Chapter 288 Those who don’t know would think our family is beggars
New Year’s Eve.
It was the Spring Festival again, and Li Yiming was getting married soon, so the alley became lively and festive.
The Lin family and the Li family have become like one family, and the Wu family has basically no close interactions with the two families.
Wu Jianguo knew that the reason they hadn't completely cut off contact was because of Wu Shanshan and Wu Jun.
A few days before the Lunar New Year until the morning of the 30th, Wu Shanshan and Wu Jun were basically not at home. They stayed in the Lin family's yard, helping to prepare for Li Yiming's wedding on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.
The wedding was held in the auditorium of the garment factory, and the banquet was also held in the auditorium. Several chefs were invited to cook in the canteen, and Wu Shanshan and her friends helped to decorate the house.
Wu Jianguo always saw the children staying in their yard, so he went to watch. People were polite to him, but it was only superficial.
Zhang Min went out to play and passed by the courtyard when she came back. She looked inside from the flower window and found that the courtyard had changed.
Since both of them were not short of money, they did not plant vegetables under the courtyard wall but flowers. Although it was winter and the roses were not blooming, there were now several pots of daffodils, which were emitting a faint fragrance.
Everyone was sitting in the yard cutting and pasting red wedding characters.
Wu Shanshan is dexterous and is the main person in charge of cutting, while Wu Jun and Li Yiming are responsible for pasting.
The doors and windows of both houses were replaced with the same style, the walls were painted, and the whole yard became brighter.
At that time, Li Yiming only notified Lin Gong and Song Ying to paint the walls. How could the two not agree, so they left Dongzhe in the house to help. When they came back from get off work, they found out that Li Yiming had even replaced their door frames with new ones.
Lin Gong and Song Ying wanted to give him money, but Li Yiming refused. He said:
"I knew you were going to be polite with me, that's why I only said I was painting the walls. I've already measured the doors and windows and made them."
Song Ying pulled him aside and whispered:
"You'll have a family now, so it's different than before. You should ask Xiaoyan about everything and don't make decisions on your own."
"Aunt, it was Xiaoyan who suggested it! She said it would look better if both families worked together! I hadn't even thought of that. I deliberately said we would pay, but she glared at me, hit me, and said, 'I didn't realize you were so heartless! The effort they put into renovating the house wasn't even enough to pay for your door! I'll pay, I'll pay! You'll be stingy! I look down on you!'"
This touched Song Ying again. In the evening, she told Lin Gong that she understood what it meant that people from the same family would not enter the same house.
Zhang Min stared blankly for a long time until Song Ying noticed her and invited her in to sit down. She shook her head and quickly walked back home.
Before I even got home, I could smell the stench.
Zhang A-mei retaliated by not cleaning the chicken coop, causing it to become increasingly smelly.
She said, "I want you to leave with a stinking smell. I want you to know what kind of family you are and what your status is!"
She didn't know that clothes that are smelly can be thrown away, hair and skin that are smelly can be washed, and they will still be clean and spotless after washing; only the stench that emanates from the bottom of your heart will linger and will only get worse and worse.
Zhang Min doesn’t understand why some families become more and more prosperous while others become more and more dilapidated, even though they are all families.
She felt that although she was favored in this family, she was actually not as good as Wu Shanshan.
"Mom, it's the New Year, and it's time to clean up your old chicken shit." Zhang Min said weakly to Zhang A'mei.
"Why do you care so much? Some people won't want to go to No. 1 Middle School with the smell of chicken shit. She will naturally sweep it up when school starts." Zhang A'mei sat there eating melon seeds.
"Mom, please, my head hurts from the smoke. I also need to go out and see people!" Zhang Min said again.
"You little stinky girl, even a dog doesn't mind being poor!" Zhang A'mei said dissatisfiedly.
"Mom, please let Wu Shanshan and Wu Jun go! They won't fight with me for anything. Can our family be like other families, normal and clean, without quarrels?" Zhang Min said to her mother seriously.
Of course, she also knew that it was useless because Zhang A'mei was glaring at her.
Today is New Year's Eve, and the Wu family didn't even buy any meat because no one came to visit them.
Zhang A'mei wanted to save the money so that she could buy some decent food when she went back to her parents' home. Even if she was buying meat, she had to bring it back to her parents' home to eat.
Wu Shanshan and Wu Jun had no objection, because even if there was meat, it would not be their turn to eat it, so it didn't matter.
Wu Jianguo wanted to eat meat, but was afraid that Zhang A-mei would say something, so he had to keep it to himself.
When it was time for the New Year’s Eve dinner, Wang Yong’s house became lively.
Zhang A-mei asked Wu Jianguo: "Is there anything good happening with the Wang family?"
Wu Jianguo told them that Wang Yong had brought his sister and niece to celebrate the New Year for the first time this year, and Wang Fang's husband Zhou Zhiyuan had already returned to Xinjiang.
Zhang A-mei curled her lips: "How can he be so kind?"
Wu Jianguo glanced at her, hesitated for a moment, and said, "I've paid the money, and I heard that the policy in Shanghai is loosening up soon. Having another relative in Shanghai is better than having another enemy, right?"
He meant something, and Zhang A-mei understood it, so she just glared at him fiercely.
Wu Jianguo could only change the subject: "It's Chinese New Year, forget about not eating meat, let's make two decent dishes!"
“You go do it!”
Wu Jianguo sighed and walked towards the kitchen.
"Sister Shanshan! Come here! Hot, hot, hot! Rice cake!" Dongzhe came to the front of the yard holding a bowl of baked rice cake.
Wu Shanshan hurried out to answer it and said to Dongzhe, "Dongzhe, thank Aunt Li and Aunt Song for me."
"Okay, the sugar is downstairs." Dongzhe nodded and whispered, then ran back home.
Zhang A-mei sneered when she saw Wu Shanshan bringing the bowl back:
"Those who know that we are both working parents would think that we are so poor that we have to beg for food."
"Then I'll send it back, and you cook it. Don't let anyone know that we don't have meat or rice cakes for the New Year." Wu Shanshan was already immune to her words and retorted.
"you!"
"Shanshan!" Wu Jianguo immediately stopped his daughter and continued, "You guys eat some rice cakes first. I'll go cook. Xiaomin, Aunt Song brought some rice cakes. Come out and have some."
"I won't eat it. It's not given to me. I eat all the good things in our house. I can also go back to my grandparents' house to eat meat. I won't fight with them for the rice cakes. Don't say that I am trying to snatch things given to them by others." Zhang Min responded in the room.
Wu Jianguo was extremely angry, but he didn't dare to scold Zhang Min, so he could only rush into the kitchen.
Zhang A-mei also entered the kitchen.
"Sister, eat it, it tastes better when it's hot." Wu Jun smiled, used chopsticks to take out the rice cake covered with sugar and handed it to Wu Shanshan's mouth.
Wu Shanshan shook her head: "I don't like sweet food. You eat the ones with sugar, and I eat the ones with sugar."
"Oh, okay." Wu Jun took a bite of the rice cake and grimaced at the heat. He picked it up with one chopstick and handed the other to Wu Shanshan.
"Sister, it's hot inside, be careful."
Wu Shanshan poured some warm water over, and the two of them finished the bowl of rice cake without any hesitation.
Wu Jianguo washed the radish and put it on the chopping board. When he saw Zhang Amei come in, he called out:
"Sister."
"what!"
“I think we may not be able to survive.”
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