Chapter 184 Family Dinner

Jiang Duo frowned, but Mingzhu went out to greet him with a smile: "Aunt? Why are you here?"

Hou Xiaoqing held Mingzhu's hand and said with a smile: "I came to see you, to see how enthusiastic my nephew's wife is, and then look at my eldest nephew. Tsk tsk, Xiaoduo, you look so gloomy, don't you welcome aunt?"

Jiang Duo put down the bucket in his hand, and his face returned to the serious look he had when facing his family in the past. He said lightly: "No, aunt, you should not just come to see us."

Hou Xiaoqing was speechless for a while. This child is always so straightforward.

"You are so smart. Isn't your mother here? I heard that she came here yesterday. You and your mother had a quarrel and didn't say a word. Your uncle was worried and sent me to pick you two up to go home for dinner."

Hearing this, Mingzhu pursed her lips and said, "Aunt, I won't go. There are a lot of things waiting for me to do at home. Let Jiang Duo go by himself."

Hou Xiaoqing was about to say something, but Jiang Duo said faster, "No, I don't have time."

Hou Xiaoqing hissed, "What do you mean I don't have time? You are resting today. Don't think I don't know. And you, Zhuzhu, no matter how busy you are, you have to wait until another day. Today is a family dinner. You are Jiang Duo's wife and you can't be absent."

Mingzhu likes Hou Xiaoqing's personality was different, so she didn't hold back in front of her: "Aunt, I met my aunt yesterday, she doesn't like me. Even if I went to the family dinner, I would just be a nuisance. I don't like to live my life by pleasing others, so let Jiang Duo go by himself."

She looked at Jiang Duo again and shook his arm gently: "You haven't seen your mother for a long time, you have to do your filial duty. You go, and you can water the vegetable garden when you come back in the afternoon."

Jiang Duo said calmly: "No."

Hou Xiaoqing looked at the young couple who followed her husband's lead, and once again lamented her elder sister-in-law's meddling. If she hadn't been on a mission, she would definitely support the two children in ignoring her.

She took Mingzhu's hand and patted it, "Zhuzhu, look, if you don't go, he won't go either, so I'm going for nothing. You're going to visit your aunt, not your mother-in-law. Just give your aunt some face and go. You'll be at my house for a while. You don't have to look at your mother-in-law's face. Do whatever you want, okay?"

Mingzhu was not afraid of Fang Shuyu's face, but she didn't want Jiang Duo to be caught between her mother and daughter-in-law.

But Jiang Duo was stubborn. In order to give herself a sense of security, she didn't go either. If the news spread in his family, she would become a troublemaker who disturbed the discord between the mother and son in the Jiang family.

Jiang Duo was about to refuse again, but Mingzhu nodded: "Okay, I still have to give face to my aunt. Then you sit for a while, aunt, I will clean up with Jiang Duo."

"Okay, by the way, I brought gifts for you," she said, turning back and waving to the driver, who immediately took out two barrels of maltose, two bags of peach cakes, a large cloth bag of snacks, and a large piece of pork from the car.

Mingzhu knew that maltose was a good thing in this era, and she refused for a while, but Hou Xiaoqing insisted that she keep it, otherwise it would be a loss of face for her, so she didn't say anything.

Hou Xiaoqing went to wait in the car, and Jiang Duo and Mingzhu went back to the house to change clothes.

As soon as Jiang Duo entered the room, he said, "If you don't want to go, you don't have to go."

Mingzhu lowered her voice and said, "Aunt is here now. If we don't go, she will lose face. I can ignore your mother, but Aunt is a nice person and I don't want to disappoint her."

Jiang Duo thought about it and said nothing more.

Jiang Duo specially changed into the new clothes that Mingzhu made for him.

After he changed, Mingzhu helped him tidy up and asked him to go out first, fill a large bottle of chili sauce she made, take the tofu that Song Ke brought today, and go to the yard to pick some vegetables that grew particularly well.

Jiang Duo agreed and went out.

Mingzhu entered the room, took a good bath, and after coming out smelling fragrant, she also changed into the new autumn clothes she had made a few days ago.

She wore a white lace shirt on the upper body, and a high-waisted green and bright yellow flowered mid-length modified version of a horse-faced skirt. This kind of slippery and slightly shiny fabric was mostly used by wealthy families to make quilt tops for weddings in this era.

When Mingzhu first went to the supply and marketing cooperative, she thought that the color and hardness would be good for making a horse-faced skirt, so she bought it directly.

She hung her hair into a high ponytail, changed into a pair of white leather shoes, turned around in front of the mirror, and felt that she had a good aura, so she went out.

Hou Xiaoqing, who was talking to Jiang Duo by the car, was even more surprised when she saw Mingzhu.

She walked over, looked around Mingzhu and praised: "Zhuzhu, where did you buy this dress? It's so beautiful."

"Aunt, I made it myself."

Hou Xiaoqing was a little shocked. She looked at her clothes and then looked back at Jiang Duo's clothes. They were all styles she had never seen before, and they were all so different.

"Just now Xiaoduo said that the clothes he was wearing were also made by you. You have such a skill, it's amazing."

Mingzhu smiled lightly: "If Aunt likes it, I will also tailor a set for you some other day."

Hou Xiaoqing nodded without hesitation: "I like it, I like it very much."

Mingzhu gave a ring finger: "Then let's arrange it."

On the way, Jiang Duo sat in the co-pilot seat, Mingzhu and Hou Xiaoqing sat in the back seat, the two of them chatted very well, and chattered all the way.

Speaking of Fang Shuyu, Hou Xiaoqing didn't care that Jiang Duo was sitting in front of her, and said directly: "Your mother-in-law is like that. She thinks her son is great, and she is afraid of people talking about her if she marries a rural daughter-in-law. Her face is more important than her life, but she is actually not a bad person."

Mingzhu nodded and said nothing.

Her attitude towards others has always depended on others' attitude towards herself. When

the car drove into the military district family compound, Mingzhu realized that there were differences between family compounds.

The family compound where they lived was all bungalows, earthen houses, and low courtyard walls. Except that the lights and water were more convenient than in the village, the rest were similar.

But the family compounds here, the lower-level ones live in the four-story buildings in front, and the higher-level ones like Fang Shuhuai live directly in single-family villas.

Really... you don't know until you compare, and you'll be shocked.

When several people got off the car, Hou Xiaoqing saw that only Fang Minglang came out to greet them, and she was a little unhappy at the first moment.

She had gone to great lengths to invite everyone over, but in the end, the Fang family's siblings... none of them were thoughtful and didn't come out to greet them. Isn't this embarrassing for her?

Fang Minglang saw the car arrive and immediately came to greet it.

When he saw Mingzhu, who was dressed beautifully and full of aura, getting off the car, he had already convinced himself that he would not look at Mingzhu any more than a polite greeting. But he was instantly attracted to her. Seeing Fang

Minglang's eyes on Mingzhu, Jiang Duo's eyebrows sank a little...