Rebirth in the 80s: The Scholar Wife is Cute
Chapter 461 Mother-in-law Visits 2

Chapter 461: Chapter 461 Mother-in-law Visits 2

Pan Huiyun also felt a twinge of guilt and hurried forward, forcibly taking the child into her arms, while complaining, "Look at the child, all sweaty. It must be hot at the doorway. Why didn’t you come in after getting back? What are you doing standing at the door?"

"The child might be thirsty. I’ll get her some water," Li Shiping said, holding back her tears. At that moment, she didn’t want to say much to them and reached out to take the child, but Pan Huiyun dodged her.

With a note of sarcasm, she said, "I can give the child water. You go chat with Dongcheng! While you were carefree, visiting your parent’s home, eating and living well, Dongcheng was to be pitied, he has lost so much weight."

"..."

Li Shiping knew Pan Huiyun’s words were laced with meaning, intentionally targeting her, but she was not good with words and didn’t know how to argue, feeling frustrated yet unable to respond.

Seeing this, Wan Dongcheng took her by the hand and headed inside, "Let mom hold the child! You’ve been taking care of the child alone every day, it’s tiring. It’s rare for someone to help you. Take a break."

He had been cold to Li Shiping for the past few days and now that she had returned after being away for two days, he didn’t know if she had brought back any good news. Plus, she had overheard what was said earlier. Worried she might get upset and take the matter back to her parent’s home, Wan Dongcheng spoke to her gently to appease her.

Her husband hadn’t been this tender for at least half a year. Hearing him show concern for her now made Li Shiping’s heart soften, and she followed him into their room.

With his wife away for two days and now without the child crying around them, Wan Dongcheng suddenly took an interest. As soon as they entered the room, he closed the door and began to kiss Li Shiping all over.

"Mom is out there." Guessing his intentions, Li Shiping grabbed his hand and pushed him aside.

"She’s outside. She won’t come in."

Wan Dongcheng, not giving up, tried to embrace Li Shiping again but she pushed him away once more.

"Let’s wait until tonight. Mom is outside with the child now. It wouldn’t be right for us to do this."

Li Shiping, conservative in her thinking, felt it wasn’t right to leave her mother-in-law and the child outside, while the two of them carried on like this in broad daylight.

After being pushed away twice, Wan Dongcheng lost interest as well, feeling stifled and his expression grew sour. He sat on the edge of the bed and noticed Li Shiping was still holding a bag. He couldn’t help asking, "What did you buy this time?"

"Xiaoyue has acknowledged a ’sworn sister’ and she came over yesterday. My dad said it would be better for her to wear something festive, so I bought a new outfit."

Upon hearing this, Wan Dongcheng instantly felt uneasy. He was at home with hardly any food to eat while she was living it up at her parent’s house, even buying new clothes. "Shiping, you know our life isn’t so easy right now. We should spend less whenever we can. You can’t keep behaving like you did before we got married, always wanting to dress up beautifully."

"Xiaoyue paid for it." Fearful that Wan Dongcheng would accuse her family of treating them like beggars, Li Shiping didn’t dare mention that Li Yue had given them a significant sum of money.

"He really is your good little brother," Wan Dongcheng said sarcastically. The mention of Li Yue reminded him of that day’s incident—he wasn’t treated as a brother-in-law at home, nor respected outside.

It was just some filthy lucre at home.

Li Shiping frowned, "Dongcheng, why do you have such a big problem with Xiaoyue? He has been really good to us, always considering our needs. He’s afraid we might be short of money and often..."

Wan Dongcheng, his face growing green, interrupted her, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. If he really cared about us, he wouldn’t just hand out a bit of charity like giving alms to beggars."

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