Chapter 34: Good fortune, good looks, good marriage, good exams, why...
At the Du family, Wang Hui was feeling a bit down. The questions at the garment factory were so clichéd! She couldn't even think of writing down her new ideas. She stumbled through the answers and felt her chances of getting accepted were slim.
Wang Hui had never worked a day in her previous life. Later, when she followed Wang Ying to do clothing business, she was not asked to do anything actually. She just collected the money. She didn't have any serious business ideas in her mind.
Wang Hui was picking vegetables in the yard when Du Wenli, returning from school, passed by her and snorted, returning to her room without a word. Sun Qiaoling had given Du Wenli a good scolding over the mooncake incident, and Du Wenli blamed Wang Hui for it all.
Du Jianguo and Du Wenxiu both worked at the garment factory, and the two siblings returned home together. As soon as Du Jianguo returned, he asked Wang Hui, "Huihui, how was the exam? Was it difficult?"
"It's quite difficult. There are so many people taking the exam, so I'm not very confident." Wang Hui sighed, feeling a little regretful. If she had known earlier before the exam, she would not have been so sure. Now she felt a little embarrassed.
Du Jianguo quickly said, "We've heard that too. The exam is very difficult this time. Don't worry. If you don't pass, just stay home. You can't leave your family without someone else."
Wang Hui remained silent. She didn't want to be at home. She wanted to be like her older sister in her previous life. She had already done enough housework for the family.
Du Wenli came out of the room and said sarcastically, "Some people don't do well in school, and their test scores are at the bottom, yet they still want to apply to work in a garment factory."
Du Wenli had a classmate whose older sister was in the same class as Wang Hui and had told her about Wang Hui's poor academic performance. Du Wenli used this as a handle to provoke Wang Hui.
"Wenli, what are you talking about!" Du Jianguo hurriedly spoke to stop Wenli to prevent their conflict from escalating.
Du Wenli pursed her lips and mimicked Wang Hui's words in a strange tone: "Brother Jianguo, I will definitely pass the exam. Then, we can go to work and go home together every day, and you can ride your bike to take me there... Hehe~"
"Du Wenli!" Wang Hui was already annoyed, and Du Wenli's mockery of her made her furious. "Are you sick? Why were you eavesdropping on my conversation with your second brother?"
"Who eavesdropped? You were too loud! Aren't you ashamed?" Du Wenli held her head high. She just couldn't stand her second sister-in-law. She was annoyed when she saw her, and she wanted to quarrel with her whenever she saw her! Nothing good had happened since she got married! She took her second brother away, and she would fight with her for food every day. She would complain about the smallest things and even let her mother beat her!
"Don't eat the meal I cooked tonight!" Wang Hui said angrily.
"Bah! I'm eating our family's food, not your Wang family's! Why don't you let me eat it?" Du Wenli yelled.
Du Jianguo's grandmother came out of the room on crutches, stabbing the ground with the cane. "They're quarreling again! What's with the new daughter-in-law arguing with her sister-in-law every day? Jianguo, tell me about your wife."
Wang Hui's face flushed with anger. She wanted to say something else: the sister-in-law always stares at her and her sister-in-law, and even eavesdrops on her brother and sister-in-law's conversations! And the old lady always stares at her grandson's wife, not letting her have a moment's rest! Whenever she has free time, she's either told to do this or that. She might ask Wang Hui to sweep her room eight times a day.
"I won't have a fever anymore, okay? I'll go back to Wang's house to eat! Okay!" Wang Hui was so angry that she took off her apron and threw it to the ground, and was about to push her bicycle.
Du Jianguo hurriedly pulled her back: "Huihui, Huihui, don't be angry, you can't leave... It's not a big deal, you're going back to your parents' house, won't that make your parents worry?"
"Look at your sister and your grandmother, didn't you see how they bullied me?" Wang Hui shouted.
"They are just bullying you. It doesn't hurt. Don't take it to heart." Du Jianguo advised Wang Hui.
