"Then the five thousand yuan will be divided into five parts. Each of us five siblings will get one thousand yuan." Jiang Yilu, who had been listening on the side without saying a word, spoke up as the fuse of this argument.
"Xiaobao."
Zhao Hong and Jiang Dahai looked at him in surprise.
"I will buy my own house with my own ability. Dad, you should keep it a secret from grandpa and grandma for now. No one will know unless you and we tell them." Jiang Yilu didn't say anything stupid like dividing the 5,000 yuan equally among his four sisters. Sometimes, the closer the relationship, the more you have to pay attention to the distance.
It's true that he cares about his sisters, but he doesn't want to indulge them into the kind of people who only take things for granted. He also doesn't want to create any rift between him and his sisters because of the five thousand yuan. It's just right for each of them to get one thousand now, which is the fairest.
"Mom, Dahai, look, Xiaobao has said it."
Gu Dongmei's eyes flashed with joy, and she said to Zhao Hong and Jiang Dahai with a shameless face, "Let's divide the money..."
"Shut up." Zhao Hong interrupted Gu Dongmei. If it weren't for her stupid daughter revealing the matter of the five thousand yuan in front of the big girls, would Xiaobao have to clean up her mess like this?
Now the siblings have a good relationship and don't care about these things. If everyone lives a good life in the future, this matter will be over. But if one of them has a bad life in the future and thinks of the 5,000 yuan, how can he not have any thoughts in his mind?
Once people have their own ideas, the rift between them will only get bigger and bigger. Xiaobao made this decision with this in mind, but the problems now are more than just that.
"You don't know what kind of personalities your grandparents have, Xiaobao. It would be fine if they could keep it a secret, but if they couldn't, and they knew you were the one who started this, they would use the sea to drive you out without me saying anything."
After Zhao Hong finished speaking, Gu Dongmei's face turned pale instantly. Even Jiang Dahai felt a little embarrassed. This was something his parents would do.
And to be honest, Jiang Dahai really didn't want to give his daughter the money that the whole family had saved. It wasn't that he didn't love his daughter, but in the minds of the older generation, giving this money to his daughter was like giving it to someone with an outsider surname, and it was a waste of money for other families. Jiang Dahai might have agreed to one or two hundred, but this thousand...
"Your Jiang family has so much money, but the bulk of it is actually saved by the old couple themselves. You are also from the countryside, so which family can come up with so much money? Isn't it your father-in-law's retirement allowance? You are too timid to argue with your parents-in-law, so you just think that Xiaobao is soft-hearted and use his crooked brains. The only smartness you have is used to scheme against your own people."
The more Zhao Hong spoke, the angrier she became. She wondered why her daughter became like this after giving birth to a son. She should be better off being as submissive as before, or at least being quiet and not causing trouble.
"Xiaobao is my son, and Dani and the others are my children too. Someone has thought of everything for Xiaobao. I just wanted to help Dani and those poor children. What did I do wrong?" Gu Dongmei still wanted to argue that she loved her daughter and she was right.
"Oh!" Zhao Hong laughed, "Your family's Dahai is making more money than Dachuan now. Shouldn't your family help Dachuan? I think the two thousand your parents-in-law gave is too little. You should give it all to Dachuan."
This, how can this be the same? Gu Dongmei wanted to explain but didn't know what to say.
"You always want to take a little from the better ones to help the worse ones. Every child will have an independent family when he grows up. If you really want to live like you, today Dani makes more money, and Si Ni makes less, you have to give Dani half of her money to Si Ni. The child will hate you to death. You force your child to do something that you don't even want to do. I think you just think your life is too comfortable now, and you have to create something to make you happy."
Gu Dongmei was a little confused. Was her idea really wrong? She was reluctant to give the money she had worked so hard to earn to Jiang Dachuan's family. Why did she want her son to divide the money given by his parents-in-law among several daughters? Just because she didn't like this son!
Zhao Hong ignored her daughter who was feeling aggrieved, and asked her granddaughters and grandchildren solemnly, "What do you think about this? Tell grandma."
