With the arrival of summer vacation, Huang Shan's business entered the off-season. With universities on break, her main customer base disappeared.
"Sister Yu Yin, do you know how much money I've earned in the past few months?"
In the evening, a gentle breeze was blowing, and Huang Shan took her eldest nephew to Yu Yin's house to play.
"Judging by your appearance, you must have made a lot of money!"
“This number!” Huang Shan raised her hand.
"Five hundred yuan, that's a lot, and it's only been two months!" Yu Yin knew that making money was relatively easy at this time, but she didn't expect to earn so much.
A worker's monthly salary is only a little over fifty yuan, but she earned five hundred yuan in less than three months, which is more than one hundred yuan a month.
"It's quite a lot, but it's really tiring. Look, I've lost about ten pounds in the past few months."
Huang Shan stood in front of Yu Yin and clutched the clothes around her waist.
Yu Yin was also shocked to see that waist was less than 1.9 feet thin, and her face was also very thin, with only skin and bones.
Everything comes at a price; there's no such thing as a free lunch.
"That won't do. Health is the foundation of everything; we can't put the cart before the horse."
“I know, that’s why I’m taking a break during the summer vacation. My brother has a lot of work, and my sister-in-law sometimes helps out, while I stay home to take care of the kids. Over the years, we’ve become more like a family. We relied on each other when we were in Yunnan Province, and it’s the same now that we’re back in Shanghai.”
Yu Yin understood what Huang Shan hadn't said aloud. In the Huang family, Huang's father went to work, and Huang's mother had transferred her job to her youngest son. Now she was also helping them take care of their children. She had also helped take care of Huang Qiang's children before, but the kids would fight together and Yu Yin was always bullied.
When Huang Qiang and Yun Duo saw this, they offered to take care of the child themselves, which was also when they suggested eating separately. Aunt Huang felt upset, but there was nothing she could do; she couldn't manage both.
Yu Yin felt that the affection between her grandchildren who grew up by her side and those who did not was definitely different, and her heart would inevitably be biased, but she just didn't realize it.
"I really don't want to find a partner and get married. You're only twenty-five, and you have a long future ahead of you."
“Sister Yu Yin, I’m not against marriage, I just don’t want to live like my mother and her generation. They have no sense of self, their lives revolve around men and children, and they lose themselves.”
Huang Shan wavered, but the thought of living that kind of life made her determined to settle down and not settle for less.
"There will be men who meet your criteria, you just haven't met them yet. The God of Love won't leave anyone out; everyone has their own destined red thread."
Yu Yin sometimes believes in fate, she has no choice but to believe!
If she, a lonely soul from another world, could turn the tide and have a completely new life, what chance do people born and raised in this modern world have?
At the end of July, I received a call from Yu Kang. He had received his admission notice from a university in Shanghai. Although it wasn't very famous, it was still an undergraduate institution.
Yu Kang chose economics as his major because he believed that with the country's reform and opening up, economic development would be given more importance in the future.
I must say, this kid's got a pretty quick mind.
That's true. He didn't do well in school because he wasn't very attentive, not because he was stupid. On the contrary, he was the smartest of the Yu family's children, even surpassing his eldest brother.
Yu Kang said he would pack his things and come over half a month before the start of school, which would be like his father taking a vacation.
After Yu Qing's father was demobilized and returned to his hometown, he had a good job. After all, Yu Qing's husband's family worked in the railway industry.
It's hard to describe what Yu's mother is like. After returning to their hometown, she got a job as a nurse at a railway-affiliated hospital. With less work, she spent more time at home, and Yu Kang suffered as a result, constantly being tormented by his mother.
This is what Sister-in-law Yu meant by "being idle"!
After Yu Qing and her mother reunited, they were constantly on TV, sometimes making sarcastic remarks about Yu's sister-in-law, feeling that she was unfilial.
Sister-in-law Yu, with her straightforward temper, retorted directly, "How am I unfilial? Yu Qing, you're the one who humbles yourself in your husband's family, because you need their help. I, Wei Mingyue, live by my own abilities, why should I be like you?"
“You think you can go back to your parents’ home and act like a big shot just because you’re being bullied by your husband’s sister-in-law? No way, at least not here. If you keep picking on me like this, you won’t be welcome in my family anymore.”
Sister-in-law Yu retorted firmly, "Who isn't a treasure? She's pampered too, okay?"
"Wei Mingyue, how can you talk like that? This is Yu Qing's family home. She can come back whenever she wants. It's not up to you to decide." Mother Lu was furious, feeling that her authority as a mother-in-law had been challenged.
"Mom, you're wrong. This is my and Yu Kai's home, not your and Dad's. Yu Qing wants to come back to her parents' home to throw her weight around. She's gone to the wrong house."
"You, you, is that how you talk to your mother-in-law?"
"What else can I say? This isn't ancient times. I'm Yu Kai's wife, not a slave of your Yu family!"
"Sister-in-law, no matter what era we live in, we should always respect our elders, right?"
"Yu Qing, which eye of yours saw that I disrespected my elders, and which ear of yours heard that I insulted my elders?"
Sister-in-law Yu fought against her mother-in-law and sister-in-law single-handedly and was not at a disadvantage.
Finally, Yu's mother and Yu Qing left in a fit of anger and frustration.
When Brother Yu came home in the evening, Sister-in-law Yu told him about what happened between Mother Yu and Yu Qing.
Brother Yu scratched his hair. He felt that if his mother and Yu Qing continued to make a fuss like this, his hair would be in danger, and he would eventually go bald.
Brother Yu comforted his wife, promising that he wouldn't favor his mother and Yu Qing, and that he would go to his father tomorrow to ask him to control his wife and daughter, otherwise his son would go bald.
After hearing what his elder brother said, Yu's father criticized Yu's mother that evening, and the two had a big argument.
Yu's father issued an ultimatum: if she continued to cause trouble, they would get a divorce.
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