Ma Cuihua rolled her eyes and approached Liu Zhaodi and said, "Mom, the fourth child is getting more and more outrageous now. You can't just ignore it..."
Liu Zhaodi stared at Ma Cuihua, making her feel uncomfortable. After a long while, she stammered, "Mom, why don't you separate the fourth child? He keeps making trouble every day. It's okay in front of us, but if he keeps making trouble when the third child and his family of four come back..."
Ma Cuihua discovered that the fourth child had some leverage over the third child, so she asked Liu Zhaodi, who had always loved the third child the most, to give in.
Liu Zhaodi narrowed her eyes and said ominously, "You want to split up the family?"
Then he looked at Chu Jun and asked, "Is this what you mean?"
Chu Jun was dumbfounded, shaking his head and waving his hands frantically, "Mom, I've never thought of dividing the family..."
As he spoke, he angrily scolded Ma Cuihua for the first time, "Daya's mother, what nonsense are you talking about? Why are we dividing the family property?"
In the 1960s and 1970s, families would not be divided as long as both parents were alive. Even if one of the parents passed away, the family would not be divided easily without a valid reason.
Ma Cuihua was also stunned by Chu Jun's sudden rage. She looked at her mother-in-law with a gloomy look, and without bothering to argue with Chu Jun about yelling at her, she hurried to explain.
"Mom, you misunderstood me. I didn't think about dividing the family."
"What I mean is, if we separate the fourth brother's family, we'll only separate their food and accommodation, but we won't divide their work points..."
Ma Cuihua was reluctant to completely separate Chu Tian's family. Chu Tian and Yao Xiujuan were both good at farm work and always got full work points. Every year, because of the fourth brother and his wife, the Chu family could get a few more percent of grain and a hundred yuan more. She was reluctant to let so much grain and money no longer belong to the Chu family...
"What?"
Liu Zhaodi was stunned when she heard this.
Ma Cuihua continued, "Mom, look, let's ask the team leader to mark out a piece of land for the fourth child, and then give them food every month so that they can eat and live on their own. In the future, you won't have to see them and won't be bothered, and our family won't have to divide the money and food, so you can still control it..."
Liu Zhaodi was moved by Ma Cuihua's words. She narrowed her eyes and lowered her head to think.
Chu Jun was anxious when he heard this, "Mom, we can't do this. If we do this, the people on the team will criticize us..."
Ma Cuihua said unhappily, "Why not? We're not kicking the fourth brother's family out. Aren't we going to ask the team leader to allocate a piece of residential land? And when the time comes, mother will weigh out the food for the fourth brother's family every month, so they won't starve..."
Chu Jun was sweating profusely, "That won't work..."
Ma Cuihua rolled her eyes. "This is not okay, that is not okay. Are you just going to watch Fourth Brother irritate our mother every now and then? If you have to make our mother suffer some kind of pain one day, then you're going to do it."
"I····"
Before Chu Jun finished speaking, Liu Zhaodi raised her head and waved her hand, "Boss, shut up."
Then he stood up and said, "Da Ya, you stay here. Let Er Ya wash the dishes and clear the table. I'll check it later."
Daya nodded timidly, "Grandma, I understand..."
"yes."
Erya stood up with a look of grievance and started to clean up the dishes on the dining table. Ever since her fourth uncle told her not to work last time, she was the one who cleaned the table every day. No, sometimes she asked Daya to clean up, but her grandmother found out later and forced Daya not to help her. She had to wait until she finished cleaning up and passed the inspection before letting the two of them go.
Chu Tian and his family of three returned to their home in Sifangdi, but they had no idea what had happened on their way back. He was now holding Wu Ya and looking at Yao Xiujuan with anticipation as she put noodles into the chicken soup, waiting to eat the noodles.
Yao Xiujuan smiled as she stirred the noodles. "There's plenty of chicken soup. I even left some frozen in the snow pit behind the dugout. I'll use it to make dumpling soup for you and your daughter tomorrow morning."
Chu Tian corrected, "It's for our family of three!"
Yao Xiujuan quickly changed her tone, "Well, cook some dumpling soup for our family of three..."
Wu Ya looked up at Chu Tian expectantly, "Dad, what is pimple soup?"
Chu Tian smiled and stretched out a hand to touch Wu Ya's nose. "Wu Ya, you'll know after you eat it tomorrow morning..."
Wu Ya giggled and said "hmm" sweetly.
After eating a full bowl of chicken soup noodles, Chu Tian lay down on the kang, touching his stomach with satisfaction.
Yao Xiujuan, who was clearing the dishes nearby, saw this and called out softly, "Brother Tian?"
Chu Tian narrowed his eyes, "Well, what's wrong?"
Yao Xiujuan hesitated and asked, "You, you told my mother today that you would go back to my parents' home in the next two days?"
Chu Tian nodded. "Yeah, that's right. Didn't I tell you before? I'll take you back to stay for two days before the New Year. I talked to the captain today and he said he'll give me a certificate tomorrow. If there's nothing else, we'll probably go the day after tomorrow..."
Yao Xiujuan was surprised. "The day after tomorrow? But didn't mother say today that Third Brother would be back with the child in the next two days?"
Chu Tian opened his eyes and looked at Yao Xiujuan, puzzled. "If he comes back, then he comes back. What does it have to do with me? Just because he's coming back, does that mean I have to be there for him? Who does he think he is? Is he the king of heaven?"
"Oh, by the way, superstition is prohibited now, so he can't be the king of the world."
“·····”
Yao Xiujuan opened her mouth, but seeing Chu Tian narrowed his eyes again, she didn't say anything else.
Sun Weiguo arrived at Old Chu's house at dawn. As he stepped into the yard, he found that smoke had just started to come out of Old Chu's kitchen. He was wondering if he had come too early or should he come back later. Then he saw Liu Zhaodi carrying a wooden barrel out of the main hall. It would have been fine if he hadn't seen her, but now that he saw her, and since she was an elder, he had to go up and say hello.
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