Chapter 358
"You came at the right time. I just boiled some mung bean water and will give you each a bowl." Ye Fuyue said with a smile.
"Okay." Zhong Lan agreed with a smile.
Chen Guifeng helped Ye Fuyue bring out the mung bean soup, one bowl for each person.
Cui Li exclaimed in surprise, "Your mung bean soup is really delicious, crunchy and sweet."
"Well, it tastes really good, but it disappears as soon as you put it in your mouth." Zhong Lan also said.
"The mung bean water you gave us last time was also very delicious." Ye Fuyue and Cui Li said.
She then said to Zhong Lan, "The mung bean cakes you make are delicious too, better than the ones I buy outside."
"My cooking is not as good as the ones sold at the supply and marketing cooperatives." Zhong Lan said with a smile.
Ye Fuyue knew that Zhong Lan had misunderstood her, but she didn't rush to explain.
Yao Zaoer, Laibao, Huandi and Haohao Ranran went out to play, and the four women sat under the eaves, enjoying the cool air and chatting.
"I saw Liang Tianxiong this morning and seemed to have gained weight again. The food was good since he came back this time." Chen Guifeng said while waving a palm-leaf fan.
"Yes." Cui Li smiled bitterly. "Dad and Liang Nan both love him very much. They go along with him in everything and give him the first bite of delicious food."
"No wonder I saw him bullying the other kids in the yard just like before," Chen Guifeng said. "I thought he'd gone through so much that his character would have changed a bit, but he hasn't changed at all."
Chen Guifeng paused and asked Cui Li, "Isn't Laibao also bullied by him at home?"
The relationship between them is closer than before, which is why Chen Guifeng asked Cui Li so directly.
The reason why she didn't ask about Huan Di was because Chen Guifeng knew that the Liang family favored boys over girls, and Huan Di had never had a good life in the Liang family, so he must have been the target of Liang Tianxiong's bullying.
If it weren't for Cui Li protecting Huan Di, Huan Di's life in the Liang family would have been even more difficult.
Cui Li didn't hide anything and said, "He does bully Laibao, but it's not as obvious as before. Now he always likes to snatch Laibao's food and toys. If Laibao doesn't give them to him, he'll go to Liang Nan and his father to complain. Liang Nan and his father feel they owe him something, and seven or eight times out of ten they'll let Laibao give in to Liang Tianxiong."
"Before Liang Tianxiong came back, Laibao and Dad had a very close relationship. Now that Liang Tianxiong is back, he always pesters Dad whenever he comes back, and the relationship between Dad and Laibao has become a little distant."
"Liang Tianxiong is deliberately trying to win favor. He wants Liang's father to like only him and not Laibao." Ye Fuyue said.
Cui Li smiled bitterly: "If it weren't for wanting Laibao and Huandi to have a better life in the Liang family, who would fight with him?"
Ye Fuyue nodded in agreement: "Yes, your family can't rely on you, Liang's father and Liang Nan are not very good people, you can only make more plans for yourself."
Cui Li nodded: "That's why I always envy Zhong Lan for having such a good family."
Zhong Lan smiled and said, "Although my family is very nice, as women, even if we are unhappy in our husband's family, how can we really go back to our parents' family without caring about anything? Besides, there are some things that your family can support you, but there are other things that they can't support you with. You can't really give up and run back to your parents' family. After all, we can't be girls in our parents' family for the rest of our lives. We have to find someone to marry. If we find a family, it must be better than this one."
Chen Guifeng looked at Zhong Lan and asked with concern: "What happened to you?"
"It's not a big deal..." Zhong Lan told them that Yao Hong wanted to manage the money himself.
Cui Li did not resonate much with this matter because she had never been in charge of the family's money.
Chen Guifeng and Ye Fuyue actually resonated with each other and understood what Zhong Lan meant when she said, "There are some things that your parents can't support you with."
After all, Yao Hong didn't hit her, scold her, or mistreat her; he just wanted to manage the money himself. Even if the Zhong family intervened, they wouldn't be able to gain any ground and would be gossiped about.
Chen Guifeng sighed, "I thought your life would be much better now that Aunt Xie has become like that. They say there's no filial son around a long-term sickbed, and it's true. Aunt Xie is Yao Hong's biological mother, and Yao Hong is tired of controlling her, so she's resorting to letting you control her. Don't you see how Aunt Xie treated you in the first place? What did she do to Zao'er?"
Cui Li looked at Chen Guifeng as if she had met a soulmate.
That's what she thought.
Every time she saw Zao'er's current state, she wanted to strangle Aunt Xie to death. And she was asked to take care of Aunt Xie's poop and pee and feed her? No way!
However, when she first talked to Yao Hong about this, Yao Hong was still on her side, but as time went on, Yao Hong said to her: "My mother didn't do it on purpose. She must be upset to have made Zao'er like this! She has become like this now, why are you still holding on to this matter? Are you going to hold on to this matter for the rest of your life!"
When Zhong Lan heard what Yao Hong said, her heart chilled even more.
Zao'er is Yao Hong's biological daughter, but he has gradually become indifferent to her.
After all, Yao Hong didn't love Zao'er that much, and maybe he even disliked her because she was not a boy.
Ye Fuyue glanced at Zhong Lan, then at Cui Li, and sighed, "Every family has its own problems."
After a pause, she said, "Do you want to make your own money? If you have money, you will have more confidence and won't panic when making any decision."
Zhong Lan and Cui Li looked at Ye Fuyue in confusion, and even Chen Guifeng looked at her in confusion, wondering what ideas her daughter-in-law had.
"Of course I want to be able to make money on my own," Zhong Lan said. "When Zhenzhen asked me to help her temporarily with her work, I envied her for having a job and an income."
Cui Li said, "Ever since I married into the Liang family, they've never let me touch their money. If I could make money on my own, I'd wake up laughing in my dreams. But I don't have any skills or connections, so where can I make money?"
Zhong Lan nodded. She thought the same as Cui Li.
Ye Fuyue said gently and persuadingly, "When I said before that Zhong Lan's mung bean cakes were better than those sold outside, I wasn't comparing Zhong Lan's mung bean cakes with those sold at the supply and marketing cooperative, but with those sold by small vendors outside."
Ye Fuyue told Zhong Lan and Cui Li about how she saw more and more street vendors that day.
"Now that the policy has been relaxed, setting up stalls is allowed. You two, one makes delicious mung bean cakes, and the other makes delicious mung bean water, you both have skills. If we also set up a stall and sell something, we will definitely make some money."
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