Chapter 656

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

In the blink of an eye, the next day arrived, and it was New Year's Eve.

The streets of Guangzhou were cold and deserted.

Everyone had gone home for the Spring Festival.

This city, whose population was mostly outsiders, was the liveliest and noisiest place in the country at its peak times, yet ironically became its coldest and emptiest moment of the year.

After finishing breakfast in the morning, Wang Dashan and Du Xiaojuan packed their things and set off back to the county town.

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Wang Erhai and Xiao Hua were still in Shangou Village, helping put up Spring Couplets.

They were heading to the county town today, and before leaving, they had to get everything at home in order.

After putting up the Spring Couplets, they prepared enough grain for the chickens, ducks, dogs, and other beasts, watered the vegetable patch, and so on.

By the time they finished all this, it was already past ten in the morning.

When they set off, Li Xiulan specifically caught two large roosters from the chicken coop to take down with them.

For the Spring Festival, they had to eat chickens raised at home.

Only home-raised chickens had the taste of chicken.

Those bought in the city were all feed chickens, with no chicken taste at all.

Wang Erhai smiled helplessly; he actually didn't want to bring chickens down.

Killing chickens was such a hassle.

And it would make the whole kitchen filthy.

Buying two chickens already killed at the supermarket wouldn't cost much.

But Li Xiulan insisted on bringing them, and he had no choice.

If the car got dirty, they could just go down and wash it again.

Additionally, Li Xiulan also brought some sweet potatoes, winter melons, pumpkins, sugar rings, fried dumplings, dried vegetables, and other things down.

Some were for Wang Erhai and Liu Mei Qi, and some were for Wang Dashan and Du Xiaojuan.

Wang Erhai said he didn't want them, but Li Xiulan said that anyway they couldn't finish them at home, so take them down and don't waste them.

At past eleven at noon, Wang Erhai, carrying a trunk full of local specialties, returned to the side of the house Liu Mei Qi had bought in the county town.

When he arrived at the underground garage, Wang Erhai called Liu Mei Qi and asked her to come down and help move some things.

Upon learning that Wang Erhai had brought down a large pile of sweet potatoes, winter melons, and other miscellaneous things, Liu Mei Qi was immediately very unhappy.

"Wang Erhai, why did you bring those things down? We don't cook often, you know that!"

"I had no choice; my mom insisted on stuffing them in my car. Come down and help carry them; we can't carry them all at once. If you come down, we won't have to make an extra trip."

Liu Mei Qi was very speechless:

"I'm cleaning right now; you carry them up yourselves!"

"But didn't you just hire a cleaner to clean yesterday?" Wang Erhai asked immediately in a bad mood.

Liu Mei Qi's lie was exposed, yet she remained hard-mouthed:

"There are still some corners not cleaned cleanly. Stop talking nonsense and just carry them up yourself; anyway, I'm not going down!"

Wang Erhai really wanted to scold Liu Mei Qi; this woman obviously needed a scolding again.

But his parents were right there, so he couldn't say anything too harsh.

In the end, he could only swallow his anger:

"Fine, fine, I'll just make an extra trip!"

Wang Erhai hung up the phone with a heart full of depression, then he, Xiao Hua, Li Xiulan, and Wang Zhanggen carried big and small bags together to take the elevator.

The four of them had eight hands carrying things, but they still couldn't carry everything; there was still a bag of sweet potatoes and a large winter melon left.

They could only wait until they went up, then Wang Erhai would come down again to get them once more.

This was a very small matter, but Liu Mei Qi's reaction made Wang Erhai very angry in his heart.

Clearly, Liu Mei Qi only needed to come down and help carry some things; she didn't even need to carry anything heavy, just help carry the sugar rings and dumplings, and they could bring everything up at once. But Liu Mei Qi just refused to come down.

Actually, between the two of them, not only this one small matter, but many, many small matters in daily life were like this—so nitpicky, insisting on winning or losing, calculating gains and losses clearly.

