Chapter 195 I Don’t Dare to Admit It
When Yu Hui carried Beibei to the next door, Qian Lan was still packing. It was not because she brought back many things, but because they had been gone for more than a month and Yu Qiang was alone at home. He didn't clean up and the house was in a mess.
Qian Lan was very angry and was very heavy-handed when she cleaned up. Yu Jianshe silently helped his mother clean up and didn't dare to say anything.
"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law?" Yu Hui was a little hesitant to recognize Qian Lan when she saw her.
But after just a month or so, she not only became darker, but also lost at least six or seven pounds. Her cheekbones became prominent and her cheeks became sunken. She not only looked haggard, but also seemed to have aged three or four years, with a cloud of gloom covering her face.
When she saw Yu Hui, her frown relaxed a little.
"Xiao Yu is here. Look at what a mess the house is. I'm cleaning it up. Yu Qiang is the same. He's been at home these days, only knowing how to make things and not how to put them away." As he said that, he picked up the dirty clothes that were hanging on the deck chair.
"Come in and sit down."
Yu Hui held Beibei in her arms and sat on the deck chair. Looking at Qian Lan who was busy pouring water for her, she said, "Sister-in-law, don't bother. I'm not thirsty. I just knew you were back and wanted to come and see you."
Hearing this, Qian Lan didn't go to pour water. She sighed and sat down next to Yu Hui. She looked as if all her energy had been drained away, with her back hunched and shoulders slumped.
"...Sister-in-law, how come you have become so thin after a month back home?" Yu Hui hesitated for a moment, but still opened her mouth to ask.
"Don't mention it." Qian Lan waved her hand, not wanting to mention the bad things about taking the children back to her hometown.
But after a moment of silence, she couldn't help but speak again. She felt so uncomfortable in her heart that she needed to talk to someone.
"Originally, I brought my two children home because we were celebrating the 60th birthday of our children's grandfather. We were busy with the farm work and Yu Qiang and I were not around, so we went back to help with some housework."
"But the day after I got home, Yu Qiang's mother said she had a backache and asked me to take her place working in the fields."
"It's the busy farming season, and I'm so exhausted working in the fields I can't even straighten my back, and when I get home I still can't eat enough."
"How can we not have enough to eat?" Yu Hui frowned. These years are not like those years. Even if sweet potatoes and potatoes are cooked together, we will not have enough to eat.
Qian Lan smiled bitterly. "Yu Qiang's brother is a lazy man who doesn't work well. He works for a whole day, but the brigade only gives him half a day's work points. His wife hasn't been working in the fields since she gave birth at the beginning of the year. She stays at home taking care of the child every day and doesn't earn any work points. There are only two elderly people in the family who earn full work points, and there's not enough food to eat."
"My family is still the same as it was ten years ago, with Yu Qiang's mother distributing the food. I'm an adult working in the fields, and I get the same food as Gu Bin and the others. How can it be enough?"
"Yu Qiang's mother just wants to force me to buy food with my own money." She couldn't swallow that insult and refused to pay for it.
Just watching my two sons eating pickles with their meals made me feel so distressed that I took out money to buy some vegetables for them.
"His mother was deliberately trying to pick on me. She wasn't happy with me getting married and still supporting my parents. She kept complaining at home that I was enjoying a good life in the city by marrying Yu Qiang, and that my family was also enjoying a good life with me."
"She said I was being supported by Yu Qiang, and I didn't earn a penny. I should do the work for her."
"They also said that I gave all of Yu Qiang's salary to my parents' home, so when they asked Yu Qiang for money, he said he had none."
Qian Lan became more and more angry as she spoke, her chest heaving violently.
This time the old man was celebrating his 60th birthday and wanted to hold a party. He asked Yu Qiang for 100 yuan, but Yu Qiang said he didn't have any.
When she took the child back, she only brought fifty yuan and gave thirty to the old couple.
When the old couple took the money, their faces turned dark.
Yu Hui reached out and patted her back to calm her down. "Sister-in-law, don't get excited. Don't get excited."
"Don't I want to work? Do I want Yu Qiang to support me? Don't I have a job?" Qian Lan covered her face and couldn't help crying. When she was said that, she couldn't say a word of rebuttal.
Because she has no job, no income, and has to take care of both parents and brothers, she can't be tough in front of her parents-in-law.
"My parents raised me, and they need money. As a daughter, how can I not give it to them and ignore my parents?"
"Over the years, I have given money to my mother's family, but the amount I gave was less than half of what Yu Qiang gave to his family."
The Yu family asks for money much more frequently, basically every two or three months.
"I know, I know." Yu Hui nodded.
Beibei sat on her mother's lap, looking at Aunt Qian crying, and stretched out her little hand to pat Aunt Qian's thigh, "Cry."
Qian Lan wiped away her tears, lowered her head to look at Xiao Beibei who was comforting her, and smiled an ugly smile, "Okay, Auntie, don't cry, don't cry."
"Mom, drink some water." Yu Jianshe, who didn't know how to comfort his mother, made a cup of boiled water with sugar and brought it to his mother.
After talking so much, Qian Lan was really thirsty, so she took the drink and drank two sips.
She looked up at her eldest son and said, "Go out and play. Mommy will talk to your Aunt Yu for a while."
Yu Jianshe nodded, turned and walked out.
This time when we went back to my grandparents' house, my mother had worked hard and felt wronged. I asked her to talk to Aunt Yu and vent it out, which is better than keeping it in her heart.
When he was at home, he saw his mother being wronged. As a son, he felt bad too and wanted to argue for his mother, but was stopped by his mother.
Afterwards, the mother said that she didn't want to be scolded by her grandparents again for not teaching her and her brother to respect the elderly, so she stopped him.
After Qian Lan drank some water and calmed down, Yu Hui asked, "Sister-in-law, do you want to make money on your own?"
"Of course I do. I dream about it." If she could make money on her own, she wouldn't have to endure all this.
When she took money from her parents' home, although Yu Qiang didn't say anything, he could see that she was unhappy.
Every year at the end of the year, when he would check how much money was left at home, he would sigh and say, "Why is there only so little money?"
Doesn't this mean that she, as the housekeeper who manages the money, gives the money to her own family?
Yu Hui: "I have a profitable business here and I'm looking for a partner."
"Business?" Qian Lan's eyes widened. "How can we do business now? Isn't doing business capitalism?"
Although she had not read much, she still knew these things.
"Now the policy has changed. We can start our own business now. The Industrial and Commercial Bureau will issue us a business license."
"Really?" Qian Lan doesn't pay much attention to current affairs, so she is not well informed.
"Really?" Yu Hui nodded. "I asked someone to contact the Industrial and Commercial Bureau. We have individually owned barbershops and tailor shops in our city."
"So...what kind of business do you want to start?"
Qian Lan had never thought about starting her own business. All she wanted in her life was to find a formal job.
Yu Hui said: "My current idea is to open a small noodle shop."
Qian Lan: Open a noodle shop...
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