"That money was given to Xiaobao by his grandparents. As a married sister, I have no right to and will not take it." Jiang Dani was the first to express her opinion.
"I don't want it either." Jiang Erni has great ambitions. She is confident that she can earn back several thousand yuan in the future, and she said it very straightforwardly.
"I, I don't want it." Sanni hesitated. She was studying in the capital and her family gave her 20 yuan a month for living expenses. She had clearly realized the value of money and knew how much she could do with the 1,000 yuan if she really split the 5,000 yuan. But at the same time, she also knew how good her brother was, so she chose to refuse.
Sanni's hesitation was short, but it still made Zhao Hong sigh in her heart. The stupid thing her daughter did eventually caused a rift between the two children.
"Like my three sisters, I don't want this money." Si Ni didn't yet fully realize the importance of money and readily said no.
Jiang Yilu also noticed the brief confusion of the third sister, but he didn't take it to heart. If someone really regards money as something outside of his body, then he is a saint. It is also normal for the third sister to have some conflicts.
"Let's divide the five thousand. My eldest sister wants to buy a house now. With this money, she can buy a bigger one. We bought the house together at that time. Whether we rent it or sell it in the future, we can divide the money equally." Jiang Yilu still insisted on his previous decision. "Anyway, my second and third sisters and I have to stay in the capital for at least four years. Isn't Si Ni also planning to take the exam for the capital next year? It's just right to use the remaining money to buy a yard in the capital, so that everyone can have a place to stay there. If grandpa and grandma want to see the house deed, we can deal with it."
Jiang Yilu thought that it would be better to keep the money and buy a house while the houses are cheap now. This was the most appropriate solution he could think of.
Zhao Hong glanced at her open-minded grandson. In fact, he felt the most aggrieved about this matter. After all, in today's rural areas, inheritance has nothing to do with daughters. The money divided by the old couple of the Jiang family when they were still alive has even less to do with the sisters.
But it seems that this is the only way to deal with this matter. After all, the money has been passed down among the sisters.
"Dahai, I just scolded Dongmei, but you can't say you are wrong in this matter." Zhao Hong turned and pointed at Jiang Dahai who was still a little conflicted.
"Me?" Jiang Dahai pointed at himself, not understanding what he had done wrong.
"Dongmei is your wife and the person closest to you. I understand that your parents and Dongmei are hiding something, but you can't do that." Zhao Hong said to her son-in-law, "You listen to your parents and always hide things from Dongmei. Although she does have problems, you always hide things from her and don't think about making things clear. Over time, it will only make Dongmei more suspicious."
The most taboo thing in a family is concealment, no matter whether it is well-intentioned or malicious. Once even the closest people hide their thoughts, the family will fall apart.
"Dongmei has been married to you for so many years. Although she has behaved strangely over the years, she has made contributions at least. She has worked in the fields and raised the children for more than 20 years. Yet your family still treats her as an outsider. Is this appropriate?"
Zhao Hong loved Gu Dongmei the most since she was a child, so she was not willing to let her divorce Jiang Dahai. She said so much just to make her daughter sober up. Now that she had given her daughter a beating, it was time to give her son-in-law a slap.
But she was right. It takes two to tango. The atmosphere in the Jiang family is really responsible for Gu Dongmei's current situation.
"Mom." Jiang Dahai was a poor speaker and had no idea how to explain, "Because my mom said..."
"You will live your life with your mother or with Dongmei. To put it bluntly, the elderly always go ahead, and when the time comes, Dongmei will be the only one to accompany you. Mom knows that Dongmei is a cowardly child. She has things in her heart but doesn't like to say them out. She also has her own little tricks, and her calculations are clacking loudly."
Zhao Hong spoke to her son-in-law from the bottom of her heart: "I understand that your parents hid it from Dongmei. After all, Dongmei must be disgusted by their support for Dachuan's family. But if you hide it from her too, what other result will it have except making Dongmei even angrier? We are all going to help anyway, so why not make it clear? Only when you two husband and wife have explained some things clearly, can this family live in peace."
