Mei Zhijun shook his head when he heard this, "Then the eldest brother didn't accuse our mother of partiality?" ”

"Why not?" She Yufen let out a long sigh, "I cried a handful of snot and tears, saying that he had never seen our mother's private money, and said that he suffered a loss when he broke up, so let our mother calculate all the money she subsidized Yujie in previous years, and then make up for the share that should be given to him according to that number." ”

Mei Yali had a black line on her face, but it was a pity that neither Mei Zhijun nor She Yufen paid attention to her, a villain who was not enough to be three pieces of tofu.

The two led Mei Yali into the courtyard of She Fenggang's house at a turtle speed, and then walked into the house at a normal pace.

Wang Xiulan had already prepared a much richer lunch than usual, the angry old man She, She Fenggang with a face, and She Yuguo sat motionless on the kang, and She Yuguo's daughter-in-law, who was obviously not very happy with a wooden face, and Wang Xiulan and She Yujie, who were both sad and tired, went to the house to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and serve rice pots and vegetable pots.

Mei Yali's big black eyes quickly slipped around everyone's faces, and then she pretended to be ignorant, and was hugged by She Yufen and sat next to Mei Hongwen.

After eating a lunch with a strange atmosphere, Mei Zhijun and She Yufen took Mei Yali and her brother back to Taizi Village.

She Fenggang and She Yuguo did not come out to see them off, and She Yuguo's daughter-in-law only sent them to the door of the stove under the banner of cleaning up the dishes.

She Yufen has long been accustomed to the distance between her father and brother (meaning strange and unsociable), and she also understands that her sister-in-law is unhappy, although she feels that they are a little unreasonable, but because she has already seen the strangeness, she does not take it too seriously.

Taking advantage of the fact that only Old Man She, Wang Xiulan and She Yujie were there, She Yufen took her brother's hand and relieved him, "Don't take your father and eldest brother's words to heart." Study hard, and the eldest sister who is short of money will give it to you. ”

She Yujie's eyes turned red, "No need sister, grandpa said that he would give me living expenses." ”

She Yufen glanced at him with disgust, "What are you polite to your sister?" Besides, grandpa's life is not easy. ”

After a pause, she said to She Yujie again: "You don't have to worry about your brother-in-law disagreeing. Your brother-in-law mentioned this to me first. ”

Mei Zhijun, who was holding the reins of the horse, turned back with a smile, and patted She Yujie's shoulder with one free hand, "Listen to your sister." Give it to you and you will take it. ”

She Yujie lowered her head with tears, her lips trembled twice, and she said, "Thank you, brother-in-law."

Mei Yali looked at her little uncle with sympathy in her eyes.

This kind of feeling of being unscrupulously hurt by her own blood relatives, obviously full of pain and humiliation, but because her wings have not yet grown stiff and there is nothing she can do, she has not experienced much in her previous life.

Some people are like that, they act recklessly because of their own nature, and they never think about how much harm their actions will bring to others.

For this kind of person who never stabs a knife in other people's hearts, whether it is a blood relative or not, Mei Yali can't like it, and she can't get close.

Under the repeated send-off of Old Man She, Wang Xiulan and She Yujie, Mei Zhijun's family of four drove back to Taizi Village in a carriage.

On the road, there was no one around, and Mei Zhijun and She Yufen naturally couldn't help but talk about this matter.

The husband and wife sighed for a while, and then began to calculate how much money they could give to She Yujie.

Mei Yali, who was leaning on She Yufen's body, was wrapped in a thick leather jacket and eavesdropped secretly, while Mei Hongwen, who was nestled in She Yufen's arms, had already fallen asleep.

On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, Mei Zhijun and She Yufen, who had finished the last annual fair, invited Mei Zhizhong, who had come back to their hometown to visit Mei Jinfeng and Zhao Huiying, to their house for lunch.

In their Taizi Village, there are two small customs about brothers and sisters who have started their own families.

One of the customs is that when a married daughter returns to her parents' home, or a son who has settled down outside the village returns to his hometown, nine out of ten elderly people who are visited will call their sons who have separated from their families but still stay in the village to work as farmers to come back to eat together.

On the one hand, this is to allow the sons and daughters who have started their own families and rarely see each other to connect with each other, and on the other hand, to provide a platform for the sons who stay in the village to invite and negotiate, so that they can negotiate a suitable day according to the second custom, and take turns to entertain the brothers and sisters who return to their parents' homes or hometowns.

In Lao Mei's family, Zhao Huiying has never acted according to one of the customs.

Every time Mei Zhizhong, Mei Zhiming and Mei Zhifeng came back to see her, not only would she not call Mei Zhijun over to eat together, but she was also extremely unhappy that her children would go to Mei Zhijun's house.

Even if Mei Zhijun went to invite, she never went, and she was not happy with her other children.

Compared with those old people who called their sons, daughters-in-law, and grandchildren who stayed in the village to eat and drink together, Zhao Huiying's style is really unsightly.

Of course, the people in the village will pay attention to her because of this, but what she is more afraid of than being paid attention to by the villagers is that several of her children sit together and speak ill of her.

Mei Zhiming and Mei Zhifeng listened to her very much, she didn't want them to go, so they really didn't go.

But Mei Zhizhong is different from them, even if he knows that it will make Zhao Huiying unhappy, as long as Mei Zhijun comes to invite, he will still go.

On the one hand, he has an excellent relationship with Mei Zhijun, and he really can't do this kind of thing to isolate and alienate Mei Zhijun for Zhao Huiying's vexatious trouble.

On the other hand, Mei Zhijun sent him millet, white noodles, soybeans, buckwheat noodles, sticky bean buns, pork, rabbit, chicken, and various mountain goods every year, both in quantity and quality, were far from being comparable to the little bit that Zhao Huiying threw at him with a face of charity.

"Yufen!" As soon as she entered the courtyard gate, Zheng Juan immediately took three steps and two steps towards She Yufen, who came out.

"Sister-in-law, big brother, hurry, hurry, sit in the house." She Yufen wiped the water droplets on her hands on her apron while enthusiastically letting Mei Zhizhong and Zheng Juan into the room.

"Mother and father didn't come again?" The four of them entered the house together, and She Yufen asked casually while pouring water for Mei Zhizhong and Zheng Juan.

Mei Zhijun, who was in charge of inviting people in the past, suddenly darkened his face, "If you don't come, you won't come, as if I don't want them to come!" ”

Mei Zhizhong had an expression of "brother, I can understand you" - since Mei Zhijun split up, except for the first year, every year after that, Mei Zhijun would invite Mei Zhizhong, who went home to visit relatives, to come over for dinner.

Naturally, he will also bring Mei Jinfeng, Zhao Huiying, Mei Zhiming, and Mei Zhifeng.

However, Zhao Huiying never went to Mei Zhijun's house to eat.

It's not that she doesn't want to eat this ready-made meal, but she desperately doesn't want her children to sit with her.

She has always stubbornly believed that as long as they have a good relationship, she, the mother, will have no status and will be isolated.