"Oh, thank you for your hard work. You can eat two more dumplings and ask Xiaojun to eat two less."
The youngest, Xiaojun, nodded and said, "Yes, give the second brother more food."
Zhou Xiang rubs his head, so cute.
After eating dumplings, they sat for a while and then left.
Father Zhou praised Zhou Xiang, "My daughter, you did well this time."
"That's right, I've grown up this year!"
Zhou's father smiled but said nothing. He was really not used to his daughter's arrogant behavior.
It's time to cook lunch. It's simple. I heat up the leftovers from yesterday's 30th, steam buns, and fish. I just put them there until they're heated up and eaten on the 15th, which means there will be surplus every year.
Because I have to eat Yuanxiao dumplings in the evening, I made them again in the afternoon. I didn’t finish mixing the stuffing that Zhou Xiang prepared yesterday, so I just need to mix it today.
On the first day of the New Year, you are not allowed to use knives, scissors, needles and thread, nor are you allowed to wash pots and dishes.
So the dough had to be pinched by hand and used to make dozens of dumplings. When the number was enough, I would stop making more. Starting from the second day of the New Year, the girls who were getting married would be entertained with fish and meat.
We are going to my grandmother's house in the county town tomorrow, so we can't leave any dumplings.
After dinner, Zhou's father and mother prepared everything they needed to take tomorrow and went back to their room to sleep.
Zhou wanted to put the fruits in the woodshed into the space, and also put away the dozens of dollars in the iron box on the beam.
Thinking about going to my grandma's house tomorrow, I find it hard to calm down. I haven't been there since I was reborn.
My grandmother's surname was Liu. She was from Jiangxi Province. She followed my grandfather to Anhui Province and worked in a tobacco and alcohol company. My grandfather was transferred to the provincial capital and lost his life during the turbulent years.
Grandma has only two daughters. The eldest daughter is Zhou's mother, and the younger daughter is married far away and rarely comes back once a year.
After she retired, she gave her job to her nephew from her mother's side. Her nephew Liu Shan promised to take care of her in her old age. In fact, her grandmother was still taken care of by her own mother in the end. After her own mother retired, she took care of her for five or six years, and Liu Shan didn't care about anything.
Because they have no culture, they just rely on a few words they heard from others, thinking that they contain philosophical truths, and then they carry them out to the end.
For example, the saying "a good son is made under the stick" is what she adheres to most thoroughly.
I ignored my second sister and let her grow up however she wanted. Not long after the start of the new year semester this year, she was persuaded to withdraw from school by the school with the words "You always fail the exams and don't listen carefully in class. You have been held back two grades. Don't come to class anymore. You will still be given a junior high school diploma when the time comes."
The third brother was beaten three times a day with a rolling pin, because a rolling pin is made of wood and is a stick.
Her mother felt sorry for her and didn't let her take care of her third brother. She said: Either take care of both of them, or take them both away.
My mother in my previous life was really busy. If I hadn't been reborn and hadn't dragged my father into the household chores, this New Year would have been a mess.
Mom had no choice but to bear the pain and leave both of them behind. When heating started to come in the north, my aunt went to pick up my grandmother, but she insisted on taking my third brother with her.
My third brother lived there for two years and actually showed suicidal tendencies, so we were finally brought back.
After returning, the third brother ignored people and often stayed in his own world, sometimes even laughing occasionally.
It was because I often took him out for a walk and played with others that he continued to go to school. He was held back a grade and started the third grade in the town middle school. Finally, he took the entrance exam for technical secondary school with me.
Due to his character flaws, the third brother disliked communicating with others and ended up remaining single until old age.
After Liu Shanding got a job, he didn't ask the company for a house, insisting that he wanted to use it to support his aunt in her old age, so they lived together.
In fact, he was just trying to get free water and electricity bills, but unfortunately, his cleverness backfired. After the public housing was privatized, the house was demolished. Since the water and electricity bills were all paid by his grandmother, the house was finally awarded to his grandmother. His aunt and mother did not let him occupy even a little bit of the demolished house.
He lived in the outer room between his grandmother's two main rooms and built a partition. In his grandmother's later years, he said that his grandmother had to pass through his door and walk along the road to his room to enter the inner room, which had to be bought with money.
Haha, human nature is so funny! I wonder if my grandmother in her previous life regretted it in her later years?
My cousin's mother's surname is Hou. He married her when he returned to Jiangxi Province. After bringing her back, my grandmother helped my cousin's mother find a temporary job in a tobacco and alcohol company.
Anyway, many changes in things later on were caused by my aunt, and my uncle also gradually changed because of my aunt.
Living together, if they are not mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, then they are definitely mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. There must be a lot of conflicts. My own mother has quarreled with her many times.
In my opinion, all of this is my grandmother's own fault. She followed my grandfather's example and retired without anyone to replace her. She still gets a high salary. Now that she has lost her nephew, her two sons-in-law dare not do anything to her. In the end, isn't she still the one who was given up by her own mother?
If she hadn't called her nephew from her mother's side, her later years wouldn't have been so ridiculous that she had to pay money to pass by her own main hall.
She no longer had any worries. Her third brother would definitely not be beaten so badly, and she would not have to sleep on the roof because it was too hot for three people to live in a house of more than ten square meters.
Alas! Everything in this world is predetermined. Perhaps everything is fate. The past life has passed away, and this life is trying to change it.
Although Zhou Xiang finally succumbed to fate, he was still upset. He entered the space to study and work hard, because only hard work could change his fate.
The next day, before Zhou Xiang left the space, he heard the sound of a door opening outside the space. Zhou Xiang hurried out of the space, got dressed and washed up.
It was really cold to wash up outside, so after a quick fix, Zhou's mother had already steamed buns. Zhou wanted to let his mother wash up and take over making breakfast.
After Zhou's mother came over after washing up, Zhou Xiang briefly explained how Liu Shan treated his grandmother in the end and how Xiao Hou started the trouble.
"Mom, actually, it's not just my third brother who hates grandma. I hate her too. She's just looking for trouble. Her old age is all her own fault.
Xiao Hou had three daughters, and maybe he blamed it on his grandmother not having a son! Otherwise, why would Liu Shan treat his grandmother so harshly in the end?
If you ask me, this is all her karma. She broke Liu Shan's determination to provide for my grandmother in her old age, so she and her husband have no son to support them in their old age."
Mother Zhou rubbed her daughter's head and said, "Okay, let go of the past, live in the present, and don't carry the hatred with you anymore."
"I want to see if I can rescue my third brother this time. My second sister is going to be persuaded to leave anyway."
Mother Zhou nodded and said, "First ask your third brother secretly, and then take your third brother and me to the yard of the Water Conservancy Bureau to take a look."
"Okay, let's go today. I plan to accompany Zuo Heng tonight, so I'll say we're going out to stay somewhere else. Tell Dad to stay at Grandpa's house, and we'll take Third Brother to Zuo Heng's place."
"Okay! It's settled."
After the mother and daughter finished their whispered conversation, Zhou's father also finished washing up, and the three of them had breakfast. Zhou's father carried a small basket with fish and meat in it, and Zhou's mother carried a large package with three down jackets in it, and went to the provincial road to catch a bus.
There are no buses, but there are private three-wheelers that can take eight people.
There are already six people, and Zhou Xiang and his family can just sit and leave.
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