Joyful Motherhood in a Rural Family

Chapter 51 - 51: 48: Crisis, Sneaky Figure

Looking at Di Xuan’s reddening eyes, Liu Sisi finally managed to calm her emotions.

“Xuan’er, tell me what happened earlier? How did you end up fighting with Little Chubby?”

Di Xuan lowered his head and clenched his fists without speaking.

Di Ying, who was standing next to him, wiped her tears incessantly. “Mom, it’s all Little Chubby’s fault! He chased us siblings and said we were untrained bastards born from a mother! When my brother told him to stop, he kept on chasing and cursing at us, then my brother started fighting with him, wooo…”

So that was the reason!

Liu Sisi felt a sour pang in her heart and couldn’t help but hug both children tightly.

She declared resolutely, “You two remember this! Your birth mother is watching over you from heaven. You have two mothers who love you, and that makes you much happier than them. If anyone dares to bully you again, even if it costs everything, Mom will fight for justice for you. Do you understand?”

“Mom, we understand.” Di Ying wiped her tears. Di Xuan also nodded vigorously.

After the mother and children had been affectionate for a while, Liu Sisi started to cook dinner.

“Mom, I’ll make a fire for you,” Di Xuan said to Liu Sisi, a rare initiative on his part.

“Alright, make sure the fire is big enough.”

Liu Sisi was naturally happy that the child was finally willing to talk to her.

Dinner was simple. Liu Sisi washed the wild vegetables she had picked, blanched them in boiled water, and prepared a cold dish. Some buns were left over from the ones she had made for Di Yelei to take as lunch, so she steamed them again, serving them with rice porridge, both satisfying and tasty. Secretly, she resolved to get a small stone mill, which could be used to make soy milk to drink, bean paste for buns, and coarse cereals into flour for pancakes – how many benefits in one!

After the three of them had eaten their fill and cleaned up, it was gradually getting dark. Liu Sisi boiled some hot water for Di Xuan to take a bath first.

The new bathing room built by Di Yelei was next to the firewood room, and after Liu Sisi was scared by the snake last time, he had sprinkled realgar all around the room and gathered a lot of mugwort and calamus to ward off mosquitoes and evil spirits.

After the two children had finished bathing, Liu Sisi busily coaxed YingEr to sleep. After a long time of fussing, it was finally completely dark outside.

After carefully closing the courtyard door, Liu Sisi carried the hot water into the bathing room.

People in this place didn’t like to bathe every day, thinking that it would drain their energy. However, Liu Sisi was already used to daily bathes and felt itchy all over if she didn’t.

She slowly removed her coat and lowered her head to start taking off her shoes and socks.

A sneaky figure quickly approached the gate of the Di Residence and pushed it with both hands, but the tightly closed door remained closed.

He spat on the ground and quietly walked to the side of the courtyard wall, where he leaped up and grabbed the edge of the wall. With a flip and a kick, he jumped over the wall.

“Thud!”

The sudden sound of something heavy hitting the ground in the courtyard made Liu Sisi stop removing her shoes and socks and unconsciously ask aloud.

“YingEr? Xuan’er? Is that you?”

The courtyard was quiet, with no answer.

Liu Sisi furrowed her brows involuntarily, glanced at the hot water in the wooden barrel, and then looked at the courtyard outside. Could it be a thief? Di Yelei wasn’t home tonight, and if there really was a thief in the yard, she and the two children would have no ability to resist – what to do?

No! I still need to go out and have a look around to feel at ease.

Thinking of this, Liu Sisi quickly put on her coat, blew out the oil lamp in one breath, and waited for a while for her eyes to adapt to the darkness of the night. She then cautiously removed the wooden stick blocking her door and carefully opened it.

There was no moon tonight, and the courtyard was silent, not even the sound of crickets could be heard. Everything around her was the same as before she entered the bathing room.

Liu Sisi lit the wick again, and walked along the courtyard wall uneasily. She entered the room, saw Di Ying and Di Xuan deep in sleep, but still found nothing.

Could it really be that she was just hearing things due to her mind playing tricks on her?

Initially, that stink snake in the firewood room had become Liu Sisi’s nightmare, so when she inspected the house, she subconsciously forgot about the firewood room!

Liu Sisi shook her head and walked back into the bathing room, putting down the oil lamp and taking off her clothes again.

She inexplicably became more cautious, and diminished the lampwick of the oil lamp, leaving just a tiny flickering light. Then she returned to the side of the bathtub and began taking off her clothes again.

As soon as her sensitive palm touched the hot water in the wooden barrel, Liu Sisi unconsciously narrowed her eyes, enjoying the sensation of washing her face with the warm water before starting to wash her hair.

Liu Sisi always had a habit of washing her hair first, then taking a bath, and today was no exception.

The natural scent of soapberries permeated, and Liu Sisi was exceptionally pleased with the smooth, black hair she inherited from the original owner, spending a lot of time grooming it during each wash.

Meanwhile, a shadow silently pushed open the door of the firewood room, slipped into the Di Family’s hall, and quickly sneaked into the bedroom searching for something. The shadow rummaged through the room without stopping, carefully inspecting every place where items could be hidden, but found nothing.

“Strange! Where is the silver? Could it be that Di Yelei took it with him?”

The shadow muttered to itself and unwillingly searched under the edge of the bed.

Still, nothing was found!

Disappointed, he angrily kicked the foot of the bed, and the pain of the kick made him sit on the ground while holding his foot, almost crying out. Fortunately, he tolerated the pain in time!

Suddenly, his gaze fell on the ground at the foot of the bed, where the color of the mud was fresh, and the soil seemed loose.

He immediately rejoiced, not caring about the pain in his foot, he got up, moved the bed aside, and quickly dug up the dirt on the ground. Sure enough, a heavy cloth bag appeared before his eyes.

“Heh! I finally found it!”

The shadow stuffed the cloth bag into his arms, quickly restored everything nearby, and bolted out of the room.

At the moment, Liu Sisi had finished washing her hair and got up to carefully cleanse her feet before preparing to take a bath.

She casually hooked her little finger, and the belt around her waist fell off, revealing her naked body as she stepped into the wooden barrel and slowly sank into the water.

The hot water submerged her chest and flowed out of the bathtub, quickly spreading across the ground, making a splash.

Liu Sisi happily gathered her wet hair, made a casual bun on her head, wrapped it with a bath towel, and then started to carefully clean herself.

The shadow came out of the room, intending to escape by climbing the wall, but he was attracted by the light and noise coming from the bathing room!

His eyes were spinning wildly, remembering that he had seen Di Yelei go up the hill in the afternoon. Didn’t that mean… the little beauty inside in the boudoir was alone and lonely at the moment? Hehe…

Thinking of this, he had no intention of leaving. Instead, he approached the bathing room silently to get a better look at what was happening inside.