Zhang Zhaodi and Zhao Xingye returned home.
Seeing Ma Xiu Lan and Zhao Xingmin already washing up, it seemed that they had no intention of going back to settle the bill.
Zhang Zhaodi has a long face to begin with, and now with the corners of her mouth turned down, she looks like a bitter gourd.
"Mom, why don't you go back and pay the bill? This is what you and Third Sister treated us to. We just spent 25 yuan. Please give the money to me and Xingye."
Xingmin wanted to go back to pay the bill, but her mother stopped her. She always listened to her mother, so when she saw her sister-in-law making a fuss, she wanted to take the money, but was stopped by Ma Xiulan.
Ma Xiulan put down her towel full of holes:
"Why settle the bill? You ordered all the meat and vegetables at once. Your glutton ate half the whole table. He's like a starving ghost. If you don't settle the bill, who will?
Besides, Zhao Xingye, you have had a big appetite since you were a child, so your third sister saved her food rations for you.
Your third sister started working. You said you wanted to wear a white shirt for the interview, so your third sister bought it for you.
You said you wanted two bright red sweaters for your wedding, and your third sister bought the wool, worked during the day, and stayed up late at night to knit them for you.
Your third sister was busy running around for your wedding. Not to mention I've raised you for so many years, and you only ate half of the 25 yuan meal bill. Shouldn't I let you pay for the remaining 12.5 yuan meal bill?"
Zhao Xingye was so ashamed that he and Zhang Zhaodi were still wearing the new sweaters knitted by their third sister.
The third sister was very generous to him and bought him good wool. A sweater is not cheap and can be worn for many years.
Zhang Zhaodi was indignant when she saw that Zhao Xingye changed his mind after just a few words from her mother-in-law:
"You treated him well, but that was before we got married. Now that he's married, you can't spend money carelessly."
Ma Xiulan stared at Zhao Xingye and looked him up and down. "Why, he's not a human being anymore after getting married?"
Zhang Zhaodi was unwilling to accept it: "This is the money we have after marriage. At that time, my second brother and his family also took their own wages. Why should they spend our salary? Why are you partial to my second brother?"
When Zhao Xingye heard this, he said, "That's right!"
Mom and my third sister also spent money on my second brother.
It’s all my fault for being fooled by my mother.
My mother doesn't care how I spend money on my second brother, but when I spend money on myself, she still cares and asks me to pay for a meal.
Zhao Xingye immediately formed a united front with Zhang Zhaodi:
"Mom, my second brother spent 500 to marry his wife and 500 to find a job. I found this job by myself, so I didn't spend any money."
Zhang Zhaodi took the opportunity to speak: "And you still owe me 500 yuan for the betrothal gift. Now that you have money, give it to me."
Ma Xiulan looked at Zhao Xingye with a proud face and she didn't want to undermine his confidence and drive in her previous life.
I didn't expect that he always felt at a disadvantage because of his work and wanted to take advantage of me.
It's time to tell him the truth.
Ma Xiulan sneered:
"There are so many students graduating in the past two years, and the competition for jobs is so fierce. If you don't pass the exam, you will have to go to the countryside. Do you think I haven't helped behind the scenes?
You said you wanted to apply to work at the steel mill. I heard that Director Wang's nephew wanted to learn to be a chef, so I personally taught him how to become a chef.
If you want to learn cooking these days, you need to work as a handyman for the master chef for many years, and you also need to pay gifts and be very sincere before the master chef will teach you the skills.
Ma Xiu Lan was originally a temporary worker in the canteen of a machinery factory. It was after she worked hard for ten years that she impressed her master and was taught cooking skills. She waited for another five years before she had the opportunity to be the chef.
Zhao Xingye was stunned. He thought it was because he was extremely smart that his leader discovered him among dozens of people.
This also proves that he is better than his second brother, that loser.
I didn't expect it to be like this.
Zhang Zhaodi saw that Zhao Xingye was a little bit upset, so she pinched him and said disapprovingly:
"It's just a bit of work to train an apprentice, and my second brother even spent 500 to buy a job. Anyway, we are the ones who suffer the loss.
Mom, please give me the remaining betrothal money quickly. I am better than Chen Zhenzhen. Not only did she spend your money, she also hurt my third sister.
When Zhao Xingye heard this, he helped Zhang Zhaodi: "Mom, the wife I married is less troublesome than my second brother's wife. Please give us the remaining money."
Ma Xiulan slapped Zhao Xingye in the face:
“You’re worried about marrying a wife?
I set you up on a blind date before, and you were interested in the eldest daughter of the Li family from the shoe factory. You said she was pretty, a high school student, and had a job.
Let me send any good things I get to the Li family as soon as possible so that you can find a good marriage.
As a result, I gave over the entire 300 yuan betrothal gift.
You told me that you and Zhang Zhaodi were together and had a child, and asked me to cancel the marriage proposal with the Li family.
You coward, you didn't dare to go, so you asked me to go.
When I went to the Li family to break off the engagement, their mother and sister-in-law beat me up, not to mention returning the 300 yuan.
Have you forgotten these?
When I went to the Zhang family to propose marriage, Zhang Zhaodi's mother was very demanding. She asked for an exorbitant price of 800 yuan for a woman like Zhang Zhaodi who had no education, no job, and was not very good-looking.
In her previous life, she humbled herself in the Zhang family for the sake of the child in Zhang Zhaodi's belly, and lent them another three hundred yuan, promising to pay the remaining five hundred yuan as soon as possible.
The Zhang family was also afraid that if Zhang Zhaodi got married while pregnant, it would ruin her reputation and affect the marriages of her other daughters, so they agreed to pay the betrothal gift later.
She had just paid off the money for her second son's wedding, and she was busy for three years paying for the fourth son and his wife's wedding.
She felt sorry for Zhang Zhaodi's difficult life and didn't want to be the kind of wicked mother-in-law who refused to pay the betrothal gift just because her daughter-in-law had a child.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Zhaodi beat her without mercy and forced her four sons to take the blame for her.
She is destined to be a wicked mother-in-law in this life.
Zhang Zhaodi was upset when she heard Ma Xiulan belittle her and praise the eldest daughter of the Li family whom Zhao Xingye had almost married before. She pushed Ma Xiulan away:
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