Xu Wan was stunned; she couldn't utter a single word after hearing these words.
She didn't understand why Wei Yang would say such a thing.
"Ah Yang, that's not what I meant. I've thought about our future, and you've said that we'd be very happy together, but now you're telling me you want to live with your family?"
For some reason, Xu Wan remembered a saying her grandmother had made: they were the real family, and she was the outsider.
"Wanwan, why do you think like that? Look, if it's just the two of us, who will cook and who will do the housework?"
With Mom and Dad here, we don't need to worry about this anymore.
"Please, just try to understand them for my sake, okay?"
Xu Wan: "..." No, she doesn't want to.
"Wanwan, in the end, you still dislike me."
When Wei Yang saw that Xu Wan was still unwilling, his face immediately darkened.
“No, I didn’t. If I disliked you, I wouldn’t be with you, and I would have cut ties with my mother.”
Xu Wan was extremely sad and heartbroken upon hearing this.
"Okay, okay, it's my fault. Okay, okay, when we have money, we'll buy a house and live in it ourselves. But we don't have any money... so we can only... make do with you for now."
Xu Wan: "..."
"When will we have money?!" Xu Wan felt that the future was bleak.
"Let me work hard for two years. I'm thinking about who I can borrow money from, but you know that when I first started working, I didn't know anyone except your mother."
Wei Yang's meaning was practically to tell him to go find his mother.
Xu Wan: "..."
"Alright, Wanwan, let's rest."
"Um."
...
Mo Yan stewed a chicken for the old lady to nourish her body that evening.
"Are you really just going to abandon this?"
The old lady looked at her busy daughter and asked, "Everyone wants to go to the city, but her daughter actually spent so much money to buy a hilltop and land here to farm and plant trees."
"Never mind, haven't I done enough? She's still chasing after me, what can I do?"
Even if you tie me up, I'll hate you for the rest of my life.
But I can't live my whole life just for her, can I?
Many people say that women should dedicate their lives to their families and children because it is their duty.
But who is truly dutiful?
A woman is first and foremost herself, and only then a mother and a daughter.
You can't spend your whole life doing things for others. As a child, you become someone else's child for your parents. As an adult, you become a virtuous wife and loving mother for your husband, and then a good mother for your child.
But what about myself?
Shouldn't we love ourselves first?
"You've worked hard your whole life, have you ever thought about yourself? What do you like? What do you want to do?"
The old lady was taken aback, not expecting her daughter to ask such a question. She tried hard to think of an answer but couldn't come up with one.
"I don't know, it's been so long that I don't even know what I used to like anymore."
But I remember your brother liked braised pork, and you liked fried small fish. I can even remember that your dad liked to eat ribs... but I'm the only one who doesn't know.
My tastes are always compromised for the sake of others.
At that moment, the old lady suddenly understood what her daughter meant.
Life is too hard for women. If they stay at home to take care of the children, they will say that they don't know how to earn money to support the family. If they go to work, they will say that they are not at home and are not a good mother.
She served her entire family, yet not a single word of praise came from her.
It's wonderful that my daughter is so insightful.
"Mom, you should think about what you want to do from now on, and I will live for myself."
She wants to create a farm where people can eat, drink, and have fun.
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