For example, before when cooking at home, Wang Erhai and Liu Mei Qi had argued who knows how many times over the issue of who should wash the dishes.

It was precisely because the issue of who should wash the dishes couldn't be resolved that later they simply stopped cooking at home; even if both got off work very early, they didn't cook at home, either eating separately or going together to find a restaurant to solve it.

Besides cooking and washing dishes, sweeping the floor, washing clothes, hanging clothes, cleaning the toilet, and other household chores were also the fuses of their arguments.

In short, they really would argue at the slightest disagreement, and neither would submit to the other.

But whenever they argued to the point of being irreconcilable, even smashing and throwing things, they would make up because of one night of passion.

Their marital relationship was very distorted, even deformed.

Hating on one side, loving on the other.

Arguing fiercely, yet neither could leave the other.

Wang Erhai brought Xiao Hua, Li Xiulan, and Wang Zhanggen upstairs, opened the living room door, entered the living room, but saw Liu Mei Qi sitting on the sofa, eating sunflower seeds and watching TV, and the anger in his heart grew even greater.

But he endured it; he turned around with a dark face, went out and downstairs, to the underground garage to get that heavy bag of sweet potatoes and that large winter melon.

"Damn it! Liu Mei Qi, you damn..."

When taking the elevator down, there was only Wang Erhai in the elevator, and Wang Erhai cursed at the air.

He couldn't scold Liu Mei Qi in front of his parents and younger brother, because doing so would lose face.

So he could only vent the anger in his heart in the empty elevator.

"Liu Mei Qi, wait until after the New Year and see how I deal with you!"

Wang Erhai returned to the underground garage, took the sweet potatoes and winter melons, took several deep breaths, suppressed the anger in his heart, adjusted his mindset, and then went upstairs.

Back home, he found Liu Mei Qi still sitting on the sofa cracking sunflower seeds, not even pouring a cup of tea water for his parents and his younger brother; Wang Erhai finally couldn't help it:

"Liu Mei Qi, you have no manners at all—didn't your parents teach you? When guests come to the house, you should at least pour them a cup of tea water!"

Liu Mei Qi, however, didn't think so:

"They can pour it themselves; we're all family, no need to be so polite."

Wang Erhai was furious:

"I told you to pour it, so pour it—where does all this nonsense come from!"

Seeing that the situation was about to get out of control.

Wang Xiaohua quickly stood up:

"Second Brother, I'll brew tea; Second Sister-in-law has been busy with housework all along, she must be tired too."

Wang Xiaohua took the kettle, went to the kitchen to draw a pot of water and boil it, then went to brew tea.

Seeing Wang Erhai's attitude toward Liu Mei Qi, Wang Zhanggen scolded him:

"What do you mean shouting at Mei Qi like that? Are you even acting like a man!"

Wang Zhanggen was still quite satisfied with Liu Mei Qi, at least much more satisfied than with Du Xiaojuan, his eldest daughter-in-law.

At this time he asked Liu Mei Qi a question:

"Mei Qi, when do you all plan to have a child?"

Li Xiulan also said with a smile: "You're married now, you should hurry up and have a child!"

Liu Mei Qi replied:

"I do want to have a child quickly, the sooner the better, but that depends on whether that bastard Wang Erhai is willing—I can't force it myself, right?"

Liu Mei Qi was willing to have a child.

Because her relationship with Wang Erhai was not stable.

She felt that only by having a child could she completely bind Wang Erhai.

Without a child, their marriage could fall apart at any moment.

So unlike Du Xiaojuan's unwillingness to have children, Liu Mei Qi very much wanted to bear children; several times she had specifically asked Wang Erhai not to use safety measures, but unfortunately Wang Erhai was unwilling, and every time he made sure the safety measures were done thoroughly.

Hearing these words from Liu Mei Qi, Wang Zhanggen was even more satisfied with her.

He immediately turned back and scolded Wang Erhai:

"Did you hear that? Mei Qi is thinking about having a child early—you hurry up and try harder for me!"

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