Chapter 331 The two families have finally settled their differences.
Bai Mei didn't say anything, just nodded.
Compared with before, she was quieter and seemed out of place.
Xu Fengjiao recommended several dishes, including steamed anchovies in clear soup, simmered lake duck in rice wine, and dry-roasted yellow meat wings.
"These dishes are delicious. They are the signature dishes of the chefs in this restaurant. Many foreigners in China come here specifically to eat these dishes."
Su Xiaosi swallowed his saliva and pushed his elder brother, "Just order these?"
Su Zhiyuan glanced at the prices on the menu and felt bad, "Let's eat something else..."
Guessing that he thought it was too expensive, Xu Fengjiao smiled and said, "I'll order these dishes. When the dishes are all served, let's try them together."
She and her two daughters ordered four dishes, and the Su family also ordered four dishes, for a total of eight dishes.
After ordering, Bai Xing couldn't help but said: "Auntie, can you tell me about grandpa?"
Bai Lu thought for a while and then said with a smile, "Your grandfather... he was a poor boy when he was young and worked as a porter in your grandma's house. Your grandma is the daughter of the owner of Mihang..."
She said that in order to marry her mother, her father left the rice shop and opened a rice shop in a very remote alley. At that time, the rice in other shops had a lot of debris, but her father's rice was clean.
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Because of this, many people went to his store to buy rice, which enabled him to earn his first pot of gold and open a second store.
"When your grandpa opened five shops, he went to your grandma to propose. Later, more and more shops were opened, and they opened bigger and bigger. In this way, the Bai family became the largest rice merchant in the local area. After that, your grandpa started other businesses.
Lots of business.”
Bai Xing asked curiously: "Why are there a lot of debris in the rice in other stores, but not in grandpa's?"
"He spent a small amount of money to find a group of children and asked them to help pick out the grain, rice bran, sand and broken stones in the rice. Because the cost of hiring children was low, the price of the rice he sold was the same as that sold in other shops.
It’s the same, not more expensive.”
"Wow, grandpa, he is so smart and business-savvy!" Bai Xing sighed with emotion.
Su Xiaosi was fascinated by what he heard, "Mom, I also want to make money like my grandpa and open my own shop and do business..."
Before he finished speaking, his eldest brother coughed heavily and said, "Xiao Si, don't talk nonsense! Opening a store and doing business is speculation and not a good thing."
Bai Xing snorted, with an unhappy look on her face, "I really don't understand, why is it not a good thing if everyone relies on their own skills to make money? If you go abroad and see, which country doesn't have businessmen?"
Xu Fengjiao frowned and patted her second daughter's arm, "You damn girl, will you die if you don't say a word? My eldest brother, Xiaosi, is right. You can't do business these days. If you are caught, you will go to jail!"
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Seeing the awkward atmosphere, Su Jianmin smoothed things over and said, "Okay, we won't talk about these things during the Chinese New Year."
While he was talking, the waiter had already started to serve the dishes. Each dish was delicious in color and flavor, and tasted something you couldn't make at home.
Halfway through the meal, Xu Fengjiao ordered two bottles of wine, poured herself a glass of wine, and drank the entire bottle by herself.
When she was half drunk, she picked up the wine glass and toasted Bai Lu, "I want to toast you with this glass of wine..."
The orange light hit her face, making her look a little confused.
"Bai Lu, to be honest, I'm very jealous of you. I've been jealous of you since the first time I saw you. You said we are all human beings, why is it so unfair? You have had good food and lived well since you were a child, and you have been praised by others.
It hurts in the palm of my hand.
What about me? My father doesn’t love my mother, and I’m only seven years old. I was only seven years old, and they sold me!
How hard and tiring is it to learn to sing? I get beaten every day, sleep in the open, live in limbo... Every day I have to think about how to please people, how to avoid being beaten, how to make those men reward me with food...
I'm so jealous of you, Bai Lu. After marrying into your family, I still have to look at your eyes to live my life."
Bai Xing felt that her mother was embarrassed like this, so she took her arm and said, "Mom, you are drunk!"
Xu Fengjiao pushed her daughter's hand away, "I'm not drunk. I've been holding these words in my heart. I wanted to say them a long time ago..."
Looking at Bai Lu again, she continued: "Bai Lu, I know you are disgusted with people like me. You think I am not worthy of marrying your brother. But, if your parents are still alive, there is no way I can enter the gate of your Bai family.
But...why? Just because my parents are poor, they couldn't afford to support me after they gave birth to me?
I was not reborn, so I am not worthy of marrying into your Bai family, right? Why do you all despise me? I am also very pitiful. Why did Bai Ting go to Taiwan without saying a word? How could he be so unfeeling to me?
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After saying that, Xu Fengjiao suddenly laughed at herself and laughed wildly.
After laughing for a long time, she stared at Bai Lu's face and asked in confusion: "It's strange, you are wearing such patchwork clothes, why do I feel that you are still the eldest lady of the Bai family?
You and your brother are the same, always so aloof!
I really want you to be jealous of me once in this life, but you are never jealous of me. I deliberately showed off in front of you that my eldest daughter married well, but you are not jealous of me, why?"
Just when the children of the Su family thought their mother would ignore her, their mother stood up, picked up the wine glass on the table, and clinked it with Xu Fengjiao's wine glass, "I really am not jealous of you, and I am not jealous of anyone."
She took a sip of wine first, and then continued: "Why are you jealous of me? Because you are too greedy, always thinking about other people's things, but you can't see what you already have. You have received a lot, but you didn't cherish it properly.
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Xu Fengjiao frowned, "You said I didn't cherish it properly?"
"Yeah, think about it yourself!
Regarding your childhood, you may have felt aggrieved and felt that everyone owed you something.
But in fact, no one owes you anything except your parents, and there has never been absolute fairness in this world."
Bai Lu's words made Xu Fengjiao think about something, and many things that she couldn't figure out before were solved.
After a long while, she whispered slowly, "You are right, I have always blamed this and that in my life, but I have never blamed myself. I am too greedy and want to think about everything..."
She drank all the wine in her glass and poured Bai Lu another drink, "I'll toast you again, Bai Lu. I won't be jealous of you anymore. I wish you, your husband, your children, and your family a New Year."
Happy, happy and contented.”
The two of them drank all the wine in their glasses at the same time.
"I apologize to you for what I did wrong in the past. In the future..."
Xu Fengjiao took the hand of her second daughter Bai Xing and said, "I hope you will take more care of my daughter in the future. She is outspoken and outspoken, but she has no good intentions. I am not good as a mother and I don't know how to educate children. Don't blame her.
If you want to blame, blame me.”
After saying that, she turned to Bai Xing and said: "Hurry up and toast your aunt and uncle. I didn't give birth to a boy for the Bai family. You have no brothers and will be easily bullied in the future. Apart from your mother, the people you are closest to are your aunt's family.
do you know?"
"Aunt, uncle, I don't know how to drink, so I drink tea instead of wine," Bai Xing said.
There are New Year's firecrackers outside.
Su Jianmin and his wife got up and drank. They talked about many things and settled their differences.