Yang Yujuan had just returned from get off work at the People's Hospital. She closed the weak wooden door of her room and drew the curtains to block out the early morning sun.
Being a nurse in an internal medicine inpatient unit is not an ordinary job. You run up and down and can't rest all night.
Yang Yujuan took off her coat, revealing her graceful and graceful figure. Although she is 36 years old, she looks like a girl in her 20s, a veritable beauty in the courtyard.
Yang Yujuan didn't know how long she slept before she was woken up by the ringing of her cell phone beside her bed.
When she saw the incoming call on her mobile phone, Yang Yujuan felt a little headache. "What's wrong?" Yang Yujuan pressed the answer button.
"Sister, I haven't paid my salary yet, please lend me 1,000 yuan first." The voice of the second brother Yang Wenjing came from the mobile phone.
The second brother works at the district waterworks and is still unmarried at the age of 32, so her parents are extremely anxious and often call her and ask her to introduce female doctors and nurses from the District People's Hospital to Yang Wenjing.
But Yang Yujuan knew that even though it was a new era, she would still be well matched. They saw that Yang Wenjing had not bought a new house yet and was living in the staff dormitory of the water plant.
His parents lived in an old factory dormitory with two bedrooms and one living room, which was older than the Xiangyang Apartment. You think, how could the girl from the hospital like him?
Yang Yujuan had no choice but to ask Yang Wenjing to lower his requirements and just make things passable, and not be too picky.
Therefore, Yang Wenjing often invited girls out to eat, and when he had no money, he came to Yang Yujuan to borrow money.
It was said to be a loan, but Yang Wenjing had borrowed it for so many years and never paid back a penny.
Thinking of her parents' family, Yang Yujuan's pressure doubled. She didn't know whether it was because she didn't sleep well or because she felt troubled by her parents' affairs. Now her head was hurting.
Her parents used to be factory employees, but after the factory closed down, they didn't even buy pension insurance for them, so they had no pension.
Now Yang Yujuan helps her parents buy urban and rural medical insurance with her own money.
Her third sister works as a teacher at District No. 2 Middle School, is married and has a child, but she only cares about her own family and rarely cares about her natal family.
Not to mention Yang Wenjing, who said he was treating the girl to dinner, but in fact he was eating, drinking and having fun with some friends, and rarely went home to take care of his parents. Therefore, the affairs of his mother's family were all on Yang Yujuan's shoulders.
"Didn't I transfer 1,000 yuan to you last week?" Yang Yujuan asked.
"I went back to my parents' house last week and bought a lot of things for them to spend." Yang Wenjing explained.
Yang Yujuan became angry when she heard this. When she called her mother as usual last night, her mother said that he had not been home for two weeks. "I have no money." Yang Yujuan shouted angrily.
"Sister, why don't you lend me 500 yuan? This girl is pretty good. Although she is a teacher in a suburban primary school, her family is in the city." Yang Wenjing begged, "If I don't bring my girlfriend home this year, my parents will probably be sad.
Already."
When Yang Yujuan heard that her parents were sad, she couldn't help but feel sad. Every day when she called her mother, her mother would say that Yang Wenjing didn't have a girlfriend. At such an old age, if she didn't get married, she would be afraid that she would not be able to find a wife in the future, and the Yang family would have no heirs.
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Her mother also told her to help her brother no matter what.
Listening to her mother's sad voice, Yang Yujuan felt uncomfortable.
"Well, save some money." Yang Yujuan said helplessly. Her husband, Mo Zhicheng, was a teacher at District No. 9 Primary School. He was not enterprising, his salary was not high, and their family was not wealthy either.
"Don't worry, I will save some flowers. But if I am too stingy when dining with a girl, she will think I am stingy and will not want to date me." Yang Wenjing explained.
A little anxious, Yang Yujuan hung up her cell phone, got up, opened the door and wanted to use the toilet, and saw her mother-in-law Liang Ping (her husband's mother) standing at the door.
She was half-hunched over, her head turned to the right, and her ears were facing the door.
