"Mom, what on earth do you, an old lady, want to do by monopolizing this job? Can you think about me?" Chen Xiangnan said with a bitter face. He really needed this job. He didn't know what happened. After his mother had a quarrel with his eldest brother's family, she refused to give it to him.
Is it because he didn't help her fight?
"Mom, after you give me the job, I will listen to you in everything from now on. If you have a fight with Big Brother again, I will definitely help you, okay?"
Old Mrs. Xia really couldn't understand why her second son insisted on taking her job. If he had the time to torture her, she might have been in jail long ago if she had thought of a way out on her own. But she knew that some of his friends were very capable.
In his previous life, factories were shut down or suspended, and the eldest brother was nearly driven to tears by the worry. But the second brother quickly partnered with someone to buy a factory, and for a few years they made a tidings of profit. But then a quarrel arose between the partners, and the factory eventually closed down, with significant losses.
Otherwise, the second brother's family would not have to live in the same place as the eldest brother's family when she died.
Old Lady Xia: "No. You're married now, so you don't need a job to impress others, nor do you need to use it to avoid going to the countryside. You don't even hand over your temporary job wages, and you don't even support your wife and children. What do you want to work for?"
Chen Xiangnan: "Mom, I also want to study hard, support my wife and children, and be filial to you and my dad."
Old Lady Xia: "Use my work to support my wife and children, and to honor me and your father?"
Seeing that his own mother was not convinced no matter what, Chen Xiangnan became angry and said, "Mom, if you don't give it to me, I won't even come to see you when you and my dad are old."
Old Chen is getting a little restless now. They work hard all their lives to make money, isn't it just for their children to be filial to them?
"Old woman, why don't you just give him the job? He's been making a lot of noise all day. Isn't that enough?"
Old Lady Xia put her hands on her hips and cursed, "You old bastard, if you want to be a good father, do your own job instead of staring at mine. When I'm old, I'll have my pension and won't have to ask these ungrateful people for it. That's how I'll live. If I really give him my job, he might say nice things now, but he might even look down on me for being useless later."
Old Chen said: "This is our own son, how could he do such a bastard thing."
Chen Xiangnan nodded, "Mom, I'm not that kind of person."
Old Mrs. Xia: You were this kind of person in your previous life. I suffered a loss once and it will never happen again.
"Let your father give you his job. If you want me to work, I have to die." Old Mrs. Xia said it firmly.
Old Chen was furious. "I'm in the prime of my career, how can I give up my job? Besides, my salary is twice as much as yours. If I give my job to my second son, who will support the family? Is your salary enough to support them?"
Old Lady Xia raised her lips and said, "As for subsidies, I won't give them a dime in the future. I'm making it clear now that everyone has to pay me five dollars for household expenses, calculated per person. Otherwise, not only will you have nothing to eat, but you won't be able to live here either."
Old Chen was shocked: "You want to split up the family?"
Old Lady Xia: "Divide the family? What are my parents dividing? I want to kick them all out. They're all married and still staying at home, not paying a penny, and even relying on their parents. If anyone knows about this, everyone will laugh at them."
Chen Xiangdong was secretly delighted when he heard that his mother's job was not going to be given to his second son. He thought that there was a big commotion at home and that his mother was worried about him and Wenying, so she refused to give him the job. But after hearing what he heard, he was dumbfounded.
What do you mean, drive them all away?
"How can there be a mother like you?" Chen Xiangdong slammed the table. "No one in our compound does things like you."
Old Lady Xia glared angrily, "That's not how it's done. Go and ask around. How much is your Aunt Yin's household allowance? And how much do your Aunt Wang's children pay every month?"
Seeing that they were all unconvinced, she continued, "Your Aunt Yin requires each of her working children to pay ten yuan for household expenses, your Aunt Wang requires half of their monthly salary, and your Uncle Ma's family pays them all their monthly salary before giving them ten yuan in pocket money each."
"You say no one does things the way I do? Well, tell me whose family you want to copy, and I'll listen to you. Oh, by the way, there's also your deadbeat father-in-law's family. Not only do they have to hand over everyone's salary, but they only give them ten yuan in pocket money each. It's even more outrageous than your Uncle Ma's family."
"How about I follow your father-in-law's family's way? You like them so much and tell me how great they are every day. Why don't we do the same?"
Chen Xiangdong wanted to protest, but his mother's words were all true, and he didn't know what to say. Before, his parents were the best parents in the compound. Not only did they not have to pay wages, they even secretly subsidized them. Even now, his mother looked furious, because their household allowance was the lowest in the entire compound.
He couldn't even think of a reason not to hand it over.
Seeing that this matter was really settled, Chen Xiangnan also knew that his mother's job would definitely not fall into his hands. He sighed: "Mom, how can I give you so much money? My wife is unemployed, my daughter is still so young, and I only make 20 yuan a month. As a temporary worker, I don't have any benefits or year-end bonuses. How can I afford it?"
Old Mrs. Xia felt that he just didn't want to work hard. If he paid more attention to making money, with his smart brain, how could he not make money?
The second child was not like the eldest child who was so stubborn that he could not think of anything else except going to work. He obviously did not want to work, was too lazy to work, and just wanted to go out and play.
Old Lady Xia scolded her mercilessly, "A grown man who can't even support his wife, and you still have the nerve to come home and yell at me. If you can't afford it, then find some other work, maybe carry heavy bags at the docks, paste matchboxes, carry gas tanks, or even beg for food. I see you've got this physique for a good reason. The pay for manual labor is good, enough for your family income for a year."
Chen Xiangnan opened his eyes wide. He was a high school student, and he was going to do manual labor?
Doesn't he have any dignity? If his friends knew about this, they would be laughed to death.
He looked unhappy.
Old Lady Xia didn't care whether he was happy or not. If he didn't pay, he could get out. He was already whining over five dollars. If he were to be like everyone else in the compound, they would be in great pain.
Chen Xiangnan was sulking, but seeing that it was completely dark and his wife hadn't returned yet, he felt very strange, "Mom, where are Chunmiao and Lingling?"
Old Mrs. Xia was speechless. She had just returned home earlier than them, so how could she know where his wife and children had gone?
"Go ask the neighbors, how would I know?"
Chen Xiangnan became even more annoyed and didn't want to pay anymore. He was not a family-oriented person, and now he was hungry, so he just ignored it and went out to eat.
Isn’t the food in state-owned restaurants better than his mother’s?
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