Translator: Alyssa
Editor: Sei
In the Xu family, Mrs. Xu’s favorite daughter-in-law is the third daughter-in-law Liu Qiao, and her favorite son is definitely the second son Xu Jianhai.
The old lady thinks Xu Jianhai is like her, smart and skills. Old ladies often say that this son is a good pot with a broken lid, which is not wrong.
TL Note: Base on the story of “The Cracked Pot”. Each of us has our own unique flaws. We’re all cracked pots. In this world, nothing goes to waste. You may think like the cracked pot that you are inefficient or useless in certain areas of your life, but somehow these flaws can turn out to be a blessing in disguise.”
But who made Xu Jianhai a woman like Zhang Cuiqin? Xu Jianhai felt that to find a woman, he had to find a stupid one to show his ability as a man.
So right now, Zhang Cuiqin had done something stupid, and Xu Jianhai also patiently explained it.
“Look, Liu Qiaoye didn’t find a chance to make Erya and Siya feel bad. Isn’t it because of her children?”
Zhang Cuiqin was still thinking whether she was really doing something wrong. After hearing Xu Jianhai’s good things about Liu Qiao, the jealous jar was suddenly overfilled, “Do you think Liu Qiao is better than me? The old lady likes her, you like her too. Why didn’t you look for her and came to me instead? I’m telling you, I couldn’t stand seeing Erya, so I wouldn’t let her get better. Hey, why are you the favorite son of an old lady? Why does He Xu Jiansheng and Xu Jiansheng’s wife Li Jing can live a good life in the city, while we have to live in the Village, ha-ha?”
She just couldn’t understand why Li Jing has a better life in the city. After all, her family is more decent than Li Jing’s family. Just because of the poor background of Li Jing’s family, why is Li Jing better than her?
TL Note: Li Jing is the mother of Xu Nannan
“You, Wife, why don’t you think about it? Making troubles around third sister-in law Liu Qiao makes mom unhappy, what you want to do is up to you.” Seeing his wife’s disobedience, Xu Jianhai felt uncomfortable, he reached out and flicked Zhang Cuiqin’s forehead.
Zhang Cuiqin whimpered and waved his hand away, “Mom won’t protect her. Just wait and see, this Erya will still be of great use in the future to annoy her.”
Without Zhang Cuiqin stirring up trouble by her side, Xu Nannan had a much easier morning. Aunt Song Guihua also took good care of her and asked her to do some light work.
“I said Nan Nan, it’s not the same thing as you go to the ground all day long, you’re a good little girl, why do you have to work hard this way?” Aunt Song Guihua whispered when she was about to call for more work.
Xu Nannan rubbed her sore shoulders, “Aunt Song Guihua, I don’t want to, but if I don’t work hard, my grandma will not give me a mouthful of food. Just this morning, I drank a bowl of rice soup.”
“This old lady…” Aunt Song Guihua was a little bit grumbling when she heard it, but this old lady still had some prestige in the village, and no one wanted to offend her. Being an outsider, she couldn’t manage the affairs of the old Xu family.
She frowned and thought about it, and suddenly said, “When your parents come back this time, you can tell them the situation and tell them about giving goods for preferential treatment. What if you can get something good from an easy work like this? Like giving the captain goods and in return, he does a good job finding easy work for you.”
Xu Nannan opened her eyes when she heard this, “Is there still a good and easy work in our village?”
“You don’t know about that. In addition to going on the ground, we have to go herding the cattle and working on the farm. This is all work. But compared to these, the work points for going to the ground are more. But you, as a child, can’t earn many work points even if you go to the field, so you might as well go to the farm and have a rest after finishing the work.”
Xu Nannan really didn’t know that there were other ways. The original owner is an honest person, and she does whatever the Xu family wants. She doesn’t think too much so except for the Xu family who let her work in the field, she didn’t care about anything else. That’s why the information left behind by the original Xu Nannan was not very useful.
She doesn’t know much about this era.
“Aunt Song Guihua, can this information be useful? Captain Gensheng doesn’t care much about this. ” She had already noticed that Xu Gensheng was a bit soft-tempered. As soon as Zhang Cuiqin calls for the old lady, he immediately retreats. He looks unreliable. What if you don’t do anything and just collect things?
Song Guihua smiled, looking at the side secretly, she saw that no one was paying attention so she leaned over and said, “Don’t look for Xu Gensheng, go look for his wife. Xu Gensheng is afraid of his wife. ” Speaking of the latter, Song Guihua couldn’t help it. She covered her mouth and smiled.
