Chapter 41 Chapter 41 It won’t be long before I can see him…
Wang Haiyan deliberately said in a tone of disdain and responsibility:
"As a grandfather, you took your granddaughter out to play, but you didn't even buy her some delicious food. You just let Xiao Xia watch you playing chess with the old man and the old woman? How can you be a grandfather like this? You are not a good grandfather. Look at that grandfather..."
"Grandpa is not a bad person, he is the best to me!" No matter how smart Ning Shixia was, she was still young and could not tell whether the adults were sincere or just pretending.
In her heart, her grandfather was especially good to her and was a good grandfather. When Ning Shixia heard her aunt blaming her grandfather, she became anxious.
He took out the fried buns from his bag and showed them to his aunt: "Look, you bought me fried buns!"
She was so eager to protect her grandfather that Ning Da was too late to stop her.
He felt helpless and a little angry. What a shame this eldest son's wife was. She actually played such tricks on the child and didn't act like an elder at all!
She has to know when buying something for her child, and then she gets unhappy when she finds out.
When Wang Haiyan saw that Ning Dazhen bought something for her, the smile on her face almost disappeared. She felt that this old man was really partial to the third child. She had never seen him buy these for Xiaochun and Danping before.
She forced a smile and said in a sarcastic tone: "Oh my, I bought you a fried bun. That's great. Everyone knows that your grandfather treats you the best. It's a pity that he only bought one, so Xiaoxia can only eat it by herself. Your brothers and sisters can't have any." After saying that, she turned around and went into the house with the green onion.
Ning Shiqiu's heart sank as he listened to his aunt's words. It came again. It had only been a few days since he heard such strange words, and now it came again.
He wanted to say on his sister's behalf that she would not eat alone, she was a child who knew how to share and was happy to share delicious food with everyone.
But then I thought of similar scenes that had happened in the past. The adults who said weird things just wanted to bully them. They never cared about what they were really like, nor did they want to listen to their true thoughts.
If I explain a few words, adults will scold me for being talkative and talking back.
However, before Ning Shiqiu could say anything, his mother spoke.
"Xiao Xia, eat it yourself if you can finish it. If you can't finish it, ask your brother to help you eat some. Your cousins from your aunt's family are more than ten years older than you. They have eaten this before you were born, and they have been eating it for many more years than you.
You are young, and even if you eat ten or eight, it will not be as much as they have eaten. From now on, the things your elders give you are yours. If you want to share them with others, you can give them. If you don’t want to share them, that’s also okay. ”
Zhao Ruyue was listening to what her sister-in-law said and felt very uncomfortable.
What does a three-year-old know? Is it the child’s fault if he or she wants to be liked by his or her elders? As for playing this kind of trick on children?
Seeing her daughter's confused and helpless look, Zhao Ruyue became furious.
But I didn't want to show it in front of my daughter, so I had to suppress my anger and coax the child patiently.
When Zhao Ruyue spoke just now, she didn't try to lower her voice.
Ning Shiqiu was very worried. What his mother said seemed to be a refutation of his aunt, and his aunt could not tolerate anyone refuting her the most.
My aunt is very good at quarreling. When she hears what my mother said, will she run out and quarrel with her mother?
His mother is so gentle that she may not be able to win an argument with his aunt who acts like a shrew when she argues.
Unexpectedly, what he was worried about did not happen. After his mother coaxed his sister, she asked grandpa to go have lunch with him, and then she went in with his sister in her arms.
When he walked to the patio, he met his aunt who was washing green onions. Ning Shiqiu glanced at her secretly and found that she didn't seem angry.
When I met two adults at the dinner table, they acted as if nothing had happened and didn't react at all.
This made Ning Shiqiu very confused and he couldn't figure out what was going on.
Although he is a little precocious, he is still young and inexperienced enough to not know that this is the adult world.
In the adult world, adults know best how to put on masks and maintain superficial peace.
