Chapter 259: Tear down the house and give it to your parents
Team leader Wang also said, "Yes, in this bag of things, the two things you are holding are the most valuable."
"What is this? It can't be gold. Why is it so expensive?" Chen Juan muttered as she put down the small bag of sea cucumbers and abalone.
Sister Gu San and Team Leader Wang explained to Sister Gu Da and the others how to use it, chatted for a while, and then went back.
The dried fish that Suho mails are all ready-to-eat and can be eaten directly. Dried shrimps can be used in cooking or eaten directly.
For lunch, Chen Juan made spicy stir-fried shrimps.
It’s not that Sister Gu and her brother-in-law don’t eat shrimps, they are just being polite and eating the ones they cook at home.
Lian Shell takes the lead.
It tastes delicious.
Sister Gu and her husband felt a little regretful. The giant prawns made by Xiao He Jianhua and his friends in the summer looked even better than this, and must have tasted very good.
Why didn't they taste it?
"Mom and Dad, I want to send some of this seafood to my parents. They have never eaten seafood before." Chen Juan mentioned.
Sister Gu: "Okay, you can deliver it." Xiao He took a lot.
After dinner, Chen Juan took a few bags of dried fish and the two bags of sea cucumbers and abalone and went back to her parents' home.
When Sister Gu checked, she found that two bags of dried fish were missing, and all the sea cucumbers and abalone were gone.
Sister Gu was furious. They had never eaten anything that cost two hundred yuan per pound, and this second daughter-in-law gave all the food to her parents?
I thought I would have a good talk with him when I get back tomorrow.
I complained to my brother-in-law when I went to bed at night, and he said, "Just take it. You won't get it back anyway, so don't say anything tomorrow."
The eldest brother-in-law thought that the eldest son and his wife had already fallen out with them, and they would have to rely on their daughter-in-law to take care of them in their old age, so they had to treat her nicer, otherwise what would they do if she didn’t care about them when they got old?
Sister Gu was depressed and said, "I have never eaten it before."
They were all taken away, not a single one was left.
But no matter how depressed I am, I have already taken it and I definitely won’t be able to eat it.
Sister Gu feels that she has a hard life. She had to raise her younger siblings when she was young. When they grew up, the families of her three younger siblings all became prosperous, but her family was the only one that was still stagnant.
Needless to say, the fourth brother's family is now living a life of luxury.
The second brother's family is not bad either. Almost all of them have moved to Beijing. The second brother and his wife also stayed in Beijing. I heard that Xiaomei even has a TV.
Sister Gu could imagine the comfortable and carefree old age life of the second brother and his wife.
Although the third brother and his wife are still working and have not retired, they do not have to be exposed to the wind and sun, and they live a good life.
At least the children are obedient and the couple has enough money.
It was just their family. The eldest son's daughter-in-law had a quarrel with them, and the second daughter-in-law took all the delicious food from her parents' home, and they couldn't get a single bite.
Especially compared with their brothers and sisters, their family is the worst off.
The more Sister Gu thought about it, the more upset she felt. The present life was not the retirement life she wanted.
She wants her retirement life to be like that of her parents.
Wear good clothes, eat good food, live in a good house, with a washing machine, a telephone, a TV, and a fan at home.
I also travel to other cities once a year.
This is the retirement life she wants.
In fact, she asked her eldest son for a monthly pension of 200 yuan because she had thought that if she gave them 200 yuan a month, it would be more than 1,000 yuan a year, more than 2,000 yuan in two years, and with the money they had, they could buy a house and a store in the county.
Open a small shop and make a living like Chunqing.
Since I can't go to Beijing, life in the county is pretty good.
But after that incident, not only did they not send the eldest son 200 yuan, they didn’t even send the 20 yuan for retirement allowance as they had agreed to.
She felt that two hundred yuan a month was not a lot. Compared with ordinary people, it was a lot. But she had heard that her eldest son and daughter-in-law opened a clothing store, and the clothing store's daily turnover started at two hundred yuan.
They were not even willing to give me one day's wages.
Sister Gu and her husband didn't dare to say a word, but Qinglin dared to speak about his wife, Chen Juan, who came back the next day.
I asked her, "Did you give all the sea cucumbers and abalones that your aunt sent to your parents? Did you not keep any for yourself?"
"That's all. Why don't you give me all of them? Why do you have to count them one by one?"
Qinglin, "It's okay for you to give it away, but you should at least leave a few for us adults. It doesn't matter if we don't eat them. Your son has never eaten them."
Chen Juan curled her lips, "How can a child understand what good things are? He will have plenty of opportunities to eat them in the future. My parents are old, so they won't have the chance to eat them in the future."
"You only think about your parents and not your family. My parents and your son and your husband have never eaten anything that costs 200 yuan per pound, and you said you would give it all away!" How could Qinglin not be angry.
That’s two hundred yuan per pound!
Regardless of whether it tastes good or not, at least let him know what it tastes like.
Chen Juan, "Do you blame me? Your aunt only took so little, a dozen or so. If I don't give them all away, how can I afford it? How shabby."
"If you want to blame someone, blame your aunt. She gave me so little. Even if she gave me twenty, I wouldn't have given them all away."
Qinglin was furious when he heard this. "How can you be so shameless? That's 200 yuan per pound. Do you know how much a pound of meat costs? How can my aunt send us a sack of such expensive stuff?"
Chen Juan snorted, "If I were to give you a gift, I would give you more. Don't give just a few. It makes people look shabby."
"You can send it to your parents if it's too shabby. Besides, is that for you to eat? That's what my aunt sent to my parents, not to yours."
"What good things are there in your home, you take them all to your mother's house. Why don't you just tear down your house and send the things to your mother's house!" Qinglin was really angry this time.
Doesn’t he know whether his uncle and aunt are good or not?
If his uncle and aunt are not good, can his elder brother and sister-in-law go to their place? Now they have bought shops in Beijing and moved to Beijing.
As a biological brother, Qinglin envied his elder brother and his wife's life.
But he felt that it was impossible to live this kind of life. A good family cannot be separated from men and women. His sister-in-law is good at talking and handling things.
This girl in his family only knows how to fuss over trivial matters like this, and she is so greedy that she always takes any good things from her mother's house.
He thought he would open a clothing store like his elder brother and his wife, and his wife would give one-third of the income to his parents.
And her parents from her natal family gave it to her brother and sister-in-law.
By then, his father-in-law and mother-in-law might ask them for 200 yuan a month for pension just like his parents did.
Yes, he went to the county to ask Chunqing and the others. His parents asked his eldest brother and sister-in-law for 200 yuan for their retirement allowance, which is why they got angry and started arguing.
Qinglin found it very strange. What were his parents thinking?
He asked for so much pension money, two hundred a year would be fine, two hundred a month.
"Zhao Qinglin, what do you mean? You want to quarrel, right? My parents raised me up, and I can't show my filial piety to them on weekdays. I just take care of your parents' food, drink, defecation and urination. What's wrong with me sending them some gifts?"
"I can't take care of my parents myself, so why can't I give them something as a gift? Ah?"