Chapter 228 Who is causing trouble for whom?
"The house Houli lives in is just a bit high up." Su Xiumei curled her lips. "Gao Meifeng is such a calculating person. I told Houli to pick a lower floor so our mother could go up and down more easily, but Gao Meifeng refused and insisted on the sixth floor, saying it came with a loft that could hold a lot of things."
"Everything has its pros and cons. The sixth floor with a loft is not bad either. Don't interfere in other people's decisions," Liang Wencai advised. "My mother won't be there often, so they should live in the house."
How should I describe Su Xiumei? She has a bad temper and speaks harshly, but in essence, she is not a bad person.
He was also puzzled. She was not like this when she was young. She was gentle, generous and understanding. But as time went by, she became like this.
He was always grateful to her for marrying him, a widower with children, as an unmarried girl, even though he knew that she married him mostly for a city hukou.
Now that she has given birth to a daughter for him, he truly cares for everyone in this family. He must be good to his wife, and even better to his son and daughter.
"You are a good person." Su Xiumei glanced at Liang Kun and said nothing. The father and son have a good relationship. In front of Liang Kun, she should not criticize Liang Wencai.
Liang Kun lowered his head and rolled the dough without saying a word. If it weren't for the Chinese New Year, he wouldn't have wanted to come back.
In order to take care of Liang Zhenzhen, Xu Yuxiang and Su Xiumei lived in the master bedroom with their children, and Liang Wencai lived in his room. When he came back, the father and son squeezed into one bed.
After the New Year, when he got married, he couldn't live at home anymore because he had no place to stay.
It was the first time that Xu Yuxiang spent the New Year in an apartment building. She looked around and was very excited. Her favorite son finally lived in an apartment building.
Xue Yuxin was about to collapse.
As soon as the old woman came, the atmosphere in her house changed and it became two gangs.
Xu Yuxiang and Su Houli are on the same side, and Gao Meifeng is on the same side as her. A word or a look can provoke this old woman to nag.
Gao Meifeng privately told her that Xu Yuxiang passed away on the third day of the junior high school entrance examination, and asked her to be patient for a few days and pretend that the old woman did not exist.
Xue Yuxin couldn't stand Xu Yuxiang for a whole day any longer, so she went to the attic alone and didn't want to come down.
She wasn't Xu Yuxiang's biological granddaughter, and Xu Yuxiang didn't want to see her. While making dumplings, she started nagging Gao Meifeng about having a child: "After the New Year, you'll be 41 years old. You have to think about having a child quickly. Look at your sister. She listened to me and gave birth to Zhenzhen. Zhenzhen is almost a year old now."
"Mom, we have to go to work and make money. How can we have time to have a baby?" Gao Meifeng didn't want a child. Having a daughter, Xue Yuxin, was enough for her.
The main reason is that family planning is now strictly enforced. She has a city hukou and can only have one child. If she has another, she will be fined.
"Why do you work and earn money? Isn't it for your children?" Xu Yuxiang didn't know this and kept nagging, "How can you live without a child?"
"How can we not have a child? Yuxin is our child." Gao Meifeng was unhappy. She would not give birth even if she could.
Xu Yuxiang sneered: "Yuxin is your child, not Houli's. If you can't have children, what will happen to Houli in the future?"
She didn't believe that Xue Yuxin would support Su Houli in the future.
Su Houli must have his own children.
"Mom, you don't have to worry about these things. As for providing for your old age, Houli is not without children. Doesn't he have Su Jiaojiao?" Gao Meifeng couldn't help mentioning the house in the village when she mentioned Su Jiaojiao. "Houli has given her the house. When Houli gets old, it's her responsibility to provide for your old age."
"Although it's only natural for Jiaojiao to provide for Houli in his old age, she's a girl after all. We don't know where she'll marry in the future, so Houli needs a son." Xu Yuxiang felt it was necessary for her to explain this matter to Gao Meifeng. "Besides, if you marry into our family, you have to give birth to our children. Otherwise, why would we, Houli, go through so much trouble to marry you?"
