Chapter 199 I've worked for three years, now it's your turn
Director Lan sent someone to call Zhang A-mei over.
Zhang A-mei was shocked when she saw Wu Shanshan's face. She didn't even know she had used such a heavy hand.
Director Lan asked, "Just how difficult is life at home right now? Tell me about it."
Wu Jianguo couldn't say for sure, because there were many people who had more children than him and whose families were in financial difficulties.
"We just won't let her go. No matter how illegal it is, the union will let her go and that's the job! Are we harming her by letting her go to a technical secondary school?" Zhang A'mei no longer cared.
When Wu Jianguo saw Zhang A-mei speaking to the factory leader like that, he was shocked and hurriedly pulled her away.
"What are you talking about? I'm going to tell you."
"Sister Zhang, stop making trouble here. You can only choose between technical secondary school and high school. There is no other way now. Either go to high school or don't go." Director Lan's voice became louder.
Wu Shanshan glanced at her parents and said quietly, "Then I won't go to school. But you can only work at the age of sixteen, so I'll stay at home for a year. When I can work, I'll go out and find a job on my own so as not to burden them."
Zhang A-mei was quite happy when she heard the first half of the sentence, but she didn't expect the second half to make her even angrier.
What’s the difference between this and paying for high school? You just pay less tuition.
Besides, what kind of job can a 16-year-old middle school student find? Even if he works part-time, he still has to live and eat at home!
The more I think about it, the angrier I get.
"Just find a vocational high school to attend. She has high scores and there are schools that want her." Zhang A'mei made a suggestion.
Wu Shanshan answered without hesitation: "I'm not going. I only have three choices: go to No. 1 Middle School, stay at home, or die."
Wu Jianguo looked up at his daughter.
He felt that his daughter could do what she said.
"Okay, calm down, everyone. Let's go home and discuss this, but no one can do anything again. How could you have the heart to hit a girl in the face like this?" Director Lan instructed them.
After working all afternoon, it was time to get off work when I got home. Although it was a holiday, there were still many people working in the factory.
On the way, Wu Shanshan raised her face.
Everyone started pointing and talking.
Wu Jianguo, who has always been honest, felt his face flushed and felt that everyone was poking at his spine.
He walked to Wu Shanshan's side and tried to block her, but Wu Shanshan took a few quick steps and stayed away from them.
When he returned home, Wu Jun saw his sister's face for the first time. He gritted his teeth and looked at his father and stepmother with resentment.
Dongzhe found him just now, and the two of them looked for him in the direction Wu Shanshan left, but they couldn't find him, so they had to go home first.
Wu Shanshan lay motionless on the bed, and Wu Jun brought her a glass of water.
"Sister, Aunt Song said you fainted. Did you go to the hospital?"
Wu Shanshan shook her head: "If I go, I have to spend money. If I don't go, I'm fine. I'll be fine after a while."
Wu Jun was stunned for a moment, then continued, "I'll go borrow some money from Aunt Song and take you to the hospital."
"Xiaojun, your sister is fine, don't bother your Aunt Song." Wu Jianguo said to Wu Jun.
Wu Jun ignored him, got up, fetched a basin of water, wrung out a towel and washed Wu Shanshan's face.
From then on, he never spoke to Wu Jianguo and Zhang Amei again.
If the two of them went to work again, their spines would almost be broken.
Some people heard the story and exaggerated it, saying that the stepmother beat her stepdaughter and the father helped, simply because the stepdaughter had better grades than her own daughter.
Anyway, in the end, people said all kinds of things.
At first everyone only scolded Zhang A-mei, but later they started scolding Wu Jianguo for being useless. Wu Jianguo, who was always known for his honesty, couldn't even raise his head.
Wu Shanshan just lay there, not doing any of the things she was supposed to do normally, like washing clothes, cleaning, feeding chickens, and sweeping up chicken poop.
Since Zhang A'mei didn't cook for her, she cooked for herself. She fried four eggs with a spoonful of lard and ate them to her heart's content.
Two slaps in vain
Impossible.
Zhang Min has never done any work and doesn't care about work at all.
When Zhang A-mei and Wu Jianguo came home from get off work, the house looked different.
Only then did Wu Jianguo realize how much trouble his daughter usually had to take care of.
Zhang A-mei couldn't hit Wu Shanshan anymore, so she could only punch Wu Jianguo: "Lying there like a corpse, doing nothing, just trying to put on a show, huh? If she doesn't do it, you and Wu Jun will do it!"
Wu Jun never goes home until it's time for dinner.
Of course Wu Jianguo didn't want to do it, so he just sat in the house sighing.
Zhang A-mei didn't want to work either, so she went to Wu Shanshan and said, "Get up and work."
"No, I've worked for three years, and now it's Zhang Min's turn. After she works for three years, it will be Xiaojun's turn for three years. We can't raise the child in vain, right?" Wu Shanshan retorted.
Zhang A'mei was so angry that she almost died.
"I'm pretty good. I can wash my own clothes and quilts by myself, so I don't need her to do it for me." Wu Shanshan added.
Zhang Min, who was in the same room, refused to do it: "I don't know how to do it! I've never done it before!"
"Well said! Why have you never done it!" Wu Shanshan sneered.
"Who made you so capable?" Zhang Min answered without thinking.
"Yes, I can do it! Being able to do something and not doing it are two different things. Anyway, I can't do it anymore, but you can learn."
In fact, she really did that, and she didn't even care about Wu Jun.
When Wu Jun had no clean clothes to wear, he would shout, "Minjie, I have no clean clothes." When he was hungry, he would shout, "Minjie, I am hungry."
This made Zhang Min, who was already upset, even more upset.
Finally, Zhang Min couldn't help it. After Wu Shanshan went out that day, she talked to Zhang A'mei.
"Mom, you can afford it, so just let her go! She can go to college, and I'm not afraid of her putting her ahead of me. We'll all get married and live our own lives in the future. When she goes to college, why don't you let her choose a university out of town? I heard that graduates generally prefer to stay in their hometown."
"She only has one brother, Wu Jun. If he succeeds in other places, she will definitely take Wu Jun with her. You can get all the things you fight for and take away in the future, it will just take two years."
"Besides, think about it, what's wrong with her living well? How much is her face worth? If she doesn't support you in the future, she will have to support Dad! Giving money to Dad is also giving money to you! Why can't you understand this?"
"Look at how capable Brother Tunan's stepmother is. It's like having two more sons! Can Brother Tunan just ignore her in the future? Even if Pengfei is a loser, can he still take over when he can't move in the future? You should learn from her!"
Zhang Min gave him a lecture.
These words were not her own thoughts, she only thought of part of them. These words were what she heard Huang Ling and Song Ying say outside the wall of Dongzhe's house.
The more she listened, the more she felt it made sense, so she used it directly to persuade her mother.
To be honest, Zhang A-mei had nothing to worry about. Either let Wu Shanshan go to school or stay at home until she was fifteen. She could only choose the former.
If you stay at home, there will be endless troubles in the future.
Since Wu Shanshan doesn't do housework, she has more time.
She would come to the workshop to help for a while every day, sitting there quietly to help fold clothes. She was skillful and the female workers liked her very much.
Huang Ling wanted to give her a salary but she refused it, so Huang Ling gave her a new dress.
Light pink base, small white lapel and thin belt, refreshing and cute.
“Auntie Huang, this is too expensive.”
"It's okay, I'll wear it on the first day of school."
The two hadn't communicated much these days, let alone talked about her studies, but it seemed that both knew what the outcome would be.
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