Salted Fish Lady Loves to Eat Melons

Chapter 38 Eat with Tears

Wen Qingwan looked at Xiao Jin speechlessly, and complained in her heart: I've seen narcissistic people, but I've never seen anyone as narcissistic as you.

"My wife, you are looking at me like this. Is there something dirty on my face?"

Xiao Jin gently touched his handsome face, his gentle eyes filled with smiles.

In fact, he was thinking in his heart: The little girl really likes me the most. Even before we have a meal together, she would stare at me in a daze!
Unfortunately, Wen Qingwan didn't know what Xiao Jin was thinking. She said in surprise, "I found that your skin is whiter than before."

"Really? My wife is so cute, her lips are as sweet as honey, are you in love with your husband?"

"Bah - you're being too sentimental." Wen Qingwan said with a sullen face, almost rolling her eyes.

"I am not a sentimental husband. I only love you in this life." He said affectionately.

Wen Qingwan turned her little face away, not looking at him, and stopped talking.

He liked her disdainful look and always wanted to make her laugh, but he was afraid of scaring her.

He will always love her, protect her, and give her a warm and happy home. For him, being able to marry her is the greatest satisfaction.

So he changed the subject: "My wife, how about you wait for me to go to the Shangshu Mansion tomorrow to help the second son propose marriage?"

"You're not going to fight, why are you going? I asked a matchmaker to take the middle child and some eight-year-old stepbrothers with me."

"Madam, please be careful. If the Yun family disagrees with this marriage, you can use your status as a husband to suppress them."

He reached out and gently stroked her long, thick black hair, greedily sniffing the subtle fragrance that belonged to her, his eyes full of affection and doting.

"I understand. I'm going to wash up." Wen Qingwan was not used to being too close to him.

"Go ahead. I've already prepared some hot water for you. Go soak for a while while I make the bed."

"Don't you have a maid?"

"My husband doesn't like others entering our bedroom." Xiao Jin acted as if it was a matter of course, which made Wen Qingwan speechless.

Early the next morning.

When Wen Qingwan woke up, Xiao Jin had already gone to court.

The round-faced maid at the door heard the noise and pushed the door open and asked, "Madam, shall I help you wash up now?"

"Don't come in. Go to the side room and prepare some hot water. I'm going to get up and wash up in the side room."

The men didn't like maids to enter their bedrooms, but she was used to being served by maids since she was a child, so she could only go to the side room next door to wash.

Wen Qingwan washed up, dressed neatly and went to the front hall. Everyone was waiting for her, and when they saw her, they greeted her loudly: "Good morning, sister-in-law."

"Good morning, everyone. Grandma, father, and mother have been waiting for a long time. Let's start having breakfast."

Wen Qingwan stood in the main seat and greeted everyone. She saw the matchmaker sitting next to Xiao Laoer at a glance.

"Good morning, Wan'er. You are punctual every day. We just arrived too." Old Madam Xiao said kindly.

As she gets older, she likes the hustle and bustle of life. Watching her grandchildren wolfing down their food these days, her appetite has improved a lot.

Before, the family had to drink white porridge from time to time, and the grandchildren were probably malnourished and each one was thinner than the other.

Old Madam Xiao looked at her youngest granddaughter opposite her. She was already three years old but her body was very petite.

Chen's eyes were particularly large, and one could clearly see the fear of her grandmother in them.

Because the granddaughter's biological mother, Wang, used her dowry to support a large group of people in the Marquis's Mansion, and she had to cook exquisite food every day to please her and the Marquis's son.

There are several grandchildren in the house who are fifteen or sixteen years old. They are so thin that they are just skin wrapped around their bones. How can she have the face to come to the hall to eat!

She was used to a life of luxury, and she would be hungry even if she didn't eat meat, so she could only hide in her yard every day to eat meat. After all, she felt guilty eating alone, so she could only claim to the outside world that she liked to eat vegetarian food and chant Buddhist scriptures.

On the day of marrying her eldest grandson, Aunt Gui, who was by her side, secretly looked at her dowry. Old Madam Xiao was devastated.

Everyone thought the Marquis' Mansion would finally fall into her hands, but she turned out to be capable of making her decadent eldest grandson stand up again.

Not only did the mansion have three meals a day, but every meal had meat. The more Mrs. Xiao thought about it, the happier she became. "Wan'er, you're too thin. Eat more."

"Thank you, grandma. You should eat more too." Wen Qingwan said politely.

"Mother is just partial to me. How can she be thin? It's He'er who is really thin." Mrs. Xiao Wang muttered in dissatisfaction.

"Who can you blame for He'er's thinness? Haven't you been the head of the family these years? If you make Wan'er unhappy, I don't think you will want to eat at the table tomorrow!"

The old marquis quickly swallowed the food in his mouth, took the time to criticize his young wife, and then buried his head in eating.

Seeing tears in Xiao Wangshi's eyes, Wen Qingwan thought she would lose her appetite, but she continued to eat voraciously.

Her appetite was not affected at all by her husband's accusations, so why should she ask for scolding?
Wen Qingwan could see that her father-in-law, the Marquis, actually lacked love, and he seemed to be helping his mother to scold his wife.

In fact, he just doesn't want his mother to scold him, which is a cowardly escape behavior.

This is consistent with his character of relying on his looks to make a living.

Since marrying into the Marquis's Mansion, Xiao Wangshi has been trying to please her mother-in-law and husband, and always acts according to the moods of the mother and son.

If you do that for too long, you will lose yourself. Relationships gained by flattery will not last long and you will become very tired.

Xiao Wangshi did not understand this logic. Since she was a child, she wanted to stand out, find a good marriage, and become a phoenix.

But she did not consider whether she had the ability to do so, and after being the head of the family for several years, she worked herself to the point of being like a workhorse.

She almost couldn't survive, so she shirked her power as the head of the household. Now that she's no longer in charge, she feels a little more relaxed and has the energy to blame Old Madam Xiao for being partial to her.

Seeing Xiao Wangshi wanting to eat even with tears in her eyes, Wen Qingwan was speechless. She would never sympathize with her again.

Looking at Xiao Wangshi at this moment, Wen Qingwan felt as if she was seeing herself in her previous life.

She understood Xiao Wangshi's feelings very well, as she had always been trying to please her parents and brothers when she was a child.

After getting married, she had to humbly please the Crown Prince and Crown Princess, as well as the Emperor and Empress.

Alas! The past is too painful to recall!
Wen Qingwan sipped the shredded chicken porridge. Adding ginger and green onions not only added color but also satisfied the taste buds.

The tenderness and deliciousness of the shredded chicken, combined with the rich carbohydrates of grains, make up a nutritionally balanced dish.

It brings a sense of peace and joy to people, not to mention the young men in the mansion wolfing down the food.

Even the bickering father-in-law and stepmother were reluctant to continue the quarrel and instead drank the shredded chicken porridge first.

The boys and girls were whispering to each other, and occasionally glanced at her.

Wen Qingwan was certain that if she had not married into the family, the brothers in this marquisate would have had more than thirty different minds.

That gap might be even bigger than the cracks in the earth's crust.

"Sister-in-law, we are full. Shall we set off now?" Xiao Laoer asked impatiently.

"Have you prepared the gift?" Wen Qingwan asked with a smile.

"Ah! A meeting gift?" Xiao Lao Er was surprised.

They had nothing in their house, so they always went to my grandparents' house empty-handed and brought back food.

(End of this chapter)