"She's healthy, the baby is well behaved, and she's already showing her pregnancy."
"Really? They're all quite lively. Their whole city should be bustling, right?"
"Not bad, old lady, you are doing well. You have people around to serve you, and they can chat with you."
"It's so boring. I only see the same few faces every day. I'm tired of them.
What can they tell me anyway? They used to talk about the latest happenings in the village, but now they’re all in hibernation, each minding their own business, with no news at all.”
"Everyone spends the winter like this. I see you've taken good care of your tree. The tree is filial and has given you a lot of subsidies. You haven't lost out at all."
"That's true. I can still rely on the big tree. As for the others, hmph, they knew I was bored and I haven't seen them all winter."
"They didn't come to visit during the winter solstice?"
"They're here. Each family brought two pounds of meat." Since she moved in here, no matter what festival it was, they only gave her one or two pounds of meat. Nothing else, not even a penny.
Only during the Chinese New Year do we need to give pension money.
"That's not bad."
Old Zhao snorted coldly.
She was so lonely that even if the visitor was Liu Shunzi, even if he was just running errands for her son, Mrs. Zhao would have kept him and chatted with him for more than an hour.
Only after she said she was happy and satisfied did she let Liu Shunzi go.
"Huh!" Liu Shunzi ran out of the yard as if to escape. "This old lady must have gone crazy."
The eldest son and the second son of the Zhao family are unfilial sons. Look what they have done to their mother.
On the way, he saw a figure. "Why is this kid running outside in so little clothes? Isn't he cold?"
Sanzhuzi saw that Liu Shunzi ignored him, so he ran away with his body huddled up, holding the thing in his arms.
"What took you so long? I thought she kept you for dinner."
"Why leave any food? I just gave her a bowl of hot water. The old lady was so angry that she held me and talked to me for more than an hour. She said my ears were covered with calluses."
"Really? What are you complaining about?"
"She's just saying that she has no one to keep her company, she's bored, and she's blaming the two unfilial sons in the village."
"Oh, maybe she herself didn't think she would have a son. Aren't these two unfilial sons their favorites?"
"Yeah, I need to go lie down for a while. I feel dizzy."
Zheng was laughing to death. The old woman was so good at talking that she even made her husband faint.
"Go ahead. By the way, is she okay?"
"That was incredible! Dashu was so kind and gave her a lot of food. It was almost like a pig about to be slaughtered."
Zheng slapped him a few times, laughing until her stomach hurt. "Can you be serious? I'm your brother's mother."
"No, to be honest, the old lady only eats but can't move, yet she eats a lot. She even cracks melon seeds while talking. She's so fat that you can't even see her neck anymore, just a big flat face."
"Is there no old man that fat in our village?"
"There aren't many of them in the entire county. If they have something readily available, they'll just make as much as they can. If something is bad, they're afraid they'll be at a disadvantage if they eat less."
Zheng was a little curious. She had never seen what it looked like to be as fat as a pig in her life.
"If I had known earlier, we should have gone together to see what it was like."
"It's very old, but I'm blessed. The servants serve her very attentively and keep her very clean. There is no smell in the house.
I don't think there's anyone in the whole village more unlucky than her."
"I will give birth."
"She'll give birth to nothing. She keeps complaining about the other two not paying any attention to her. I heard he didn't visit her for several days all winter, except once on the winter solstice."
“It’s all thanks to the big tree.”
"Yes, yes, having too many sons is useless. One filial son is enough."
"That's true. Go and have some rest. I'll call you for dinner later."
"Okay, I feel dizzy."
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