Chapter 178 Seeking Peace After leaving Ji's house, the father and daughter went to another place...
After leaving Ji's house, the father and daughter went to Dong Xinghua's house again and brought Pang Qiao and Pang Wei back home. This trip to pay New Year's greetings was over.
Logically speaking, he should go to the family compound to wish Xu Heye's uncle Dong Hongfu a happy new year, but the two families have been in such a turmoil that their relationship is even worse than that of ordinary people. They haven't been in contact for the past two years, so naturally he won't go to wish them a happy new year during the new year.
Xu Heye thought that the two families had tacitly agreed to never have any contact with each other in the future, but she didn't expect some people to be so shameless. When the four of them returned home, they heard a quarrel in the house before they even entered the door.
Xu Heye knocked on the door, and someone opened it. It was tall, and it wasn't Dong Taohua. Xu Heye looked up and realized it was Liu Wen.
"It's you? Why are you in my house?" Xu Heye frowned, took off her little leather shoes and put on her special cotton shoes.
Liu Wen took a look at the small leather shoes that Xu Heye took off and pursed his lips. This pair of shoes was the latest model in the mall. His mother had seen them in the mall's specialty store when she took him and his sister shopping for new clothes a few years ago. Liu Jun liked them very much and tried them on again and again, but in the end his mother still didn't buy them for him.
He still remembered how the shoe store clerk rolled his eyes at them before they left.
Liu Wen recalled how Xu Heye looked when he just returned to Hucheng a few years ago. He was covered in dust and wore an old and outdated cotton-padded jacket. At that time, he was standing in a high position and looking down at the other party. Now, in just a few years, the status of the two families has been reversed.
The Xu family opened a garment factory, bought a new house, and even opened a clothing store. Meanwhile, his parents were laid off one after another, unable to find work and forced to do odd jobs to make ends meet. Now, they're forced to seek help from the people they once looked down upon.
When Liu Wen thought of this, he couldn't bring himself to say "Let's come and wish our aunt a happy new year".
Xu Heye entered the house, followed by Pang Qiao and Pang Wei, who found their own cotton-padded shoes in the shoe cabinet and changed into them. The last person to enter was Xu Hui. Xu Hui glanced at Liu Wen, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes, but he said nothing.
He is an adult and he would not argue with a child.
After entering through the front door and into the living room, I discovered that not only Liu Wen was there, but also his father, mother, sister, and elder brother-in-law Dong Hongfu and his family.
Normally, on New Year's Day, the father would take the children to visit relatives and friends, while the mother would stay at home to prevent other guests from coming to visit and turning the door away because there was no one at home.
But Xu Hui didn't expect that these two companies were so careless in their work.
What face do the two families still have?
The saying of the fifth son of the Ji family, "A rich man in the mountains has distant relatives, a poor man in the city has no one to care about him," still makes sense.
The Dong family was now a mess, and no one wanted to get involved, lest they get into trouble. Not to mention relatives and friends, even neighbors would skip their family when they came to pay New Year's greetings.
Two years ago, Dong Hongfu was still waiting proudly. The Xu family bought a house in Hucheng, and he would always come to pay New Year's greetings to his brother-in-law when he returned to his parents' home on the second day of the Lunar New Year.
But he waited from the first to the fifteenth day of the lunar month, but no one came.
The next year, the Xu and Pang families still did not come.
Dong Hongfu finally admitted that he had really offended his two sisters and they didn't want to have anything to do with his family anymore.
Years ago, he arranged a dinner with relatives to intercede for his daughter, but only the third sister showed up. She said she would follow her eldest sister. If her eldest sister forgave him, she would forgive him too. She left without even eating.
Dong Hongfu was so angry that he was about to die. As the eldest brother, he took the initiative to humble himself and ask for peace between the two sisters, but they still made trouble for him.
But the situation was stronger than the person, and after being angry for a few days, Dong Hongfu quietly comforted himself. The eldest sister's family was getting better and better, and their lives were thriving. His family could hardly afford to eat.
If he could coax Taohua back, he could even work as a warehouse manager in her factory, or even get his wife to sew clothes. He no longer had any dreams of becoming a small boss. He just wanted to find a proper job, get a monthly salary, and support his family of three.
Dai Ying had the same idea.
She'd tried countless jobs over the past two years, but none lasted long. At first, she'd been picky about her work, but then the jobs started choosing her. Now, the only jobs she could find were those dirty, smelly jobs no one else wanted.
Dai Ying’s previous job was as a nurse in a hospital taking care of paralyzed elderly people. She had cheated when she was taking care of Old Dong, but now that she is paid to work for others, she can no longer cheat.
Dai Ying felt like she was being marinated in feces and urine every day after cleaning the poop and diapers of these strange old men and women. Not to mention the hard work, the children of these elderly people were also particularly fond of finding faults, and if they did, they would deduct their wages.
Dai Ying couldn't stand it anymore and resigned.
She used to think that being the boss's sister-in-law, and working on the assembly line like everyone else was a bit demeaning. But now she feels that having a job like this where she can sit in a factory and do clean work is more satisfying than anything else.
In order to avoid having to go back to the hospital to wipe people's poop and wash diapers, the couple unanimously decided to swallow their pride and go to Xu's house in person to find Dong Taohua and make peace.
To show his sincerity, he also brought his son Dong Kangtai along, and the three of them went together.
But they didn't expect that Liu Qiang and Ye Jiayi, the shameless parents-in-law, would follow them when they saw them coming.
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