Chapter 581 Bad relationship

  The old house I just bought really needs some simple decoration, at least painting a white wall before I can live in it.

  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 man privately that they are now borrowing money from their elders, and when they save the money, they will definitely pay it back!

  …

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

  Because the house will be empty for a period of time after the walls are painted, so that the two of them still live in the in-laws' house with their son during this period.

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

  Meng Xiaoxiao did not go home last year, but this year when they learned that she was coming back, the whole family was looking forward to it.

   But the fly in the ointment is that only Meng Heng's father, Meng Xiang, is left as the second elder of the Meng family.

  Meng Heng's mother, Liu Cui, passed away two years ago.

  Although Meng Heng's father is still alive, his health is getting worse year by year.

  …

   Three or four days before the Chinese New Year, Meng Xiaoxiao returned to Kyoto from the southern city—

   On this day, Meng Heng received the news ahead of time, so he asked for leave and went to the train station early to pick up his daughter.

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

   Not long after Meng Dabao cleaned himself up here, he heard the door opening downstairs.

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

  Meng Xiaoxiao is eighteen years old this year, and she has become a big 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 his wages are paid on a piece-by-piece basis.

  Except for the first year when she was born by hand, she received a little less money. In the next two years or so, her monthly salary was about the same as what Meng Dabao earned on the construction site.

  Meng Dabao hasn't seen his younger sister for two years, and when he saw her wearing a red dress coat, a white rabbit fur scarf around her neck, and makeup on her face, he almost couldn't recognize her for a while!

  Meng Xiaoxiao is only eighteen years old, but her current attire is a bit too mature. No one doubts that she is twenty-five or sixteen years old!

   Seeing her family members, Meng Xiaoxiao's expression was calm, not at all happy to reunite with her relatives after a long absence.

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

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

  Although the daughter is not at home for many years, her room has been kept. Usually, if there are any sundries at home that need to be piled up, they will not be put in the daughter's room.

   Their daughter has always had a place in the family, no question about that.

  Hearing what her father said, Meng Xiaoxiao was slightly surprised.

  But she didn't continue this topic, but was going upstairs with a bag of luggage that wasn't too big.

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

  Meng Xiaoxiao didn't refuse, but just silently watched her brother take the luggage into her room.

   Meng Heng looked at the strange relationship between his sons and daughters, which was different from what he thought at first.

  When Xiaoxiao was a child, she was very clingy to her elder brother. I don’t know when, the siblings are no longer so close.

   Now, Xiaoxiao, who has been away from home for three years and returned from work, seems to be even more unfamiliar with Dabao, his brother?

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

   After she adapts at home for a few days, she will gradually get closer to her family~!

  But Meng Heng didn't expect that on the second day after his daughter Meng Xiaoxiao returned home, except for eating, she never left the room.

   On the third day, she put on her 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 she would not come back for lunch.

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

  Although Meng Xiang is old, his heart is not too old. He thinks that the girl went out to make money, so she should find someone to show off after she comes back~!

  On the fourth day, it was New Year's Eve, and Meng Xiaoxiao sat down for the first time to eat with his family after returning home.

  At the dining table, Meng Xiang, Meng Heng, and Meng Dabao were sitting next to each other.

  Beside Meng Dabao are Zhou Lan and his five-year-old son Meng Tao.

   On the other side of Meng Tao, sitting is Meng Xiaoxiao's mother, Sun Yuan.

  Sun Yuan works as a clerical worker. She is over 40 years old this year and has not retired yet.

   Recently, the end of the year is quite busy, so she didn't have time to pick up her daughter a few days ago.

  She leaves early and returns late, and when she comes back, her daughter has gone back to her room to rest.

   Sun Yuan saw that the light in her daughter's room was turned off, so she didn't disturb her.

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

  At this moment, Meng Xiaoxiao was sitting beside her mother.

She watched her mother keep picking up vegetables for Meng Tao, the eldest grandson, at the dinner table, and only talking to herself in between, Meng Xiaoxiao suddenly felt that she lost her appetite in the face of this sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner !

  So Meng Xiaoxiao didn't take a few mouthfuls before getting up and saying that he was going upstairs.

  Meng Xiaoxiao's reaction in front of his family at this time, anyone can see that the situation is abnormal!

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

  But neither Meng Heng nor Sun Yuan knew what was going on with their daughter.

  Meng Xiang and Meng Dabao couldn't tell.

   Only Zhou Lan, who was sitting next to Meng Dabao, could vaguely see what was going on.

  But she was also guessing, wondering if the brother-sister relationship between sister-in-law and her man was not good?

  Otherwise, it stands to reason that when my aunt sees her nephew, even if she doesn't usually meet, she will always call out when she sees her now, and say a few words to her nephew, even if it's a polite way.

  But in fact, since my sister-in-law came home, she hasn't had any contact with her son.

   Even Taotao took the initiative to call his little aunt, but Xiaoxiao didn't respond, and didn't pay attention to Taotao at all.

  As if a child as old as Taotao doesn’t exist at home—

  What enmity can a big girl have with a child?

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

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

   And Sun Yuan's side.

  My daughter's abnormal reaction to her family made Sun Yuan, a mother, have to pay attention.

   "Smile, what the **** have you been throwing at these days?"

  Sun Yuan was a little upset. The New Year's Eve threw her face in front of her elders, and her daughter was too ignorant!

  (end of this chapter)