Li Lai'nan and Li Ying'nan were young and started shouting as soon as they smelled the meat.
"I want to eat meat. I want to eat meat."
He was still rolling around in the frosty yard.
Li Niuniu squatted in the corner, silently gnawing on the roasted sweet potatoes that she had coaxed her into giving her.
The burnt outer skin made the mouth full of paste, which looked quite funny.
"These are the only dishes at home. Eat them if you want." Old Mrs. Li threw down her chopsticks and yelled at her two ignorant granddaughters.
Li Lainan was dissatisfied, "I clearly saw you cooking rice soup and egg custard, I want to eat it too."
"Eat, eat, eat. Do you think you deserve to eat that precious thing?"
The rice soup was for her grandson Li Jindan, and the egg custard was for her daughter-in-law Zhou Dani.
She couldn't bear to eat it herself, let alone give it to these money-losing guys.
That’s right, her daughter-in-law gave birth to a boy weighing 4.32 catties.
The baby was born not long after they moved into the new house, which made Mrs. Li very happy.
The Li family has descendants, so even if they go to the underworld in the future, they will have the face to see the ancestors of the Li family.
"I knew you were partial to your younger brother. Believe it or not, I'll beat him to death."
Zhou Dani, who hadn't responded for a while, finally raised her head after hearing this, looking at her second daughter as if she were a stranger. "Should I have drowned you in a pee bucket when I gave birth to you?"
Her son is the basis for her to be proud of herself in the Li family and hold her head high.
If anyone dares to touch her, she will fight until they are bleeding, even if that person is her own daughter.
Li Lai'nan's words also touched the sore spot of Old Lady Li.
The family has been looking forward to this wonderful grandson for so long that they were afraid he would melt in their mouths, and now the second granddaughter actually said she wanted to beat him to death.
Such a vicious girl cannot be kept.
"If you dare to touch your brother, I will kill you first." Old Mrs. Li pointed at Li Lai'nan and trembled.
Soon, Li Lai'nan's miserable cries were heard from Old Li's house.
Neighbors closed their doors and windows.
Why beat children during the New Year? It’s unlucky to see them making a lot of noise and crying.
After being beaten by Old Lady Li, Li Lai'nan finally behaved himself.
He stopped shouting about fighting and killing and followed Old Lady Li back to the dinner table.
"What are you eating? There's no portion for you tonight."
Old Mrs. Li quickly snatched the bowl and chopsticks from Li Lai'nan's hands.
Li Lainan glared at Old Lady Li fiercely, "Today is New Year's Eve. Believe it or not, I'll be standing at the door cursing you."
"Eat, eat, eat. I owe you."
Old Mrs. Li raised the bowl and chopsticks high, then put them down gently.
If the family wasn't so poor that they didn't even have money to buy a bowl, she would have used a bowl to smash this unfilial son to death.
Li Lai'nan took the bowl and chopsticks and started eating.
She turned the whole dish over and over, and her eating manners were really ugly.
Old Mrs. Li wanted to get angry, but she found that everyone in the family was like this, so she had to hold back her curses and quietly joined the crowd grabbing food.
In a short while, all the juice was gone from the leaves of the two plates of vegetables.
"Come on, man, go wash the dishes."
"No, whoever wants to wash it can wash it. Look, don't we have someone who eats for free at home? Why don't we let her go?" Li Lai'nan pointed at Li Niuniu and said.
Li Niuniu remained silent. She was observing the attitudes of the other members of the Li family.
If everything really depends on her, then she has to find another way out for herself.
It turned out that she was overestimating herself.
The Li family didn't even look at her, leaving a table full of dishes and chopsticks for her.
Fortunately, Li Zhaonan was still there and helped to clean up.
Li Lainan and Li Yingnan squatted at the doorway, watching the two people washing dishes in the distance and whispering, "Big sister is such a fool, why are you helping her wash the dishes? It's a great blessing for our family to take her in."
"Big sister is stupid."
"Yingnan, let me tell you, if you dare to help that Li Niuniu with work, don't blame me, your second sister, for not recognizing you."
"Only a fool would do the work if he didn't help."
After finally finishing the work, Li Niuniu found that the door was locked.
"Open the door."
After knocking twice and still no one responded, Li Niuniu felt a little annoyed.
Li Yingnan in the room whispered in Li Lainan's ear, "Second sister, should we open the door? The eldest sister is outside too."
"Why open it? We won't open it even if she's here. It's her fault for not standing with us. She deserves to freeze to death."
Li Lai'nan pulled the thin blanket over his head, trying to block out the annoying knocking on the door.
Li Niuniu patiently knocked for a while, but still no one opened the door.
This time, it even woke up Old Lady Li from the next room.
"What are you doing? You're calling my grandson so late at night! If you wake up my grandson, you'll be in trouble."
Li Zhaonan, who was standing by, said aggrievedly, "Grandma, my sister won't open the door for me and Niuniu. What if one of us gets a headache, a fever, or a cold..."
Old Lady Li covered Li Zhaonan's mouth and said, "Open, open, open. I'll let them open."
When other people’s families celebrate the New Year, the children at home always blurt out a bunch of auspicious words.
As for her three stupid granddaughters, they always say whatever they want to be heard.
"If you don't open the door, no one will be able to sleep tonight."
Hearing the voice of Old Lady Li, Li Yingnan got scared and opened the door immediately.
Li Lainan angrily looked at his disappointing sister and said, "We just fell asleep and didn't hear the knock on the door."
She was still afraid of Old Lady Li and explained.
"Why lock the door? It's useless. If a thief comes, he will cry and leave."
Old Mrs. Li cursed a few words and went back to the house. She wanted to go back to look after her lovely grandson.
Facing Li Lainan's unfriendly gaze, Li Niuniu lay down in her seat without saying a word.
The Li family's house was quite spacious. Apart from the subsidy, all the family's money was spent on the house.
Three bedrooms and a kitchen.
Li Daniu and Zhou Dani shared a room, Old Lady Li and her grandson shared a room, and the remaining four girls shared a room.
The so-called bed is just a few bricks piled up with a few wooden boards on top.
In very cold weather, a layer of dry straw was placed on the wooden boards.
The straw where the three Li sisters slept was quite thick, but she slept on the edge, where there was only a thin layer of straw, and was often unable to sleep because of the pain from the wooden boards.
She lived near the door, and when the wind blew at night, the cold wind blew in, and she was often woken up by the cold in the middle of the night.
Just as she was about to squeeze in, Li Niuniu was pinned down by Li Zhaonan's legs.
She suppressed the nausea in her stomach and quickly pushed Li Zhaonan's legs apart.
He frowned as he smelled the sour smell lingering in the air.
The Li sisters are not the type to pay attention to hygiene, and it is common for them to not take a bath for ten days or half a month.
A pair of cloth shoes, the inside of the shoes are covered with patina but I don’t even wash them.
Every time I take off my shoes, that indescribable smell rushes straight to my head.
When one comes, three more come. The three sisters attack from three sides. Li Niuniu feels like her nose is poisoned.
Just as I was about to turn over, I heard Li Lainan say, "Are you going to sleep or not? If not, get out. What are you moving around for? It's so noisy."
She had no choice but to freeze in place and move slowly.
The desire to leave the Li family became stronger and stronger.
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