Chapter 16: Live A Small Life
Zhou Yuan was angry and ignored people, his hands and feet were flexible enough to clean up the house, and Wei Cheng followed him around. When Zhou Yuan took a step, he followed with a step, Zhou Yuan carried water for washing, and he hurriedly took the bucket for fetching water.
Zhou Yuan was actually not angry but a little embarrassed, and used anger to cover up. Moreover, Wei Cheng followed behind him and coaxed him, and the little anger in his heart was long gone.
“Yuan Yuan, do we still have to clean?” Wei Cheng looked at the sun and counted the hours.
“We need to clean, many places in the house have not been cleaned.” Zhou Yuan twisted the linen cloth and continued to wipe the table.
“But later, we will enter the county to go to my father and mother’s house, and it will be too late to go later.” He realizes that his wife is already distracted and Wei Cheng has to remind him.
In fact, if it were in the past, he would go alone, at most, let Mother Zhou scold him with a few words, no pain or itch for him, but he didn’t want his wife to think he was ashamed of him.
Zhou Yuan froze in place when he heard the statement, and the rag in his hand fell to the ground.
Wei Cheng picked it up suspiciously and asked, “Yuan Yuan, what’s wrong?” ”
Zhou Yuan turned around, his face anxious and panicked, “I didn’t toast my father and mother tea in the morning, why didn’t you remind me?” He even forgot about toasting tea to his in-laws, wouldn’t they think that he had no one to teach him manners growing up?!
Why didn’t his husband remind him earlier?!
Wei Cheng soothed him, “Don’t worry, we just need to go over for dinner, and then toast tea, this is what my mother ordered yesterday.” ”
Zhou Yuan, “Really? ”
Wei Cheng, “Really, I won’t lie to you!” ”
Zhou Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.
“I’ll go back to the house and change my clothes.” Zhou Yuan didn’t want to be seen in rags, he turned around and went back to the room to change clothes.
As for the new clothes he wore in the morning- when he had to clean the house, Zhou Yuan changed into the clothes he brought himself, and since he wanted to go to the Wei family, he still had to change back into new clothes.
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“Mother, why haven’t the two of them come yet, it’s really unruly for the new daughter-in-law to come to see you so late on the first day.”
Wei Cheng’s sister-in-law didn’t wash the dishes, the meat was not cut, and the kitchen was not cleaned up- she waited for Wei Cheng’s wife to come, work and cook, and let him know that he should respect this sister-in-law when he saw her.
Originally, Aunt Zhu, a servant woman, shared the workload with her, but Aunt Zhu was asked by Mother Wei to accompany Wei He home. Mother Wei gave her a lot of things, and Wei He couldn’t carry them all, since there was no carriage, she let Aunt Zhu carry some and send her back.
“Okay, even if no one came, can’t you cook by yourself, what are you talking about.”
“Mother, I am not complaining blindly, this is the rule, the first day the bride enters the family, the meals are cooked by him, I am dissatisfied with my mother-in-law.”
“If the people don’t come, we are still counting on you, and when A-Liang and Dabao come back, if you don’t cook for them, are you gonna starve them?”
Mother Wei didn’t expect the wife of the second son to come to the door to cook, and she was very dissatisfied with that rule, but she said yesterday that they would come to eat, and she didn’t explain clearly that she wanted him to cook. She knew that the second child was dull-tempered, and there was no elder in the family, so how could she expect the newly married couple to know about such rules?
Wei Cheng’s sister-in-law did not dare to disobey Mother Wei, besides, when her husband comes back from the store, and her son comes back from school, they had to eat, and she had to cook if she didn’t want to.
In her heart, she secretly scolded people for not obeying rules and was reluctant to cook.
Wei Cheng and Zhou Yuan arrived at the Wei family earlier than his eldest brother Wei Liang, and when his sister-in-law saw them, she said in a strange way, “Yo, the second brother and sister-in-law are really on time, are you coming just to eat?”
Even if Wei Cheng understood her mockery, his face still did not change color, “Sister-in-law, my mother asked us to come back for dinner.”
Wei Cheng’s sister-in-law choked on her words.
Wei Cheng’s sister-in-law scolded: What to eat, the cook didn’t come to cook, but they have the nerve to come to eat.”
Zhou Yuan’s expression tightened, and he was flustered in his heart and wanted to explain, but there was no way to explain, it was he who was late.
