Author: Qing Xiyuan

The old house I just bought really needs some simple renovations, at least a whitewash on the walls, before it can be lived in.

The extra money given by the father-in-law will be able to solve their urgent needs by then.

Zhou Lan was grateful for her father-in-law's kindness to them. After taking the money, she told her husband in private that they were borrowing money from their elders and would definitely pay it back when they save the money!

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

Because the house had to be left empty for a while after the walls were painted, so during this period, the two of them and their son stayed at their in-laws' house.

The New Year is coming, and Meng Xiaoxiao, the youngest daughter of the Meng family, will also be back.

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

But the only fly in the ointment is that the only two elders of the Meng family are 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 getting worse every year.

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With 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, asked for leave, and went to the train station early to pick up his daughter.

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

Not long after Meng Dabao finished cleaning up, he heard the door open downstairs.

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

Meng Xiaoxiao is already eighteen years old this year and has become a grown-up girl.

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

Meng Xiaoxiao weaves carpets in a carpet factory and is paid on a piece-rate basis.

Except for the first year when she was a craftsman and she got a little less money, for the next two years or so, her monthly salary was almost the same as what Meng Dabao earned on the construction site.

Meng Dabao had not seen his sister for two years. When he saw her wearing a red skirt-style coat, a white rabbit fur scarf around her neck, and makeup on her face, he almost couldn't recognize her for a moment!

Meng Xiaoxiao is only eighteen years old, but the way she dresses now is too mature. No one would doubt that she is in her mid-twenties!

When she saw her family, Meng Xiaoxiao's expression was indifferent, and there was no expression of joy at all to reunite with her relatives after a long absence.

She just raised her head and glanced upstairs, then turned her eyes to her father, Meng Heng, and asked lightly, "Is my room still there?"

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

Although my daughter has been away from home for many years, she has always kept her room. If there are any sundries that need to be piled up at home, they will not be put into her daughter's room.

Their daughter has always had a place in the family, there is no doubt about it.

Meng Xiaoxiao was slightly surprised when she heard her father's words.

However, she did not continue the topic, but carried her own luggage, which was not too big, and headed upstairs.

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

Meng Xiaoxiao did not refuse, but silently watched her brother take the luggage into her room.

Meng Heng looked at the strange relationship between his children, which was different from what he had thought at first.

When I was little, Xiaoxiao was very attached to my brother. I don’t know since when, the brother and sister were no longer so close.

And now Xiaoxiao, who has returned from working for three years, seems even more unfamiliar with Dabao, her brother?

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

After she gets used to being at home for a few days, she will slowly get closer to her family~!

But Meng Heng did not expect that his daughter Meng Xiaoxiao would not leave the house except when eating on the second day after returning home.

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

Before going out, she did not forget to say hello to her grandfather at home, saying that he would not be back for lunch at noon.

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

Although Meng Xiang is old, his heart is not too old. He feels that if a girl goes out to make money, she should not find someone to show off to when she comes back~!

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

In front of the dining table, Meng Xiang, Meng Heng, Meng Dabao and his grandson were sitting 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 works as a clerical worker. She is already in her forties and has not retired yet.

The end of the year has been very busy recently, so she didn't have time to pick up her daughter in the past few days.

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

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

So in the past few days, as a mother, it was actually the first time for her to sit and have dinner with her daughter.

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

She watched her mother constantly picking up food for Meng Tao, her eldest grandson, at the dinner table, only saying a word to her during the break. Meng Xiaoxiao suddenly felt that she had lost her appetite in front of this sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner.

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So Meng Xiaoxiao didn't take a few bites before she stood up and said she was going upstairs.

Everyone could tell from Meng Xiaoxiao's reaction in front of her family that the situation was abnormal!

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

But neither Meng Heng nor Sun Yuan knew what happened to their daughter.

Meng Xiang and Meng Dabao couldn't tell even more.

Only Zhou Lan, who was sitting next to Meng Dabao, could vaguely see the situation.

But she was also speculating, wondering if 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 him, she will always call her and say a few words to her nephew, even if it is just polite.

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

Even when Taotao took the initiative to call her aunt, Xiaoxiao had no reaction and ignored Taotao at all.

It’s as if a child as big as Taotao doesn’t exist at home——

What grudge can a grown girl have against a child?

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

Although Zhou Lan was just guessing, she actually guessed it right!

As for Sun Yuan.

Sun Yuan, a mother, had to pay attention to her daughter's unusual reaction to her family.

"Xiaoxiao, what are you so angry about these days?"

Sun Yuan was a little unhappy. She was throwing her face in front of her elders during the Chinese New Year. Her daughter was too ignorant!
Chapter completed!