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Su Qinghe said, “It’s okay to leave it to my uncle. My uncle managed my marriage. My uncle must have spent a lot of money asking people to be a matchmaker. Chang’an and the Gu family are so kind to me. If it weren’t for my uncle, I will miss such a good in-law’s family. Mom, my uncle really helped me a lot, I have to thank him. Anyway, I don’t have the chance to meet him a few times a year, let him know that we remember his kindness, and work harder for us in the future.”
Gao Xiulan looked at the things in the back basket painfully.
“Mom, first and second aunts are going to be there, and there will definitely be comparisons. They all know that you are the county magistrate’s in-laws. Besides, if they take more things than you, my grandma will be moved. What if she turns around and gives them all the good things she has hidden?”
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 listen to you, listen to you.” Gao Xiulan immediately went back to her room to get her things.
When the mother and daughter arrived at Old Gao’s house, Gao Xiuhong and Gao Xiuju had already arrived. After entering the yard, they saw a group of people surrounding Old lady Gao.
Behind the two are their daughters. They were all brought over to the old lady for New Year greetings. Several nieces were like rabbits in front of their grandma, sitting behind their respective mothers without saying a word, with low eyebrows pleasing to the eye.
At first glance, the grandma, Old lady Gao, has the same expression as the old lady in the high mansion and compound. Very arrogant.
“Mom, I’m back.”
As soon as Gao Xiulan spoke, the old lady Gao’s arrogant expression immediately broke, and she looked at Gao Xiulan and Su Qinghe with a smile on her face, “Xiulan and Qing’er are here, hurry up and sit down. How tiring it is in this cold weather. Come on, Xiulan’s sister-in-law, hurry up and make brown sugar water, make it warm. Don’t make some cold water to fool people.”
Everyone else stared at Gao Xiulan and Su Qinghe.
They have been here for so long, but they hadn’t even had a sip of cold water!
If it was before, Gao Xiuhong would vomit blood angrily, but now she is not jealous, she greeted Gao Xiulan and the others with a smile, “Xiulan, I have heard about Qing’er’s marriage, what a good in-laws ah.”
Gao Xiulan said proudly, “That’s right, our Qing’er is not comparable to ordinary girls. She has been doted on by her three brothers since she was born.”
Gao Xiuhong looked at the sky; she shouldn’t talk to this third sister.
Gao Xiuju simply put on a wooden face. She knew Gao Xiulan’s virtue. If she doesn’t speak, she still looks like a human being, but if she speaks, no one can tell.
Gao Xiulan didn’t care what other people thought, she took out the things in her back basket and showed them to her old mother, making people bewildered.
Kudzu root powder in jars, snacks wrapped in kraft paper, eggs, meat, cornmeal

The old lady’s eyes were dazzled.
Even Dasao Guo, who came over with tea, eyes lit up.
Oh, she brought a lot of things here. This brown sugar water is not for nothing, so it is not a loss.
Gao Xiuhong and Gao Xiuju: The youngest is so generous!
Nieces: Third aunt is so rich!
Old lady Gao wiped tears from her eyes with excitement a long time ago, and then took Gao Xiulan’s hand, “You are the most filial of my daughters. The others are white-eyed wolves, eat dry and wipe off!”
Gao Xiuhong and Gao Xiuju: “
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Gao Xiulan added fuel, “No, I didn’t have it before, but now I have it, I can get it for you. Unlike some people who never bring some.”
Gao Xiuhong and Gao Xiuju both stared.
Su Qinghe immediately said, “My mother means that the matter of giving gifts is given according to the actual situation. If you have one, you can give it, and if you don’t, you can give less. It’s all in the intention.”
Gao Xiuhong sighed, and she said, the third sister is too bad at speaking; good things can be said into bad things.
Gao Xiuju rolled her eyes but said nothing. Her family is poor, and she really hasn’t given anything to her mother these years. Besides, the old lady doesn’t like her, and everything she gives is the same.
At noon, Old lady Gao sent her eldest daughter and second daughter to work in the kitchen, and let her third daughter and granddaughter into the room.
After entering the house, Old lady Gao stuffed a bunch of things into Gao Xiulan’s back basket.
Su Qinghe is also used to it. She also knew that she couldn’t change the earth-shattering mother-daughter relationship between her mother and grandma. She can only be more filial to her grandma so that her grandma can get some benefits.
She opened the kraft paper wrapped in the dimsum, and held the dimsum to Grandma Gao’s mouth, “Grandma, you eat it, this is red date cake, very sweet. Try it and see if it tastes good.”
