"You should let the children take good care of themselves. When they grow up and need help from others, they can ask for help from them. Now the relationship between the younger generations has become strained. If they don't have any contact in the future, can you still ask for help from them?"
Lin Meishuang felt helpless after hearing this. "Mom, although they are brothers from two aunts, whether they can get along well or not still depends on their fate. I think Xiaozhuo and Tiantian are both good-tempered. On the contrary, my Degang is spoiled. I forced them to get along with each other, and he was not very nice to Tiantian and the others. Just let nature take its course."
After hearing this, Grandma Lin sighed helplessly and said with some regret: "You are just too honest. She is your biological sister. It is normal for your children to spend more time together. Besides, the Tian family is doing well, and you can benefit from it in the future."
"Now you see that the relationship between sisters is quite close. After your father and I die, you and the third sister will be fine, but you two and the second sister will only see each other once a year. From now on, your relationship will be distant, not to mention the other children."
"Mom! What are you talking about? You can still live for many years, and you are still so strong." Lin Meishuang said.
Grandma Lin sighed and still felt that Lin Meishuang had a miserable life.
"You have a miserable life. When I first arranged for you to marry this Wu family, they thought they were quite well off. But I didn't expect that you would not be able to enjoy their happiness for long after you got married for less than a year. The old man died, and the old lady is still sick. They owed a lot of money for her medical treatment, and you are pregnant. I knew that this was the situation, so I would not let you marry them."
Lin Meishuang didn't want to hear all this. She had been married for so many years and the hard times were over. Why was she still talking about this?
"Okay, Mom, you have to make your own living. It was a bit hard in the early years, but now things are pretty good. I'll be able to relax when the kids grow up. You don't have to worry about it. At your age now, you don't have to worry about anything."
"Humph!" Grandma Lin snorted coldly after hearing this. "You don't let me think about anything. You should make me worry less. I've been worrying about you and the third child for a long time."
Lin Meiyu, Lin Meixia and Tian Lisong were busy in the kitchen for a long time and finally cooked the rice. Lin Meixia came over and asked them to clean up and eat.
A few old men who had never moved started to move, sweeping the floor, setting the table, and helping to serve the meals and dishes.
As for Tian Tian and the others, they had heard what Lin Meiyu said a long time ago, and came over early in the morning to wait for dinner.
Originally, Tian Tian and Tian Zhuo also wanted to help Lin Meiyu get some things, but there were already quite a few people serving the food, and if they went to help, they would seem to be in the way, so they had no choice but to stand obediently with Shugen and the others, standing in a row waiting to eat.
They placed two tables in the room, one was a kang table and the other was a large table on the ground.
All the men were eating at the table on the ground floor, while the younger ones like Tian Tian, as well as the sisters like Li Meiyu, were all eating at the table on the kang.
"Dad! This is the wine that Jianjun specially prepared for you. How about you drink some while you eat?" Lin Meixia asked with a smile as she brought up a pot of wine.
Wine is very precious nowadays. It is made from grains. Rural people don’t have much spare money to buy wine. They are so greedy that they only buy a small pot during the Chinese New Year. However, most people don’t drink it.
Tian Tian felt a little worried when she heard this. If she wasn't a junior, she would have wanted to move the table to the west room to eat.
This group of men never stop eating. They treat wine as their own father. Especially once they start drinking, there is no end in sight. After they get used to the food, they start chatting and smoking a little. The house is filled with the smell of wine and cigarettes, it stinks.
However, Tian Tian had no right to speak and could only complain in her heart.
"Give me a glass! Pour them all a glass and let them drink." Sure enough, Grandpa Lin's eyes lit up when he saw the wine.
"I don't need it!" Tian Lisong looked at the wine and refused.
"Come on, let's have some. It's New Year's Eve and we can relax and have some fun." Boss Wu also advised.
"Brother-in-law, you really don't need to persuade Lisong. He never drinks." Lin Meiyu also refused.
Maybe it was because Old Man Tian was a soldier when he was alive, and he was afraid that drinking would cause trouble, so he never drank and did not allow Tian Lisong and Tian Lilin to drink.
"Hey? Then you can try it this time. Look, our dad is sitting here, and you have finally come back. If you don't drink a few sips of wine, aren't you ruining the fun?" Boss Wu put the bowl directly in front of Tian Lisong and filled it with wine.
"If my brother-in-law doesn't want to drink, then don't drink. Why are you forcing him to drink?" Lin Meishuang heard what Boss Wu said when she handed them the chopsticks, and said with some unhappiness.
"We're happy today, let's have a drink together as men. Just ignore yourselves and stop busying ourselves. Let's go and have our meal!" Boss Wu was impatient with people meddling in his affairs.
"My father doesn't drink. Once he drinks, he has trouble breathing and breaks out in rashes all over his body. It lasts for days. My grandma will definitely ask about it when she sees it. Grandpa is so nice, and my aunt is also a good person. They will definitely not force my dad to drink, right? They will definitely not bear to see my dad suffer like this." Tian Tian said loudly.
Since Tian Tian said so, Grandpa couldn't let Tian Lisong drink. If Old Mrs. Tian knew about this, she would think that they were teaming up to bully her son.
"Okay, if you don't want to drink, then don't drink. The food today is very good, so eat more." Grandpa Lin said.
"Oh! Dad and brother-in-law still care about me, so I will listen to you." Tian Lisong said very tactfully.
"Let's eat!" After all the food and bowls and chopsticks were brought to the table, everyone started to eat.
The small table on the kang was too small to accommodate so many people, so Wu Defu and Wu Deliang got downstairs and sat at the same table with the adults.
I cooked quite a lot of dishes today, including stir-fried pork belly with sauerkraut, braised tofu with soybean sauce, and stir-fried cabbage with potatoes. These are all the leftover dishes from the Chinese New Year, and they taste very delicious.
As soon as everyone started eating, several children's chopsticks reached into the sauerkraut to look for pork belly. Although Tian Tian did not have as much pork as she wanted, she did eat a lot of meat in the past two days. She knew that her aunt's family was not well off and they could not eat much meat during the New Year, so she did not pick up any meat.
She saw Wu Degang picking up the meat with his chopsticks, Wu Juan also had Lin Meishuang picking up meat for her, and Shugen'er and Caogen were also taken care of by her third aunt.
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