The eldest daughter's husband is a teacher, a government employee, and a gentle and refined man who speaks and acts in a proper and respectable manner. Therefore, the whole family dotes on him.
The reason Wei Mingyue insisted on marrying a government official was because of her older sister's husband.
But she didn't have her older sister's good looks, so she had to work hard to become a government employee in order to at least find a suitable match.
That evening, sitting in bed, Su Xueli looked up from her book and asked Wei Mingshen, "Do our parents really like our brother-in-law?"
Wei Ming squatted down, polishing his leather shoes, and said, "Hmm."
Su Xueli asked, "So what's your opinion of him?"
Wei Mingshen said, "It's so-so, I neither particularly like it nor dislike it."
"How many years has your older sister been married to him?"
Wei Mingshen said, "It's been seven or eight years. At the beginning, my eldest sister was in poor health and didn't have a child this year."
Su Xueli thought to herself: The good days are almost over.
She figured it was because Wei Minglan's husband became the principal of a junior high school after this summer vacation that he started having affairs.
Wei Minglan was so angry that she became ill, and later she raised him as an illegitimate child, and died in depression.
Wei Mingshen turned to look at Su Xueli and said, "Big sister, you've met her twice already."
Su Xueli said, "Yes, we met once on the day of our wedding, and once when we went to your uncle's house. My eldest sister is very beautiful; she looks like she was born of a completely different mother than Mingyue."
Wei Mingshen truthfully said, "My eldest sister and I are like our mother, while Mingyue is like our father."
Su Xueli laughed, "He really is your father's biological son."
She then said to Wei Mingshen, "By the way, after the sixth day of the new year, we'll start making straw weaving to earn money, okay?"
Wei Mingshen said, "Okay, I'll listen to the boss."
Su Xueli smiled smugly and said, "Do you know how much it cost to throw our wedding?"
Wei Mingshen said, "There is an approximate amount."
"That's good. Let's work hard and earn this money quickly so we can both go our separate ways. Your girlfriend is waiting for you."
Wei Mingshen stopped polishing his shoes. He suddenly felt irritated, threw the shoes down, washed his hands in a basin, and went outside to stand in the yard and smoke.
He himself didn't understand why he felt so agitated and irritable whenever Lin Meizhi was mentioned. The feeling of wholeheartedly pursuing her that he once had seemed to have faded…
When Wei Mingyue saw her brother smoking in the yard, she forced herself to walk over and coldly threw a sentence at him: "I'm at Sister Meizhi's today. She said she misses you a lot. Her birthday is coming up soon. You know the date. You have to see her at least once."
Wei Mingshen suddenly realized: That's right, the tenth day of the first lunar month is her birthday.
He's forgotten all of that.
"Sister Meizhi has lost weight. She's forcing a smile because she misses you."
Wei Mingshen became even more irritated. He threw his cigarette butt on the ground and stomped on it, saying, "Mind your own business and mind your own business."
Wei Mingyue said confidently, "This is not a trivial matter; it is a major event for our whole family because you are the pillar of our family."
"Do we need you to tell us what to do about the pillars of the family?"
Wei Mingyue was speechless.
Wei Mingshen turned and walked into the house. Wei Mingyue said to him from behind, "Even if you don't see her, you should at least write her a letter!"
With a bang, Wei Mingshen closed the door.
Wei Mingyue cursed through gritted teeth outside: "You heartless, filthy man!"
"Hey, why are you already doing straw weaving?" Wei Mingshen asked as he entered the room.
Su Xueli was sitting in bed making little figures.
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