Chen Xiu snorted coldly. "What you say sounds better than a song. You can say whatever you want now, but if you don't acknowledge it in the future, who can do anything to you?"
"That's still better than someone who doesn't even look at her mom's house all year round." In the past, Madam Chen had always been afraid of offending people, so she had always been polite. Now, she could see that the weaker someone was, the more they would bully you and bully you.
Now that Chen Xiu was looking for trouble, why should she give her any face?
Chen Xiu didn't expect Madam Chen to suddenly become unyielding, and it took her a long time to come back to her senses.
How did that Li Xiaojuan, who wasn't good with words, become so powerful?
Chen Xiu was a true disciple of Grandma Chen's shrew tantrum. After staring blankly for a moment, she quickly came back to her senses and said, "Li Xiaojuan, who are you talking about?"
Madam Chen glanced at Chen Xiu indifferently. "I'm talking about whoever answered. In any case, there's not a year that goes by that I don't visit my mom's house."
After saying this, Madam Chen turned to look at the others. "Since you're all here today, you're my and Chen Yan's guests. Now that my parents and I have already split up, we don't want to talk about what's right and wrong. If you're really curious about why we split up, you might as well ask your mom why Chen Yan and I are so good-natured that we have to move out."
The last sentence was directed at Chen Xiu.
After saying this, Madam Chen glanced at Chen Xiu and walked into the kitchen without looking back.
Jiujiu immediately followed her.
Chen Xiu was embarrassed by Madam Chen, and her face flushed red as she said angrily, "Good-natured my ass."
Hearing Chen Xiu's words, Father Chen, who had been silent all this time, suddenly opened his mouth. "Elder sister, if you think my wife is wrong, don't come anymore. I, Chen Yan, am not worthy of a relative like you."
Father Chen's sudden words silenced Chen Xiu completely.
Because she knew that this little brother of hers was a man of his word.
The others were also curious, but now that Chen Xiu had been rebuked so fiercely, they didn't dare ask.
Chen Xiu mumbled a few words, but no one paid her any attention. After a while, she didn't say anything.
Chen Yan had been very happy that his brother and sister had come. He had not expected Chen Xiu to cause such a scene in front of everyone. His heart, which had not been warm to begin with, had turned cold.
To put it bluntly, all of his brothers and sisters added together were not as important as the Han couple.
Blood brothers were trying their best to scheme against themselves, while friends who had nothing to do with them were constantly pulling them to climb up the social ladder.
Before school started, the Han couple had already said that they would help take care of the two children. However, their biological grandmother kept telling the children not to be filial to their parents in the future.
How could Chen Yan not feel bitterly disappointed when he thought about how the Han Family had helped them find a shop and the money that his family owed the Han Family, compared to how well the Han Family had treated him, and then looked at how his own brother and sister were trying to drag him down.
Chen Yan had already thought it through. In the future, his siblings would act as if they were normal relatives. They would interact with each other on important matters, but they would not disturb each other on small matters.
When her parents were gone in the future, her already thin feelings would become even thinner.
It was supposed to be a happy meal, but because of Chen Xiu's actions, everyone's mood turned sour.
After the meal, they were no longer in the mood to chat, and left in twos and threes.
But it was probably because his heart had already died, so Father Chen wasn't too sad when he saw his relatives leave so quickly.
Anyway, he now had friends, a wife who was good to him, and smart and cute children. What was there to be dissatisfied with in life?
After the sixth day of the Chinese New Year, all the relatives had left.
When they went back to work on the eighth day of the Chinese New Year, Father Chen, Mother Chen, and Mother Han registered the shop under their names, and then started to renovate it.
Because the shop was already a business to begin with, Father Chen and Mother Chen only tidied it up briefly. After the fifteenth day of the Chinese New Year, the shop would officially open for business.
Because of the shop, the menu was a lot more varied. Not only were there stir-fried noodles, there were also noodles such as wontons.
Father Chen didn't know how to cook, so he was in charge of the cashier and other miscellaneous tasks.
Mother Chen had a steady source of customers to begin with. Now that the shop was open, she quickly regained her previous popularity. Moreover, because of the shop, she had prepared more ingredients, and the menu was a lot more varied, so the number of customers was even greater than before.
Now, the restaurant's turnover was a lot more than the two of them combined, and Father Chen and Mother Chen were full of energy.
Because of Mother Han's words about buying a house, the two of them didn't want to build a house anymore. They planned to save up enough money and buy a house in the county city so that the two children could live in the city.
Not long after school started, Jiujiu's teacher sent her to the city to take part in a competition.
The questions were more difficult, but Jiujiu wasn't a real nine-year-old, so she naturally knew how to do them.
The results of the competition wouldn't be out for a month, but Jiujiu wasn't nervous at all. Once the results were out, she planned to skip a grade. When she entered junior high school, she planned to go to the junior high school in the city.
Jiujiu was very confident that given her grades, the junior high school in the city would definitely be very happy to accept her as a student.
Life moved forward in small steps.
Jiujiu walked at a leisurely pace, and so did everyone else.
Father Chen and Mother Chen's business was on the right track. Not only had they paid back all the money they borrowed from the Han family, they also had their own savings. Now, when they were at home, apart from counting money, they were developing new menus, as if the restaurant was their business.
Chen Chen was still naughty, but under Jiujiu's care, her grades improved steadily. As for Han He, although he still had a bad temper, because of Jiujiu, he was willing to spend more time listening to other people's opinions. When he ran into problems, he wouldn't be as conflicted as before, and was more willing to be patient and put himself in other people's shoes.
Everyone was moving forward toward a better future, except for Grandma Chen.
Ever since Father Chen and Mother Chen said in public during the New Year that they would never go back, Grandma Chen had started smashing the pot to pieces.
Maybe it was because she was angry with Father Chen and Mother Chen, but since she couldn't have what she wanted, she might as well destroy it.
Grandma Chen directly turned on Xianglin Sao mode and started complaining to people she met. She scolded Father Chen and Mother Chen from head to toe, and then she scolded Jiujiu and Chen Chen from head to toe, saying that the family were ingrates who had done her wrong.
There were only so many people in the village, and there were only so many things that happened in the village.
In the beginning, there were still people who came to watch the fun and listen to Grandma Chen talk about Father Chen and Mother Chen, but as Grandma Chen repeated the same thing over and over again, they quickly lost interest. Not to mention listening to Grandma Chen, they even asked her back, "I remember that you said before that you wanted your youngest son and daughter-in-law to go home. Since he's so bad, why do you want them to go home?"
These two sentences were said by Grandma Chen herself, and she was directly rebuked until she shut herself up.
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