Some people may be quarreling fiercely one second and want to kill each other's entire family, but they may be arm in arm and acting like good brothers the next second. It's hard to say what they are thinking.
Wang Haiyan tried hard to maintain her dignity as an elder and sister-in-law, but she actually felt terribly regretful.
She kept regretting that she had become accustomed to being a teacher in front of her children over the past year and liked to give advice whenever something happened.
She actually forgot that the child's biological mother had returned. No matter what problems the child had, his biological parents were there, so why was it her turn to point fingers?
The more Wang Haiyan thought about it, the more she regretted that she had no control over her words. Her idea of letting her son and the third child go to Pengcheng could not be realized. She also wanted her son to learn a craft from the third child.
Before the matter could even be mentioned, the third son's wife was unhappy. If she interferes, this matter will probably not be accomplished.
Wang Haiyan was extremely worried, but she tried to save face and was unwilling to say a few soft words. She wanted to just muddle through and wait until the matter faded before bringing it up again.
Zhao Ruyue didn't know what she was thinking, but the idea of splitting up the family was becoming stronger and stronger, and more and more urgent.
After lunch, she and Ning Shaoming continued to sell things. Yesterday and today, all the socks were sold out.
There was only half a bag left of scarves and gloves.
Zhao Ruyue had never expected that the purchasing power of people on the street was so strong. The goods were almost all sold out just by passing the message among acquaintances.
Later, some people heard the news and came to buy the socks, but they were no longer available.
Some of these people only wanted to buy socks, while the rest saw that scarves, silk scarves and gloves were reasonably priced, so even if they didn't buy socks, they still bought one or several of them.
In the evening, while the two children were out playing and had not yet returned home, Zhao Ruyue talked to Ning Shaoming about dividing the family property.
"I think we can't delay any longer. Find a chance to tell my parents so we can order the materials for the house as soon as possible and start building it right after the New Year."
Ning Shaoming listened to Zhao Ruyue's story about what happened at noon and had the same idea as her.
"When I have sold most of the things tomorrow, I will go talk to my parents and ask them to divide the family business as soon as possible, preferably before the New Year. I have already inquired about the prices of building materials. Cement, river sand, bricks, and lime can be bought in town. They are also sold by people I know well, so they should be able to give me a favorable price."
"We may need to order steel bars from the county, which will cost a little more. However, we are only building one floor for now. Even if the area is larger, it will not take much steel bars. If we are not in a hurry to renovate after the completion, we only need to install the doors, windows, water and electricity, dry the house, and move in soon."
Zhao Ruyue: "It's good that you know what's going on. Then we can take the kids to the county town to play and tell them that we're going to order steel bars?"
Otherwise, she might have to take other people's children with her, and Zhao Ruyue was not happy about that.
Ning Shaoming had no objection to this. The couple discussed for a while, and at noon, the elder sister-in-law who had said she would come later arrived.
I could hear her voice from a distance: "I wanted to come this afternoon, but something happened at home, so I didn't have time to come until dark. Mom, take the meat in. You can make sausages or something else."
"Bring the meat in advance today. I won't give it to you on the second day of the New Year. Where are the third brother and his wife? I haven't seen them for a year. I'm afraid I won't recognize them if I see them on the street."
Ning Shaoming stood up, stretched his muscles, and walked out of the room: "Sister, you are exaggerating. I am not a child with an unformed appearance."
"Hey," Ning Meiting looked around at her third brother and said jokingly, "I don't think it's an exaggeration. After a year away, you've become a lot stronger and whiter. You don't look like a piece of charcoal when standing next to your third brother and his wife!"
Ning Shaoming: "Don't you see what my son and daughter look like? They are so fair-skinned, which means I was originally fair-skinned too, but I got tanned from working in the fields!"
"Come on, these two kids are so good-looking, they probably inherited their looks from their younger siblings!"
Zhao Ruyue happened to come out with a few bags of things: "Sister, this is your family's share. It's a good thing that you came today, so I don't have to make another trip."
These are clothes prepared for my eldest sister-in-law's family.
