Fortunate Eighties: The Bewitching Female Rival Who Tamed Her Husband with Skill-Chapter 85 - Life Holds No More Appeal

Chapter 85: Chapter 85: Life Holds No More Appeal

Chapter 85 -85: Life Holds No More Appeal

Lu Xiaoting frowned and shook his head, “Too sweet.”

Susu then remembered that this man had never liked things too sweet.

“Let Xiao Yu and her Aunt share it then.”

Watching the two, one big and one small, politely pushing the brown sugar egg back and forth.

Susu helplessly shook her head, directly took the empty cup in her hands, and split the brown sugar egg into two servings.

“Alright, one for each. Eat it all, no wasting.”

Su Sanya held the cup, her eyes brimming with tears, and thanked her second sister.

“Thank you, second sister. If you can’t finish, next time, Auntie can make less; it’s a waste for us.”

Xiao Yu nodded vigorously in agreement with his Aunt’s words.

The thing Susu dreaded most in life was seeing someone cry, so she simply closed her eyes to sleep, out of sight, out of mind.

Su Sanya blinked, “…”

In the blink of an eye, half a month had passed, and Lu Xiaoting had already taken the reluctant Xiao Yu back to Provincial City.

Susu was not at all reluctant to part with the departing pair, the adult and the child.

After all, it’s not like they wouldn’t see each other again. What was there to feel sad or upset about?

Susu, with her hair braided in two plaits and wearing a headscarf, slouched miserably at the head of the kang bed.

This was the scene that Lu Xiaomei returned to, startling her; she feared that there had been a conflict between their mother and her second sister-in-law.

Seeing her little sister-in-law beating around the bush, Susu could not help but laugh and cry. Not wanting her mother-in-law to be unjustly implicated, she could only say she had been unable to bathe and wash her hair, feeling unbearably itchy.

Lu Xiaomei scratched her head and chuckled, “Second sister-in-law, I thought Mom did something to upset you.”

“Hey, you little rascal.”

Mrs. Lu walked in and overheard her daughter’s remark, and swung a slap without good humor.

“If you don’t come back, it’s fine, but the moment you do, you start stirring up trouble between us mother and daughter-in-law, making it sound like I’ve done something terrible.”

Lu Xiaomei, nursing her sore back from her mother’s Iron Sand Palm hit, muttered, “I was just worried about you being tired from looking after elder sister-in-law during her confinement…”

“You think I’m deaf? Can your elder sister-in-law be compared to your second sister-in-law? When has she ever been pretentious or dramatic?”

Mrs. Lu, hands on hips, glared irritably at her daughter.

Lu Xiaomei, seeing the murderous look in her mother’s eyes, decisively changed the topic.

She pulled out two bags of milk powder, “Second sister-in-law, I ran to the Department Store several times and barely managed to snatch up these two bags.”

Seeing the milk powder, Mrs. Lu’s eyes lit up; the triplets at home were indeed consuming a lot of milk powder.

She promptly put away the milk powder, “Good, your Little Aunt has thought of her nephews and niece, buying them milk powder. That’s very thoughtful.”

“Little sister really cares,” Susu warmly acknowledged her little sister-in-law’s thoughtfulness.

Having discussed the important matters, Lu Xiaomei then remembered about her little nieces and nephew.

Careful not to disturb the triplets sleeping soundly, she looked around cautiously.

She whispered, “It’s so amazing, these three tiny babies.”

“Second sister-in-law, Lele is so little.”

…

After visiting her nephew triplets, Lu Xiaomei took out an account book from her bag, “Second sister-in-law, I came back this time to see you and the triplets, but also to show you the accounts from several of our stores.”

“I was thinking you might be bored, and this could be something to do.”

Lu Xiaogu walked in and heard the sisters-in-law discussing business, then quietly stepped out again.

“Little Aunt, Susu and Little Sister are talking about the business in the stores, should we just go ahead and start cooking?”

“Sure.”

