Chapter 77: Splitting the Family and Living Alone
The ox cart arrived at the Lu Family, and there were quite a few people standing at the doorway. They were all aunties and elder ladies in good company with Xie Jinghao, even Lu Changhong’s old mother had come over with a cane, standing at the front were Liu Sanjin and Lu Changzhu anxiously looking at the ox cart as it drew closer.
Uncle Guai steadied the ox cart on arrival, and the waiting crowd quickly surrounded it.
"My dear grandchild, is this my dear grandchild, oh my, you look so good, all chubby and white. Jinghao must have had a good diet during pregnancy, so the child is well-nurtured," she said in a muffled voice, but between the lines, she seemed to mistakingly regard Xie Jinghao, who was pregnant, with special tenderness.
Lu Changzhu looked at her with a smile and said, "You’ve worked hard."
Shen Meng: "...."
The way this was said, anyone who didn’t know better might think her aged mother-in-law had birthed a young one!
Grandma Chang reached out and touched Xie Jinghao’s hand, it was warm.
"Oh my, Juying you think of everything! The bedding you brought is all thick. Jinghao shouldn’t catch a draft now."
"Absolutely, she has just given birth, we must take good care to prevent ’confinement sickness’. I’ve brought the bedding from Xiao Meng’s house. Old man, you’ll have to take them back for Xiao Meng later. We had no other choice, who else but Jinghao has such a sister-in-law to think of her!"
The other members of the Lu Family heard this but pretended not to, as if it was none of their business what this outsider said.