"Xiu Lan, your sister-in-law is so generous to outsiders, what did she give you?"
"Of course, everyone should have a share of that big meat bun. I heard that Er Gouzi eats meat buns at his house. As the saying goes, when a family lives together, even if there are differences, those who eat the meat should leave some soup for others."
Lu Chunshu followed his mother and was already tired and hungry after working for half a day. The aunts kept talking about meat buns, which made him even hungrier.
Pulling at his mother's collar, he said, "Mom, I'm hungry. I want to eat meat buns, too."
Zhang Xiu Lan didn't dare to refute others when they spoke. After all, because of the Lu family's background, everything they said was wrong over the years, and she was used to enduring it in public.
Seeing his son like this, Chunshu was furious. "Eat, eat, eat. All you know is to eat. And meat buns. Don't you think you have the right to eat meat buns? Your grandma gave all the flour in the house to your uncle. If you want meat buns, go ask your uncle for them."
Haruki curled his lips and said, "When we had white flour at home, you never made steamed meat buns for me."
"You dare to talk back? It's because you are so useless. I told you not to talk back, so get back home right now..."
He grabbed Haruki's ear and walked towards home, making him cry out.
The remaining few aunties who were making sarcastic remarks looked at each other, their eyes full of gloating.
Some people are like this. When they have nothing, they will just despise and look down on you. Once you have more than others, they will start to envy you. Seeing that you are unhappy, they will be happy.
Zhang Xiulan carried her son directly back home. Along the way, Xiao Chunshu's ears were almost pulled off and his voice was broken from shouting.
Mother Lu was cooking in the kitchen. When she heard the child's cry, she rushed out and said, "What's going on? Let go quickly, don't hurt the child."
After frantically rescuing her grandson from her eldest daughter-in-law's grasp and holding him in her arms, Zhang Xiulan snorted coldly, "Don't you want to eat meat buns? Ask your grandma if the meat buns are delicious at noon and whether she brought some back for you, your eldest grandson. Your grandma went to your uncle's house for lunch to enjoy delicious food and spicy drinks."
When Mother Lu heard about this, she did look a little uncomfortable.
I was halfway through lunch when I heard something happened to my youngest son, so I ran over. Later, I stayed there for dinner, and the food turned out to be better than at home.
Seeing that Lu's mother remained silent, Zhang Xiulan raised her voice even higher, "Your grandmother gave all the flour in the house to your uncle, then ran off to eat meat buns at your uncle's, leaving us at home to eat pancakes and pickles. She keeps saying that she loves you, but in fact, your grandmother loves your uncle the most."
Mother Lu felt that Zhang Xiulan's words were wrong, and she shouldn't have said them in front of the children. "You know how much flour we have at home, and how much can I give them? Jiang Zhiqing marrying the third child is marrying above our station. She can't be without food, right?"
"Why is there nothing to eat? Why should she eat white flour while we eat pancakes? Does she have an extra nose or an extra mouth than us? If I were to ask you, mother, you are biased. Our family hasn't split up yet, and you let the third son and his wife cook separately. Is this reasonable for the villagers to hear? Not to mention us brothers and sisters-in-law, shouldn't you, as his mother, be filial to him? If I were to ask you, since we haven't split up yet, we have to eat from the same pot, otherwise we can't live."
Zhang Xiu Lan was certain that her mother-in-law would give in, and that all she had to do was call the third son and his wife back for dinner.
Mother Lu had long seen through her eldest daughter-in-law's thoughts. Seeing her second son and his wife also walked in, she called them over and said, "You are just attracted by the things of the third son's wife, aren't you? Today I'm telling you, I won't ask them to come back for dinner, and I won't take things from home there in the future. I've already told the third son that when the team distributes things in the future, they can just take their share to him, and they don't need to get involved in the public affairs."
Zhang Xiulan's thoughts were directly exposed. No matter how thick-skinned she was, her face turned red. She stiffened her neck and said, "Mom, what are you saying? Since Jiang Zhiqing married the third brother, her things belong to the family, don't they? How can it be said that I am attracted to her things? Besides, since the family hasn't split up, what's wrong with eating from the same pot? It doesn't make sense for one family to live two different lives. Second brother and his wife, tell me, is what I did wrong? I let the third brother take the things back alone. Is Mom going to split up the family?"
After saying that, he turned to the second son and his wife, "Second son and his wife, I think you really need to persuade Mom. I don't mind dividing the family. We two can both earn work points, and you still have a little one. If you don't persuade Mom, she'll be upset."
Lu Jie and Wang Sanni have never had a sense of presence in this family, and Lu Jie doesn't care about this matter at all. Wang Sanni thinks it's better to divide the family so that she doesn't have to live with her eldest sister-in-law's family.
It was true that she had a child who couldn't earn work points, but how much could a little girl like Qingqing eat? On the other hand, Chunsheng and Chunshu, as the saying goes, "a little boy eats his father out of poverty." These two kids had bigger appetites than she did, yet they couldn't earn the work points of an adult. And the eldest sister-in-law was always the one to take advantage of the situation, serving the best food to the kids as soon as it hit the table, claiming it was because the children were growing, making it difficult for the adults to compete with them.
Neither of them spoke, but Mother Lu took over. "If I really want to split up the family, I'll have to divide up the house first. You all know why the third son moved out. Now that he's married and hasn't come back to settle the score with you, you should just live your lives peacefully and don't make things difficult for him."
After saying that, he didn't want to listen to his eldest daughter-in-law's nonsense anymore, so he turned and went into the kitchen.
Mother Lu hadn't been so tough in many years. Zhang Xiu Lan was dumbfounded for a moment, and even felt a bit like when she first entered the Lu family as a young wife.
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