They've all separated, so what does it matter to me if they get poorer and poorer?

Chapter 357 Sister-in-law
Dinner was a very lavish meal.

Xu Zhichun personally cooked a variety of dishes, including stewed chicken with wild mushrooms, chicken and potato, stir-fried pork belly with green peppers, steamed pork ribs with rice flour, scrambled eggs with chives, and hot and sour shredded potatoes.

She hadn't actually planned to cook so many dishes, but she had something on her mind and was feeling very confused. She subconsciously avoided the kitchen and needed to have something to do, so before she knew it, she had cooked so many dishes.

So when the food was served, Qin Qing, the old nanny, dutifully "praised" her mistress, saying with a smile, "Master, these are all dishes cooked by the mistress herself. In the past, we only cooked so many dishes during festivals. It's clear how happy the mistress is that you've returned!"

Xu Zhichun: "."

Granny, you really don't need to say all that!

There's no need to cook so many dishes on a regular basis.

Isn't it good enough to have three simple meals a day?

Xu Zhichun couldn't let Granny Qin perform a solo act, so she could only smile and say, "These are all home-style dishes, no trouble at all."

Liang Minglang nodded: "Thank you for your hard work."

Liang Mingxuan laughed, "Brother, my sister-in-law's cooking is amazing! You should try it. Especially this braised chicken with potatoes and the hot and sour shredded potatoes. These potatoes were bought by my sister-in-law by chance from a merchant from out of town. Our village planted a lot last year, and it was a bumper harvest. They were incredibly delicious. Magistrate Lu even praised my sister-in-law and recommended her for credit. Because of these and the sweet potatoes, the imperial court bestowed upon my sister-in-law the title of 'Merciful Lady' and rewarded her handsomely. Everyone in our village admires my sister-in-law immensely, and people from other villages are envious. However, sweet potatoes aren't easy to cook; they're best steamed."

When Liang Minglang questioned Granny Qin about these matters before, Granny Qin had already boasted and told him everything.

Hearing her younger brother's words, she didn't show any surprise or shock, but she still gave a positive response, smiling at Xu Zhichun and saying, "You're very capable."

Xu Zhichun forced a normal smile. "I was just lucky. Let's eat."

"Sister-in-law, you've worked hard. Please eat more."

“You work hard at the county school, so you should eat more.”

"Hmm, hehe. Big brother, you can eat too."

"it is good."

The atmosphere lightened a bit, and Xu Zhichun felt that bringing Mingxuan back was absolutely the right thing to do.

Just imagine how awkward it would be if Mingxuan weren't here at the dinner table right now, with Liang Minglang and me facing each other!

Just thinking about it is suffocating!

Seeing how close the two brothers are, Xu Zhichun felt very gratified.

In this way, she will surely be grateful to the two brothers for having a heart-to-heart talk with them tonight.

It must be like this.

Unexpectedly, after dinner, before Xu Zhichun could find an opportunity to virtuously and considerately suggest giving the two brothers more private space alone, Liang Mingxuan looked at her expectantly and pleaded, "Sister-in-law, I still have so much to say to my brother. Could you let him sleep in my room?"

Xu Zhichun immediately smiled, as if hearing heavenly music.

How can this child be so eloquent and so endearing?

She truly deserved to have protected him!
She declared that her brother-in-law is the cutest brother-in-law in the world!

"Of course you can! You brothers haven't seen each other in so long, you should have a good chat!"

"Thank you, sister-in-law."

"Oh, you're welcome! You brothers should get closer." Liang Minglang couldn't help but glance at Xu Zhichun again. Why did he feel that his wife was a little too happy?
In fact, Xu Zhichun felt that he had already restrained himself considerably.

The joy she showed at that moment was less than one percent of what she truly felt inside.

When they went to bed at night, Xu Zhichun decisively let Chunfen sleep with her, creating the illusion that she always slept with Chunfen.

Only Chunfen would listen to her in this matter. If she called Qin Qing or Muxiang, they would leave immediately, thinking it was "for her own good." But Chunfen was different. She would tell Chunfen not to move out of the room unless she asked her to.

Liang Minglang is a mature man, after all. He couldn't very well openly argue with Chunfen, could he?
After all, she felt that her husband didn't seem to care much about the idea of ​​couples reuniting.

intuition.

She wasn't sure if she was imagining things because she was so eager for it.

Anyway, that's the decision for now!
That night, Xu Zhichun thought she wouldn't be able to sleep because of the uncertainties, but she fell asleep very quickly and soundly.

It's probably because the events of the day were too stressful and mentally taxing.

The Liang brothers, Liang Minglang and Liang Mingxuan, who were equally preoccupied with their work, were unable to go to sleep early.

Liang Minglang glanced at his younger brother, then at him again, seemingly hesitant about how to begin.

Liang Mingxuan didn't have as many reservations about his own brother, "Brother, don't you think your sister-in-law is different from before?"

Liang Minglang suddenly looked at his younger brother.

Liang Mingxuan: "Looks like you figured it out too, brother."

Liang Minglang frowned slightly, genuinely puzzled. "Mingxuan, tell me, what's going on? She shouldn't be from the Xu family. Could she be Xu's twin sister? Where is Xu?"

Outsiders may not know, but Liang Minglang himself knows very well that he and Xu Zhichun were originally a fake couple. The feeling he gets from Xu now is completely wrong. The feeling that she is clearly wary of him and wants to stay far away from him, but is pretending to be a normal couple and maintaining a nonchalant distance makes him very strange.

The Xu family had no need to do that.

Liang Mingxuan: "I originally thought she was my sister-in-law's twin sister, and that something had happened to my sister-in-law. But that shouldn't be the case. My sister-in-law has a scar the size of a fingernail on her left wrist, and she has one too. Besides, my sister-in-law was a perfectly healthy person; it's impossible for her to just disappear without leaving any trace."

"But--"

"Brother, Confucius said, 'The Master did not speak of strange phenomena, physical prowess, disorder, or spirits.' Do you...do you believe in such things?"

Liang Minglang looked at his younger brother, unsure of what to think, and was momentarily stunned. "Mingxuan, what...does that mean?"

Liang Mingxuan pursed his lips. "Brother, you've heard about your sister-in-law jumping off a cliff to die for her husband, right? There are other hidden stories behind this, but I won't go into them now. I've thought about it carefully since then, and the change in my sister-in-law started from that time."

"so--"

"I think the original sister-in-law might have already passed away back then, and I guess the current sister-in-law is a reincarnation. Brother, I'm just saying, I don't know if it's true or not."

Liang Minglang felt a chill run through his body, as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, and his mind went completely blank.

His younger brother was precocious; he wasn't a clueless child. The fact that he could say such things meant that he must have secretly observed and compared Xu's behavior countless times before and after.

Resurrection through a corpse! Resurrection through a corpse!

The things that the Xu family has accomplished today are things that the Xu family of the past could never have done.

But he owes Ms. Xu his life.