Wei Cheng squeezed his wife’s hand to comfort him, and said to his sister-in-law, “Didn’t my sister-in-law cook?” ”
“Nothing’s cooked!”
Wei Cheng’s sister-in-law’s shout was heard by Wei Liang, who had just entered the door, and he took Wei Dabao’s hand as they had just gone back from the academy, and asked with this displeasure, “A-Fang, you didn’t cook tonight?” ”
Wei Cheng’s sister-in-law’s full name is Wushi Fang.
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“Mom, I’m hungry! I want to eat!” Wei Dabao shouted.
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“Big brother.” Zhou Yuan shouted along.
Wei Liang said with a smile, “Second brother and sister-in-law are here, sit in the house, father and mother should be waiting in the house.” ”
Entering the house, Father Wei and Mother Wei sat in the main seat and waited, Wei Cheng took Zhou Yuan’s little hand, and the two greeted the two elders together, “Father, mother.”
Father Wei said, “Second son, you are back.”
Mother Wei hummed, and seeing Wei Liang and Wei Dabao returning, she directly ordered Wei Cheng’s sister-in-law to serve the meal.
Zhou Yuan was late, his heart was uneasy, he was afraid that the elders would not like him, and when he heard that it was time to serve the meal, he went to the kitchen to help, and when Wei Cheng saw his wife go to the kitchen to help, and he also followed.
In the past, when Wei Cheng returned to the Wei family, he also helped with work, so everyone else was not surprised.
Because there were not many people at the Wei family’s dinner table, there were no separate tables, there was meat and fish on the dinner table, and the rice was mixed grains not pure ones.
Half of the fish and meat on the dinner table went into Wei Dabao’s bowl, Wei Dabao lowered his head to eat, and the rice in his rice bowl, the meat they let him pick off the table were all difficult meat, so he directly started to gnaw on it, and Mother Wei and Wei Cheng’s sister-in-law were taking care of him.
Wei Cheng concentrated on serving food to his wife, if he didn’t pick any meat, his wife would only eat two mouthfuls of green vegetables and no meat. Wei Cheng’s frequent actions of picking food led his sister-in-law to stare, while Father Wei and Wei Liang buried their heads in eating.
Wei Mu also noticed that and she didn’t like the second son’s frequent picking of dishes, but she didn’t say anything.
Mother Wei, “Second son, your father and I are old, we can’t do heavy work, your eldest brother is busy with shop business, your sister-in-law has to take care of Dabao, and the house has to be taken care of, yesterday I learned that the fields at home are not taken care of, and the weeds are growing.”
“You also planted the fields in the village before, and you also have to go back to the village to farm, so you take care of them together, which is also the work you used to do. Your eldest brother also has a share of your father and mother in the field, so you should help us take care of it, and your wife can also help you. ”
Sarcasm flashed in Wei Cheng’s eyes.
He had thought that Mother Wei would ask him to help with farming, but he didn’t expect it to come true.
He was aggrieved for the original owner, but in fact, there was also a reason why Mother Wei felt that it was easy to speak, it was because the original owner did not fight against them.
But Wei Cheng is not the original owner, he has taken over his body, he should be filial and will be filial, it is no problem to provide for the elderly, but he does not need to serve others.
Zhou Yuan was also surprised by Mother Wei’s words.
They all divided the family but is letting the separated son help the family farm, even if he didn’t know the situation of the Wei family, Zhou Yuan felt aggrieved for his husband.
“Dad and eldest brother also agree with what my mother said?” Wei Cheng picked up the rice with chopsticks, and did not respond to Mother Wei’s words, but asked this instead.
Father Wei stopped his chopsticks, thought for a while and said, “Son, what your mother means is what I mean.”
Wei Liang took a bite of the rice, and before he could chew all the rice, he said, “Second brother, this, I listen to mother.” ”
He listened to Mother Wei, he wished that someone would help with the farming, and the rice and vegetables grown could be eaten at home, so that he could save a sum of money.
Wei Cheng was half full, put down the bowl and chopsticks, and looked at Mother Wei, “Mother, I’m afraid I can’t help with this.” ”
Ignoring the slightly angry expressions of the others, Wei Cheng said, “The fields under my name are rented out so I won’t be going back to the village to farm, I plan to start some small business, go to the streets, and sell small goods.”
