When Tang Suxiang said these words, Song Hanwen and his wife were sometimes present. They never criticized Tang Suxiang and always tacitly agreed with her.
Wang Yunyun deliberately told Tang Suxiang that her daughter was being tormented by her stepmother in the provincial capital. Tang Suxiang pretended not to hear, her eyes only on her second granddaughter, and she even felt a little schadenfreude.
Among the children of her granddaughter's generation, none of them are as formidable as her second granddaughter. Almost all of them have had their toys and treats snatched by her second granddaughter, and some have even been beaten by her. As long as the adults don't intervene, her second granddaughter has never suffered a loss.
Tang Suxiang was smugly pleased that her family had produced such a promising granddaughter.
To make it easier for his second granddaughter to attend school, Song Hanwen decided to move the whole family to a commercial apartment in the county town.
On the day they moved away, Song Erzhuang was reluctant to come and see them.
Song Hanwen whispered to Wang Yunyun, "Look at my second uncle. If I don't move out, I'll have to take care of him and my aunt when they get old."
Wang Yunyun: "Second Uncle has Baogen, and he has a son!"
“Baogen is not very capable. It’s almost the same as not having a son for my second uncle. If I don’t move away and live in the same village as my second uncle and his family, my second uncle will get sick when he gets old, and he will be a burden to me. If I don’t take care of my second uncle, the villagers will gossip about me!”
Song Erzhuang was reluctant to part with his nephew's family, which Song Hanwen saw as a sign that he was thinking of his nephew helping him in the future.
After Song Hanwen's family moved away, Song Erzhuang returned home and kept sighing, feeling empty inside.
He watched his eldest nephew grow up.
After they move to the county town, it will be difficult to see each other again.
Wang Yunyun told Qiao Guilan privately that Song Hanwen's family moved to the county town because they were afraid that the elderly couple would become a burden to them when they got old and sick.
Qiao Guilan was furious after hearing this, "I have a son to take care of us in our old age, we don't need him."
Qiao Guilan became increasingly angry and told her son and daughter-in-law about it.
When Li Wenxiu heard Song Hanwen say that Song Baogen was incompetent, she sneered, "If he's so capable, he can't even have a son, let alone two daughters. He should be worried about who will take care of him when he gets old, and that he won't be a burden to my two sons!"
Li Wenxiu has been in a bad mood lately.
The business of the wonton shop in the county town is getting worse day by day.
She made the meat filling according to the recipe given by Song Yinhua. For the first few months, the texture of the wontons was the same as the meat filling prepared by Song Yinhua. However, in the last two or three months, the texture of the meat filling was not right.
Business also plummeted.
If this continues, the wonton shop will not be able to continue operating.
She had tried to persuade Song Baogen several times to go to Song Yinhua and ask her to continue delivering fillings to the shops in the county town, but Song Baogen refused to go to Song Yinhua no matter what, saying he was too ashamed to do so.
The young couple had argued about this several times in private.
When Li Wenxiu checked the accounts at the end of the month, she found that the wonton shop was still operating at a loss after deducting various costs.
She asked Song Baogen to plead with Song Yinhua on her behalf, but Song Baogen refused. Seeing that the wonton shop in the county town was constantly losing money, she had no choice but to swallow her pride and go to Song Yinhua.
At the foot of the mountain, in the courtyard, Xiao Xiaohua had just come home from school and was doing her homework inside the house.
The crazy woman next to him was focused on drawing.
The room was filled with paintings drawn by the madwoman.
Several paintings were framed by Song Yinhua and hung on the wall.
"Woof woof!"
"Woof woof woof...!"
Xiaohua heard several black wolfhounds barking, and she immediately ran out of the main room, where she saw Li Wenxiu standing outside the courtyard gate, looking inside.
"Little Flower, is your mom home?"
"What do you want with my mom?"
"Nothing much, just wanted to chat with your mom. I haven't seen her in a long time, so I brought her some pork fat."
