Old Mrs. Liu moved into their new home with her son on New Year's Day. The new home is a two-story building with 40 square meters upstairs for two bedrooms, a bathroom and a small living room.
Of the 40 square meters downstairs, the 10 square meters at the back were used as a kitchen and bathroom, and the 30 square meters at the front were used to house the shelves and counters transferred from the previous tenant. She simply went back to her old profession and started a small business.
It has been a month since he came back and more than twenty days since he moved into his new home. Jiang Wei Zhong feels more at ease than ever before. He can finally live like an ordinary person.
However, looking at the sad-looking elder sister, his heart began to panic again, "Elder sister."
"Wei Zhong, is Mom home?" Mother Zhou looked at her eldest brother, who had changed a lot, and her brows relaxed a little.
Before Jiang Weizhong could reply, Old Lady Liu came down the stairs to the left of the main door. "I'm here! What do you want to talk to me about?"
"Mom, I want to talk to you."
Old Lady Liu waved her hand. "If you're upset, go somewhere else and yell. I'm not willing to accept your messed-up excuses. You're throwing your emotional garbage at me, but who should I throw it to? I've finally figured things out, and I don't want to chat with you."
"Mom," Zhou's mother shouted unwillingly, "You only figured it out more than ten years ago, okay? Before, you dumped all your emotional garbage on the third child."
Old Lady Liu was stunned for a moment. "Alright, I'll listen to your nagging for once. Humph! You're even threatening me with the matter of the Third Brother."
After patiently listening to her eldest daughter's ramblings, Old Lady Liu summarized, "Zhou Quan is right. I think they'll probably propose a separation. When the third son and his wife came back and visited you, what did you say? Especially to Hanhan."
Mother Zhou was stunned. "What should I say?"
"Wei Hui! This is the first time I know you're so biased towards boys. You're okay with your own daughter, but it's so obvious with other people's daughters."
Mother Zhou shook her head. "Mom, please stop talking nonsense. How could I be biased towards boys over girls? Have I treated Yuanyuan and Tongtong poorly?"
"Not bad," Old Lady Liu agreed. "The key is that they have older brothers. In your heart, they have older brothers, and both families have successors. So what if you tease a girl? Imagine if the second child's first child is Yuanyuan, that's not right. These are all other people's granddaughters. If Zhou Yan is a girl, what will your attitude be?
Of the four children, only the third child had a daughter right from the start, which exposed your preference for sons over daughters. Don't deny it, a mother knows a daughter best. You acted very well outside, always claiming that you treated all your grandchildren, male and female, the same. The third child's daughter, Hanhan, also disappeared because of Xiangxiang, which gave you a good excuse to shift the blame. So why, after all these days since Hanhan came back, have you not paid any attention to Meizi and Hanhan?"
"I, I," Zhou's mother stuttered, not knowing what to say.
Old Lady Liu shook her head. "You can still say they're thinking of kicking you out. The third brother and his family are now living in the Zhou residence, and it's not easy for you to care about them. So, when they came back to the Zhou residence to see you that day, did you suggest that they stay?"
“They like living with Xiang Xiang.”
"Look, you're right again. You proposing and they rejecting are two different things. You don't really want them to stay, so why do you want Xiangxiang to go home? Why are you reluctant to let her leave? If Xiangxiang is like the second brother, would you still hope that she would come home and live permanently?"
Seeing that the eldest daughter was silent, Old Lady Liu spoke again, "Actually, you are not much different from your father, and the same goes for Wei Fang. When Long Chao was in such poor health, she only thought about herself. People are selfish. No one can say that they are fair and selfless, but you can't do selfish things and claim to be selfless at the same time. It's disgusting, understand?
That night, the night Wei Zhong came back, you cared about him, so you cared about him. If you had just said it out loud, saying that you felt sorry for your elder brother's suffering, think about it, she is your daughter, you can always feel sorry for her, and no one would care about you, but you just kept silent."
Finally, she even forced her own son to reveal his identity in public. She was still furious! After scolding her eldest daughter, Old Lady Liu called her son over and analyzed the matter with him again, telling him that he should be upright in his conduct and that even if he was a villain, he should be a real villain.
Instead of being comforted, Zhou's mother was scolded again. She felt like she was surrounded by enemies. Her mother and husband didn't like her, and her children didn't understand her. Was she such a failure as a person?
Unable to figure it out, she simply called her father. Jiang Xing'an patiently listened to his eldest daughter's nagging and sighed inwardly. After all, he had not fulfilled his father's responsibilities. "Weihui, you are wrong. Your mother's analysis is correct."
After the eldest daughter relayed Liu's words, Jiang Xing'an regretted it even more. At his age, he needed a companion with whom he could speak the same language, but he threw her away without mercy.
"Father, I..." Zhou's mother didn't expect that her father also agreed with her words.
Jiang Xing'an felt very relieved to be addressed as "father" by his eldest daughter. "Weihui, don't tell Xiangxiang that you made this call, and don't tell her that you called me. Otherwise, she will cut off all ties with you."
After hanging up the phone and looking at her husband's half-smile, Zhou's mother cheered up and said, "Forget it, I won't dwell on it anymore. Let's just let it be! There's no such thing as an elder apologizing to a younger person, right?"
"Haha," Zhou's father chuckled, "If you had thought of this earlier, wouldn't everything have been fine? After all this detour, you still have to accept reality."
Unlike the low-pressure atmosphere in the Zhou family, the atmosphere in the Ling family was very lively. Dong Yunrong was happily buying New Year's goods and ordered Ling Quan around. Ling Quan had no complaints. In the past, he didn't like his son being sandwiched between him and his wife, and it's the same now. However, he liked his grandchildren being sandwiched between him and his wife!
This year, the grandchildren finally came home for the New Year, and my father came back too. He was so happy! He killed chickens and ducks whenever his wife asked him to.
The school had its final exams, and the report cards were not available until the 19th day of the twelfth lunar month. Dong Yunrong took her husband to Zhou's house to take her grandchildren back to live with her first.
Zhou wanted to ask Ling Ran to pack some clothes for the children, but Dong Yunrong waved her hand dismissively, "No need. Ask your dad to take Haohao and Dangdang to pack them. Tongtong and I will do the work. We don't need him."
Zhou Xiang narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Okay."
Yuanyuan held her brother Yan'er's hand. She didn't want to be taken home. Zhou Yan held Yuanyuan's hand tightly and said, "Let's go play with sister Hanhan."
"Yes!" Yuanyuan nodded vigorously.
With three fewer people in the Zhou residence, it was a lot quieter, but Hanhan was happier because Sister Yuanyuan no longer disliked her for being too young and was willing to concentrate on playing with her.
Xiao Chunmei asked her husband when he planned to return to the Zhou family. Zhou Hua replied without hesitation: "If my sister goes back to the Ling family, we will go back to the Zhou family."
Xiao Chunmei felt relieved after hearing what her husband said.
Under her grandmother's coaxing, Tongtong no longer thought about going home to find her parents to get her report card with them. Instead, she dragged her grandparents to go to school together, "Grandma, we will definitely get a certificate this time, and we'll bring it back for you to keep."
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