Chapter 132 Chapter 132 Human greed

After Li Guifen returned to the courtyard, Shu Wenhui had already finished the noodles that Li Guifen left for her. Li Guifen suppressed her unhappiness and decided to have a good talk with Shu Wenhui about his marriage.

Li Guifen told Shu Wenhui everything that happened this afternoon. "Son, I'm afraid it's not easy for you to get married. Liu Laoshi first asked our family for a 5,000 yuan betrothal gift, and today he came to Haicheng on purpose, saying that he wanted this yard, and insinuated that I asked your sister for money, and tried to sow discord between me and your sister. I don't like such greedy and boundary-less in-laws, and I don't want to marry a daughter-in-law who is a troublemaker. I just want to ask you, do you like Wang Yiping so much that you have to marry her?"

Shu Wenhui lowered his head and remained silent.

Li Guifen's dissatisfaction with Liu Laoshi has reached its peak. What kind of mother you have will determine what kind of daughter you raise. "Although our family is poor, I have taught you three brothers and sisters to love and help each other since you were young. The eldest brother should think about protecting the younger brothers and sisters. This is our family tradition, but the Liu family is different. Liu Laoshi treats Wang Yiping as a cash cow. If you marry Wang Yiping, you will have to pay money to subsidize the Liu family for the rest of your life and support the Liu family. They even want to use you to get close to your sister and let your sister pay to support them. They are vampires, but I don't want our family to become their blood bag. To be honest, I don't want such in-laws. If you like Wang Yiping very much and want to marry her, then we have to make plans for many things early."

Shu Wenhui lowered his head and remained silent for a long while before he finally looked up at Li Guifen. He said, "Mom, don't worry, I won't marry a troublemaker. I know my limits on this matter, and you can trust me."

Wang Yeping was his youth, the only girl he had ever liked in his youth. Although he had been on blind dates several times before, they were just formalities, where he would choose a suitable girl to marry and live with. It had nothing to do with love or feelings.

Li Guifen sighed and turned to leave. Shu Wenhui has been calm and opinionated since he was a child. Since he said he knew his limits, Li Guifen believed he could handle it.

——Inside the clean and refreshing hotel, the tables, chairs and benches were arranged in an orderly manner, and the table tops were spotless. This was a very high-standard hotel, but Liu Laoshi was not satisfied with anything about it. How could this place be as good as a courtyard house? The table was not made of rosewood, there was no refrigerator, no TV, and no washing machine, only a thermos and two cups.

Liu Laoshi still couldn't believe that Li Guifen just sent her away like that. Her son was going to marry her daughter, so how dare she treat her so poorly?

After thinking it over, Liu Laoshi felt that the problem must be with Shu Wenhui. She grabbed Wang Yiping's arm and pulled her over, "Is there a problem in your relationship with Shu Wenhui? Does he not like you anymore?"

Wang Yiping was also dissatisfied. When she was suddenly asked this question, she was frightened and said, "No, it can't be? He treats me as well as before, so why don't I like him anymore?"

Liu Laoshi looked at Wang Yiping sideways, "Really?"

Wang Yiping thought about how eagerly Shu Wenhui had moved a stool for her and brought her buns in the morning. It didn't seem fake at all. She nodded and said, "Really!"

Seeing that Wang Yeping looked calm, Liu Laoshi loosened her grip on Wang Yeping. Her dream of wealth and glory was built on the relationship between Wang Yeping and Shu Wenhui, and she couldn't destroy this relationship.

"Women in the city are rich, well-dressed, and well-maintained. They all look very young and beautiful. You should take time to dress yourself up. Shu Wenhui likes you, which means he likes pretty women. You were a village beauty in our countryside, but you are not pretty enough in the city. Since Shu Wenhui likes pretty women, you have to dress yourself up beautifully and charm him to death. Do you understand?"

Wang Yiping lowered her head and picked at her fingers, "I also want to dress up beautifully, but you didn't give me money."

Liu Laoshi stretched out his index finger and poked Wang Yiping's forehead hard, making her stagger. "Why are you so useless?! Shu Wenhui likes you so much, why don't you go ask him for money? You only know how to stare at the money in my pocket. I'm saving these few dollars for my travel expenses back home!"

