As they were talking, they heard the eldest daughter-in-law of the Kong family, Bai Liping, say, "Is the third brother's wife back?"
Lu Yiting greeted her with a smile: "Sister-in-law, are you just off work?"
Bai Liping smiled and said, "Yes, I just got off work."
He turned around and said to Luo Qiao and Lu Yichen, "You guys are back to celebrate the festival."
Luo Qiao smiled and nodded: "Yes, we just came back too. We came to see Yi Ting and I happened to prepare some rice dumplings for her, so I asked her to take them back."
Then he handed the rice dumplings and tea leaves in his hand to Lu Yiting: "The tea leaves are for your father-in-law, and the rice dumplings are for you. Come and talk to grandpa after dinner, and go back with the eldest sister-in-law of the Kong family."
Lu Yiting looked at her sister-in-law gratefully: "Okay, second sister-in-law, I'll go back first. After dinner, I'll go to see grandpa, aunt, Yanyan and Yueyue."
Lu Yiting knew that her second sister-in-law was trying to save her face, and she even deliberately said it in front of her eldest sister-in-law from her husband's family, asking her to go over to accompany her grandfather after dinner, because she was afraid that she would not be able to ask for it easily.
The Kong family divided up the property on the night she returned home. Originally, her mother-in-law didn't want to give her a house, saying that she already had a yard and didn't want to fight with her brothers for the houses in the yard. At that time, Kong Xiangrui retorted, "If I don't need them to support me in my old age, then I have no objection."
This sentence almost made mother-in-law Fu Lanhua angry to death. Her father-in-law was relatively fair. He gave two rooms to each of his three sons, but the other room allocated to them was now temporarily occupied by the children of the eldest brother.
Later, my mother-in-law said that it would be enough to give them a room, as they didn't have any children yet. But my father-in-law said that the three sons were all the same, and he would only take care of his sons, while the grandchildren would be taken care of by their parents.
After this was said, the first and second wives did not dare to object. If the property was divided according to the number of children, it would definitely be unfair to the third child. He had just gotten married, so wouldn't he suffer a loss?
The house is the biggest expense in the family, and the public money has not been divided again. After all, each family used to pay for food. The old couple does not rely on any family now, and they are not needed in their old age. Anyway, if there is a need in the future, the three families will share the cost.
The room my parents-in-law live in now and the living room in the yard were not divided at that time. After they passed away, they would be divided equally among the three families. Whoever wanted it could just pay the other two brothers.
After the separation, everyone would go to the old couple's house for meals during the New Year and other festivals. What kind of holiday gifts to bring depended on what each family wanted. In this way, the family was divided peacefully.
Fu Lanhua didn't show any expression when she saw her third daughter-in-law coming back. But when she saw what she was holding, she smiled and said, "You're back."
Lu Yiting smiled: "Yeah."
I brought the things to the living room. My father-in-law was reading a newspaper on the sofa: "Dad, I'm home."
Kong Cunlai must be very satisfied with Lu Yiting: "Tingting is back, come sit down and drink some water."
Lu Yiting took out the tea leaves that Luo Qiao had just given her: "Dad, this is the tea leaves that my second sister-in-law from my mother's family prepared for you. She asked me to bring it to you."
Kong Cunlai took it with a smile: "Your second sister-in-law really spent a lot of money."
Fu Lanhua saw that there was only the old man and no things of her own: "Why spend money? He doesn't need that. We are all relatives, no need to be polite."
Kong Cunlai raised his head and looked at his wife: "Shut up, what they have is theirs, what does it have to do with you? Giving it to you is a favor, not giving it to you is also my duty, what are you talking about, I think you are going back to the old ways."
The second daughter-in-law, Hao Chunyan, who just walked in, said, "Dad, who made you angry again? My mom asked me to bring some rice dumplings back. You can try a few more later."
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As he spoke, he raised the rice dumplings in his hand so that everyone inside and outside the room could see them clearly. After showing them enough, he took two steps forward, preparing to put the net bag on the table, and he saw a large bag of rice dumplings in front of Lu Yiting.
Somewhat embarrassed, he asked, "Did your sister-in-law also bring back zongzi?"
(End of this chapter)