Divorce with three kids? I'll build a house and eat meat, driving my in-laws crazy.

Chapter 119 What is the background of that person?
This time it was Chaochao's turn to be stunned. She stared at Chu Xiu's serious yet slightly flustered expression and thought he was adorably silly.

"You wear it yourself, it's too big for me to wear," Chaochao said with a smile. The grievances from the past came and went quickly.

She brought over two small stools, handed one to Chu Xiu, and sat down to try on the shoes.

Seeing that she was about to take off her shoes, Chu Xiu hurriedly turned around.

Although they are now god-siblings, and the godmother's family doesn't have as many taboos about men being older than women, his upbringing doesn't allow him to see things he shouldn't.

Chaochao put on her new shoes and happily jumped around a few times.

The others also gathered around and praised it.

"Big sister, your shoes are really beautiful."

"The red color looks festive."

Chu Xiu glanced at the red shoes adorned with beautiful plum blossoms, which encased a pair of delicate feet, and exclaimed sincerely, "Beautiful."

Peipei and Yinyin surrounded Li Ruru, chattering incessantly.

"Mother, where's mine?"

"I want it too, I want it too."

Li Ruru then magically produced several pairs of shoes from behind her back, saying, "I have them all, I have them all."

She handed a pair of light pink shoes with small flowers to Yin Yin, and another pair of dark red shoes, only with slightly different patterns, to Pei Pei.

The two girls immediately ran to try on the shoes. After putting on the new shoes, Yin Yin happily pulled her two older sisters and ran around in the yard.

Xiao Wu approached Li Ruru, half aggrieved and half coquettish, and said, "Godmother, didn't I?"

Xiao Yishan blinked his longing eyes, looking at Li Ruru with a pitiful expression.

Li Ruru coughed and said, "Yes, I have everything."

He handed Xiao Wu a pair of gray-black shoes, while Xiao Yishan's were dark blue.

"Godmother, how did you know I liked this color?" Xiao Wu quickly changed his shoes, grinning from ear to ear.

"It's very thick and comfortable." Xiao Yishan, who was rather reserved, praised it sincerely.

The children all wore new shoes, and Li Ruru naturally wouldn't skimp on herself either.

She made herself a pair of dark green shoes, which were understated yet beautiful.

"Mother, your stitches are so fine."

"Mom makes shoes so fast!"

After the initial excitement, Chaochao and Peipei showered them with praise.

Li Ruru smoothed her hair; the density of the machine's stitches could be freely adjusted.

She added a waterproof lining to her shoes so they wouldn't get wet so quickly in the rain.

While the children were all there, Li Ruru told them that people would be moving into the house next door.

The three Li sisters didn't care; they were just admiring their shoes.

Let whoever wants to come, it won't affect their ability to eat well, stay warm, and have new shoes.

Chu Xiu asked, "What's that person's background? What's his name?"

He needs to find out more carefully so that bad people don't live next door.

Xiao Wu and Xiao Yishan were also concerned about this issue, and the three of them looked worried.

Li Ruru said, "I've only heard of him as an old scholar who loves to travel and enjoy nature; I don't know much else about him."

Seeing that the three were still worried, she added, "It's alright, let's just live our own lives. By the way, how did the bacon smoking go?"

Chu Xiu chuckled awkwardly, "It went smoothly, very smoothly."

Xiao Yishan's lips twitched. "You almost burned off Brother Chu's eyebrows."

Xiao Wu added, "It's not just almost, it's already mostly burned." Li Ruru looked at Chu Xiu and then noticed that his once neat eyebrows were now pitted and uneven.

"Be careful next time," Li Ruru said, then took out two thin threads and said, "Come here, I'll fix it for you."

"Should we use two threads to fix it?" Chu Xiu shook his head and backed away, worried that his godmother might ruin his eyebrows.

Chaochao pushed him down into the chair. She was strong, and Chu Xiu couldn't resist, so he had to give up.

Peipei scoffed, "Let me educate Young Master Chu: you can trim your eyebrows with just two thin threads; it's part of the facial opening process."

The facial hair removal ceremony is an essential part of a woman's wedding preparations. Two thin threads are used to remove the fine hairs from her face and to shape her eyebrows into a beautiful willow leaf shape.

Li Ruru is quick and efficient at her work; she can even trim eyebrows in no time.

"Is that all?" Chu Xiu asked, thinking to himself that he was doomed. Had his godmother shaved off all his eyebrows?

He felt waves of pain just now, but he endured it without uttering a sound so that everyone would laugh at him.

Right now, I'm feeling very anxious and don't know what to do.

"Here's a mirror for you." Li Ruru handed him a small bronze mirror.

Chu Xiu stared wide-eyed at it, then slapped his thigh and stood up: "Well done."

Originally, his eyebrows had a lot of stray hairs and the shape of his eyebrows was not good. The fortune teller said that his eyebrow peaks were too high, which was not good.

His godmother shaped his eyebrows into sharp, sword-like strokes, giving them a handsome yet resolute look that made his eyes appear even more striking and expressive.

Chaochao's eyes lit up, and she exclaimed, "Master Chu has become handsome!"

Chu Xiu pouted in dissatisfaction and said, "What do you mean by 'become more handsome'? I was already very handsome, okay?"

Although he said that, he was secretly overjoyed, finally someone acknowledged his good looks.

"Alright, everyone go back to reading and writing."

Li Ruru ushered everyone back to the large table, and also chased Chu Xiu away from the recliner.

She picked a bunch of grapes, rocked back and forth in her chair, and ate them leisurely. Life couldn't be better.

On the other side, Zhang Junniang and Chen Sanbao carried baskets up the mountain.

The people of Chenjia Village go up the mountain almost every day, either to dig for medicinal herbs and wild vegetables, or to dig for konjac to sell to Pan Dayan.

At the end of the day, there's always something to show for it.

But Chen Sanbao and Zhang Junniang were different; they came to dig for ginseng.

They looked down on wild vegetables and konjac, saying that those things were too physically demanding and wouldn't earn much money even if you dug up a whole basketful.

It's still more profitable to dig ginseng; it brings in money quickly and with high returns.

Zhang Junniang was reluctant to go out, but Chen Sanbao said he would take her to the place where they had dug up ginseng last time, so she agreed.

Of the 10 taels of silver Zhang Junniang had, only 9 taels remained.

In order not to pay for Chen Jinbang's tuition, she spent one tael of silver to send her two sons to the village school.

The village school charged half a tael of rice per person per month for tuition, which was much cheaper than in the county town, but it was still a considerable expense.

The two of them would only have 12 taels of silver a year, which means that Zhang Junniang's silver would be spent by her two sons in less than a year.

She couldn't even afford the tuition fee.

Not to mention, there's still food to eat at home, plus the possibility of needing to buy medicine or something; the remaining 9 taels of silver are simply a drop in the bucket.

Nine taels of silver weren't even enough for Zhang Junniang and her two sons to live on.

In order to make money as quickly as possible, she went up the mountain with Chen Sanbao under the scorching sun.

Soon the two arrived at the place where Chen Sanbao had dug up ginseng last time, but this time they searched the surrounding area for a long time and couldn't find a single ginseng.

Just as the two were frowning in distress, they saw a figure moving in their direction.

(End of this chapter)