"Are you eavesdropping on my phone call again?" Yang Yujuan was a little angry.
"I wanted to go into your room to see if there were any dirty clothes, but I didn't expect you to be sleeping in it." Liang Ping seemed not to have heard Yang Yujuan's question just now, and muttered to herself while walking towards the small living room.
Their home is just over fifty square meters, with two bedrooms, two living rooms and one bathroom, so the space is small.
Liang Ping shares a room with her eldest daughter Mo Yu, who is in the second grade of junior high school, and the couple shares a room with their youngest daughter Mo Li, who is in kindergarten.
The houses in Xiangyang Apartment were built in the 1990s. The walls are yellowing, the doors made of fir are old, and there are still some cracks in some places.
If Yang Yujuan and the others are talking on the phone in the room, as long as they are louder, they will be heard by people outside even if they close the door.
Not long after, Yang Wenjing, who was in the dormitory of the water plant, saw an extra 500 yuan on WeChat. He immediately took out his mobile phone and called: "Qiu Zai, ask some brothers to drink tonight. You won't come home until you get drunk."
"Jing Ge Hou Sai Lei (Cantonese: Very powerful)." came the excited cry from the other party.
Seeing that it was already past 10 o'clock, Yang Yujuan stopped sleeping and went to the living room to drink some boiled water and prepare to cook.
The only advantage of working the night shift in the hospital is that you can rest the next day. Mo Zhicheng went to school at around 7 a.m. and didn't get home until around 11 a.m.
Since Liang Ping suffered a stroke a few years ago, she can only do simple housework and cannot cook.
Liang Ping, who was sitting on the small sofa in the living room watching a Cantonese opera program on TV, stood up and said deliberately: "Oh, it's not good to be a nurse. I often have to work night shifts. I can't take care of my family and my children. Zhicheng is busy at school.
I was very busy when I got home and lost a lot of weight."
At first, Yang Yujuan swallowed her anger and did not want to contradict Liang Ping. But Liang Ping continued to chatter, as if she wanted to answer.
Yang Yujuan was unhappy, put the water glass on the table, and said: "Who said I don't care about my family? I will cook lunch and dinner today, and I will pick up Mo Li in the afternoon. Otherwise, you can cook and pick up the girl today.
Child?"
Liang Ping was stunned for a moment, but didn't seem to hear Yang Yujuan's words, and walked to her small room.
Yang Yujuan took the water glass and sat on the small sofa a little helplessly.
This mother-in-law has always had opinions about her, sometimes saying this and sometimes saying that.
Moreover, Liang Ping's brain is a bit unclear and her hearing is sometimes good or bad, so it is difficult to communicate with her.
This is not the main problem. The main thing is that Liang Ping told Mo Zhicheng that she only cares about her parents' family and does not want their Mo family.
Mo Zhicheng had a soft personality and soft ears, and Liang Ping treated the 40-year-old him as a child. He never refuted anything Liang Ping said.
Thinking of this man, Yang Yujuan couldn't help but sigh.
If someone is a teacher, he will be a teacher too. But if someone often takes extra classes, he can earn at least tens of thousands of dollars a year privately, which is more than his salary.
But Mo Zhicheng said he couldn't do this, and Liang Ping also told him not to lose the big for the small. If he was caught making extra classes in violation of regulations, he would be expelled. If he picked up the sesame seeds, he would throw away the watermelon.
In the 14 years since Yang Yujuan married Mo Zhicheng, she has never seen him take a paid class or make extra money for the family.
Many teachers have bought spacious commercial houses, but they still live in small rooms in this old-fashioned apartment, and their lives are becoming more and more boring... The more Yang Yujuan thought about it, the angrier she became, and she went to the kitchen to cook.
When washing the dishes, because of Yang Yujuan's anger, the dishes made a "squeaking" whine in the dishwasher.
At some point, Liang Ping appeared in the small living room again.
She looked at the kitchen and shook her head: "Even if you are angry, you can't be angry with the bowls and chopsticks. If they are broken, you have to spend money to buy them back."
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