Uncle Zhang smiled broadly and said, "Your Aunt Zhang is a little old now. Her brain isn't very good, and her speech isn't very fluent. You guys shouldn't bother with her."
"You were so good at scolding me just now, how can you tell that you are not smart?" Jiang Fen retorted rudely.
"Uncle Zhang, we understand that your family is in trouble, but we don't have the ability to help. We're sorry." Wu Zhiqiu pulled his people home.
"Mancang, Uncle Zhang's family is in a really difficult situation. We've been neighbors for decades. If you can help, please lend a hand to Uncle Zhang. No one in the family has a job, and they really can't make a living." Uncle Zhang pulled Li Mancang's arm.
"Uncle Zhang, I know your family is having a hard time, and it's not easy for others either. The third brother still has tens of thousands of yuan in loans. Can you be more difficult than him? Nowadays, every family has relatives and friends who have been laid off. We have so many neighbors, and we are not as close as brothers and sisters.
My oldest sister and my nephew have all been laid off. My eldest uncle's three children and my second uncle's four children have all been laid off. These are our immediate family members, as well as our cousins and uncles. We don't have that much money. My son has it hard enough. Our whole family works hard from morning till night just to help him pay off his debts as soon as possible."
Li Mancang lied with his eyes wide open to prevent his neighbors from staring at his house all day long, wondering how much money he had made.
"Yes, everyone has money to spend. At such an old age, he still has to go out early and come back late every day in the middle of winter. It's not easy for anyone. It's difficult to solve problems by yourself. It's better to rely on yourself than on others." Zeng Laixi echoed Li Mancang's words.
Uncle Zhang saw that the Li family didn't want to help and the neighbors didn't speak up for them, so he shook his head and sighed and went back into the house.
The atmosphere in the courtyard, which was originally harmonious, became awkward.
There were many people in the Zhang family, coming and going, and they didn’t talk to the people in the courtyard.
Uncle Ge lived next door and was the most unlucky. He had nothing to do but listen to the women of the Zhang family cursing and making indirect accusations.
He didn't curse anyone by name. Uncle Ge didn't let Aunt Yuan pay any attention to them. He let them curse. If they have the ability, they can curse like this every day. The whole family will eat and drink like this every day. Old man Zhang's family assets have been almost confiscated. How long can he last? Only those who are upset know.
The second brother didn't come back until he was twenty-eight, and he started giving gifts to his relatives. Li Xingguo asked his family to accompany Dong Yun, and the third brother had to give his own gifts for several days.
The old man and the old lady came back to the village to celebrate today.
Li Mancang's family doesn't go back to celebrate the New Year. The four children of the Mancang family are all married, and there are more and more people. It's too busy to go back, so they celebrate the New Year at their own home and go back to pay their respects to the old couple on the first day of the new year.
It was the 30th of the lunar calendar and the family finally had a break. Li Mancang picked up the second and third sons early and went out to buy some food. If they didn’t buy any food today, what would the whole family have to eat?
The third child yawned as he drove the car. "No, Dad, your eldest son is not pregnant, so you keep him for having children?"
Li Mancang: "Isn't your sister-in-law pregnant?"
"It's not Li Xingguo who's pregnant, but my sister-in-law is a mess since he was little. He's the laziest and most cunning one." The second brother's prejudice against the eldest brother is like a surging river.
Li Mancang said, "We don't have a toilet in our house. Your elder brother is worried that Dong Yun might be in danger if he goes to the toilet. It's not easy for him to have a child at his age. So don't pick on him."
"If you are afraid of danger, you should have waited until today to come back. You do nothing and it makes him angry. You go out to give gifts but don't do it, and you buy goods but don't do it either. What a waste." The second brother was full of resentment, and thought about all the resentment he had towards Li Xingguo in the past thirty days.
"Who wouldn't say that? Who would hire a bodyguard to follow a pregnant woman around 24 hours a day?"
The two brothers took turns complaining.
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