If you have money, you can be arrogant.
Things had come to this point, and Li Jing had nothing to refute. The other person had money and was willing to stay in a confinement center. What could she do?
Even though she couldn't stand it, she could only hold it in!
Because the ward was big enough, Li Jing also stayed in the ward after Chen Xinyi gave birth. Whenever her Pacific Ocean attribute flared up, Lin Xiaoman would fight back.
After being criticized so many times, Li Jing knew better and stopped talking. She just entertained herself with Xiaobao all day long.
"Oh, Xiaobao is so good."
"Oh, Xiaobao is so handsome."
"Oh, Xiaobao smiled at grandma!"
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Chen Xinyi had a normal delivery and the process went smoothly. She stayed in the hospital for another five days. The adults and children moved to the confinement center, and Lin Xiaoman of course went there to take care of her.
Li Jing wanted to move there as well, but conditions did not allow it because she had a son at home who needed someone to take care of him.
As a grown man, there is no problem for Zhou Yang to survive alone for a few days, but if he survives alone for a long time, it will definitely be a mess.
Lin Xiaoman and Shen Xinyi will stay in the confinement center for three months. Because Li Jing can't stand Zhou Yang ordering takeout, she takes him back home.
Zhou Yang temporarily moved back to his family's villa and lived with his parents.
Then, eating the bland soup cooked by Li Jing and listening to her preaching every day, Zhou Yang felt depressed. He counted the days every day, hoping that his wife and mother-in-law would come back so that he could escape from the misery.
On weekdays, Zhou Yang would drive Li Jing after get off work and dinner, and she would come to see her big fat grandson every few days. On weekends, she would stay in the confinement center the entire day, staring at her eldest grandson, as if she was afraid that he would be abducted.
In a blink of an eye, more than a month passed. In September, school started and Li Jing started working. She was busy and the frequency of visiting the children decreased.
Ever since she had a grandson, Li Jing had actually wanted to quit her job and take care of him. However, on the one hand, although Shen Xinyi maintained a polite appearance, she was unwilling to live under the same roof with her. On the other hand, Lin Xiaoman boasted every day, "I, the landlady, earn 50,000 yuan a month even if I don't do anything!" Then she would say, "Mother-in-law, if you don't work, you will only get a few thousand yuan in pension every month. Isn't that enough?"
Li Jing was so angry!
But what Lin Xiaoman said was true, and she couldn't refute it.
Forget it, since she is not allowed to take care of the children, she can just earn more money, more money!
It's better to save face than to make steamed buns.
After all, she is an educated person, and she absolutely cannot be outdone by the uneducated Li Yanying!
After Li Jing starts working, she can only visit her children on weekends.
Because of money, life is smooth sailing.
Three months passed in a flash.
When they came out of the nursing center, Chen Xinyi and the child, both big and small, were white and plump.
When I go back, of course I go back to my own villa.
Chen Xinyi's maternity leave is relatively long, and there is still one month left. She takes care of the child by herself, and Lin Xiaoman assists her. Before returning home, Lin Xiaoman also contacted a nanny who is responsible for washing clothes, cooking, and cleaning.
Taking care of a child is so easy.
After bringing the two adults and one child home, Zhou Yang moved back as well. He was so happy that he almost set off firecrackers to celebrate. He finally didn't have to listen to his mother's lectures anymore.
On the weekend, Li Jing wanted to visit her grandson, and Shen Xinyi did not continue to hide it, but asked Zhou Yang to give her the address.
Chen Xinyi didn't care about Li Jing's attitude at all at this moment. If Li Jing was polite, she would also politely call her mom, but if Li Jing kept complaining and giving all kinds of opinions, she would just confront her directly!
It’s your own home, your own territory, so you can feel confident!
On the weekend, Li Jing and Zhou Dagui followed the navigation given by Zhou Yang to their destination. It looked like a townhouse, which was totally different from the commercial housing she had imagined. Li Jing was stunned.
Although this villa is not as big as hers, it is newer and more up-to-date. Theirs is a completely old villa. According to the current housing prices in the eastern suburbs, such a villa would cost at least 5 million.
Knowing that this was just one of the many properties owned by Lin Xiaoman, Li Jing inexplicably felt a sense of inferiority.
Li Jing came in with a bunch of things she bought for the children. She was very polite and kept smiling the whole time. Even if there were many things she didn't like, she just pretended not to see them and didn't say anything.
After all, she knew that it was useless to tell them because they wouldn't listen anyway.
And when you're in someone else's house, you always have to be more restrained.
It was like visiting relatives. They had lunch and sat for several hours, and didn't leave until after 3 o'clock.
On the way back, Li Jing, feeling depressed, complained to Zhou Dagui, "Old Zhou, look at this! If you didn't know, you would think our son had become a live-in son-in-law!"
"What do you mean by a live-in son-in-law? Isn't it like this in our area now? Young couples all move out to live on their own. How many of them have you seen living with their parents?" Zhou Dagui didn't care at all where Zhou Yang lived, and it was the same in the homes of his colleagues.
Young couples living with elderly people are too poor to buy a house.
"Living separately is living separately, but what about them? They live in my mother-in-law's house!" Li Jing was a little indignant.
"Isn't the mother-in-law's home the daughter-in-law's home? Besides, now that we have children, shouldn't the mother-in-law take care of them? After all, letting a nanny take care of the children is very worrying. At least there should be a relative to look after them."
"Why should Li Yanying, the grandmother, take care of the grandson? Shouldn't I, the grandmother, take care of the grandson?" Li Jing was extremely resentful about not being able to take care of her grandson.
"What you said is not right. You are the grandmother, and your mother-in-law is also the grandmother. After all, when they got married, it was just a marriage!" Zhou Dagui said very seriously, which stunned Li Jing.
Zhou Dagui continued with a hint of complaint, "This is all your fault. Didn't I tell you at the beginning that a betrothal gift should be given, and Xiao Yang had already agreed? But you refused to agree. What was originally a good marriage was turned into a marriage by you. According to our customs, when a marriage is made, both sides are grandparents, so it doesn't count as a 'grandson'. It's a good thing that my father-in-law is gone, otherwise, we wouldn't know what surname our eldest grandson would have! By the way, don't push for a second child for no reason. What if you piss off your daughter-in-law? She might give birth to a second child with her own surname! Then we won't even have a reason to object."
When only children get married here, it's usually just one child from each family.
"I..." Li Jing moved her lips, completely unable to speak.
At the time, she was thinking, Shen Xinyi is an only child, so whether she gets married or not, doesn't it make any difference? Although her family doesn't need the money for the betrothal gift, she just doesn't want to. If Li Yanying accepts the betrothal gift, won't she still have to rely on her daughter for support in the future?
As an only child, why would Chen Xinyi accept a betrothal gift?
As for the surname? Whoever takes the surname inherits the family's property. The Shen family is so poor, what can they give their children? She was fearless at that time.
But now... Alas, I really shot myself in the foot.
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