There is no such thing as absolute impartiality in the family. There will always be someone in the family who feels wronged and sad. Many things may not be truly solved even if they are brought to light.

At night, Old Yang sighed to Old Futou and asked helplessly:

"Well, what do you think the second and fourth wives should do?"

The fourth room has been cleaned up, Wang has moved back, and old Yang and old Futou no longer have to squeeze on the small kang in the inner room.

Old Futou yawned under the quilt:

"What should we do? We have already said everything that needs to be said. The children have also made a fuss. What else is there?"

Old Yang glared at him:

"What?

I beat you up and crippled you, and you hated me. Then I went to serve you for two days, and then you told your children that you bullied me. Then my children picked a fight with your children, and I got scolded after the fight, and I didn't say a word to you. Is that called talking it out?"

The old floating head blinked:

"You mean the fourth son's wife hates the second son's wife?"

Old Yang frowned even more tightly:

"The fourth son's wife is an honest person. Even if you hate her, you won't do anything. Just look at her these days. At most, he will just ignore her.

He wanted to hit someone today because he was feeling aggrieved. Erlang listened to his mother's mumbling and made such a fuss. He was forced into a corner.

In fact, she knew in her heart that it would be a mess for the whole family to stay together. Although she was lame, it did not affect her walking and working.

The fourth child is also stupid. If he doesn't follow his brothers, he won't make much money at all. The whole family has to share the same pot. For the sake of her children, she won't make a big deal out of it."

"Then the matter is over, isn't it? Why are you still upset?" Lao Futou didn't understand.

Old Yang said hesitantly:

"I'm worried that if the second son's wife continues to serve, something might happen.

Have you noticed that ever since the second son's wife raised that Fu Bao, she has been like possessed by an evil spirit, and has been obsessed with that Fu Bao, and has become more and more left-wing.

Although he was stupid, at least he had a good heart. What was going on now? Even if she was full of resentment, she couldn't keep nagging in front of the child every day.

I have asked Dalang and Erlang. All the stupid things she said were about Fubao. From what I heard, it seemed that she thought whether the fourth son's wife really bullied her was secondary.

The main reason she was so resentful was because she didn’t have time to take care of Fubao and hold her daughter.”

The old man waved his hand:

"Go away, what you said is scary. In every family, the older ones take care of the younger ones. Does she want to do nothing but look after her daughter all day?"

Old Madam Yang lay down worriedly, closed her eyes and pondered for half the night, her mind full of what Young Madam Yang had done recently, then she suddenly turned over and pushed Old Futou, who was sleeping soundly, awake:

“I think she can.”

Old Futou woke up with a start: "Eating so soon?"

Old Madam Yang: "...I think you look like a fan. What about the second son's wife? I think she really wants to do nothing but hold the baby."

Old Futou turned over nonchalantly, and in order to sleep well, he tried to use his brain and said:

"She's so beautiful, let her go if she wants to. Anyway, she can't push away the housework. She has to serve the fourth son's wife until she gets well.

If she really doesn't want to serve, you can ask her to pay five taels of silver to the Fourth Master's family, and the matter will be settled."

"This idea is quite plausible!"

Old Mrs. Yang lay down contentedly and fell asleep soon.

Old Futou became more and more energetic as he lay there, looking sideways at Old Yang:

"Damn it, what did I do wrong?

Why does the second son's wife disturb my sleep by causing trouble? ! "

Old Mrs. Yang was sleeping so soundly, her breathing was long and steady, and I couldn't hear a word.

Lao Futou wanted to wake her up several times, but thinking about how fierce she was when she was young, he didn't dare to do anything.

Old Futou had kept his eyes open all night, and fell into a drowsy sleep at dawn. Before he fell asleep, Old Yang pushed him awake:

"What time is it and you're still sleeping! It's time to eat, get up quickly!"

The old man was full of grievances:

Did I sleep? When did I sleep?

Old Mrs. Yang pushed him awake and left without even looking at him.

…

Everyone in the yard was up.

Fu Dabai, Fu Sanbai and Fu Sibai are planning to take a day off today and then leave. They don’t know how long they will stay outside.

