Li Mei's face darkened. "Do you think I'm like you, sitting around chatting at work with nothing to do every day?"

Li Xu smacked his lips. "Now it seems you're the only one in our family who's not like me."

Li Mei: ...

She really couldn't refute this.

Both Li Jiakang and his wife, and Li Ping from the street office, have been extremely idle during this period.

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Li Xu smiled happily.

...

Let’s talk about the other side.

When Li Ping and his wife arrived at the Hu family, they saw food and clean dishes on the table as soon as they entered the door.

Everyone sat at the table with grim expressions. Hu Yang kept smoking, and Hu's mother kept sighing.

The little kids seemed to know that the adults were in a bad mood. They huddled in their mother's arms, not daring to make a sound.

Seeing this, Hu Guilan persuaded them, "Dad, Mom, no matter how big the problem is, it's not as important as your health. It's not too late to think about it after dinner."

Hu Yang took the cigarette out of his mouth and said in a hoarse voice, "I can't eat it."

"I can't eat either." Mother Hu forced a smile. "Guilan, Xiaoping, please sit down. The eldest daughter-in-law, please pour a glass of water for your eldest sister and brother-in-law."

Hu Yitong's wife responded, put the child in her arms on the ground, walked to where the water bottles were placed, and poured water for the two of them.

At this time, Li Ping said, "Sister-in-law, pour two more cups. Cuifen and her husband will come over later."

Then he looked at Hu Yang and his wife, "Dad, Mom, don't blame me for being blunt. Even if you didn't eat for ten days, you would still end up like this. There's no need to be like this. Besides, if the adults aren't hungry, then the children won't be hungry either."

The reason he said this was because he saw Hu Yitong's child looking at the table after being put on the ground.

And judging by the situation in the house, he really didn't think the child had eaten.

Hearing this, Hu Yang was startled. He glanced at the children, then stood up and walked to the stool outside the dining table and sat down, saying, "I really have no appetite. Old woman, you guys eat, don't worry about me."

Li Ping was speechless. What's the point of you moving down from the dinner table?

Sure enough, Hu's mother and Hu Yitong and others came down from the dining table, indicating that the women and children could eat.

The result was that several women looked at each other at the dinner table, but no one dared to pick up their chopsticks.

Seeing this, Hu Guilan shook her head and stepped forward to scoop out a few bowls of rice and handed them to her younger siblings. "Eat, don't worry about them."

Her two younger sisters were well aware of their eldest sister's status in the family, so they quickly picked up their chopsticks and started eating.

Seeing that they had all eaten, several daughters-in-law of the Hu family picked up their chopsticks, but they did not eat themselves. Instead, they fed the children in their arms first.

Hu Guilan nodded in satisfaction, then turned around and scolded her brothers, "If you lose your job, you'll starve to death or something. At worst, you can just go back to the frugal life you had a few years ago. What's there to worry about?"

Although she was also worried, she couldn't show it, otherwise how could she persuade the Hu family?

In fact, these words were mainly said to Hu Yang.

As long as Hu Yang, the head of the family, can return to normal, there will be no problem for others.

But he didn't expect that just as he finished speaking, Hu Yitiao whispered, "It's easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it's hard to go from extravagance to frugality, not to mention eating up all the savings."

His job was replaced by Li Chen last year, and he felt very uncomfortable at that time.

So now he doesn't think too much about losing his job itself.

What made him sad was that he had to go back to his previous life of frugality and that the money he saved from work would be confiscated by the public.

Of course, the latter incident has not happened yet, it is just his guess.

Hu Guilan's face darkened and she glared at him fiercely, "If you can't speak, then shut up."

She has several younger brothers, but the one she dislikes the most is Hu Yitiao.

Because he has no self-awareness.

This can be seen from the way he looks for a wife.

At the beginning, he was helping Li Xu to take over the job, and this job could be taken back at any time, so the girls with jobs looked down on him.

His family advised him to find a partner who was unemployed, but he refused to do so.

This caused a lot of trouble and I got beaten up a lot.

As a result, his marriage was delayed for several years. It was not until last year when Li Xu took back his job that he gave up and found an unemployed girl to marry.

As for what he just said, it made Hu Guilan discover another characteristic of his.

That's stupid.

Given the current situation of the Hu family, what else can they do except go back to their old ways?

Besides, does the Hu family have a huge fortune?

That was clearly a small mound.

What Hu Yang and the others are worried about is not the problem of going from extravagance to frugality, but the various problems caused by lack of money.

For example, when Hu Guilan’s younger brother reached the marriageable age, how could he get married if he had no money?

For example, when the family’s money is gone and they go out to borrow money, how much do they need to borrow to turn things around?

How many years will it take to make up for this debt?

Despite all the above, Hu Yitiao only spoke of the most superficial things, which can only be described as stupid.

So not only did Hu Guilan scold him, even Hu Yang couldn't help but scold him, "You're already a father, can't you think before you speak? How can our family's situation be considered extravagant? Is the gap between our current living standards and our previous ones really that big a gap that you can't accept?"

Hu Yitiao sniffed and fell silent.

He really couldn't accept it...

Seeing that he remained silent, Hu Guilan and the others ignored him.

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