The aunt and sister-in-law talked about the issue of raising children for their daughter and successfully attracted An You to join the topic.
She forgot the suffering she had endured when giving birth to Xiang Youjun, and also forgot her promise not to have another child. She said enviously, "Second sister, I also want to give birth to a child as obedient as Chen Hua."
Chen Hua was born on the Dragon Boat Festival. In the county town, it is unlucky to be born on this day, and people born on this day are regarded as disaster stars.
In fact, there is a certain scientific basis for this. During the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather turns warmer, poisonous insects proliferate and can easily hurt people, and there are more funerals, so it is considered unlucky.
But how could Xiang's family treat Chen Hua as a disaster? He is a relative, the child that Xiang Meimei gave birth to with great difficulty.
Moreover, Chen Hua is very well-behaved, and his toothless smile is particularly healing.
Wang Chunting teased her sister-in-law, "In another six months, if you and Lidang work hard, you can give Youjun a sister and a son. That would be wonderful."
Xiang Meimei and Wang Chunting smiled at each other and made all kinds of jokes to the shy An You.
In half a year, the mourning period for Uncle Xiang Hongwen will be over, and there will be no problem for him to have another child.
An You had a baby after all, so she wasn't so shameless. She immediately responded to her sister-in-law: "Speaking of which, Youzhi is two and a half years old now. Sister-in-law, you should give Youfeng a brother or sister."
Xiang Youzhi was unable to have a child due to moles, so she had to undergo a caesarean section. The doctor told her that she could only get pregnant after three years.
Counting the days, once the mourning period for her uncle is over, Wang Chunting will be almost three years old, so there will be no worries about having a third child.
It's quite a coincidence that this mourning period hardly delays the opportunity to have a baby.
There's no need to talk about Xiang Meimei. When her uncle passed away, Chen Hua had been in her belly for several months. She couldn't just stop giving birth, right?
The only one who was delayed during this mourning period was the resentful Yin Gan, as his wife would be coming home a year later.
It doesn't matter. The Xiang family is happy for their daughter to get married a year later. It doesn't matter if the future son-in-law is not happy. His family knows his feelings, sympathizes with him, and is happy to see it happen.
After they had finished discussing the children's issues, Xiang Meimei sighed, "If you don't manage a household, you don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil, and salt are. Managing a household is a headache."
Ever since Mother Chen passed away, the burden of the Chen family has gradually fallen on the eldest daughter-in-law, Xiang Meimei.
Father Chen is a quiet man and is not cut out to be the head of the household, so he thinks that his elder sister-in-law is like a mother, and lets Xiang Meimei take care of the household, and he even pays household expenses to his daughter-in-law.
There is a reason for not dividing the family.
Although Chen Liang had a wife, Qiao Xin was like Fu Di Mo, and the two divorced. The child was buried with Chen Ma, so he was considered to have never started a family.
The family cannot be divided until the younger brother-in-law gets married. The earliest we can do so is to wait until the mourning period is over in three years and a wife is found for Chen Liang to have children before the Chen family can divide the family.
This is human nature. If Xiang Meimei enjoys the rights of a housekeeper, she must take on the responsibilities of a housekeeper.
Mother Chen passed away, and even her job was given to her eldest son's family because of her disgusting behavior towards her youngest daughter-in-law. So, will Chen Liang, the youngest son, just not care about him?
This is impossible, so the household chores fall on Xiang Meimei.
Managing the household is not difficult, Xiang Meimei is still capable of doing it. Her father-in-law has no job and does odd jobs to help take care of Chen Zhong. Her brother-in-law also has a job, so it's not a big problem.
But it had been less than half a year since Chen's mother passed away, and the Qiao family couldn't wait to get back together.
That’s right, it’s not Chen Liang himself who is in a hurry to get married, but his ex-wife Qiao’s family who can’t wait.
Qiao Xin's job was taken away by her parents and given to her younger brother. She gave her dowry to her younger brother as a gift to marry a wife, and then turned around and wanted to remarry Chen Liang.
After a round of searching in the marriage market, she found that all the people she found were bad-looking and far inferior to the Chen family.
But at this time, the people who liked Qiao Xin, Qiao Xin looked down on him; the people who Qiao Xin liked, he looked down on.
When the staff of the street office learned about her divorce, they first went to the Qiao family to mobilize them, and then tried to persuade Qiao's parents, and finally even forced her to go to the countryside.
Even though Qiao Xin had been rejected by the Chen family, she still had the nerve to discuss continuing their lives together. This time, the excuse she used was not the child, but that she was in mourning for her mother-in-law.
In ancient times, there were seven grounds for divorce and three grounds for not divorcing. The "seven grounds" referred to: disobeying parents, being childless, adultery, jealousy, having a serious illness, talking too much, and stealing.
The "three things not to leave" include: marrying someone but not having a place to go, mourning for three years after remarrying someone, and being poor at first but rich later. (Source: Baidu)
Qiao was thinking that she had mourned for her mother-in-law during her confinement period, even if it was only for a few days, she had actually kept vigil with the child in her arms. If she was willing to come back, Chen Liang should accept her and live a good life with her.
In fact, she didn't want to go to the countryside. The people introduced by the Qiao family were becoming more and more humble, and some even directly sold the old widower at a fixed price.
Under the relentless pressure from her parents and the neighborhood office, Qiao Xin finally remembered the kindness of the Chen family and went to the Chen family like crazy to make a scene. Once, she even went to Chen Liang's factory to cause trouble.
She made the incident known to everyone and even said that the Chen family divorced her while she was in mourning, which was not a fair thing to do.
If the two remarry, it will not be considered as marriage, and they will not have to observe the three-year mourning period for Chen Ma. How great is that, they will get a wife for free.
The Chen family was extremely annoyed and afraid that Qiao Xin's disgusting trick would succeed. Wouldn't it be nauseating if they could enter the house again?
During the three-year mourning period, Chen Liang cannot marry. If he marries, Qiao Xin will not be able to keep him company. Destroying someone else's family will be condemned by everyone.
The family couldn't think of a solution, so Xiang Meimei came to the Xiang family to express her worries.
Who wouldn’t be worried about having such a sister-in-law?
But Chen Liang's job is there, and he can't stop Qiao Xin from causing trouble.
Wang Chunting and An You looked at each other helplessly. Chen Liang could not get married. During the three-year mourning period, Qiao Xin must have grasped the hope tightly and there was no way to break the deadlock.
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