So old Mrs. Yang gave each of them some copper coins, but did not give them any food.

They always take their own food with them when they go out. A few strong men with healthy hands and feet can earn a living by doing hard labor, not to mention that the family does not have much food.

Old Mrs. Yang gave them a few instructions and then left them alone.

Yuan felt very strange.

There was a big fuss yesterday, but today it was like nothing happened.

The adults were still talking and laughing as usual. The third aunt who was so angry yesterday became gentle and kind to the second aunt today.

As usual, grandma distributed more food to the boys and less to the girls.

Rabbit and Xingzi glanced at grandma, then obediently took their small pieces of steamed bread, but their expressions looked very disappointed.

The second brother secretly looked at Xingzi and the rabbit several times, picked up the steamed bread in his hand and put it back, opened his mouth several times but didn't say a word, and finally stuffed all the steamed bread that was broken into three pieces into his mouth with some annoyance.

Grandma looked at him but said nothing.

Rabbit and Xingzi are still the same as before. Xingzi drinks a big bucket of water after dinner to fill herself up completely.

I don’t know why grandpa’s face was dark today, as if he was very unhappy. He even glared at grandma secretly, but grandma didn’t even look at him.

The second aunt went to bring food to the fourth aunt. There was no sound of the fourth aunt cursing in the room, but only silence.

After dinner, I don’t know what grandma said to my second aunt in the main house. When my second aunt came out, her expression was very complicated. She seemed happy and unhappy at the same time. It was scary.

Yuan ate the meal curiously while looking at everyone's faces. After the meal, Yuan quietly asked Li:

"Mom, doesn't everyone remember what happened yesterday?"

"I remember, what's wrong?"

Li squeezed out a large bowl of goat's milk without hesitation, prepared to boil it and bring it back to the house to share.

Just like Fu Dabai said, the grass and fodder that the sheep eat this time all comes from the family, so the goat milk also comes from the family.

Everyone will come and squeeze in. Although this does not ensure that everyone is full and each room cannot have too many people, the children still like it very much.

Yuan also liked it very much and missed this milk every day, so Li would come early in the morning to save her from having to come too late.

Yuan followed Li, his eyes following the bowl, but he was still thinking about what had just happened:

"But no one seems to remember it."

Rabbit and Apricot ate Yuan’s meat buns, and Yuan didn’t want to pay any attention to them for a long time.

But yesterday, the aunts were about to have a quarrel, but today it seemed like nothing happened.

Grandma said yesterday that she liked her granddaughters too, but the food she gave them today was the same as usual.

Dad, uncles and other brothers seem to know nothing about this. My brothers went out to play yesterday, but dad and uncles should know about this!

But...how come I can't see it?

Yuan wanted to ask a lot of questions, but didn't know where to start.

Li had been A Yuan's mother for several years, and she knew what she meant even when she was not speaking fluently. Moreover, now that A Yuan could speak complete sentences, Li almost immediately knew what she was curious about.

Li smiled and said while boiling goat milk:

"Yuan, you don't have to be angry for a long time about everything. Children can be angry, but adults have to save face. You can think whatever you want behind people's backs, but you have to be polite in public.

Mother often curses people in our room, but says nothing when she comes out."

"ah?"

A Yuan opened her mouth and uttered a sound in confusion, and Li fed her a spoonful of goat milk. She must have secretly put some sugar from home in it, so it was a little sweet.

Li poured out the cooked goat milk, wrapped the bowl with a rag to prevent it from being scalded, and asked Yuan to take it back to the house to drink with her father and not to stay around her.

Seeing that Yuan was still reluctant to leave, I said to her:

"If you don't understand, just read more and maybe you will understand.

If you still don't understand, go ask grandma. I have a lot of things to do. Go and don't make trouble."

Having said that, he chased Yuan away.

The gentleness just now was all an illusion. Li is still as fierce as ever.

A Yuan brought the goat milk back into the house, pondered for a long time, shared the milk with his father, left some for his mother, and went out alone with his hands behind his back to watch the fun.

A Yuan felt that what her mother said was very right. If she didn't understand, she should just read it more and maybe she would understand it after reading it for a while. But this time she planned to read it by herself and not follow the adults!

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