In the main room, the aunt and sister-in-law began preparing breakfast and dinner.

“Sister-in-law, aside from the employees’ salaries and the working capital for each shop, I’ve given everything else to my second brother. He said he’ll find time to go to the bank and deposit it.”

“Alright, I’ve got it.”

Just as the aunt and sister-in-law finished discussing matters, little Pingping began to grumble.

Susu swiftly checked the little one’s bottom, and indeed, he had wet himself.

Lu Xiaomei was amazed, “Pingping is quite something, huh? He even whimpers when he’s wet?”

“This little guy will probably be someone who likes cleanliness. He whines as soon as he wets or soils himself, but stops as soon as he has a clean diaper on.”

Lu Xiaomei, “That’s quite good, isn’t it? It also makes him easier to look after. Pingping is really a good boy.”

Susu shook her head, about to say something, when An’an, her second child, suddenly let out a howl.

“Wah~”

The just-changed and comfortably sleeping Lele was startled awake, his little face turning red from crying.

“Wah~”

“Hmm~”

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Lu Xiaomei was in such a panic that she was all thumbs and at a loss for what to do.

Having just come back from the outside restroom, Su Sanya quickly washed her hands and crouched in front of the coal stove to warm herself.

Susu, who had little experience in postpartum child care, almost dropped the wet diaper on her younger son’s head with a twitch of her hand.

“Elder sister-in-law, give it to me, I’ll wash it in a second.”

Feeling the dryness on his bottom, An’an smacked his little mouth, and slowly his crying subsided.

Pingping, the eldest, and Lele, the youngest, also gradually stopped their whimpering, and it wasn’t long until all three little darlings were asleep again.

Lu Xiaomei wiped the sweat from her forehead. Taking care of children was really no simple task. She hadn’t even done much but was already sweating buckets.

For dinner, the large family had second-milled flour steamed buns, stewed dishes, and pickles.

Susu looked at the soybean pig trotter soup made at noon and felt a wave of nausea.

For half a month, it had either been pig trotter soup, chicken soup, or eggs with brown sugar – as bland as could be.

Susu felt her taste buds were about to fade away; she longed for a meal that was sour, spicy, and numbingly hot. Any strong flavor would do.

“Mom, can I not drink pig trotter soup anymore?”

“What’s wrong? Lost your appetite?” Mrs. Lu asked with some urgency.

Susu shook her head, “It’s not that, I… just got a bit tired of it. You all have some.”

Mrs. Lu frowned, “Then is there anything else you’d like to eat? Mom will make it for you.”

“Mom, I want some noodles with a fried egg,” Susu thought for a moment.

“Alright, Mom will make it for you right away.”

“You all eat first. You can cook for me after you’re done.”

“No need, the stove is still hot. It’ll be ready in a jiffy.”

Mrs. Lu’s voice came from the kitchen, “You guys go ahead and eat.”

…

Before bed that night, Mrs. Lu noticed her daughter-in-law scratching her head – having been through it all herself, she immediately knew it was an itchy scalp.

“You can’t get wet during postpartum confinement or you’ll risk having ‘month disease’ headaches later on. Once your confinement is over, I’ll heat the stove up good and hot, and give your hair and body a good wash.”

Susu counted the days on her fingers, covered her face, and thought, ‘How can it be so long?’

However, what Mrs. Lu said next hit Susu like a thunderbolt, leaving her spread-eagled on the kang, utterly forlorn.

“However, since you’ve given birth to the third child, you should extend your confinement by at least another half month. Otherwise, it’s easy to end up with lingering ailments.”

“No—”

“I don’t want to—”

Susu stretched out her hand in dismay, a face full of tears.

Lu Xiaogu and Mrs. Lu, the two elders, fearing the younger generation might carelessly touch water, took turns on guard.

Everybody talked about how so-and-so did not observe her confinement when she was young and now constantly suffers from backaches and headaches.

And how another so-and-so washed her hair during confinement and now gets terrible headaches at the slightest breeze.