CHAPTER 235: CHAPTER 235: REGRET

Although Yu Xiaolian was speaking to Sun Dalin, her eyes were glancing at Sun Dalin’s wife.

Yu Xiaolian thought Sun Dalin’s wife, as the main person in the incident, would step up and explain a few words, but unexpectedly, from start to finish, Sun Dalin’s wife didn’t say a word and acted as if it weren’t her business.

Instead, it was Sun Manbo who assured Yu Xiaolian that he would no longer hit the child.

Sun Siye returned the cane to Sun Si Nai, "This thing is quite useful, get me one tomorrow."

Yu Xiaolian secretly laughed; her great uncle was indeed quite lovable.

Yu Xiaolian held Sun Qiuxue with one hand and Sun Dongxue with the other, but then worriedly called Sun Manbo’s wife to join them in the car too.

She feared that once these people were in the car, Sun Manbo’s wife would end up getting scolded.

With three more people in the car, it was a bit crowded. Yu Xiaolian really wanted to kick Sun Dalin’s little grandsons out of the car. Isn’t it favoritism? Isn’t it gender bias? Then let your precious grandsons walk instead.

Ah, she could think like this but couldn’t actually do it. After all, those little kids don’t know anything, and they haven’t done anything wrong.

To make the car more comfortable, Yu Xiaolian seated the three of them in two separate cars.

The two little girls got into the car driven by Su Jingchen.

Sun Manbo’s wife got into the car driven by Sun Sanji.

When Sun Manbo’s wife got onto the car, Yu Xiaolian asked Sun Manyu nearby to squeeze in, but Sun Manyu refused, saying it couldn’t fit.

She clearly didn’t want to let Sun Manbo’s wife on, and Yu Xiaolian straightforwardly gave no face to Sun Manyu, "If it’s too crowded, you can come down. You’ve already reached adulthood, so don’t squeeze with these younger ones."

Sun Manyu refused, "My third sister-in-law and second sister-in-law are also adults, and they are sitting, aren’t they? Why should I come down? I’m not coming down!"

Normally, Sun Manbo’s wife is not only afraid of her mother-in-law but also this tough sister-in-law. Seeing Sun Manyu angry, she quickly told Yu Xiaolian to let Sun Manyu sit, and she wouldn’t sit.

Was Yu Xiaolian willing?

"Come down!"

Sun Manyu turned away, not moving.

"This is my carriage, I’m telling you to come down!" Yu Xiaolian escalated her tone and repeated once again.

Everyone’s eyes on the car all focused on Sun Manyu; she felt a bit shamed.

"Fine, I’ll come down. It’s just a broken carriage; what’s the big deal?" Sun Manyu grabbed her belongings and jumped off the carriage with a stuck-up attitude.

Yu Xiaolian let Sun Manbo’s wife on the car, and only then did they continue traveling.

With two more people added to the carriage, Yu Xiaolian sat outside the carriage, one on each side of Su Jingchen.

From inside the carriage, Sun Dongxue’s voice could be heard thanking Yu Xiaolian, to which Yu Xiaolian gently replied with "Um".

When night fell and they arrived at the town, Yu Xiaolian found an inn where the rooms upstairs were 200 wen each, and the ground floor common area was 20 wen per person.

Yu Xiaolian booked two upstairs rooms; she would sleep with several cute kids in one, while Su Jingchen would have his own room.

As for the others, they would sleep in the common area.

Yu Xiaolian hadn’t been able to figure out exactly how many people she was traveling with, but today she finally found out, as the waiter checked each one.

There were a total of forty-nine people: thirty-seven from Sun Siye’s family and twelve from Sun Wu Ye’s family.

Before departing, Yu Xiaolian heard the Sun family say that Sun Siye had a large family, probably sixty or seventy people. Yu Xiaolian asked Sun Si Nai only to find out she had a few daughters and granddaughters who hadn’t traveled with them but instead escaped towards Jinzhou with their husbands.

Forty-nine people. Yu Xiaolian wanted Sun Manyi, Sun Wu Ye’s three-year-old granddaughter, to go upstairs and sleep with her, but the little one was clinging to her mother and wouldn’t go with Yu Xiaolian.

Yu Xiaolian had no choice but to ask Sun Sanji’s wife to go up with her, carrying Sun Manyi along.

Regarding the granddaughters of Sun Siye’s family, Yu Xiaolian had a general impression, calling only Sun Manbo’s wife and her two daughters.

Bringing these three was not for any other reason, but she was afraid Sun Dalin’s wife would bully them again.

Sun Daji’s wife approached Yu Xiaolian, saying the bag of flour was not practical for the journey and suggested using the inn’s kitchen to turn it into steamed buns, asking if the inn owner would allow it.

Yu Xiaolian felt that bag of flour taking up space in the car and hard to turn into foods during the trip. At the time, she thought about making gruel, but porridge was far more convenient than gruel.

Yu Xiaolian said, "I’ll go negotiate with the shopkeeper."

In the end, Yu Xiaolian paid two coins, and the innkeeper agreed to let them use the kitchen.

As a result, several women did not get a chance to rest but went to the kitchen to make buns.

When the buns were ready, Sun Daji’s wife brought them to Yu Xiaolian. Yu Xiaolian then found that these were not buns.

These were tough flour buns.

These things were fine just out of the pot, but by the next day, they’d be as hard as rocks.

She blamed herself for not reminding them enough; she thought they would steam buns.

Sun Daji’s wife didn’t notice the disdain in Yu Xiaolian’s eyes and said carelessly, "These tough buns are tasty and filling."

Yu Xiaolian pointed at the tray of tough buns, saying to Sun Sanji’s wife and Sun Manbo’s wife, "Eat up, eat up. Eat well to sleep well."

Sun Sanji’s wife asked Yu Xiaolian, "Aren’t you eating?"

"Eat, why wouldn’t I eat? One is enough for me, you eat." Yu Xiaolian casually picked up one and took a bite. Let’s just say, when you’re hungry, anything tastes good.

She even tasted a bit of sweetness while eating this bun.

Yu Xiaolian only ate one bun before she started setting up the bed. She felt that ever since she left home, the weight she had managed to gain had disappeared again.

Sun Manbo’s wife nibbled on the bun in small bites; ever since marrying Sun Manbo, she hadn’t eaten anything made from white flour. Even during New Year’s, when her mother-in-law steamed a pot of white flour buns, there was none for her and her two daughters.

She had considered splitting from the family, but her brother-in-law wasn’t married yet, and her younger sister-in-law hadn’t married either, so her mother-in-law wouldn’t agree to a separation.

Moreover, her husband listened to his mother too much. She felt that even if they split, they wouldn’t live peacefully. Now she didn’t hope for anything but hoped she could bear a son so that her mother-in-law would treat her better.

But since she gave birth to Qiuxue, nearly four years had passed, and her belly had shown no signs.

Sun Manbo’s wife cursed her own belly for being useless.

Sun Sanji’s wife actually felt quite sympathetic towards Sun Manbo’s wife. Living in the same village, she’d heard about how Sun Manbo’s wife was bullied by her mother-in-law.

After eating, Sun Sanji’s wife comforted Sun Manbo’s wife for a while, then laid down bedding to sleep with her young daughter, Manyi.

Sun Manbo’s wife also lay down with her two daughters. In her heart, she envied Sun Sanji’s wife for having no mother-in-law, although it’s her father-in-law who runs the household, he’s a reasonable man.

Not only did she have father-in-law and mother-in-law overseeing her, but she also had a grandmother-in-law. In the quiet night, Sun Manbo’s wife once again secretly cried.

She regretted marrying into the Sun Family more than once.