Chapter 43: Chapter 43 Can Deal with Them Chapter 43: Chapter 43 Can Deal with Them Although Zhao Tianlei’s house was several steps away from the neighbors’, when Mrs. Wang came striding over with her two granddaughters, the scene was still witnessed by others.
“Wang Laowu’s mother is looking for Auntie, just wanted to let Auntie know,” said a six or seven-year-old child, dropping this message before going to find Yun Xiaoxiao and the other two.
They were on their way out when he saw them, going to gather bamboo sheaths to start a fire.
This was usually a task for the children of the house.
Yun Xiaoxiao, leading the two little ones to the bamboo forest, asked, “Can you two pick up bamboo sheaths? Mom will go over to the hillside to see if there are any wild fruits, okay?”
“Then be careful, Mom, Xiao Bao and I will diligently collect firewood,” they replied.
Snacks and such could be explained to the kids as being mailed by the female supporting character’s parents, but how to explain the fruit?
If mailed from so far away, it would have spoiled on the road long ago.
Yun Xiaoxiao took her basket and walked further into the mountain, hid herself at the base of a low hill, pulled out her phone, and bought Northeast physalis, blueberries, and mixed color cherry tomatoes—a whole basketful—before heading back to the bamboo forest.
“Auntie, Auntie, Wang Laowu’s mother brought people to your house looking for you; they saw you weren’t home and even kicked at your door a few times.”
Bringing people over?
Does she seem easy to bully?
“Thanks for letting me know, here, I’ve got some wild fruits I found over here, grab a handful for yourself,” she said.
Are there such wild fruits in the mountains?
How come he didn’t know about it?
Someone had come looking for Mom.
“Don’t worry, if they dare to come over, I can handle Wang Laowu, and I can handle them too.”
What’s there to fear?
The four of them returned together.
“Auntie, I’m going to head back first,” said the little boy, clutching a pocketful of wild fruits as he left.
“Come eat some wild fruits…”
“Mom, this one’s really sweet…”
“And this one is sweet too…”
Da Bao and Xiao Bao, still young, remembered their father Zhao Tianlei’s words well—not to go into the mountains to look for these wild fruits.
“Don’t eat too many though.” She washed a plateful for the two brothers and stored the rest of the fruits properly.
“We’ll go pick some vegetables.” Since they were hosting their in-laws for lunch, they couldn’t just have one dish, could they?
Eggplants and potatoes were bought earlier.
They would make do with those.
After returning home with the two little ones, they got busy. Da Bao sat obediently in the kitchen helping with the fire, and Xiao Bao patiently sat on the long bench, the two brothers sharing fruit with each other and offering some to Yun Xiaoxiao, who refused.
Braised pork belly with potatoes.
But before she had finished cooking, Mrs. Wang arrived again with her granddaughter.
“Open up, open up, you little whore, daring to bully my son, let’s see if you have the guts to open this door…”
That voice set off a surge of alertness in both Da Bao and Xiao Bao’s eyes.
“Da Bao, watch the fire, Mom will go have a look,” Yun Xiaoxiao said, scooping a ladle of water into the pot and covering it before turning to go outside.
“Mom…” Da Bao wanted to say that Mom alone couldn’t handle those shrews.
“Mom, I’ll go call Grandma in a moment…”
Yun Xiaoxiao ruffled Xiao Bao’s hair, curious to see what kind of shrew this would be.
“Open up, you little whore, gave birth to a son without an asshole…”
The trash talk from the woman outside didn’t stop.
Mrs. Wang was just like her son, a bully to the weak and afraid of the strong.