Chapter 16

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Translator: Alyssa

Editor: Sei

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When Xu Nannan returned home, the Xu family had already started cooking. Coal is already burning in the city, and Xu Jiansheng works in the mine, so naturally, there are no shortage of coal. Li Jing usually uses coal for cooking and stir-fry, and without the need to burn wood, one person can cook for a large table of food. But today is different, Xu Xiaoman obediently washes the vegetables next to her, squatting down with her sleeves rolled up, she seemed very cute.

It stands to reason that Xu Xiaoman is already nine years old, and it is normal for her to help the family. Xu Nannan didn’t think it was a good thing to be used to children. But seeing Xu Xiaoman working on the side while Xu Hong and Xu Meizi are doing their homework on the bench on the dining hall, her whole body didn’t feel good.

“Xiaoman, come here.” She didn’t quarrel with Li Jing, and directly called Xiaoman over.

Xu Xiaoman heard that Xu Nannan was back, and immediately ran over with joy, “Sister, when did you come back?”

“Just now,”

“Sister, is it fun in the city?” Xu Xiaoman asked curiously.

“It’s fun, next time I enter the city, I’ll take you for a good stroll.” She will be rich by then, and she have a good relationship with Xu Gensheng’s family, and it will be convenient for her to enter the city in the future. However, she will not use it to find Xu Jiansheng and his wife. She can take Xiaoman to play around the city by themselves.

“Xiaoman, what are you doing? You are here to work!” Li Jing yelled from the kitchen.

Xu Xiaoman’s face changed, and she was about to go back in the kitchen when Xu Nannan directly took her arm, “Leave her alone, we are not nobody here, go and play in the living room, and sister will stay there with you.” She directly pulled Xu Xiaoman into the living room.

Li Jing shouted for a long time, but she didn’t see anyone in the dining hall. When she came out to check, Xu Xiaoman’s figure was long gone.

Xu Hong said, “Auntie, Erya just came back, so she didn’t let Siya work. I don’t know what Erya thinks. I want to go out for a day without work, and I don’t let Xiaoman do it. They don’t understand the hard work of my auntie. If I didn’t have to do my homework, I would have helped my auntie.”

Upon hearing this, Li Jing’s face became colorful.

Xu Meizi said on the side, “Auntie, don’t be angry. After I finish my homework, I will come over and help you work immediately.”

“There’s no need, you guys just have to do your homework well. I just can’t believe this. I don’t believe that I can’t restrain these girls anymore.” Li Jing tore the apron from her body. It fell directly to the ground, and she hurriedly walked to the living room, angrily.

Upon seeing this, Xu Hong covered her mouth and smiled, winking at Xu Meizi. Xu Meizi pretended that she hadn’t seen it, and continued to work on her homework blankly.

Li Jing entered the living room, already holding a thin wooden strip in her hand.

Xu Nannan and Xu Xiaoman were sitting on the couch. Seeing her come in, Xu Nannan placed Xu Xiaoman directly behind her and looked at Li Jing coldly.

“Come out to me, little bastard, you turned the sky upside down. No wonder your grandma hates you so much. It turns out that you don’t have any virtues and you deserve to be hated by your grandma.”

Xu Nannan smiled and said, “Mom, you are wrong about that. The reason why my grandma dislikes me is because I was born to a maid. My grandma often says that the child born to a maid is to have a maid’s life and deserves to be a servant. I didn’t believe it before. Now when I came here to see, I really believed it. Honghong and Meizi can sit, eat and drink, while Xiaoman and I have to work. Isn’t this the maid’s fate? Mom, have you not had enough being a maid yet? “

She knew it was Li Jing’s painful foot, so she said that on purpose. Li Jing wouldn’t let her feel better, and of course she wouldn’t let Li Jing feel comfortable.

“You dead girl, I will have to beat you to death today!”

Li Jing’s face was flushed and her neck was thick, and with a grim look, she hit Xu Nannan with a stick. Xu Nannan directly pulled Xu Xiaoman around the other side of the table and ran out of the door.

She shouted as she run out, “Director Zhu, my mother is abusing her own child.”

When Li Jing reacted, Xu Nannan had already pulled Xu Xiaoman to the door.

Li Jing almost fainted in anger.

