"Hey brat, what are you up to?"
"It’s Little Yama’s wife calling." The kid sulked, "Will Little Yama beat up?"
Xu Yingshan didn’t believe it at all. He picked up his son and threatened, "I’ll skin you alive."
"Boohoo... I don’t want to be skinned alive."
"Stop crying."
"Little Yama’s wife asked to call you."
"What?" Xu Yingshan looked at the phone, saw it was lit up, picked it up, and heard a woman’s voice.
"Hello, is this my cousin? I’m Sheng Ning."
"Ah ah ah..." Xu Yingshan shouted excitedly, casually tossing the kid to his buddy, saying excitedly, "It’s my sister-in-law! Great, you and my cousin haven’t called or written back for so long. Uncle and Auntie keep on talking about you two!" Mainly about when they can have a chubby baby boy.
"I’ve been really busy lately, so I haven’t had ti to call my parents."
"No worries, no worries, Uncle and Auntie are just ntioning it casually." Xu Yingshan felt very satisfied with his sister-in-law, considering how warmly she referred to her in-laws as mom and dad. His wife had been married for years and their son was already so big, yet she’d never called his parents that.
"Can you call mom and dad to the phone?"
"Sure, wait there, I’ll run over to get them. Hang up the phone first, then call again in ten minutes."
"Okay!"
Xu Yingshan hung up and turned to run to Xu Xianxiong’s house, shouting loudly along the way, "Uncle, your daughter-in-law is calling back, Auntie hurry up and answer the phone."
Xu Xianxiong was at the doorway working on so small vegetable seedlings, planning to plant them when it rained. Upon hearing Xu Yingshan, he imdiately stood up and dashed into the house, "Wife, wife, hurry, Ningning’s calling back."
For a full three months, the kids hadn’t made a single call. Only before the New Year did they write a letter, saying everything was fine in it. They didn’t believe it at all; if everything was fine, why hadn’t there been any news about getting pregnant?
The village neighbors said Sheng Ning was young and a dancer in the Song and Dance Troupe, surely unwilling to have children early. If your Little Yama wants kids, he might have to wait until forty. Had they known, they wouldn’t have married Sheng Ning.
What’s the use of being pretty? If she doesn’t give Old Xu Family grandchildren, it’s all for nothing.
Such rumors were everywhere, and it made Xu Xianxiong so anxious he almost got sick. Thankfully, Zhao Lanzi never believed it. Since the daughter-in-law promised her face to face to have children soon, she decided to trust that.
She refused to be an old-fashioned, evil mother-in-law.
"Wife, hurry up, hurry up." Xu Xianxiong rushed into the house, where Zhao Lanzi was stitching shoe soles, and he grabbed the soles to put shoes on her.
"Go, go... get away, who needs you to put shoes on ?" Zhao Lanzi looked at him with disdain, "How many tis have I told you? We have a daughter-in-law now, can you be a bit more proper? Stop acting undignified for your age."
Xu Yingshan was dumbfounded, "How am I undignified? The daughter-in-law is calling, are you answering or not?" If it weren’t for Uncle’s face, he would have gone to answer it himself. However, if he rushed to answer when the daughter-in-law called, what would people say? The village rumors would fly again.
"Of course, I’ll go." Zhao Lanzi said, getting off the kang and putting on her shoes without missing a beat, then swiftly led the way to the small shop.
Xu Yingshan had already reached the doorway, "Auntie, Sister-in-law said she’d call in ten minutes."
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