Old Mrs. Song is reborn; get out of here, you scumbag husband and illegitimate child!

Granny Yu quickly stepped forward to support Yu Xiujuan, gently patting her back to help her catch her breath.

"Good girl, don't get angry with that ignorant bumpkin. It's not worth ruining your health."

Come home with Mom. She got up early this morning to stew pig's trotters for you, with soybeans and peanuts in it. They're so tender!

Yu Xiujuan sniffed, and only then did she feel a little better.

She touched her belly and pouted.

"My third sister-in-law is also pregnant. If I go back and eat alone, won't she stare at me like a hungry wolf?"

If she eats even one less bite later, she'll definitely accuse me of stealing from my parents' family, since I'm a married daughter.

"Pah! Who does she think she is?"

Granny Yu spat on the ground, "My goodness, just ignore her."

She only eats and doesn't move all day, and she got pregnant and grew up to be as fat as a big pig.

I'm giving my own daughter some nourishment, what's it to her? If she wants some, she should ask her mother.

Granny Yu helped Yu Xiujuan walk back.

The voice wasn't deliberately lowered.

The ugly woman standing to the side nearly dropped her jaw, clicking her tongue in disbelief:

"That old woman Yu is utterly wicked. Yu Pengzhi's wife is as thin as a stick, she could be blown away by the wind, and this damned old woman actually said that her daughter-in-law looks like a big fat pig."

She turned to look at Shen Huijun, who was surrounded by the Song family. "Huijun, don't pay attention to that mad dog. What would you like to eat?"

He was surrounded by everyone who cared about him.

Shen Huijun's face flushed slightly, but her heart was filled with warmth.

She smiled a little shyly:

"I want to eat oyster rice, the kind with lots of green garlic."

Liu Chounu slapped her thigh and said, "Your mom's oyster rice is terrible. I'll go call Lin Fang to cook it; she's a good cook."

Done.

The ugly woman turned and ran away.

"Auntie, no need." Shen Huijun quickly waved her hand. "I was just saying it casually. I can't let Fangjie suffer."

Xiaofang has nothing to do these past few days.

The ugly woman has already run away.

Shen Huijun looked embarrassed and lowered her head to touch her belly, which was not yet showing.

"I knew I shouldn't have said it; it's so pretentious."

"It's the baby in my belly that wants to eat."

Song Xianglan took Shen Huijun's hand. "Huijun, Mom has something important to tell you. Don't feel pressured. Since the child is here, just give birth."

"Mom, let's rent a place near the school and hire a nanny to take care of the child. I'll also bring my mom from my parents' house over to help look after him."

I will pay for the nanny's expenses and living costs.

"Mom, I have my own money," Shen Huijun quickly said. "I save Xiangdong's monthly allowance. I'll pay for the nanny myself."

Song Xianglan waved her hand, her face leaving no room for doubt.

"Mom will pay for this; consider it a gift from Mom to her grandson. Just focus on your studies and take good care of your health."

Song Tingting: "Starting tonight, I'll sleep with you. If you want water or need to go to the bathroom at night, just call me, and I'll take care of you."

Song Xianglan was planning to catch dozens more chickens and ducks to raise next spring.

One per day during Shen Huijun's postpartum confinement period.

They absolutely had to fatten up their daughter-in-law until she was plump and healthy.

……

The atmosphere inside the main room of the Yu family home was somewhat oppressive.

Granny Yu brought the still bubbling clay pot to the table.

Open the lid.

A rich aroma of meat instantly filled the entire room.

Braised pig's trotters with peanuts and sesame oil, the fat swirling on top looks incredibly tempting.

Yu Xiujuan picked up her chopsticks and began rummaging through the clay pot.

She picked out the biggest pig's trotter, skin and tendons still attached, and stuffed it into her mouth, chewing it with gusto until her mouth was greasy.

"Mmm, it smells so good! Mom's cooking is still the best."

Yu Xiujuan spoke indistinctly.

He then picked up two more large pieces of pork trotters and threw them into Fang Pingming's bowl next to him.

"Pingming, you eat too. My mom's braised pig's trotters are absolutely amazing. I'm staying here for a few days to nourish myself. You go back first after you finish eating; I won't go back with you."

Fang Pingming didn't stand on ceremony either.

He grabbed a pig's trotter and started gnawing on it, all the while feigning politeness.

"Eat less, it's too oily. We'll all eat together later."

"This is something my mom made especially for me. I can eat it however I want," Yu Xiujuan snorted, then dipped her chopsticks back into the casserole.

Yu Sansao Tang Xiuhe stared longingly at the clay pot.

She is six months pregnant and her body is already weak. Recently, she has been experiencing leg cramps at night.

The barefoot doctor said I was lacking in oil and water and needed to replenish it.

This pig's trotter was specially bought for her by her husband, Yu Pengzhi, from the market to nourish her body.

Her mother-in-law insisted on cooking it, but now it's all ended up in her sister-in-law's mouth.

Tang Xiuhe swallowed hard, and finally couldn't resist going to the kitchen to get chopsticks. She carefully reached out, wanting to pick up a scrap of food.

"Snapped!"

Before her chopsticks could even touch the pig's trotter...

Yu Xiujuan swung her chopsticks hard, knocking Tang Xiuhe's chopsticks off course.

"Can't you see I haven't finished eating?"

Yu Xiujuan glared at her with disgust. "What a greedy wife! She hasn't eaten meat in her entire life. She gets resentful when she sees me eating something good. She's so vicious, isn't she afraid of poisoning herself?"

Tang Xiuhe's hand was throbbing with pain from the beating.

Her eyes immediately welled up with tears.

