After catching up with them, Qin Jinlian gave Pei Yang something like hare and fried fish and croquettes, and then scolded and complained to Shen Mingzhu.
"...I'm going to leave now. It's rare to come back and I won't stay for two more days."
Shen Mingzhu retorted, "I don't dare to stay any longer. Who knows what other plans are waiting for me later."
Qin Jinlian was so angry that she slapped her, "What are you talking about? Am I that bad?"
"Not a good person anyway."
Qin Jinlian choked, glanced at her son-in-law beside her, and her face became a little uncomfortable, "Then what, you just left like that?"
Seeing Shen Mingzhu's cold face and no response, Qin Jinlian reached out and made a gesture of twisting money.
Pei Yang reacted and immediately put down what he was holding and took out the money, but was stared at by Shen Mingzhu.
Shen Mingzhu took out the thirty yuan he had prepared from his pocket and handed it over.
Qin Jinlian stared at her, "That's all?"
"If it's too little, you don't have to take it."
Qin Jinlian then curled her lips and took the money.
Shen Mingzhu was not angry, "Mom, if you dare to use the money I gave you to buy gold chains for other women, you won't even think of asking me for a dime in the future."
Qin Jinlian was equally unhappy, "What other woman? She is your second sister-in-law!"
"I don't care who she is, I'm leaving it behind. Don't think I'm joking with you. I give you money to honor you and your dad. It's to help you improve your life and buy food and clothing, not to buy for others."
Wearing jewelry!”
Qin Jinlian waved her hand impatiently, "Okay, okay, I understand, Pei Yang, please go slower on the road."
Pei Yang nodded in agreement.
——
Seeing Qin Jinlian enter the door, Yang Xuezhen from the west room quickly kicked Shen Xiangnan.
"Go and ask how much your sister got back this time."
Shen Xiangnan was not willing to go. Because of his affairs, he made his younger sister and brother-in-law angry. He felt very unhappy.
"are you going?!"
It wasn't until Yang Xuezhen kicked her several times that Shen Xiangnan reluctantly got up and got off the kang.
Soon, Shen Xiangnan returned to the house.
"How many?"
"thirty."
Yang Xuezhen was greatly disappointed. With this little money, she couldn't even buy a pair of earrings, let alone a gold necklace!
Shen Xiangnan knew what she was thinking, and advised: "Xue Zhen, don't embarrass mom. This time, because of your brother's matter, you have made my sister angry."
Yang Xuezhen became angry as soon as she heard this, "Shen Xiangnan, please make it clear. If your family hadn't agreed to this matter about my brother's work, do you think you could marry me with that little gift money? You can do it.
Go have a great spring and autumn dream!
About the gold necklace, your mother said it herself. As long as I can give birth to a big fat boy, buy me a gold necklace! Now it’s all mine, right? Let me tell you Shen Xiangnan, don’t think that I’m here to marry you.
You can let your Shen family bully you.
And your little sister, who is she? Why does she have to point fingers at her mother's family affairs? She really thinks she is so capable. Isn't she just lucky enough to marry a man from the city? She is still a stepmother for someone else. She is so stupid
what?
Shen Xiangnan, I just fell in love with you blindly, otherwise, based on my conditions, I might not be able to marry as well as your little sister!"
"Yes, yes, Xuezhen, please keep your voice down..."
Shen Xiangnan begged his grandfather and grandma to coax him for a long time before he finally coaxed Yang Xuezhen to calm down.
People have calmed down, but their minds have not.
"It's okay to split the family. The house will be ours, and half of the family's savings and food will be given to us..."
Shen Xiangnan's head was pounding when he heard this, "How can this be done? The eldest brother is the eldest brother, and I am the second eldest brother. If we want to separate the family, we should separate it."
"I don't care! Shen Xiangnan, if my parents want to separate us, then I will go back to my parents' house and you can live alone!"
East room.
Although the door of the west room was closed, the two rooms were close to each other. Qin Jinlian and Shen Jianguo heard clearly what the second son and his wife were saying.
Shen Jianguo was so worried that his brows were knotted.
