Chapter 73 Like a Different Person
Su Wan smiled shyly as Fifth Aunt said, "I was young and naive before, but now that I'm married, I can't act as recklessly as before."
Aunt Wu smiled more, "No matter what, you are still the daughter of the Su family. If you are bullied, tell your family. Our children cannot be bullied."
Even though she didn't like Su Wan before, Aunt Wu didn't blame the original owner too much. At most, she didn't like her very much. But when the original owner got married, she was willing to give her money no matter how much it was worth.
Now that Su Wan has become sensible after getting married, she even comes to give gifts specially. Aunt Wu also feels that she is a little petty.
My niece was just lazy and gluttonous in the past. It wasn't a character problem, so she shouldn't be so petty about it.
After the episode, Aunt Wu finally resolved her previous worries and now finds everything about Su Wan pleasing to the eye.
Although it was a family treat, Su Wan also wanted to go and help.
Her parents asked someone to buy two sets of pig offal. After washing them, she started to stew them. The aunts and sisters who were not working also helped. Seeing how much Su Wan had changed, they all teased her.
"Wanwan has become a completely different person since joining the army. Her personality is completely different from before."
"That's not true. Everyone thought she was domineering and willful when she was a girl, but I didn't expect her to change so much after getting married. She lost a lot of weight and became prettier than Wang Fang from the village."
"Wang Fang can't be compared to the girl from the Su family. The girl from the Su family is fair and tender. She was just a little fat before. She's not ugly, she's quite pretty."
The aunt glanced at the other aunt who was talking and thought she was joking.
When Su Wan was fat, she wasn't ugly, but she wasn't pretty either, right?
The aunts were chatting while Su Wan braised the meat. She took out a lot of fruit candies, melon seeds and biscuits and put them on the table for the children who came here to grab and eat.
The children in the village only dared to take one or two, not because they were well-educated, but because Su Daming was the village chief and the Su family had a high status in the village. They had tried to snatch things when the Su family was holding a banquet before, but were taught a lesson and now they dared not do that again.
Su Wan grabbed all the fruit candies, so she didn't feel bad about it. Fruit candies were cheap at that time, with more than 200 pieces in a pound. There were not many children in the village, so it didn't matter even if each of them took a dozen pieces. She didn't care that much.
The Su family was filled with fragrance. When Chen Xiang came over, Su Wan called him, "Brother, come over and bring something back. I bought something for my parents."
Chen Xiang and others were waiting at the door of the room. Su Wan used a urea bag to pack five bags of White Rabbit milk candies, five bags of milk powder, a pack of Zhonghua cigarettes and three packs of Daqianmen cigarettes.
Handing the tied urea bag to Chen Xiang, Su Wan said, "This is for my parents and my eldest brother. When they're all gone, we can go to the provincial capital to buy more."
"Um."
Chen Xiang didn't know what Su Wan bought. With so many aunts around, he didn't open the box and just went home with the things.
"Boss, why are you back?"
Li Cuihua looked at Chen Xiang and asked curiously.
Chen Xiang raised the thing in his hand and said, "Mom, my sister-in-law asked me to bring this back. She said she bought it for home."
Li Cuihua took the item and opened it. She looked at the good stuff inside and her mouth opened and closed. "Hey kid, how could you take such expensive milk powder home? I'll take it back later. All the money in the house is given by your sister-in-law. Which daughter-in-law is so generous?"
Li Cuihua is so sad!
She had always thought that she was a very good mother-in-law, but for some reason, when Su Wan first got married, she was a little disrespectful to her as a mother-in-law. But how could she, as an elder, care about her?
But now Su Wan has been with the army for more than half a year, and he has completely changed.
Getting better and better, and not counting the cost.
Just because she doesn't care doesn't mean her family knows nothing.
It's okay for the son to bring home the money he earns. After all, every household does this. The money earned by unmarried children is almost all used to supplement the family expenses. But Su Wan is their daughter-in-law, and the money should be used for their small family.
Now that she has been supporting her family, Li Cuihua feels a burning sensation in her heart and cheeks.
"Don't worry, Mom. I'll pay back the money my brother gave me for my surgery and my sister-in-law gave me for my checkup when I make money. I won't take advantage of them, and I won't take it for granted. Besides, I can make money now by working with Jianjun and his brothers on renovations."
Chen Xiang didn't want to rely on his younger brother for everything, but he failed to get into university after graduating from high school. Due to policy issues, he couldn't continue his studies. He had no connections in the city, so he had to go home and farm.
People who work as farmers really can't make much money.
It's not his fault, but the environment that causes it. Everyone is so poor.
He did not have the courage like Su Wan to dare to do an individual experience. Although he had seen news about reform and opening up on TV and read about such policies in newspapers, the severe crackdowns in previous years made them afraid.
I dare not even think about anything else.
Li Cuihua looked at her eldest son and sighed in her heart.
"It's all your parents' fault for being useless and unable to help you and your brother. Life has been so hard for you both!"
"Mom, what are you talking about?"
Chen Xiang reached out and held his mother's hand. "If you say I'm a burden to the family, it's me. If I hadn't been careless while working, I wouldn't have spent thousands of dollars. I would have spent all the money."
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. If you hadn't been working for your dad, you wouldn't have been injured. After all, this wasn't something you wanted to happen. Mom and Dad just hope that you and your brother are fine. You two brothers are the only blood relatives in this world, and Mom and Dad hope that you two brothers can support each other."
After Li Cuihua said this, Chen Xiang just nodded.
He used to be a very talkative man, but after the back injury incident, the girl he liked knew that his back was not in good condition, so she turned around and married a man with a stable job in the county town.
From then on, he became silent.
His family members just thought that he was like this because of his back injury. Thinking about it, Chen Xiang felt guilty.
He opened his mouth and said, "Mom, I wasn't depressed because of my back injury. I just... I just had a crush on a girl before, but after my back injury, she got married and moved to the city, so that's why I was like this."
"Boss, do you have a girl you like?"
Li Cuihua was surprised, and at the same time felt that she, as a mother, was not caring enough.
If she had known earlier that the eldest brother had a girl he liked, she would have proposed marriage. Now that the eldest brother has said it, is he blaming her for being useless as a mother?
Chen Xiang seemed to know what his mother was thinking. He smiled and said, "Mom, I don't mean anything else. I just don't want you to have any undue thoughts. I will work hard with my brother and sister-in-law in business and build a new house for our family soon."
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