Wei Mingshen glanced at her and said, "Don't you have to love yourself too? A marriage can only be happy if both parties love each other deeply."
Su Xueli shook her head: "It's too difficult for two people who deeply love each other to be together. Such couples are very rare. If I had to choose, I would choose someone who loves me, definitely not someone I love. It's too tiring and too painful."
Wei Mingshen stared at her. "How do you know it's tiring and difficult if you haven't tried it?"
Su Xueli was surprised and said, "Does this even need to be tested? This is the fact."
Wei Mingshen put his hands behind his head and said, "I don't think that's necessarily true. Two people who initially had no feelings for each other can develop feelings over time after getting married."
Su Xueli said with mixed feelings, "That's not love."
Wei Mingshen said, "As long as neither of the two people wants to leave the other, and they miss each other even after leaving, that is love. Even if that's not love, then you don't need any of that bullshit love to live your life."
Su Xueli asked him, "Would you be willing to give up love for marriage?"
Wei Mingshen fell silent.
Su Xueli smiled, stood up and said, "The water is ready to drink. I'll go to the kitchen to help Mom cook."
In the kitchen, Cao Maizi had just lit the fire when she saw her daughter-in-law come in, her eyes beaming with smiles. She said, "I'm boiling water, cooking porridge, and steaming buns. What dishes would you like to eat? We have everything for the New Year, so let's eat quickly."
Su Xueli sat down next to her mother-in-law and said, "Mother, I ate too much at noon today and I'm not hungry yet. Just tell me what dishes you want to eat, and I'll cook them."
Cao Maizi chuckled and asked, "What good food did you eat with your second aunt?"
Su Xueli then recited the names of the dishes to her.
Cao Maizi laughed and said, "Good, good, good. It's so good to be with my second aunt. I eat and drink well. I've never been to a restaurant before. If I were to go in, I wouldn't dare to touch my chopsticks."
Upon hearing this, Su Xueli immediately said, "Mother, I'll treat you to a restaurant next time."
Cao Maizi hurriedly waved her hand: "No, no, restaurants are not places for us farmers. Mother was just saying."
Su Xueli said, "Mom, don't say that. What's wrong with us farmers? With the reform and opening up, everyone can make money as a self-employed individual. In another ten or eight years, the workers in the city will be worse off than self-employed individuals."
Cao Maizi laughed heartily, "My dear daughter, don't let the city workers hear you say that, or they'll laugh us to death."
Su Xueli shrugged. Okay, I won't argue with her. Let her see how it goes.
Cao Maizi suppressed a smile and suddenly asked, "Will everything be alright tomorrow? You're not going out, are you?"
Su Xueli asked, "Do you have something to do tomorrow, Mother?"
Cao Maizi said, "Your eldest sister is coming tomorrow. She has many relatives from her husband's family, and she always comes on the sixth day of the lunar new year."
Su Xueli said, "Since my eldest sister is coming, I will definitely stay home to receive her."
Cao Maizi smiled and said, "That's right. From now on, this is your home. When Mom gets old, you'll be in charge. When your eldest sister comes, she's a guest, so you'll have to receive her."
Su Xueli gave a dry laugh but didn't say anything.
Wei Mingyue went into the kitchen and saw her mother talking intimately with Su Xueli again. Her face immediately fell, and she said to her mother, "I want to eat stir-fried soybean sprouts."
Cao Maizi said, "Our steamed buns already have soybean sprouts in the filling, why bother stir-frying soybean sprouts? Your brother, dad, and sister-in-law aren't very hungry today, so some porridge and steamed buns will do. We can stir-fry some vegetables tomorrow."
She added, "Anyway, we eat well every day during the Chinese New Year, so I don't crave it."
Wei Mingyue had a fight with Su Xueli yesterday and they're not talking to each other now. When she heard her mother say that she wouldn't cook if they weren't hungry, she got angry again and yelled at her mother, "Oh, so you won't cook if they don't want to eat? Am I even human? Do you think I'm a cat or a dog?!"
Cao Maizi squinted and said, "My goodness, stop yelling, I'll cook it for you, okay?"
Wei Mingyue snorted coldly, "If I don't let you cook it, I'll cook it myself. I'm not worthy of you cooking it."
Cao Maizi shook her head angrily, "Oh my god, you should hurry up and find a husband and get married, stop nagging me."
Wei Mingyue took out the soybean sprouts in a bad mood, rinsed them in a bad mood, and said to Su Xueli in a bad mood, "Aren't you going to start a fire!"
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