"Happy New Year, Happy New Year, please come in." Old man Zhao greeted his son-in-law politely and cheerfully.
Ma Dacai sat down, and Old Sun gave snacks to her eldest grandson next to her. Old Zhao smoked his pipe and asked, "How is it this year? Are you satisfied?"
"It's just to make ends meet. It's hard to do business these days."
Old man Zhao nodded. Money has always been hard to earn. "Will you continue to sell tea after the New Year? Or rent out the land?"
"I did have this plan. Seeing that Youbao has grown up and reached the age of enlightenment, I thought, can I earn more money and send him to school for a few years? He will have a bright future than us in the future."
"It's good to study. You should send him to study."
"Brother-in-law, do you have any good news this year?" If Zhao Daye had good news, his tea stall would definitely do better. How could the stall set up by the younger brother-in-law of a juren master be bad?
No, he won’t set up a stall anymore. He will go to their house and be a housekeeper! Plenty of oil and water.
Why bother bringing up this matter? Old man Zhao paused as he smoked. "Your eldest brother was not in good health this year and did not take the exam."
"Why didn't you take the exam?" Zhao Maiqi couldn't help but ask loudly.
"There have been so many things going on at home recently that it's hard to describe them in one sentence. Okay, let's stop saying these unpleasant things. Old woman, go cook. At noon, I want to have a few drinks with my son-in-law."
"Oh, okay, okay!" Fortunately, they asked the third brother for a jar of wine, otherwise...
Humph, I can’t even drink urine.
Zhao Ruxin sat there awkwardly for a while, and when she saw her grandma and the others had left, she sneaked back into the house.
"Mom, how are you going?"
"Don't mention it. In our family, we are so unlucky that even drinking water can cause problems for our teeth."
Zhao Maiqi: …
"Tell me about it in detail."
The old woman had a lot to say, but was worried that she had no one to talk to, so she told her daughter everything that had happened in the past six months, like pouring out beans.
"You haven't been home recently, so you don't know that your third brother is so popular now."
Zhao Maiqi is so tired of listening to this. I am sure I am not senile and confused. What on earth is she talking about? The third brother became rich, but the eldest brother was extremely unlucky. Not only did he fail to take the exam, but his house was also robbed. No, it’s not just my eldest brother being stolen that counts, my mother’s house was also stolen. Was it stolen twice?
My mother's family and my eldest brother's family are both paupers now?
Could it be any more outrageous? She really couldn't believe it, not a single word of it.
After a long pause, she finally spoke with difficulty, "Is what you said true?"
"If you don't believe me, go ask Ruxin. That damn girl is useless. She broke her leg while doing some work and had to lie in bed for several months, wasting hundreds of dollars on medicine."
Zhao Maiqi: ... "Ruxin is a young lady, what kind of job does she do?"
"Bah, she's the eldest daughter, what am I, a servant in her family? Living in my house, except for my eldest son and my two grandchildren, everyone else has to work for me."
"Mom, you said that Third Brother moved into a new home. Did he have a wedding banquet? Why didn't he include me?"
"That bastard is obsessed with the Song family and listens to her in everything. No matter what you say, your two families have no contact. Your family used to give everything to the eldest and second eldest families, never to them. So, when they hold a banquet, they won't give you, so as to avoid being accused of taking your share of money."
Zhao Maiqi was at a loss for words. When she returned home today, she had received so much criticism that she was a little unable to accept it.
"Let me tell you, my daughter. I have a miserable life. At my old age, the money for my coffin was stolen. Now I don't have a single penny left." She couldn't bring it up; it made her feel heartbroken.
Zhao Maiqi, who still wanted to go back to her parents' home to take advantage of the situation, felt a buzzing in her head and almost dizzy.
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