Yan Funing wanted to say that it was not what they thought, but her mother-in-law did not know that she and Fu Ciyi were only a couple in name.
He had no choice but to say nothing and return to the courtyard to continue practicing boxing.
Fu Ciyi rubbed his fingers several times and paused at the door of the kitchen.
"Nan Yao, please wash the curtains in the east and west wings."
Fu Nanyao: "But I'm going to make the morning meal now, and I have to sew clothes for Bei Mo later."
"It won't take long to wash the curtains."
Without saying a word, Fu Ciyi also returned to the courtyard.
Fu Nanyao took her mother's arm and shook it: "Mom, you heard me, my brother doesn't care about me anymore!"
Wan Niang chuckled and whispered in her daughter's ear: "Your brother is ashamed."
Fu Nanyao laughed, so that was it.
Instructing her to do things seemed to relieve his shyness.
In the courtyard, Yan Funing practices boxing with Fu Beimo.
She figured it out, since her hands were weak, she had to practice her moves first.
As time goes by, the strength will slowly catch up.
Fu Ciyi watched them practice for a while, then went to the woodshed to move a ladder, pulled down the curtains hanging in the east and west wings, and piled them into the courtyard.
After a while, several people practiced boxing and Li Xinheng returned home.
At the same time, Fu Nanyao cooked vegetable rice and asked everyone to have breakfast.
Fu Beimo stared at the rice bowl and muttered: "My sister's breakfast is always pickled rice with vegetables. There is nothing new at all. Can't we change the taste?"
Fu Nanyao choked. She didn't expect that what she said about her sister-in-law would be criticized by her brother today.
Ali said anxiously: "I think it's quite delicious."
Fu Nanyao immediately felt confident: "Listen, it's delicious. Shou Beimo, if you don't want to eat it, don't eat it!"
Yan Funing smiled and shook her head: "I'll make breakfast tomorrow. I can take turns with Nan Yao."
"Okay, my sister-in-law and I will take turns."
Fu Nanyao also wanted to eat the morning meal made by Yan Funing, but she could only cook vegetable pickled rice and vegetable soup for daily meals.
After dinner, Fu Ciyi set off to the village school.
Yan Funing saw that there were curtains piled on the ground, so she took out the big wooden basin and prepared to clean it.
"Sister-in-law, I'll wash it." Fu Nanyao limped over and put the curtain into the big wooden basin.
"You have trouble with your legs and feet, so I'd better wash them."
Yan Funing took a small spoon and was about to sit down, but she heard Fu Nanyao say: "My brother asked me to wash it."
"what?"
"My brother can actually love others, have you noticed? My brother is loving you, sister-in-law!"
Fu Nanyao saw her stunned and sat down on the little boy she pulled over.
Yan Funing reacted: "It hurts. I punched him three times just now, and the back of my hand still hurts."
He pulled out another small spoon and sat down.
Fu Nanyao: "Ah, what's going on?"
Yan Funing talked about her early morning boxing practice: "...Don't misunderstand what you saw in the kitchen. Your brother said that no one would touch me. He squeezed my hand because I hit him, but it didn’t hurt him, it hurt me.”
Of course she didn't want him to touch it.
She said this now because she didn't want Fu Nanyao to continue to misunderstand.
Fu Nanyao pursed her lips, unable to say a word.
What should I say to her brother, this lump of elm wood?
Yan Funing called Fu Beimo and Ali to get water.
The two young men responded and took buckets to the village to collect water from the well next to the big tree.
The aunt and sister-in-law washed the curtains together.
The curtains were hung under the beams, and apart from being stained with dust, there was no dirt on them, so they were cleaned very quickly.
Moreover, the curtain is thin and the weight is not heavy.
Yan Funing took out the small wooden basin and put the two curtains in it.
The two young men were asked to move the water out of the yard and dump the water in the large wooden basin, and then rinse it with clean and Fu Nanyao went to the river to wash.
When you go to the river, you will pass several houses.
Due to Fu Nan's slim legs and feet, the sister-in-law walked slowly.
In the yard of a house along the river, several women were chatting.
"I have to say, if you eat well, you will grow well."
"Wan Niang's lame daughter is pretty, and Wan Niang's daughter-in-law is becoming more and more beautiful."
"Wan Niang's eldest son is so handsome, even her silly son is good-looking."
"Also, they took Ali in. The kid has grown a lot now, and his skin color is much better."
"Yes, it's all because of eating well."
"Look at Wan Niang's daughter-in-law's figure and that butt. She walks with a twist. Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, it's so enviable!"
"She is really good at gaining weight. Her waist is so thin and her butt is so big."
Hearing this, Yan Funing was speechless.
Does she have a natural peach butt? What does it mean to be so big? At this time, a woman stood up and touched her flat buttocks: "I think my butt looks better than hers."
The woman next to me smiled: "You are flat, flat and droopy."
I really can't listen anymore. When these women in the village chat, they don't know what to say. I don't know what they will hear later...
Thinking of this, Yan Funing said to Fu Nanyao: "I'll go to the river to rinse first. You walk slowly."
Fu Nanyao nodded.
Yan Funing walked away quickly.
The conversation between those women reached Fu Nanyao's ears.
"Wan Niang's daughter has a good figure and good looks, but her legs are lame."
"But it is precisely because of the lame leg that the young man in our village has the hope of marrying her."
"All the girls in the city have good figures. I think any boy who marries her in the future will be lucky..."
Hearing this, Fu Nanyao dragged his lame leg and walked quickly.
Not long after Yan Funing squatted down to wash herself, Fu Nanyao also arrived.
"You walk so fast?"
Fu Nanyao pursed her lips: "I don't want to listen to those people who talk openly."
Not long after, the two curtains were rinsed and the aunt and sister-in-law went back.
Fortunately, the women had dispersed by now.
The two of them exhaled one after another.
There are often comments like this in the village. Usually there is no malicious intent and nothing can be done to others.
But after hearing some words, I felt faintly uncomfortable.
Yan Funing passed it after hearing it, but Fu Nanyao remembered it in her heart.
The whole day, Fu Nanyao was worried. - In the evening, the sunset glows beautifully and the village becomes quiet.
Fu Ciyi returned home and carried the food box into the kitchen.
Yan Funing was cooking. When she saw him coming back, she said to him: "Nan Yao is hiding in the room today and hasn't come out. He didn't come to the main room for lunch. You go and persuade him."
Fu Ciyi nodded, put down the food box, and went to the east wing.
As soon as they reached the door of the east wing, they heard Fu Nan say angrily: "They say I have a good figure just because I am lame and I can take advantage of the young men in the village. How can I say this casually?"
She was lame, but her eyes were not lame, so how could she look at the men in the village? Wan Niang advised: "Women in the village just gossip like this, just forget it."
Fu Ciyi paused. It turned out that it was a matter of women chatting, and it was enough for his mother to comfort him.
Then he turned around, but he didn't want to touch the bamboo plaque on the wooden frame with his elbow and make a slight sound, which was heard by his mother.
"Is Ciyi back?"
Fu Nanyao looked out and saw his brother, so he shouted: "Brother, someone said that my sister-in-law has a big butt, are you angry?"
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