Chapter 1525: Truly a Fool's Dream, Daring to Think Anything

But what Liu Chuxue and the others never expected was that, after they finished eating and tidied up, the noise next door started up again.

They heard a shrill female voice rise: "What are you doing?"

The old woman with inverted-triangle eyes stared at her daughter-in-law and asked: "What is in this teacup?"

Though the woman trembled a bit, she still gritted her teeth and said: "That is my daughter's rations. Give it back to me."

The old woman leaned close and sniffed: "This is milk powder. Such a precious thing, where did you get it? Speak!"

The woman stammered for a long time: "I borrowed it from the next ward."

The old woman raised her voice: "Borrowed? Such a precious thing, you say you borrowed it? Do you think I'm a fool?"

Suddenly, someone nearby laughed: "Auntie, your daughter-in-law really didn't think you were a fool. What she said is true; she borrowed it from the next ward. That family is quite capable."

The old woman's eyes rolled: "Really borrowed?"

The woman nodded: "Xiao Xiao is so hungry she doesn't even have the strength to cry. I heard the next ward had triplets and they feed them milk powder, so I swallowed my pride and went to borrow a little."

No sooner had she finished speaking than, to everyone's surprise, the old woman raised her hand, tilted her head back, and drank the remaining milk in the teacup in one go: "This tastes quite good."

After speaking, she smacked her lips.

Seeing her daughter's rations gone, the woman's eyes instantly turned red with panic: "That was my daughter's life-saving ration. How could you drink it yourself?"

Her voice was very shrill.

The old woman, not expecting her always submissive daughter-in-law to speak to her like this: "I just wanted to taste it. What are you going crazy about?"

Seeing everyone in the room look at her with contempt: "Besides, this milk is cold. If that worthless girl really drank it and got a stomachache, what would you do?"

Looking at the empty cup: "Besides, without it, you can just go borrow a little more from the next ward later. Is it necessary to shout at me like this?"

As soon as she said this, everyone in the room looked at her as if she were a fool, finding it hard to express their thoughts: This old woman really dares to speak. That is milk powder; it was already a favor for them to lend it once. Wanting to borrow again is truly a fool's dream, thinking anything is possible.

Hearing her mother-in-law's words, the woman's face turned very ugly. Not knowing what she thought of, her body shivered.

The conversation next door was not deliberately lowered; not only could Liu Chuxue, with her keen hearing, hear it clearly, but Fu Yan Cheng could too. The husband and wife exchanged a glance; one pouted, the other shrugged, and then both shook their heads in unison.

This action was seen by Fu's mother, who was guarding her grandson. Seeing the young couple's tacit understanding, she couldn't help but curl the corners of her mouth.

Among the sons, the fourth couple had the best relationship, followed by the eldest couple; the rest, the second and the third, had to have a small quarrel every now and then.

Thinking of the second and the third, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

The second was fine; he had been working quite hard recently, but his wife was unreliable, always taking good things from the family to her own natal home.

Now that the family had split, no one subsidized them anymore, so naturally the second wasn't as easy to talk to as before, and the couple would quarrel over trifles from time to time.

As for the third couple, it was because of the matter of having a second child. The third's wife now wanted nothing more than to bear a son, but now, forget about whether it would be a boy or a girl; the key issue was that they couldn't conceive at all.

The third's wife was too obsessed with bearing a son; every day she would come up with one idea after another, making the third not want to go home now.

This made the third's wife somewhat suspicious and paranoid, and the couple would have verbal spats from time to time, which made her, as their mother, very worried.