In the room, Huang Cuilan carefully recounted her mother's request and her conversation with her mother-in-law.
After listening to what his sister said, Huang Yaoguo rolled his eyes at her.
"Brother?"
"Brother, what brother? Didn't I tell you not to listen to your mother? You have a pig brain! Life is getting more troublesome after a while, right? If you don't want to live like this, just say it as soon as possible."
"But my mother kept holding me and crying, and she begged me. I couldn't refuse."
Huang Yaoguo laughed and said, "Who told you to send food there all day? If she doesn't cry to you, who else would she cry to? You've spoiled her. You think mother didn't cry to me? But I ignored her. After so many times, she's too lazy to say anything. I've been getting really annoyed with her lately. She always brings up some trivial things about my eldest brother's family. There are so many trivial things."
After saying this, he added worriedly, "You secretly sent food to mother to support your eldest brother's family without telling your brother-in-law. Believe it or not, your brother-in-law knows all about it. Don't push an honest man to anger. No one will be able to save you. Do you think that since you have three sons, no matter what mistakes you make, your brother-in-law will never abandon you?"
I'm telling you something, you better be smart. Don't be so foolish as to run back to your parents' home in the village all day long just because your husband has been kidnapped. I'm my parents' biological son, how could I not support them? As for you, just follow your brother-in-law. He has no other intentions, but there are many who are eyeing his daughters, not to mention the young widow.
"Impossible, the child's father is not that kind of person. My parents-in-law would not tolerate him abandoning his wife. Xizi and his family would not let outside women into the house."
Huang Yaoguo looked at his excited little sister with disappointment. If it were anyone else, he would have just smiled and ignored it, but this was his beloved sister, whom he loved so much.
If we don't hit the point this time, something will go wrong sooner or later.
He frowned and pointed at Huang Cuilan, "Look at what you've become now? Haven't you seen how your mother-in-law is getting younger and younger? You and your mother-in-law standing together look like sisters.
As for my brother-in-law, he's always been good-looking, and now he's even younger. Not to mention his family background, there's no shortage of people fighting for him. You're causing trouble at home every day, isn't he annoyed?
Have you seen your sister-in-law, Lin Juhua? She's smart, her family is a mess, but she dresses up beautifully every day. Who wouldn't say that Zhang Laoer's in-laws are incompetent, but his wife is beautiful?
You, the third sister-in-law, don’t compare yourself with Zhou Jiao, but you are no less pretty than Lin Juhua, right?
"Sister, I'm your brother, I won't lie to you. There are indeed many people who are targeting your brother-in-law. If he wasn't a playboy, he would have been fooling around with someone by now. He's a good person, but you have to be good too, don't let the Zhang family get annoyed by you."
Huang Cuilan looked herself over. She thought she looked quite clean, which was fine. She didn't think Lin Juhua was much prettier than herself.
Huang Yaoguo was truly sincere. He was a man, and he understood men best. This brother-in-law had performed well over the past two years. He was a calm and steady person, had a diploma, and had someone to support him. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, a promotion was imminent.
Men, once they have money and status, their minds change. If they fall for a young woman, who can stop them? Even if he has no other intentions, it doesn't mean no one is interested in him. As long as he can climb the tree of his brother-in-law, he will have a life of food and clothing, and there will be many people rushing to become his stepmother.
"As for you, if you have nothing to do, go to your brother-in-law's workplace more often and pick him up from get off work. The two of you can go for a walk together occasionally. Pay more attention to your husband and don't always go to work or go back to the village to see your mother. Xizi is with his grandparents, so you should also pay attention to him often and talk to him more."
"Do you still remember my buddy, Shunge? He married his wife with tears and a fuss a long time ago, and they had two sons and two daughters. His wife had the final say in everything. But now? He's only been transferred to the provincial capital for less than two years, and he's come back and wants a divorce. He even doesn't want anything from the family, just wants a divorce."
Huang Cuilan nodded. She vaguely remembered that the man was quite good-looking, and his wife was even more beautiful. Even after giving birth to so many children, she looked like a grown-up girl.
"They really got divorced last month. His wife was a tough one, leaving him with four children and asking him to leave without a husband. But Brother Shun wasn't worried. He only makes around 80 yuan a month. He immediately went back to the provincial capital, sent out wedding invitations, and invited a few of us buddies to go drink. The girl he married was only 18 years old, really pretty, and a regular employee."
After saying this, Huang Yaozong stared at his sister. He couldn't believe that even after saying this, his sister still didn't wake up.
Huang Cuilan was silent for a moment, then shook her head. "The child's father wouldn't do that. He went to the provincial capital to take classes before, but nothing ever happened. Xizi's grandparents are very strict with him. If Shunge did something like that in our family, he would definitely break his legs. Brother, I know what you mean, but do you think he's that kind of person?"
Even though Huang Cuilan said this, she was still a little uneasy. She thought, if the father of the child could do such a thing, who would help her?
Huang Yaoguo saw through her duplicity, but didn't argue. As long as she listened, it would be fine. She should focus on her own family and not make a fuss. He knew his sister-in-law too well. His sister was his biological child, and he didn't want her to be led astray by that woman and ruin his life.
Over the next few days, Huang Cuilan completely changed her daily routine. She would go to Zhang Guofu's workplace whenever her shift changed, especially during the two days each month when the grain store distributed rations, when she would observe from a distance.
Huang Cuilan soon discovered that her brother was right. Many young lesbians deliberately found excuses to get close to their men.
Looking at Zhang Guofu, he always had a gentle smile on his face, talked to others politely, and his words and actions revealed the elegance that only scholars can have.
Huang Cuilan was panic-stricken. She had never seen this side of her husband before. In her memory, the man with a simple smile, who avoided the women in the village when he met him, and who carried a hoe on his back, was gone.
She couldn't remember when the person next to her changed.
Did it seem to start with night school, or perhaps reading every night? She thought about it and realized that in the past year, he had not chatted with her about family matters except when necessary.
Every night he would read and read, and what about himself? Oh, right, he was worrying about where to get some food for his mother and eldest brother, or racking his brains to calculate how much black market food he could buy with the little money he had saved.
Huang Cuilan returned home step by step in a daze.
The house was still the one she loved, but something seemed different. There were more books, her son's, her daughter's, her husband's, but none of her own.
She returned to her bedroom and saw the pile of newspapers and books on the desk. She also saw unfamiliar tables and small numbers on the open books, and she sighed deeply.
Opening the cupboard, he saw Zhang Guofu's piles of clothes in clear black and white, without any patches, which made his own clothes, which had been washed so white, look even more worn.
Huang Cuilan realized later that most of her husband's clothes were prepared by her mother-in-law, and she didn't even notice it when she washed clothes.
It was easy to imagine how unhappy my mother-in-law was with me. Otherwise, she wouldn't have done it herself, and she wouldn't have told me. This was completely ignoring me.
Huang Cuilan lay weakly on the kang, closed her eyes, thinking about how to save the relationship between the couple and how to regain her mother-in-law's approval.
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