When Fan Jiang returned with his two younger brothers carrying wild vegetables, they saw several layers of women from Shanshui Village outside the courtyard fence.
They were all very enthusiastic and earnestly persuaded their grandmother to take out money to help her cousins get married.
To carry on the family tradition of the Fan family.
Even her aunt, who always spoke up for her grandmother and cared for her deeply, just stood by with a smile on her face, neither answering nor helping her grandmother out of the predicament.
Grandma's brows were so furrowed they could trap a fly.
When the three of them returned, Mother Fan glared at them and scolded them sternly: "It took you so long to dig for wild vegetables, you must have gone somewhere to slack off!"
The whole family is waiting for you to have lunch. Come in, come in, or none of us will get any food.
Sun Jinhua and her four sons did not move.
Her youngest daughter, Fan Zhaodi, craned her neck and tiptoed to peek into the kitchen. Seeing that her mother and brothers hadn't moved, she swallowed hard and didn't dare to move either.
Fan Jiang looked at his two older sisters, whose eyes were filled with tears, and then at his mother, who was protecting them, one in each arm.
Something seems different?
The two younger children, Fan He and Fan Hu, didn't know what had happened, but upon hearing that there was food, they immediately put down the bamboo basket containing wild vegetables and headed towards the main room.
Seeing that her mother, brother, and sister hadn't moved, she looked at them blankly.
Then I had the same confusion as my older brother.
Seeing that she couldn't get anyone to listen, Fan's mother turned to the group of women who were watching the commotion and shouted, "Alright, alright, stop worrying about things that don't concern you. Go back to your own homes and take care of your own children!"
The women laughed and said, "Let's go, let's go. Aunt Fan, you should take good care of the household."
Tch, such blatant favoritism, no wonder their family's life is getting worse and worse.
The onlookers dispersed, and Sun Jinhua glanced at her mother-in-law before entering the house with an inscrutable expression.
The three pillars and four pillars exchanged a glance, then stepped forward to support Grandma, one on each side, and said with smiles, "Grandma, let us help you inside!"
Dazhu and Erzhu glanced at their grandmother, then at their mother, and followed them inside with grim expressions.
The last two girls, Daya and Erya, opened their mouths slightly in surprise.
Er Ya asked incredulously in a low voice, "Mother, how did you do that!"
How could my aunt, who has always been closer to my grandmother than a mother and daughter, suddenly give her the cold shoulder?
Even the eldest and second cousins, who always obeyed their aunt, sometimes disobeyed her.
The previously simple-minded third and fourth cousins also started to have their own little schemes.
Daya understood; his mother was being dismantled step by step.
It's one thing to understand something, but it's quite another to actually do it!
Shuiqing held her two daughters' thin, bony hands and whispered, "Friendships based on mutual benefit will dissolve when the benefit is gone."
"From now on, you two need to see clearly what people are after."
Fan Daya and Er Ya nodded heavily.
I used to think that my aunt and grandmother were in the same boat and that they could never win against each other. But I never imagined that even though they were in the same boat, they could still fight each other!
"Also, we should use words to fight, not violence. Let's be civilized people, understand?" Shui Qing continued to instruct.
Da Ya and Er Ya nodded without hesitation.
They know!
This morning, my mother was the one who suffered a loss; she was pushed to the ground by my aunt and grandmother.
They even said it was their cousin Sanzhu who accidentally bumped into it, and that they shouldn't hold a grudge against a child.
But my third cousin is clearly older than them, how could he have been careless...?
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"Here you go, Dazhu, Erzhu, Sanzhu, and Sizhu, take your whole black-faced steamed buns."
"Take half of your dark-colored steamed bun from the great rivers and lakes."
"Shuiqing, you ate your half of the dark bread a while ago, so it's gone now. Don't wait any longer."
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