The all-round housekeeper is a stick

Lin Jianhua had just entered the kitchen, and the cleanliness there was also giving him a headache. He could sweep the floors in the living room and the bedroom, but he really couldn't figure out the kitchen.

Back in the country, my mother, my sister-in-law, A-Yu, and my two nieces-in-law took turns doing the kitchen work. Later, when I came to the city, my mother-in-law and her helpers took over.

Hearing his sons complaining, he told them about Lin Mumu.

"I plan to bring your sister back home so that someone can do the laundry and clean up."

The 11-year-old Lin Yuanze has no memory of his younger sister at all. He was only 6 years old at that time. With so many friends in the city in recent years, who could still remember his sister in the countryside?

Thirteen-year-old Lin Yuanyu still remembers it. He was already eight at the time. After school, his sister would always follow him and call him "brother." When he first came to the city, he even asked his parents when they would pick up his sister.

Later he learned that the grandmother here didn't like girls and said she didn't want to waste food to raise a money-losing girl. She also told him that if he took his sister back, he and his brother would not be able to eat meat every day.

My mother also disliked my younger sister, believing she was a waste of food when she was young, and that raising her in the village would be less wasteful. My younger sister's household registration was transferred to ours, but our family was the one receiving the food allotment that belonged to her. They were the ones eating it.

My grandmother here said that was a reward for my sister's household registration. Otherwise, a money-loser wouldn't need a city household registration. She also told my father not to bring my sister back to the city until she could exchange for a betrothal gift.

My sister is only 8 years old now. Although they don’t live with my grandparents anymore, I often go to their house to visit them on weekends. If my grandparents knew about this, they would definitely be unhappy.

Therefore, Lin Yuanyu did not agree with his father taking his sister back.

"Grandma doesn't like my sister."

Lin Jianhua knew that his mother-in-law favored boys over girls. Even though he was a girl, he looked down on girls. If his wife hadn't lost her two brothers and left no children, she wouldn't have been valued by her parents-in-law even though she had two sons.

You have to know that they had been married for 8 years before the college entrance examination was resumed. During these 8 years, his father-in-law and mother-in-law didn't care whether their child was a boy or a girl. During these 8 years, his wife only returned to the city to visit relatives once.

It was only after my brothers-in-law got into trouble that my wife received the care of her parents-in-law again, and the two old people began to pay attention to their children.

"It's okay. We won't live together. We can just leave her alone when we go back. Your mother's health really can't handle the work. If we hire someone, we won't be able to eat meat every two days anymore."

Lin Jianhua gave the two children a rough accounting of the wages he had inquired about for the helpers. Worried that they had no idea how much money was, he converted it into meat.

After hearing that their family would have to eat 20 to 30 kilograms less meat after hiring someone to help, both of them had expressions of pain on their faces.

"Even if we can hold on until your mother gives birth to your little brother, she still has to go back to work after the little brother is born, and we'll still have to hire someone to help. It will probably cost even more money then."

They have to take care of children and the household. If they feel that there is too much work to do, they will definitely ask for more salary.

"But if we take your sister back, even though she doesn't know how to cook, she can do things like washing clothes, cleaning, and looking after her little brother. Besides, she's only 8 years old and can't eat. Even if we take in another sister, we don't need to spend the same money as or kilograms of meat to raise her."

Lin Huaiyu, who had already gotten up, drank the bland pork rib soup and ate some steamed buns made from two kinds of flour. She nodded, agreeing with her husband. Raising a girl didn't require spending twenty or thirty kilograms of meat a month.

She had just woken up and was relaxing in bed.

She heard all the children's "complaints" about her.

During this period, she hadn't washed her and her child's father's clothes properly, let alone the children's clothes. The clothes also had a bad smell, not to mention the kitchen hygiene.

Thanks to her parents, they still lived in a small, detached house, so they didn't have to share a kitchen with anyone else. Otherwise, if people knew that parts of their kitchen were moldy, she would be laughed to death.

"Let the children think about it," Lin Huaiyu asked her husband not to rush into a decision. She also needed to think about it carefully. If she stopped vomiting, there would be no need for it. She could wait until the child was born. "Let's talk about it after you finish this busy period."

Lin Huaiyu felt that morning sickness could not last that long, nor could it be so uncomfortable all the time.

But - it's just that troublesome.

Coupled with the hot weather, the two boys have been the ones to be taken care of since they were young, and they don’t know how to do housework and be considerate of their mother. After half a month of not having enough to eat and not having clean clothes to wear, the two brothers packed up their dirty clothes and returned to Lin Huaiyu’s mother’s house.

However, after the two boys went back and lived there for a week, Lin Huaiyu's mother Tang Shuangyue couldn't stand it anymore and urged the two children to go home. She asked Lin Huaiyu, who had struggled for a few days and had returned to her mother's home only one day ago, to take them home directly.