Seeing their expressions, Wang Cuilan felt a pang of pity rising in her heart.
After spending a day together, she could tell that these two children were raised timidly.
It seemed that for Pei Baoshu and Xu Yufen, raising children meant just ensuring they were alive; as for anything else, they couldn’t care less.
Perhaps it wasn’t that they didn’t want to care, but they simply didn’t have the energy.
All their thoughts were focused on getting money.
And not by earning it themselves, but by trying to get it from others — how can people like that teach their children properly?
Though she sighed deeply in her heart, Wang Cuilan knew these were matters of another family, and she couldn’t intervene too much.
If she truly spoke her mind, Xu Yufen would probably throw the two kids at her.
Naturally, Wang Cuilan wasn’t a fool who would take in and raise someone else’s children without thinking.
Besides, these kids had both parents and their grandparents were around.
And none of them were easy to deal with.
Wang Cuilan withdrew her gaze, "We’ve finished with the New Year visits, we can eat soon."
On the morning of the first day of the New Year, dumplings are to be eaten.
Of course, it’s not just dumplings.
Besides dumplings, there’s also a need to prepare some cold dishes and hot dishes.
However, the ingredients for these dishes were all prepped in advance, so it’s not too much trouble now.
Cold dishes are sliced and plated, hot dishes are stir-fried in the pot, it doesn’t take long for everything to be set on the table.
Even the dumplings were wrapped in advance, now just brought in from outside and cooked in the pot.
In just about 20 minutes, breakfast was already laid out on the table.
Everyone ate breakfast together.
During breakfast, Jiang Ran noticed Xu Yufen’s eyes darting between Wang Cuilan and Pei Baoshan.
Although she didn’t know exactly what Xu Yufen was thinking, just by looking at her eyes, it’s clear she wasn’t thinking anything good.
Jiang Ran even saw a hint of malice in Xu Yufen’s eyes.
Why must she look at Wang Cuilan with such resentment?
Just because Wang Cuilan didn’t give a ten-yuan New Year’s money?
But doesn’t Xu Yufen think, why should they give so much?
Xu Yufen had already made it clear she wanted to take advantage of their family, they’re not fools, why should they let Xu Yufen take advantage?
Thinking about this, Jiang Ran just wanted to sigh.
Now, she just hopes this New Year could pass by quickly.
The sooner it passes, the sooner they can see this family off.
But no matter what one thinks, life still has to move forward bit by bit.
On the first day of the New Year, if it doesn’t snow, the outside is still quite lively, and there are even gatherings.
But today, snow was falling heavily, and the wind was piercingly cold.
On such a snowy day, there was no one outside, not to mention any gathering.
Thus, they had no choice but to stay inside.
Jiang Ran really didn’t want to stay in the living room, facing Pei Baoshu’s family, so she simply left the living room and returned to her own room.
She took Pei Jing with her too.
Soon after, Pei Huai also came out of the living room and came over to her. Following behind Pei Huai, Pei Yang and Pei Shanshan came in one after the other.
Seeing they had all come over, Jiang Ran felt somewhat helpless.
"You’ve all come out, what about Dad and Mom?"
With all of them gone, of course, Wang Cuilan and Pei Baoshan couldn’t come out.
If the two of them also left, wouldn’t it mean their whole family was giving way to Pei Baoshu’s family?