Chapter 169: Your sister-in-law seems to have grown a brain
Jiang Hao ordered four bowls of egg noodles, each with a poached egg, two cut salted duck eggs, and a small plate of kimchi and pickled radish. He then brought the food to the living room table. Seeing the three people still sitting around the stove without moving, he said helplessly, "Hurry up and eat. We'll warm up by the fire after dinner."
Liu Cuihua took the small stool and moved it to the side of the table. "It's coming, it's coming. Why are you rushing me?"
Jiang Hao picked up the noodles in the bowl and said, "Mom, how has things been going at home these past few months?"
Liu Cuihua ate a mouthful of duck egg yolk and said happily, "This salted duck egg is from the one I pickled. Oh, it's really good. It's full of oil.
Everything is going well at home. This year, our brigade's hunting team managed to get a few beehives, and I exchanged them for some honey and bee pupae.
Your father fried the bee pupae and used them as a side dish for his wine. They were delicious. I brought two cans of honey. Don't forget to bring one over when you visit your grandfather this afternoon."
Jiang Dong ate the egg noodles in his bowl and nodded in delight. "Yes, yes, honey water is so sweet. My mother also bought half a can of it, so I can drink it every day. By the way, Uncle Wu, did you know that my father has also been transferred to Beijing? He has been here for several months. Grandma said that he can still celebrate the New Year with us this year."
Jiang Hao nodded. "I know. Big Brother told me before. He even had someone send me a lot of local specialties given to him by his comrades from other places."
Mentioning Jiangdong's specialties makes her angry, and she secretly complains, "It's about the sac, milk slices, milk skin, etc., which she also sent to my mother. She only sent three in total. There are 30 or 40 milk slices in a small packet. My mother gave most of them to my grandmother and others, especially the milk slices, and only left me about ten. I still can't eat enough."
Liu Cuihua sighed, "Your father knows what your mother is like, so he sends less to her. My side isn't much either, but I have your share too, so you haven't eaten less."
Jiang Dong was still furious. "I just can't get over it. My uncles often come to my grandmother's house to steal things from my mother. Whenever my mother takes me to my grandmother's house, they always say bad things about me. My cousins and others also want to bully me and steal my things, but my mother doesn't stand by me and always asks me to give in to them."
Jiang Hao spoke frankly, "Your mother is actually very good to you. You don't often visit your grandma. Maybe your mother just doesn't want you to have conflicts with your uncles."
Shi Luo: "Indeed, your mother treats you very well. By the way, why didn't your mother come with you to celebrate the New Year with your father this time?"
Jiang Dong finished his last mouthful of noodles and said, "My grandma is sick, so my mom went back to take care of her. That's why she didn't come with me."
Jiang Hao looked at Liu Cuihua and raised his eyebrows.
Liu Cuihua sighed, "I wanted Dongdong's mother to come with me, but it just so happened that her grandmother was really sick and couldn't even get out of bed. I heard she's been sick for almost two months. I went to see her before I came, and she looked like she was dying. The doctor said she would have at most three months to live, and at the earliest one month."
Jiang Hao: "He's almost dying, why is Dongdong still here? He's a grown-up grandson, shouldn't he and his mother visit his grandmother more often?"
Seeing that everyone had finished eating, Shi Luo stood up and picked up the dishes. Jiang Dong followed him and went to the kitchen with the plates.
Liu Cuihua and Jiang Hao took their snacks and water jars and went to sit on the kang in the house.
Liu Cuihua sat cross-legged on the kang, and seeing that her eldest grandson was still in the kitchen, she lowered her voice and said,
"Dongdong and his mother went to visit his grandmother every day for about half a month. One day, Li Qian came with money and food and asked me to help take care of the child. I didn't want the child to go there for the rest of his life, so I thought it would be enough for the child to visit every now and then, so I agreed without asking why.