"Did Houli marry me just to have children?" Gao Meifeng was so angry that she fell backwards. She turned her head and looked at Su Houli, "Su Houli, tell me, did you marry me just to have children?"
"It's New Year's Day, why are you saying these things?" Su Houli was very impatient. He was angry that Gao Meifeng had no tact. His mother was so old and it was the first time she spent New Year's Day with them. She was just nagging a few words and he just listened. Why did she keep nagging and going on and on?
"Did you understand? Who said this first?" Gao Meifeng glared at Su Houli. "I didn't say anything. It was your mother who kept nagging about having a child. Who did I offend? If I had known you were such a person, I wouldn't have married you!"
"It's too late!" Su Houli felt very annoyed. He stopped making dumplings and went back to the bedroom.
"Su Houli, where are you going until you finish making dumplings?" Gao Meifeng became even angrier and followed him into the bedroom, saying angrily, "If you don't make dumplings, I won't make them either. You go to work, and I go to work too. Why should I do the housework and you don't?"
"If you don't want to do it, then don't do it." Su Houli lay down on the bed. "At worst, I won't eat it. It's up to you!"
"I'm old and annoying." Xu Yuxiang stood at the door, looking at the two of them, wiping her tears and saying, "This is all my fault. I won't say anything. If you don't want to do it, just rest and I'll do it."
"Alright, alright." Su Houli couldn't stand Xu Yuxiang saying this. He got up from the bed and went back to the living room to continue making dumplings. "It's New Year's Day, let's be happy."
If it were a normal day, Gao Meifeng would have quit long ago, but today was New Year's Eve and Xue Yuxin was still at home, so she could only bear it and sit down quietly to work.
The more she thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt, and tears began to fall.
The mother and son pretended not to see anything and chatted among themselves, talking about village gossip.
Xu Yuxiang felt that Gao Meifeng was too pretentious and became unhappy after she said a few words. If it were Feng Yuefen or Chen Guilan, they would not be like her.
She and Feng Yuefen have been quarreling for half their lives, but she has never cried. When Chen Guilan encounters troubles, she will just keep silent and will never cry in front of her mother-in-law and husband.
After making the dumplings, Gao Meifeng went to the attic to find Xue Yuxin.
This attic is actually a storage room. The one right at the entrance is square enough to barely fit a bed. It has a window so it's not too dark, but the roofs of other places are sloping and you need to bend over to move around.
Xue Yuxin was lying on the bed reading a book. Apart from the bed, her room could only accommodate a small desk. After placing the desk, there was no place to put a chair, so she could only use the bed as a chair.
Seeing Gao Meifeng come in, Xue Yuxin said expressionlessly: "Have you taken good care of your mother-in-law and your husband?"
"What are you talking about?" Gao Meifeng lay down on the bed and said tiredly, "I'm in a bad mood. Don't upset your mother."
"You're in a bad mood, but I'm in a bad mood too!" Xue Yuxin got angry when she thought of Xu Yuxiang. "That old woman kept finding fault with me. She even said my eyes were small and not as pretty as Su Jiaojiao's. I was so angry. Su Jiaojiao is so good, why should she go find Su Jiaojiao? Why is she staying at our house?"
"Did she really say that?" Gao Meifeng was already in a bad mood, and after hearing what Xue Yuxin said, she felt even worse. She said angrily, "That damn old woman did it on purpose, deliberately making things difficult for us. She'll be in trouble in the future."
"She's your mother-in-law, what can you do to her?" Xue Yuxin sighed and shook her head. "I'd better come back less often. Even you've become a bullied daughter-in-law, let alone me, a burden."
“…” Gao Meifeng was speechless.
"Mom, will the old lady come to our house often in the future?" Xue Yuxin asked.
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