Rebirth in the 80s: The Scholar Wife is Cute
Chapter 463 Mother-in-law Visits 4

Chapter 463: Chapter 463 Mother-in-law Visits 4

Li Shiping soothed the child for a while, and when the child stopped crying, she explained, "She’s always used a bottle, she’s never drunk directly from a bowl."

Pan Huiyun curled her lips, "What’s the need for a bottle? I’ve never used a bottle when raising children, look how spoiled she has become."

Knowing her mother-in-law’s temper well, Li Shiping didn’t respond. She held the child and walked up to the table, picked up the bottle, and was about to test the water temperature when Pan Huiyun said, "No need to test, that’s cold water straight from the tap, it won’t scald."

Hearing this, Li Shiping gently scolded, "Mom, how can you let her drink unboiled water?"

"What’s wrong with drinking unboiled water?" Pan Huiyun became unhappy, "Dongcheng grew up drinking unboiled water, and hasn’t he grown up just fine and smart?"

Who didn’t grow up drinking unboiled water?

It’s just the city folks who are fussy, making a fuss over nothing.

"This is a child, she can’t drink unboiled water because it will give her diarrhea," Li Shiping explained.

"What about it?" Pan Huiyun looked disdainful and raised her voice a notch, "Is she more precious than other people?"

A child that’s just a financial burden, I don’t know what there is to treasure.

"What’s going on?" Wan Dongcheng, who had heard the commotion, came out from the house.

"Dongcheng, take me downstairs, I want to go back, I don’t want to stay here any longer. I’m just a country woman who doesn’t understand anything and doesn’t fit in with you all," Pan Huiyun changed her demeanor from just before, appearing exceptionally aggrieved. "I kindly fed the child water, and your wife disdains me for having her drink from a bowl and says I gave her unboiled water. Tell me, didn’t you drink unboiled water every day when you were young? And it didn’t harm you, did it?"

As she spoke, Pan Huiyun started to cry out of self-pity.

Wan Dongcheng’s face darkened, "Mom has come all this way with great difficulty, why are you arguing with her?"

He felt that Li Shiping, just like the Li Family, inherently looked down on country folks and disdained his mother.

"I..." Li Shiping struggled to express her plight. She wasn’t scorning her mother-in-law; she hadn’t said much just now, it was just that it really isn’t good for a child to drink unboiled water. But seeing her husband defending his mother so, she still chose to relent.

It hadn’t been long since she returned from her parents’ home, and if she left again, they’d definitely suspect something.

Given her brother’s temperament, he would surely come looking for trouble with her husband, and by then, the relationship between her husband and her natal family would become even more strained.

Seeing her son defending her, Pan Huiyun’s mood improved, and she no longer insisted on leaving. She took Wan Dongcheng to sit on the sofa and chatted about various family matters, with Wan Dongcheng listening attentively.

Li Shiping boiled a pot of hot water for the child.

Not long after drinking the water, the child fell asleep. Shiping tidied up the bed, placed the child down to sleep, and just as she came out of the room, she overheard her mother-in-law asking her husband for money.

"Dongcheng, your third cousin is getting married over the New Year, and they are asking for a hundred yuan as a bridal price, plus a bicycle. Your uncle is so worried he can’t sleep, thinking about how well-off you are in the city, he came to us for a loan. Your father and I have spent what little money we’ve earned over the years on your education, and the money you sent home has been used to pay debts; where would we find the money to lend him?"

As she spoke, Pan Huiyun sighed heavily, "Everyone thinks you’re a leader in the city, and if we refuse, imagine how embarrassing that would be when you return to the village! So your father and I agreed."

To Pan Huiyun, a hundred yuan was a lot of money in the past, but now she felt that to her son, it meant nothing at all.

Even a single piece of clothing for her daughter-in-law cost more than that.