A street vendor is a peddler who walks through the streets.
As soon as Wei Yuan’s words came out, the Wei family’s expressions were different.
Mother Wei and Father Wei were unbelieving. His eldest brother and sister-in-law thought he was being whimsical, a dull and silent person doing business. Is it not a dumb man versus a blind man, practically useless!
Can Wei Mu force it? She couldn’t force it, she was just angry. Wei Cheng was divided out the family, and she could not directly order him not to be a merchant and help his brother farm.
Compared to Wei Cheng’s work as a merchant, she was more angry that the second son has changed and did not listen to her.
Once people get used to something, they think that it will always be like that, just like him always obeying her orders.
“Second brother, after eating this meal, you are officially divided out, and your life will depend on yourself in the future, your father and mother can’t control you.”
The meal was still not finished, and there was no more to eat, so Wei Cheng took Zhou Yuan away.
They were not even able to drink and toast tea.
On the way back, Wei Cheng had been silent, and Zhou Yuan looked worried.
Seeing that the person beside him was worried, Wei Cheng squeezed his wife’s hand, which had rough marks left by the work but was also soft.
“Yuan Yuan, I’m going to be a merchant, do you think I won’t be able to sell things?”
Zhou Yuan blurted out, “It can definitely be sold!” ”
Wei Cheng chuckled, “Well, my wife is right. ”
Zhou Yuan saw Wei Cheng return to his previous smile, and his heart was relieved.
Wei Cheng was not sad in his heart, he just sighed.
Those who cannot get along well with you, even if they are a family, will never be like a family.
The original owner just couldn’t blend in like that.
He, a foreign life, was even more unable to blend in.
He just doesn’t know if Father Wei and Mother Wei will be sad if they know that the original son is gone.
This is impossible to guess.
He had no family before, and the family he has now was not considered a family. Fortunately, he has a new family in this life.
The two followed the path they came from, step by step, in the direction of home.
“Yuan Yuan, let’s go home.”
“Well, go home.”
“Yuan Yuan, I haven’t eaten enough, you go back and cook some noodles to eat.”
“Okay, I’ll cook it when I go back.”
“Yuan Yuan, let’s continue to do last night’s things tonight.”
What happened last night?
Blushing –
Zhou Yuan: “………”
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On the third day, Zhou Yuan returned to his family.
Unlike going to the Wei family where Wei Cheng didn’t carry anything. Going to his father and mother-in-law’s house, Wei Cheng bought a chicken, bought five catties of meat, bought twenty catties of rice noodles, bought peanuts and melon seeds, and wanted to go to the county town of Baixiangzhai to buy two boxes of pastries, but was stopped by Zhou Yuan from going.
Wei Cheng came with so many things, Father Zhou and Mother Zhou looked stupid, and they also had the joy of being valued in their hearts.
However, it seems that this thing is a bit too much.
When the nephew and niece saw Wei Cheng, they shouted happily, “Hello, uncle.”
Their favorite is this uncle who gave them red envelopes twice, and this uncle has snacks every time he comes.
Wei Cheng took out peanut and melon seeds, “Good boy, share this with the others,”
The child cheered and took the snack to eat.
“Cheng-er, why do you buy so many things to bring over.” It’s chicken, meat and white rice, and white noodles, how much does it cost, my son-in-law doesn’t seem to have much family background- Mother Zhou is worried about how these two little ones will live.
“Yuan Yuan, why didn’t you stop him, and let your husband bring so many things.” Mother Zhou glared at her ger.
Zhou Yuan pouted, “I only saw it when my husband bought it back so I couldn’t stop it.” ”
If he knew, he would have stopped him.
Father Zhou waited for a long time, and finally saw his ger and son-in-law come back, he was very happy, “Okay, you nagged early in the morning about when people will come back, now our Yuan Yuan and son-in-law are back, you are nagging again, our ger and son-in-law have gone a long way, and you still don’t let people go back to the house to rest.”
Mother Zhou glared at Father Zhou angrily, she chanted, better than someone who began to nag since last night, thinking about whether our ger is doing well, and whether he and our son-in-law are good to Brother……..
After all, the ger who has been spoiled for more than ten years is married, and it is normal to be worried in his heart, and Mother Zhou did not debunk him.
Father Zhou smiled: “Son-in-law, do you drink? Accompany me and your big brothers to drink.”
Wei Cheng: “……..”
