Xu Huixue's father was a worker at a car factory and was a long-time employee.
Xu Huixue's mother, Comrade Yang Jinlan, was the director of the Women's Federation in their neighborhood, a very decisive and efficient woman.
Comrade Yang Jinlan did her job very well, so she did not try to take over her own work for her child.
After all, her salary and benefits are quite good, and her children may not be able to handle all kinds of things like she is, or be able to resolve problems when women's rights are violated.
Therefore, after graduating from high school, Xu Huixue did not take over her mother's job, but instead went on a blind date and got married to Zhou Cunzhi.
We did consider sending her to the countryside, but considering she was our only daughter and couldn't endure so much hardship, we didn't let her go.
Xu Huixue, on the other hand, has an older brother and a younger brother. Her second brother joined the army, and her younger brother, who is three years younger than her, went to the countryside as an educated youth.
Of course, the Xu family did send money and things to their younger brother who went to the countryside over the years, and he actually did quite well there.
Xu's parents would send him money, and his older brothers would also send him money from time to time. Even Xu Huixue would sometimes send him some money and things.
Xu Huixue, the only daughter, is quite favored, but her sister-in-law is not so satisfied with her.
No one likes a sister-in-law who is pampered by everyone in her husband's family. Put yourself in the shoes of a sister-in-law who is the most beloved sister in her husband's family.
Your husband and in-laws love your sister-in-law the most, and you and your child are born after her.
When you are wronged, everyone turns a blind eye; when your sister-in-law is wronged, everyone fusses over her.
Sometimes, your in-laws will even sacrifice the interests of your children to pamper your sister-in-law.
If you were in this situation, could you not care?
Although Xu Huixue wasn't the darling of the entire Xu family, her parents doted on her, and her two older brothers and younger brother also treated her very well.
Her sister-in-law naturally didn't like her younger sister-in-law.
But she didn't show it and didn't often give her sister-in-law a hard time.
"Oh, Huixue's back? Why are you back at this hour?"
When Xu Huixue's sister-in-law saw that her sister-in-law's family had returned, her expression wasn't very warm, but she still greeted her.
But her tone was still not very friendly, and it had a sarcastic feel to it.
What she meant was, why is my sister-in-law coming back at this time? Is she here to freeload a meal?
It's dinnertime now.
Zhang Jinrong still remembers that yesterday her parents-in-law gave her sister-in-law more than ten kilograms of peanuts and several kilograms of soybeans and olives.
Now that her sister-in-law has come back at dinner time, it's hard for her not to suspect that her sister-in-law is back to freeload.
"Sister-in-law," Xu Huixue greeted her sister-in-law politely.
“Ah Xian”.
Xu Huixue's older brother's children were also very happy to see their younger cousins return; the adults' squabbles did not affect the children.
Zhang Jinrong wasn't the type to speak ill of her sister-in-law in front of the children, so the children didn't dislike their aunt because of their parents' attitude, nor did they reject their younger cousins.
"cousin."
Zhou Xian and Zhou Mei also happily greeted their cousins.
Xu Guangtao, the eldest son of Xu Guangtao and Zhang Jinrong, is 9 years old this year; their second daughter, Xu Jing, is 6 years old; and their youngest son, Xu Shu, is 4 years old.
Xu Shu is younger than Zhou Xian and Zhou Mei, but the children who are only a year apart easily play together.
"Sister-in-law, has dinner been made at home? Here, this is the peanut oil that my parents made for me yesterday. You can use it to cook."
Xu Huixue took a large jar of peanut oil from Zhou Cunzhi and handed it to her sister-in-law who was blocking her way.
Zhang Jinrong looked down at the large oil jar. "Peanut oil? Those peanuts your parents gave you yesterday, were they going to be pressed for oil?"
Zhang Jinrong was very puzzled. Pressing oil from more than ten kilograms of peanuts? Would the oil pressing factory in their area let someone press oil so easily?
With just a dozen or so kilograms of peanuts, there's no way you could even recoup the cost of running the machine once.
"Yes, didn't I tell you, sister-in-law? My father-in-law made a small oil press, which can press at least ten pounds of peanuts or soybeans into oil each time."
"This peanut oil was pressed using our own oil press."
Xu Huixue's face showed a proud expression, as if she had made the oil press herself, looking quite proud of herself.
Zhang Jinrong took the oil can with some skepticism, but she almost spilled it because of a miscalculation.
"No way? How can it be so heavy? Is this much oil extracted from over ten kilograms of peanuts?"
Xu Huixue caught the oil can just before Zhang Jinrong almost lost his grip, preventing it from spilling. After preparing himself, Zhang Jinrong weighed the oil can in his hand.
She estimated that it must weigh at least six or seven pounds.
With so much peanut oil, how long will it take to eat it all?
“Hehe, my Cunzhi said that this oil press has increased the oil yield. Sixteen catties of peanuts can be pressed into nearly eight catties of peanut oil.”
Zhang Jinrong opened his mouth, but couldn't utter a word.
Eight catties of peanut oil?
Wow, how long will it take to eat this?
Zhang Jinrong was still having a sweet dream when her mother-in-law spoke up when they sat down to eat.
When she heard her mother-in-law say that she had bought three pounds of peanut oil and sent it back to her maternal grandmother's house, she strongly disagreed.
But she also knew that these peanuts were sent by her mother-in-law's family. If she didn't give anything in return, why would they keep sending her things?
Gift-giving is a long-term endeavor that requires reciprocity.
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