Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

Everyone was eating dried persimmons when Xu Chunying arrived. Zhang Xiuhua gave her a few and said, "Here! Try them!"

Xu Chunying put it in her mouth and said, "Mmm, sweet! It tastes completely different from our frozen persimmons."

Seeing that they had something to say, Ji Lin and the other two took Tong Shuyu and Zhuzhu out to play.

Zhang Xiuhua asked Xu Chunying, "Will Hongwu come back this year?"

"Not coming back! Hongwu's wife has also started working. She works in a private company and has to go to work on New Year's Eve. It takes a lot of time to go back and forth. I heard that it's hard to find a job in the south now." Xu Chunying sighed.

Zhang Xiuhua saw that she was worried, "What's wrong? Why are you unhappy?"

Xu Chunying opened her mouth and wanted to speak, but hesitated for a long time before she said, "Hongxia won't come back this year either."

"You kept urging her to get married before, and she got scared, so she didn't come back." Zhang Xiuhua thought she shouldn't keep urging the child, "Hongxia is doing well now."

"What's good about that? She's already in her twenties and she doesn't even find a partner. If she doesn't want to find someone local, she can find someone from another place." Xu Chunying felt aggrieved when she mentioned Hongxia.

Zhang Xiuhua didn't know what to say, so she changed the subject, "Is grandma going for a checkup tomorrow? If big brother doesn't have time, let Jianguo take her alone."

Xu Chunying nodded, "Okay! I'll talk to him."

She stayed only for a moment and then left.

In the evening, Zhang Xiuhua and Li Jianguo talked about their eldest brother's three children while chatting before going to bed.

"They all just take care of their own families. They don't even come back for the New Year. How did these kids grow up like this?!"

Li Jianguo was confused. "What's wrong?"

"Hongwu's wife has to work overtime and can't come back. Hongwu can just come back with the children by himself. And Hongwen, he works for a foreign company, but it's said that the foreign company has withdrawn its investment, so he should be out of work, so why doesn't he come back? Not to mention Hongxia. Her mother no longer forces her to find a partner in her hometown. She's in a tutoring class, and there's no one attending the classes during the New Year." Zhang Xiuhua felt heartbroken for Xu Chunying.

Her eldest sister-in-law had many shortcomings, but she was extremely kind to the children. When the three children were in college, they couldn't even cook a dish. It was all because of the eldest sister-in-law's spoiling.

Li Jianguo couldn't figure it out either. "Children nowadays yearn for freedom. I heard from Xu Wenyao that parents in the south save money and spend a lot of money to send their children to study abroad. After graduation, they directly become foreign citizens and never come back!"

Zhang Xiuhua sighed, saying that studying abroad at one's own expense was a huge expense. If the child obtained foreign citizenship, it was equivalent to raising them in vain. She didn't quite understand, "No matter how good foreign countries are, they are not as good as our own country. There is racial discrimination over there, and you can only be a second-class citizen if you go there. You will be looked down upon and targeted all day long. They are really short-sighted!"

She could understand going abroad to work, after all, the salary was higher there, but she couldn't understand becoming a foreign citizen.

Li Jianguo told her to stop thinking about it. "The child is already grown up. We can't control him even if we want to. Besides, we are outsiders."

Zhang Xiuhua sighed and said nothing.

The next day, Li Jianguo took his mother to the hospital for a follow-up examination.

Liu Shujun's walking is obviously much better than before. She can usually stand at the door and chat with everyone, but she can't stand for long. She can also massage her legs.

Aunt Wang Er saw Li Jianguo and others coming back from the hospital at the door and greeted Liu Shujun, "You look well. What did the doctor say?"

"The doctor said the recovery is good." Liu Shujun replied slowly.

Aunt Wang was also happy for her.

As the elderly age, their body functions decline and they will suffer from various diseases. Last winter, three elderly people in the village passed away.

Liu Shujun suffers from two serious illnesses, but she can still walk like a normal person, which makes many people in the village envious.

Soon the village began to distribute dividends. At the general meeting of all villagers, Xu Chunying did not invest, but when she heard that other villagers were coming, they were bored at home and came to join in the fun.

Ergou and Li Jianguo stood on the stage, while Zhang Xiuhua was in charge of registration below the stage. Next to her sat the factory's accountant and cashier.

