The next day at work, people worked in groups of three or four while talking about the Qin family, how rich the dishes were when they entertained guests yesterday, how generous they were, and how they gave out candies and cakes.
Everyone praised this family for being able to handle things and find a very good son-in-law.
Liu Chunhua was so angry when she heard this. What a bullshit son-in-law, he was her own son. But these blind old women only remembered that Lu Donglin was the son-in-law of the Qin family when they mentioned him, and forgot that he was the flesh and blood of her Liu Chunhua.
A gossipy daughter-in-law said, "Auntie, is what they said true? I heard there were three big bowls of meat and vegetables, better than what we ate during Chinese New Year, and they gave us candy and cakes when we left. Is that true? Why does it feel so unreal?"
An old lady sighed, "Erniu's family, you've asked the wrong person. They didn't invite your Aunt Chunhua. They invited the person who helped the Qin family girl when she got into trouble that day. Your Aunt Chunhua didn't even show up, how could she have the nerve to go?"
Erniu's family said in surprise, "Oh, I remember it was snowing heavily that day! You didn't go to work! Aunt Chunhua, your future daughter-in-law had an accident, and you didn't go? You weren't at home?"
A sister-in-law from the Qin family came over carrying a hoe, put it down, spat on her hand, rubbed it, and said while turning the soil with the hoe, "What future daughter-in-law? If you don't know, don't talk nonsense."
Lu Donglin had severed ties with them a long time ago. How could your Aunt Chunhua be qualified to take the position of her mother-in-law? She is a proper mother-in-law, the one who gave out red envelopes when the marriage was betrothed. And you don’t know, right? Lu Donglin is the son-in-law of my second uncle’s family. Don’t talk nonsense next time.”
I don't know if everyone has deliberately forgotten about Lu Donglin's severing of ties with the Lu family and becoming a son-in-law to the Qin family, or if some people really don't know about it. Or maybe everyone thinks it doesn't count. Since the engagement, few people have mentioned it.
Lu Donglin seldom returned to the village. Even when he came back occasionally, he would stay at the Qin family. Most people thought that Lu Donglin was expressing his determination to marry the Qin family girl, and it had little to do with whether he was a live-in son-in-law.
The people who heard this now happened to be those who didn't know about these two things. They couldn't understand the Lu family's behavior. Why would they cut off ties with such an outstanding son?
And Lu Donglin, he was the only promising worker in their village! How could he be so stupid as to think of becoming someone else's son-in-law?
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