"It's okay. I've already told my mother. She needs to stay home to take care of her grandson and doesn't have time to go to the hospital to be with him."
"I see," Qin Xiaoling nodded. "Alright, let's go back now. I'll explain things to Guanping and Guanhong."
"Okay."
Wang Tianxiao straddled the motorcycle, keeping a very slow distance and keeping pace with his mother-in-law.
The mother-in-law was also very curious about the motorcycle, but Wang Tianxiao claimed it belonged to a friend. The mother-in-law had no concept of the price of such things, so she didn't pay much attention.
After passing two different locations, we arrived back at the entrance of my mother-in-law's courtyard.
My mother-in-law's family used to live in a pit-yard house, but a flood submerged the yard, and even their only donkey drowned in the pit. So the family moved to the plateau.
The newly built house has rammed earth walls and a gate made of wooden planks. Through the wooden gate, you can see several chicks running around inside.
My mother-in-law's family has a total of six children, three sons and three daughters.
The eldest son, Li Guanlin, has gotten married and moved out of the family, but he still lives in the courtyard and has not opened up a separate courtyard.
Li Yali is the second child and is already married.
The third child is Li Yaqin, who is also married.
The fourth brother is named Li Guanping. He is the same age as Wang Tiancheng, both eighteen years old.
The fifth child is named Li Yamei, a fifteen-year-old girl who is still in junior high school.
The youngest son is named Li Guanhong, he is ten years old and still in elementary school.
The Li family was also very surprised to see Wang Tianxiao, especially the children, who felt they had only seen him a few times.
They were a little shy when they saw Wang Tianxiao. Li Guanhong and Li Yamei hid in their room and didn't dare to come out. Li Guanping just stood next to his father, called him "brother-in-law," and smiled sheepishly.
The Li family's children were all quite good, especially Li Guanping and Li Guanhong, who were both very honest and hardworking men. Later, both of them became well-known bricklayers.
Li Yamei's life was full of twists and turns.
This child had good grades, but dropped out of school because she didn't have money. Later, she hastily married someone, only to find out he was an abusive man. After the divorce, she married another man, who was also a gambler.
After raising his two children to adulthood with great difficulty, the man had basically stopped gambling, but he died of lung cancer in his fifties.
"Tianxiao hasn't returned to work yet?" Li Wanfu was repairing a wooden bench. He was a carpenter and very good at tidying up things.
Wang Tianxiao was at home when he last visited Li Yali.
So Wang Tianxiao told his father-in-law that he had been transferred back and that Li Yali was about to give birth in the hospital. Li Wanfu listened and nodded, and when he heard that Li Yali was about to give birth, a kind and joyful smile appeared on his face.
"...So, I discussed it with my aunt and asked her to go and help take care of things for a few days."
"Then go ahead. There's nothing much going on at home. I'll come see you again after the baby is born."
Li Guanhong and Li Yamei also ran out and stood beside their mother. "Mother, my eldest sister is about to give birth. I want to go see her too."
"I want to go too."
"What are you going to do? The baby hasn't been born yet," Qin Xiaoling said with a smile.
"I really want to go! I haven't seen my older sister in so long," Li Guanhong said coquettishly.
"obedient."
"I don't."
"Alright, alright, how about this, we won't go today. After the baby is born, brother-in-law can come and pick up Ya Mei and Guan Hong to see your sister and nephew, okay?"
Li Wanfu also made the two children obey, and they reluctantly agreed.
After settling in, Wang Tianxiao tied the clothes his mother-in-law had brought to the back of the motorcycle, and then secretly slipped two hundred yuan to his father-in-law when the children weren't looking.
This is a spare coin he prepared in advance, with denominations of ten and five yuan, for his convenience.
The father-in-law was already finding it hard to understand why Wang Tianxiao rode a motorcycle, but now he was being offered so much money. He was so shocked that his hands trembled, and he kept saying that he couldn't accept it.
But Wang Tianxiao still went to great lengths to get him to accept it.
Now that his own life is better, he naturally wants to make sure that those who have been kind to him also have a better life.
He's only giving them some money now; later, he'll gradually pave the way for his sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, helping them to study, start businesses, and eventually live happy lives.
Of course, he also instructed his father-in-law not to tell the children about giving them money.
It's best to subsidize household expenses quietly.
My brother-in-law, Li Guanlin, is like a vampire. He's a miser and doesn't spend a penny, but he keeps clinging to my parents and sucking their blood. Even though we've separated from the family, he doesn't go out to live with them and just stays at home.
He's a cold-blooded and shrewd man. If he knew his father had those two hundred yuan, he would have tried every means to take it away or get a portion of it for himself.
Wang Tianxiao also had strong opinions about Li Guanlin's family.
I don't like them.
In my previous life, my father-in-law died young, and when my mother-in-law was in her sixties, she accidentally fell and her ribs pierced her lung, causing her to be paralyzed and unable to move for a long time.
Logically, with their mother in this condition, the three daughters should take turns caring for her daily needs, while the sons should be responsible for some of the expenses.
But Li Guanlin refused to contribute a single penny, claiming that his son, Li Mingqiang, needed to go to school and the family had no income.
What's even more outrageous is that even after his mother-in-law passed away, when it came to the cost of the funeral, Li Guanlin still maintained a "what's the worst that can happen?" attitude, as if he simply didn't have any money.
In the end, the remaining five companies split the cost equally.
However, according to the customs of Qingcheng, once a daughter is married, she becomes part of another family, and the accounts between her and her maternal family must be settled.
The saying "a married daughter is like water spilled from a bowl" illustrates this point.
Because the bride price was very high and the dowry was very small when the daughter got married, it was as if the daughter was being given away all at once.
This is a bad habit, but it is also a custom.
Sometimes, a son-in-law goes bankrupt trying to get married, so it's really difficult for him to treat his father-in-law and mother-in-law as family.
The daughter, whose parents had taken all the money from her new home, was having a hard time and inevitably harbored some resentment towards them.
This custom gradually improved over time.
As the saying goes, "If the upper beam is crooked, the lower beam will be crooked too." This is true for Li Guanlin, and it is also true for his two children.
Both children grew up with their grandmother, but after the granddaughter got married, she never visited her grandmother when she went back to her parents' home. The grandson was even more outrageous; he didn't go home when his grandmother passed away because he was on his honeymoon.
All I can say is that this family is extremely cold-hearted.
People like Wang Tianxiao, who are warm-hearted, are completely incompatible.
Li Wanfu naturally understood his son-in-law's meaning. Seeing that he couldn't refuse, he carefully wrapped the money in his "ancestral" black handkerchief, put it in the pocket of his inner clothes, and gently pressed it down with his hand.
In this era, anyone traveling would definitely have a pocket made of their inner clothing to hold money.
There are just too many thieves.
Often, if you walk from south to north through the market, you can get a five-pointed star drawn on your clothes pocket.
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