Zhu Chunzhi was scolded so badly that a woman in her 50s or 60s leaned over to persuade her great aunt: "Dear relatives, you can't say that. We are all family. Your niece is here, and you are not here. Are you asking us to just stand there? We are also considered as maternal and paternal relatives. It is the same if we come to receive her."

My cousin's aunt said, "Don't give me that! Who is your family? Who knows you? This is my niece. She has nothing to do with you. Don't pretend to be nice!"

"Oh dear, don't be like this, listen to me..."

There was no end to the story. The second cousin's aunt pulled the first cousin's aunt and said, "Don't talk nonsense with them. The child must be tired after coming all the way here. It's like a vent here. Go home first!"

"Yes, let's go home! Huahua, hey, this is your son-in-law, right? Let's go home and talk to you in detail."

"Okay, let's ask my cousin and the others to go back together." Meng Tao said.

Zhu Chunzhi actually led her astray and made her call an irrelevant person "Aunt" several times, which annoyed her. She had to call Zhu Manjin over so that she wouldn't recognize the wrong aunt again.

Zhu Chunzhi also hurriedly followed and tried to hold Meng Tao's arm, but Meng Tao dodged. Shen Yu gave her a cold glance, and Zhu Chunzhi shuddered inexplicably, retracted his hand involuntarily, and retreated to the back.

A group of people returned to Zhu Manjin's house and got to know each other again. Zhu Manjin and Zhu Manyin were brothers. Zhu Manjin was adopted by Zhu's great-grandfather and his wife. The two brothers were also cousins ​​and took care of each other. The two courtyards were adjacent and the same size. The population on both sides was also similar, with six children each. Li Manjin married off his two daughters, and Li Manyin also married off his eldest daughter. They both became grandfathers and grandmothers, but not grandfathers. Both sides had sons who were of marriageable age, but for various reasons, they were unable to find wives.

Meng Tao was asked to sit on the kang. In front of her was placed hot tea, peanuts, red dates and boiled eggs on the kang table. Her two cousins ​​warmly invited her to eat. These were specially prepared because they knew she was coming.

Meng Tao looked at her cousins ​​who were standing around and smiling at her, and she picked up some peanuts and red dates to share with everyone. The gifts she brought were in the car and it seemed that she had not taken them back yet.

Listening to my eldest cousin Wang Guilan and second cousin Zhang Zhaodi talking, I finally understood why they hated Zhu Chunzhi's in-laws' relatives so much.

Zhu Chunzhi's husband's family also lives in this village. Their surname is Ma, and they are outsiders who moved here many years ago. No one knows what that family thinks. They all make a living from the land, but they think they are superior to the Zhu family, as if marrying into the Zhu family would lower their status. But after Zhu Chunzhi got married, she actually became like her husband's family and looked down on her own family. In Zhang Zhaodi's words, in the old days, people would think she had married into a wealthy and powerful family.

Chunzhi's in-laws' aunt, the Wang family, was also an outsider who moved here with her. There was a girl in the Wang family named Wang Aixiang, who was pretty. She fell in love with Zhu Manjin's son, Zhu Chunlin, Chunzhi's younger brother, and took the initiative to pursue him and started a free love relationship. They dated semi-publicly for two years. Chunlin learned carpentry skills and was quite good. He could earn some money by making furniture for others in his spare time. Before he and Wang Aixiang were dating, he gave all the money to his family. After they started dating, most of the money was given to Wang Aixiang so that she could buy her favorite things.

The Wang family had originally disagreed with Wang Aixiang looking for Zhu Chunlin, as they disliked the Zhu family because they had too many children and were too poor. Wang Aixiang was able to take the initiative to break up with Zhu Chunlin, and the Wang family was very happy. They immediately stopped Zhu Chunlin, and Wang Aixiang's brother and several cousins ​​beat Zhu Chunlin up and threatened him not to look for Wang Aixiang again.

Zhu Chunlin went home in disgrace, and the Zhu family was not happy about it. The father, son, and mother went over to make a scene. First, the two families started to curse at each other, and then Chunzhi's in-laws joined in and fully supported the Wang family. Even Zhu Chunzhi stood on the opposite side, stopping and shouting at her family to go back and stop embarrassing themselves! The Zhu family was extremely disappointed with Zhu Chunzhi, and Wang Guilan almost fainted on the spot. She wanted to rush over and beat this eldest daughter who forgot her parents and brothers after getting married to death.

Since then, the Zhu family, the Ma family, and the Wang family have been at odds with each other for more than half a year. They have not had any contact with each other. When they meet on the road, they just pretend not to see each other. The men don't talk to each other, and the women will quarrel and fight with each other if they don't agree with each other.

"Even after all this, the Ma and Wang families still have the nerve to think of themselves as relatives of our Zhu family, rushing to welcome the distinguished guests from the capital. They are so thick-skinned! No one can be compared to them!"

Zhang Zhaodi slapped her thigh and cursed, her face flushed with excitement.

"Isn't it? Just wait and see, the Ma family will be here soon. We have to ask Chunshan and the others to stop them and make sure they are not allowed in! That stupid Chunzhi... let's ignore her this time, even if she cries!" Wang Guilan said to Zhang Zhaodi.

Meng Tao looked at them and thought that the two sisters-in-law got along well and could discuss things with each other.

Outside, because the jeep could not enter the village lane, it could only be parked at the brigade headquarters. Liu Jianli and Xu Yuting led the boys of the Zhu family to move things out of the car. In addition to the things brought from Beijing, they also randomly bought some things in the provincial capital and the regional city, including travel bags filled with naan, wooden boxes, cardboard boxes, net bags, and two thin linen bags that Meng Taolin released from the space when he got off the car. There were a total of more than ten items, which were carried heavily to the Zhu family. Everyone who saw them along the way was envious, and some were so greedy that they wanted to grab them. They were Zhu Chunzhi's in-laws.

These people were stopped outside the Zhu family's door. Even Zhu Chunzhi's husband Ma Guishan was not allowed to enter. He brought his two children and said he came to help his father-in-law's family greet guests, but was directly pushed out by Zhu Chunshan's brothers and was turned away.

Zhu Chunzhi had the same experience. She had no choice but to go find her younger sister Chunxing, who was married in a nearby village, thinking that she could go in together with Chunxing. However, Zhu Chunhe, who was in charge of opening and closing the door, was not blind. He knew that his mother had already ordered not to let her elder sister in. Chunhe also blamed his elder sister for not knowing how to distinguish between near and far, so he stopped Chunzhi with a cold face and refused to let her in.

Chunzhi watched Chunxing, his wife and the child enter the house smoothly. The house was full of laughter and joy. She was anxious and said to Chunhe, "Fourth brother, just let my eldest sister in. When guests come, we have to boil water and cook. You know that our mother is reluctant to use oil when cooking. The food she makes tastes like pig food. Don't neglect the guests. My eldest sister's cooking is delicious. Let her go to the kitchen to work! We don't have anything to entertain guests, right? Ask your eldest brother-in-law to bring a chicken and a few pounds of flour later!"

(End of this chapter)