even a piece of meat left…” Li Guihua complained in front of Gu Si, wishing she could smash the pots and bowls. Who would go back to his parents’ home with offal?

　　Gu Si was annoyed by his ears, turned over and said, “Didn’t you say that offal tastes good when fried? Now that I’ve brought it to you, you complain about it.”

　　How can it be the same? The offal fried on New Year’s Eve was obtained by Li Guihua for free, how could something that didn’t cost a penny not taste delicious?

　　Li Guihua relied on her big belly and Gu Si couldn’t do anything to her, so she kept complaining. Finally, Gu Si got annoyed and said, “Where are the 18 taels of silver? If you think the offal is not tasty, I will go and buy three pounds of meat now.”

　　Now Li Guihua was silent.

　　On the third day of the Chinese New Year, Wang Shitou held Yuanyuan, who was wrapped tightly, and Xingger came to the Li family with gifts to pay New Year’s greetings to his uncle. Earlier, when Xingger was not married, Liu Huaxiang said that since the family had separated, why would they still pay New Year’s greetings? They were not a wealthy family. We went here and there, and we would not go without money or gifts.

　　Xing’er is a child and has no choice but to follow orders.

　　Later, Xinger married Wang’s family. He went back to his parents’ home on the second day of the Chinese New Year and came to Li’s home on the third day. He didn’t come last year because he was in confinement after giving birth to Yuanyuan.

　　Because of this matter, Liu Huaxiang also talked to Xingger, meaning that you are a traitor. I am your mother, why are you giving that thing to me and giving it to Li Da?

　　Xing’er knew his mother’s character well, and didn’t want to argue, so he pushed all the blame onto his mother-in-law, saying that the Wang family was polite and they should go to pay New Year’s greetings, and the gifts they brought were candies and fruits. “Mom, do you want them?”

　　Every year when he returns to his parents’ home, he brings expensive gifts, otherwise he will be blamed for having raised him in vain.

　　Liu Huaxiang looked down on those small gifts, saying that Xing Ge’er was just being kind to him because he and she were not of the same mind. Everyone in the village knew that Li Da and Li Er had separated, and their family did not go to the Li family gate, but Xing Ge’er went there, making people laugh at her, Liu Huaxiang.

　　Wouldn’t it be better to give the maltose fruits to your younger brother Guangzong?

　　Xing Ge’er was listening at first, but couldn’t help but refute at this point: “I went to my uncle’s house because Li Zhouzhou made two doses of medicine for me. Otherwise, I don’t know if I would be alive today.”

　　Liu Huaxiang was choked and then cried violently for a while.

　　What I mean is, I am your biological mother, how could I possibly harm you? The medicine your brother drank was only boiled once and still has medicinal properties. I raised you to this age, and Li Zhouzhou bribed you with just two doses of broken medicine…

　　From then on, he became cold towards the Li family. He even treated Li Zhouzhou as a guest at his wedding and didn’t care about anything.