The old house I just bought really needs to be renovated simply, at least with a white wall, so that I can live in it.

The extra money given by my father-in-law can be regarded as solving their urgent needs at that time.

Zhou Lan thanked her father-in-law for being kind to them, and after taking the money, she said to her man privately that they are borrowing the money from their elders now, and when they save the money, they will definitely pay it back!

…

With the money, the house was quickly bought and transferred, and Meng Dabao and Zhou Lan finally had their own house.

Because the house has to be empty for a period of time to ventilate and ventilate after the walls are painted, during this period, the two still live in their in-laws' house with their son.

is about to celebrate the New Year, and the youngest daughter of the Meng family, Meng Xiaoxiao, will also come back.

Meng Xiaoxiao didn't go home last year, and this year when she learned that she was coming back, the family was looking forward to it.

It's just that the fly in the ointment is that the second elder of the Meng family is only Meng Heng's father, Meng Xiang.

Meng Heng's mother, Liu Cui, passed away two years ago.

Although Meng Heng's father is still alive, his health is not as good as year by year.

…

When there were three or four days left before the Chinese New Year, Meng Xiaoxiao returned to Kyoto from the southern city-

On this day, Meng Heng received the news in advance, specially asked for leave, and went to the train station to pick up his daughter early.

Meng Dabao only worked for half a day, so he told the foreman that there was something, and then went home to take a shower, cleaned himself up, and waited for his sister to come back.

Not long after Meng Dabao finished cleaning up, he heard the sound of the door opening downstairs.

He immediately went downstairs, and soon saw his father walking into the house with a girl—

Meng Xiaoxiao is eighteen years old this year, and she has become a big girl.

She has been working outside the home since graduating from junior high school, and it has been more than three years now.

Meng Xiaoxiao weaves carpets in the carpet factory, and her salary is paid according to the piecework rate.

Except for the first year, when she was born by hand, she took less money, and in the next two years, her monthly salary was almost the same as that of Meng Dabao on the construction site.

Meng Dabao hadn't seen his sister for two years, and when he saw his sister wearing a red skirt coat, a white rabbit fur scarf around her neck, and makeup on her face, he almost couldn't recognize it for a while!

Meng Xiaoxiao is only eighteen years old, but her current dress is too mature, and no one doubts that she is twenty-five or sixteen years old!

Seeing his family, Meng Xiaoxiao's expression was light, and there was no expression of joy at all to reunite with her relatives after a long absence.

She just glanced upstairs, then fell on her father Meng Heng, and asked lightly, "My room is still there, right?" ”

When Meng Heng heard his daughter ask, he immediately replied, "Of course!" ”

Although my daughter has been away from home for many years, her room has always been kept, and if there are any clutter that needs to be piled up at home, it will not be put into my daughter's house.

There is no doubt that their daughter has always had a place in the family.

Hearing her father's words, Meng Xiaoxiao was slightly surprised.

However, she did not continue the topic, but was about to go upstairs with her bag of luggage, which was not too big.

When Meng Dabao saw his sister's actions, he immediately stepped forward to take the luggage from his sister's hand and helped his sister take her things upstairs.

Meng Xiaoxiao didn't refuse, just silently watched her brother take the luggage into her room.

Meng Heng looked at the children who seemed to be a little unfamiliar with each other, which was different from what he thought at the beginning.

When I was a child, Xiaoxiao was very clingy to my brother, and I don't know when it started, the two brothers and sisters were not so close.

And now that he has been out for three years, Xiaoxiao who has returned from a part-time job seems to be even more unfamiliar with Dabao's brother?

Meng Heng didn't think too deeply about this matter, he felt that maybe it was because Xiaoxiao had been away from home for too long, so he didn't talk much to his brother and his father.

After a few days of her adaptation at home, she will slowly get close to her family~!

But Meng Heng didn't expect that his daughter Meng Xiaoxiao hadn't been out of the room the rest of the day except for dinner on the second day of her return.

On the third day, she put on her makeup and went out to meet her classmates.

Before going out, she didn't forget to say hello to her grandfather at home, saying that she would not come back for dinner at noon.

Meng Xiang saw his granddaughter's dress, and smiled and asked his granddaughter to go out and have fun.

Although Meng Xiang is old, his heart is not too old, he thinks that girls go out to make money, and they can't find someone to show off when they come back~!

On the fourth day, on Chinese New Year's Eve, Meng Xiaoxiao sat down with her family to eat for the first time after returning home.

At the dining table, Meng Xiang, Meng Heng, and Meng Dabao's ancestors and grandchildren sat next to each other.

Next to Meng Dabao are Zhou Lan and his five-year-old son Meng Tao.

On the other side of Meng Tao, sitting was Meng Xiaoxiao's mother Sun Yuan.

Sun Yuan is a clerical worker, she is in her forties this year and has not yet retired.

Recently, it has been busy at the end of the year, so she didn't have time to pick up her daughter a few days ago.

She went out early and returned late, and when she came back, her daughter had already gone back to her room to rest.

Sun Yuan saw that the lights in her daughter's house were turned off, so she didn't bother.

So in the past few days, she, as a mother, is actually sitting down with her daughter for the first time.

At this time, Meng Xiaoxiao was sitting next to her mother.

She looked at her mother at the dinner table constantly picking up dishes for Meng Tao, the eldest grandson, and only said a word to herself in the interval, Meng Xiaoxiao suddenly felt that she was facing this table of sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and instantly lost her appetite!

So Meng Xiaoxiao didn't eat a few bites, so she got up and said that she was going upstairs.

Meng Xiaoxiao's reaction in front of her family at this time, anyone can see that the situation is not normal!

This is obviously a problem with getting along with your family!

But neither Meng Heng nor Sun Yuan knew what was going on with their daughter.

Meng Xiang and Meng Dabao couldn't see it.

Only Zhou Lan, who was sitting next to Meng Dabao, faintly saw something about the situation.

But she was also speculating, thinking that it could be that the brother-sister relationship between her sister-in-law and her man was not good?

Otherwise, it stands to reason that when an aunt sees her nephew, even if she doesn't usually see her, she always has to scream when she sees her now, and say a few words to her nephew, even if it's polite.

But in fact, since the sister-in-law came home, she has not had any contact with her son.

Even Taotao took the initiative to call his little aunt, but he didn't react when he smiled, and he didn't care about Taotao at all.

It's as if a child as big as Tao Tao doesn't exist at home-

What kind of enmity can a big girl have with a child?

All Zhou Lan could think of was that her man and sister had a bad relationship, so her sister-in-law ignored her nephew.

Although Zhou Lan just guessed, she actually guessed correctly!

And Sun Yuan's side.

The daughter's abnormal reaction in the face of her family made Sun Yuan, a mother, have to pay attention.

"Xiaoxiao, what kind of temper have you been making these days?"

Sun Yuan was a little unhappy, she shook her face in front of her elders during the New Year, and her daughter was too ignorant!

(End of chapter)