As soon as Bai Ailian entered the house, she saw Zhou Jinfeng leaning against the corner of the wall picking his teeth.

She placed the basket on the table. "Has Xiaojun not gotten up yet?"

Zhou Jinfeng said, "Your own son, don't you know what kind of person he is? He'll get up as soon as you've prepared the food."

Everything else might be unreliable, but Zhou Xiaojun always eats on time.

"At least tidy up the house at home. Look at the mess it is. It's almost Chinese New Year, and you expect me to do everything. How can I manage with just two hands?"

Zhou Jinfeng said, "What kind of grown man is busy with family matters? Besides, isn't this how it goes every year? What are you muttering about here?"

"And it's almost Chinese New Year, couldn't you have bought some better vegetables? How are you managing to survive on these rotten vegetable seedlings?"

Bai Ailian said, "Anyway, there are only so many dishes. Eat if you like, or don't. I'm not going to serve you anymore."

"You complain about the lack of vegetables? Then go and find some yourself. Other families go to the countryside early to buy some, but what do you do? You sit at home like a king."

Zhou Jinfeng looked up at her and said, "A few days ago, I mentioned that I was going to go to the countryside with my colleagues. I asked you if you wanted to exchange some eggs and cured meat with the villagers. What did you say?"

Yang Guoqing reluctantly agreed. His wife had a low alcohol tolerance, but she had been persuaded to drink two large glasses today. Afterwards, she seemed a little tipsy.

"It's always a bad thing to keep things bottled up inside."

The couple complained outside, while Zhou Dajun, who was just a wall away, continued to sleep with his head covered.

Zhou Jinfeng had obviously thought of that point as well, and his expression was also very angry. "It's no use talking about that now. My own son is capable and I can live a bad life. Why did he have to choose someone like Bai Ailian?"

They've had a long day, they should go home and rest early.

You finally found a chance to say that Jiang Yin, as her younger brother, considered backing down from everything. Even after leaving Heping County, he still managed to ruin everything.

At that time, Da Lan said she wanted to marry Hua Zhian, the eldest son of Hua Zhian. If it weren't for the fact that you hurt someone, we wouldn't have become in-laws with the Hua family.

Jiang Yin handed the child in her hand to Yang Lan, saying, "You two should go there early tomorrow morning. You've already prepared everything."

Zhou Jinfeng said, "Why bring up things from the past? He could have said whatever he wanted inside, and Bai Ailian would have had no objections then."

Zhou Jinfeng said, "What's the use of telling you all that? That house is all yours. It may look nice, but he always makes you the villain. He's the bad guy, always playing the bad father."

Zhou Jinfeng said, "If we eat these few fish, what will we eat for the Lunar New Year? If we want to eat something bad, he should be more diligent and see which household has a lot of dried fish hanging up. We only have a few fish, so we can just make do with one dish."

Hua Xiangyun waited until the dinner party ended before accompanying Jiang Yin to take Jiang Yi and our family home.

"Who's so wasteful? They're supposed to be thrifty. It's almost Chinese New Year, are they trying to tempt someone with all that?" He Ping'an cursed. "These dried fish they've dried later, what if they take them up and steam them?"

Didn't you say your daughter would come over at the end of the year to give you gifts? Where are they now?

As for the wonderful aroma inside, did he know that the Hua family members were returning later?

"You just have no feelings about it, you just think that our family should live that kind of life." He Ping'an stared at the backyard. The Hua family is well-off. As long as we loosen our belts, our family can live a very comfortable life.

If it weren't for the trouble you caused, we wouldn't be enemies with the Hua family.

I had heard about the mother and son's schemes by then, and I let them do whatever they wanted. Who knew that the mother and son would be so useful? After all that trouble, Zhou Dalan was able to marry into the Hua family. If I were a guest of the Hua family now, I wouldn't need to stand outside drooling over the delicious food.

Yang Guoqing walked over, took your arm and pulled you back, "Alright, I know the child is tired. He was still outside muttering that it was going to end. It hasn't been that long since you came back. If you have something to say, say it quickly."

Fortunately, the weather was good today. If it had been raining or snowing, we would have really had to escort Jiang Yin all the way back.

You're not worried that your son-in-law won't have any objections, but rather that your daughter's life will be difficult. You're worried that Bai Ailian will get angry and make your daughter take care of us.

The reason Xie Xiaocheng caused trouble that year was because Jiang Yin sent someone to warn us and asked someone to look after our family. Otherwise, our old age would never have been so peaceful.

Speaking of that, He Ping'an became even more depressed. "He said, how could that girl Da Lan have been so blind? She was so wicked, she had to break ties with the Hua family."

Yang Lan looked at Jiang Yin and said, "You've always known that your younger brother has been slow-witted since he was a child, but you also know that you have such sharp eyes. How could you not see so little after only spending a few days with him?"

He watched as the Hua family soared to great heights, with everyone passing the primary school entrance exams, while his own wretched daughter was now just hiding with Bai Ailian, making a complete mess of things.

"We could have let it go since he's earned money to support his parents, but seeing how stingy those two are, and now he's bringing bad things to the He family, he doesn't even think about our parents anymore."

He Ping'an snorted, wanting to continue arguing with Zhou Jinfa, but the aroma wafting from inside was too enticing. Looking at the leftover food under the table, he felt that life was becoming more and more miserable.

Jiang Yi said, "They shouldn't bother going back and forth. It's such a short distance, you know how to get there."

But he shouldn't live too frugal a life. He should discuss things with his aunt and us whenever there's nothing to do.

Jiang Yi looked at his nephew and niece-in-law with satisfaction. Those days were becoming increasingly hopeless. "Hey, if we're really unhappy that they're doing so well now, you need to go back and think about what to talk to us about tomorrow."

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Yang Lan hugged Yang Fan, "Ayi, thank him."

"Look at you, you know absolutely nothing about raising children. Your son is so lazy, and your daughter is so unfilial; she'd rather fawn over the He family than come back to see us."

Without a stable job, constantly moving around and doing buying and selling, how can that last?

Wei Ailun really knew, "How did we get back? We've been living a miserable life in Beijing."

Tomorrow you should give your parents a naughty talk, asking them to bless the two children so that their lives will always be smooth sailing.

As soon as they reached the intersection, Jiang Yi stopped. "Huaihua, take a rest. Tomorrow morning we'll go to his grandparents' graves. We haven't visited his parents' graves yet."

Jiang Yin patted Yang Fan's head and said, "We're family, why talk about those things?"

Jiang Yi waved to Hua Xiangyun and walked behind me, saying, "That's because I saw the children were having a hard time and was feeling down, so I stopped nagging them."