After spending the sixth day of the Lunar New Year at my aunt's and master's houses, two days later, on the tenth, we were going to Li Yanhong's house. Li Yanhong hadn't visited their house before, and when Liu Juan came to call them that day, Li Chenyang didn't think much of it and insisted on going with her.
"You guys go ahead, I'm not going." Ye Xiaoxiao wasn't willing to be a sycophant.
[Mission: Prevent Li Chenyang from going to Li Yanhong's house.]
Ye Xiaoxiao really wanted to poke the system to death with a pin. Was it crazy? It sent out a mission right after she finished speaking.
"What's wrong now?" Li Chenyang immediately became anxious when he saw his wife like this. Why is she angry again?
"You're such a simp!" Ye Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes. It's the second day of the Lunar New Year. Your sister went back to her parents' home. Did she come to our house? Even if we weren't home, we should still bring her some things! She didn't have anything, and you still went to her house like that.
Ye Xiaoxiao sat by the stove knitting a sweater.
"You...you're being really rude. She didn't even know it was the first year our family separated?"
Li Chenyang wanted to speak up for his sister, because no matter how bad she was, she was still his own sister.
"She didn't know at home, but she came here and she still doesn't know. Even if she didn't know on the day of the Lunar New Year, she should have known by the sixth day of the Lunar New Year."
They don't take it seriously, and they need others to remind them.
He doesn't even treat you like an older brother, and yet you go to his house all the time.
"People will say we're shameless; I didn't even wish them a Happy New Year, and they shamelessly came to my house for dinner."
"Oh, is it really that serious?" Li Chenyang, initially unconcerned, was now bothered by his wife's words.
"Big brother and sister-in-law, Mom asked if you're coming. She said if you have any seats, you can take me with you." The sixth brother came over, dressed in a brand new outfit that looked great.
"You can ride your bike there yourself; you can take a few more people with you. Your older brother and I have other things to do, so we won't be going," Ye Xiaoxiao answered for Li Chenyang.
"Huh, why aren't you going?" Old Liu scratched his head, unable to understand why.
"Are you really not going?" Li Chenyang asked worriedly, knowing his parents would be angry if he didn't go.
"I'm not going. You can go if you want, but don't bring anything. Just come with your mom and freeload. Sit at the kids' table. Don't think of yourself as a human being."
Ye Xiaoxiao said to Lao Liu, "When you get back, tell Mom whether or not to go depends on the second year of junior high."
The sixth brother didn't understand, but he knew how to ride a bicycle, so he immediately pushed his bicycle and went out.
But less than ten minutes later, my mother-in-law came again.
"Xiaoxiao, look at you two, why are you still angry with Yanhong? This is the first year, her first year of marriage, and you just moved out. She didn't know before, so she didn't come over."
Let's let her off the hook this year, and visit relatives separately next year, okay?
Liu Juan knew it was wrong of her daughter not to come to her daughter-in-law's side when she came over, but she still wanted her children to get along well.
"Mom, you're right. Then let your son go with you. Let's pretend we didn't separate this year. You don't need to bring those things. That's fair."
Ye Xiaoxiao thought it was better not to do this task. According to what was written in the book, Li Yanhong would definitely cause trouble when she saw that her older brother hadn't brought anything. Seeing how Li Chenyang was being persuaded by his mother, she didn't stop him.
"Then let's do as Mom says. I'll go with her myself." Seeing that his wife didn't say anything more, Li Chenyang happily followed his mother-in-law.
I was very happy when I went there, but I came back feeling very angry.
When Li Chenyang returned pushing his bicycle, it was just past noon; less than two hours had passed. However, his face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
Ye Xiaoxiao was breastfeeding her son on the kang (a heated brick bed). When she saw him push the door open and come in, she didn't say anything to ask, knowing that he must have been rebuffed.
"Wife, you're right, I shouldn't have gone." Li Chenyang sat by the stove, his face almost falling into the washbasin.
"What? Did you get the short end of the stick?" Ye Xiaoxiao asked with a smile.
"Don't even mention it," Li Chenyang said irritably, scratching her hair. "As soon as I arrived, they said I looked down on them because I didn't come, and that I was too arrogant as their sister-in-law."
"Then what did you say?" Ye Xiaoxiao became even more interested.
"I told him the car was too small and I needed to take my younger brother; it's inconvenient with the kids. That bastard Chen Dashun said, 'What, is your wife some kind of princess? Does she need to be carried in a sedan chair?'"
"And then?" Ye Xiaoxiao couldn't help but laugh.
"Then...then Yan Hong said, 'Brother, you're spoiling your wife too much. Does she think our family is poor? She wasn't this demanding when she was home before.'"
Ye Xiaoxiao just smiled when she heard this.
"When they said that, I just smiled and didn't say anything. But that only made them more agitated. They said I didn't know the proper etiquette and yet I dared to make new clothes for the whole family. They said I was just showing off."
"So you can still tolerate it?" Ye Xiaoxiao raised an eyebrow at him. Li Yanhong just complained that she hadn't made it for her. She wouldn't give it to her!
"How could I possibly tolerate this!"
Li Chenyang slapped his thigh.
"I said, what's wrong with you making clothes? It's because my wife is being filial! But then they said you have money but don't make a dress for Yanhong, and even said things like 'a married daughter is like water spilled from a bowl,' saying that once she's married, she's no longer my sister."
Ye Xiaoxiao wiped her son's mouth: "So you became famous?"
"That's for sure!" Li Chenyang said, getting angrier as he spoke. "They even said that you made clothes for everyone and bought a stove for our family just to show off..."
Li Chenyang seemed to be venting his anger, and he even slammed his fist on the table.
"During the meal, she even said that I came over without bringing them anything, that I shouldn't have done that, and that since we've separated our families, I, as the eldest brother, came to her house to eat and drink for free. She also said she was just joking and told me not to mind!"
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