Reborn as a Tough Army Wife-Chapter 96 - 91: Hold Back (Third Update, Asking for Monthly Tickets.)

Chapter 96: Chapter 91: Hold Back (Third Update, Asking for Monthly Tickets.)

Luo Cuilan suffered a loss and was resentful, but there was nothing she could do about Fang Ping’an, who stood in front of Fang Xiu, so she stomped her foot and turned to Zhou Yunmei for help, "Mom, look at them."

"You all..." Zhou Yumei saw that Luo Cuilan’s face was also swollen and felt distressed, wanting to speak up.

But she was directly interrupted by Li Yuchun, "Mother-in-law, one is your daughter and the other your daughter-in-law. In principle, you should love them equally, you wouldn’t take sides with just your daughter, right?"

Originally, Zhou Yunmei wanted to say a few words on behalf of Fang Xiu, but after being challenged by Li Yuchun like that, no matter how distressed she felt, she couldn’t say anything more.

Besides, they were just using Luo Cuilan’s words against her. Luo Cuilan herself had hit Fang Xiu first, so she really didn’t have a leg to stand on.

Fang Pingying stood to one side, completely stunned. She had always thought Fang Ping’an to be an honest and upright person, but now she realized that he was cunning inside and wouldn’t let himself be taken advantage of, not in the slightest.

With Li Yuchun acting the villain at his side, the couple complemented each other perfectly. Even if Luo Cuilan was hit, there wasn’t much anyone could do.

Things had come to this point, and they couldn’t keep arguing endlessly. In the end, Luo Dashan had to stop Luo Cuilan, "Cuilan, enough is enough, there is a child in your belly. If you keep this up and something happens, it won’t be easy to explain to Jianguo. Let’s put an end to today’s matter."

Strangely enough, Luo Cuilan, who had been making a huge fuss and acting as if she was prepared to fight Fang Xiu to the death, suddenly stopped upon hearing Luo Dashan’s words. In the end, she just glared fiercely at Fang Xiu and then walked back to her room with a tense face.

This took Fang Pingying by surprise. Given Luo Cuilan’s temperament, she had thought that there would be a big scene today, but it ended just like that.

The usually unyielding Luo Cuilan had actually swallowed these few slaps in the face. That really was something extraordinary.

Seeing that his daughter had retaliated for the slaps she received, Fang Ping’an and Li Yuchun didn’t linger there. After saying goodbye to Luo Dashan and the others, they went back home.

However, Li Yuchun still harbored resentment upon leaving.

Fang Pingying saw them out to the door, her face cold and unwilling to engage with them.

As soon as they left the door, Li Yuchun stormed off home, leaving Fang Ping’an behind to speak a few words to Fang Pingying,

"Pingying, don’t stoop to your mother’s level. She is like that, spoiling Xiu’er to the point where she dares to fight with her mother-in-law. If this happens again, as the eldest sister, you need to take charge, or else if word gets out, people will really say the Fang Family lacks manners."

Fang Pingying wanted to intervene, but she also needed to be listened to, and to be treated with respect as the eldest sister by Fang Xiu.

Seeing her silent, Fang Ping’an seemed to understand what she was thinking. He sighed and said, "You’re the eldest sister and grew up with her. You know her temperament; it’s better not to bicker with her. I’ll also talk to her more when she comes back."

Whether he would actually follow through or not, faced with Fang Ping’an, Fang Pingying still nodded in agreement.

After Fang Ping’an gave a few instructions to Fang Pingying, he too returned home.

When she got back to the courtyard, everyone had vanished, but it seemed like she could hear Zhou Yunmei talking in Luo Cuilan’s room. Luo Cuilan was crying, apparently because she couldn’t get over being hit by Fang Xiu.

Fang Ping shook her head and said nothing further, nor did she enter the room to console Luo Cuilan.

Luo Cuilan was just that kind of person, taking after Zhou Yun. Whatever she did, whether right or wrong, she always had to come out on top. If she suffered even a slight disadvantage, she would make the household peaceless.

