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

Faced with her son's earnest words, Gu Jin was indeed somewhat swayed.

She's used to suppressing her feelings her whole life.

Now that I'm considering the bigger picture, it seems like it's not a big deal to compromise myself this once.

Moreover, while eating with the children, Xu Huaishan and I still lived in separate rooms...

Just as she was starting to waver, she heard Wen Tang say, "If you really want to take care of your aunt, cousin, why don't you cook a meal for her every day? We'll all praise you for being such a filial son."

Xu Ancheng became anxious upon hearing this, "Then what does it resemble?"

"Won't others laugh at us if they see this?"

Wen Tang laughed and said, "Cousin, what are you saying? Serving your own mother a bowl of rice, people will only say you're being filial, how could they laugh at you?"

Xu Ancheng simply said matter-of-factly, "My mother is perfectly healthy. If she were unwell, I would definitely bring her food every day."

"Does feeling uncomfortable count?" Wen Tang asked matter-of-factly.

Xu Ancheng "..."

Gu Jin's wavering heart was completely calmed by the conversation between her niece-in-law and son.

She said to Xu Ancheng, "If you really feel ashamed of me, it's okay. You don't have to say that I gave birth to you when you go out in the future. Just say that you popped out of a rock."

“If that still doesn’t work, you can get a certificate from the brigade, a certificate severing parent-child ties. Don’t worry, I won’t need you to support me in my old age,” Gu Jin said resolutely.

Xu Ancheng panicked, "No, Mother, I... I didn't say anything!"

Wen Tang nodded, "Yes, my cousin just felt that my aunt is so old, and she's making a fuss about separating from my uncle, so that you'll be laughed at by others."

"Let's leave that aside for now. Anyway, those people wouldn't dare laugh at you to your face."

"Most importantly, my aunt suddenly stopped listening to my uncle, and the family's relationship, which had been balanced for decades, suddenly became unbalanced."

“A perfectly good family with more men than women has suddenly started to shift towards more women than men. Originally, you were just doing farm work, and the work at home was none of your business.”

"Even though you don't hold official positions outside, you're all the big shots at home!"

"As a result of my aunt's resistance, you gentlemen who are supposed to stay away from the kitchen have started circling around the stove. How can this be allowed!"

"So you have to persuade your aunt to continue her previous life."

“She can live in a room by herself, but she can’t cook by herself. What’s that called… ‘better to die than to die, fellow Daoist,’” Wen Tang said, tapping his head.

"After all, it doesn't matter if your aunt and uncle are angry, but it's very important that it affects your three meals a day."

Xu Ancheng "..."

Although Wen Tang's words were sarcastic, it must be said that what she said was indeed what Xu Ancheng was thinking.

Xu Ancheng scratched his head, unable to lift it.

Zhang Fen looked at her husband and snorted angrily, "So all you men are human, but we're not?

"If you don't want to cook, do laundry, or take care of the house after you come back from work, how did my sister-in-law, my second sister-in-law, and I do it before?"

"You can't even handle doing this for one day?"

Wang Ying and Lin Juan glared angrily at Xu Ancheng at this moment, while Gu Jin acted as if she had never given birth to him, looking at him with indifference and disdain.

Xu Ancheng "..."

So he's caught in the middle, right?

He did all the work, yet he was still labeled the most heartless one.

Xu Ancheng thought to himself, "If I had known, I wouldn't have come back to cook."

Xu Ancheng was a little angry, but he didn't dare to say anything. In the end, he just mumbled, "I'm going to cook."

He also asked, "Yanli, Aunt, why don't you have lunch here? I'll steam some extra rice."

Zhong Meixian quickly said, "No need to prepare our meal. We just came to see your mother. We'll sit for a while and then leave right away."

Xu Ancheng didn't say anything more and went to the kitchen dejectedly.

Seeing him like this, Zhong Meixian couldn't help but say, "Ancheng is a good kid. He knows how to talk, he's observant, and he's friendly to everyone."

“Yes, after all, they are the ones who carry on the family line, so of course they’re great if they’re not stupid!” Wen Tang added.

"You silly child," Zhong Meixian couldn't help but scold her this time.

Wen Tang shrugged. "Isn't that right?"

"Which girl in the family doesn't have chores to do?"

"I haven't seen anyone get praised!"

"Why do men get praised for doing housework?"

She pointed at Zhang Fen and said, "Look at Third Sister-in-law, she has to take care of the child, do housework, and cook. Why don't you praise her?"

Zhong Meixian was speechless.

Zhang Fen's eyes reddened because of Wen Tang's words. Yes, she had to take care of the child and do housework all by herself. Because taking care of the child was not considered hard work in everyone's eyes, every time she cooked with her two sisters-in-law, they would imply that she was being lazy.

She told Xu Ancheng that he always said she was overthinking things.

I never considered her difficulties.

So this time, Zhang Fen was the first to nod and say, "Sister-in-law, you're right."

Zhang Fen hugged her child tightly and said, "If there is an afterlife, I also want to be a man."

"It's so good to be a man. As long as you finish the work in the fields, you don't have to worry about housework or children."

“You don’t need to have children yet,” Wen Tang added.

Zhang Fen nodded hurriedly, "Yes, yes, when I gave birth, it was so painful."

After Xu Ancheng scooped rice into the kitchen with a winnowing basket, he stood at the kitchen doorway with the basket, seemingly picking out dirt from the rice, but actually secretly listening to Wen Tang and the others talking.

He always felt that after his cousin's wife left, life would be even harder for the three of them.

When Wen Tang heard Zhang Fen say that childbirth was painful, she told her, "That's why we women have to take care of ourselves."

"When looking for a man, you should find one who can do laundry, cook, and do all the housework."

"If you don't have any standards in life, then others will be the ones choosing you."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Fen and her two sisters-in-law all turned to look at Xu Ancheng, who was standing at the kitchen door picking up rice.

Xu Ancheng "..."

Wen Tang also said, "Only under the iron fist can good men emerge. Sometimes we women are just too gentle."

Xu Ancheng "..."

He looked anxiously at Gu Yanli, his own cousin.

Gu Yanli calmly shifted his gaze away, neither looking at her nor at his cousins, which was tantamount to acknowledging his wife's words.

Wang Ying couldn't help but say, "Those men are stronger than us. If they really hit us, we wouldn't be able to beat them."

Chi Yue couldn't hold back any longer. "He hit you! Why would you stay with a man like that?"

"Three-legged toads are hard to find in this world, but two-legged men are hard to find?"

There are plenty of men in this world, okay?

Wen Tang nodded in agreement, "To put it bluntly, it's because we haven't had enough husbands."

Gu Yanli “…”

Ok?

Have you not found enough husbands?

How many is she planning to find?

Taking advantage of being menstruating, are you acting recklessly?

Gu Jin: Sure enough, we can't let her niece-in-law and grandniece-in-law meet with our three daughters-in-law. If they do, they'll all be led astray.

But that doesn't matter now!