Gu Dongmei rubbed her eyes after hearing what her mother said. Her mother was right, she was like an outsider in that family. She could only complain in her heart about how her parents-in-law treated her, but she couldn't understand why her closest husband treated her like that.
"Dongmei."
Jiang Dahai felt a little uncomfortable when he saw his wife wiping her tears. They had been living like this for so many years, and he never knew that hiding the truth would also cause his wife to suffer.
"Honest communication is the most important thing between husband and wife. You don't even dare to explain it to each other, let alone in public. Listen to mom, go back tonight and say everything you wanted to say but didn't dare to say over the years. Tell me everything that's on your mind. Punish those who deserve punishment and praise those who deserve praise. This is not just between you and your husband, but also with your children. If there are any problems between father and son, mother and daughter, talk it out tonight."
"We are a family, we are connected by blood, if we talk it out, and have a good sleep, everything will be fine."
Zhao Hong felt that her daughter's biggest problem was communication. She had something on her mind but she didn't say it, so who could figure out what she was struggling with? Besides, there was no real bad person in her daughter's family. If Jiang Dahai or her daughter were as stubborn and bad to the core as her eldest daughter-in-law Niu Fang, or as stupid and hopeless as her eldest son, she would not have wasted her breath arguing with him.
If you can change it, try to change it. Don't wait until it's too late to change it.
Zhao Hong really loves her daughter, which is why she tried to repair the rift between the couple and the mother and son today before it really widened. She didn't want to let this pimple get deeper and deeper until it rotted into the bone marrow, resulting in the couple becoming alienated and the mother and son becoming estranged.
Zhao Hong looked at her daughter and her family who seemed to be in deep thought, and sighed inwardly, hoping that what she said today was not in vain, and that the family could communicate again when she returned home in the evening.
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"Dani?"
Xiang Qianjin and Gu Xiashi had been in the next room for quite a while. When they saw the people in the room finally coming out one after another, they went to greet them curiously.
Xiang Qianjin looked at his wife with a frown on her face and walked forward nervously. Jiang Dani shook her head, indicating that she was fine. Although Xiang Qianjin was puzzled, he did not ask any more questions.
When my attention shifted away from my daughter-in-law, I discovered that not only her, but my father-in-law's family all looked depressed, especially my mother-in-law, whose eyes were red and she seemed to have cried.
"Grandma, let me help you put all your things in."
In addition to the gifts from the Jiang family, some close relatives in the village also sent some small gifts, a few eggs or a basket of vegetables, which were not valuable but also a token of their thoughts. Jiang Erni and her brother sorted out the things on the cabinet in the main room, classified them, put the more expensive ones in the room, and took some eggs and vegetables to the study.
After talking about those topics just now, everyone felt a little awkward and could only find something to do.
"Why are the cookies gone?"
Jiang Erni searched the main room but couldn't find the two boxes of biscuits she brought from home.
"It must be my aunt. I was wondering why she wanted to leave after dinner. It turns out she stole the biscuits and wanted to run away when no one was paying attention." Jiang Erni recalled Niu Fang's hands behind her back when she left, and regretted that she did not take the biscuits back to her grandmother's room after snatching them back.
"I'll go find her." Jiang Erni was already in a bad mood, and now she was even more furious. How could someone be so shameless? Not only did he not give his mother-in-law a birthday gift, but he also stole other people's gifts and brought them home.
"Forget it, just think of it as paying for some peace and quiet. You can't reason with such a shameless person."
Zhao Hong had given up on her eldest son a long time ago. Just as the second son said, she just treated him as an ordinary relative. They didn't meet on weekdays, but they would have a meal together during the holidays, and spend some money to buy him some peace and quiet when necessary.
"It's too cheap for her."
Jiang Erni grumbled a little, but today was grandma's birthday and she had the final say. No matter how unhappy she was, she had to swallow it down and help her brother pack up.
Jiang Yilu was quite satisfied with her grandmother's current behavior, which was better than the previous life when they were always entangled and finally killed by Niu Fang. This seemingly indulgent behavior actually showed that her grandmother had let go of her hopeless uncle.
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