Joyful Motherhood in a Rural Family

chapter 48

“Okay, Mom won’t cry!”

Looking at Di Xuan’s reddening eyes, Liu Sisi finally managed to calm her emotions.

“Xuan’er, tell me what happened earlier? How did you end up fighting with Little Chubby?”

Di Xuan lowered his head and clenched his fists without speaking.

Di Ying, who was standing next to him, wiped her tears incessantly. “Mom, it’s all Little Chubby’s fault! He chased us siblings and said we were untrained bastards born from a mother! When my brother told him to stop, he kept on chasing and cursing at us, then my brother started fighting with him, wooo…”

So that was the reason!

Liu Sisi felt a sour pang in her heart and couldn’t help but hug both children tightly.

She declared resolutely, “You two remember this! Your birth mother is watching over you from heaven. You have two mothers who love you, and that makes you much happier than them. If anyone dares to bully you again, even if it costs everything, Mom will fight for justice for you. Do you understand?”

“Mom, we understand.” Di Ying wiped her tears. Di Xuan also nodded vigorously.

After the mother and children had been affectionate for a while, Liu Sisi started to cook dinner.

“Mom, I’ll make a fire for you,” Di Xuan said to Liu Sisi, a rare initiative on his part.

“Alright, make sure the fire is big enough.”

Liu Sisi was naturally happy that the child was finally willing to talk to her.

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Dinner was simple. Liu Sisi washed the wild vegetables she had picked, blanched them in boiled water, and prepared a cold dish. Some buns were left over from the ones she had made for Di Yelei to take as lunch, so she steamed them again, serving them with rice porridge, both satisfying and tasty. Secretly, she resolved to get a small stone mill, which could be used to make soy milk to drink, bean paste for buns, and coarse cereals into flour for pancakes – how many benefits in one!

After the three of them had eaten their fill and cleaned up, it was gradually getting dark. Liu Sisi boiled some hot water for Di Xuan to take a bath first.

The new bathing room built by Di Yelei was next to the firewood room, and after Liu Sisi was scared by the snake last time, he had sprinkled realgar all around the room and gathered a lot of mugwort and calamus to ward off mosquitoes and evil spirits.

After the two children had finished bathing, Liu Sisi busily coaxed YingEr to sleep. After a long time of fussing, it was finally completely dark outside.

After carefully closing the courtyard door, Liu Sisi carried the hot water into the bathing room.

People in this place didn’t like to bathe every day, thinking that it would drain their energy. However, Liu Sisi was already used to daily bathes and felt itchy all over if she didn’t.

She slowly removed her coat and lowered her head to start taking off her shoes and socks.

A sneaky figure quickly approached the gate of the Di Residence and pushed it with both hands, but the tightly closed door remained closed.

He spat on the ground and quietly walked to the side of the courtyard wall, where he leaped up and grabbed the edge of the wall. With a flip and a kick, he jumped over the wall.

“Thud!”

The sudden sound of something heavy hitting the ground in the courtyard made Liu Sisi stop removing her shoes and socks and unconsciously ask aloud.