Chapter 113 Another Year
The Yang family had a happy New Year this year. Even Yang Jinqiang and Li Huifen's family, who had moved out, came back to celebrate the New Year together.
Yang Fugui looked at the full house and smiled and said, "You are all grown up now and have your own family. Although you may have conflicts from time to time, you are still a family after all. You should help each other in the future. Mom and Dad hope that you can get along well."
As the eldest brother, Yang Jinqiang responded, "Dad, we will listen to you, don't worry."
"Yes, Dad, we are all family. It is normal to have quarrels from time to time. We don't take it to heart." Yang Jinwei also said.
Seeing that his eldest and second brothers had expressed their opinions, Yang Jinsheng also laughed and said, "That's for sure. The three of us brothers must unite and not let outsiders laugh at us."
Seeing that her three sons had expressed their opinions, Sun Erni smiled with satisfaction. "Okay, now that you all think this way, I'm relieved. Third son, you will move out after the New Year. If it's not suitable, you can still move back..."
Upon hearing this, Li Huifen curled her lips in dissatisfaction, "Mom, why didn't you seem reluctant when we moved out? You are obviously biased, but I'm used to it."
Sun Erni pretended not to hear her and said, "Eat, eat. From now on, it's better to celebrate the New Year at home every year. It will be more lively."
"Oh, that's good. We don't have to cook for ourselves." Jiang Xinbai replied with a smile.
After the Chinese New Year, on the second day of the first lunar month, married women would return to their parents' home to pay New Year's greetings. In previous years, Sun Erni had prepared the New Year's gifts for the daughters-in-law, but now the family had split up, and she didn't have much money, so she said early on that she would not take care of them this year.
Jiang Xinbai was holding the child, while Yang Jinsheng was carrying bags, and together with Jiang Xinlan's family of three, the group of six happily went to pay New Year's greetings.
In Dayang Village, Chen Cui'e got up before dawn and started working, constantly directing her two daughters-in-law, "Hehua, wipe the table again, why is it so sticky? Xiaoju, go to the chicken coop and see if the chickens have laid eggs..."
Wu Hehua curled her lips. They were busying themselves up after the two sisters-in-law came back, but they didn't get any benefits. Others said that the two sisters-in-law had married into the city and became city dwellers, and they also benefited from it, but who knew that they actually didn't benefit at all.
Thinking of this, she became even angrier. She took advantage of her mother-in-law not noticing to touch Sun Ju, who had just picked up eggs, and said, "Second brother and sister-in-law, how are you? How do you think about what I told you a few days ago?"
Sun Ju was slightly stunned, then replied: "Sister-in-law, we don't have enough money, so we want to wait for a while."
A few days ago, the parents-in-law told them that they would split up the family as soon as the third child got married. The eldest brother and his wife wanted to take this opportunity to build a new house, but they didn't have enough money, so they wanted to borrow money from Xinlan and others. She had this idea, but her husband said to wait a little longer and there was no rush to build a house. Although she didn't know what her husband was thinking, she was willing to listen to him, so she rejected the proposal of the eldest sister-in-law Wu Hehua and asked Xinlan and others to borrow money.
Wu Hehua glanced at her and said, "It's because you don't have enough money that you have to ask Xinlan and Xinbai for a loan. They live in the city and have jobs. They are better off than us anyway. Isn't it reasonable for them to lend some money to help their brothers build a house?"
If her parents-in-law hadn't tried to show off their wealth by giving back half of the betrothal gifts to her two sisters-in-law, she wouldn't have had to borrow from them.
Sun Ju shook her head. "The Bao family said they are not in a hurry to build a house. Even if they lend us money, it won't be enough. We can't just rely on borrowing!"
"I don't care about you anymore. Don't wait until I borrow it and then get jealous again." Wu Hehua said and turned away.
Jiang Xinxinbai got off the oxcart holding the child and walked quickly toward her yard, shouting as she walked, "Dad, Mom, we're back."
"Come here, come here, come into the house and warm up, don't let my little grandson get cold." As soon as Chen Cui'e heard her little daughter's voice, she immediately went out to greet them and pulled them into the inner room.
"Hurry up and sit down and warm yourself by the fire. Mom has buried some sweet potatoes for you. You'll be able to eat them later. Lotus, Lotus, you can lay some fried eggs now." After saying this, Chen Cui'e shouted a few more times towards the kitchen.
"Oh, okay, I'll be right there." Wu Hehua also replied loudly.
Yang Jinsheng put all the things he brought on the table and said with a smile: "Dad, Mom, these are the gifts we brought for you two, and this is the red envelope for you." As he said that, he handed over two small paper bags wrapped in red paper.
"Yes, this is a gift from Xiaolan and I to our parents." Zhao Yita, who was a beat slow, also hurriedly handed over the gifts and the red envelope at Jiang Xinlan's urging.
Chen Cui'e and Jiang Youtian both showed satisfied expressions on their faces. "It's good that you have this intention. We accept the gifts, and you can take the red envelope back. You both have children now, and there are many places to spend money, so be frugal."
Jiang Xinbai handed the child to Yang Jinsheng, then stepped forward and took out clothes from another bag, smiling, "Mom and Dad, look, these are the new cotton-padded clothes and trousers that my second sister and I made for you. We knew you wouldn't use the coupons, so we just made the clothes for you. They're very warm."
"Hey, why do you have to make clothes for us? We already have clothes, it would be better for you to make them for yourselves. Look at you..." Chen Cui'e went to see the reactions of her two sons-in-law first, and only relaxed when she saw that they were all smiling and her nervous expressions.
Jiang Xinlan also stepped forward and took out her father's clothes, put them on him and gestured for a few times, and said, "The size should be about the same. If it's too big, it won't be warm enough. Dad, you and Mom go try it first."
"Yes, give it a try. If it doesn't fit, you can alter it." Yang Jinsheng also advised. Not only did they use up all their saved cloth and cotton coupons to make these clothes, they also had to collect some from outside. But he was happy to spend money on his father-in-law and mother-in-law. After all, they were very good to him and Xiaobai. They saved a few eggs and sent them to them eagerly. He would definitely remember this favor.
Chen Cui'e couldn't persuade them, so she took off her outer clothes and put on her new cotton-padded jacket. She reached out and touched it, and said with a smile, "It fits very well, just right, and it's really warm."
Jiang Youtian also nodded and said, "The clothes fit. I'll go try on the pants." Then he went straight into the inner room.
Chen Cui'e whispered to her daughter and son-in-law, "Look, your dad is going to show off to his old friends in the village soon."
At this time, Wu Hehua also came in with two bowls of sugar-water poached eggs, followed by Sun Ju, who also had two bowls in her hands.
"Hurry, eat it while it's hot. I even added an extra spoonful of sugar. It's so sweet. Xinlan, I'll hold the child for you. You eat first." Wu Hehua was about to take the child from Jiang Xinlan's arms as soon as she put Wan down.
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