Although the son became more and more outrageous as he learned more, he still expressed Zhang Chunhua's thoughts: "Mom, how about you go and discuss with the second son and his wife, let our family borrow it, and then pay it back to them when the pigs are sold next year.
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Mrs. Chen nodded: "We are all brothers. Baozhu was also confused for a while. Just work hard in the future. Besides, it's not like we won't pay back the money. Just come with me for a while."
Hearing her answer, Zhang Chunhua and Chen Mancang looked at each other, and the matter was almost settled.
"You guys eat, I'll go out for a walk after I finish." Chen Mancang said and stood up.
Seeing that he only ate half a bowl of rice, Zhang Chunhua said worriedly: "Why are you eating so much? Is it not to your liking?"
Pickles, radish strips, and cabbage with potatoes and seeds are eaten every day. There is no oil or water at all, so it’s strange to have an appetite.
"Don't worry about me, you can eat." After saying this, Chen Mancang turned around and left the house.
It gets dark very early in winter, it's already dark after five o'clock.
When Chen Lifei and Chen Mandun returned home, Wu Chunmei had already prepared the meal and was sitting under the lamp knitting a sweater. Several children were either reading and studying or playing quietly aside.
"Dad, Third Sister, are you back? I'm already hungry." The seventh child, Chen Lizi, dropped the little duck in her hand and went to greet her.
She is the old one in the family, her six older sisters are in pain, and her temper is more lively. Her little face that looks like Chen Lishu is slightly wrinkled, showing her dissatisfaction at the moment.
Chen Mandun stomped the snow on his feet, smiled and touched her little head: "Why don't you eat first when you're hungry?"
"You and Third Sister haven't come back yet. Mom said we have to wait for you to eat together, so we can't eat first."
Chen Lifei took off her coat, washed her hands, opened the pot and served the food.
Soon the family sat at the table and started eating.
For dinner, the potatoes cooked by Wu Chunmei were stewed with the dried vegetables in autumn, and there was also a portion of pickled cabbage and pork.
The family's conditions are better. The older ones can make money and give her a lot of money every year. The couple can also make money from farming. The younger ones are all growing. Wu Chunmei is no longer stingy about food and occasionally eats.
Make a meal of meat.
Wu Chunmei: "How is it? How many piglets were born?"
Chen Lifei: "Two litters, a total of twenty-one, all survived."
"That's really good." Wu Chunmei said with a smile, and sighed with Chen Mantun: "How could I have imagined that the third child would have such a temper? It's a pity that girls have to come down to farm and take care of livestock. If she and her eldest sister and second sister
It’ll be good as long as you can read.”
Chen Lifei didn't take it seriously: "Mom, how long has it been? Let's talk about three hundred and sixty years of work. I'm a top scholar in that field. Farming there is no worse than working. My sister's salary is comparable to that of my second sister.
The salary is still high, and now I am raising pigs so well that people from all over the country come to inquire about me and learn from me."
"Children can do whatever they like. Dad is very capable and exerts great efforts to provide for all these little ones."
"Dad, I will study hard and be as promising as my eldest sister. Then I will take you and mom to live in a big house in the city." Chen Lizi said with her little face raised.
Chen Mandun smiled: "My parents can also borrow money from my old daughter."
The two of them are almost fifty, and the youngest Lao Qi is only six years old. It is not certain whether they will see her get married in the future, but the parents are still very happy when the child says so.
The family was eating and talking when the door was suddenly pushed open from the outside, and Mrs. Chen and Zhang Chunhua walked in together.
Wu Chunmei stood up: "Sister-in-law, have you eaten? If not, just eat some here."
Zhang Chunhua looked a little unhappy when he saw that there were two dishes on the table.
But today is different from the past. Now the children of the second child's family have become successful, and Chen Mandun and his wife have hardened their backs. The days of chatting and drinking like before are long gone.
Mrs. Chen felt a pain in her body when she looked at the meat and vegetables on the table. The food the girls ate was so good that her eldest grandson and great-grandson were reluctant to eat it.
"I don't have that kind of fate. It's not like the two of you who still eat two dishes. I really have a good life and cooked it for you."
When Wu Chunmei and Chen Manyun heard her words, their smiles froze.
"Pah!" Chen Lifei put the chopsticks in her hand on the table: "If you want to eat, eat it, if you don't want to eat it, throw it down. Why talk so much? If you eat two more dishes, they will be burned. Chen Baozhu spent all the money and land at home.
Once the gambling is exported, will the days be on fire?"
"You, you damn girl, who are you talking to?" Old Mrs. Chen almost choked.
Chen Lifei said unceremoniously: "Now I am in charge of this family. If you have something to say, grandma, we will have dinner if it doesn't matter."
I have long heard that this granddaughter is very spicy, and the village even nicknamed her Little Pepper. Her words can really make people choke to death.
As if there was nothing she could do about her granddaughter, Mrs. Chen pointed the finger at Chen Mandun and his wife: "You two, she just talks to me like this and you don't even give a shit?"
Chen Mandun: "Mom, the child usually talks like this to us. Don't take it to heart when a child speaks."
Life has gone smoothly in the past two years, and the children are doing well. Chen Manyun really doesn't want those bad things to happen to him again, so he said, "What's the matter with you and your sister-in-law coming here?"
When he asked, Old Mrs. Chen remembered serious matters. She gouged out Chen Lifei's eyes, then found a stool and sat down: "I heard that some pigs on the mountain gave birth to two litters of piglets. What's going on at your eldest brother's house?"
I know, I want to catch some piglets and raise them back."
Zhang Chunhua responded: "If you don't take it for free, I will pay you back when the pigs are sold next year."
Wu Chunmei and Chen Mandun looked at each other, and the latter said a little embarrassed: "Sister-in-law, it's not that we and I won't help, the pig belongs to Li Shu, and now the third girl is in charge, we really can't make the decision on this matter."
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Old Mrs. Chen opened her drooped eyelids, revealing her cloudy eyes: "You are their father. If you can't do anything, you are all brothers. If you have difficulties, you won't help me?"
Chen Lifei sneered: "What you said is really funny. If my eldest brother, my uncle, and my aunt could make the decision, he could export all the land. If it were me, I should have broken my legs long ago, right?"
Mrs. Chen's chest heaved violently with anger: "You, you little bastard, I didn't talk to you, so shut up."
"Whether I shut up or not, nothing you said today will come true. Didn't I say it a long time ago? I have the final say in this family. I also have the final say over my eldest sister's barren mountain. All the piglets are sold in cash, and there is no credit.
explain."
After saying this, Chen Lifei picked up her rice bowl and continued to eat.
If you want to take advantage of her, there is no way to do it. Even writing an IOU is not easy.
Mrs. Chen and Zhang Chunhua looked at Chen Mandun and his wife who said nothing, their faces were livid, and in the end they could only return without success.