?Chapter 44: 44 Little Leather Shoes Promise Chapter 44: 44 Little Leather Shoes Promise Li Xiuli rolled her eyes and glared at her.
“Do you want to drink blood if I ask you to?”
The younger ones in the family didn’t pester for it.
At such an old age, how could you have the cheek to snatch this bit of food?
Didn’t you just have meat recently? Why so gluttonous?
Don’t say she favors Tangtang.
She is Tangtang’s birth mother, if she doesn’t favor her own clever and sensible daughter, whom would she favor?
Zhou Mei, rebuffed, had an embarrassed look on her face and, fearing a possible beating, stepped back, forcing a fake smile.
“No need, no need. I’m quite healthy, no need for supplements.”
Drink the mother-in-law’s blood? Would she dare?
After saying this, without waiting for Li’s mother to respond, Zhou Mei picked up her hoe and hurried towards the house.
She had walked a bit.
Then remembered she seemed to have forgotten something.
Turning her head, she called out, “Mother, you and Tangtang take your time walking, I’ll go help the elder sister-in-law with cooking.”
Then, like a whoosh, she ran off into the distance in an instant.
Li Xiuli saw that Zhou Mei had quickly disappeared from sight and muttered under her breath, “…Help my foot!”
At this time of day, the eldest son’s wife must have already finished cooking the meal.
Can’t even come up with a decent excuse.
Lin Tang heard her mother’s snide comment and pursed her lips with a light chuckle.
The lively noise, that’s life.
After arriving home, Ning Xinrou had already prepared the meal. Sear?h the N?vel?ire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.
The Lin Family washed their hands and collectively dove into eating.
After a tiring afternoon, they were truly hungry.
The simple meal of wild vegetable mix, dark mush, and sweet potato porridge tasted incredibly delicious.
The Lin Family somehow found a sense of happiness in this simple coarse meal.
After the meal, Zhou Mei took it upon herself to wash the dishes.
The others sat in the courtyard, chatting.
Eventually, when the sky completely darkened, it would be time to go back inside to sleep.
At night, they didn’t light lamps.
Lamp oil costs money too.
In these times, saving where possible, not wasting a penny.
The Lin Family continued to chat.
Ning Xinrou stood up to go back inside the house and came back out with a round-necked floral shirt she had just finished making these past two days.
She handed the shirt to Lin Tang and said with a gentle smile:
“Tangtang, this is a shirt I made for you; try it on.
If it doesn’t fit right, I’ll adjust it for you.”
Li Xiuli noticed the fabric and her lips moved slightly, but she remained silent.
She remembered the fabric clearly.
It was what Blue Mountain had earned working hard on the water conservancy, trading for fabric coupons to buy for his daughter-in-law.
She had always thought Xinrou had used it long ago.
Never did she expect it to be kept all this time, and even made into a shirt for Tangtang.
Lin Tang didn’t know about this.
As she received the shirt her sister-in-law had made, her face lit up with surprise.
“Elder sister-in-law, what made you think of making a shirt for me? It’s so beautiful.
Thank you, elder sister-in-law, your craftsmanship is really great.”
The young girl’s pretty eyes curved into crescents, brimming with starlight.
“I still have clothes, and this fabric would just be lying around anyway, so I simply made it for you, go try it on!”
In fact, she had always been reluctant to use that fabric.
But.
Lately, the main branch had taken advantage of the younger sister quite a bit, and feeling guilty, she decided to make a shirt for the younger sister with it.
Lin Tang nodded cheerfully and went back into the room to change clothes.
Seeing her daughter’s happy expression, Li Xiuli’s gaze towards Ning Xinrou grew even warmer.
She was happier than if her son had shown her filial piety.
“It must have been hard on the eldest daughter-in-law.”
Ning Xinrou’s smile was gentle as she shook her head and said, “I just worked on it a bit at night, it’s not hard at all, mother, you mustn’t say such things.”
Compared to the other daughters-in-law in the village, she and her sisters-in-law had a decent life.
Especially her, having fled from trouble, with neither dowry nor family, yet not a single person in the Lin Family looked down on her.
She was content.
To be able to repay them in some way comforted her somewhat.
Besides, she was married now, whether she wore new clothes or not wasn’t important.
But it was different for her younger sister-in-law, a girl nearly seventeen.
At the flowering age, it was time to dress up nicely.
Li Xiuli felt very comfortable hearing her daughter-in-law’s words.
She seriously said to Lin Qingshan, “Eldest son, your wife is a good one, treat Xinrou well.
If I find out you’re mistreating your wife, watch if I don’t have your father beat you.”
This daughter-in-law was truly a catch.
Literate and polite, generous and capable, she was indeed hard not to like.
“…How could I possibly mistreat my wife? We’re doing great!” Lin Qingshan said, his eyes full of tenderness as he looked at Ning Xinrou.
His wife was so wonderful.
He wished he could bring the best things in the world to her.
Ning Xinrou looked towards Lin Qingshan, her eyes tender as water.
As the loving couple exchanged glances, even the modest courtyard seemed to sweeten.
Before anyone else could speak, Lin Qingshui felt a pang in his chest as if something had pricked him.
He felt implicated!
Thinking of how his own wife had never given anything to his sister, yet had taken quite a few advantages, his face blushed.
Alas, choosing a wife should not be based only on looks.
When Zhou Mei came out, she just caught her husband’s troubled expression.
“What’s wrong, dear? Is the rice too dry, can’t you swallow it, or what?” she asked bluntly.
The Lin Family: “…”
Lin Qingshui displayed an expression of helplessness, his complex emotions disappearing.
“It’s nothing, keep quiet and don’t talk.”
Zhou Mei was immediately ready to retort.
But she was glared at by her husband.
The words reached her lips, then she swallowed them back.
What’s happened now?
Not even allowing one to speak, is there no justice in this world?
Just then—
Lin Tang came out in her new clothes.
“Dad, Mom, brother, sister-in-law, do you think I look good in these clothes?”
Everyone looked and was taken aback.
The young girl’s brows and eyes were picturesque, black braids hanging down in front of her chest.
She was wearing a floral round-neck blouse with black trousers underneath, even prettier than those city folks.
Her eyes sparkled like stars, the long lashes casting faint shadows below.
Her lips were rosy as if touched by dew, like vibrant spring flowers, delicate and lovely.
Lin Tang had a good figure, and even wearing clothes full of patches, she looked extremely charming.
Now in new clothes, she seemed like a different person.
“Beautiful!” Lin Lu gazed at his daughter, stunned momentarily, then spoke up after reacting.
Li Xiuli stood up and nodded, “Yes, it’s beautiful, so beautiful she doesn’t even look like a girl from our village.”
Lin Qingmu proudly said, “Of course, my sister is the prettiest girl…”
While speaking, he glanced at the old cloth shoes on Lin Tang’s feet and pursed his lips.
“…When third brother makes some money, I’ll also buy Tangtang a pair of little leather shoes to wear.” Just like those female comrades from the county.
His sister was so beautiful; she would certainly look even better in little leather shoes.
Lin Tang smiled thinly, looking up at her third brother with an unwitting joy in her eyes.
“Alright, then I’ll wait for the little leather shoes third brother buys me!”
She appeared very confident in Lin Qingmu.
Lin Qingmu looked at his sister’s cute appearance, his mouth curling into a happy grin.
His mind turned to the good things up in the mountains.
This year, he would definitely catch more scorpions and cicada shells and the like.
If luck was on his side and he found some good herbal medicine, that would be even better.