Old lady Gao was taken aback, then took a bite. Sweet, so sweet! What a caring granddaughter!
She was about to take money out of her pocket and give it to Su Qinghe. Su Qinghe hurriedly said, “Grandma, I don’t need it. Chang’an gave me money. I have money to use now. You can save it and spend it slowly
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In the kitchen, Gao Xiuhong and Gao Xiuju were helping Dasao Gao with her work.
After Dasao Gao came in, she suppressed them for a long time in this family, and it remained the same even after she got married. Who made this their only sister-in-law?
Dasao Gao stared at the old lady’s room from time to time. Ever since her third sister-in-law entered the old lady’s room, her heart has been beating wildly. There is always a feeling of being hollowed out.
Seeing the house being emptied, she could only watch helplessly again and again, unable to stop it. That feeling was so desperate
 So she set her sights on her other two sisters-in-law.
These two women are the normal kind of women. After getting married, they are an outsider in the eyes of the old lady.
While throwing gnocchi into the pot, she said, “Xiuhong, Xiuju, it’s not that I didn’t say anything, but I am also upset for you. Mom is too partial, she won’t give anything to you. They were all taken away by Xiulan, and I, who is a sister-in-law, didn’t like it either. But I’m a daughter-in-law after all, so I don’t want to say too much. You are mother’s own daughters. If you are unhappy, you should tell mother. Tell her not to do this. Either give or don’t give it at all!” Of course, the key point is the last sentence.
Gao Xiuhong chuckled, how can she not know her sister-in-law’s heart? If she had prejudiced against Xiulan when she was confused before, she would definitely have to settle it with her sister-in-law. But not now, Xiulan is her own sister who feeds her life-saving food! The sister-in-law didn’t give her anything back then.
She deliberately wondered, “Why do we have to compare with Xiulan? Xiulan has more things than us. Besides, she is our own sister. If mom loves her, she loves her. Xiuling is far away and hasn’t come back all these years. She is the youngest1Referring to Xiulan because she’s the third. And the fourth daughter has not come back for years., who does she love if she doesn’t love her?”
Gao Xiuju stared blankly at Gao Xiuhong, then continued to work. She heard nothing.
Dasao Gao was taken aback by Gao Xiuhong’s words. What did her sister-in-law just say? Did she hear correctly?
She smiled mischievously on her face, and said, “It’s not that I don’t feel sorry for Xiulan, but you also know that Xiulan herself is reluctant to use it. It was given to her daughter. Who doesn’t have daughters, don’t you think?”
The second aunt Gao Xiuju was not happy, “It’s good to give it to Qing’er. Qing’er is such an obedient child. There is no one on our team who doesn’t like Qing’er. Her grandma is willing to love her. What’s wrong with that?”
Dasao Gao was stunned and looked at them in a daze. She found out in despair that before she knew it, everyone in Old Gao’s family had gone to Gao Xiulan’s side!
The lunch was ready, and Gao Fusheng and his son Gao Jianwei also came back.
They went to the supply and marketing cooperative to pay New Year’s greetings early in the morning. Gao Fusheng plans to retire in the future and leave his position to his son Gao Jianwei. So some things have to be planned early.
Knowing that his third sister was coming, he hurriedly went into the house to find his third sister.
Dasao Gao was about to talk to her man. Seeing this situation, her face darkened, and she dragged her son Gao Jianwei into the house.
Gao Jianwei was only in his early twenties, with a thin body and a thick face. He looked very similar to Gao Fusheng. It is because of poor health that he seems a little out of energy.
Dasao Gao dragged her son into the house and said, “Your grandma is too cruel. When your third aunt came, she gave her everything. Go back and talk to your grandma.”
Gao Jianwei said in a daze, “Mom, what are you talking about? My third aunt is very good. She brings me delicious food every time. My grandmother said that the one who loves me the most in my family is the third aunt. All the delicious food is sent here. Just for me to eat.”
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 But the things your father brought back were taken away by your third aunt.”
Gao Jianwei wondered, “But don’t you always say that you want me to treat my sisters well? Why don’t you give it to your sister if you have something? Cousin Aiguo and the others all do this. How good they are to Qing’er. They give Qing’er whatever is good.”
Dasao Gao was stunned.
It’s over, it’s over, there is no one in this old Gao family who understands!
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.”
— Winston Churchill
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1Referring to Xiulan because she’s the third. And the fourth daughter has not come back for years.