Rebirth in the 1970s: Bringing the village tyrant’s family back to the city and winning easily

In 1977, the college entrance examination was reinstated. Educated youth who had been sent to the countryside, Su Jinyan, passed the exam and was admitted to Peking University in one go. The origin...

Chapter 31: How to Get Along with Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law

Siheyuan.

Zhao Qi was wearing a big cotton-padded jacket and playing with a stick under a fruit tree.

As soon as Su Jinyan entered the yard, he smelled the strong smell of boiled medicine. He put the things at the door panting and called out, "Qiqi~"

When Zhao Qi saw Su Jinyan, her eyes lit up all of a sudden. She rushed towards her like a cannonball and shouted happily, "Mom! Mom!"

Su Jinyan put the things on the ground, bent down to catch Zhao Qi who was running over, and picked him up, "Haha, aren't you cold? Are you playing in the yard?"

Zhao Qi's face was red from the cold. "Grandma said that mom will be back today. I'm waiting for her in the yard."

Su Jinyan smiled and said, "In the future, when it's so cold, don't stay in the yard for a long time. Be careful not to catch a cold. Do you understand?"

Zhao Qi nodded happily, "Mom, are you going to grandma's house again when you come back?"

"You should go, but if mom goes again, you can take Qiqi with you, okay?"

"Yeah! Mom, I like grandma's house. I want to play with guns with grandpa!"

Su Jinyan patted him and said, "Come down. Mom will make you something delicious at noon. Isn't Dad home?"

At this moment, Sun had already put on her cotton jacket and came out, and replied, "I went out early in the morning."

Looking at the floor full of things, she pursed her lips and said, "Yanyan, there are plenty of food at home. Don't spend money recklessly in the future. If it's gone, I'll tell you."

Su Jinyan looked at Sun calmly and curled his lips, "These things were given to me by my parents."

Looking at Sun like this, Su Jinyan suddenly remembered what her mother said in her previous life.

Mother-in-law is never your biological mother. It’s okay to treat her as a relative, and it’s okay to be filial to her. But the closer you get, the more conflicts and estrangements you will have.

This is especially obvious when there are big differences in ideas and concepts.

I can have a fight with my own mother, but it will pass after it gets over. But if there is even the slightest rift with my mother-in-law, all the good things we had before are gone.

Thinking about the original owner who had always been high and mighty, and who had only spoken a few words to Sun Shi in a year, Sun Shi still served him like a shrew? She didn't have to cook, wash clothes, or even take care of the children?

Is she too nice? She even takes care of buying food?

Sun felt uncomfortable when she saw Su Jinyan's cold eyes. She walked forward and rummaged through the bag, then said with a pained look, "Come back if you want. Things are so expensive these days. You can't let your parents waste this money."

Su Jinyan picked up the two bags and said calmly, "Is it a waste to eat what's in your stomach?"

Sun was carrying a bag and was walking while instilling her old thoughts into Su Jinyan, "As the old saying goes, if you can eat well and wear well, you won't be poor forever, but if you plan hard, you won't be poor forever."

"You and Yuanyi are both going to college, and next year Qiqi will go to kindergarten. How much money does a family need? Saving is earning, as long as you can fill your stomach, you can eat delicious food every day..."

"Mother." Su Jinyan stopped at the kitchen door and interrupted Sun's words. He looked at her and asked softly, "You mean, I don't have enough to eat and drink in the countryside, and I can't improve it after returning to the capital?"

"You've seen our family's conditions. Now that I'm back in the capital, I can't live that kind of life again, where I have to count every steamed bun I eat and can't even see the meat in a dumpling."

“A good life is earned, not saved.”

"Since you let me take charge of this family, I will make our life better and better. Yuan Yi and I will find a way to make money. You two just need to take good care of your health."

Sun's legs went weak after hearing what was said. She was a little afraid of Su Jinyan, but then she felt a little aggrieved.

Isn’t it for this family that she said all this?

It sounds good, but life is earned, not saved. Where can you earn it? How much does it cost to eat meat every day?

Everyone likes delicious food, but this shabby place makes it impossible to go to work. The couple has no jobs and the child is in school. Where can they get money?

Seeing Sun's aggrieved look, Su Jinyan sighed and softened his heart.

He put the things on the ground, patted Sun, and said softly: "Mom, don't worry, I brought you and dad to the capital to let you enjoy life, not to make you suffer. You and dad just need to take good care of your health and eat well. Yuan Yi and I can earn money."

"If you take good care of yourself and keep yourself plump and healthy, when you return to the village, won't that bring honor to Yuan Yi? Who in the village won't say that Yuan Yi has made great progress?"

Sun pursed her lips, tears almost falling from her eyes, "Mother is just afraid that you will spend all the money you have. If you have no money left, how difficult it will be."

"Mom is tired of being poor. I don't want you to suffer the feeling of hunger again."

"Okay, mother, those days are over. From now on, the task of making money will be handed over to me and Yuanyi. It's because we, as sons and daughters-in-law, are incompetent that you and dad don't have enough food and clothes."

"Just think about it, in the future you will be dressed brightly and beautifully, eat well and be plump, and when you walk out on the street, everyone will say that our family is well-off? They will say that you and your father are blessed?"

"Do you want to eat coarse food every day, wear tattered clothes, and let the neighbors say that we are incompetent, despise our family, and don't want to deal with us, then you will be happy?"

"After a while, we will go to school. Maybe Yuanyi and I will bring our classmates back to play. When our classmates see you two old people, looking pale and skinny, wearing patched clothes, won't they have an opinion of us? Or will they look down on Yuanyi?"

"Look at the people around you and think carefully about what I said."

After saying that, he carried his things into the kitchen.

She tried her best. If Sun's company still couldn't open the service, she would have no choice but to buy another house and move out to live her own life.

Thinking about buying a house and the snakeskin bag of money locked in the kang cabinet, this is really possible!

At this time, whether it is a good house or a shabby house, you will make a profit if you buy it!

What they didn't know was that Zhao Yuanyi, who was about to come in from the main door, and Zhao Zhengjun in the east wing heard the conversation between the two very carefully, and they were all silently thinking about what Su Jinyan said.

Zhao Zhengjun: Even if they are not afraid of being embarrassed or looked down upon, they cannot let the Su family look down on Zhao Yuanyi and think that Zhao Yuanyi cannot support his wife, children and parents.

Originally, he had always thought that they had given Su Jinyan a very good life, unique in the whole village, and that if Su Jinyan married into their family, it would be like enjoying a golden nugget of happiness. But after seeing the Su family, Zhao Zhengjun could no longer have this idea.

They got a great deal.

Zhao Yuanyi: He just followed Su Jinyan and saw the warm scene between her and her son. He wanted to give her a surprise, but he didn't expect to hear these words.

He naturally understood his mother's temper. She had been frugal all her life, and the past few days had made her feel uncomfortable. She had grumbled to him several times. Just now, he was really worried that Su Jinyan would lose her temper and treat them the same way as before.

But after hearing Su Jinyan explain the situation bit by bit and counsel Sun, she felt filled with happiness.

“Yanyan!”

Zhao Yuanyi pushed his bicycle with two bags of meat on the back seat into the yard, parked the bicycle in front of the kitchen in the east wing and shouted.

His tone was filled with happiness.