After all, Cuihua had lived with Chunwang for nearly twenty years, and they still had a lot of feelings for each other. Just because Chunwang had been so kind to her family for so many years, she couldn't just leave when something happened to her husband.

The idea was good, but when Li Haiyan asked her how she could help Chunwang pay back the debt, Cuihua's heart was indeed shaken. Yes, after causing such a huge loss to the factory, how could she repay it?

Cuihua knew that it was wrong for her family to give all their money to her parents' family over the years, and she also knew that supporting her parents' family was very expensive. But Chunwang never said anything, so Cuihua took it as his tacit approval. She was even eager to support her parents' family so that she and her brothers could reduce the burden.

After all these years, Chunwang's actions should have been enough to influence even a stone, right? This Cuihua is just a diamond, useless.

Cuihua sent Li Haiyan away with the excuse of "considering it for a while" and returned to work. However, during her break at work, she still thought seriously about this matter. Suddenly, she felt that her mother was right. She was still young. When would she be able to repay Chunwang's debt? Even if the factory reduced the tax for his brother's sake, his brother was not a shareholder of the factory. How much could they reduce it?

The more Cuihua thought about it, the more she felt that her mother was right. Now, only her family members cared about her. She should just listen to her mother.

After finally getting off work, she punched in, changed into her work clothes, and walked out of the factory towards home. On the way, she met several groups of neighbors who were going to work. Everyone looked at Cuihua with sympathy, which made her even more determined to divorce.

Husband and wife are birds of the same forest, but they fly away separately when disaster strikes. Cuihua now truly embodies this saying.

After finally reaching home despite the stares, Cuihua didn't see Chunwang at home. Cell phones were already common, though there was a base station in the space for easy communication. Chunwang hadn't bought one, and besides, he was busy at work every day and had nothing to do at home, so he never used one.

Even if you are anxious now, you can't find him. Li Haiyan rolled her eyes and asked, "Did Chunwang go to his brother's house?"

Yes, yes, yes, it is very likely that he went to his eldest brother's house. Cuihua's mother's analysis was very correct. She turned around and went downstairs to Chunsheng's house.

Although the three brothers lived in the same residential compound, they didn't all live in the same building. The eldest, Chunsheng, lived in the top floor at the front of the complex, the second, Chunwang, lived near the small square in the north, and the third, Chunyang, got married late, three years after entering the space. So the house he got was definitely the one left over by everyone else, in the middle of the complex, but on the top floor.

People in the 1970s had never even seen such tall buildings, let alone lived in them. They believed that tall buildings were unsafe, and that shorter ones were better. Consequently, lower-floor apartments in residential compounds were hard to come by, and even now, more than a decade later, some of the higher-floor apartments are still unoccupied.

Even those who were allocated housing later would rather squeeze in with their family than live in a high-rise apartment, so they don't even apply for a house when they get married. Only those who are splitting up, getting divorced, or have special circumstances that make it impossible to live together will apply for a high-rise apartment.

Cuihua's walk from the northernmost part of the complex to Chunsheng's home at the southernmost end was a torment. Every familiar face she encountered would chat with her, asking what was happening with Chunwang. Little did she know, their concern would become the straw that broke the camel's back.

When she arrived at Chunsheng's house, Cuihua no longer had the urge to go in. She had only one thought: divorce and leave Chunwang as soon as possible.