Best friends transmigrate into a book! They marry a high-ranking official! If you run, I run too!

Such a young girl, holding a baby in one arm and grabbing something in the other.

It seemed that Wen Tang needed to free up his hands to pick up something, so it was hard for him not to lend a helping hand.

Hearing Wen Tang's words, Wang Xiaohui turned to look at Wen Tang, then smiled shyly and said, "Then I'll trouble you."

After handing the child over to Wen Tang, Wang Xiaohui finally had a free hand. She reached into her pocket and pulled out two eggs, which she placed on the kitchen counter with embarrassment. "Auntie, could you please ask Brother Jing Shen to help me write a couplet?"

Gu Jinfeng quickly stopped her, "You child, look at you, why are you being so polite?"

"We're not strangers here. Just take the things over there. Tell Jing Shen what you want to write. Why are you being so formal?"

Although Gu Jinfeng said that, Wang Xiaohui still put the eggs in an empty bowl and refused to take them back. "Auntie, if you don't want them, I'll be too embarrassed to write the couplets."

“If I take the couplet back exactly as it was, my mother-in-law will definitely scold me, saying that I can’t even do such a small thing right.”

Wen Tang "..."

Wang Xiaohui's baby was only three months old, tiny and chubby, with dark grape-like eyes staring at Wen Tang and Chi Yuewang, but very well-behaved and didn't cry.

The child is a bit thin.

Wen Tang looked at Wang Xiaohui. The mother wasn't fat either, so it was understandable that the child was thin.

Think about it, what kind of decent family would allow a new mother, barely 100 days old, to go out in the cold at the end of the year, with a bunch of idle people at home, to hold her baby in one arm and red paper in the other, to find someone to write couplets?

It would be strange if a child could gain weight living in a house like that with their mother!

Wen Tang couldn't hold back her words. As soon as Wang Xiaohui said, "My mother-in-law blames her," Wen Tang immediately asked, "Isn't there anyone else in your family who can breathe?"

Wang Xiaohui was taken aback by this question.

Gu Jinfeng then asked in a gentler tone, "Where is your mother-in-law?"

"And what about Jinghui?"

"Jinghui is cleaning fish."

"Grandma, Grandma and her three sisters-in-law are steaming rice cakes together."

"Didn't you steam it yesterday?" Gu Jinfeng asked.

Wang Xiaohui shook her head, then gave a wry smile, "I'm the only one with nothing to do, so Mom sent me here."

The phrase "idle person" was also uttered by Lin Si Niang.

Lin Si Niang asked Wang Xiao Hui to bring red paper to Lin Jing Shen to write couplets, but Lin Si Die also disagreed.

After all, they had a child with them. Wouldn't people say they were bullying someone if they saw them?

Lin Si's father and mother had four sons and one daughter. Apart from their eldest daughter who was already married, the four sons had not yet separated from the family. Their family was quite large.

In this situation, to make a newlywed woman holding a baby find someone to write couplets is nothing short of bullying.

But Lin Si Niang retorted with a single sentence: "She's the only one with nothing to do, if she doesn't go, who will?"

With a large family, Wang Xiaohui basically doesn't need to do things like steaming buns or frying dough sticks.

She has a child to take care of, and she has to feed the child all the time. She also has to wash diapers when the child poops or peees. One child is enough to keep her busy.

Others were too embarrassed to call her.

It's embarrassing to shout, but even if it's embarrassing to shout, those who do the work can't help but complain.

The other daughters-in-law complained that Lin Si Niang, the mother-in-law, was not one to just listen, so she couldn't stand seeing Wang Xiao Hui idle.

Wang Xiaohui, who also had a strong sense of self-respect, held her child, took the cut-out paper, put the eggs in her pocket, and went out.

Wen Tang was stunned by Wang Xiaohui's words. "Did your mother-in-law get out of bed right after giving birth?"