At this time, everyone was cooking dinner, and they were living close to each other, so they all watched when they heard the child’s shout. Knowing that Li Jing’s family is teaching the children, they found it very strange. After all, over the years, Xu Jiansheng and his wife are well-known model couples in this mine. The Xu family has also been a top five family for several years in a row. Everyone in this family is said to be kind and friendly wherever they go, and they have never blushed. Li Jing is very good to the children. But today, it turns out that she is actually beating a child.

“She doesn’t seem to be her niece, why haven’t we seen it before?”

Someone saw Xu Nannan drag Xu Xiaoman out of the yard, and they started whispering.

“It must have been their children. I heard that their daughters came to the mine today, and they had a bad time. It is said that the children don’t even have a good dress.”

“These daughters were beaten when she came, what is Li Jing doing?”

Several people were discussing, Xu Jiansheng was also coming back with a small piece of pork. He saw the neighbors pointing to his house and walked over in confusion. When he heard Li Jing yelling inside, he saw his two daughters standing outside the yard. After being watched like a monkey, his face suddenly sank.

“Nannan, what’s going on?”

Xu Nannan and Xu Xiaoman were being talked about outside. Upon hearing Xu Jiansheng’s voice, the expression on her face immediately became very sad, “Dad, you are back. I don’t know what’s wrong with mom, she’s chasing me and Xiaoman. She wanted to hit us. Xiaoman and I are afraid to go home. Dad, we will go back to our hometown tomorrow. I know, this is not our home, after all. It’s Honghong’s home.”

He was still a little angry at first, but Xu Jiansheng felt a little sad and guilty when he heard his daughter say this. This is his daughter, who actually said that this is not her home.

This is all happened on the first day when the children arrived. What is this all about?

Xu Jiansheng walked over and reached out, leading the two children into the house, “Go home, your mother will not hit you.”

Xu Nannan didn’t dare, “My mother is still scolding inside, she’s still holding a stick in her hand.”

“I’m back, she will dare not!”

Xu Jiansheng affirmed.

“Dad, I believe you.” Xu Nannan smiled gratefully.

Seeing the girl’s smile, Xu Jiansheng felt even more uncomfortable. He sighed and let the two children in, and when he entered the yard, he closed the door gate directly to isolate the gossip outside.

In the yard, Xu Hong and Xu Meizi were giving Li Jing a comforting rub at her back. Seeing the two children coming in, she immediately picked up the stick and said, “You dare to come back?! See if I won’t beat you to death today!” If it wasn’t for fear of being seen by outsiders, she would have rushed out to give the two children a beating, especially the dead girl Nannan, who is really getting more and more out of character.

Seeing her like a shrew, Xu Jiansheng’s brows became tighter, “What’s wrong with you? The first day the child came, all the neighbors are gossiping and making fun of us. Everyone was joking about the trouble you have caused! What do you want to do?!”

Today, his anger is not going well. He held back all day and didn’t know how it happened. When he came back tonight, he was thinking of giving the children a good meal to make up for it. But instead, his usually kind wife started to curse the street. She looks very much like the old lady in the family.

“Go ask what she did!” Li Jing pointed at Xu Nannan, aggrievedly.

Xu Jiansheng looked at Xu Nannan.

Xu Nannan spread her hands, “I didn’t do anything, I just asked Xiaoman to talk to me. Mom suddenly rushed in with a stick to hit me.”

“Talking?” Li Jing snorted coldly, “There are a lot of things that should be done, yet you are still making gossip. You don’t even know how to help with work.”

Xu Nannan said innocently, “How will I know? I think Sister Honghong and Meizi are not working, Longlong and Leizi are still playing outside, how do I know there is something to do? Besides, Xiaoman and I only arrived today, It’s not our turn to work.”

Upon hearing this, Xu Jiansheng felt that Li Jing made a fuss over this matter. But in front of the children, it’s always hard to scold Li Jing. He turned his head and looked at Nannan, “Nannan, this is also your fault. Hong Hong and the others are guests, so how can we allow them to work? You can’t think about it like that in the future.”

He thinks this matter is very simple. When the guests come to the house, aren’t they all the hosts entertain them? His daughter must entertain her niece.