Wang Yiping lowered her head and said nothing. She didn't want to ask for it, as it would be cheap. She wanted Shu Wenhui to give it to her on his own initiative. However, apart from the fruits and candies that Shu Wenhui brought to her house when they got engaged, Shu Wenhui only gave her a meat bun yesterday.

It was getting dark, and Liu Laoshi was hungry. She didn't want to spend money to buy food, so she brought Wang Yiping to the courtyard. The vermilion door was locked. Liu Laoshi didn't care whether Li Guifen and Shu Wenhui were inconvenient or not, and started banging on the door with his fists. Li Guifen and Shu Wenhui woke up from their sleep, thinking they had encountered robbers. The mother and daughter each picked up a stick and stood behind the door. Li Guifen calmed down and asked, "Who is it?"

Liu Laoshi's voice came over, "In-laws, it's me, I'm here to see you and Wenhui."

Li Guifen and Shu Wenhui looked at each other, Li Guifen forced herself to suppress her impatience and opened the door. At this moment, Li Guifen and Shu Wenhui had panda eyes and looked listless. They had packed up everything and had just gone to bed for less than an hour. It was now 8 o'clock in the evening, and they had to get up around two in the morning. All in all, they only had six hours of rest time. Running a snack bar was time-consuming, laborious and mentally demanding, and they could not get enough rest. Therefore, Li Guifen would not receive Liu Laoshi and Wang Yeping in the summer.

"We have to get up at 2 a.m. tomorrow to go to work. Let's talk about it tomorrow if there's anything."

Shu Wenhui yawned one after another and didn't want to look at Wang Yiping's affectionate eyes at all.

Facing Li Guifen's rejection, Liu Laoshi also showed her selfish side. She smiled and said, "My dear, I'm hungry. I didn't have enough for lunch. I just went out to look around. The food in the store is too expensive. I can't bear to eat it. You can just make me a bowl of noodles. It won't take long. If you are really sleepy, you can go to sleep first and let Wenhui make it for me."

Li Guifen laughed out of anger. Wang Yeping hadn't even married into the Shu family yet, and Liu Laoshi was already starting to bully her son?

"Wenhui will also have to get up at 2 a.m. tomorrow. We go out to work and do hard labor. If we don't get enough sleep, how can we have the energy to work and earn money?"

Liu Laoshi slipped under Li Guifen's armpit like a loach and entered the yard. Before coming to Haicheng, she had made up her mind not to spend a penny except for the travel expenses. She and Wang Yiping's food and drink for the past few days were all owed to Li Guifen. "If it really doesn't work, Yiping and I will cook a meal ourselves. You guys go to sleep. We will clean up the kitchen after we finish eating and then close the door for you."

Li Guifen was really annoyed with Liu Laoshi. She grabbed Liu Laoshi's arm and pushed her into the main room. "How can I let guests cook while I go to sleep? Even if you disturb my sleep time and bring me trouble, I can't let you cook. Go and take a rest. I'll give you two bowls of noodles in 10 minutes."

Li Guifen took Shu Wenhui to the kitchen. Shu Wenhui lit the fire while Li Guifen kneaded the dough and rolled the noodles. The firelight made Shu Wenhui's face red. Li Guifen said nothing but chopped the chopping board with a crackling sound. Shu Wenhui closed his eyes and sighed.

Ten minutes later, Li Guifen and Shu Wenhui each brought a bowl of noodles to the main room. Liu Laoshi and Wang Yiping finished their noodles and left leisurely.

By the time Li Guifen had cleaned up the mess, it was already 9:30 in the evening. She was about to go back to her room to rest, but she saw Shu Wenhui looking at her at the door. Li Guifen sighed, "Didn't I tell you to go to bed first? I can do this job myself."

Shu Wenhui didn't say anything, but his face was full of guilt. Li Guifen said nothing, but patted Shu Wenhui on the shoulder and said, "Okay, go to bed. You still have to get up and work in the middle of the night."

At 8 o'clock the next morning, after the breakfast rush hour, Liu Laoshi brought Wang Yeping again. Li Guifen did not greet Liu Laoshi, and Shu Wenhui did not move a stool for Wang Yiping, but Shu Wenhui still took a meat bun for Wang Yeping. When Liu Laoshi saw that Wang Yiping had a meat bun, she also took the meat bun and ate it without hesitation.

Wang Yiping pulled Shu Wenhui aside to talk, "My mother said that your sister is doing big business in Haicheng. How about you ask her to find me a job in her company?"

