The calendar hanging on the wall was turned to the page of October 1st, and it was as bright red as a fire.
The next morning, the joy of National Day had already overflowed beyond the mottled walls of Li Guifang's home. The Li family kitchen was already bustling with activity!
Li Guifang opened the steamer, and white mist wrapped in the aroma of corn blew towards her!
"Xiaomei, I'm thinking of celebrating the festival today, so I'll make some bone marrow soup and steam some corn...
The courtyard door creaked open, and Wu's mother walked in carrying two boxes of snacks.
"Oh, my mother-in-law is here? So early in the morning..."
"Guifang!" Mother Wu's eyes were filled with apology in the smile lines. Suddenly, she caught a glimpse of Li Guifang's right hand wrapped in gauze. She felt even more guilty and her throat choked. "This hand...does it still hurt?"
Li Guifang placed the snacks on the eight-immortal table and said, "Xiaomei, make a cup of freshly picked honeysuckle tea for my mother-in-law. I'll go to the backyard and pick some green onions."
After saying that, he prepared to go out and leave the space to this mother and daughter!
"In-laws, let's talk together!"
Wu's mother tried her best to keep her, so she had to step back half a step and sit loosely on a bench at the side. She would not interfere in the affairs of the Wu family!
"Xiaomei! Your parents are the ones who wronged you in this matter. Your sister-in-law is a troublemaker! I knew it was your sister-in-law who would stir up trouble!
I didn't expect she would dare to instigate your cousin to cause trouble on your farm. Your father and I went to the county to catch piglets that day. Mom and Dad really didn't know they were so vicious!"
As Wu's mother spoke, she took out a cloth bag from her pocket and opened it layer by layer. Inside were all big unity cards.
"Xiaomei, Mom knows I've wronged you this time. Give this money to your mother-in-law and uncles to replenish their health!"
Wu Xiaomei quickly pushed the money back, and Li Guifang was Q'd and had no choice but to appear again!
"Mother-in-law, we don't allow this! This time it was Xiaomei's cousin and the others who caused the trouble, and they have also compensated. Let's not talk about other things," Li Guifang said lightly.
"Mom! My brothers..."
Wu Xiaomei didn't know how to start. If her brother and sister-in-law hadn't instigated this matter behind the scenes, how could her cousin Wang Jinhua dare to make such a fuss so confidently?
However, she couldn't believe that her brother, who had been so good to her since childhood, now couldn't stand her being well!
In fact, this is not the first or second time that this has happened.
When the household contract responsibility system was implemented, didn't they give her the worst dry land? But she had been deceiving herself, thinking that she was still the little sister who needed care.
She ignored the fact that her brother and she were already two different families and had their own plans.
She always took her parents' kindness to her for granted, but she never thought it would offend others.
What they didn't realize was that their elderly parents were no longer the head of the family who could make decisions by slamming the table.
Seeing her daughter's silence, Wu's mother felt even more upset, and this matter made her feel torn.
If her two sons had come forward to fight with Xiaomei for the land, she would have picked up a broom and broken their legs.
But these two beasts were very cunning. Instead of showing up themselves, they instigated Jinhua's family in the main room to make trouble.
This roundabout way made it difficult for her, as a mother, to get angry directly.
But on the other hand, her daughter Xiaomei was really beaten and bullied, and the sight of her head wrapped in gauze made her heart ache.
The palms and backs of the hands are all made of flesh, but why are the flesh competing with each other?
The scale in Wu's mother's heart was shaking and couldn't be settled.
Seeing the mother and daughter were speechless, Li Guifang took the initiative to break the silence and changed the subject with a smile: "Mother-in-law, I heard that there's a new cloth shop in the west of the city that's beautiful and affordable. I'll ask Xiaomei to take you there when she's free."
She changed the subject with a few words, exchanged a few polite remarks, and then stood up to see Wu's mother off.
After Wu's mother left, only Wu Xiaomei and her mother-in-law were left in the yard.
Wu Xiaomei lowered her head, her fingers unconsciously twisting the corners of her clothes, her face burning.
She remembered the last time when she patted her chest in front of her mother-in-law and said, "My brother and sister-in-law dare not have any objections to the things given by our parents." Now these words were like a loud slap in the face, hitting her hard, and her face was swollen.
"Mom, I..." She opened her mouth, but didn't know how to start. She hesitated for a long time, and the words were stuck in her throat.
At this moment, her heart felt like a spice shop had been overturned. She felt embarrassed and aggrieved. Shame, grievance, embarrassment, all kinds of emotions were blocking her chest, making it almost hard for her to breathe.
Li Guifang didn't have so many thoughts. How should I put it? Ever since Xiaomei said she wanted to go back to her hometown village to open a grocery store, she had been thinking that this would happen sooner or later.
After all, that piece of land is a hot commodity now, who wouldn’t want to fight for it! Now, this piece of land is no longer the sweet lump that you could break off to play with when you were dividing malt sugar!
Even if the brother takes sibling ties into consideration, he still has to get past his sister-in-law first. Could his sister-in-law let the family's golden nugget be snatched away by a married woman?
Judging from her experience of eating out over the years, it’s obviously not possible!
My sister-in-law's pillow talk was not in vain.
While the fight was going on here, it lasted for such a long time, but Wu Xiaomei's brothers didn't show up. Instead, Wu Xiaomei's sisters-in-law were watching the fun.
However, this situation is not unique to Xiaomei's family!
The drama of family division in recent years is more exciting than the performances on the stage! She can easily cite a few examples.
At the Wang family in the east, brothers would fight over half of the house with carrying poles.
At Widow Liu's house on West Street, her three sons trampled down the doorstep of her house just for a pickle jar!
If the family is divided, the parents will be caught in the middle and be in a dilemma. At this time, it depends on whether the elders in the family can handle it clearly. However, looking at the attitude of Wu's mother today,
Bringing money to help Xiaomei get a land certificate is three times better than those fools who can only wipe their tears. These days, old people who can see clearly are rarer than big golden pumpkins in the fields!
I just don’t know whether this big golden melon will explode with gold coins or burst tires when her sons come to visit!
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