While saying this, Liu Xiu'e looked at Su Ruanruan.
Su Runrun straightened her back and looked at Liu Xiu'e with a smile on her face, but she didn't say a word.
Liu Xiu'e was just trying to make things worse, and asked her to take the initiative to send out some cloth, but she would definitely not buy it.
After staring at Liu Xiu'e for a while, Liu Xiu'e's eyes showed more impatience.
"Sister-in-law, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but we shouldn't be so stingy. It's not that I'm short of clothes. I'm already so old, so I don't care what I wear. It's just that your nephew is going to have a blind date soon, so we should make him a new set of clothes so that he can wear them to the blind date. Don't you think so? We can prevent others from looking down on us."
If we prepare a few feet of cloth for the girl, she will look up to us, and then the marriage will be easy, right?"
Su Ruanruan leaned forward slightly, looking at Liu Xiu'e with curiosity, "Sister-in-law, Da Wa is going on a blind date? Who is he with?"
"Who else can I be with? The one I mentioned this morning, Wang Cuizhi!"
Liu Xiu'e had just finished speaking when Wang Maoni spoke impatiently, "What Wang Cuizhi? Didn't I tell you this morning that this won't work?"
"Why not?" Liu Xiu'e said in a higher voice, "Wang Cuizhi graduated from high school, is well-dressed, and works in a textile factory in the county. It's hard to find a wife like her, and she also likes our eldest son. Why can't it work out?"
"Don't talk to me about these useless things." Wang Maoni glanced at Liu Xiu'e coldly, "Just because she wants a bicycle, it won't work."
Although it is now popular to give three turns and one ring as a betrothal gift, there are very few people who can actually get three turns and one ring.
Wang Maoni has money, so it's not that she can't afford a bicycle.
But the Fu family has not only one grandson, Da Wa, but nine grandsons.
If I buy a bicycle for my eldest grandson's wife, should I buy one for the other grandchildren when they get married?
Who has the money to buy nine bicycles?
No matter what, Wang Maoni would not agree to buy a bicycle.
Liu Xiu'e used to be afraid of Wang Maoni, but now, she didn't know what had stimulated her, and she stood up in an instant.
"Mom, don't be so biased. When the seventh brother married his wife, he gave her dozens of yuan as a gift and several hundred kilograms of food. On the second day of the wedding, he went to buy dozens of yuan worth of cloth, shoes, snacks, and a watch. These add up to two hundred yuan, right? How come the seventh brother can buy so much for his wife, but I can't buy a bicycle for the eldest son's wife?"
Wang Maoni was not angry. Apart from her somewhat cold voice, she could still be considered calm.
"All seven of them were the same: half of their earnings were handed over to the government and the other half was kept by themselves.
The gifts and food provided for the seventh brother's marriage were all paid for by the public. When you and your brothers and sisters were married, it was also paid for by the public. You have nothing to say about this, right?
As for what the seventh child bought for his wife, that was his own money. I have no say in that. I also didn't say that you can't buy a bicycle for the eldest child's wife. If you want to buy one, you can buy it. The public will not pay for it.
"When the eldest son gets married, the public fund will pay a maximum of fifty yuan and two hundred kilograms of grain, the same as for the seventh son, nothing else. You decide for yourself!"
Su Runrun sat aside and listened. She actually felt that there was nothing wrong with what Wang Maoni said.
As the head of a family, fairness and justice are important.
Compared with many patriarchs who control the financial power of a family in this era, Wang Maoni has done a very good job by letting her son and daughter-in-law keep half of the money and not interfering with what they buy.
But obviously, Liu Xiu'e didn't think so.
Liu Xiu'e left angrily, muttering something to herself. Although I couldn't hear clearly, I knew it wasn't anything good.
Only Su Ruanruan and Wang Maoni were left in the room. The atmosphere was dull and somewhat awkward.
Just when Su Runrun was thinking about what to say to ease the atmosphere, Wang Maoni spoke first.