When Xu Hong and Xu Meizi heard this, their expressions were a little ugly. Especially Xu Hong, who bit her lip, with an unwilling look on her face.

Xu Nannan laughed angrily, “Dad, you have a problem with this. I want to ask who is more like the guests than the owner. I always thought they were the owner of this house while Xiaoman and I are guests.”

“This…” Xu Jiansheng choked for a while.

Li Jing originally thought that Xu Jiansheng was defending her, so he was going to watch Xu Jiansheng teach these two girls, but Xu Jiansheng actually considers what his daughter is saying and she became angry again for a while. “You are really an uneducated kid, even your dad is stupefied. Why are you so small and stubborn?”

“No one taught us so where would the education come from?” Xu Nannan took it for granted.

“Erya, how can you talk like this? Isn’t this hurting the heart of our parents? With so many adults in the family taking care of you two, what do you want to do? Do you know how difficult it is for uncle and auntie to live here in the city?” Xu Hong was indignant.

Xu Meizi looked at Xu Nannan guiltily, “Erya sister, if you feel angry, just throw it at me, don’t blame uncle and auntie.”

Li Jing wiped tears, “Look, they are so insensible, how come was I born with such a thing?”

Xu Long and Xu Lei also heard the movement and ran back from the outside. They saw Li Jing crying, Xu Hong and Xu Meizi were accusing Xu Nannan, and immediately joined the fight, “Erya, why are you so bad? You only came here to make trouble. When you’re not here, we all have a good time, but when you’re here, we only have trouble.” Xu Long said angrily.

He still feels distressed about the two meat buns. Auntie said that she left it for him and Xu Lei to eat at night, but Erya and Siya actually ate it.

Xu Lei also wanted to scold them, but Xu Meizi stopped him again, “Leizi, don’t quarrel with the auntie and them, go to the house and do your homework.”

Xu Lei wanted to scold someone, but his mother said that he had to listen to Meizi, or she would take him back to the country, so he didn’t dare to go there anymore. He could only go into the house with his mouth flat.

With so many to back her up, Li Jing came up immediately and wanted to yell a few words. Xu Jiansheng, who had not spoken just now, couldn’t stand it anymore, “Okay, stop making trouble! It’s time for dinner, let’s not make a fuss. Li Jing, go cook!”

“This matter is not over yet.” Li Jing was a little unconvinced.

“I said get going to cook, I was tired all day, and I couldn’t even eat hot rice when I came back.” Xu Jiansheng said with a calm face.

Seeing Xu Jiansheng’s face changed, Li Jing became a little scared. She bit her lip, and glared at Xu Nannan before going to the kitchen to cook. Xu Hong and Xu Meizi also glanced at Xu Jiansheng, feeling a little scared, and went to the kitchen with Li Jing.

Xu Jiansheng rubbed his temples, “Nannan, take Xiaoman to rest first, and I will call you for dinner later.” After that, he also entered the house.

Only Xu Xiaoman and Xu Nannan were left in the same place, as well as Xu Ling standing in the corner of the yard, too scared to move.

Xu Xiaoman looked at Xu Nannan, aggrievedly, “Sister…” She was very sad. Why should Mom be so fierce to them, but so good to Sister Honghong and the others? Just now she have been complimenting Sister Hong Hong and the others, but it turns out they hate her and sister.

Unlike her, Xu Nannan was not sad at all, at best she was a little angry. For her, Xu’s family are irrelevant people, and their attitudes are of little importance to her.

Of course, for Xiaoman, it is still very important. So Xu Nannan gently wiped her tears, “Xiaoman, have you seen it? Our parents don’t really care about us anymore. They didn’t care about us before, but now they only care about Sister Honghong and the others. From now on, you will only live with your sister. Don’t be sad.”

After listening to her, Xu Xiaoman’s tears couldn’t help streaming out. Her mouth was tightly pressed, not knowing what she was thinking.

Xu Nannan was also helpless. There were certain things that had to be recognized clearly, or else she would be more sad in the future.

“Eldest sister and second sister, stop crying and eat sweets.”

Xu Ling didn’t know why she came over. She was small, not even reaching Xu Nannan’s waist, and obviously stunted.

She stretched out her small palm with two rock candy in her palm.

