Lao Mei's house in Jinshui Village.
"My dear, why are you here?"
Mrs. Zhang opened the door early in the morning. Looking at Mrs. Yu with her hair neatly combed and dressed cleanly, a look of surprise flashed across her face, and a touch of unhappiness arose in her heart.
But when she took the basket brought by Mrs. Yu and saw clearly that it contained a piece of meat as big as her palm, her face changed instantly. She opened her mouth and smiled at Mr. Yu even more enthusiastically: "Yesterday, my old man said Dahu and the others came to see you, isn’t it a coincidence?”
The changes in Zhang's expression from beginning to end were completely caught in Yu's eyes.
Finally, Mrs. Yu stared at the missing front teeth of this relative for a long time.
Feeling uncomfortable being stared at by her mother-in-law, Mrs. Zhang used the excuse that she had run out of food at home, so she asked her son and daughter-in-law to entertain her. She took a small half bag of wheat and corn to the mill to grind flour.
Old man Mei happened to be not at home either, and the family was full of people from the big house.
Therefore, Jiang became bolder and asked her mother directly: "Mom, why are you here?"
Mrs. Yu glanced at her missing daughter and said, "I'm here to see my grandson and granddaughter."
"Oh, there's no need for you to worry about them when they're young. I'll spare you the trouble and come and take a look~"
Jiang did not hear the meaning of what her mother said at all, nor did she notice the displeasure shown when her own mother's eyes fell on her hands.
Mei Dahu followed his mother-in-law's gaze and felt a little uneasy. Based on what his mother-in-law said just now, he knew what his mother-in-law was going to do this time.
"Mom, I just packed up things with my children and said that I would take my two children to see you and your father-in-law. We haven't gotten together for a few days. We will have a good talk then. I will have a drink with my father-in-law at noon... No, You came this morning."
Mei Dahu laughed along with him, but his mother-in-law was still smiling but not smiling, and her scalp was numb.
"Really? What a coincidence?"
Mrs. Yu spoke with a smile on her face, her black and white eyes staring at the son-in-law and her daughter who only looked up to him, and she felt an unknown fire in her heart.
From Yu's expression, Jiang could naturally tell that her own mother was in a bad mood.
At this time, Mei Lian and Mei An also walked in from the side room and greeted Mrs. Yu.
"Grandma, how are your grandfather's health? Daddy was still talking about you on the way back yesterday~"
The appearance of Mei Lian and Mei An eased the awkward atmosphere. Mei Lian said this again, and Yu's eyes fell on Mei Lian for a long time.
"They're all good kids."
After saying this, Mrs. Yu smiled and waved, and gave each of Mei Lian and Mei An one of the two packets of candy in her arms, and then said: "We adults still have something to talk about, so you can take your brother to play. "
After saying that, he sent the two siblings away. After they left Yu, he looked at his eldest daughter and snorted coldly: "Fortunately, the two children are not like you!"
"Mother!" Jiang's face turned red at Yu's sudden scolding.
***
"From the Erniu family!"
Wei Meili was hanging clothes in the yard when Aunt Wang stood outside the fence of her house and shouted.
"Hey, what's wrong, Aunt Wang?"
"A salesman passed by our village and stopped for a while at the west end of the village. Do you want to take a look?"
It's not convenient to stay in the village to buy things these days. You have to either walk to the town or wait for these wandering salesmen to appear.
The former is a long way, and it takes at least two hours to go back and forth to buy something;
The latter appears at random times, and the items prepared by other vendors may not necessarily be what you need, but if you don’t go check out and buy something like this when it’s at your doorstep, you always feel like you’ll miss out.
"Okay, let's go take a look."
Wei Meili had never seen the salesman when she came here, so naturally she wanted to join in the fun. She asked Aunt Wang to wait for her, and after drying her clothes, she turned around and went into the house to get the basket and go out.
"I saw your man went to the town market yesterday. I heard he came back with a lot of things?"
Aunt Wang was also very curious. Although everyone said that they didn't get much money after dividing the two houses, but these days, it doesn't look like they don't have money to share.