"Your sister-in-law likes to compare herself with others. She doesn't care about her own conditions. She just wants to suppress others. Don't pay attention to her. In seven or eight days, you and Lao Qi will go to the army. When you leave, she will stop."
When she finished speaking, Wang Maoni's face showed some helplessness.
Su Ruanruan nodded obediently, "Mom, I understand."
"You are going back home tomorrow, go back and pack up and decide what to bring back. Just discuss it with Wen Jing."
Wang Maoni means she doesn't care.
In this day and age, many mothers-in-law are most afraid of their daughters-in-law helping their parents, and they wish their daughters-in-law would not return to their parents' home once a year.
If I have to go back, I will definitely check the things my daughter-in-law brings again and again, and I won't let her take even a centimeter more.
A mother-in-law like Wang Maoni who doesn't care about anything is simply an angel on earth.
Su Ruanruan returned to her room in a daze, and kept thinking about one question: how lucky she was to meet such a good husband and mother-in-law as soon as she traveled through time.
Su Ruanruan didn't figure out this problem that night.
But when she and Fu Wenjing returned to the Su family the next day, she understood.
Luck is subject to the law of conservation.
She traveled through time and met a good mother-in-law and a good husband, but she had very close blood relatives.
Su Runrun and Fu Wenjing went to the Su family around noon. Everyone in the Su family had to go to work, and since they went there early, no one was home.
Fortunately, they were in the same production brigade. Although they were located in the east and west, they could reach their destination in just over ten minutes' walk.
Su Ruanruan and Fu Wenjing were carrying the snacks they bought yesterday. This gift was already considered a great gift in the production team.
But as soon as Su Ruanruan and Fu Wenjing entered the Su family's door, they were ridiculed by Su's mother.
Su's mother held the string of the snack packaging with two fingers and casually threw the snack on the table with a look of disgust on her face.
"This is really like water spilled after a girl is married off. It's only been a few days and she already doesn't care about us, her parents.
I heard from the people in the team that you went to the county town yesterday and bought snacks and meat, dozens of feet of cloth, and a watch. But today you just brought over a few bags of shabby snacks. Who are you trying to fool?
Lao Qi, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but we are your father-in-law and mother-in-law after all, why do you look down on us like this? If you look down on us, what good will it do to your wife? Others will only say that you don't value her, otherwise why would you treat us like this?
"And Ruanruan, you are married now. You will take care of your parents-in-law and husband, do laundry, cook and take care of the children. What's the point of having a watch? It just so happens that your brother is also going to have a blind date. Wearing a watch will give him face. Give your watch to your brother!"
After Su's mother said this, she walked directly towards Su Ruanruan and reached out to grab Su Ruanruan's wrist.
Seeing this, Su Ruanruan moved her hand aside. At the same time, Fu Wenjing stood up and stood in front of Su Ruanruan.
Su's mother got nothing and was very unhappy. She looked up at Fu Wenjing and spitted when she spoke.
"Seventh Brother, what are you doing? You still want to fight me? How did you become a soldier? How dare you fight your mother-in-law?"
Fu Wenjing stood still, like a rock, blocking Su Ruanruan. "It's not me who wants to do it, it's you who wants to do it. I bought the watch for Ruanruan. If someone else dares to take it, it's either robbery or theft. No matter who this person is, I will send her to the police station."
"You!" Mother Su looked at Fu Wenjing with fear on her face, and kept backing away, "I am Ruanruan's biological mother!"
"It is precisely because you are Ruanruan's biological mother that I tell you all this. Otherwise, I would have thrown you to the ground the moment you reached out your hand."
Fu Wenjing had been a soldier for nine years. He had been on the battlefield more than once and had completed many special missions. His aura was different from that of ordinary farmers.
His aura was so overwhelming that Su's mother couldn't handle it at all. She kept backing away and didn't dare to talk to him anymore. She only directed her anger at Su Ruanruan.
"Ruanruan! I raised you for so many years, and I was afraid that you would suffer, so I found a good family for you. Now that you are living a good life, you just watch your man bully your mother like this?"