Du Jianguo really thought so in his heart, he was used to it anyway. But Wang Hui refused to listen to this advice, thinking that Du Jianguo was cowardly and useless.
Du Wenli was still adding fuel to the fire: "If you want to leave, leave quickly! Anyone who doesn't leave is a puppy!"
Du Wenxiu had been watching and listening at the side. Only then did she hit her sister's arm and said, "Stop talking nonsense. Go back to your room."
In this family, Du Wenli was still afraid of her eldest sister. When her eldest sister told her to go back to her room, she went back to her room anyway. Moreover, she was also very smart and knew that she couldn't really send Wang Hui back home, otherwise when her mother came back, she would want to eat bamboo shoots and fried meat again.
Du Wenxiu also tried to persuade Wang Hui. She picked up Wang Hui's apron and handed it to her: "Huihui, grandma is old and Wenli is immature. Don't bother with them. Just take care of the housework. Mom, Jianguo and I are all watching."
Wang Hui felt relieved after hearing Du Wenxiu's words. She didn't want to offend Du Wenxiu because she remembered clearly that her eldest sister had replaced Du Wenxiu in her previous life. Now that she was not sure about the exam, she was counting on being able to replace Du Wenxiu, so she must want to have a good relationship with her.
"I'm giving face to my elder sister." Wang Hui took advantage of the situation and took the apron and put it on again.
Du Wenxiu offered some more words of advice, then leisurely returned to her room. Wang Hui went to the kitchen to cook, calling Du Jianguo to help. Du Jianguo was called away by his grandmother, then by Du Wenli.
Wang Hui was alone in the kitchen, cooking, wondering when this day would ever end...
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At the Zhao family, when Chen Xiuqin arrived home, the food was already on the table and the family was waiting for her.
When Chen Xiuqin saw Director Zhao coming back, she said sarcastically, "Oh, you have a guest today? What kind of northwest wind blew such a distinguished guest like you here?"
Wang Ying and Zhao Yunsheng laughed secretly. Director Zhao glared at her and said, "Stop talking nonsense. Let's eat."
Chen Xiuqin glanced at the dishes on the table and said, "Yingzi, why are you cooking so many dishes? Some people work in the food factory 24 hours a day. They shouldn't eat too much, and they shouldn't eat too much oil."
"Alright, alright, stop talking. The more you talk, the more outrageous it gets." Director Zhao winked at Chen Xiuqin.
Chen Xiuqin snorted and turned to wash her hands.
When Director Zhao saw his son and daughter-in-law trying to hold back their laughter, his old face turned red with embarrassment. He coughed twice, then picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea.
After washing her hands, Chen Xiuqin came over to eat. At the table, she asked Wang Ying, "How was the exam today? Was it difficult?"
"It's okay, not too difficult." Wang Ying said.
"Have you seen your second sister?" Chen Xiuqin asked again.
"There were too many people. I walked around the Party School for a long time but didn't see her," said Wang Ying.
Chen Xiuqin muttered something, as if she had just remembered something, and said to Director Zhao, "Hey? The test paper should have been corrected, right? Do you know what Yingzi's score was?"
Director Zhao was eating without making a sound.
Seeing him like this, Chen Xiuqin wanted to hit him with chopsticks.
Wang Ying said, "Don't worry, Mom. I'm 70% to 80% sure."
"Oh, our Yingzi is just excellent." Chen Xiuqin said with a smile, then glanced at Director Zhao. Seeing that Director Zhao couldn't hide the smile on his face, she knew that Yingzi was not only 70% or 80% sure of being admitted, but 100% sure of being admitted.
The next morning, Wang Ying got up as usual. Zhao Yunsheng heard the sound of Wang Ying getting dressed, and suddenly sat up and put on his clothes in the blink of an eye.
"What are you doing? Is there something urgent?" Wang Ying asked.
"I'm going to check your results for you," said Zhao Yunsheng.
Wang Ying laughed: "I don't need you to go, I'll go by myself later. It won't change the result if I go earlier or later."