Considering the recent events, she hadn’t suffered a defeat. She had also hit Fang Xiu first, and Fang Xiu was merely defending herself.

Fang Pingying didn’t bother to persuade her and went back to her own room.

Last time, Hong Lan hadn’t had the chance to use the cloth she brought back from town to make clothes for herself—there was simply too much to do at home.

Either Fang Pingying wanted to run her own business, or she needed to help with chores at home, and she was also responsible for preparing three meals a day. She hardly had any spare time for these tasks.

Fortunately, these couple of days, as the newly built house was drying and there was no need to make pastries, Fang Xiu planned to quickly finish making her own clothes and the slippers she originally intended to make for Zhou Yunmei and Luo Dashan.

Fang Pingying’s own clothes were quite simple. When Luo Zhiyong was at home, he had helped her take measurements, and she had managed to cut the fabric during the evenings. She just needed to sew them, which she thought wouldn’t take long.

Now that it was October, thin cotton padded clothes were needed both morning and evening. Such single-layered clothes couldn’t be for spring and fall, so Fang Pingying intentionally made them a bit larger.

Later, she could wear them over the padded cotton clothes, and when spring or autumn came and she took off the cotton clothes, they could be worn as single-layered garments. Even though they were a bit large, it didn’t really make much difference.

In the second half of the year, it got dark early here, with the sky turning completely black before five o’clock.

Seeing that it was getting late, Fang Pingying tidied up the finished clothes and put them in the wardrobe, planning to make Luo Dashan’s slippers at night, then she went out to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

During the last market day, Zhou Yunmei was in a quarrel with her and didn’t buy much to eat. The vegetable garden was far from the house, and she was too lazy to go picking.

Besides a pile of potatoes, there was nothing else in the kitchen to cook with.

Fang Pingying thought for a while, then decided to tidy up some potatoes, thinking about making some potato pancakes.

This type of potato pancake was something Fang Pingying had learned by chance while washing dishes at a Western restaurant in her previous life. The dish made by foreigners was actually quite simple to prepare.

First, she peeled and washed the potatoes, then put them in a pot to steam.

She called Luo Honglan over to start the fire, and while waiting for the potatoes to steam, she washed some green onions and chopped some dried chilies as additional ingredients, setting them aside.

Luo Honglan didn’t know what she was making. Seeing that Fang Pingying wasn’t cooking rice, and it didn’t seem like she was about to fry vegetables, Luo Honglan asked, "Sister-in-law, what are you planning to make for dinner?"

"Some potato pancakes. I guarantee it’s something you’ve never had before." This method of making potato pancakes was probably unknown to anyone at this time.

Luo Honglan didn’t know what it was, but nodded and didn’t ask further.

Fang Pingying thought of Luo Cuilan and asked her, "How’s your sister doing? Still crying?"

Luo Honglan was a honest person and could distinguish right from wrong. She sighed and told the truth, "Ah, with my sister’s bad temper, she thinks she’s been wronged today, how could she stop making a fuss just like that."

As they were talking, another round of noisy quarreling came from outside.

"Luo Cuilan, I’m telling you, stop making trouble. If you keep acting like this, just hurry up and roll over to the Zhang family, our Luo family can’t stand to let you stay longer."

Rarely, it was the yelling of Luo Zhiming, who was usually more mild-tempered.

Seeing that there was another quarrel in the courtyard, Fang Pingying and Luo Honglan immediately went out.

It turned out that Luo Cuilan, seeing Luo Zhiming return, was pressuring him to beat Fang Xiu.

Luo Zhiming, who wouldn’t even lay a hand on Fang Xiu for Zhou Yunmei’s sake, how could he do it for her? Naturally, he tried to persuade her, saying that since the matter had already been resolved, there was no need to make a fuss—why make a scene out of a family matter?

Luo Cuilan felt criticized by Luo Zhiming’s words and began to make a scene with him again. (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to Qidian (qidian.com) to cast recommendation votes and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please go to m.qidian.com to read.)