Shu Wenhui: "Then what can you do?"

Wang Yiping ate the buns in small bites and said, "I don't know anything, but I can learn."

Shu Wenhui: "Salesperson?"

Wang Yiping frowned, "I don't want to be a salesperson, I want to work in an office, the kind of job that my family back home often says is all you need to do to drink tea and read the newspaper at work."

Shu Wenhui: "My sister's company doesn't have this kind of job. The only person working in the office is Sister Ruyu. She is the company's finance manager. She graduated from college. You can't do this job."

Wang Yiping stamped her feet and said unhappily, "But I'm her future sister-in-law. She can definitely arrange a job like this for me. I don't ask for much salary. 100 yuan a month is enough."

Shu Wenhui frowned, "Are you letting Nian Nian support you for nothing?"

Wang Yiping stammered, "You can't say that. I can sweep the floor and wipe the tables in the company."

Shu Wenhui said impatiently, "This is a cleaning job, 20 yuan a month, responsible for the overall hygiene of the company, including the toilets."

Wang Yeping was angry and didn't say anything. She felt that Shu Wenhui was deliberately trying to make her unhappy. Shu Niannian earned so much money every day, so what was wrong with arranging an easy job for her? !

She only needs 100 yuan a month!

Shu Wenhui wiped the oil off his hands with his apron and said self-deprecatingly, "I don't have that much ability. That's not my company that allows you to do whatever you want. Marrying me means living with me. I will have three blue brick and tile houses and four acres of land in my hometown. If you marry in the countryside, you will have what others have, and you will also have what others don't have. I am working hard to make money now, and I hope to save enough money to open a snack bar in the future. If you want to be with me, you have to learn how to make buns and mix the stuffing now. Oh, by the way, can you make buns? I can teach you."

Wang Yiping looked at Shu Wenhui angrily. She didn’t want to make and sell buns, she just wanted to eat buns!

Shu Wenhui seemed not to notice Wang Yiping's anger, and continued, "I get up at 2 a.m. every day, and usually get off work around 11 a.m. I work 9 hours a day in the store, and I get 200 yuan a month. After a few years, I should be able to save enough money to open a snack bar. If you marry me, you have to run the snack bar with me. I get up at 2 a.m. every day, and you have to get up at 2 a.m. too. My mother is old and can't always help me, so if I open a snack bar, you have to learn how to make dumplings now. Although running a snack bar is hard, it can make money. In the future, no matter what you want, as long as I have money, I will buy it for you. Do you think this is okay?"

After Shu Wenhui finished speaking, he looked at Wang Yiping's wrinkled face and asked persistently, "Is it okay?"

Wang Yiping shook her head firmly, "I don't want to make buns, and I don't want to get up at 2 a.m., so why do you have to sell buns? Your sister's business is so big, you can just go to her company! I heard that you two have a very good relationship, and as long as you ask, your sister will definitely arrange everything for you! If you go to your sister's company, you will have a very good future, and everyone in the company will act according to your mood, how happy it will be! Isn't it better than selling buns here?"

She felt that Shu Wenhui was just a stubborn person, and she didn't want to get up at 2 a.m. with Shu Wenhui to make and sell buns. She was destined to enjoy a good life! She doesn't want to become a yellow-faced woman!

After keeping silent for a long while, Shu Wenhui finally looked up at Wang Yiping and said word by word, "We are not suitable. I want a partner who can fight with me, not a blood-sucking leech who only wants to take advantage of others."

Shu Wenhui had long realized that he and Wang Yeping had different values, but she was the only girl he had ever liked when he was young, and he still had fantasies about Wang Yeping. Now that the fantasy was finally shattered, Shu Wenhui finally said in person that he would break off the engagement with Wang Yeping. He originally thought that he would be sad, but the moment he said it, Shu Wenhui felt that his breathing became smoother, and the huge stone that had been pressing on his heart for a long time was suddenly lifted, and he felt relaxed.

After silently examining his own feelings, Shu Wenhui felt that he should have called off the engagement with Wang Yiping long ago. Wang Yiping looked at Shu Wenhui in disbelief. She seemed not to understand what Shu Wenhui was saying...

Shu Wenhui ignored Wang Yiping and walked to the stall. When Liu Laoshi reached out for the meat bun for the fifth time, he said, "You ate five meat buns this morning. Each meat bun costs 30 cents, so the total is 1.5 yuan. Pay first and then eat."

