After eating and drinking, Zheng Xiaoqin stayed to help Yang Ruoqing clean up the kitchen, while Sun and Wang Cuilian took Tuan Yuan and Jiang Lan to play in the front yard.

It's not appropriate to lie down and go to sleep immediately after eating. It's not too late to play for a while before going to bed, and it also takes a certain amount of time for Zheng Xiaoqin to clean up the dishes.

In the kitchen, Mrs. Liu was holding a thick rice cooker in her hand, making a clicking sound.

If it weren't for the plate of pork ribs and braised cabbage that Mrs. Liu had already shown off at the dinner table along with the meat and soup, and she had ordered three large bowls of rice, otherwise she would have had to use the soup to pour over the crispy rice.

Now that there is no soup, let’s just make do with the rice dumplings. Anyway, it’s easy to feed her.

"Sister Qing'er, does fourth aunt always have such a big appetite?" Zheng Xiaoqin witnessed Liu's amazing battle situation with her own eyes and couldn't help but ask Yang Ruoqing in a low voice.

Yang Ruoqing said: "Yes, my fourth aunt has always been like this."

Zheng Xiaoqin: "Then why is the fourth aunt not so fat?"

Yang Ruoqing also took a look at Mrs. Liu who was squatting at the door of the kitchen and eating rice cakes: "I don't know why, maybe she exercises a lot. She runs here every day without stopping."

"However, compared to the memory of her when I was a child, she has gained a little weight now, not much, about 15 or 16 pounds."

To be honest, if a woman's weight changes from young to middle-aged and old by only fifteen or six pounds, she is considered to be in good health.

It is natural for people to gain weight as they age because their metabolism slows down.

Zheng Xiaoqin nodded, turned around and continued washing the dishes, put away her curiosity and stopped asking any more questions.

"Fourth Aunt, there is rice soup here, would you like a bowl?" Yang Ruoqing asked.

Mrs. Liu turned around, burped and said, "Okay, let's have a bowl. Is there any sugar?"

"You need to add sugar to rice soup?" Zheng Xiaoqin was a little surprised.

Mrs. Liu pouted: "Look, you don't know how to enjoy it, right? Add some sugar to the rice soup, it will taste great!"

"It's good to add salt to the rice soup, but in short, it's just not a white rice soup."

Yang Ruoqing knew Liu's routine well and said, "I have some sugar, how about a spoonful?"

"Two spoons, one spoon is not enough."

"Fourth Aunt, do you really think you have too many teeth?" Yang Ruoqing asked.

"You eat so much sugar and you're not afraid of having a mouth full of broken teeth?"

Mrs. Liu chuckled, "What are you afraid of? I counted and found that I have thirty-six teeth. If a few of them are broken, it won't stop me from eating!"

Yang Ruoqing shook her head when she heard this: "Fourth Aunt, the tooth decay will kill you to death!"

"Hey, I'm not afraid. I'm more afraid of being hungry than being bitten by bugs!"

Just like that, Mrs. Liu sat down on the small bench with the sweet rice soup and drank it.

The dishes in the kitchen have been put away, and now the only thing missing is the last bowl in Mrs. Liu's hand.

Yang Ruoqing said to Zheng Xiaoqin: "Xiaoqin, please take Lanlan back for a nap first."

The bowl in Mrs. Liu's hand was waiting to be taken over and washed later.

Zheng Xiaoqin nodded, guessing that Lan Lan was already having fun there. If she didn't go there, Lan Lan would have to go to the backyard to find her.

So Zheng Xiaoqin took off her apron and hung it on the wooden stake on the wall of the kitchen. After saying this to Yang Ruoqing and saying hello to Madam Liu who was still sipping sweet rice soup, she left the kitchen.

She walked on the front foot, and on the back foot, Mrs. Liu held the bowl and winked at Yang Ruoqing, who was wiping the pot table and lid.

"Hey, Qing'er, have you heard? The relationship between Zheng Xiaoqin and her two sisters-in-law is not very good!"

Yang Ruoqing showed little interest in the topic raised by Liu.

"Fourth Aunt, there's nothing unusual about this. Just take yourself as an example. Do you have a harmonious relationship with your two sisters-in-law?"

As soon as Yang Ruoqing finished speaking, Ms. Liu shook her head like a rattle.

"Oh, hurry up and get rid of them. My two sisters-in-law are typical snobbery. If it weren't for the sake of my two brothers, I wouldn't want to associate with them!" Mrs. Liu said.

In this regard, Ms. Liu is quite straightforward and says whatever is on her mind.

Unlike many women's families who obviously have a bad relationship with their natal sisters-in-law, they still bite the bullet and go around with their natal sisters-in-law.

Even if you mention your natal family to your husband's family, you are unconscionably talking about how good your natal sisters-in-law are...

Why?

On the one hand, you want to save face and suffer hardship. If your natal family is not harmonious, telling your natal sister-in-law or younger brothers and sisters that they don't want to see you will make you look very shameless.

The second aspect comes from the inferiority complex of women in this era.

The natal family is like a protective umbrella covering the heads of married women.

When you are bullied by your husband and others in your husband's family, there are many fathers and brothers in your mother's family who will come to support you.

Or when you are beaten by your husband and kicked out by your mother-in-law at your mother-in-law's house, at least you have a family to stay in so that you will not end up living on the streets...

Therefore, many women's marriages are actually not what they want.

In many cases, her parents married her into a similar family in order to save a wife for her elder brother or younger brother...

In the final analysis, this is the tragedy of women in the old society.

It’s also a woman’s lack of confidence.

A woman's true confidence is not others, but herself.

Ability also comes from oneself.

Perhaps these avant-garde ideas are very simple things for Yang Ruoqing, and she also has the confidence and ability.

Okay, we have gone too far, now, Yang Ruoqing wants to bring the topic back.

"Fourth Aunt, why did you mention Xiaoqin? Did you hear something?" Yang Ruoqing asked again.

There is no smoke without fire, and the fourth aunt is well-informed.

Sure enough, Mrs. Liu pouted and said, "Xiaoqin probably hasn't told you a lot of things. At that time, your two children were still married, and the two families had more frequent contacts than now."

"Zheng Xiaoqin's two sisters-in-law really want to support this little girl!"

"During the festival, the two sisters-in-law even sent their brothers over to pick up Zheng Xiaoqin and her daughter to celebrate the festival. All kinds of chicken, duck, and fish were served to death."

"Since Xiaoqin stopped feeding Tuan Yuanyuan, the attitude of her sisters-in-law at home has plummeted!"

"I probably think Xiaoqin is alienated from you, and their parents won't be able to take advantage of Xiaoqin in the future!"

"Hmph, I've seen too many snobbish parents!"

After hearing what Liu said, Yang Ruoqing realized belatedly why Xiaoqin had not returned to her parents' home for a long time.

There was a time before that I went back to my parents’ house every now and then!

Although this is a matter between Xiaoqin and her mother's family, the Luo family is more or less involved.

"Tuanyuanyuan grows up day by day, and it is impossible to eat rice for the rest of his life." Yang Ruoqing said.
Chapter completed!