Traveling through the 1970s: The young wife loves to make trouble

Chapter 315 Mother and son connect with each other
“Mother, we haven’t eaten meat in so long, my mouth is so bland I could practically taste nothing.” Wei Laosan sighed and said, “It’s all my fault for being useless. I can’t even let you eat meat. I’m an unfilial son.”

As he said this, Wei Laosan wore what he considered a pitiful expression.

He was unaware that his lips were swollen, and his expression looked not pitiful, but ferocious.

Looking at her son's face, which resembled a demon or monster, even more terrifying than the sight itself, Li Hongying trembled with fear, struggling to suppress the cry of "A ghost!" that threatened to escape her lips.

I moved my weak legs and turned to leave.

Wei Laosan was taken aback. Why was his mother's reaction different from before? In the past, every time he said this, accompanied by a pitiful expression, his mother would feel extremely sorry for him.

Then I tried my best to meet his demands.

Why didn't it work this time?

At that moment, Wei Laosan didn't have time to think about where the problem lay. Before he could finish, his mother, Li Hongying, was about to go inside, so he hurriedly caught up with her.

“Mother, Jingyuan is becoming more and more outrageous. You can’t let him get away with this, or he’ll take advantage of us.” Wei Laosan said as he walked, his voice full of worry.

“Am I indulging him? It’s clearly because he’s no longer lame and has become more assertive that he’s disobedient.” Li Hongying got angry just talking about it.

Wei Jingyuan's recent changes have truly caught her off guard. She never dreamed that Wei Jingyuan, who was taciturn and worked like an ox, would change so much.

Wei Jingyuan, who believed everything they said and cared little about anything, one day suddenly stopped listening to them.

"After thinking it over, I realized that Jingyuan's change was ultimately because his leg was no longer lame." Wei Laosan now hated the old Chinese medicine doctor in the Second Brigade who cured Wei Jingyuan's lame leg.

Wei Jingyuan's limp was suddenly cured, catching everyone off guard.

"It's all that damned old Chinese medicine doctor's fault, meddling in other people's business like a dog chasing a mouse," Li Hongying cursed angrily.

"Who says otherwise!" Wei Laosan sighed. If Wei Jingyuan were still a crippled man, let's see if Tao Qiuyi would still be with him.

In the warm room, Wei Jingyuan and Xiao Huai sat on opposite sides of a square table. Xiao Huai's hands were on the table, and Wei Jingyuan was applying ointment to her palms.

Hearing the conversation between Li Hongying and Wei Laosan outside, Wei Jingyuan felt a chill run through him. His family, it turned out, didn't want his lameness to get better.

"Big brother." Xiao Huai looked at his older brother with a puzzled expression.

The elder brother's face remained expressionless, but he could sense that his elder brother's aura had turned cold.

"I'll apply it right away." Wei Jingyuan said softly, concealing his cold and stern aura.

Xiao Huai said, "After applying the ointment, I'll go help Li Zi and Qiu Si start the fire, and I'll make sure they don't get wet."

"No." Wei Jingyuan refused expressionlessly. "Your sister-in-law said to apply the medicine for you. I'll go help the two of them. If you have nothing to do, you can stay in the room and read."

Xiao Huai pouted and stopped talking.

Outside at the same time.

Arriving at the door of her house, Li Hongying took out her key from her pocket and opened the door. A blast of cold air hit them from inside. The mother and son exchanged a glance, but still went inside one after the other.

Li Hongying walked straight to the edge of the kang (heated brick bed) and sat down. She shivered as soon as she sat down. Yes, no one had heated the kang for a whole day and night; the bed had long been cold.

Standing up now would only make her seem pretentious. Li Hongying gritted her teeth, pulled a blanket over her legs, and covered them with it; the blanket was ice-cold. At this moment, Li Hongying only wanted to curse, with Wei Jingyuan, who had displeased her, being the first target. "That damned Wei Jingyuan, he really deserves to die."

Wei Jingyuan truly deserved to die, Wei Laosan cursed inwardly as well. He walked to the table, picked up the thermos in the middle, and poured himself a glass of water.

The kang (a heated brick bed) hadn't been heated for a day and a night, and the room was chilly. Needless to say, the water poured from the thermos was also cold.

Mother was scolding him angrily; a little cold water would be just what cool her down. Wei Laosan picked up an enamel mug with a peony pattern and walked to the bedside.

"Mom, calm down and have some water." Wei Laosan handed Li Hongying an enamel water cup.

Upon taking the enamel mug, Li Hongying felt that it was cold. Since the outside of the mug was cold, the water inside must also be cold.

"Cold water." She looked up at Wei Laosan.

A hint of helplessness flashed across Wei Laosan's face as he explained, "Mother, I've been taking care of Aiguo at the hospital these past two days, and I haven't even had time to come back and change my clothes."

“You sent my brother to the hospital again yesterday. There has been no one at home all night and for most of today.”

"The water in the thermos has gone cold for a while, but you can drink some for now. I'll boil some more water for you in a bit and put it in the thermos so that I can have hot water whenever I want."

Li Hongying was easily swayed by Wei Laosan's sweet talk, and waved her hand with a smile, "It's alright, Mother can drink cold water."

After saying that, Li Hongying lowered her head and took a sip of water from her enamel cup. The cold water made her toothache. Enduring the toothache, she drank several more mouthfuls of water, the chill seeping into her heart.

Although the water was cold, Li Hongying's heart was warmed by her son's filial piety.

The third son truly had nothing but love for his mother.

Of her four sons, only the third one truly cared about her. The eldest was alright, but the second and fourth... well, never mind, just thinking about them makes me feel terrible.

"Mom, let's have dinner at Fourth Brother's house tonight," Wei Laosan suggested. He couldn't cook, so his mother would have to do it.

It has to be said that Li Hongying and Wei Laosan are truly of one mind, like mother and son. The moment Li Hongying thought of Wei Laosi, Wei Laosan immediately thought of going to Wei Laosi's house for a free meal.

"Go to Lao Si's house for dinner?" Li Hongying snorted and glared at Wei Lao San. "Lao Si's wife is so stingy. If you go to his house for dinner, it's no wonder she'll give you a hard time."

"Sigh, my fourth sister-in-law is a bit stingy, but what can we do? Our fourth brother likes her." Wei Laosan sighed.

"Alright, don't mention that awful thing to me. Just thinking about him makes me feel sick." Li Hongying said, lifting the quilt and standing up from the edge of the bed, handing the enamel water cup in her hand to Wei Laosan.

"I'll go see what food we have at home. Tonight, my daughter and I will just make do with this."

Going to Lao Si's house for a meal was out of the question; Li Hongying couldn't bear the embarrassment. With nowhere else to eat, she had no choice but to cook for herself.

Li Hongying knew perfectly well what her son was capable of. Therefore, she never expected Wei Laosan to cook.

"Okay, thank you for your hard work, Mother." Wei Laosan smiled, but his heart was bitter. He didn't want to settle for a meager meal, especially after seeing the two plump pheasants.

He wanted to eat meat, pheasant meat, Wei Laosan clamored in his heart, his eyes looking towards the door.

Just then, I saw Xiao Li and that kid of unknown origin walking into the kitchen, each carrying a pheasant.