Ergou briefly talked about the investment situation in the south. "The factories we invested in the south have been set up in various provinces. The factory buildings have been built and the equipment has been purchased, so there is no way to distribute dividends. But for our county's brewery, I will make an exception and distribute dividends to everyone. You can get back the same amount of money you invested before. When all our factories are completed next year, I will distribute dividends to everyone at the end of the year."

As soon as he finished speaking, the villagers below applauded enthusiastically.

Li Jianguo held a loudspeaker and called out names on the stage. Those whose names were called went to Zhang Xiuhua to put their fingerprints or sign their names, and then went to the accountant to collect their money.

Ergou watched from the side. The one who got the most money this time was his godmother, followed by him, then his godfather, Youcai, and then the villagers.

Li Jianguo thought that after getting the money, he could pay off the bank debt. Three years later, most of the money he paid was interest. It was painful. After paying off the debt, he would have tens of thousands of yuan in hand. He thought about doing something else.

He was thinking about how to make money. Ergou, who was standing next to him, saw the old village chief take the money and went home without stopping.

"Look, how happy everyone is." Ergou was infected by everyone's emotions.

Li Jianguo took a look and couldn't help laughing, "Are you going to the town to buy meat?"

The New Year is coming soon. If you don’t buy it now, you will miss the market.

As soon as the two finished speaking, they saw Guoxiang hurriedly leaving with his luggage. The old village chief and Song Lianhua chased after him, calling his name over and over.

The villagers whose turn it was not yet heard some noise behind them and turned around.

"Old village chief? What happened to Guoxiang?"

The old village head and his wife didn't catch up with Guoxiang, and they stamped their feet, "You little bastard, you took the money and ran away, and you insisted on going to the south to make a comeback!"

Ergou was slightly startled. "It's New Year's Day, there's no need to be so anxious, right?!"

"That's right. He refused to listen to my advice." The old village chief was angry at his grandson's disobedience. "He divorced Xiaoli without our consent."

This statement caused a great deal of controversy. People at that time would not easily divorce. Moreover, Guoxiang and Xiaoli had been married for less than three years, so why did they divorce?

Some touched each other's arms and winked at each other.

"Do you even need to ask? It must be that Guoxiang found a mistress and angered Xiaoli. Xiaoli couldn't stand it and divorced him."

Some people think it is not that simple, "Why divorce?"

"The mistress cheated him of our money, so Xiaoli divorced him. The shop was given to Xiaoli, and the factory was given to Guoxiang. He divorced us without our consent and even didn't want the child anymore." Song Lianhua was so angry that her liver ached. She might never see her eldest granddaughter again.

Someone was too outspoken to hold back, "In my opinion, Guoxiang was wrong in this matter. He and Xiaoli are a couple, but he insisted on having a mistress outside. This is just a slap in Xiaoli's face. If my daughter was bullied by him like that, I would bring my whole family to chop off his head!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Song Lianhua's face changed. The others touched the person who spoke and asked her not to say these things in front of the person involved.

Although the others were not as straightforward as this person, the disapproval in their eyes was more or less revealed.

The old village chief and Song Lianhua felt that these people were deliberately making fun of their family, so they just shut up and went home.

Despite this little episode, the villagers who received the dividends were still very happy.

Some people even plan to buy beef or mutton to add more meat flavor to the New Year's Eve dinner!

"I also want to buy a color TV, but I don't know how much it costs now?"

"Color TV? Two or three thousand, right? And you need a ticket. It's not easy to get."

The villagers dispersed in twos and threes. Zhang Xiuhua sat for more than an hour, her feet freezing.

When we got home, the kids were listening to Zhu Zhu’s CD and she was passionately performing her singing skills.

Jilin wanted to watch the TV series, but he couldn't stand being blocked by his sister. "Are you sure that's your voice? Why do I feel like the CD sounds better?"

"That's with accompaniment. I'm singing a cappella now. Is that okay?" Zhu Zhu was not convinced. "My CD is selling very well. If you don't believe me, ask my second brother. He can vouch for me."

When Zhang Xiuhua and her group came back, Ergou was forced by Zhuzhu to testify.

Ergou was also very considerate, "Yes! The teacher who recorded Zhuzhu's songs said that Zhuzhu's voice is very special. It is very suitable for sweet songs."

Ji Lin nodded perfunctorily, "Okay, okay, I believe it."

He immediately went over and turned off the CD player because he wanted to watch a TV series.