Xu Nannan squatted down, “Where did the candy come from?” She didn’t believe that Li Jing was willing to give candy to the children at home. Of course, if it was someone else’s child, that might not be the case.

Xu Ling looked around with her eyes and whispered, “I took it in my mom’s room. I know where she puts the candy. I watch her put it when she sleeps at night.”

This candy was issued from the mine during the Chinese New Year to greet guests. Li Jing will take care of the family, so it is natural to save a part. Prepare to get some sugar water for the children to drink. Although she loves her nephew and niece, she is also reluctant to ruin such a good thing casually, so she hides it and feeds it to the children according to the amount, which is a long flow. Who knew that Xu Ling, who was sleeping in the same room with her, didn’t fall asleep when she put sugar in at night. She secretly remembered the place where she put sugar in, so she could help her out when she was not okay.

Xu Nannan looked at her in surprise, “You didn’t tell others.” If you let Li Jing know about this, it would be fine. She and Xiaoman will leave, but Xu Ling’s life might not be easy.

Xu Ling said proudly, “No one knows. Don’t tell them.” She stretched out her hand again, “Eat, don’t let mom see it.”

Seeing the child’s eagerness, Xu Nannan took a breath, reached out her hand to pick up a pill, and stuffed it into Xu Xiaoman’s mouth, who was still crying, “Eat something sweet and stop crying.”

Xu Ling still had a pill in the palm of her hand. Xu Nannan picked it up and stuffed it into Xu Ling’s mouth, “Sister doesn’t like sweets, you can eat it. But you should eat less in the future so you don’t get cavities.”

Xu Ling ate the candy, smiled and tilted her mouth, looking up at Xu Xiaoman, “Second sister, is it sweet?”

Xu Xiaoman wiped her tears with her sleeve and nodded, “Sweet.”

After such a disturbance, the atmosphere of dinner at night was naturally a little low. However, the two sisters Xu really enjoyed it. Especially today Xu Jiansheng returned with a piece of meat, and Li Jing especially put it in front of Xu Jiansheng. Xu Jiansheng did not move his chopsticks. Seeing that Xu Jiansheng hadn’t moved, Xu Hong and the others dared not move.

On the contrary, Xu Nannan has been picking up vegetables and meat for the two younger sisters, and she eats too much.

“Eat properly!” Li Jing said bitterly, seeing the meat less and less, and her heart hurts. She wanted to say a few words, but worried that it would make Xu Jiansheng angry. Fortunately, the two children are leaving tomorrow, and the family will be peaceful again.

After a meal, Xu Nannan and the others ate more comfortably.

After eating, Xu Jiansheng arranged a place for them to sleep. There are only two rooms in the house. Normally, his nephew and niece sleep in one, and Xu Jiansheng and Li Jing sleep with Xu Ling in the other. Now that there are two more people, they can only squeeze a bed with Xu Hong and the others.

Xu Nannan didn’t say anything, and laid on the bed directly to occupy the main position. “Xiaoman, sleep.”

Upon seeing this, Xu Hong looked at Li Jing aggrievedly. Li Jing changed her expression angrily. She shouted a few words, and saw that Xu Nannan hadn’t moved. “Sleep like this first, they will have to leave tomorrow, and be wronged all night. Your uncle is tired today, let him rest.”

Hearing Li Jing’s words, Xu Hong could only grit her teeth and sat on the edge of the bed unwillingly.

The country folks are very dirty and she doesn’t know if there are fleas on them.

On the other side, after Li Jing returned to the room, she was still very upset. She’s been talking about Xu Nannan’s trouble today.

Xu Jiansheng remained silent, and said after a while, “Okay, but why are you like this to our girl? You are usually good to Honghong, but why are you not with Nannan?”

He also found out today that Li Jing seemed to have a wrong attitude towards the child. In the past, Li Jing and his children rarely met. Every time he was in the countryside, she didn’t communicate. He still didn’t like to see it. He thought that because of the lack of space, Li Jing had no chance to be nice to the children. After all, Li Jing was so good to his nephews and nieces, yes. Their child shouldn’t be anything different. But today Li Jing’s attitude towards the children is far too different from that towards Honghong in peacetime.

TL Note: That end of chapter 16

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