Xu Gensheng is a good old man in the village, but his wife is a tigress.
Xu Nannan’s eyes lit up, and he finally found a direction in her heart, “Aunt Song Guihua, if this happens smoothly, I… I will definitely remember your great advice.”
“If you are like me, I’ll just talk about it. It depends on what good things your parents can get. You can say it well, if it’s your parents, I’m sure they must have missed so much too.”
Aunt Song Guihua still thinks things better, and doesn’t believe that Xu Jiansheng and his wife will really ignore the children at all. But Xu Nannan was not optimistic about the couple at all. Yet she has to try it anyway. If they don’t give it to her, she will just buy it on her Taobao. It’s just that she will have to use these two excuses later when someone asks and she feels a little unwilling to spend.
Everyone went back for dinner at noon and Xu Nannan followed into the house. But the house was deserted and there was nothing on the table.
Zhang Cuiqin went to the kitchen hungry to see that there was no fire in the stove. The old lady didn’t cook. She was afraid of being hungry, so she hurriedly went running into the yard and shouting into the old man’s house, “Mom, there is nothing to eat, I have to go to work later.”
“What to eat, there is no respect to the elders in your heart, I am still waiting for you to do the cooking. I want to eat by myself.”
The old lady replied in the room.
Everyone suddenly widened their eyes and dared not to say anything. The old lady asked to cook, but the grain is in her old man’s house. How can we cook if there is no grain?
Come on, the old lady is angry, and the whole family can’t eat.
Xu Jianhai looked at Xu Nannan with a cold face, “Erya, if you don’t confess your mistake to your grandma, what should you do if your grandma is still angry?”
Liu Qiao also persuaded, “Erya, be obedient. Your grandma is an elder anyway, you admit your mistakes and you don’t lose face. If you don’t eat, Siya won’t be able to eat as well.”
“Bad girl, I blame you for making the family hungry. Why did your mother give birth to something like a dead star like you?” Zhang Cuiqin sat down on the threshold, holding her belly with her hands.
Xu Nannan chuckles in her heart when she hears several people persuading and criticizing her. The old lady is really clever, and now the whole family has turned to attacking her.
If the original owner was a little girl, she would have been so scared to kneel and kowtow to the old lady. The whole family bullies a child, how come these faces are so big.
Xu Nannan couldn’t help rolling her eyes, “Never mind if I don’t want to do it, you can do it yourself, I’m going to see Xiaoman instead.”
Let her admit her mistake? No way! She didn’t believe that the old lady was really willing to let her precious son go to work, hungry.
Entering the room, Xu Xiaoman had already sat up from the bed. After eating two full meals, her body seemed to begin to recover.
Seeing Xu Nannan coming in, Xu Xiaoman said in fear, “Sister, I just heard the noise outside, the second aunt seems to be cursing.”
Xu Nannan closed the door completely as if she hadn’t heard the noise outside.
“It’s okay, the second aunt always makes any noise any day, she just has such a unique virtue.”
Seeing Xu Xiaoman sitting up, she walked over happily, “Are you better now?”
Xu Xiaoman nodded, “After eating what my sister gave me, I will have strength to get up. I guess I will be able to work tomorrow.”
This honest girl.
Xu Nannan squeezed her small face, there was not much flesh at all, “Don’t get out of bed when you are feeling better, just stay in the room.”
“Well, If I don’t work, grandma will curse.”
“You haven’t recovered from your illness. Unless she has the ability to send you to the health clinic.”
“But I…”
“Xiaoman, if you go to work, the grandma must be wondering how you get better so fast, then won’t she know about us stealing food? You know grandma’s temper, she will have to beat me to death by then. Want to watch me get beaten?”
“I don’t want to!” Xu Xiaoman shook her head vigorously, wrinkling her thin yellow face.
“So what should you do?”
“If the illness is not healed, continue to sleep.”
“Really smart.” Xu Nannan kissed her on the forehead. This child is very smart and sensible, she keeps working hard to make Xiaoman turn into sesame glutinous rice balls.
TL Note: Xu Nannan wants Xu Xiaoman to be as fat as a sesame glutinous rice ball.
Xu Xiaoman ate half of the cake left by Xu Nannan. She is not hungry now, but Xu Nannan herself is a little hungry. Now in broad daylight, Xiaoman is awake again. It is not convenient for her to buy things in the Taobao store, so she can only wait.
After a while, Grandma Xu finally entered the kitchen, cursing.
Xu Nannan didn’t go out, so she talked to Xu Xiaoman in the room, dipped in water to write on the table, and taught Xu Xiaoman to read.
