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"Why are you here?" Xie Jingchen asked in a heavy voice, very impolitely.
"Commander, you’re back, just in ti for dinner! Speaking of Chun i, she’s the one Aunt Zhou hired to cook for us, and also to take care of Xiaojiu and Xiao Shi!"
Seeing Wang Chuni scared by the boss to the point that she even spilled the vegetables she was washing, Ma Shan winked and explained with a chuckle.
Seeing Xie Jingchen’s gaze turn cold, Ma Shan, who had been grinning, imdiately snapped to attention and saluted formally: "Reporting, Commander, Wang Chuni is the eldest daughter from Wang Dashan’s family in Qingfeng Village..."
"Enough." Xie Jingchen, after a sweep of his spiritual power, realized his mother had been drawn out by Ma Shan’s loud report, and interrupted the booming voice. With a casual glance, he ignored Wang Chuni who wanted to speak and went straight towards the archway.
Xie Jingchen felt incredibly annoyed.
Ma Shan was completely puzzled after his salute and saw his buddy winking at him; he glanced from the corner of his eye at Wang Chuni: How had this girl offended their boss?
That shouldn’t be right~ since when had their boss beco so petty, squabbling with a woman? Sothing was off!
Out of professional habit, Ma Shan decided that from now on at ho, he needed to not only beware of strangers coming near but also not overlook this village girl.
He couldn’t ignore the dangers close at hand.
"What’s wrong?" Zhou Xiuhua ca out upon hearing Xiao Ma’s ’report,’ but instead of seeing San’er, she saw everyone looking oddly at Wang Chuni and asked, puzzled.
Fortunately, Wang Chuni had braced herself for what to expect when she decided to help at the Xie Family, so she managed to keep a normal expression on her face and didn’t seem about to cry.
Ma Shan glanced at Wang Chuni, who was hanging her head, and laughed, "No worries, Aunt Zhou, is there anything else that needs to be done? I can lend a hand."
Wang Chuni had already picked up the vegetables that had fallen on the ground and continued to wash them without making a sound. Zhou Xiuhua didn’t notice anything special and also rembered that her cooking was still on the stove, so she exclaid, "Oh no, my dish!" and hurried back to the kitchen.
"No worries, no worries, Aunt Zhou, don’t panic, it hasn’t burnt yet... even if it’s a bit charred, still slls delicious!" Ma Shan entered alongside Aunt Zhou, of course sniffing the faint scent of burning at in the air even before Zhou Xiuhua did.
Wang Chuni was relieved to see that no one was paying attention to her anymore, her eyes began to redden, but then she thought that dinner was soon and she couldn’t cry.
She definitely couldn’t be willful, to avoid catching Sister Yan’s attention and inquiry.
Over these past few days, Wang Chuni had managed to keep her presence as low as possible, staying mostly silent except when doing chores.
Even in caring for Xiaojiu and Xiao Shi, she kept quiet, not daring to let her gaze linger on the adorable babies.
The two little ones were nearly seven months old, looking really adorable. Xiaojiu already managed to toddle around with the help of a small stool, very brave.
Shiyi, on the other hand, was more shy around strangers, he always exhibited reluctance to get close to Wang Chuni.
So most of the ti, Wang Chuni’s ti was taken up with house chores, laundering, cooking, cleaning, boiling water and so on.
With many kids in the house, the adults are indeed busy non-stop.
Eat, then drink; drink, then go to the toilet; go to the toilet, then sleep. If it were just one person looking after the kids, chores could only be done while the kids slept, and even before finishing the chores, the kids might wake up. Over ti, the kids would be fine, but the mother definitely couldn’t take it.
At that ti, washing dishes by hand, laundry by hand, even vacuuming and cleaning were all done by hand, everything was hands-on. The most important daily routines were taking care of one’s own als and the children’s, and with little children around, there was also the need for baths and diaper changes...
Wang Chuni was still unmarried, yet this was the first ti she truly understood how challenging life becos once you have children!
What softened her heart the most was how truly smart Xiaojiu was and how adorable Xiao Shi was; she found herself becoming tender-hearted when she looked at these two little cuties.
In the end, Yan Jinsu didn’t give her any trouble at all. Perhaps because Wang Chuni’s gaze was so calm when she looked at Yan Jinsu, and since she hadn’t encountered Xie Jingchen directly in these past few days, and no one stirred up her inner ambitions, she looked up to "Sister Yan" with the trust and envy only a younger sister could have for her blissful happiness.
Seeing Yan Jinsu tenderly and virtuously taking care of the twins, along with the Xie Family’s younger generation, she actually felt a sense of extre guilt, as if she had committed a terrible sin!
Over the course of two or three days, Wang Chuni didn’t think much about Xie Jingchen. However, she repeatedly felt intimidated by the sagacious and kind-hearted Yan Jinsu.
Witnessing Yan Jinsu always looking gently at her own children and those of the Xie Family, Wang Chuni asked herself if she could reach such lengths herself.
Then, Wang Chuni realistically shook her head.
They were not her children, not her kin, she simply couldn’t match Yan Jinsu’s ’selflessness’!
Thinking further, Xie Jingchen himself was a Rong Wei, and isn’t that why he liked Yan Jinsu’s ’innate’ kindness!
No wonder Xie Jingchen had said from the start, that if it weren’t for Yan Jinsu, it couldn’t possibly be her, Wang Chuni!
Because her heart was too small.
Wang Chuni initially thought this realization would be enough to extinguish her hopes for Xie Jingchen, but then at noon today, Yan Jinsu suddenly slled a fishy odor and began to vomit intensely, frightening her.
Who knew Aunt Xie would actually say that this was normal!
Turns out, Yan Jinsu was pregnant again!
Upon learning this news, Wang Chuni felt like she was struck by lightning!
But at the sa ti, there was a sense of relief, grateful that she hadn’t committed a grave error. No matter how despicable her heart, she hadn’t actually hard anyone!
For so reason, after learning this news, Wang Chuni accepted it calmly, even feeling as if a weight had been lifted from her, not so much as a reddening of her eyes.
Although deep down she knew that she ’must’ give up on Xie Jingchen, when Xie Jingchen spoke to her with a tone reserved for interrogating criminals, she was still hurt.
Even though her eyes did not redden, at this mont, Wang Chuni felt her dignity had been affronted!
That’s right, until today, she, Wang Chuni, had liked Xie Jingchen, but just liking him hadn’t hard him, so why did he look at her as if she were a ’criminal’!
She may have co to the Xie Family because of him at first, but it wasn’t Xie Jingchen who had asked for her, so why did he dean her like this!
Wang Chuni beca spiteful!
Hmph, if Xie Jingchen didn’t want to see her, she would stay just to spite him! Not to ntion that Aunt Zhou had always been kind to her, even the amnesiac "Sister Yan" was actually quite pleasant to interact with!
Or rather, "Sister Yan" had always been nice to interact with. Just by looking at how she would transmit her skills for the greater good and offer up her dicinal recipes, one could tell Yan Jinsu was a kind and magnanimous woman!
Previously, it was just because she felt that Yan Jinsu had stolen her secret crush right from the start, that’s why she held so much resentnt against her in her heart...
Truly, a woman who loses her rationality is the ugliest of all!
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