"Pengzhi bought this for me to nourish my body..." Tang Xiuhe explained softly, "The doctor said I should eat some meat."

"I can eat what my third brother bought."

Yu Xiujuan raised her voice eight octaves, "If you're so capable, why don't you ask your third brother to buy it? Don't you even look at your poor, pathetic self? Do you deserve to eat such good pig's trotters? I'll eat them, and I'll make you furious."

Done.

She deliberately picked up a piece of tendon and fed it directly into Fang Pingming's mouth in front of Tang Xiuhe.

"Pingming, open your mouth, ah—"

Tang Xiuhe was so angry that she trembled all over.

"You...your third brother is my man, you asked your man to buy it for you to eat."

Fang Pingming's face darkened.

Yu Xiujuan grabbed the bone fragments from the table and threw them at Tang Xiuhe. "This is my family home. It's only natural for me to eat what my brother bought. Who do you think you are, an outsider?"

They were arguing.

Granny Yu came in carrying a dish of pickled vegetables.

Upon seeing this scene, he immediately slammed the plate on the table.

"What's wrong with you? Can't you even have a quiet meal?"

Yu Xiujuan wiped away her tears and sobbed:

"Mom, my third sister-in-law won't let me go home. She said that her husband bought these pig's trotters and I'm not allowed to eat them."

"I'm pregnant, and I have to worry about my sister-in-law's attitude just to eat meat from my parents' house. I can't live like this anymore, waaaaah..."

Granny Yu was furious.

He pointed at Tang Xiuhe's nose and started cursing:

"You're jealous that I made it for Xiujuan? If you're so capable, have your mother make it for you."

You think you can act all high and mighty just because you're pregnant? You think you're some kind of empress dowager?

"Look at you! You're like a fat pig, all you do is eat and no work. You want pig's trotters? Even the fat pigs slaughtered for the New Year look better than you!"

Tang Xiuhe's tears streamed down her face.

"Mom, I'm so skinny, and you say I look like a pig. You're really bullying me. Can't I even have a piece of meat?"

"No!"

Granny Yu spat as she spoke, "Even though Xiujuan is married, this is still her home. She watched this roof being built, and your husband is the brother she's called since childhood."

She ate a few pieces of pig's trotters without costing you a penny, and she didn't eat a single grain of rice from your family. Why are you wailing like that?

"I have two bodies, and I'm hungry..."

Tang Xiuhe clutched her stomach, her voice trembling.

"Who isn't twins?" Granny Yu rolled her eyes. "I think you're just a bully at home. You look honest most of the time, but you show your true colors as soon as you see meat. Get lost, you're disgusting."

Yu Xiujuan added insult to injury with schadenfreude:

"I think she's not favored by her own family, so she's deliberately coming to her husband's family to cause trouble, hoping to break our family up."

Tang Xiuhe felt as if a wad of wet cotton was stuck in her chest.

I can't even breathe.

Looking at the unreasonable mother and daughter, her heart turned completely cold.

Tang Xiuhe covered her face and ran out crying.

Watching Tang Xiuhe run out the door, Yu Xiujuan asked with some concern:

"Mom, will my third sister-in-law... be alright?"

"These wives are never satisfied. Back in our day, we had to work in the fields even when we were pregnant. We only had two thin meals a day, and it was like celebrating the New Year if we occasionally ate a dry meal."

Now that we've fed and clothed her, she's still picky and fussy; she's developed bad habits. Just ignore her; she'll come back on her own after a meal of hunger.

……

Tang Xiuhe ran out of the courtyard crying all the way.

A cold wind blew.

The tears on my face were icy cold.

As I approached the gate of Song Xianglan's house, I suddenly felt a darkness before my eyes, and the stars in the sky seemed to spin wildly.

Tang Xiuhe could no longer hold on and slowly slid down to the ground, leaning against the wall of the Song family compound.

Song Xianglan happened to come out to close the gate.

A figure was huddled at the base of the wall, his face deathly pale and his lips purple.

Song Xianglan was startled. Upon closer inspection, she recognized her. "You are... the wife of the third son of the Yu family?"

Tang Xiuhe weakly raised her head, her eyelids drooping.

"Auntie... my name is Tang Xiuhe..."

He hadn't finished speaking.

A loud "gurgling" sound came from my stomach.

Song Xianglan sighed.

She had fought with Granny Yu her whole life, wishing that old hag would suffer a terrible fate, and she couldn't bear to see a pregnant woman suffer.

"Tingting."

Song Xianglan turned and shouted into the house, "Pour out a bowl of sweet soup. And get a few meat buns too."

Not long after.

Song Tingting ran out carrying a large bowl, followed by Shen Huijun.

"What's wrong?"

Shen Huijun felt a pang of pity seeing Tang Xiuhe's miserable state.

Tang Xiuhe was helped to drink a large bowl of hot sugar water, and only then did she feel like she was alive again.

Song Tingting handed over two fist-sized meat buns.

The white dough is soft and fluffy, with a sheen of oil inside.

"Eat quickly, it's still hot."

Tang Xiuhe looked at the steamed bun, and tears fell again.

She was so hungry that she grabbed a steamed bun and stuffed it into her mouth, wolfing it down in just a few bites.

It's pure meat filling; every bite is bursting with oil.

After eating two steamed buns and feeling full, Tang Xiuhe finally recovered.

Seeing that she had finished eating, Song Tingting turned around, went back into the house, grabbed two more, and stuffed them into her hands.

"Was it because your wicked mother-in-law bullied you?"

Tang Xiuhe clutched the two steamed buns tightly, as if they were lifelines, tears streaming down her face. "Auntie, thank you... I want to go back to my parents' home..."

Sigh! Why do women have to make things difficult for each other!