“Otherwise,” Wen Tang gestured to the way Wang Xiaohui had entered the room, holding a child in one hand and a red paper in the other, unable to even take an egg out of her pocket with her other hand, “how could she have the nerve to say such things about idle people?”

Wang Xiaohui initially felt only bitterness, but when Wen Tang spoke up and said something that stood by her side, Wang Xiaohui's eyes reddened.

Her eyes reddened, and Wen Tang felt embarrassed. How could she have made someone cry?

Wen Tang quickly took out some still-warm sunflower seeds from her pocket and gave them to Wang Xiaohui, "Eat...eat some sunflower seeds."

She's usually quite eloquent, but when faced with the tears of a delicate girl, she becomes tongue-tied.

Gu Jinfeng quickly brought out a stool for her, "Come on, Xiaohui, sit down for a while."

Zhong Meixian also said, "That's right, let's sit for a while, it's still early!"

Wang Xiaohui took the melon seeds from Wen Tang, then took the stool from Gu Jinfeng, and sat down.

While cracking sunflower seeds, Wang Xiaohui forced back the tears welling up in her eyes.

Then she couldn't help but say, "Mom doesn't like me. She says I'm slow and clumsy."

"And then she did it for you?" Wen Tang asked.

Wang Xiaohui shook her head, "Mom still complains that I gave birth to a girl."

"They said I'm unlucky."

Wen Tang "..."

Feudal remnants, feudal remnants!

"Isn't she a woman herself?"

“Isn’t she also born of a woman?” Chi Yue couldn’t help but say.

Wen Tang nodded, "That's right. According to her, neither she nor her mother are blessed?"

Wang Xiaohui quickly shook her head and smiled timidly, "I dare not say that, otherwise I'm afraid she'll scold me to death."

“You can scold her too,” Wen Tang blurted out, not thinking there was anything wrong with what she said.

Zhong Meixian sat there, quietly reciting "Amitabha" in her heart. "Guanyin Bodhisattva, you've really put me in a bind."

Fortunately, she learned her lesson early on and gave in, otherwise, at her age, she would still be being insulted by people bringing up her deceased mother...

Zhong Meixian thought that there was already an extra grave in the southern area.

Amitabha!

After Wen Tang said, "You can scold her too," Wang Xiaohui immediately shrank back and smiled sheepishly, "I don't dare."

Gu Jinfeng said, "Xiao Hui is an honest child."

"And he's not very old, only nineteen. He'll be twenty after the New Year!"

Wen Tang nodded. "No wonder."

"Her mother-in-law is just taking advantage of her young age!"

Gu Jinfeng dared not respond to these words.

It would be better if these words didn't reach Lin Si Niang's ears. If they did, she might come to argue with him!

Not wanting to get involved in this conversation, Gu Jinfeng glanced at the child in Wen Tang's arms and said, "Is the child about a hundred days old?"

When the topic of children came up, Wang Xiaohui's eyes lit up a bit, then she shook her head, "Not yet, they won't arrive until after the New Year!"

Wen Tang tactfully returned the child to Wang Xiaohui, who then showed the child to Gu Jinfeng.

Gu Jinfeng looked closely and said, "This child takes after you, fair-skinned," then touched her hand, "but not very chubby. Xiaohui, is it because your breast milk isn't good?"

When the topic of breast milk came up, Wang Xiaohui's eyes dimmed again.

Their family hasn't separated yet; the whole family eats together from the same pot. The family's food rations and money are all controlled by the mother-in-law, Qiu Yuefang. What they eat on a daily basis is entirely up to Qiu Yuefang. Qiu Yuefang is stingy; the men and grandsons can eat eggs, but the daughters-in-law and granddaughters cannot, including Qiu Yuefang herself, a new mother, who is also forbidden from eating them during her postpartum period.

When she gave birth, her family came to give her gifts: two chickens, thirty eggs, and six packets of brown sugar. Qiu Yuefang took four packets of brown sugar and fifteen eggs.