Liu Laoshi was dumbfounded. "Wenhui, your mother-in-law ate a few of your buns, and you still want to ask her for money! Really, if you keep doing this, I won't let Yiping marry you!"

Liu Laoshi originally thought that this sentence would scare Shu Wenhui, but Shu Wenhui said, "I just officially told Comrade Wang that I want to cancel the engagement. Since you, Aunt Liu, have the same idea, then it's great. Let's talk it out. I won't ask you to return the fruit, candy, and the 10 kilograms of pork for the engagement. From now on, Comrade Wang and I will get married separately and not interfere with each other!"

Liu Laoshi clenched the bun in her hand tightly, her heart pounding, and said with a wry smile, "Wenhui, I, I was just joking with you, why did you take it so seriously?"

Shu Wenhui said seriously, "My family is just an ordinary rural family. We can't afford the 5,000 yuan betrothal gift you asked for, nor can we afford the life that Comrade Wang wants. To be honest, after marrying me, you can only dig for food in the land. It's impossible to get a hookup with my sister through me. I don't have a courtyard house, and I won't go to work in my sister's company. If you stay with me, you can only get up at 2 a.m. with me to make buns and sell snacks. This is the life I can afford. Aunt Liu, Comrade Wang and I have many differences in ideology and concepts. We can't be together. Let's call off the marriage."

"You want to abandon me after having sex with me?!"

Liu Laoshi threw the meat bun in his hand to the ground and swung his arm to hit Shu Wenhui in the face, but his wrist was clamped in mid-air. He was thrown away and fell to the ground. Just as he was about to curse, he turned around and saw Li Guifen glaring at him with a gloomy face. He was so scared that he held back the curse in his heart.

"My dear relatives, you don't care about Wenhui. How can you cancel such a good marriage?"

Li Guifen smiled and said, "In fact, I have long wanted to break off the engagement with a vampire family like yours that doesn't know the difference between the four and six. Liu Laoshi, I have tolerated you for a long time. When you were scheming against my daughter's courtyard and knocked on my door late at night and asked me to cook for you, I wanted to slap you against the wall. I don't believe that a mother like you can raise a reasonable girl. But I can't say the words of breaking off the engagement with your daughter. I have to wait for my son to figure it out. I thought I had to put up with you for a few more days, but I didn't expect you to not even last a day. God is really merciful, letting my son figure it out so quickly and break off the engagement with your daughter so quickly, hahaha!"

Li Guifen felt extremely happy. She blurted out all the words that were buried in her heart. However, she was not afraid of offending Liu Laoshi. She, Li Guifen, did not even bother to maintain a superficial relationship with someone of his character.

Liu Laoshi got up from the ground, holding his chest with his hands injured, and pointed at Li Guifen and couldn't say a word for a long time. Li Guifen made her little abacus public, "My son and I came to Haicheng to work for less than 10 days, and you brought your daughter to Haicheng to see the world. You spent your own money to see the world?! You asked me to pay for you to stay in a hotel, otherwise you would let your daughter and my son live in the same yard, bah! You don't feel ashamed, but I do! I paid for your room, and you didn't even pay for a bowl of rice. You didn't even want to spend the money on noodles. My son and I got up at 2 a.m. to make dumplings. We were tired after a day and wanted to go to bed early. Just as we fell asleep, you woke us up to make noodles for us. I waited for my son to see your true face before I made you that bowl of noodles. Otherwise, do you think I would let you in? Do you really think I'm a fool? I know all about your little tricks that you can't show off. I just don't want to expose you for your own sake. If you dare to put your hand on my son's face again, I'll chop it off for you!"

Liu Laoshi looked at Li Guifen in amazement. She had heard that Li Guifen was a hot-tempered person, but Li Guifen had always been polite to her, so she felt that she could control Li Guifen.

But she didn't expect that Li Guifen's easy control was just a deliberate display of easy control by Li Guifen. The real situation was that she couldn't control Li Guifen at all!

Wang Yiping stared blankly at Li Guifen scolding Liu Laoshi. She couldn't believe that the Li Guifen in front of her who was pointing at Liu Laoshi's nose and scolding her was the same Li Guifen who smiled and called her Yiping as soon as she saw her?