When Song Fang returned, the kitchen had already finished bustling, and the guests were seated at the table.
Song Fang walked directly toward the table where the women were sitting.
In front of the guests, Granny Song couldn’t ask her anything and just told her to sit down for a meal.
Song Fang picked up her bowl and secretly glanced at Wen Wan, who was sitting beside her mother, feeling secretly shocked.
If she hadn’t seen it with her own eyes today, she could be beaten to death and still wouldn’t believe that this little sister-in-law, who usually appears delicate and soft, is actually someone with a backbone. Just like a kitten, if you don’t provoke it, it stays quiet and gentle, letting you love and cherish it. But if you accidentally step on its tail, it immediately fluffs up, extending sharp claws, and won’t stop until it scratches bloody lines on you.
Song Fang thought that maybe because the little sister-in-law couldn’t speak, she was always quiet, which gave people the mistaken impression that she was weak and easy to bully.
Wen Wan noticed that Song Fang kept looking at her, so she looked back, slightly raising a smile, her eyes clean and innocent, with a delicate and pretty face. It was hard to associate her with the little cat that fluffed up in the kitchen just now.
"Why aren’t you eating properly? What are you doing?" Granny Song glanced at Song Fang.
Song Fang immediately withdrew her gaze, lowered her head, and poked at her bowl with chopsticks, not feeling very hungry.
The others were eating to their fill, and after finishing, they didn’t leave, just sat at the table chatting away.
When women in the countryside gather together, there’s always gossip. After chatting about one family, they talk about another, saliva flying everywhere, and when they hit key points, there’s uproarious laughter, sounding even more lively than bargaining at the market.
Wen Wan didn’t like crowded places, so she put down her bowl and chopsticks to return to her room, only to hear a woman opposite shift the topic to herself.
Wen Wan glanced at her; it was a family member, whom she should call Aunt.
Aunt Song was speaking while looking at Granny Song, "Your family’s Third Lang’s wife has been in the family for several months now. Why hasn’t there been any sign from her belly yet? If there’s any problem with her health, Second Sister-in-law, just tell me, I know an old lady who specializes in treating this kind of issue, guaranteed effective!"
Granny Song knew very well; ever since Wen Wan married into the Song family, these family ladies’ mouths hadn’t stopped, gossiping endlessly in private. At this table, they weren’t truly concerned about Wen Wan but were trying to get her, as the mother-in-law, to give a definite answer, so they could have something funny to chat about during their idle time.
Granny Song lifted her eyelids and looked at the woman, speaking indifferently, "Not everyone has the good fortune you do. The eldest is just three months old, and the second one’s already in the belly, even more efficient than the old sow in my pen. You finding that old lady, is it possibly to help you sterilize so you bear fewer litters?"
The others couldn’t help but want to laugh.
To get pregnant with a second child right after giving birth to the first, how impetuous and impatient must one be to cling on to a man?
The woman didn’t expect Granny Song to be so direct in her rebuttal, making her so angry her heart ached, unable to keep her face, "If Second Sister-in-law speaks , then we won’t even be sisters-in-law anymore."
Granny Song let out a dry laugh, "All around these villages, tons of people want to be sisters-in-law with me. More or less one like you hasn’t brought fortune to my family, less than one from you wouldn’t mean I’m losing a piece of flesh."
The other women at the table fell silent, afraid to get involved themselves.
In these nearby villages, if talking about whose mouth is the most venomous, most ruthless at throwing insults, it’s none other than Granny Song. Getting a verbal blow from her can bring yesterday’s meal back up.
Wen Wan listened silently, swallowing her saliva in shock.
Other people’s mothers-in-law for the sake of appearances would laugh and say all kinds of good words in front of outsiders, why is it that when it comes to her, her mother-in-law is the complete opposite?