Su Xueli looked at her hands, which were cracked from the wind, and said, "Sister-in-law, put them down. You've been walking around all day. Take a rest tonight. This work isn't something you can finish in a short while."
Du Mei said, "This job is easy to do while sitting down, it doesn't tire you out, it's nothing."
As he spoke, he started cutting.
Knowing that she couldn't stay still, Su Xueli stopped her, and the two of them started chatting while busy with their hands.
Du Mei then shared the fruits of her labor over the past few days with Su Xueli, telling her how much money she had earned and how much she had saved.
She said sweetly, "Sherry, I feel like I've never been this happy in all my years. Every day I see the money in my piggy bank increase, oh my, I'm so happy, hahaha..."
She laughed so hard she bent over.
"Giggle giggle..." The two little girls laughed along with them.
As a result, the room was filled with laughter.
They were truly happy, but it was also incredibly difficult. Not only did Du Mei suffer from dry skin and cracked hands from the constant sun and wind, but Zhao Di and Pan Di's little faces were also covered in small cuts and red veins, and their little hands were the same.
Su Xueli said with heartache, "Sister-in-law, every night you should scald your hands and face with hot water and then apply liniment."
Du Mei said, "I applied it, but if I don't, the pain at night is so bad I can't sleep. Sigh, even with all the application, the child can't withstand the wind and sun every day, and he gets soaked in the rain too. It's so hard on him."
She immediately comforted herself, saying, "The weather will get warmer, it will get better gradually."
Su Xueli agreed with her optimistic attitude and chimed in, "Yes, yes, it will be better when the weather gets warmer. When the sun gets stronger, you three can all buy a sun hat to wear."
Du Mei's face was full of hope as she said, "Yes, it's better to be hot than cold. The children are afraid of the cold."
Su Xueli said with a smile, "She won't have to suffer from the cold anymore, her mother is rich now."
"Hahaha, that's right, we're rich now."
The son's status depends on his mother's. Now that Du Mei has a high status in the family, no one dares to scold her two children.
She cooked for the three of them early in the morning and went out to sell toilet paper. When she came back in the evening, her mother-in-law had already cooked for the three of them. Du Mei and the children ate, then washed up and went to bed. What did it matter to her if she washed the dishes, fed the pigs, or washed the family's clothes?
She was only focused on making money; in modern terms, she was living the high life.
Thinking about how she helped her achieve her current situation, Su Xueli felt quite accomplished.
The mother and her two children played for a while and then went home. Wei Mingshen and Su Xueli continued making straw weaving, and Su Xueli continued the topic they had been discussing.
“Wei Mingshen, if you refuse to get a divorce, trouble is coming soon. Once my brother’s mess is over, my father will force you to go to the provincial capital for medical treatment again. That will be the time when our lies are exposed.”
To everyone's surprise, Wei Mingshen gave a cold laugh, "To be honest, I'm really not going to continue this charade. I'll be honest with my parents-in-law tomorrow."
"What?" Su Xueli stopped what she was doing.
Wei Mingshen put down his paintbrush and looked at Su Xueli, saying, "I pretended to leave back then because I had no choice but to. Now I don't need to pretend anymore, because I don't want to leave."
Su Xueli asked him, "Do you think you can't get a divorce just because you don't want to?"
Wei Mingshen said, "I will make you fall in love with me."
Su Xueli chuckled twice, "I'll make you agree to the divorce."
The two stared at each other, locked in a stalemate.
Finally, Wei Mingshen said calmly, "Then let's see who wins."
Su Xueli sneered: "I'll win, just you wait and see."
When going to sleep, Su Xueli moved her blanket further inside so that she wouldn't be next to him.
Wei Mingshen saw this and raised the corner of his mouth slightly, thinking to himself, "If you're so capable, don't try to snuggle into my arms when you're cold in the middle of the night."
In the middle of the night, a northerly wind suddenly rose, and another cold front from Siberia swept in, causing the sleeping dogs and chickens in the yard to stir.
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