Chapter 9 Uncle Comrade
The aunt who was sitting at the door of the main hall was trying to hold back her laughter, her face turned red. Shen Shuyu and Shen Qiu moved a stool and sat next to the aunt. The two sisters took out some melon seeds and ate them with relish.
The aunt was greedy, she also wanted to eat some melon seeds, "Yu girl, give me a handful of melon seeds."
Shen Shuyu grabbed a handful from his pocket and gave it to her.
Shen Shuyu and the other two were spitting out melon seed shells at the door, while Shen Xue and the other two were spitting in the main hall.
Liu Pan wiped her tears and said, "Second sister-in-law, I know you look down on our third branch and bully us because we don't have a son, but you are going too far!"
Li Caixia was speechless. Every time they quarreled, Liu Pandi said that they looked down on the third wife for not having a son. In fact, they had never thought about it that way. In her eyes, sons and daughters were the same.
Liu Pan looks down on himself.
"I just asked Shen Xue to wash the dishes. Stop talking nonsense and wash them quickly." Li Caixia felt annoyed when she saw the mother and daughter crying, so she turned around and left.
Joining the group eating melon seeds, Shen Qiu gave a handful of seeds to her mother, "Mom, aren't you going back to the house for a nap?"
"No need to sleep, we have to go to work soon.
Where did these melon seeds come from? They smell really good.”
Li Caixia ate melon seeds very quickly, and soon all the seeds in her hand were gone. There were melon seeds at home, but they were not as delicious as the ones given by her daughter.
"My eldest sister gave it to me."
Li Caixia stretched out her claws, "Shu Yu, is there any more? Second Auntie wants to eat more."
It was just some melon seeds, so Shen Shuyu was naturally not stingy and grabbed a handful of melon seeds from her pocket and gave them to her.
The melon seeds were five-spice flavored. She had a lot of them in her room. They were all sent by her uncle in the army. The original owner's father died, leaving only the original owner as a daughter. The comrades who had fought through life and death with Shen Xiangbei all took good care of the original owner.
From time to time, they would send packages to the original owner, including food, clothing, and daily necessities. Now there are three sets of little dresses in the closet. These dresses cannot be bought here. They were sent back by uncles in the army.
The original owner wrote several letters telling her uncles not to send anything, as she had everything she needed at home. However, many packages were still sent to her.
The original owner was also a grateful person. She knew how to hunt wild animals. Every time her grandmother asked her to send mountain products to her uncle in the army, the original owner would also put in the wild game she had processed.
Even the two ginsengs she dug in the mountains were sent by the original owner to several uncles in the army, so that they could make wine and share them.
Over the years, they had been interacting with each other, and the original owner treated them as her own uncles, and the uncles also treated the original owner as their own niece and took care of her.
Counting the days, the package is about to arrive, so Shen Shuyu plans to go to the county town tomorrow.
"Hey, the melon seeds from the city are different, so delicious!" Li Caixia knew that her niece had a lot of good food in her room, all sent by her brother-in-law's comrades-in-arms. These melon seeds must be one of them. The melon seeds in their countryside would not be fried with so many ingredients.
"Aunt, Second Aunt, I still have some in my room. I'll take some out and share with you later."
With the original owner's memories, Shen Shuyu knew that these two aunts were not bad people, they just had their own little thoughts.
The eldest and second aunts smiled happily, "That's great."
Shen Xue came out with the cleaned dishes and saw the four of them laughing and chatting while eating melon seeds. She glared at them, wiped her tears, and went to wash the dishes.
Li Caixia was eating melon seeds when she realized something belatedly, "Sister-in-law, did that little bitch Shen Xue glare at us just now?"
Zhang Cuicui nodded, "She glared at me, and her eyes were quite scary."
The girl from the third room usually looks well-behaved and sensible, but Zhang Cuicui doesn't like this niece. She can be said to be a little annoying. She is very young and her mind is not very...right. Several children in the family were beaten a lot because of her when they were young.
On the contrary, although Shen Shuyu, the eldest niece, was a little lazy and a little spoiled, she did everything uprightly. Her eyes were clear and bright, and she felt comfortable looking at them.
They are all daughters of the Shen family, growing up and eating from the same pot. I don’t know how the third room raises its daughter.
Knowing that Shen Xue was glaring at them, Li Caixia stood up immediately and looked at Liu Pandi, "Liu Pandi, your daughter is going to rebel. She has no respect for her elders as a junior! I just asked her to wash a few dishes. Why is your eyes as big as cow's eyes? What does it mean?"
"Second sister-in-law, if you don't like us, just say it directly. How can you be an aunt like you? How dare you frame my Xue'er." Her Xue'er would not even be willing to step on an ant to death, so how could she glare at someone.
Second aunt was good at describing it, and Shen Shuyu burst out laughing.
Shen Qiu couldn't help laughing.
Zhang Cuicui pulled her sister-in-law and said, "Alright, alright, I have to get ready to go to work. Why are you arguing with the child?"
It was time to go to work now. Li Caixia snorted and went out with Zhang Cuicui.
Liu Pan looked at the backs of her two sisters-in-law and felt very uncomfortable. The first and second wives were angry with each other because they saw that the third wife had no son, so they bullied her.
Shen Shuyu didn't like to see the mother and daughter crying, so she went out with the backpack on her back. Shen Qiu ran after her, "Big sister, wait for me."
It was almost time to go to work. Liu Pan glanced at her mother-in-law's door and urged her daughter, "Xue'er, wash the dishes quickly and go to work quickly. Otherwise, if your grandmother wakes up and sees that the dishes are not washed, you will be scolded."
Shen Xue paused while washing the dishes, "I know, mother."
Her mother always said that she loved her, but she asked her to do a lot of things.
When Old Lady Shen and the others got up, Shen Xue and her daughter had just finished washing the dishes.
"What are you two still dawdling about for? Hurry up and get to work."
"Mom, let's go now."
Before Liu Pandi could tell her husband about her second sister-in-law bullying her and her daughter, she was urged by her mother-in-law to go to work.
Shen Xue suddenly covered her stomach halfway through the walk and said, "Grandma, my stomach is uncomfortable. I want to take half a day off."
Old Mrs. Shen didn't look very well, so we let her go home.
Zhang Cuicui came over and said, "Mom, Xue girl doesn't have a stomachache in the morning or in the evening, but she has a stomachache when she is working. I'm afraid Xue girl is pretending!"
Li Caixia affirmed, "I think that girl is just pretending. Her mother praises her daughter for being sensible and capable every day. I think she is not as good as Shu Yu."
Old Lady Shen glanced at the two daughters-in-law and said, "Are you two the worms in her stomach? Do you know if she has a stomachache? Go to work quickly. If you don't earn eight work points today, you will go home without food."
When they heard that they would have no food to eat if they couldn't earn eight work points, Zhang Cuicui and Li Caixia became discouraged. They even wanted to slack off on their work.
Zhang Cuicui and Li Caixia cannot be considered lazy, but they are not very hardworking either. There is no division in the family, and they all eat from the same pot regardless of how much they earn, and the two sisters-in-law just work so-so.
As for Liu Pandi, he was also a lazy person and he often slacked off at work.
Old Mrs. Shen knew exactly what her three daughters-in-law were like, and she shut them up as soon as they opened their mouths.