Famine Bride: Marry into the best in-laws and win

Chapter 314

Shen Laoer ignored his daughter who was lying on the ground crying and shouting for her mother. He just opened the door and walked out of the house.

Xu Manyue and Shen Dasao, who were standing by, happened to see everything that had just happened.

"Sister-in-law, let's go and pull Baozhu up from the ground. It's so cold, don't let her catch a cold lying in the snow."

Xu Manyue glanced at Shen Baozhu who was still crying and spoke.

Mrs. Shen waved her hands and said, "Why go? She's grown up, she should be sensible. She keeps calling her mother every day. What other daughter is as spoiled as her?"

"If she wants to continue lying in the snow, then let her continue lying there. After all, it's not us who are sick and uncomfortable."

After saying these two words, Mrs. Shen rubbed her frozen hands and ran into her room.

"Third sister-in-law, you should go back and rest quickly. It's very cold and you're pregnant, so don't catch a cold."

After Xu Manyue watched the people leave, Shen Baozhu was still lying in the snow, her small body curled up into a ball, sobbing pitifully.

She thought about it and finally walked over, bent down to help the person up from the ground, took out a handkerchief from her pocket and wiped Shen Baozhu's face, whose eyes were red and swollen from crying.

"Don't lie on the ground anymore. Go back to your room and sleep. Your mother might come back someday."

Shen Baozhu's eyes were red from crying. She looked up at Xu Manyue and said with great grievance, "Aunt, I... my father... doesn't want my mother anymore?"

In fact, she knew when she was very young that her father had women outside, and more than one. Her father almost gave birth to a younger brother for her with the women outside.

Although her younger brother was not born in the end, this incident has always been in her heart.

Faced with this question, Xu Manyue paused in wiping her face with a handkerchief, but soon she returned to normal and continued to wipe the tears from Shen Baozhu's face.

"Baozhu, don't overthink it. These things are not something you, a child, should be involved in. Your father and mother will handle their own affairs. No matter what the final result is, you must believe that your mother will not abandon you."

"What you should do now is go back to sleep and don't let your mother worry."

In this world, if Lin Luoxia still cares about anything, it is probably only this daughter.

She had attacked Shen Lanhua and her whole family before, probably... partly because of this girl.

After all, there is only so much food in the house, and adding one more mouth to the table means that everyone in the Shen family will have less to eat.

Shen Baozhu stopped crying. She tugged at the corner of Xu Manyue's clothes tightly and said, "Really...really, auntie?"

If she had to choose between her father and her mother, she would definitely choose her mother without hesitation.

Although her father was usually nice to her, her mother treated her better. What's more, with a stepmother, she would also have a stepfather, who would give birth to a son for her father in the future. They would be a family, and she would just be an outsider.

Xu Manyue nodded, and her tone slowed down a bit. "Of course it's true. Your mother cares about you the most. She will definitely not abandon you."

"Go back to sleep, you have to go to school tomorrow."

Shen Baozhu thought about it and realized that it was true. Her mother cared about her the most. Even if she didn't come back, she would definitely come to find her.

She raised her hand to wipe away her tears and stopped crying completely. "Aunt, I'm going to sleep first."

Xu Manyue touched her head and said, "Go ahead."

After watching everyone return to the house, she went to the old lady's room.

"Mom, how are you?" Xu Manyue sat down beside the old lady's bed, holding her belly, and then reached out to feel her pulse.

"It's okay, don't worry, my old bones won't die yet." The old lady was lying on the bed. When she saw Xu Manyue coming over, her brows relaxed a little, and she smiled and shook her head.

Xu Manyue paused slightly while taking the old lady's pulse, without showing any strange expression, but only she knew that the old lady's health was indeed much worse than before.

She silently put the old lady's hand under the quilt and said with a smile, "Mom, there is indeed nothing wrong with your body, but you should not work too hard in the future, so as to avoid this kind of thing happening again."

The old lady smiled even more happily and waved her hands, "The doctor said I'm fine, but you guys just don't believe me. How could I not know my health?"

"Okay, the Chinese New Year is just a month or two away. Calculating the dates, the baby in your belly will be born during the Chinese New Year."

"Looking at the heavy snow this winter, next year will definitely be a good year. Maybe it will rain after the New Year. Then the drought in the fields will be alleviated, and we can grow more food."

"This baby in your belly has arrived at a good time."

If it were last year, my family might not have been able to raise another child.

Xu Manyue lowered her head and touched her growing belly, pursing her lips and smiling, "Well, it really is a good time."

Now it is the beginning of 1962. The famine problem will gradually ease and life will get better and better.

Even if a few years later, during the turbulent decade, as long as Shen Jingming's military identity was there, and she was a lower-middle-class poor peasant.

She and her child won't have any major problems.

But... if Lin Luoxia's identity and the affairs between Shen Lao Er and those women outside were exposed in a few years, even if Shen Jingming was still in the Shen family, they would be implicated.

After all, whether it is a problem of class background or a problem of conduct between men and women, it will become more and more serious in the next few years, and may even last for more than ten or twenty years.

Thinking of this, Xu Manyue fell silent, and suddenly felt that it might be a good thing if the two of them really divorced.

It’s better to avoid as much trouble as possible than to have all the troubles of these two people exposed at the same time.

"You should have heard from your eldest sister-in-law about what your second sister-in-law did, so I won't repeat it again."

The old lady sighed, paused, and continued.

"Originally, I wanted to teach your sister-in-law a lesson, but then I thought about it and realized that what she said made sense."

"Over the years, I also know that she is dissatisfied with me as a mother-in-law, but I don't care about the old woman."

"She wasn't the wife I chose for my second son. If she hadn't been scheming, how could a woman of her status marry into our Shen family?"

"Although your sister-in-law's original method of marrying into this family was not glorious, she has devoted herself to this family wholeheartedly. Whether it's towards your brother or me, there's nothing to say."

After listening to these words, Xu Manyue roughly understood what the old lady was thinking.

After all, he still cared about Lin Luoxia's identity, and cared about the fact that after she married into the family, she didn't make Shen Lao Er change his mind.