Looking at his wife’s gaze, it was like asking: Yesterday I asked if father-in-law drinks, didn’t you say that he didn’t drink?
So he didn’t buy wine.
Zhou Yuan blinked innocently, his father did not drink, but his three brothers did.
The three brothers of the Zhou family also enthusiastically pulled people, “Brother-in-law, come, let’s drink and chat.”
Unable to refuse, Wei Cheng was ready to be drunk.
Wei Cheng walked forward, looking at Zhou Yuan with pitiful eyes, and Zhou Yuan covered his mouth and smiled secretly. Even Mother Zhou saw it, and she was pleased that her ger and son-in-law were warm and caring to one another.
The men all went in to drink, and Zhou Yuan’s three sisters-in-law leaned forward to see Wei Cheng’s gifts and the three of them couldn’t close their mouths with their smiles.
First sister-in-law, “Our brother-in-law really values our family Yuan Yuan, and he carries so many things back to the family.” This can be eaten for several meals, and white rice and white noodles can also be eaten for ten days to a half month.
Second sister-in-law, “Yes, Yuan Yuan really didn’t marry the wrong person.” There are white rice and white noodles to eat, which I haven’t eaten for a long time.
Third sister-in-law: “Our family Yuan Yuan is the most blessed.” So many things, how nice it would be if she had them!
Mother Zhou glared at them secretly.
One of them asked, “Mom, what dishes are going to be cooked today?”
Mother Zhou, “Today I will cook, you three give me a hand.” When her ger comes back to thor home, he will definitely try to go down to the kitchen himself.
“Old man, you go to the kitchen and get some wine and food to bring to the elder’s house.”
“Okay!”
“You two take the stuff in and put it away.”
“Yes!”
Mother Wei pulled Zhou Yuan back to his room before he got married, Zhou Yuan’s room had not been changed, and it was kept for the time being.
Mother Zhou pulled her ger to ask if Wei Cheng was good to him and how he got along with the Wei family. As soon as Zhou Yuan spoke, he said that Wei Cheng treated him very well and carefully, and bought him new clothes, and when it came to the Wei family, his words were a little intermittent, but he still told Mother Zhou about things.
Mother Zhou wrinkled her eyebrows after listening: “……. The Wei family is indeed excessive, but fortunately, the family is divided, they won’t interfere too much whether the life is good or not. Don’t worry too much, I see that my son-in-law is a stable person and will handle it well. ”
Zhou Yuan nodded: “Mom, I know.”
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The three brothers of the Zhou family did not get Wei Cheng drunk in the end, not because they showed mercy, but because the three of them combined did not drink one-third of Wei Cheng’s alcohol consumption.
Wei Cheng’s amount of alcohol intake is accumulated. He rarely drinks, because drinking too much is bad for his health. If he drinks, his drinking capacity will definitely be excessive.
Wei Cheng didn’t step too much on the faces of the three elder brothers, pretending to be a little drunk, so the three of them let him go and didn’t pour him more alcohol.
After lunch, the two went home.
Officially start the days that belong to the two of them.
Interlocking fingers.
Walking on countryside roads—
The wind blows gently.
That wei family is just too much. “Divide out but still farm our land and we do nothing but reap the benefits from your work. “
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They are so cute, like a pair of lovebirds lol
Thanks for the chapter! Those 2 looked like they were on a date at the end of the chapter, lol
Holding hands! How cute! Thanks for the chapters!
Can’t wait till Wei Cheng becomes a rich business man to rub it in the Wei Family’s faces!
So far this story reminds me of The Only Favorite Ugly Husband which I love so I have high hopes.
my brudar I love that story and you are correct sanity in overrated
🙏 Thank you for this chapter 🙏 I love this story❣️🥰❤️💜💕😍❤️🔥💗
I’m sorry about being nitpicky for a free translation on the internet, but what happened with the previous polish? But still, way better than MTL!
Same, some lines are confusing. Like Mother Zhou and Mother Wei are switched a couple of times.
Hm…. I think it would’ve been better if they formed a written contract that they would have nothing to do with each other anymore other than just doing it verbally. But at least the fact that they separated is publicized, so by then it would be hard to cause trouble in the future.
ANYWAY…
Thank u so much for the chapters! Looking forward for more!
Sweet. Thank you
Thank You for the new chapter (｡’▽’｡)♡