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Chapter 200: Nonsense, Unfairness!
Chapter 200: Nonsense, Unfairness!
Tea Caihua was already accustomed to Jiang Xia's habit of sleeping as late as he wanted.
Moreover, she noticed that Jiang Xia's fishing skills were genuinely impressive. Now that both families were fishing together, they earned several hundred yuan every day.
The night before, Jiang Xia had returned to his mother's house, and without him, they had only made fifty yuan the previous day, just like the old days!
The difference was stark!
So now, Tea Caihua dared not pick on Jiang Xia.
Reality had taught her that she couldn't be too particular with Jiang Xia.
However, when Tea Caihua saw Li Xiuxian, who usually looked down on others, plucking chicken feathers with a sullen expression, she felt a sense of satisfaction!
The tides turn, and it was finally Li Xiuxian's turn to experience the feeling of watching her sister-in-law do nothing while she herself worked tirelessly.
Tea Caihua smiled and said to Jiang Xia, "Xia, I made sweet potato cake today. It's in the pot. Try it and see if it's good."
Jiang Xia smiled and replied, "Okay."
After brushing his teeth and washing his face, Jiang Xia ate a bowl of seafood fried rice that Zhou Chenglei had cooked for him. The fried rice contained egg, crab meat, crab roe, shrimp, squid, scallops, corn, carrots, and peas. It was fragrant and delicious.
He finished a bowl of seafood rice, half a bowl of sea cucumber porridge, and a sea cucumber, and also tasted the sweet potato cake Tea Caihua had mentioned. He was truly full, and Zhou Chenglei helped him finish the rest.
After the meal, Jiang Xia began preparing the evening's dishes, while Zhou Chenglei went to work on the house.
The first floor of the house was almost finished with bricklaying, and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, they could hire people to install the iron framework and pour the concrete for the floor.
For dinner, Jiang Xia and He Xinghuan took charge of the cooking, while the others assisted. They prepared a total of sixteen dishes and one soup.
The dishes included a large plate of goose, white-cut duck, abalone chicken, steamed butter crab, boiled flower snails, spicy shrimp, garlic chili steamed oysters, vermicelli steamed scallops, boiled fish, chili stir-fried squid, fragrant pan-fried cod fillet, seafood congee pot, ginger onion chili stir-fried clams, sweet potato braised pork belly, garlic chili stir-fried lettuce, bean curd stir-fried eggplant, and a sea duck soup.
Not all the dishes were prepared by Jiang Xia's family. The goose and braised pork belly were from Great-Grandmother's family, the duck was caught by Tea Caihua, and Li Xiuxian had also bought some fruits and mooncakes to bring back.
The three families ate dinner at 5:30 pm. After the meal, they sat in the courtyard, enjoying various fruits, mooncakes, snails, and sweet potatoes while admiring the moon. The children played jump rope and badminton outside the courtyard, and laughter filled the air until 10 pm, when everyone returned to their respective homes.
The moonlight was bright that night, but the wind was strong. Jiang Xia wondered if the typhoon would arrive on the Mid-Autumn Festival. After taking a bath, she returned to her room and sat by the window, drying her hair while translating.
Zhou Chenglei had just finished showering and was about to return to his room when Zhou Chengsen called out to him and handed him a red envelope. "This is a small token from your second brother for the house construction. It's not much, just a little something."
Zhou Chenglei didn't take it. "No need. I have enough money. You keep it."
Zhou Chengsen directly put it in his hand. "Take it! Don't be polite with your second brother. Our parents will also live in that house, and I'll stay there when I return from town. It's only right that I contribute some money."
Zhou Chenglei hesitated for a moment before accepting it. "Alright, I'll take it. You go to sleep early."
"You sleep early too."
And so the two brothers returned to their respective rooms.
Back in his room, Li Xiuxian couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "Did you take it?"
Zhou Chengsen turned off the light, lay back on the bed, and replied with his arm over his eyes, "Yes, Alei didn't want it, but I insisted. Go to sleep!"
He was tired after helping with the bricklaying all day.
In the darkness, Li Xiuxian pursed her lips. If Alei didn't take it, how could he have forced it into his hand? The fourth son's family was already so wealthy, having bought a large ship and building a new house. How could they still accept this small red envelope?
