Zhou Cunming still felt sour.
Partly, he felt that his mother didn't care about him as much as she cared about Zhao Lexin, and partly, he felt that his own son wasn't as important as Zhao Lexin, which made him very jealous and resentful.
"mom……"
Zhou Cunming diligently cooked vegetables for his mother and even took some meat from the pot for her, hoping to awaken his mother's maternal love for him.
"I don't like fatty meat." Chen Suwen looked at the piece of cured meat he put into her bowl, which was obviously fatty.
She doesn't like it.
Even though it's the 1970s now, and everyone loves oily dishes and fatty meat, she doesn't like them.
Zhou Cunming paused, then turned and placed the bowl in Zhou Qingyun's bowl next to him.
Zhou Qingyun looked at his son with a half-smile, "I don't like it either."
Zhou Cunming: "..."
"Mom, neither you nor Dad like fatty meat, so I can have it." Zhou Min was sitting next to Zhao Lexin, so she was very close to her parents.
Seeing that they both said they didn't like fatty meat, she spoke up directly.
She likes to eat meat, whether it's fatty or lean.
Chen Suwen glanced at her but didn't say anything, while Zhou Qingyun picked up the fatty meat from her bowl and put it into her daughter's bowl.
"Mom, I'll be on vacation for about a week this time. How many days should I stay at home?"
Zhou Cunming eagerly said to his mother, "I can help with chores around the house. Do you want me to chop firewood? Do you want me to help with anything?"
What can you do?
They don't need to carry water at home because they have a well—a pumped well, not an open well.
Their family has a well, and they only need to press a few buttons to get water when they want to use it.
There's absolutely no need to go through the trouble of diving.
As for firewood, their family didn't actually use it much, since it was really troublesome to cut firewood in the city.
There are indeed many trees outside, and many more on the mountain, but they are all collective property and cannot be touched easily.
So they either used charcoal or coal; firewood was really rarely used.
Zhou Cunming no longer needs to do chores like chopping wood and carrying water, so what else can he do at home?
Zhou Cunming realized what was happening, but he was still unwilling to give up. After looking around, his eyes lit up. "Mom, I can help you turn the soil."
"Are we going to plant other vegetables in our vegetable garden? I can help turn the soil."
"If you're willing, you can come back and help every day." Chen Suwen didn't refuse him. Everyone else in the family had to work, so there was no reason why Zhou Cunming wouldn't need to.
What?
Is Zhou Cunming a son who has "married out"?
What does that matter?
Even if he marries into her family, he is still her son and has to come home to help with chores.
"Huh? Come back every day? Mom, I can stay at home." Zhou Cunming hadn't realized that his room no longer belonged to him.
"Second brother, Mom has already given your room to Lexin," Zhou Min carefully reminded her second brother.
Zhou Cunming was stunned, looking at Chen Suwen in disbelief, "Mom?"
How come someone else is staying in his room?
Both are "married off" children, so why is it that only his room is given to someone else, while Zhou Ling's room is not?
"What's wrong? Your room is empty, so why can't Lexin stay there?"
Zhou Cunming knew that it was a waste to leave his room empty, but he didn't expect to give his room to someone else to live in alone, and he was very sad.
"Anyway, the Li family's house isn't far from ours, and it won't cost you much to take the bus back every day."
"No, your father-in-law's family has bicycles, right? You don't need to spend any money to ride your bicycle home every day."
It's such a short distance; he can come back whenever he wants, without needing to stay at home at all.
"Mom, Cunming is your son. How can you just let an outsider live in his room like this?" Li Yulan was very unhappy.
In her view, Zhou Cunming's room belonged to her, even though he had become a son-in-law of the Li family, his room in the Zhou family still belonged to him.
Even if Zhou Cunming doesn't live in the Zhou family anymore, he will still get a share of the money for the room that belongs to him.
As a result, his room is now occupied by someone else, which makes Li Yulan very unhappy.
"What's so strange about that? A married woman's room isn't kept for very long anyway."
“Zhou Cunming has already married into your family, isn’t it normal for his room to be left for his nephews and nieces? Isn’t that how other families do it?” Chen Suwen said matter-of-factly.
"Second brother's wife, you're the only child in your family. You probably don't know what it's like for families with many children?"
"Go out and ask around, which family keeps a room for their married daughter so she can come back and stay from time to time, instead of letting her nephews and nieces stay there?"
Li Yulan's eyes widened. "But Cunming is a son."
"So what? He got married."
Chen Suwen showed no embarrassment whatsoever.
Looking at her mother-in-law's expression and then at her father-in-law's approving expression, Li Yulan knew that no matter what she said, this room would no longer belong to Zhou Cunming.
This made her very unhappy.
"Mom, is there no place for me in this family? Don't you want me, your son, anymore?"
Chen Su asked, "...You wish! You think you can disown your parents just because of a single sentence?"
"I raised you all these years, and now you're getting married and you're planning to abandon me and your father? Don't even dream about it."
“Your father and I still need you to support us in our old age. Don’t think about leaving your older brother and younger brother to take care of us. You also have a responsibility.”
"Of course, Xiaoling and Xiaomin are both responsible. When your father and I get old, all five of you will have to pay for our retirement. No one can escape it."
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