"My grades won't change, but my mood will. I'll have to see it to feel at ease." Zhao Yunsheng said as he got out of bed, put on his shoes, and went downstairs. Soon he heard the sound of a bicycle downstairs and the sound of the door opening.
Wang Ying couldn't help laughing while sitting on the bed. Zhao Yunsheng was really cute sometimes.
Wang Ying was not in a hurry. She slowly put on her clothes and went downstairs to cook breakfast.
Before the porridge pot boiled, Zhao Yunsheng returned, ran into the kitchen like a gust of wind, and said to Wang Ying at the door: "Xiao Yingzi! First place!"
"Really?" Wang Ying replied casually.
Zhao Yunsheng came to Wang Ying and said excitedly, "Yingzi, you are really amazing. There were so many people taking the exam, and you got first place. No wonder Director Zhao couldn't suppress his smile last night."
"It's okay." Wang Ying said.
"What do you mean by okay? It's excellent! Absolutely excellent!" said Zhao Yunsheng.
Chen Xiuqin's voice came from the yard, and Zhao Yunsheng hurried out again and said to his mother, "Mom, Yingzi got first place in the exam!"
"Oh, I already know." said Chen Xiuqin.
"How did you know? Director Zhao actually told you?" Zhao Yunsheng was incredulous. How could this old stubborn Director Zhao reveal the news in advance?
"Well, congratulations to Yingzi on behalf of Mom." Chen Xiuqin said nothing more and turned to go into the main hall. She had used some tricks last night to get Director Zhao to reveal the news, but she couldn't tell her son about these tricks.
Zhao Yunsheng returned to the kitchen, smiling, took a large soup spoon and stirred the porridge pot.
"You are so happy. What if I fail the re-examination?" Wang Ying said.
"Then Director Zhao, don't even think about entering the house." Zhao Yunsheng said.
Wang Ying laughed: "It's not like Director Zhao has the final say in the factory."
"There's no way you won't pass. I've seen your test paper. Just based on it, there's no way I won't let you take it." Zhao Yunsheng said cheerfully.
Wang Ying smiled, she was actually very confident in her heart.
After breakfast, Wang Ying went to the non-staple food factory to check the results, but unexpectedly ran into Zhang Xiumin and her family.
A middle-aged woman was grabbing Zhang Xiumin's hair with one hand, while the other was scratching and hitting her head and face, cursing as she beat her: "You're rebelling! Who allowed you to take this exam? You still want to work in the factory? You're dreaming!"
Someone nearby couldn't stand it anymore and stepped forward to pull Zhang Xiumin's mother: "Sister-in-law, your child got into the factory, isn't that a good thing? Why are you hitting the child? There are so many people who wanted to get in but didn't."
Zhang Xiumin didn't say a word and let her mother beat her. Zhang Xiumin's brother watched coldly with hatred on his face.
"What do you know? I have already registered this girl for going to the countryside! She is just avoiding going to the countryside and wants her brother to suffer! She snatched her brother's place! She is a black-hearted and rotten-hearted person!" Zhang Xiumin's mother said viciously.
Wang Ying sighed inwardly. There are such biased mothers in this world, real mothers. It's obvious that her son is incompetent and can't pass the exam, but she insists that her son has taken her daughter's place.
Fortunately, people from the security department of the non-staple food factory rushed over and pulled Zhang Xiumin and her daughter apart.
Wang Ying saw that Zhang Xiumin's face was scratched by her mother, and her eyes looked like the eyes of a fish that had been dead for several days, without any spirit. Zhang Xiuqin's mother made such a fuss in front of the factory, and she was afraid that she would never have a chance to work in the food factory. With a mother like that, how could the factory dare to hire her?
Wang Ying didn’t know what Zhang Xiuqin was thinking. She shouldn’t have applied to the same factory as her brother. Maybe there was still a chance.
Zhang Xiumin looked up blankly and saw Wang Ying standing under the red list. It was Wang Ying, she had gotten first place in the exam, so she must be able to get a job at the factory. Why was she so lucky? She was beautiful, married well, and did well in the exam. Why?
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