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

Chapter 52: Enthusiastic Fourth Aunt

At this moment, Li Zi also realized that Fourth Aunt had been out for a while.

"I don't know." She shook her head.

"Or... I'll go and take a look." Tao Qiuyi asked Li Zi for her opinion. After all, this was someone else's home, and she couldn't be as casual as she was at Wei Jingyuan's house.

Also, if Fourth Aunt is very busy, they should be tactful and leave quickly. It would be bad to disturb Fourth Aunt while she is working.

Before she could stand up, her wrist was grabbed by Li Zi, "Sister-in-law, this is your first time at Fourth Uncle's house. You are not familiar with it. I come here often. I am familiar with Fourth Uncle's house. I will go find Fourth Aunt."

Tao Qiuyi thought about it and felt that what Li Zi said made sense, so he nodded in agreement.

Lizi reached out and picked up a piece of fruit candy and stuffed it into Tao Qiuyi's hand. "Sister-in-law, you eat the candy first. I'll go see what Fourth Aunt is doing."

"Go quickly and come back soon." Tao Qiuyi reminded him. She felt very embarrassed sitting here alone.

Li Zi nodded and walked out of the main room.

"Fourth Aunt." Li found Fourth Aunt in the kitchen.

Fourth Aunt was standing by the stove, putting the three poached eggs in the pot into two bowls with brown sugar.

Seeing Li Zi come in, Fourth Aunt pointed to a bowl with a poached egg and said, "Li Zi, you've come just in time. This bowl is yours. Take it to the main room and eat with your sister-in-law."

Lizi walked over to Fourth Aunt and asked curiously, "Fourth Aunt, why are you cooking brown sugar poached eggs?"

"Your sister-in-law and your eldest brother just signed their marriage certificate yesterday, so they are considered newlyweds. This is her first time visiting your fourth uncle and aunt's house, so we have to cook two brown sugar poached eggs to entertain her." Fourth aunt smiled happily.

Jingyuan has suffered so much and finally got married. She is happy for Jingyuan from the bottom of her heart.

"Then Fourth Aunt can just cook brown sugar poached eggs for Sister-in-law. Why do you have to cook mine? I won't eat this. Fourth Aunt can eat it yourself." Li Zi turned around and was about to leave.

"Come back." Fourth Aunt grabbed Li Zi's thin arm and tapped her forehead with her finger. "Silly, your sister-in-law is a girl, and she's embarrassed to eat fried eggs alone. You're her sister-in-law, so it's better for you to eat with her."

"Is... is that so?" Li Zi was still a little skeptical.

"Yes, yes, when has Fourth Aunt ever coaxed you?" Fourth Aunt put the bowl of a poached egg in Li Zi's hand and took another bowl of two poached eggs. "Hurry up, don't keep your sister-in-law waiting too long."

After thinking about it, Li Zi realized that Fourth Aunt had not lied to her. She picked up the bowl and walked towards the main room with Fourth Aunt.

Fourth Aunt walked into the main room and placed the bowl on the square table.

"Qiuyi, come here quickly." Fourth Aunt greeted Tao Qiuyi with a smile on her face. After Tao Qiuyi walked to the table, she spoke, "This is your first time at Fourth Uncle and Fourth Aunt's house. Fourth Aunt is really happy. I cooked two poached eggs for you. Don't be disgusted. Eat them while they're hot."

"Aunt Four, you don't have to be so polite." Tao Qiuyi waved her hand to decline.

"It's not politeness, it's custom. We're family, so we shouldn't be polite." The more Auntie looked at Tao Qiuyi, the more she liked her. She felt Jingyuan had found a treasure, and she urged her with a smile on her face. "Eat it while it's hot."

Tao Qiu couldn't refuse his opinion, so he turned his head to look at Li Zi.

"Sister-in-law, don't look at me, I have some too." Li Zi raised the bowl in her hand, "Fourth Aunt said that I am your sister-in-law, so I have to eat with you to avoid embarrassment."

"This silly child dares to learn anything." Fourth Aunt was at a loss for words. "Thank you, Fourth Aunt." Tao Qiuyi had no choice but to sit down and eat.