Little Flower ran out of the yard, grabbed the pork fat, and said, "Thank you, Auntie. You can go back now. My mom isn't home. When she comes back, I'll tell her that you brought this pork fat."
Li Wenxiu sensed that Xiao Xiaohua didn't like her.
"Where did your mother go? Did she go back to Huojiabao Village?"
"I don't know." Little Flower carried the pig fat back into the house, ignoring Li Wenxiu.
Li Wenxiu didn't leave immediately; she wandered around outside waiting for Song Yinhua to return.
The burned orchards next door were all sawed down by the roots, and the ground was covered with watermelon vines. Large, round watermelons could be seen everywhere, and the farmland next door was full of plump wheat.
Li Wenxiu secretly marveled at how good this piece of land was.
Last year it was burned so badly, but this year we planted watermelons and they are growing so well, producing big, round watermelons.
Song Yinhua carried chicken manure and scattered it on the ground behind the house, then used a rake to level the land.
While Li Wenxiu was wandering around aimlessly, she turned her head and saw Song Yinhua working behind the house.
"Hey sis, you're home!"
"Wenxiu?" Song Yinhua picked up the towel around her neck and wiped the sweat from her forehead. "What brings you here?"
“I came to find you.” Li Wenxiu walked over. “Xiao Xiaohua said she didn’t know where you went. I thought you went to Huojiabao Village, so I wandered around hoping to wait for you to come back.”
"What do you need?" Song Yinhua continued working with her rake.
"The wonton shop in the county town is doing worse and worse, and it's been losing money for the past few months. Sister, I was thinking of asking you if you could help me..."
"No!" Song Yinhua refused before Li Wenxiu could finish speaking.
"Big sister, I haven't finished speaking yet!"
"You want me to continue supplying minced meat to your shop in the county, am I right?"
"Big sister, I was blinded by Qiu Xue's words before, and I know I was wrong now. Please help me and Bao Gen again. Bao Gen's meager monthly salary has to support two children and take care of the elderly. We are now relying on this wonton shop to supplement our income."
"I can't help you," Song Yinhua said coldly.
"Sister, if you agree to continue supplying fillings to the shop this time, I'll give you 60% of the profits."
Song Yinhua buried herself in her work.
“Seventy percent!” Li Wenxiu said.
Seeing that Song Yinhua was working without saying a word, Li Wenxiu gritted her teeth and said, "I'll give you 80%, that's all I can give. Baogen and I need to make a living too."
"Wenxiu, stop talking. I wrote down the filling recipe for you a long time ago. When you kicked me out to prevent me from sharing the profits, we made it very clear that your shop's affairs had nothing to do with me anymore."
"Big sister, please forgive us this time for Baogen's sake."
Song Yinhua glanced at the sky and decided to go back to cook dinner.
She picked up the hoe and left.
"Big sister, won't you help me and Baogen?" Li Wenxiu stopped Song Yinhua. "This time, I'll give you 80% of the profits."
"I'm sorry, I can't help you." Song Yinhua walked around Li Wenxiu and left.
Just as Song Yinhua finished cooking dinner, Qiao Guilan arrived.
Little Flower was doing her homework on the table next to her.
Qiao Guilan tried to persuade Song Yinhua to continue supplying meat filling to Li Wenxiu's wonton shop, but Song Yinhua refused. Qiao Guilan kept trying to persuade her.
"Yinhua, it's settled then. I'll go back and tell Wenxiu that starting tomorrow, you'll continue making minced meat for her wonton shop. You'll have to get up early tomorrow morning to sell pork."
"Mom, I won't get involved in Wenxiu's shop."
"How can you be so selfish? When you get old, you'll have to rely on Baogen and his two sons. How could you be so heartless!" Qiao Guilan scolded Song Yinhua. "This matter is settled..."
"Grandma, my mom said she won't get involved in my aunt's shop," Little Flower said loudly, indignantly. "Grandma, you're being unfair!"
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