"Hey, Auntie, what you said is that we have just separated to live alone. We are short of everything at home. We should always go and see if there is a gathering.
But as a man, I can’t always remember some small items. Today I find that this is missing, and tomorrow I find that something is missing, I will be very angry~”
Wei Meili smiled and laughed, looking at many people from the village rushing towards the west, and said, "It seems that everyone is like this. I went to the market yesterday, and when I go home, I still have shortcomings. Otherwise, why would the salesman be so popular today?"
Aunt Wang smiled and said nothing more, and the two of them headed towards the west of the village together.
Along the way, he saw many people heading to the west end of the village. Judging from the reception of the salesman in the village, Wei Meili felt that there was a high probability that he would meet someone from Lao Mei's family.
Then, when she really saw Mrs. Zhang, Wei Meili just wanted to say "bad luck".
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The old lady Zhang was equally displeased when she saw Wei Meili. Before she even walked in, she said angrily: "The family is really divided. I want to spend all the money I have!"
When Mrs. Zhang thought about what Mei Lian said yesterday that her second daughter-in-law had spent money to buy an old hen, she became angry.
Don’t you know how to be filial to them even if you buy chickens?
Wei Meili smiled softly and turned her eyes away as if she hadn't seen Mrs. Zhang. She looked over there where the salesmen were surrounded by water. She seemed to be talking to herself or chatting with Aunt Wang. She just said: "This You still have to spend your money on yourself to feel comfortable, right, Auntie?"
Aunt Wang listened to Wei Meimei's yin and yang eccentricity, and looked at the resentful Zhang not far away who seemed to be possessed by the god of plague. Didn't she know that the little daughter-in-law in front of her was criticizing her?
"Of course the money is in your own hands and you can spend it how you want." Aunt Wang nodded matter-of-factly. Although they are both the elders of the mother-in-law, Aunt Wang really has no sympathy with the mother-in-law of the Erniu family. .
How could anyone tease his daughter-in-law like this?
Besides, who didn’t have a daughter-in-law when they were young? I understand even more how terrible it is for someone who is unlucky enough to meet such a vicious mother-in-law.
"Let's go over there and have a look." However, Aunt Wang was not the one to start a quarrel. She pulled Wei Meimei away from her mother-in-law and only said, "Your mother-in-law is really not particular about things~ and her in-laws It’s not even close.”
"relatives by marriage?"
Wei Meili was stunned, and in an instant she understood that this in-law was not the one she and Miao had sold out and ran away.
The serious in-laws naturally refer to her sister-in-law's natal family.
"It's your eldest sister-in-law's house, because my eldest daughter-in-law is from Yinshui Village, and I've heard a lot about things there. To be honest, it's really unexpected that their family chose your mother-in-law's family to marry their daughter to."
Although Wei Meili still didn't know what her sister-in-law's biological mother was like, she could tell from Aunt Wang's tone that she was a person.
"I heard that when Jiang Dahai was young, he traveled around and accumulated a lot of wealth, but when he was thinking about it, he happened to meet a wealthy family member in Fucheng who committed a crime.
All the maids and slaves in the family were dragged out and sold. He fell in love with his current wife at one glance. He spent all the money he earned in the past few years to buy his wife and specifically redeemed her slave status. "
"Oh my God, I love you so much!" Wei Meili lamented Old Man Jiang's behavior, and Aunt Wang was also filled with emotion.
"Who says it's not the case! Well, Mrs. Yu was very beautiful when she was young. People laughed at Old Man Jiang for spending all his money and living a hard life with such a beautiful wife. He's afraid that he won't be able to keep it up for a long time!
However, not only did they spend their whole lives with Old Man Jiang, they also had children and raised several children with different backgrounds! "
In this regard, thinking of her sister-in-law's virtue, Wei Meili smiled and did not continue.
Besides, if someone is really that powerful, would he be willing to be the in-laws of Lao Mei’s family?
To some extent, Mei Lian inherited her high-quality genes from her maternal grandmother?
