Thinking of the arrogance of those female educated youth, she suddenly felt uncertain.
In her eyes, her eldest son was the most capable. Even though his leg injury often flared up, he was still much better than other young men.
But they're from the city, so it's normal for them to look down on people from the countryside. What can I do?
Zhao Honghui was unaware of his mother's worries. After catching an old hen with his mother, he went to the kitchen to get a knife.
In the kitchen, his younger brother's wife, Wen Xiumei, was chopping vegetables. When she saw him, she called him "brother-in-law," but her forced smile was more like a grimace.
It was obvious that she had heard the arguing and knew that he was going to kill the chicken that he usually wouldn't even eat an egg of.
Seeing this, Zhao Honghui stopped taking the knife and turned to the storeroom to find a burlap sack.
He put the hen in a burlap sack, picked it up, and left, saying, "I'm going to the educated youth compound to kill it."
Unbeknownst to him, Wen Xiumei, who was in the kitchen, sensed that her mother-in-law and brother-in-law had left. Her anger finally erupted, and she began to pound her chest.
Each cut was a manifestation of her displeasure and dissatisfaction with her mother-in-law and brother-in-law slaughtering the old hen, and even more so, her envy and resentment towards the unknown female educated youth in the educated youth compound.
In the main room, Zhao the eldest, who was waiting for dinner, heard this and shouted loudly, "Second brother's wife, what are you making? Why are you chopping so loudly?"
Wen Xiumei suddenly snapped back to reality upon hearing her father-in-law's voice.
She put down the kitchen knife, touched her flat stomach with both hands, and wished she could put a son inside right now.
Looking at her two daughters playing outside the kitchen, she felt a pang of sadness: "If only these two little devils were both sons!"
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