"So what?" Ma Dexiang asked, "Who are you going to replace? Who will really listen to you? Why should they listen to you?"
Both Mrs. Ma and Old Man Ma were stunned. They looked at each other, their eyes filled with anger and disbelief. "What did you say? What do you mean by that?!"
Ma Dexiang sighed, "Dad! Mom! You are old now, and as your son, I will definitely be filial and take care of you, and provide for your old age and see you to the end of your life. As long as I have a bite to eat, I will definitely not let you go hungry.
But you can't always expect everyone to listen to you. The world has changed so much. Have you ever been out there and seen it? It's a good thing for children to be successful and have their own ideas. Even after we're gone, they'll be able to support the family.
Don’t always think about letting them stay at home and listen to your instructions on what vegetables to plant in the east field and what fertilizer to apply to the west field!
Besides, you weren't necessarily very nice to them before! Why do you think they should be so polite to you? "
Old man Ma covered his heart and gasped for breath. Old lady Ma pointed at Ma Dexiang's face with a shaking finger. She kept saying "you, you, you" for a long time, and finally uttered a sentence,
"You unfilial son!"
Ma Dexiang sighed again. Just like what Guoqing said, his parents were really old and it was impossible to reason with them. They were no better than his mother-in-law. Although she wouldn't reason with you, at least she had what she wanted.
But what did his parents want? An obedient child? How could he possibly get that?
"If you insist on scolding me like this, I can't help it. But I believe that I will definitely be filial to you where I should be filial. If you want to scold me in front of my ancestors, I can't do anything about it. I can only wait until I die and explain it to them properly."
It was too busy today, and Ma Dexiang didn't want to say much. "If you want to sit down, just sit down. I just ask you to be a little polite when people come. Don't think that talking nonsense can make you feel better and slap the face of an unfilial son like me.
The people who came are from the city, and Guoqing's family is here too. If you do this, you will only bring shame to our Ma family from the inside out!"
After saying that, Ma Dexiang turned around and went out. There were two pots of small flowers at the village committee, and he wanted to move them over and place them on both sides.
Old Mrs. Ma sat there blankly for a long time, and suddenly she looked at her husband with tears in her eyes, and sat there sobbing and crying.
Everyone busy in and out of the room saw them, but no one went up to comfort them. Most of them were just feeling headache and helplessness. Why did they have to choose a day like today...
Sanni was sitting outside killing chickens, and when she heard what Qini said to her, she curled her lips.
"What can I do? She's my grandmother. If I cover her mouth when she cries, I'm really unfilial."
Wu Ni squatted on the side to help pluck the hair. She frowned when she heard this and said, "What if she doesn't stop when her brother-in-law and the others arrive?" What will happen to their family then?
"What brother-in-law! Don't yell at me!" Sanni stretched out a finger and poked her forehead, leaving a bright red dot between Wuni's eyebrows, which made Qini giggle.
Wu Ni had a hand full of hair and couldn't wipe it off, so she could only hide and whisper with a playful smile, "Fourth sister said that brother-in-law has been picking you up from school every night these days! She even saw brother-in-law touching your hand..."
"Wu Ni, you're itching for trouble, aren't you?" San Ni's face flushed instantly. She stood up and wanted to smear the chicken blood on her hand all over Wu Ni's face, as well as that stinky Si Ni! She was going to tickle her to death later!
"Hey, hey, hey, okay, I was wrong, Third Sister! I won't say anything more!" Wu Ni smiled and ran away quickly. She came back after a while and continued the previous topic.
"What should we do then?"
"If I see it, I'll see it." Sanni shrugged, indicating that she didn't care. "Since he's a live-in son-in-law, we'll have to live with him. If I don't know today, I won't know tomorrow, but I'll know the day after tomorrow. It's better to know it now than to cause trouble later."
Just as Qi Jinzhou exposed all his own dirt to Sanni, Sanni didn't care that Qi Jinzhou saw the problems in her family.
Every family has its share of trivialities, and these issues won't disappear just because they're attracted to each other; it just depends on whether they can accept each other. Ninety percent of the most uncomfortable things in her family's life come from her grandparents.
If Qi Jinzhou can accept it, that would be the best. If not, the two families will just meet today. If they don't like each other, it will just end there. It's a normal process and no one will gossip about it.
Normally, this kind of visit does not involve eating. Usually, after dinner, one family goes to another family's house to sit down and chat, and then goes back home when they are almost done.
But since Qi Jinzhou had come all the way from the city and would have to rush back later, he had chosen a day when everyone was resting and came early so that everyone could have a lively meal together before leaving.
It just so happened that Lin Shuying also had a day off this week. When Liang Shengdi went to pick her up on Friday, she kept humming a song, which made Shuying look very strange. She asked while chewing the head cake Liang Shengdi stuffed her with.
"Grandma, is our house finished?"
"How can it be so fast!" Liang Shengdi was in a good mood. She even used her brain for her eldest granddaughter and recalled the new house she saw at noon.
"But it's almost done. All that's left is the beams and tiles, and moving in the furniture. You'll definitely be able to live in a new house next time you come back."
Lin Shuying grinned. She had been looking forward to having her own room for a long time. However, she quickly suppressed her joy and did not forget to ask her grandmother the question she had just asked.
"So you're so happy today? Did you make a lot of money?"
Liang Shengdi thought for a moment and said, "It's almost like making a fortune! You're going to have a new brother-in-law, and we can have a wedding banquet again!"
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