Eating melons

When Chen Fang saw that Wu Mei stopped talking, she thought she was shy and didn't say anything else.

Anyway, Wu Mei doesn't understand this matter, so she will just help her daughter out when the time comes.

Anyway, she would not leave her daughter in the countryside to suffer. No matter how good the city is, it is always better than the countryside.

She also knew what Wu Mei was thinking, but it was impossible to have the best of both worlds.

Besides, Wu Mei's family is not without support, so the man certainly wouldn't dare to go too far.

When making dinner in the evening, the mother and daughter had new disagreements.

What happened was that when Wu Mei was cooking, she just wanted to stir-fry the food and add oil, but when she thought about the conditions at home, she couldn't be as lax as she was at her own home.

Therefore, I replaced the action of scooping oil with a spoon with the cotton gauze I used when cooking at home, and dipped the cotton gauze in oil and rubbed it on the pot.

But when Chen Fang saw it, she was furious and heartbroken.

"No, no, no, you wasteful bastard, why do you need to put oil in the soup?

This oil can't last long. There is only so little oil, and we have to wait until the Chinese New Year to get any income. Moreover, the oil we get during the Chinese New Year will last us a whole year, so it won't last long.

Since we ate so much oily food yesterday, there’s no need to add oil to this soup.

Besides, this mushroom soup is sweet, so it's delicious even without oil, so there's no need to add that, it's a waste."

He opened his mouth when he heard this, but he didn't know what to say. After a long while, he said:

"Don't we have oil coupons every month? Why are we out of oil?"

"I changed the ticket and replaced it with another one."

"Mom, did something happen at home? Don't hide it from me, otherwise our family wouldn't be so short of money, and there's no way we'd have to save to this extent."

Upon hearing this, Chen Fang rolled her eyes at Wu Mei and said, "Don't you know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are if you don't manage the household? How can you compare to what you had before?"

Before, I just wanted to raise you guys, but now you are grown up and are going to start your own families. It’s okay for you two siblings, but what about your brother?

Even though I have you two sisters, I don't want people to say I'm selling my daughters, and I don't expect you to have much money for the bride price, but you still have to save enough for your brother's marriage."

After hearing what Chen Fang said before, Wu Mei was silent and didn't know what to say.

But when Wu Mei heard the following words, she couldn't hear anything else. There was only one thing in her mind, which was why she didn't want the bride price and why she couldn't ask for it.

"Why can't I ask for more? Shouldn't I just ask for as much as I can? And the more the better."

When Wu Mei heard about the betrothal money, the only thing that came to her mind was what Wei Wei and Jiang Qi had said before: the betrothal money is the capital that a girl gives to herself, and she cannot refuse it.

Therefore, Wu Mei did not react for a while, and did not know that the meaning of the betrothal money in her mind and Chen Fang's mind was different.

Chen Fang couldn't help but slap her on the arm after saying this.

"You silly girl, you can only say this at home, but not outside, understand?

If people knew about this, they would think we were selling our daughter.

Besides, if I ask for a high betrothal gift, how will you live in your husband's family in the future? Your mother-in-law will be so angry that she will want to eat you up, and then even if she is right, she will become unreasonable."

Hearing this, Wu Mei was about to retort that this was selling her daughter, but when the words were on the tip of her tongue she realized what her mother meant.

She had forgotten all these things. After staying with Wei Wei and the others for a long time, her thoughts followed Wei Wei and the others.

Therefore, she forgot one thing: the betrothal gift Wei Wei asked for was for her to take back and keep for herself.

The betrothal gift her mother asked for was not for her to take back, but for her mother to keep.

Thinking about this, to be honest, there are two little guys fighting in Wu Mei's mind now, and the concepts of these two little guys are not only different, but also corresponding.

One is the idea that he has been exposed to since he was a child, and everyone around him has this idea.

The other is an idea that is shocking to the world, but one that she strongly agrees with.

Therefore, there were two little people fighting in Wu Mei's heart, and she really didn't know what to do.

While Wu Mei was getting along with her family, the three people from Shanghai also arrived home. Because their homes were in different directions, Jiang Qi parted ways with Liu Jiaojiao and Yu Xi when they arrived at the train station.

Liu Jiaojiao and Yu Xi went back together because the two families were old friends and neighbors.

When Jiang Qi set foot in Shanghai again, his mood was completely different from when he first left.

At that time, she just wanted to leave quickly. She was afraid that she would be exposed if she stayed for another second, but now she has completely relaxed.

One reason is that they have been separated for so long that the Jiang family would not be too surprised even if her personality changed.

In addition, the correspondence with the Jiang family over the past year or so has eased the relationship between her and them, and it is no longer so unfamiliar.

To be honest, over the past year or so, under the care of the original owner's parents, Jiang Qi was also somewhat conquered by the original owner's mother's gentle strategy.

She has always been a person who responds to soft words and not to harsh ones. At the beginning, she was not used to other people's kindness to her because she couldn't repay them.

But after getting along with Wei Wei for a long time, she gradually changed a lot and gradually accepted the feelings of the original owner's parents towards her.

Therefore, she was a little bit looking forward to her trip to Shanghai this time.

In fact, not only Jiang Qi is looking forward to it, but Jiang Jianshe and Ning Lanzhen are also very much looking forward to it.

Knowing that their daughter would be back today, the Jiang family could no longer wait.

Jiang Jianshe originally planned to go to the train station to pick someone up, but was stopped by Jiang Qi, who said that he wanted to come back with his friends and that it would be inconvenient for his friends to be with their parents, so Jiang Jianshe did not go.

When it was time for dinner, Ning Lanzhen could no longer sit still. She kept looking at the gate of the compound, her neck almost stretched out.

Jiang Jianshe was also not at peace, which could be seen from the newspaper he was holding in his hand and had never turned the page.