"I want you to share the burden, so just do your work honestly. Don't worry about nothing."
Cao Zhaodi rejected the proposal of the second couple, and Hu Xiaoyi remained silent throughout.
Hu Lin was listening at the kids' table, just treating it as a joke.
The couple from the second house have forgotten the pain after their wound has healed and are now acting up again.
After dinner, Hu Xiaoyi took the two of them to clean up.
After the house was open for a few hours, the dust in the house was no longer so heavy, so Hu Lin checked the whole house.
The house is a two-bedroom apartment with only a brick bed in each room and the window paper has long been weathered and become brittle and fragile.
Hu Xiaoyi cleaned one of the rooms this morning and was now cleaning the other. The walls of the living room and the room, as well as the roof tiles, had holes in them, and the beams were covered with spider webs.
Beams of sunlight fell through the gaps, and it looked like it was not meant for human habitation, as it had almost been assimilated by nature.
The kitchen roof was thatched and had serious leaks. Dust was suspended in the air where the light shone.
The stove is weathered, the pot is rusted, and the bellows is made of wood. I don't know if it can still be used.
The roof of the toilet is also thatched, and it is almost open to the air now, with some weeds growing in the corners.
As soon as she entered, she encountered a brown-black rat snake. The snake saw people coming and slipped out from a hole in the corner of the wall.
…
It's no different from living a primitive life.
This shabby house doesn't even have a piece of furniture.
Even Liu Yuxi would feel inferior to him if he saw him.
And she's going to live here from now on.
Hu Lin found Hu Xiaoyi and said, "Dad, there is nothing here, how can we live here?"
Some basic furniture has to be provided by the Hu family.
Otherwise, they will face extremely inconvenient living conditions for a long time to come.
"Once we've cleaned up this place, we can just move the furniture in the house over." Hu Xiaoyi buried his head in wiping the stone slabs on the earthen kang.
"There was no table for eating, no bucket for bathing, no water tank for filling.
The kitchen pot was also broken, not to mention the house was full of holes and was completely uninhabitable.
Grandma didn't let my uncle and aunt come to help. I think she did that on purpose. How can you handle it all by yourself?"
Hu Lin took the opportunity to sow discord between Hu Xiaoyi and the old couple.
"Your family is in financial difficulty, can't you just make do with it?" Hu Xiaoyi has completely accepted what Cao Zhaodi told him.
"Dad, how can we make do with this?
Living in a house like this, are you waiting to be flooded by heavy rain or waiting to be frozen to death in winter?
You, on the other hand, have the reputation of being a filial son and always consider the Hu family, but your grandparents are just like us.
When you decided to move here, did you ever think about whether my mom and I could live in a place like this?
What good is your reputation as a filial son, other than driving us into a dead end time and time again? "
Hu Lin didn't expect that a few words could make Hu Xiaoyi betray what he had believed in for half his life. As long as he could not reject him when he asked the Hu family for it, it would be enough.
This time is different from the past. If Hu Xiaoyi vetoes it, even if she gets what she wants in the end, it will be a loss for herself.
The condition of this house is to be kept for future division of the family. If she uses it now, she will have to spend more time and effort when the family is divided later.
The result will be far worse than if they compromise now and then explode when they can no longer bear it.
Only in this way can she stand on the moral high ground and remain invincible.
What she wanted was to cut off all ties with the family once and for all, and to trample the reputation that the Hu family had worked so hard to maintain into the mud, rather than to keep any ties with the family, pretend to be fine, and live in peace.
This was also her punishment for Hu Xiaoyi.
Being foolishly filial will lead to being abandoned, pretending to be stupid will lead to being forced to see the truth.
The parents who have always been regarded as the gods have become enemies and strangers, and in the end they can only live in brokenness every day. Isn’t this an interesting drama?
"What do you want? Can you be more sensible?" Hu Xiaoyi recalled what his parents said when they came to him, "All these things happened because of you."
"Because of me? Why is it because of me?" Hu Lin also wanted to see what the old couple said to Hu Xiaoyi.
Li Aihua was a little scared when she saw Hu Xiaoyi's angry look, and shrank to the side.
"If you hadn't been hanging around Zhang Hui every day, the Zhang family wouldn't have proposed building a separate house for the two of you to live in, and they wouldn't have given you the money, and you wouldn't have lived here."
Hu Xiaoyi boasted that he had shouldered a lot and taken it all. At this moment, he looked at Hu Lin with eyes full of blame and helplessness.
"I now understand why grandpa and grandma wanted to tell you but didn't dare to tell me and mom.
It is my freedom to go wherever I want. If my family can't afford the money it's because they are poor and they have no ability.
Since I can't meet the Zhang family's requirements, I can just not marry her. If my uncle and aunt want to marry into a higher-class family, let them figure it out themselves.
My grandparents insisted on pretending to be rich, so they kicked us out of the house to make room for the Hu family, leaving us here to be exposed to the wind and sun.
You just can't understand why you sold yourself for your grandparents but still counted the money for them wholeheartedly.
Why are you blaming me here? "
She did contribute to this matter, but this is a different time now.
Different positions and different goals will naturally lead to different words.
"Your grandparents are right. If you stay at home with your temper, you will only disturb the peace of the whole family.
I brought you here to live in order to temper your temper.
When our family builds a new house in the future, we can move back and live there. I hope you can change your temper by then."
Hu Xiaoyi didn't want to argue with Hu Lin anymore and told Hu Lin the promise made by the old couple.
Hu Lin twitched the corner of his mouth when he heard this.
After a slap in the face, you are given a sweet date. The key is that this date is just a pie in the sky!
There is really no cost at all, it all depends on taking advantage of Hu Xiaoyi's foolish filial piety.
She continued Hu Xiaoyi's words and said, "We are blood relatives after all. Even if you want to temper me, you can't let us live in such a shabby place. It's not as good as the pigs and cows next door."
"I'll tell your grandparents about this when I get back." Hu Xiaoyi agreed.
"Then don't let it slip."
The goal was achieved beyond expectations, and Hu Lin did not dwell on it. He continued to work, waiting to see Hu Xiaoyi's next performance.
Li Aihua, a spectator standing by, was greatly shocked, and her mind was filled with new knowledge.
After dinner in the evening, Hu Xiaoyi talked to the old couple about the situation of the house over there.
Cao Zhaodi continued to play the family card, "Son, you know the situation at home.
Everything is in short supply. We have bowls and chopsticks, but we don't have any extra for other things at home."
"But mother——"
Before Hu Xiaoyi could finish his words, Hu Chunsheng interrupted him and said, "Give five dollars to the boss for household expenses."
Hu Xiaoyi stopped talking after hearing this. Seeing that Hu Xiaoyi was here to ask for money, Cao Zhaodi curled her lips.
"Five dollars is too much, I think two dollars is enough.
It's just some tiles, a pot, a water tank and window paper, you don't need so much.
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