Hearing his slightly sad tone, Father Cheng finally felt more relaxed and less anxious to split up the family business. "Well, wait a few days."
Cheng Jiawen's face froze when he heard this, and he couldn't help but curse himself in his heart: Damn, this is too much, Dad doesn't want to split up? This won't do, we agreed to split up in the first place.
He was just thinking about how to put the division of the family on a daily basis when Cheng's mother came to help. At this time, everyone had finished their meal. Cheng's mother glanced at Xu Qianjiao who was still eating slowly and said lightly: "Fourth daughter-in-law, since you can't cook, then you will be responsible for washing the dishes. From now on, you will be the one washing the dishes."
"Mom, haven't we always taken turns in our family? Why does my wife have to wash all the time?" Cheng Jiawen couldn't help but feel happy. It was like someone gave him a pillow when he was dozing off. He had just said that she was acting too much and there was no way to talk about dividing the family anymore, but now the topic came up again.
Mother Cheng wiped her mouth and said calmly, "Doesn't your wife know how to cook? Then wouldn't it be perfect for her to just wash the dishes instead of cooking?"
"How is it appropriate? The cooking is shared by my elder sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law, but my wife is the only one who washes the dishes. This is not fair." Cheng Jiawen kept talking.
Cheng Muhei was furious with his attitude, "You're so worried about your wife that you don't even want her to wash the dishes."
Hearing this, Cheng Jiawen nodded as a matter of course, "I do feel sorry for her, and she can cook, so why don't I help her? I can do it."
"You...you..." Mother Cheng was so angry that she couldn't speak. She kept pointing at Cheng Jiawen, "You useless guy, I've never seen you go into the kitchen before, and now you take the initiative to say that you can cook for your wife. It really makes me mad."
"Is there anything wrong with this?" Cheng Jiawen scratched his head and turned to look at Xu Qianjiao with an expression that looked like he was asking for praise.
Xu Qianjiao suppressed a smile, seeing him making Cheng's mother mad, and couldn't help muttering in her heart: This guy really has the ability to make people angry to death. Looking at Cheng's mother like this, you can tell that Cheng Jiawen has hit her sore spot.
Mother Cheng took a deep breath and said, "Okay, okay, you love your wife, right? Then I will let you do so. We will separate tomorrow, and I will let you love your wife well."
After saying that, he turned around and left angrily, ignoring the group of people in the room.
When everyone in the room heard that they would separate tomorrow, their expressions were different and they all had their own ideas, but the only thing in common was that there was a faint smile on everyone's face.
Father Cheng looked at Mother Cheng's back as she left, then looked at the people in the room with different expressions. He had a dull look on his face, and no one knew what he was thinking.
He slowly stood up and walked out the door without saying a word.
When everyone saw that Cheng's father and mother had left, they all left one after another. The dishes on the table were cleared by Cheng Jiawen and Xu Qianjiao. They really didn't do any work today, so it was only right for them to clean up.
Moreover, they have achieved their goal, they are in a good mood, and cleaning up the dishes is not so painful anymore.
They were humming songs while cleaning up, and the atmosphere was very cheerful.
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Here, Cheng's father and mother returned to the room. Mother Cheng sat on the bed in a gloomy mood, while Father Cheng sat on the side smoking. He picked up his pipe and took a puff of the cigarette, then said lightly: "Why are you still unhappy? Wasn't it you who proposed to separate the family?"
Mother Cheng glanced at him and pursed her lips. "I...I do want to divide the family, but I want to keep him for a few more days before dividing it. Anyway, the food won't come down so early, so it's better to keep them at home and do more work."
Father Cheng glanced at her and said bluntly, "You must be feeling uncomfortable seeing your son doting on his wife."
"No way, am I such a stingy person?" Mother Cheng widened her eyes and refuted Father Cheng's words with righteous indignation.
"Tsk~" Father Cheng sneered, raised his hand to take a puff of cigarette, looked at her steadily, and said leisurely: "Isn't it?"
Seeing her thoughts exposed, Cheng's mother stopped trying to hide them and said directly, "Yes, I just feel unhappy. Tell me, usually when I ask him to do some work, he always refuses. Now that he has a wife, he volunteers to help her with all the work. How can I feel happy?"
"I'm still his mother. I carried him for ten months and gave birth to him, but I never saw him feel sorry for me."
Hearing her sour words, Father Cheng couldn't help but laugh. "You old woman, you're already so old, yet you're still jealous of your child. Besides, you don't usually pay much attention to the fourth child. Why do you suddenly care about him after he gets married?"
After hearing what Cheng's father said, Cheng's mother fell into deep thought. After a long while, she said leisurely, "Maybe he knows that he doesn't care about him anymore. Ever since he got married, I realized how unimportant I am to him as his mother."
"Come on, come on, old woman, stop being so pretentious. It's not enough that you have the second son praising you, and you want the fourth son to praising you as well." Father Cheng sneered and quickly interrupted Mother Cheng's expression.
"Okay, let's get down to business. We're going to split up tomorrow. How are we going to do it?"
Cheng's mother picked up the quilt and covered herself with it, saying nonchalantly, "Well, just give him a room and 50 yuan, that's about it."
"Oh, and the food and money we agreed to give you also need to be included in the separation agreement."
Father Cheng nodded and said, "Well, an extra 50 yuan for a room is about right. It's also acceptable for face, and outsiders won't say anything behind your back."
"What is there to say? Isn't it normal to divide the family? Even if I don't give him anything, it's reasonable. The family property is ours, and we can divide it however we like." Cheng's mother said as if it was a matter of course.
"Come on, come on. If we really don't give him anything, our family will really become the focus of conversation after dinner." Father Cheng put out his pipe, walked to the bed and lay down, saying slowly.
"Okay, let's divide it as we just said. Go to sleep."
After saying that, he blew out the candle, covered himself with the quilt and went to sleep, ignoring Cheng's mother.
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Here, Xu Qianjiao and Cheng Jiawen packed up their things and returned to the room. Xu Qianjiao stretched, changed into pajamas and lay down on the bed.
Cheng Jiawen added some firewood to the kang bed to increase the temperature, then changed into pajamas and lay down next to Xu Qianjiao.
"Do you think we will really separate tomorrow?" Xu Qianjiao turned and looked at Cheng Jiawen, and asked slowly.
Cheng Jiawen put his arm around Xu Qianjiao and said, "Of course. My mother is a very proud person. She will do what she says no matter what."
"What are your plans after the separation?" Xu Qianjiao found a comfortable position in his arms, lying softly on him, and asked curiously.
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