A few days later, Li Qian came to me coyly and told me that her mother saw that she only had one child and hadn't had any in years and was afraid that she wouldn't be able to have any more in the future, so she wanted her to adopt her brother's son so that Dongdong could have a companion.
Jiang Hao was disgusted when he heard this. "What the hell is the old lady of the Li family thinking? Not to mention that my eldest brother has a child, even if he didn't, there's no way he would adopt her child. Oh my God, she's so sick that she can't get out of bed. Can't she just be quiet and stop making trouble?"
Liu Cuihua curled her lips and continued, "Your sister-in-law is quite clear about this matter. She refused on the spot. Later, the old woman refused to agree no matter how much she tried to persuade her.
And your sister-in-law seemed to have some brains. She was afraid that if she refused this, the old lady of the Li family and her idiot brother would harm Dongdong. Later, when she went back to her parents' home, she never brought Dongdong with her. Later, when she heard that I was coming here, she took the initiative to let me bring Dongdong with me.
Alas, in fact, your sister-in-law has not been pregnant for so many years, and the reason is your eldest brother. At the beginning, your sister-in-law had trouble giving birth and suffered heavy bleeding. If your eldest brother had not been on vacation at home and was worried and insisted on going to the hospital to give birth, your sister-in-law would probably have died.
Later, your elder brother was also frightened by this incident. After your sister-in-law finished her confinement, he went to the hospital to have a sterilization operation. He was also afraid that your sister-in-law would get pregnant again and give birth to a child, which would cause trouble.
Alas, he had the surgery without telling us. He said that if he hadn't been afraid that I would look for folk remedies for your sister-in-law to help her get pregnant because she hadn't been able to get pregnant for a long time, he wouldn't have told us after the surgery. Later, when I mentioned this to your sister-in-law, she said that she hadn't been able to get pregnant for a long time and wanted to go to the hospital to get some medicine. So your brother told her that he had a vasectomy.
"Grandma, look at the duck leg my uncle gave me, it's so delicious." Jiang Dong ran over with the duck leg he had taken a bite of. He climbed onto the kang without any hesitation and started to eat it.
Liu Cuihua was afraid that her grandson would choke, so she poured him a glass of water from a jar and said, "You just finished your meal, can you still eat more?"
Jiang Dong ate without even raising his head. "Don't worry, grandma, I can definitely eat it. Oh, I haven't eaten meat so happily in a long time."
Shi Luo also finished cleaning up and sat opposite Jiang Hao, "Godmother, you two can take a nap later."
Liu Cuihua: "Why are you sleeping? No, you guys should go to work soon. I'll take Dongdong out for a walk."
Jiang Hao: "Mom, why do we need to go to work? We have already applied for leave, and with the annual leave, we can stay for many days."
Liu Cuihua slapped Jiang Hao hard and said, "Oh, how much money must have been lost? You little brat just don't know how to live."
Jiang Hao rubbed his aching shoulder and said with a smile, "Mom, who can stand working every day? It's just right that you come and I can take a few more days off. I've almost been to all of Beijing. Wherever you want to go, we can go together."
Liu Cuihua: "I've had enough of working. You're incredibly lazy. If I had this job, I could work it all day long."
Jiang Hao: "Hey mom, where do you want to go? I'll take you there later."
Liu Cuihua: "Let's go to the department store and buy some things. Then we'll visit your grandfather in the evening."
Shi Luo: "Okay, I'll buy you and your godfather another set of clothes. By the way, did you receive the New Year gifts that Brother Jiang and I mailed to you?"
Liu Cuihua nodded while munching on some melon seeds. "I got it. I also received the one your eldest brother sent. By the way, when are we going to see your new house? We'll stay at your eldest brother's for three days during the New Year holiday. If he can't come out, we'll go over. He wrote that the family housing he applied for has been approved and is ready."
Jiang Hao was puzzled and curious, "Big brother wants Big sister-in-law and others to join the army."
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