In the first ten years of Mei Yali's last life, Zhao Huiying's husband, children, and everyone in Taizi Village didn't understand why Zhao Huiying was afraid that her children would have a harmonious relationship.

Many people said that she lacked heart and eyes, and many people called her "stirring up the family" behind her back, until she was old and began to need her children to take care of and support, Mei Zhijun and others gradually understood her "foresight".

The fear that they would come together and speak ill of her was just a point on her display, and her deeper concern was that if her children breathed out of one nostril, she would no longer be able to maintain her absolute authority in the family.

She needs as many people as possible to be on her side, only then will her vexatious actions appear to be correct and reasonable.

This is what Mei Zhijun summed up after Mei Yali was twenty years old.

At that time, he had personally experienced countless times of Zhao Huiying's wanton mess between his children, in order to be able to firmly grasp Mei Zhijun and Mei Zhizhong, the two sons who can make the most money and have the most hope of bringing her a better life, she has staged wonderful dramas in their big family.

After witnessing with his own eyes how Mei Zhiming and Mei Zhifeng stood on the same line with Zhao Huiying without distinguishing between right and wrong, and how they didn't even believe in her various provocations without even thinking about it, Mei Zhijun finally gave up completely and stopped trying to maintain a normal relationship with his younger siblings.

In the kitchen, Zheng Juan asked in a low voice while helping She Yufen cut potato cubes: "Then when you invite the third child (Mei Zhiming, the third brother in the brother) and Zhifeng, did Yali's grandfather and grandmother come?" ”

She Yufen answered her question while kneading her dough, "Zhijun and I didn't invite them this year. ”

Zheng Juan stayed for a moment before looking at She Yufen with disbelieving eyes, "No, they didn't come to your house for dinner last year, right?" Is this going to be a cut off with you? ”

She Yufen pursed her lips, "Isn't it just to cut off the way with us!" Not to mention that they came to eat, Zhijun went to invite them, and ate their big meal! ”

Zheng Juan's lips opened slightly, and it took a while before she sighed with a complicated expression, "No wonder Yali and her grandmother are rare for their little sons and daughters, look at what people are doing with this posture of breathing out of their nostrils, then it is really a mother and son, a mother and daughter." ”

She Yufen was angry and funny, "What? Do you want Yali her milk to be rare and rare for you? ”

Zheng Juan waved her hand and shook her head again, "Don't mind, I can't afford it." Don't you see her attitude towards your eldest brother and me, and you don't know and think that he left behind in the front nest. ”

"Isn't she the same for Zhijun?" She Yufen was not surprised, "I heard Zhijun say that when I beat Xiaoer Yali and her milk, I favor the third child and Zhifeng." Especially the third child, from childhood to adulthood, Yali's grandmother has always put him on the tip of her heart. Not to mention the work done, there are almost no beatings and scoldings. Unlike Zhijun and my eldest brother, I don't have to be idle every day with a small long life (dialect, meaning the same as long-term work), and I didn't delay being beaten or scolded. ”

Zheng Juan looked envious, "Zhijun still told you this?" Your eldest brother in our family forced me to come back with him every time and again, I complained a few words, and he still made a face with me. ”

"That's because he's not been tortured yet." She Yufen didn't save face for Mei Zhizhong and Mei Zhijun at all, "If it weren't for me and our family Yali almost dying in the hands of her grandmother, how much better do you think Zhijun could be better than his eldest brother?" ”

The two big men who were also gossiping in the room were immediately silenced, and the two brothers looked at each other, and neither dared to say anything, for fear that one of them would accidentally attract the unanimous condemnation of the two women in the stove room.

Zheng Juan didn't think of denouncing Mei Zhizhong for the time being, she sighed at She Yufen while working, "I knew that the old lady of their family was such a person, I said that I would not marry your eldest brother." Don't you know, some time ago, she went down to deliver food to the third child, and met my dad at my house, and then she had to force my dad to be an introducer for her old son. ”

"She asked my uncle to introduce her old son?" She Yufen had an expression on her face that couldn't tell what it was, "Then what conditions did she mention?" Didn't you say how much dowry you would give? ”

"That's it. said that he could give 2,000, so that my dad could give her the best choice. also said that he would buy a house for the third child in Shuidi Township. Zheng Juan relayed Zhao Huiying's words in a fifteen-ten, and at the end asked She Yufen in a tone full of suspicion, "Does her grandmother have so much money?" The bride price of 2,000 yuan, plus the wine and the purchase of a house, is not a small amount of money. ”

Zheng Juan is from Shuidi Township, and it costs at least 3,000 yuan to buy a house with them.

Coupled with the bride price, the money for the wedding and wine, the money for pulling cloth, buying cotton to make clothes, shoes and socks, bedding and pillows, and the money for adding furniture and farm tools, this happy event will not be able to be done without 6,000 yuan.

She Yufen laughed angrily when she heard this, she turned her head sideways at the door of her east house, and asked Mei Zhijun in a loud voice, "Hey-Zhijun, does your mother have so much money?" ”

Mei Zhijun's face turned blue, "She has a fart!" Don't say that she has no money, even if she has money, she can give disaster immediately! Saving money for her son to marry a daughter-in-law, is this something she can do? ”

She Yufen was about to speak, and Mei Zhizhong had already opened her mouth immediately after Mei Zhijun's words, "Yufen, don't listen to your sister-in-law's nonsense. I told her that Yali had no money, no money, and she just didn't believe me. ”

Zheng Juan was immediately unhappy, "You said she had no money, but didn't she also say that she had a passbook of 5,000 yuan in Zhifeng's hand?" ”

She Yufen sneered and laughed out loud, "Didn't Zhifeng complain when she got married that Yali and her grandmother deducted the bride price of the old Wei family, and didn't let her bring a penny?" Why did a 5,000 yuan passbook pop up again? Isn't her grandmother afraid that Zhifeng will also learn from her, and deduct the 5,000 yuan and not pay her back? ”

"What's she afraid of at all?" Mei Zhijun raised his voice and said to Zheng Juan: "Sister-in-law, you tell my uncle, don't copy her words as they are, she doesn't have so much money for others, let alone buy a house for the third child to buy a house with you." ”

Zheng Juan stopped chopping vegetables, turned her head to the door of the east house and said, "The problem is that she didn't just tell my dad alone, she also told Aunt Yang." ”

Aunt Yang is the hostess of the small house that Mei Zhizhong and their family rented, because her son is filial and filial, she and the landlord will move to the city to live with her son after the New Year.

In the past few years, the relationship between their old couple and Mei Zhizhong and his wife has been very good, and the landlord is grateful for Mei Zhizhong's long-term care for them, and has decided to sell his house and yard to Mei Zhizhong at a relatively cheap price.

So when Mei Zhizhong came back this time, he actually had the intention of borrowing some money from Zhao Huiying or Mei Zhijun to go back and buy a house.