Xu Xiaoman is nine years old, has not yet gone to school, she is illiterate. There are many people who do not study these days. Even if the conditions are better in the future, they will also be illiterate, but Xu Nannan refuses to accept her fate. She used to be an orphan, and she has been vying to get ahead. Now that she has become Xiaoman’s sister, she can’t let Xiaoman grow up so confused.
It was the first time that Xu Xiaoman was taught how to read when she grew up. Her sister was always very busy before, and she didn’t have time to rest for all the work she couldn’t finish. Let alone teach her to read. She has studied very seriously and can’t wait to memorize all the words at once.
But it may be due to malnutrition. Her memory is not good. Xu Nannan has taught many times, and she can’t even remember her name.
Xu Xiaoman shrugged her shoulders dejectedly.
Xu Nannan looked at her, depressed, and rubbed her head with a smile, “Xiao Man is already very smart, and the children of other people go to school and don’t recognize a few words. Let’s take your time. I’ll buy you a stationery later when I come back.”
“Is the stationery like the sister Honghong’s?” Xu Xiaoman’s eyes were bright. “Sister Honghong said that it was brought back by a colleague from my dad’s unit in a big city.”
Xu Nannan’s nose was scrunched, “Better than them.” She decided to eat two less biscuits in the future and also buy a set of stationery for Xiaoman from Taobao.
Xu Nannan has been paying attention to the movement outside. The old lady’s meal was done, so she let Xu Xiaoman rest and ran out to eat by herself.
The old lady was directing her two daughter-in-laws to serve food in the hall, and when she saw her coming out, she gets angry. “You white-eyed wolf, how dare you come out to eat! I will have to kill you today!”
“Hit me and when my parents come back, I will let them see what kind of a life I spend here in the village.” Xu Nannan stared.
The old lady’s angry expression changed, she picked up her crutches and ran towards Xu Nannan. This old lady usually looks like she can’t walk, but now she looks like she was flying.
Xu Nannan immediately rushed out, “Help! The old lady is going to kill her granddaughter, captain, village chief, secretary, help!”
“Nan Nan’s grandmother, what are you trying to do? If you don’t let them eat at noon, why are you chasing children out?” Aunt Song Guihua ran up first, followed by others one after another. At this time, everyone was eating at home, and the village was not big. Hearing the movement, they all ran over.
When Xu Nannan saw Aunt Song Guihua, she ran over and cried, “Aunt Song Guihua, help, my grandma is going to kill me. She won’t let me eat, saying that she will beat me when I eat—”
Grandma Xu didn’t expect Xu Nannan to run outside directly, and she was still damaging her reputation in front of outsiders, so she almost couldn’t stand still. “You, come here this instant!”
Seeing Grandma Xu looking like she was about to eat people, the others couldn’t see it.
Everyone knows what the two sisters Xu Nannan spend at home. It’s just that the housework is not easy to manage. But it’s out of nowhere.
Just let the child do the work, and she won’t let even get to eat the food. Isn’t this killing the child?
“Auntie, Nan Nan works very often, so why don’t they give food to me?”
“Yes, it is very hard for Jiansheng and his wife to raise children outside. How can you make his own children suffer? this is a sin,”
“Everyone can’t eat well in this trouble, and I would have to delay work in the afternoon.”
The old lady panicked for a while listening to everyone’s accusations. She has been in Xujiacun Village all these years, where something bad is always said. When the village officials saw her, they all had to call a lady.
The old lady felt that her face in her life was lost today.
Seeing the old lady’s appearance, Xu Nannan felt no sympathy for her at all, but felt very happy. She is not the real Xu Nannan, and naturally she is not afraid of the old lady at all. The old lady values fame and status, and the more she has to take the scandal of the Xu family to the outside world, the more powerless the old lady becomes.
Although everyone knows everything about the old Xu family’s troubles, the blue sky and the day have broken up, and no one can pretend to be ignorant.
When she wants to bring Xiaoman out to set up a house in the future, she will get more support.
“This…. What’s going on!?”
A slightly surprised voice came from behind the crowd. The villagers parted to give way when they heard the voice, and humbly said, “Jiansheng, you have come back and see what life your daughter is living here.”
When Xu Jiansheng walked from behind the crowd, Xu Nannan also saw him. Just like the original owner remembered, he was a very tall and tough man, giving people the feeling of a tough guy.
Xu Nannan pursed her lips and sneered inwardly. People who can’t even protect their daughters, let alone men, are not worthy of being human!
TL Note: That end of chapter 4
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