"Mom, don't blame my second sister-in-law and my wife for saying that you should prepare more than just two eggs. At least one for each person, and we won't say anything!" Jiang Xi also took the opportunity to get involved.
Zhao Xingmei frowned and glared at them. "Your eldest sister-in-law got up this morning and made breakfast for me. When the meal is ready, I asked her to go back and fetch your eldest brother to eat. As for the eggs, I decided to give them. What? Do you have any objections? I paid no less than 50 yuan for each of your weddings, but your eldest brother's wedding, your eldest sister-in-law didn't ask for a penny. Yesterday was your eldest brother and sister-in-law's wedding night, and today I am giving them some nourishment. What's wrong with having an egg? Didn't I give you eggs in the beginning?"
Jiang Xi lowered his head and dared not say a word.
Hu Jingjing was indignant and pinched him hard under the table, motioning him to continue.
"I did give it to you, but only to Jingjing, not to me!" Jiang Xi yelled.
"You always bring up everything! The furniture in your room is new, why don't you talk about this?" Zhao Xingmei yelled at him back.
Seeing that the atmosphere at the dinner table was getting bad, Jiang Xun put down his chopsticks and said, "Mom, I don't want to eat this egg."
Ye Li felt unhappy when he saw this.
These two sisters-in-law were like two troublemakers. They had made her life restless in her previous life and had always made things difficult for her in front of others and behind her back.
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Now that she has just gotten married, is the same old thing going to happen again?
She endured it in her last life, but she won't tolerate it in this life.
Ye Li smiled sheepishly, cracked the egg, peeled it and put it into Zhao Xingmei's bowl: "Mom, you are busy running this household, you are the hardest worker. This egg should be eaten by you! Jiang Xun is not in good health, let him eat this egg."
Seeing how capable Ye Li was at handling things, Zhao Xingmei became more and more displeased with the wives of the second and fourth sons.
"Look at your sister-in-law, and then look at you."
As she spoke, she stuffed the eggs into Ye Li's bowl again.
As an elder, how could she compete for food with the younger ones?
"You eat it, just eat it! I don't see who has any objections."
"This..." Ye Li looked at Jiang Xun in embarrassment.
Jiang Xun smiled at her and said, "Listen to me, just eat it."
"Thank you, Mom. I'm welcome."
"You're welcome. Eat it."
After breakfast.
Wang Sha went to the kitchen to wash the dishes. According to the rules, it was her turn today.
While washing dishes, she complained to Jiang Rui about what happened this morning.
"Do you think your mother is biased? I didn't see her being so nice to me when I first came in!"
Jiang Rui was smoking at the side. When he heard his wife complaining, he chuckled twice: "If you ask me, you are stupid! Why do you follow the fourth son's wife around and scare her every day?"
"What's wrong with me?" Wang Sha yelled, "Whose life is easy these days? How many times a month do you eat eggs? I crack an egg into the pot, and seven or eight people in the family drink the soup. What can I get? Now, your mother cooks two eggs at once and gives them to your eldest brother and your eldest sister-in-law! I'd be surprised if I'm not angry!"
"hehe."
"What are you laughing at!" Wang Sha said unhappily, "You are the only one who doesn't fart at the dinner table! Look at how much the fourth brother defends his wife? How about you?"
"You are just stupid! Mom said that she would only give eggs to Big Brother and Big Sister-in-law this morning, and she would not do that in the future. But you insisted on making a fuss. Now, not only did you let Big Sister-in-law eat eggs, but you also let her show her filial piety in front of Mom! Didn't you see Mom's expression? Who knows how much she likes Big Sister-in-law!"
After hearing this, Wang Sha rubbed the sleeve off her arm and threw it beside the sink: "No, I'm so angry! He's using our money to support my brother and sister-in-law!"
"What do you mean?" Jiang Rui asked.
"Don't you know? Your eldest brother has been eating and drinking at home for so many years, and he hasn't paid a penny home."
"I know about this."
When my eldest brother Jiang Xun retired from the army, the army gave him a generous resettlement allowance.
At that time, his mother said that his eldest brother had a leg disability, could not work for the time being, and had no source of income.
No one can touch that settlement fee, it will be used to marry a wife in the future.
As for his usual meals, he eats with his family.
The whole family agreed at that time.
"Now that your eldest brother is married, the settlement fee is still in his pocket! Two people eat, one pays, and we have to make up the rest. Tell me, are we wronged?" Wang Sha was indignant.
After she reminded him, Jiang Rui felt that this was really the case.
"No, I have to go talk to mom!"
"Hey, come back!" Jiang Rui called his wife back, "Don't be silly and go alone, call Jiang Xi's wife over with you."
The power of two people is always stronger than that of one.
"If we talk about who has the most tricks, it's you." Upon hearing this, Wang Sha didn't even wash the dishes and went to knock on the fourth brother's door to look for Hu Jingjing.
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Ye Li and Jiang Xun were discussing returning home tomorrow in their room when they heard Jiang Rui's voice coming from outside the door.
"Brother, sister-in-law, our mother wants you to come over! There is something important to discuss!"
Jiang Xun responded.
After Jiang Rui left, he wondered, "What important matter do you want to discuss?"
The corners of Ye Li's lips curled up slightly: "You'll know when you get there."
When the couple arrived, a family meeting had already begun in the big house.
The atmosphere in the room was a bit solemn, and everyone's face looked unhappy.
Jiang Xun didn't know what happened, but Ye Li knew it clearly.
With so many people gathered together, there was only one thing they wanted to do - to separate.
"Sit down." Zhao Xingmei pointed to the stool, "Let's have a small meeting today to discuss the division of the family."
"Dividing the family?" Jiang Xun raised his eyebrows. "Why are we discussing this issue?"
Hu Jingjing said sarcastically: "Brother, of course you don't want to split up the family! In your family, one person pays and two people eat!"
"It's too shameful to split up the family." Jiang Jingshan was very unhappy. "Look at how many families in our courtyard have split up the family?"
Wang Sha immediately followed up with this sentence and said, "Dad, it's okay if we don't divide the family. Then let the eldest brother take out his resettlement fee to supplement the family expenses. We agreed before that the eldest brother doesn't have to pay for meals, and the savings from the resettlement fee are used to marry a wife. Now that he didn't spend a penny to marry the eldest sister-in-law, does the resettlement fee have to be used by everyone to spend together?"
"Yes, what the second sister-in-law said makes sense." Jiang Xi interrupted, "If we want to keep the family together, the money has to be mixed together."
"Mom, what do you think?" Jiang Rui asked his mother Zhao Xingmei carefully.
Zhao Xingmei naturally didn't want to split up the family, but she couldn't stand the noise made by her sons and daughters-in-law.
Life is hard these days and one person’s salary cannot support the whole family.
If we all put our money together, we can still get through this.
She may not like her two daughters-in-law, but she cannot ignore the requests of her two sons.
"Jiang Xun, Ye Li, what do you two think?"
Zhao Xingmei naturally wanted to maintain the unity and solidarity of the family. She knew that this request was somewhat unreasonable, but if the eldest brother and his wife were willing to be tolerant, she had no objection.
"Mom!" Ye Li spoke first, "I don't agree with this! If Wang Sha and Jing Jing feel that living together is unfair, then they should live separately!"
The abacus beads of her two sisters-in-law were about to fall on her face. She had just gotten married, and they were already thinking about the money in their pockets!
"You mean splitting up the family?" Zhao Xingmei's eyes widened.
Ye Li nodded firmly: "Yes, split up!"
Only after the family is divided can she display her abilities!
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