Chapter 70: He Developed Delusional Thoughts About Someone He Shouldn’t Have Feelings For
The little one returned very quickly, in just a few minutes.
What was key was that he didn’t return with an empty bowl; instead, the bowl held quite a few cooked peanuts.
“Mommy, Grandma Chen said the chicken soup was so delicious! She’ll have a warm sleep after drinking it tonight. She also gave me a lot of roasted peanuts, but I didn’t want them, and she insisted.”
This era is just like this, very simple and honest, especially old people like Grandma Chen, who never think of taking advantage of others and always reciprocate gifts.
Yun Qinghuan looked at the half-jin of peanuts and felt a warmth in her heart. She peeled a peanut and ate it; it was crisp and fragrant, the taste was really good.
“If she gives it to you, then take it. Did you say thank you to Grandma Chen?”
“I did!” The little one’s eyebrows and eyes flew up proudly.
He was waiting for Yun Qinghuan to praise him.
Yun Qinghuan smiled with narrowed eyes and ruffled his hair as he wished. “You’re so great!”
In the evening, the family of four finished the chicken soup completely. Even Yun Qinghuan, who didn’t particularly like cornbread, ate a whole one while drinking the chicken soup and eating scrambled eggs with chili.
The chicken soup was truly delicious, even the bones were cooked until very soft.
The family didn’t even dare to throw away the bones, sucking out all the marrow inside.
After eating, while the pot was still hot, Yun Qinghuan asked her mother-in-law to tend the fire and solidify the chicken blood. Once the chicken blood was ready, she planned to make a spicy chicken blood soup for lunch tomorrow. Luckily, there were dried chilies at home, and she had also found a Sichuan pepper tree while cutting pigweed, so she could gather some peppercorns to make it even more delicious.
She told Liu Yuzhi about this dish and asked if she could handle spicy food. Liu Yuzhi looked at her with a smile, “Make whatever you like, I eat everything.”
Now she trusted her daughter-in-law’s cooking skills.
Moreover, hearing her daughter-in-law say this, she felt it would definitely be another rare delicacy.
Yun Qinghuan was full of confidence, “Mom, just wait and see, you’ll have something delicious to eat tomorrow.”
After washing up, Yun Qinghuan and Bai Jin’an planned to go back to their room to sleep. Before closing the door, Yun Qinghuan suddenly saw her mother-in-law, Liu Yuzhi, walk up to her younger brother-in-law and say in a cold tone, “Naihan, come into the room with me, I have something to tell you.”
She was a little surprised and couldn’t figure out what her mother-in-law wanted to say to her younger brother-in-law alone, and the tone felt rather serious.
However, she didn’t overthink it. It was normal for the mother and son to have private words, so she directly closed the door and prepared to sleep. This day had been quite tiring, and she was exhausted. As soon as she lay down on the bed, she fell asleep.
On the other side, Bai Naihan pursed his lips and followed his mother into the room.
Seeing him enter, Liu Yuzhi went straight to the door. Seeing that the opposite room was already closed, she breathed a sigh of relief and closed her own door as well.
The man’s eyes darkened as he watched her movements. “Mom.”
“Don’t call me Mom!” Liu Yuzhi turned to look at him, her gaze sharp, scrutinizing him bit by bit.
“Tell me, do you have feelings for your sister-in-law?!”
Her tone was questioning.
Thinking of how she had just seen his eyes full of affection for his elder daughter-in-law, Liu Yuzhi felt a tightness in her chest.
The villagers had been spreading rumors about her younger son and daughter-in-law, describing it vividly, but she hadn’t taken it to heart and could even righteously scold them back because she didn’t believe the rumors at all.
She had seen with her own eyes how good the relationship between her daughter-in-law and her eldest son, Bai Wensong, had been over the years. Moreover, her daughter-in-law was very upright, and her character was absolutely trustworthy; she wouldn’t stoop to such things.
As for her younger son, Bai Naihan, although he had been away in the army for so many years and they rarely saw each other, he had come from her own womb. She could tell what he was up to just by the way he wiggled his butt.
Bai Naihan’s character was absolutely impeccable, and he would definitely not have such secret and shameful thoughts about his sister-in-law.
Before today, Liu Yuzhi had firmly believed this.
But thinking of the scene she had witnessed when she returned from the fields β the unprecedented tenderness and affection in her younger son’s eyes β her original conviction completely collapsed.
During cooking and eating just now, she had been observing the interaction between her younger son and daughter-in-law and realized that it might be her son’s one-sided infatuation.
But thinking about how her son had developed such feelings for his sister-in-law at some unknown time, Liu Yuzhi felt both angry and resentful.
Hearing her question, Bai Naihan lowered his head and didn’t answer for a long time.
In the quiet atmosphere, only the sound of their breathing could be heard.
The quieter it was, the angrier Liu Yuzhi became.
Was this a silent admission?
Just as Liu Yuzhi thought her son wouldn’t speak, Bai Naihan finally raised his head and looked directly at her with determination, “Yes, I do have feelings for my sister-in-law, but that’s all it is.”
He adhered to his principles and hadn’t done anything inappropriate.
It was just that he couldn’t control his attraction to the opposite sex.
Especially since they lived under the same roof.
The more they interacted, the more he discovered Yun Qinghuan’s good qualities.
She was very special, so special that wherever she was, he could always see her at a glance, it was hard not to notice her.
“You…” Liu Yuzhi didn’t expect him to actually admit it, and she was so angry that she couldn’t speak.
She raised her hand to hit him.
Bai Naihan raised his face, unmoving, not even blinking, “You can hit me, I deserve it.”
He had developed delusional thoughts about someone he shouldn’t have feelings for.
Liu Yuzhi laughed in extreme anger, raising her hand high and then gently lowering it, finally sighing, “I really am a sinner!”
As she laughed, tears welled up in her eyes.
Even though her younger son had developed inappropriate feelings, she still couldn’t bear to hit him.
She had really neglected her younger son a lot in the past and always felt guilty towards him.
“You can like anyone, but why did it have to be your sister-in-law? How am I supposed to face your brother in the afterlife if you do this?”
Liu Yuzhi’s tears fell with a plop. She raised her head high, looking up, not wanting anyone to see her vulnerable appearance.
Bai Naihan pursed his lips, his eyes dimming. “Mom, I’m sorry.”
He had done wrong…
“When did you start having these feelings for your sister-in-law?” Liu Yuzhi composed herself and looked down at her son sitting in the wheelchair. “Was it a long time ago, even before your brother’s accident, that you had such… thoughts?”
She wanted to say “dirty,” but facing her younger son’s handsome and innocent face, she couldn’t bring herself to say such harsh words.
The man suddenly raised his head and looked directly at her. “No, Mom, I swear, before my brother’s accident, I never had such thoughts.”
“I only realized recently that my feelings were not right.”
Liu Yuzhi didn’t speak. After a long silence, she sighed, “It’s me, it’s my fault for being muddled.”
How could she have allowed a young man and woman to live under the same roof like this?
Her daughter-in-law was a good girl. Even she, as the mother-in-law, couldn’t help but like her, let alone her young son who had never been with a woman and was in his prime.
It was her fault for being so confused!
In her hazy sleep, Yun Qinghuan seemed to hear her mother-in-law and younger brother-in-law talking. It was a buzzing sound, and she couldn’t hear clearly. She just felt it was a bit noisy, so she turned over and covered her ears with the pillow to continue sleeping.
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