She didn't know she would be treated like this on her first visit, and the thank-you gift she was going to give was just a pound of fruit candy, but Fourth Aunt was so enthusiastic, it seemed she had to give her another pound of egg cake.

"We are a family, no need to be so polite." Fourth Aunt sat down beside them and watched the two girls eat fried eggs with a satisfied look on her face. She was happier than she was eating them herself.

After Tao Qiuyi and Li Zi finished eating the fried eggs, Li Zi took the bowl to the kitchen to wash it, leaving Fourth Aunt to talk to Tao Qiuyi.

Fourth Aunt said with emotion, "Yesterday at noon, your Fourth Uncle came back for lunch later than usual, and Xiao Huai came back with him. I asked Xiao Huai to stay for lunch, but he said he had already eaten, so he took the medicinal wine your Fourth Uncle poured for him and left."

"Later, your fourth uncle told me that after you married Jingyuan, your mother-in-law and the other two families had a big fight and beat Jingyuan up. Not only did you protect Jingyuan and his two siblings, you also proposed a division of the family, keeping two houses and selling the others to them."

"I wanted to go to the Wei family to see you at that time, but your fourth uncle said it was not the right time and asked me to wait a little longer. I didn't expect Xiaoli to bring you to see me today. I am really happy."

"Aunt Four, I'm so ashamed." Tao Qiuyi was a little embarrassed. She didn't come to see Aunt Four on purpose, but to ask for her help.

"What are you ashamed of?" Fourth Aunt looked at her suspiciously.

Tao Qiuyi didn't like beating around the bush, so she directly stated her purpose, "Aunt Si, Li Zi and I came here today to ask for your help."

"Help? What help?" Fourth Aunt was even more confused.

Tao Qiuyi walked to the long bench where he had sat before, picked up the sack on the ground, put it on the table, reached into the sack with his left hand, and using the cover of the sack, took out a pound of fruit candy, a pound of egg cake, and two whole pieces of cloth from the ring space.

Tao Qiuyi pointed at two pieces of cloth and said, "I heard from Lizi that Fourth Aunt can make quilt covers and that she has a sewing machine at home, so I shamelessly asked Fourth Aunt to make me two quilt covers and four pillows in her free time. Fourth Aunt, please check first to see if there is enough cloth. If not, I will go home and get more."

When she saw the two pieces of cloth, Fourth Aunt roughly guessed Tao Qiuyi's purpose. She nodded, picked up a piece of cloth, shook it open, and measured it with her arm.

Fourth Aunt said to Tao Qiuyi, "One piece of cloth is enough to make a quilt cover and two pillows. There will be some left over."

"Okay, Fourth Aunt, just make the quilt cover and pillow first. Then we can decide on the other things based on how much cloth is needed." Tao Qiuyi told Fourth Aunt the size of the quilt, left Li Zi to help her, and went back first because he had something to do.

Fourth Aunt asked Tao Qiuyi to take the fruit candies and egg cakes back.

"No, the candy and egg cakes are thank-you gifts for Fourth Aunt. I brought them here and there's no reason to take them back." Tao Qiuyi refused.

Fourth Aunt refused to accept it no matter what. "You must take it back. I watched Jingyuan grow up, and he's just like my own child. When you and Jingyuan got married, your fourth uncle and I didn't have time to prepare a gift for you."

"I have a sewing machine at home, so it wouldn't be much trouble for me to make you two quilt covers. It would be awkward to accept your thank you gift."

The two of them pushed and shoved each other for a while.

It ended with Fourth Aunt accepting the fruit candy and Tao Qiuyi taking the egg cake back home.

After Tao Qiuyi left, Fourth Aunt asked Li Zi, "Xiao Li, your Fourth Uncle came back yesterday and told me that Qiuyi beat up your grandmother, your eldest aunt, and your third aunt. Is that true?"

"It's true." Li Zi nodded and blurted out without thinking, "Today, my sister-in-law beat my uncle, my third uncle, my third aunt, and my two cousins from my third grandfather's family in the yard of my third grandfather's house. They ran all over the yard."

(End of this chapter)