Joyful Motherhood in a Rural Family

Chapter 74: Chapter 71: Taking Away Two Mice

In the old house.

In the not-so-large wing room, Elderly Mr. Di still lay quietly on the bed, still in a deep coma without waking up.

On the ground below the bed, a crowd of people kneeled close together. Ms. Zhao and Di Gaoyuan, Di Ah-Bao kneeled on the inner layer, while Ms. Wang and the others kneeled outside, as if they were seeing off Elderly Mr. Di.

When Di Yelei arrived with Liu Sisi and the children, this was the scene they saw.

As they opened the door, a thick, stifling, and sultry aura rushed toward them, causing Liu Sisi to frown involuntarily.

Such air would be unbearable not only for the comatose patient but also for healthy people.

“How is Dad? Where is the doctor? Why hasn’t he arrived yet?”

Di Yelei put down the two children and walked straight to the head of Elderly Mr. Di’s bed with large strides, checking his father’s condition.

Elderly Mr. Di’s face was pale as gold foil, appearing as if he was barely breathing and unconscious of his surroundings.

“What illness? Wait until he wakes up, and it’ll be fine….”

Ms. Zhao, on the side, instinctively refuted but was stared at by Di Yelei and shrank back, hurriedly adding, “Where can we find a doctor nearby? Besides, it’s late at night now, do you think emergency visits are free? Anyway, it’s only a few more hours until daybreak, let’s wait until then.”

As she spoke, she couldn’t help but grumble in her heart.

From the first day she married into the family, she disliked Di Yelei the most, not only because of his face, which was 70% similar to his birth mother’s, but also because of his infamy. Above all,she hated his current gaze!

Although he was only three years old at the time, he always stared at her with that creepy gaze.

It made her feel a chill down her spine and covered her in cold sweat.

How could she possibly like him?

“What? You want to wait until daylight!”

Di Yelei’s voice suddenly doubled in volume, but thinking of his father still lying on the sick bed, he suppressed his anger and growled in a low voice.

“Dad is unconscious, and you still want to wait until tomorrow? Do you think that once my dad is gone, you can take over the Di Family? Don’t forget that even if you die, you’re not qualified to be buried in my Di family’s ancestral tomb!”

Di Yelei said this, naturally due to local customs.

Locals believed that a widowed woman who remarries must be buried with her former husband to avoid conflict in the afterlife, avoiding disturbances at home.

Ms. Zhao’s face changed instantly!

“How could you say that to me? Di Yelei, I know you never take me, your stepmother, seriously, but I did raise you and your brothers from a young age. Why can’t I be part of the Di family?” Ms. Zhao immediately tore off her usual kindness, and it seemed that a battle was about to erupt.

“Because you don’t want to spend the money! If my father’s condition worsens due to this delay and something happens to him, you’ll see if I, Di Yelei, dare or not! Besides, when you married in, I was already three years old and past the need for diapers.”

Di Yelei stood his ground, his face cold and dark. “Why did Dad suddenly cough up blood and fall unconscious? Don’t think I don’t know just because I wasn’t there!”

As Di Yelei spoke, he glanced coldly at Ms. Zhao, Ms. Wang, and the others in the room. Everyone lowered their heads to dodge his gaze.

His eyes darkened, and he turned and walked out. “Sisi, wait here, I’ll go get Zhang Peng.”

“I know.”

Liu Sisi hurriedly replied, and Di Yelei had already walked far away.

Everyone’s gaze fell on the mother and her two children by the doorway, causing the children to unconsciously huddle closer to Liu Sisi.

Ms. Zhao was furious, staring at her with eyes as big as copper bells.

Ms. Wang, lazily leaning by the window, had already calculated everything in her mind!

Di Yelei is going to call in a doctor – that costs money. How could she agree to spend money on such a matter?

Her gaze swept over and was immediately attracted by Liu Sisi’s slightly swollen red lips.

Although Di Gaoyuan and Di Yelei were brothers and only a few years apart in age, in a woman’s eyes, a thirty-year-old man is like a wolf, and a forty-year-old man is like a tiger.

Di Gaoyuan and Ms. Wang were about the same age, and at this time, Ms. Wang was in the prime years of being like a wolf and a tiger. However, Di Gaoyuan was always a “quick gunner,” rarely sharing a room with her twice a month, leaving her extremely dissatisfied.

After Ms. Dou passed away, she often went to Di Family, harboring some ulterior motives. Little did she know, Di Yelei, this wooden-head, became colder and colder towards her over the years, making her repressed feelings even stronger and increasingly resenting his insensitivity.

But today, when she saw that wretched little Liu Sisi looking so fulfilled, she couldn’t help but feel consumed by jealousy and hatred!

And she had no one to confide in!

She coughed lightly: “You really have a ‘blessed’ Third Sister-in-law! It seems Third Brother didn’t neglect you in the bedroom at all! Even though father is seriously ill now, you two still stayed in the same room…really…Tsk tsk!”

Once she mentioned this, everyone’s attention naturally turned to Liu Sisi’s face, where the swollen red lips had clearly been wrecked by love bites. The signs of passion were so obvious that it could not be hidden.

In an instant, the eyes of those present held varying degrees of depth, their expressions mysterious.

“Second Sister-in-law is mistaken!”

Liu Sisi said indifferently, “Sisi has been in this home for almost three months now, and of course, I must try my best to bear a son and a daughter for the Di family as soon as possible. It is the duty of a wife to prosper the bloodline. Besides, Sisi is well aware of why father-in-law has fallen ill.”

You were the ones who angered him into sickness, and now you want to pin the blame on me?

No way!

“A vixen is just a vixen! Aside from maddening men and keeping them in bed, what else can you do?”

After staring intently at Liu Sisi for quite a while, Ms. Zhao finally spoke.

She abruptly spat out: “Bah! You, a shameless, ragged thing, are just right for that cursed man who brings death to his wife, children, and mother! Poor my Di family’s old man, to be cursed to death by him again! Oh, Heaven! Why don’t you strike him with a thunderbolt and just kill him directly?”

As Ms. Zhao rambled on, she began to wail.

“Stop making noise, Mom! Father-in-law is still sick!”

Liu Sisi lowered her head and said softly, “Mom, when the doctor comes later, we’ll need boiled and room-temperature water for wiping his sweat. Is there any prepared?”

It was uncomfortable for so many people to squeeze into a small, stuffy room. It was better to find an excuse to go out for some fresh air.

Ms. Zhao had been crying miserably and was interrupted by Liu Sisi, so she held her breath.

Hearing her question, how could she give her a good face? “No! This is for the best. You hurry up and boil some water and bring it here. The kitchen is at the corner on the left side. Remember to keep your hands clean and don’t take anything away!”

Liu Sisi’s lips pursed, and she gave an almost inaudible snort: “Don’t worry, Mom! There’s nothing in the old house that Sisi can take away except the two rats in the room.”

The meat they ate at the old house was all taken from her own home, and they still worried about her taking things away?

What a joke!

As for who these two “rats” were, they could just figure it out on their own!