Chapter 303 We Will Never Divide Up (Part 2)
What a blessing for my baby! She'll always have meat to eat with her!
If the family were to separate, the elderly couple would live with the eldest son's family, and the second wife's family would be left with nothing but watching!
So, after saying that, she secretly nudged her man, signaling him to speak.
Chen Jiandang realized what was happening and quickly chimed in, "That's right! We brothers just want to be managed by our parents!"
Chen Jianye nodded in agreement. With their parents managing the household, the younger generation would face much less pressure.
After all, my parents are still in good health and earn a lot of work points, which can help support the younger generation.
Otherwise, with the few work points he and Li Chunhua earned, if they really separated, the whole family would probably go hungry!
He can eat less, but he can't let his son go hungry!
Li Chunhua was a thousand, ten thousand people who disagreed with separating the family.
After the family splits up, she won't get any of the benefits from the fourth and fifth sons' families!
Chen Jianguo said in a low voice, "Mom! I will definitely discipline my daughter properly and will not make you angry again."
Zhao Mei quickly followed up with her determination: "Mom! If you tell me to go east, I will definitely not go west."
And that's what she's always done.
Liu Lanzhi also advised, "Mom, Jianmin and I just got married, and we haven't even had a chance to be filial to you yet!"
She had only recently married into the family and always thought it would be a few years before they separated from the household, since there were quite a few mothers-in-law who were reluctant to give up their power to manage the household.
Moreover, life is lively and bustling every day now. If the family were to separate, it would become desolate, and it would be inconvenient to be there to fulfill filial duties.
Li Chunhua's eyes darted around and she said, "Mom! Your grandsons Xiaobao and Jinbao are still so young, they can't be without you as their grandma!"
Upon hearing this, Ma Xiulian retorted angrily, "If you can't speak properly, then shut up! I'm not dead yet!"
Chen Jianye glared at her fiercely, and Li Chunhua could only shut her mouth awkwardly; that wasn't what she meant.
If conditions allowed, she would love to separate from the family and live on her own, no longer having to deal with this shrewish mother-in-law.
But Xiaobao and Jinbao haven't grown up yet!
As the saying goes, a half-grown boy can bankrupt his father; if it's just the two of them raising a child, the pressure will be much greater.
Another point is that my mother-in-law has money!
Besides the money and work points earned by the whole family from farming, there are also the wages sent back by the fourth son over the years.
When he left, he said that half of his salary would be given to the government so that his brothers could take care of their parents in his place, and the other half would be used to support their parents.
The Chen family was better off than most families in the commune because they had a little more money, which allowed them to occasionally indulge in meat and treat themselves.
If the family were to separate, the parents-in-law would definitely live with the eldest son's family. Not only would the work points and grain they earned belong to the eldest son's family, but even the fourth son's salary would belong to the eldest son's family!
But when my parents-in-law get old and can't work anymore, they'll have to ask the other families to provide food for their old age too!
These benefits won't all go to the eldest son's family, will they?!
The others were also aware of this, so none of them wanted to split up, at least not now.
Ma Xiulian was an experienced woman, having lived more life than they had, so she naturally understood their thoughts. Therefore, she calmly said, "We two old folks are still able to work, so we don't need you to support us. We won't live with either family; we'll just live alone with our precious baby!"
Upon hearing this, everyone in the family was stunned; no one had expected that their parents had such a plan.
Only Helian Jiao nodded, saying in her childish voice, "Grandpa and Grandma live with me, and I'll take care of them!"
But nobody cared about what she, a little baby, was saying.
(End of this chapter)
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