To be honest, this visit had truly shaken Li Xiuxian.
The last time she came back, the house wasn't even built, and there was no large ship. She hadn't felt much then.
But it had only been a few days since then!
What a huge ship, almost twenty thousand yuan! Zhou Chenglei said he'd buy it, and he did!
And I heard that each trip to the open sea earns tens of thousands.
Zhou Chenglei even spent several thousand yuan to lease two sea areas and raise fish with Zhou Chengxin. I heard they're even cultivating pearl oysters!
They'll be rolling in wealth from now on, won't they?
Look at the sports equipment Jiang Xia bought for Zhou Zhou and the nephews. Buying so much shows how rich they are!
Those sports items must be worth at least a couple hundred yuan! And they're just for the kids to play with!
Those badminton rackets, soccer balls, and more—her Yingying doesn't have any of those, and her daughter only has a jump rope.
Even Zhou Zhou is living better than her daughter now.
They're all wearing new clothes, have toys, and snacks.
The drawers are filled with snacks, formula milk, milk powder drinks, and canned goods. Zhou Zhou said they have so much that she and her brothers can't finish them. The little aunt always brings back a lot.
Even Tea Caihua is willing to buy new clothes now. Today, she's wearing all new things from head to toe.
In the future, the Eldest Son's and Fourth Son's families will become richer and richer because they have a boat for seafaring, leaving her family as the poorest. Li Xiuxian couldn't help but feel a little resentful deep down. Despite her education, knowledge, and respectable job, she felt she was living worse than Tea Caihua, a mere village girl.
She felt that the family division hadn't been fair!
Everyone had houses and land, but why didn't their family get a boat?
That boat could make money, so shouldn't all three brothers have a share in it?
She couldn't help but nudge Zhou Chengsen with her arm, "Hey, wake up, I need to talk to you!"
Zhou Chengsen was almost asleep and mumbled drowsily, "Talk about what?"
"I think our family should also get a share of the money earned from the boat's fishing trips."
Zhou Chengsen was startled awake by her words. He removed her arm and turned to stare at her in the dim light, "What nonsense are you spouting? Have you lost your mind?"
Li Xiuxian, "Isn't that true? During the family division, we only got the house. Now all three brothers have their houses, and you even contributed to the Fourth Brother's house construction. So why is the boat only for the Eldest Son's and Fourth Son's families?"
Zhou Chengsen found her words amusing and exasperating. No wonder she had sealed the red envelope and asked him to give the money to Alei. "Fine, I'll quit my job, sell the townhouse, and we, as a couple, will go fishing. My elder brother, Alei, and I will take turns, one day each. You won't be a teacher anymore either. You'll stay home, cook, slaughter fish, and dry fish. It's true that seafaring fishing earns more than working for others. Otherwise, with both of us working this job, we'll only have three stable meals for life. If you want to get rich and have more money than others, it's impossible!"
Li Xiuxian couldn't help but hit him, "Is that what I meant? What I meant is, shouldn't we get a share of the money earned from the boat's fishing trips? We won't go seafaring, so we can have a smaller share, but we can't have nothing, right? The family division wasn't fair to us at all!"
Zhou Chengsen understood her thoughts—she was just feeling a little envious because her brothers were getting richer and living better lives than her.
Zhou Chengsen didn't want to be overheard by their parents or brothers, so he didn't want to discuss it further, "It's indeed unfair! But it's not unfair to us, it's unfair to Alei! Listen, don't think about these nonsensical things. If you think the boat should include our family's share, then I'll tell you—the part that belongs to me, I'm giving it to my elder brother and fourth brother right now! I'm willingly giving it up! Now you won't feel it's unfair, right?"
Li Xiuxian, "..."
"I don't want to hear another word about this nonsense unfairness! If you bring it up again, I'll give the townhouse to Alei and change the ownership to his name!"
Li Xiuxian, "..."
"Do you still feel something else is unfair? If you do, I'll give it all to my elder brother and Alei right now! From now on, if you feel anything is unfair, I'll give it away! That way, there won't be any unfairness, right? Alright, peace be with you! I'm going to sleep."
Zhou Chengsen turned his back to her and went to sleep, no longer paying her any mind.
Li Xiuxian, "..."
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