But being cursed like that back then is very uncomfortable, let alone for Song Yongren and Song Jianshe.
Song Lili bluntly said, "Auntie Lai Di, I think you'd better go and make some preparations. I feel that your family is having an even worse year. Look, your house was gone a few days ago."
"It must be because you didn't properly worship the Kitchen God last year, that's why your family is having such a bad year. Why don't you worship him properly this year so that your family will have a better year next year?"
Hmph, anyone can curse!
If you wish me bad luck next year, I'll curse your family to have even worse luck next year, and see if that makes you furious.
Sure enough, as soon as Song Lili finished speaking, Zhang Laidi's face changed. She pointed at Song Lili with an angry expression and said, "You're talking nonsense! What rubbish are you spouting?"
"Why is such a young child not learning anything good? How can you say such things? Is this how your family taught you?"
Song Lili raised an eyebrow. Was she implying that she lacked manners?
"Auntie, I'm not making this up. Wasn't this what you just said about my family? Could it be that what you said was bad?"
“I…” Zhang Laidi was speechless and unable to refute for a moment.
She couldn't very well admit later that she had said those words with malicious intent, just to cause trouble for the Song family, could she?
That's something I absolutely can't say.
In the end, Zhang Laidi could only leave angrily, as if the Song family had offended her.
Song Lili curled her lip. "Hmph, you think you can get good treatment just because you have a sharp tongue? Dream on."
After Zhang Laidi left, Song Yongren and Song Jianshe's mood was ruined. They no longer had the mood to sit in the courtyard and listen to others set off firecrackers, so they went back inside.
Song Lili secretly resented Zhang Laidi, thinking she was a troublemaker who brought nothing good wherever she went.
In the end, she could only take Song Fang to her room to sleep.
Song Lili lay on the kang (a heated brick bed), thinking that things would be better from now on, and she would probably have to prepare things for the New Year properly.
They work hard all year round. They should enjoy the Spring Festival a little longer, at least by eating well.
There's no way to make clothes for my family today, so we'll have to wear old clothes for the New Year. We'll have to figure something out next year.
After that, it's time for a thorough cleaning. People will clean all their belongings, especially clothes and blankets, which will be taken apart and washed.
However, it was a bad year, and everyone only had one cotton-padded coat. They had to take it apart and wash it, but there were no replacements. So, that was that.
Some families would take apart and wash their quilts, and the Song family no longer used their quilts.
Song Lili simply washed the clothes that had been destroyed by the bandits and then sewed them back onto the quilt, like patching one patch after another.
Song Lili finished all of this on the 24th, and then there was nothing else to do.
Song Lili thought that life would continue peacefully until the New Year, but she never expected that someone would break her orders.
Early on the morning of the 25th, just as dawn broke, Song Lili suddenly heard someone shouting. When she went out to look, she saw an elderly man in his sixties with a wrinkled face and gray hair standing in the yard.
The old man wasn't very tall. His eyelids drooped, and he was so thin that he looked like a gust of wind could blow him over.
However, she spoke with great force, and what she said made Song Lili very unhappy.
"Third brother, go and give me half a sack of grain. I heard your family's grain wasn't stolen by bandits? Perfect timing, your eldest brother's family is out of grain, so you can give them some." His tone was perfectly matter-of-fact.
Song Lili immediately realized that this was her long-lost grandmother, whom she had never met. But why did she find this so funny?
How dare she ask for half a sack of grain? Doesn't she know grain is precious?
However, Song Lili didn't say anything. She thought that Song Yongren should be able to handle it himself. She couldn't let her own child suffer just to prevent her older brother from starving to death, could she?
Song Yongren probably isn't that "kind," is he?
Song Yongren was indeed as Song Lili thought. He had no intention of starving his own child to support his elder brother's family.
Before Grandma Song and Madam Gu could finish speaking, he immediately objected, "Mother, my family didn't get many work points this year, and we only received two bags of grain. We ate some of it a while ago, and now there's only one bag left."
"If you take half a bag of food, how are our three kids going to live for the next year? They can't just go without food, can they?"
Song Yongren didn't talk about himself, but only about his three children, saying that he planned to avoid eating them if possible.
His family already had a small amount of grain allocated to them, and he was worried about whether they could survive until next autumn's harvest. How could he possibly share it with others?
Even if it's his own brother, don't even think about it. His children are the most important thing.
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