Qin Jinlian kept complaining to Shen Mingzhu while counting the money in her hand.
"It's all my fault for this damn girl, who insisted on breaking up the family. She broke up a good family. What evil did I do in my previous life? I gave birth to such a debt collector in this life. After being married for so long, all I did was go to I came home with sixty yuan, what can I do with this little money..."
Shen Jianguo listened impatiently and shouted in a low voice, "Can't you take a break? Everyone has left, what's the use of all this?"
In the kitchen to the north, Du Juan, wearing an apron, was busy preparing the family's lunch in front of the stove, while Shen Chaobei helped light the fire.
Daya sat on the pony and diligently handed beanstalks, branches, etc. to Shen Chaobei so that he could put them in the stove to burn.
Although the couple couldn't hear the commotion in the west room clearly, they could guess that it must be related to the family separation.
Du Juan glanced at her husband and said, "Chaobei, what do you think about the family separation?"
Shen Chaobei didn't even raise his head, "I didn't even think about it."
Du Juan was silent for two seconds and said, "It's okay to separate."
Shen Chaobei raised his head and said, "Mother, do you want to separate the family?"
"Well, I think. After we separate our families, we can live our own lives behind closed doors. No matter how miserable or poor we are, I will be happy with it."
Although Shen Chaobei is honest and dull and not good at expressing, he is not hard-hearted. Even Shen Mingzhu, his sister, feels sorry for him and his wife and speaks out for them. If he does not seize the opportunity and allows his wife to suffer in this family, Then he is too unmanly.
"Okay, then I'll go tell my parents after dinner."
Du Juan finally had a smile on her face. She glanced at her daughter playing by the stove with regret on her face.
"It would be great if our eldest daughter was a boy."
Da Ya raised her little head in confusion, as if she didn't understand what her parents were talking about.
Shen Chaobei picked her up and stroked the top of her soft hair lovingly with his rough hands, his simple face full of smiles.
"The girl is pretty good too. She will be as beautiful as my little sister when she grows up. We will also let her study and go to the city to do a big career in the future."
Du Juan smiled bitterly.
It's not that she doesn't like daughters, it's just that the world is very harsh on women. Girls are looked down upon, and a daughter-in-law who has not given birth to a son is looked down upon even more.
Just like her.
Now that family planning is implemented, each family can only have one child. She failed to give birth to a son, and the Shen family had no successor. That's why her mother-in-law Qin Jinlian pinned all her hopes on Yang Xuezhen's belly and treated her coldly and ignored her.
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It was almost dark when Shen Mingzhu returned home.
There was no car back to Fengcheng from Shenjiagou today, so the family of three went to the countryside first and had a quick lunch. Pei Yang called Pei Wenping, and Chen Yi asked someone to borrow a car to take them back to the city.
After a day of hard work, Shen Mingzhu was exhausted and didn't want to make dinner, so Pei Yang cooked a pot of meatball noodle soup using the croquettes given by Qin Jinlian, and the three of them made a simple meal.
The next day, Shen Mingzhu made roasted whole rabbit from the hare given by Qin Jinlian.
After baking, half of them were kept for themselves and the other half were sent to Pei Wenping as a thank you for Chen Yi driving them back yesterday.
In order to avoid another "stealing" incident, Shen Mingzhu personally delivered it to Pei Wenping this time.
After sending the roasted rabbit home, she suddenly remembered that the results of the self-study examination would be out today, so she simply diverted to the self-study examination center.
Today is the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the first working day after the new year, and there are quite a few candidates who come to the self-study examination center to check their scores.
When Shen Mingzhu arrived, there was a long queue outside the inquiry office.
To pass the time, the candidates in line chatted with each other, talking about their jobs, education, backgrounds, etc.
Shen Mingzhu had no intention of striking up a conversation, but the young woman in front of her took the initiative to turn around and ask her, "Classmate, what is your education level? You look quite young, you must have just graduated from high school, right?"
"No, I haven't studied since I graduated from junior high school."
As soon as he finished speaking, the candidates around him became quiet.