Chapter 335 Retribution in This Life 1
Lunar New Year's eve.
The alley was deserted.
The Lin family went to Fujian.
The Li family went to the Yang family to have New Year's Eve dinner.
There are only four people in the Li family, while the Yang family is large and lively. When Li Yiming proposed to spend New Year's Eve at the Yang family, Aunt Li immediately agreed. She doesn't have those rules here, as long as her son and daughter-in-law are happy.
On the morning of the 31st, she prepared a tricycle full of gifts for Yiming and his wife to take to the Yang family. Yang Qiuyan wanted to ask Grandpa Li and Aunt Li to go as well, but Aunt Li was afraid of causing trouble to others and refused to agree. So Yiming and his wife had to go back to the Yang family first.
Unexpectedly, the person came back just after arriving at Yang's house, and his in-laws came with him.
Aunt Li was startled and hurriedly explained that she was not putting on airs or being angry at all, and she was just really afraid of bothering them. Her in-laws were also straightforward people and insisted on inviting them over.
So on New Year's Eve, the Wu and Wang families were the only ones in the alley.
The Wang family's house was neither lively nor deserted, just normal.
There is not even a trace of enthusiasm in the Wu family.
Because Wu Jianguo and Zhang Amei had been fighting from the 25th to New Year's Eve, they were really tired.
Now one of them was lying on the bed in the front room, and the other was sitting in the corridor.
It was not until this fight that Wu Jianguo remembered that there were only two beds in the house, one for him and Zhang A'mei, and the other for Zhang Min.
When the two started fighting, Zhang Min closed the door and ended the matter.
When he wanted to sleep at night, Zhang A'mei kicked him off the bed, leaving him with no place to sleep.
Starting from the age of 25, he took a piece of board used for making modular cabinets and laid it on the corridor leading to the backyard, then put a quilt under it and slept like that.
If Wu Jun had not chopped up both beds, he might still have one bed to sleep on.
But now there is nothing.
He sat on the wooden board against the wall, holding a notebook in his hand.
I opened the notebook and found a transcript inside, which belonged to Wu Jun.
Not long after Wu Jun left, a child from the Liu family in the next lane brought a report card and a notebook to the Wu family.
Liu's child is Wu Jun's classmate. He went to school to get his report card today. Seeing that Wu Jun was not there, the head teacher asked him to help deliver the report card and prizes.
Wu Jianguo was busy making a cabinet at that time.
"Uncle, where's Xiaojun? Why didn't he come to get his report card? He doesn't even want his prize!"
Wu Jianguo was stunned, not knowing how to answer. After hesitating for a long time, he said, "He... transferred to another school."
"Ah! I haven't heard him mention it! Where did he go?"
"He went to his sister's place."
The Liu family child didn't quite understand, so he handed the thing over:
"Uncle, then you can give it to him when he comes back! This notebook is of great quality! When he comes back, let him play with me!"
"Okay." Wu Jianguo took the things.
It was noon and the sun was glaring. Wu Jianguo walked under the eaves and opened the notebook. There was a red stamp with the word "prize" on the corner of the cover, and in the middle was written by the head teacher "Wu Jun, the first place in the class".
Wu Jianguo was stunned, wondering how this was possible.
The report card was clipped in the notebook. He immediately unfolded it and collapsed.
First in the class.
First, Wu Jun, who was among the top students, had never achieved such a result before.
Wu Jun also tried his best for this final exam.
The blank midterm paper is not because you don’t know how to do it, it’s just because you didn’t do it.
Being a troublemaker and causing trouble every day doesn't mean you've become a bad person, it means you do it on purpose.
In this way, he could confuse Zhang A-mei and wait safely until his sister came to pick him up.
Wu Jianguo thought of Zhang Min's poor grades, and Zhang A'mei had given a lot of gifts to her class teacher and subject teachers, hoping that she could graduate smoothly.
And his two wonderful children...
At this moment, the word "prize" on the notebook was particularly ironic.
Whether he understood it or not, or regretted it or not, it was all of no use.
At this moment, Wu Jianguo stroked the notebook and muttered to himself:
"Nothing. Everything is gone."
There were sounds of firecrackers outside, and all the families started to celebrate the New Year together. Zhang Min was really hungry after staying in the room, so she got up.
She touched the cookie jar beside her and found it was empty. She could only open the door and walk outside, nudging Zhang A-mei on the bed.
"Mom, please cook something. I'm starving! Anything will do."
Zhang A'mei didn't move and ignored her.
Zhang Min went to Wu Jianguo again: "Dad, please make some food! We can't let the three of us starve to death at home!"
"See what's at home and make something for yourself." Wu Jianguo said in a low voice without raising his head.
Zhang Min couldn't hold back and burst into tears.
Normally, when her parents fought, Zhang Min would run to her grandmother's house, but this time, she had nowhere to go.
Even if she didn't go to her grandmother's house, as long as she went to Song Ying's house or Aunt Li's house and cried, they would pay attention to her because she was still a child.
But now, they are not here!
This means that if she doesn't cook, she will starve at least until Li Yiming and the others come back tomorrow.
Why can’t we go to grandma’s house? Because we have fallen out.
Before Wu Jun left, Zhang A'mei was afraid that Wu Jianguo would give Wu Jun the money, so she took out all the money in the house and gave it to her mother to keep.
When he got married, Wu Jianguo almost spent all his savings.
In the past few years of marriage, the couple's salary is not high but the burden is heavy. No matter how hard they save, they can't save any money, only less than a thousand yuan in total.
After Wu Jun left, they took the medicine, fought the battle, felt relieved and lost hope, and were ready to live a good life.
On the 25th day of the lunar year, Wu Jianguo thought of taking advantage of the holiday to quickly make the combination cabinets that Deputy Director Li needed, so he wanted to withdraw money to buy some materials. Unexpectedly, he found that there was not a penny left in the passbook.
He went to find Zhang A'mei.
Zhang A'mei told him to keep the money in a safe place and come back to get it after the New Year when everything is settled.
She thought that once Wu Jianguo went to work, he would have no time to look for Wu Shanshan and Wu Jun.
Nowadays, everyone has their own job, and as soon as you leave, the job will be taken by someone else. So now everyone has to go to work even if they are sick, let alone someone like Wu Jianguo who has no background, and no one dares to touch him.
Wu Jianguo had no choice but to ask Zhang Amei to bring back some money for the New Year. The rice at home had just run out, so they had to buy some rice to survive.
Zhang A'mei originally kept a hundred yuan and spent part of it to give a gift to Deputy Director Li's home. Unexpectedly, she was asked to take it back.
After returning, Zhang Min found the problem and said that the product was of very poor quality.
So, she took Zhang Min and spent more than 100 yuan to buy some high-end gifts, and Deputy Director Li happily accepted them.
Deputy Director Li accepted the gift, and the mother and daughter felt relieved.
But I really didn't have any cash on me.
Zhang A'mei thought about it and felt that Wu Jianguo was right. The cabinet had to be built and the New Year had to be celebrated. Moreover, this was a New Year for their family of three, so it was quite important. So she wanted to ask her mother for some money for the New Year.
As soon as Zhang A'mei mentioned the issue of money after returning to her parents' home, her mother took out fifty yuan and wanted to give it to her.
Zhang A'mei was not stupid. She noticed that something was wrong with Zhang's mother's expression. After asking, she found out that all the money she had left with Zhang's mother had been taken by her younger brother to do business.
If the money cannot be recovered, then thanks to the Zhang family, the Wu family will once again return to poverty.
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