Seeing Xiaomei and her friends riding away, Yan Sisi asked her cousin curiously, "Brother, do you want to talk to me about something?"

He must have something to ask her, otherwise he wouldn't have run to the school gate to wait for her.

Yan Xiangdong smiled and said, "My dad asked you to come over for dinner. My second uncle and his family have already gone, so I'm here to pick you up. Now, let me ride the car!"

After saying that, he was about to take over Yan Sisi's bicycle.

Yan Sisi quickly let go of the handlebars of the bicycle and handed them over. After watching her cousin get on, she carefully sat on the back seat.

Yan Sisi felt the cold wind blowing in her face and couldn't help asking, "Brother, why did uncle suddenly think of inviting us to your house for dinner?"

I always feel a little nervous when I suddenly invite stingy people to dinner.

Yan Xiangdong's expression froze for a moment, and he stomped his foot hard and said, "How would I know that?"

Yan Sisi followed her cousin up to the second floor. Her uncle's house was only slightly bigger than hers. Before entering the house, Yan Xiangdong suddenly turned around and looked at Yan Sisi and asked, "Sisi, what if I were your brother?"

Yan Sisi felt very strange. Wasn't he always her brother? She looked at him in confusion and said, "Aren't you my brother? Why are you asking this suddenly?"

It's weird, why did he suddenly say such a thing?

Yan Xiangdong quickly turned his head back and said, "It's okay, go in!"

After saying that, he walked in first.

As soon as Yan Sisi entered, she heard the sound of a noisy crowd. She saw that her eldest cousin and second cousin were all at home. The small living room was full of people, and there were four children running around around.

Although the temperature in the room was much warmer than outside, the air was filled with a strong smell of cigarettes. Her two older brothers, who were already married, were pulling her father along to smoke and play cards.

Yan Sisi walked in and greeted everyone before she spotted her mother in the kitchen. She pulled her out and asked, "Mom, why are you helping out again? Did you know that uncle called us to dinner?"

After Yan Sisi finished speaking, she met the gaze of her aunt and shouted with a smile, holding her mother tightly in her hands to prevent her from going in. It was really the kind of person who would ask guests to cook when they were invited. Every time her mother came, she would be ordered around by her aunt.

Mother Yan wiped the water off her hands on her apron and said, "I don't know either. It was just that your cousin suddenly came to the door and said that your uncle wanted us to come for dinner."

"Is there going to be a happy event in my uncle's family?"

"It's possible. Your cousin is so old now, maybe he has a partner and is about to get married. You just need to be responsible for eating, and I will go in and help for a while." Yan's mother guessed, patted her daughter's hand, and went to the kitchen to help.

Yan Sisi helplessly watched her mother go to help again. She couldn't understand why her mother always took the initiative to help.

She was standing there bored. Just as she was about to go to her cousin Yan Qianqian to find out what was going on, she was approached by her eldest cousin's two children before she could leave. "Aunt, did you bring any delicious food?"

Yan Sisi squatted down, touched their heads and said, "Auntie came in a hurry today and forgot to bring it. I'll bring it to you next time!"

"Okay, then give me a hug, Auntie!"

"No, Auntie has to hold me first."

"I said it first, Auntie, hold me first." The two children surrounded Yan Sisi, trying hard to fight for their own position. Soon the other two children also ran over.

Seeing this, Yan Sisi could only comfort the children one by one. She held each one for a while before she could finally comfort them all. By the time the children had calmed down, dinner was ready.

Yan Sisi was pulled by her mother to a small table in the kitchen, and sat in the kitchen to eat with the other children, Yan Qianqian, and the eldest and second cousins. All the people sitting in the living room outside were men.

At her uncle's house, women are not allowed to eat at the same table with men. She didn't know where they learned this feudal practice, so she never liked coming to her uncle's house.

Yan Sisi was eating the mixed-grain steamed bun in her hand. On the table were basically boiled radishes and boiled cabbage. The only meat was a small fish. The big fish was on the table of her father and his family.

Yan Sisi was only halfway through her meal when she heard a sound of something hitting the ground outside. She got startled, and then she heard her father say loudly, "Impossible."

Yan Sisi put down her chopsticks and ran out quickly. She saw her father stood up angrily. Her cousins ​​beside her also stood up and ran over to ask, "Dad, what's wrong?"

When Yan's father saw his young lady, he suppressed his anger for fear of scaring her, called his wife and prepared to leave, but Yan Xiangdong knelt down and stopped him where he was.

Yan Sisi hadn't figured out the situation at all. She stared blankly at her cousin kneeling in front of her father and listened to him say, "Second Uncle, didn't you say you always treated me as your son? Now that I can be your son, why don't you agree?"

Yan Sisi repeated blankly: "As a son?"

After saying that, he turned to look at his father and asked subconsciously: "Dad, is my cousin your son?"

