"What’s the fuss over a bowl of sweet tea?" Wang Jiao grumbled, "I used to drink sweet tea before, you never said anything. Why now, you’re not willing to give it to me? Do you think your daughter-in-law having a grandson is important and not your own daughter? I’m injured, why can’t I drink some sweet tea? If it wasn’t for you forcing me to marry into the Lu Family, would I be hiding at my grandmother’s house and getting my head battered?"
"Did you only drink one bowl of sweet tea? Why are there six eggs missing from the twenty I had painstakingly saved?"
She nearly fainted when she saw that six eggs had been used for a sugar and egg concoction that was left on the stove.
Meanwhile, she thought of the jewelry stolen by her daughter, paining her heart deeply.
Wang Zhengguo held back his wife who was about to strike their daughter, "Alright, don’t get angry. It’s not worth it if you upset yourself over this. Tomorrow, I’ll think of a way to get some brown sugar."
Miao Fengqin snorted, "Do you think brown sugar is easy to buy? If it was, I wouldn’t have treated it like a treasure. Life isn’t easy for Qingxue, Lu Jiang sent her sugar tickets because he wanted her to nourish her health. Can we really keep accepting such scarce goods from her? Once Lu Jiang returns and they get married, they’ll need to have a child. Qingxue has been malnourished since she was young, if she doesn’t properly nourish her health, when will she be able to have a child? Moreover, it’s inevitable that she and Lu Jiang will spend a lot of time apart."
Because of what Miao Fengqin said, Wang Zhengguo refused to accept the bag of red dates brought by Feng Qingxue the next day.
"Your aunt made a lot of sense yesterday, you keep this brown sugar and red dates to nourish your health. Try to take care of yourself before Lu Jiang returns. Your cousin is thick-skinned and tough, she’s been able to eat and drink plentifully since she was a child. She doesn’t need to replenish her health."
Feng Qingxue suppressed her doubts and smiled, "Uncle, I’m fine now. My cousin has lost a lot of blood, she needs to replenish."
There were a lot of red dates stored in her space, most are as large as walnuts. To not attract attention, she deliberately selected some small, thick-fleshed red dates, which also are a variety of red dates.
"No need for replenishment!" Wang Zhengguo waved his hand, "She’s my own daughter, I won’t treat her unfairly."
Feng Qingxue had no choice but to take it back, and, out of sight, quickly gave them to Fengqin’s second aunt.
"Didn’t my sister-in-law just give birth? These are the red dates Uncle Wang gave me. Auntie can give them to sister-in-law for recovery."
"Oh my, how could we accept this? You had secretly given me two bags of brown sugar and thirty eggs the day after your sister-in-law gave birth, asking me not to make a fuss about it, and now you’re giving me the red dates from your uncle." Fengqin’s second aunt felt extremely awkward. She hadn’t been of any help to her niece but instead had accepted many rare items from her.
"Auntie, don’t say that. Aren’t we using the firewood that Uncle Second brought? In the winter, Uncle Second and my brothers helped me clear the snow and fix the roof, all tasks that I couldn’t do. I’ll have to trouble Uncle Second and my brothers in the future!"
With Feng Qingxue’s words, Fengqin’s second aunt no longer declined, also because she genuinely wanted to let her daughter-in-law recover.
Life is hard, and malnutrition is prevalent. The more you supplement, the more breast milk there will be, and the newest grandson in the family can have plenty to eat and grow fat.