Shen Wenxiu exchanged a few pleasantries with her neighbors, briefly mentioning that she would be assigned a job at school, and then said nothing more.
They didn't need to tell their neighbors every detail about where they were assigned.
After witnessing the commotion at the Yun family's house, He Caiping returned home in a bad mood and immediately scolded her daughter-in-law, Li Erya.
Seeing this, Shen Wenxiu couldn't bear it and stopped her mother from continuing to curse.
"Mom, didn't your sister-in-law wash the clothes just fine? Why are you scolding her?" Shen Wenxiu felt quite sorry for her sister-in-law.
She was "enslaved" by her family when she was at her parents' home, and she was "enslaved" by her husband's family after she got married. They would scold her at the drop of a hat. It was as if she had escaped one tiger's den and entered another wolf's den.
But He Caiping is her biological mother. Although she sympathizes with Li Erya, she will not argue or fight with her mother because of her.
At most, she would say a few words in Li Erya's defense, telling her mother not to go too far with this daughter-in-law.
"What's wrong with scolding her? We married her to do chores. If she can't wash clothes or cook, what use is she?"
"We spent so much money to marry her, who knew she would turn out to be such a disappointment?" He Caiping was extremely dissatisfied with Li Erya.
Or rather, this daughter-in-law was simply her punching bag.
If she had any complaints, she couldn't take it out on her husband or her beloved son, so she could only take it out on Li Erya, her daughter-in-law whom she despised.
In her heart, her beloved son Shen Wencai was worthy of even a fairy.
As a result, he became lame due to an accident and lost his job, so he had no choice but to marry Li Erya, a woman who was bad in every way. He really mistreated her precious son.
Shen Wenxiu sighed, "Mom, if you're too free, why don't you set up a stall and sell things like other people do?"
“She can earn money and pass the time. Why stay at home all day watching what her younger siblings do? She’s quite capable at her work.”
Shen Wenxiu sincerely suggested that her own mother set up a stall to sell things to pass the time, since she was too idle and had too much energy to bother others.
Besides, if her mother makes money from her stall, she probably won't be constantly watching her and trying to get her to support her family anymore.
Hearing her words, He Caiping angrily scolded her, "What are you saying? It's so shameful to set up a stall!"
“I’m the mother of a college student, and your father is still a factory worker. Wouldn’t it be embarrassing for them if I went to set up a stall?”
"You brat, if you can't speak properly, then don't speak at all. I'm not doing something as shameful as setting up a stall."
He Caiping had no intention of setting up a stall. She considered herself to be from a working-class family and had a college-educated daughter, and she would never lower herself to sell things at a stall.
Of course, when she found out that her second son and eldest daughter were setting up a stall, she went to make trouble for them and told them not to do such a shameful thing.
But the two children wouldn't listen to her. No matter how much she made a fuss, they wouldn't listen. They even changed the location of her stall because of her fuss, which made her so angry that she said she wouldn't care about them anymore.
Later, the two children did make money from their stall, and they would occasionally send her some money, so she turned a blind eye to it.
But she herself would absolutely never set up a stall; she would never do it, not even if you killed her.
She shouldn't do something so shameful.
Shen Wenxiu could tell from the expression on her mother's face that she was telling the truth. She really felt that setting up a street stall was shameful and she would never do it.
Shen Wenxiu couldn't help but sigh.
Guangzhou is where the reform and opening up began. Even before the market was opened, trade fairs were held here frequently.
If it weren't for previous restrictions on individual business operations, Guangzhou would have been full of self-employed individuals long ago.
Now that the market is open, individual businesses are springing up everywhere in Guangzhou.
Despite living in such an environment, her mother's thinking was still very conservative. She felt that being a self-employed individual was shameful and undignified.
Shen Wenxiu was too lazy to persuade her mother anymore. She could only apologize to Li Erya in her heart, as she really had no way to get He Caiping to scold her less.
She couldn't possibly fight with her own mother over a sister-in-law with whom she wasn't very close.
People are biased and selfish; she didn't have many lofty ideals or the impulse to act.
At noon, Shen Wenxiu's father and her older brother came home from get off work, and her sister-in-law, nephew, and niece also came home.
Upon seeing Shen Wenxiu and Zhou Cunzong, he even greeted them, his attitude much warmer than before.
After all, these two are both college students, and the jobs they will be assigned in the future will definitely be respectable. It is only right to build a good relationship with them.
Even Sister-in-law Shen's attitude towards Shen Wenxiu has become much warmer, seven or eight times warmer than before when she hadn't been admitted to university.
Of course, while Sister-in-law Shen was trying to curry favor, she didn't forget to ask her aunt and uncle to help out her nephew and niece.
Brother Shen's eldest son is now a teenager and has stopped studying. He failed the high school entrance exam and no matter how much they try to force him to study, he won't.
Lately, he's been frequently running off with his so-called "brothers," and I don't know what they're doing. In short, he's become restless and doesn't want to continue going to school.
Even if his parents wanted to spend money to get him into high school, he wouldn't want to; he didn't want to continue studying.
Sister-in-law Shen was very worried about her son's situation, but she also thought that many people in Guangzhou had made money in the past two years, so maybe her son could too.
She knew that some peasants from the countryside had come to Guangzhou to do business and made a lot of money when the market opened.
Few of those peasants graduated from junior high school like her son, so her son must be able to make money too.
But she still wanted her son to have a stable job, so that she could have more face.
"Her aunt, your nephew's job..."
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