Chapter 633: My biological mother is the heroine of the stepmother novel (End)

Chen Xue got off work at the factory and returned home exhausted, only to find Li Junrong smoking in the living room with a listless look. She was stunned for a moment but did not ask because she had no energy left and she had to hurry to cook.

"Chen Xue, our factory has closed down, and today is my last day at work." Li Junrong said to Chen Xue in a hoarse voice.

"What? Your factory has also closed down? What about your job?" Chen Xue was shocked. Although many factories have either closed down or reformed in recent years and many workers have been laid off, she never thought that this day would come to Li Junrong.

Li Junrong closed his eyes and said with difficulty: "The factory gave me a little severance pay for my years of service, and I will be out of work in the future."

"What about my family? My salary alone is not enough, and our factory has reduced production this year. Salaries have been in arrears for a month or two, and it seems that we won't be able to hold on for long..." Chen Xue was very panicked. "If I lose my job, what will I do in the future?"

Li Junrong looked gloomy: "What can I do? I won't starve to death. If nothing works, I'll go work as a driver to earn some money. Anyway, some private bosses will hire drivers now."

Chen Xue opened her mouth and wanted to say that a private driver sounded like someone who served people, for fear that he, the transport team leader who originally had a certain status in the factory, could not stand the contempt of others. But she did not say it in the end, because if he did not work as a driver, he had no other skills, and as he was getting older, it would not be easy for him to find a job.

"Why don't we write a letter to ask Jiashun and Jia'an who are working in the south?" Chen Xue suggested. Ever since Li Jiaping was sentenced to more than ten years in prison for smuggling a few years ago, the brothers Li Jia'an and Li Jiashun couldn't stand the contemptuous looks from people around them, so they ran to work in the coastal cities in the south. Because they had no academic qualifications, they could only work in private factories.

They did think about following others' lead and starting their own business, but they had no capital. The little money that Li Jiaping earned from smuggling was all confiscated, and he was even fined a lot of money. As a result, Li Junrong and Chen Xue had to use up their own savings to help him pay it back, which emptied the family's assets. Naturally, they could not support Li Jiaan and Li Jiashun in their business, so they could only go out to work.

When Li Junrong heard what Chen Xue said, he looked at her inexplicably: "Do you also want me to go to the south to work at my age?"

"I heard that the wages there are higher than here." Chen Xue said. Her family has been financially tight in recent years and she has experienced the hardship of being broke. She just wants to go wherever she can make more money. In fact, she has thought that if her own factory goes bankrupt, she will go to the south to work for a few years to earn some money for her retirement while she is still not too old. Anyway, she can't rely on her three stepsons.

"I'll think about it..." Li Junrong did not refuse outright, but said he would consider it. He has spent most of his life here. Even though he suffered rumors and discrimination from people around him because of his eldest son's crime, he has never considered leaving here one day. People are looked down upon when they leave their hometown. What's more, he is not young anymore and no longer has the ambition and energy to work hard in other places.

Chen Xue didn't force him anymore and went to the kitchen to cook.

While washing vegetables, she suddenly thought of her ex-husband Wu Chengyue. Although Wu Chengyue's career is now becoming less and less comparable to others, his foundation is still there. He earns a lot every year and lives a comfortable life for sure. I heard that he just married his third young and beautiful wife not long ago.

Sometimes Chen Xue gets upset about the trivial things at home. When she has to buy cheap processed vegetables and cheap clothes because she has no money, she can't help but wonder, if she hadn't divorced Wu Chengyue, would she still have to live this kind of life where her expenses exceed her income?

Obviously, she only needed to tolerate Wu Chengyue's fickleness and his affairs outside, and occupy the position of the principal wife, and she could live a pampered life as a noble lady - as long as she didn't divorce...

Every time she thought about it this way, she would feel unwilling and resentful. She was unwilling that her life was so miserable after the divorce. She resented her philandering ex-husband, her useless current husband, Li Jiaping who was in jail, and Wu Shichu who was distant from her... She felt that her miserable life was caused by them, but she forgot that divorce and remarriage were her own choices and she could not blame anyone.

The reason why this life was so different from her previous life was simply because Wu Shichu made a little change and did not enter the Li family with her.

Because Wu Shichu did not remarry her, the three stepsons of the Li family vented their hostility directly on her, causing an irreparable rift between them, making it impossible for them to resolve their past grievances and continue to be loving mother and filial son.

Without the monthly child support that Wu Chengyue gave to Wu Shichu, Chen Xue would not be able to afford to find a good job for Li Jiaping, and would not be able to come up with the capital to start a transportation business when the couple were laid off.

However, without Wu Shichu, the cannon fodder who had been squeezed dry of his value, their family could no longer live smoothly. Li Jiaping went to jail, Li Jiaan and Li Jiashun became ordinary workers who had to leave their hometowns, and Li Junrong's transportation company could not be opened. This is really ironic.

As an irresponsible father, Wu Chengyue was not much better. He divorced Lin Jingyan and married Xiao Si, who gave birth to a big fat boy seven months after the marriage. He was so happy that he was excited and regained his motivation for his career. After all, he had to leave a fortune for his son. Before, when he only had Wu Shichu, his daughter, he had no motivation at all. He felt that no matter how hard he tried, the fortune would end up in the hands of outsiders, so he had no motivation to fight.

It’s different if you have a son. After all, the throne is inherited by the prince, so of course you have to expand your empire.

Xiao Si became arrogant after giving birth to a son. She even dared to suppress Wu Shichu openly when she went home for vacation and wanted to kick her out of the house.

Wu Shichu was furious, so he cut off the source of the problem and threw the evidence in front of Wu Chengyue that her son was not his biological son. Of course Wu Chengyue did not believe it and thought that Wu Shichu wanted to monopolize his property and that was why he slandered his little wife.

But he finally had doubts, so he took his son to do a DNA test. When it was confirmed that the son was not his biological son, he was so angry that he had a stroke on the spot. Fortunately, he was in the hospital and received timely rescue, so after the stroke he only had difficulty walking and speaking, and nothing else.

After being cuckolded and almost giving his son to another man, Wu Chengyue divorced his mistress as soon as he recovered, leaving her and her adopted son with nothing.

After suffering such a great blow and another stroke, the fearful Wu Chengyue finally calmed down and wanted to hand over the company to Wu Shichu. However, Wu Shichu had his own career and did not want to inherit it. So he had to hire a professional manager to take care of it, while he focused on cultivating his mind and character. From time to time, he urged Wu Shichu to have a baby for him to take care of. Because he was afraid of being lonely, he went to Beijing every year to live with his daughter and son-in-law for a few months.

Wu Shichu and Qi Daiyuan were busy with work, so they just let him do what he wanted. Anyway, he knew that he was not liked, so he didn't dare to bother his daughter and son-in-law.

(End of this chapter)