Father Yan's eyes widened in anger at the question, and he used his uninjured hand to hit the daughter on the head, "What nonsense are you talking about all day long? I have other children besides you, and your uncle wants to adopt your cousin to our family."

Yan Sisi covered her head, which had been hit, and then she realized that she had made a joke. She looked down at her cousin who was still kneeling on the ground, and suddenly thought of what he said when he came in. She deliberately turned her head to look at her uncle who was standing aside and asked, "Why? Uncle is so cruel that he doesn't even want his own child?"

"How can you talk like that, kid? You are the only girl in your family. How are you going to take care of your father in his old age? If your cousin takes over, your father will have a successor. What's wrong with that?" Yan Aidang said unhappily after hearing that. He was willing to let his own child be adopted, but the second cousin's family didn't even appreciate it. It really wasted his good intentions.

"Brother, I told you yesterday that I would never agree to this. What on earth are you trying to do by doing this today?" Father Yan looked at his elder brother with a headache, wondering what was going on in his mind? Did he think that he would agree to this in front of so many people? This was absolutely impossible.

Yan Aidang suddenly wiped his face and said to his younger brother, "Aiguo, I have no choice. I have to raise so many children by myself. I am powerless. The third child is also getting married. He has a partner, but the partner requires him to have a job before agreeing to marry. There are so many people in our family who need to feed. How can we afford to buy him a job?"

Yan Aidang sat down on the stool and said shamelessly: "I have no choice. It just so happens that your arm is injured. I will pass my son to you. He will take over your job and support you in your old age. If he doesn't care about you in the future, I won't care even if you beat him to death."

Yan Aiguo was shocked by his elder brother's actions. He went through so much trouble just for his job. He said angrily, "So many people in your family have jobs, but you can't even afford to buy a job for Xiangdong. Do you think anyone will believe you when you say this?"

"You are the only one in your family, how can you understand our hardships? The eldest family has five people, the second family has five people, plus the third, fourth and fifth children, they are all mouths to feed, and the monthly salary is not enough to cover the food expenses." Yan Aidang pointed at the people standing in the room, counting them one by one, and then cried, "Our family was allocated such a small house, and the third child will have no place to live when he gets married."

Yan Sisi felt that it was indeed tragic, but what did it have to do with her family? Who asked her family to have so many children? If she had so many children, she should be responsible.

Yan Aiguo knew that his eldest brother's family had many children and high expenses, so he had let them take advantage of some of the small benefits before. But now it was too much to want to stuff a living person into their house.

Seeing her husband remained silent, Yan's mother thought he was moved. You know, in rural areas, adopting children is a very normal thing, but she couldn't accept a person who was not her own child living in their home. She stood up and said, "His uncle is such a big deal, can you just adopt him if you say so? Xiangdong, don't kneel down. I tell you clearly that our family will not adopt anyone's children. Don't blame my aunt for being cruel."

Yan Xiangdong looked up at his usually gentle auntie, "Auntie, I really have no other choice. Please help me!"

Mother Yan looked at him with a look of dismay and said, "This can't be solved with help. Your second uncle has to keep his job. Without a job, how can he support us all?"

Yan Xiangdong knelt on the ground and promised: "Auntie, I just want a job. I don't want to give you a penny of the salary. I will return the job to my second uncle after my girlfriend's family agrees and we get married."

After hearing this, Yan Sisi's impression of her cousin dropped to the lowest level. She said angrily, "What's the difference between what you did and marriage fraud?"

She thought her cousin had some backbone, but she didn't expect him to be such a person who would come up with such a low-level method for work.

Yan Xiangdong shook his head helplessly and said, "Isn't it that I have no other choice? How can this be a marriage fraud?"

Yan Xiangdong looked at his second uncle's family who had no response after he had begged for a long time. His family didn't help him, and his second uncle's family didn't help him either. He knelt down and offered his help, but they still rejected him. He didn't need to look up to know that the other brothers looked down on him, but what else could he do?

Without a job, he has no partner, and without a partner, he has no home of his own.

The eldest and second sons' families both bought jobs, but when it was his turn, he got nothing. Why? Was it because he was easy to bully and talk to? So even if he knelt down, he couldn't get what he wanted.

Yan Sisi looked at her cousin with red eyes and couldn't help but say, "If you don't have a job, find a part-time job. When you have saved some money, borrow some money to buy a job. You want to take my dad's job by kneeling down. How can such a good thing be possible?"

She had seen families that were even poorer than her uncle's, but they were also working hard to survive with their own hands. She didn't believe that her cousin, a grown man, would not be able to survive as long as he was willing to work hard. He just wanted to get things ready-made without working hard for himself.

Not to mention, starting from next year, the country's policies will become increasingly relaxed, so you won't starve to death if you run a small business then.