At this time of day, the whole family returned to the Cao family compound. The yard was noisy, and a group of children gathered together to fight.
The fourth room family moved away. Qi Wanfeng, who had always worked hard and uncomplainingly, was gone, and no one was willing to do the housework. The three guan of money that Cao Xiangnan used to pay back every month was gone. Without the three guan of money a month, there were more than a dozen mouths to feed in the family, and they had to support a student. The family relied on a dozen acres of land and some money from handicrafts to make ends meet. Now there was no meat on the table.
Originally, the people in the Cao family compound thought that their lives would get better and better after the fourth family was driven away, but now it is worse than before.
The eldest brother, Chen Li, prepared dinner. A large pot of vegetables was cooked with little salt and oil, and a pot of rice porridge was boiled. There was nothing else. There were many people in the family, so they all ate it all at once, because those who moved slowly would go hungry.
"...Eat quickly, you eat so much every day, and you don't know how to work harder. Why don't you clean up the dishes and wash them quickly? Are you waiting for me, your mother, to clean them up?" When Chen Zhu saw that one or two people were sitting there unwilling to move, he opened his mouth and started to complain about his wife's laziness.
He now spends both morning and evening sitting in the yard cursing people, accusing his wife of not being diligent and filial to his mother-in-law. Chen Zhu is partial. No matter how good his son is, he is still his son. His wife will scold him if she doesn't do well in the slightest.
Now Chen Li is doing most of the work at home. The second brother, Wang Yan, does nothing. He has to clean up after cooking. Naturally, he is unwilling to do so. Chen Li felt aggrieved by her mother-in-law's scolding, so she burst into tears and turned around and ran into the house.
The boss, Cao Fugui, was sitting next to his father. When he saw his wife crying, he went in and chased her back.
"I, I'll go and pack it up." The second brother, Wang Yan, put down the little son in her arms. He was lazy to begin with. Now that Qi Wanfeng is gone, he has to share the housework with the eldest brother, Chen Li, but he doesn't want to do it. He pushes it away whenever he can. In short, he just doesn't want to do it.
The second brother, Cao Fugui, is a scoundrel. Now that no one is doing the housework and his wife has to do this kind of work, he is not happy and says, "Mom, let's let our fourth brother move back to live here. Qi Wanfeng used to do these things. Why don't we let him come back and do them?"
"Okay, stop talking." Father Cao knocked on the tobacco bag in his hand, glanced at his wife, and glanced at the second brother indifferently.
Chen Zhu also stopped talking awkwardly, staring at Wang Yan who was slowly and reluctantly cleaning up the dishes. The more she looked at the second son's family, the more
she disliked them. Cao Fuqiang was looked at like this by his father, and he quickly shut up and dared not say anything. He had no money recently, and he didn't even dare to go near the gambling stall. It was very boring at home. He sat there with his legs crossed, thinking about where to get some money to spend together. As soon as he returned to the house at night, Wang Yan complained to her husband, saying that he was asked to do this and that at home. But when his husband mentioned letting Qi Wanfeng's family come back, he disagreed again, "Let Fourth Uncle's family come back? Where do you think they should live? Are the kids in our family supposed to move back and give them the house? Don't even think about it."
He had finally managed to snatch the house from that bitch Chen Li, and now he wanted him to give the house back to Fourth Uncle's family. Don't even think about it.
"Then what do you say we should do?" Cao Fuqiang asked, spreading his hands.
"What should we do? What should we do? How should I know what to do!" Wang Yan got angry and turned her back to her husband. Now he has to do everything at home, and his mother scolds him every day. He is so angry, "You are incompetent. If you were capable, would I have to suffer in this family every day?"
When Qi Wanfeng was here, his mother always scolded Qi Wanfeng. Now that Qi Wanfeng is gone, she scolds him every day. Wang Yan was so aggrieved that tears fell from her eyes.
"Hey, don't be angry, we will find a way." Cao Fuqiang saw that he was really angry, and found that his wife was crying, so he hurried to comfort her in a low voice.