In the past, our family was poor and we had a tight budget during the New Year. My eldest sister-in-law married a family that sold pork in town, so they had no shortage of meat. She knew the situation of her parents' home, so every year she would send back the meat that she would normally bring back on the second day of the New Year in advance.
The second son's family's clothes were given by her mother-in-law because Zhao Ruyue didn't like dealing with her second sister-in-law.
But she always kept in mind her elder sister-in-law's care for the family, and knowing that she would come to the house in advance to deliver the meat, she did not ask her mother-in-law to help deliver the clothes.
In addition to the clothes, she also took out a bag of divided New Year snacks and fruits, as well as dry goods in gift boxes.
Ning Meiting was really shocked when she saw so many things: "Why did you give me so much? You don't have to give me these, keep them for your family to eat during the New Year!"
"There's more at home," Ning Shaoming passed her by and stuffed it directly to the two nephews who came with her, "Shaoping, Shaoguang, take it, don't be polite with your uncle!"
The brothers Mo Shaoping and Mo Shaoguang happily filled their arms with the food, not caring about their mother who was yelling at them not to take any.
In the past, after their mother had sent meat to her grandmother's house in advance and returned home to have dinner with relatives during the New Year, there would always be people who would laugh at their mother in private, or ask her directly with ill intentions whether she had sent meat to her parents' house in advance this year and what gifts her parents' house had given her in return.
They brought back so many things this time, let’s see who dares to laugh at their mother!
Ning Meiting was very happy when she received the gifts.
In previous years, when she returned to her parents' home on the second day of the Chinese New Year, her parents would give her a chicken they raised themselves and some sweet cakes.
But she helped her parents' home more. She sent meat to her parents' home before the New Year and only brought a little bit of food on the second day of the New Year. It was embarrassing for her in-laws and it was not in accordance with the rules. Her in-laws would inevitably be unhappy.
This year, not only did the third brother pay back the money he had borrowed from her, he also gave her more money based on the price of meat, saying that the meat he brought back today was considered as his purchase, and Ning Meiting had no choice but to accept it.
I have given her family so many good things. This year she can finally hold her head high in her husband's family!
Ning Shaoming did not tell his eldest sister about his plan to divide the family business, but he explained to her that he was so busy after returning this year that he failed to tell her in advance. In the future, she would not have to send meat to the family in advance during the Chinese New Year.
In fact, it was normal for the family to live a tight life during those years when the whole family was supporting my second brother's studies. But after my second brother started working, if he had given a little back to the family, there would not be a need for his married daughter to bring meat back in advance to save face for her parents' family.
Ning Shaoming didn't know what his eldest and second brothers thought about this matter.
In the past, the couple were the youngest in their generation and had little say in the family. They had neither the right nor the ability to make decisions on matters at home, and they could not change them even if they felt embarrassed.
Now that the family business was about to be divided, he had the ability to give back, and he didn't want to embarrass his sister because of this kind of thing again.
No matter how others interact with the eldest sister's family in the future, he is unwilling to accept the meat that was delivered in advance.
That night, Ning Shaoming went to his parents' room before going to bed.
Ye Jing came out of the bathroom and happened to see them on her way back to the room. She was thinking about going over to listen to what they were saying, but she was a little hesitant.
As a result, while she was still struggling, Ning Shaoming had already come out.
In fact, Ning Shaoming also saw her, but it was quiet in the evening and no one else was around. As a brother-in-law, it was not convenient for him to go over and talk to his sister-in-law, so he pretended not to see her and walked away.
After Ning Shaoming walked away, Ye Jing hurried back to the room.
She looked at her husband who was about to fall asleep and wanted to shake him awake, but she remembered the argument they had on the day he just came back. This man's heart still leaned towards his parents and brothers.
In the end, Ye Jing didn't wake him up.
She thought to herself: Just wait and see, your third brother has already secretly discussed things with the old couple, it won’t be long before we see their true colors!
You will also clearly realize who your real family is!
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