Transmigration: From Dragon Princess To Pampered Granddaughter
Chapter 124: What a Coward

Chapter 124: Chapter 124: What a Coward

Originally, the grandmother treated all her grandsons equally. If Dabao or Erbao had anything, her Xiaobao had the same. But now, she seemed to favor the family of second son more!

Indeed, the more sons you have, the higher your status in your matrimonial home!

She prayed to God every child she had in the future would be a boy. At best, she should have two within three years. By then, it would be her turn to step on the second son’s family.

As for the family of the eldest son who didn’t have a son, Li Chunhua never took them seriously.

As she was contemplating this, she saw Zhao Mei secretly give Erni half a piece of egg cake. She frowned, even more, when she saw this.

They treat a loss-making asset as a treasure. It would be peculiar if they could have a son!

Dani, who was eating the egg cake in tiny bites, also noticed this. She handed a bit to her mother and whispered, "Mom, you should eat some."

She had seen that her mom had not eaten a single bite of her cake and had given it all to Erni.

But she didn’t feel jealous, because Erni was starved for a whole day yesterday, and wasn’t able to eat any wild boar meat.

Zhao Mei naturally refused to accept what her daughter offered. She gently pushed the piece back, "Mom’s already eaten, you should eat it yourself."

At that moment, Chen Jiandang silently split his portion in half and gave it to his wife.

Zhao Mei pursed her lips into a smile, accepted it and found that the egg cake tasted better than the meat.

Ma Xiulian pretended not to see the small actions behind the scenes of the eldest son’s family, enjoying the lion’s head Zhou Sini had specially saved for her.

This meal with the lion’s head made her so full for once. She then sat in the yard to digest and make straw shoes.

These days, cloth shoes are not cheap and rural people wear down shoes quickly when working, so aside from the exceptionally cold months of the year, straw shoes made from dried rice straw are worn all year round.

Helian Qiao nestled next to her grandmother. Watching her grandmother skillfully weave a shoe out of dried rice straw, she softly said, "Nana, I want to wear straw shoes too."

The whole family wears straw shoes, only she has not worn straw shoes before.

Hearing her desire in her milky voice, Ma Xiulian coaxed, "Straw shoes can chafe, young children with delicate skin can’t wear them. Next time when I go to town to buy cloth, I will make two pairs of new shoes for Guibao, alright?"

Not only do straw shoes chafe, but the soles are also very soft. It hurts to step on stones. She wouldn’t let her precious Guibao suffer this.

Hearing this, Zhao Mei, who was sitting in the yard making straw shoes, instinctively looked at the straw shoes that Sini was wearing, feeling a slight bitterness in her heart.

Sini is only two months older than Guibao but has been wearing straw shoes since last summer. Her tender little feet were rubbed until they were bleeding in the first few days.

Despite feeling for her, she couldn’t do anything about it because everyone had been through the same thing and had become accustomed to it after wearing them.

This habit doesn’t mean that straw shoes no longer chafe, but the skin on the feet has become rough, and it’s no longer painful.

Yet when the grandmother said that her little niece’s skin was too tender to wear straw shoes, she couldn’t help feeling uncomfortable.

Seeing her staring at the straw shoes on Sini’s feet with a sorrowful look on her face, Zhou Zhaodi wondered if his eldest sister-in-law would make the same mistake as Li Chunhua?

Therefore, she quickly nudged her elbow against hers and urged, "Eldest sister-in-law, go to the kitchen and boil some hot water for bathing later."

"Okay."

Zhao Mei came back to her senses, put down the half-woven straw shoe, and walked towards the kitchen.

Li Chunhua, who was in the main room making straw shoes, heard this and muttered with a pout, "The eldest sister-in-law really is cowardly, being ordered around by Zhou Zhaodi."

She completely forgot that she also pushed all the dirty and strenuous chores to Zhao Mei on regular days to avoid work herself.