Chapter 70: Jiaojiao is spoiled by the rough man

She could only feel that in the Xu family, it seemed that only the eldest sister Xu Lan was truly kind to Xu Yan.

"How long have you been waiting here?" Suddenly, a familiar voice sounded in Su Wanwan's ears.

She turned her head and found Xu Yan standing in front of her.

"No... I just came over." Su Wanwan smiled awkwardly, lowered her head, her eyes fell on the box in her hand.

"I just rode out of the mountains on my bike. Why didn't you call me?" Xu Yan exposed Su Wanwan's concealment without hesitation. This was the first time he had laughed in such a long time.

The early morning sunlight shone on the back wall of the clinic and onto Su Wanwan's fair face.

After being exposed, Su Wanwan's embarrassment disappeared, and she pushed the box in her hand forward: "Because there are so many people, I'm afraid of being misunderstood, so I've been waiting here. Here... this is for you."

"what?"

The wooden box made a "click" sound when it was opened, and the money Xu Yan gave Su Wanwan in the mountains last night was all in the box.

"Your father suddenly fell ill, so it must cost a lot of money, right? I can't help you much, but this is the money I earned from selling herbs in the mountains."

Xu Yan stared at the money in the wooden box and seemed to be stunned for a while, "Are you sure you want to give it to me?"

"Of course, I've hunted a lot of wild boars before and saved some money. Take these first. If it's not enough, I have more here. I won't say more to you now. I have to go home quickly, otherwise my mother will be worried."

Su Wanwan said goodbye to Xu Yan and without taking time to look at his expression, she carefully trotted all the way back home from the clinic.

As soon as she opened the door to the yard, she smelled the aroma of pork stewed with vermicelli, and her mood suddenly became very good. She touched her slightly deflated stomach and jumped into the kitchen in two steps.

"Are you up?"

In the kitchen, Zhao Ying and her eldest sister-in-law Jiang Shuzhen were busy preparing breakfast. The children were also being taken to the east room by their third sister-in-law Jiang Panhua to get dressed and wash up.

No one in the family seemed to notice that she had slipped out that morning.

"Mom, sister-in-law, today's vermicelli is so delicious!"

"Why don't you wash your hands and prepare the table after you smell the fragrance?" Zhao Ying lifted the lid of the pot. The aroma of vermicelli and pork immediately attracted several children from the next room. They couldn't wait to run over before they even put on their clothes.

Su Wanwan returned to the room, simply packed the bag she was going to carry to the radio station, and then was the first to sit down at the dining table.

"Shuzhen, what are your plans for today?"

As my mother and sister-in-law Jiang Shuzhen continued to bring pots and bowls to the table, several children could not wait to start knocking on the bowls.

"Just eat, why are you banging the bowl like a beggar?"

Zhao Ying placed the last dish of egg sauce on the table and glanced at the children.

Although it is called egg sauce, there is actually almost no egg in it. It is more of a sauce made from unwanted crops.

If it weren’t for my mother Zhao Ying’s excellent cooking skills, this sauce would be simply inedible.

"Mom, our children are still young. You shouldn't be so strict all the time. What if they are afraid of you in the future?" Third sister-in-law Jiang Panhua patted the children on the head a few times, and her words showed her dissatisfaction with her mother-in-law Zhao Ying.

Even Su Wanwan could hear the hidden meaning in her words. She just wanted to tell her mother-in-law Zhao Ying that these children would provide for the family in their old age when they grew up. If she offended the children now and made them dislike her, then there would be no one to provide for her in her old age in the future.

"If children are not educated from an early age, when will they be educated? Do we have to wait until they grow up and commit crimes before letting the police educate them?"

Zhao Ying knew the character of the third daughter-in-law better than anyone present, and she was merciless in her words.

"Okay, talk less. Can't even food shut you up?" The third brother Su Di didn't understand at first, but he soon understood and quickly patted his wife's legs under the table.

"Mom, I'll go to the river to wash our clothes later." When the dinner table finally quieted down and Zhao Ying had distributed the meat in the pot to everyone, sister-in-law Jiang Shuzhen answered Zhao Ying's question.

"If you go to the river to wash clothes, what should I do? Haven't I always been responsible for washing our family's clothes?"

Third sister-in-law Jiang Panhua had just been quiet for a few seconds when she started shouting again.

After all, his job was taken away.

Su Di was helpless towards his daughter-in-law: "Do you want to eat or not?"

"Ah, then I won't go to the river to wash clothes. I'll go to the production team in the morning to see if they need any help."

It is not a particularly busy farming season right now, and the production team does not always need extra manpower.

Staring at the pork that always filled her bowl, Su Wanwan pondered for a moment.

She had been thinking these days that the men in the village naturally went to work in the production team's fields every day. Even if there was not much work in the fields, there was always other things to do.

But apart from washing clothes, cooking, and occasionally helping with weaving and working in the fields, the women in the village have no long-term jobs.

Putting down the chopsticks, Su Wanwan looked up at Zhao Ying and said, "Mom, if I find some work for you and my sister-in-law, what will you do?"

"That's great. When she's not too busy, she doesn't have to go to the fields. She can just sit at home doing nothing all day. The children are all grown up, so she doesn't have to look after them all the time." Zhao Ying turned around and looked at Su Wanwan approvingly, her eyes almost smiling.

"Okay, I'll look for it in the next few days. If there's a job that's suitable for our family, it would be good to earn some extra money to supplement the family income."

"Wanwan is still sensible and considerate of the family, but you should not be too tired. Our family can still live a decent life because of you."

As Zhao Ying spoke, she tried to put the meat in her bowl into Su Wanwan's bowl as well. Su Wanwan was so scared that she quickly covered her hand.

"Mom, don't you know that eating too much meat will make it difficult for the body to digest it? I can't finish all the remaining pieces of meat, so you can eat them for me." After saying that, Su Wanwan directly gave the two remaining pieces of meat in her bowl to Zhao Ying, and walked out with the bag.

Even if Zhao Ying wanted to give it to her again, she couldn't.

"You kid..."

"My younger sister's abilities are getting stronger and stronger. She wants to do something that even the village chief can't do." Jiang Panhua had been scolded by her husband and mother-in-law before dinner. Although her voice was much softer this time, the sarcastic tone was still clearly audible.

"Can you please shut up? Isn't my sister doing this for our family?" Su Di threw the bowl in his hand onto the table and his face immediately darkened.

Seeing this scene on the table, Zhao Ying's headache came back again.