Chapter 3: Without a mother's family, I wonder who will support you
"Oh, are you eating?" Deng Chunlin walked in with a smile.
"Brother is here. Have you eaten? Come and eat with us, let's eat together." Tan Yanlin quickly stood up, invited Deng Chunlin to sit on the stool, turned around and prepared to go to the kitchen to add two dishes.
"Yanlin, please sit down. I've just finished my meal and I just want to talk to you about something." Pulling Tan Yanlin to sit down, Deng Chunlin took out a few candies from his pocket and handed them to the three children. Then he patted Tan Yanlin on the shoulder and said, "Yanlin, can I get the 10,000 yuan I told you about? I need it urgently."
Tan Yanlin looked back at Deng Xiuzhen. Although Deng Xiuzhen said she would not lend him the money, he was skeptical. After all, Deng Xiuzhen had always cared about her parents' family and had quarreled with him many times over supporting her parents' family. If Deng Xiuzhen insisted on lending him the money, he would not be able to resist her temper and would lend it to her in the end.
Deng Xiuzhen was in a daze. She was trying to recall the past, but no matter how hard she tried, she had no recollection of Deng Chunlin coming that night. Did Deng Chunlin come at this time in her previous life?
"Xiuzhen, what are you daydreaming about?" Deng Chunlin frowned and scolded. Deng's family has four brothers and sisters. He is the eldest, followed by his second sister Xiumei, the third sister Xiuzhen, and a younger brother Chunsheng. Because he is the eldest and a son, he has been spoiled since he was a child. Before the youngest brother Chunsheng was born, everything in the family was based on him.
在那个重男轻女还比较严重的年代，爷爷奶奶把他当心肝宝，爸妈也视他为心头肉，秀梅和秀珍什么都得让着他，甚至一家人长期给秀梅秀珍灌输女儿生下来就要为娘家，为兄弟无限付出的思想。后来春生出生，分走了母亲的一些注意力，但是宠爱分不走，他的拳头不是吃素的，能揍得春生满地找牙。
Xiumei and Xiuzhen, who had lived in that family environment for a long time, would often give him money even after they got married, so he always lived a good life.
Deng Xiuzhen came back to her senses and looked at Deng Chunlin with calm eyes.
"What's that look in your eyes? Are you trying to cause trouble?" Deng Chunlin stood up suddenly, staring at Deng Xiuzhen fiercely and asked.
"Alas, I'm thinking about helping my eldest brother, but my family really can't come up with the money, and I feel a little sad." Deng Xiuzhen said quietly.
Tan Yanlin stared at Deng Xiuzhen with eyes wide open, unable to speak. Deng Xiuzhen would never talk to Deng Chunlin like this before. When Deng Chunlin raised his voice, Deng Xiuzhen would either shrink and act like a quail, or follow Deng Chunlin and ask him to take money or do work for her. In short, she would suffer a loss, and Deng Xiuzhen's family would have a better life.
"You're asking for death!" Deng Chunlin overturned the dining table.
"Deng Chunlin! Are you crazy?!!!" Deng Xiuzhen grabbed Wen Yu and Wen Jing, who were almost hit by the dining table, and held them in her arms, shouting angrily.
"I just want to borrow some money from you, why are you being so weird to me?"
"You mean to borrow a little? You mean to borrow 10,000! And you said you want to borrow money, how many times have you borrowed it? Have you ever paid it back? They say that if you borrow, you must pay it back. It's not difficult to borrow again. You haven't paid it back once. Why should I lend it to you?"
"I'm going to beat you to death!" Deng Chunlin cursed and rushed towards Deng Xiuzhen.
Tan Yanlin grabbed Deng Chunlin and said coldly: "Brother, you can't hit her!"
"What's it to you if I beat my sister?" Deng Chunlin glared at Tan Yanlin.
"She is my wife now!" Tan Yanlin looked at him coldly.
Deng Xiuzhen was not worried that Deng Chunlin would dare to beat Tan Yanlin. The years she lived in her previous life made her realize that her elder brother was a cruel and evil person who was good at cheating and deceiving people, but he was not very courageous and did not dare to fight.
He is only a bully at home, and everyone in his family is bullied by him. Everyone in his family is afraid of him. When he goes out, he is like a dead dog and becomes silent when he meets a ruthless person.
On the contrary, Tan Yanlin was very good to his family. Even when they quarreled at home, he never used violence and would always compromise and give in to her in the end. As a result, people outside spread the rumor that Tan Yanlin was a coward, which made Deng Xiuzhen in her previous life sometimes feel that he was not presentable and even a little disgusted with him.
But when they recalled the past more than ten years later, they found that Qin Yanlin was not afraid of tough guys outside, otherwise they would not have been able to do business peacefully in the supply and marketing cooperative for those years, and they would not have confronted Qin Xiubing head-on, and thus were injured by Qin Xiubing's tricks.
"You, you, you, you have the ability, but you don't lend it! When you are bullied, I'll see where you will go! When Qin Yanlin beats you to death one day, without your mother's family, I'll see who will support you!" Deng Chunlin left cursing.
Deng Xiuzhen looked at him coldly without saying a word. She felt that it would be a waste of energy to scold such a person.
"Xiuzhen, I won't hit you." Tan Yanlin walked to Deng Xiuzhen and whispered.
"I know." Deng Xiuzhen responded with a smile. She knew that Tan Yanlin not only kept a tight grip on money, fearing that she would use it to support her family, but also that during the years they lived together, no matter how big the conflict or how much they quarreled, she never hit him.
Tan Yanlin didn't know how to coax her with nice words, but he cared about her in every way. That was why she felt that Tan Yanlin was the only reliable person in that life.
"Mom," Wen Yu grumbled in a crying voice, pulling at the corner of Xiuzhen's clothes.
She felt irritated and repulsed in her heart, but looking at the little child and the tears on his face swaying under the light, Deng Xiuzhen couldn't bear it.
She pulled Qin Wenyu into her arms and whispered to comfort him: "It's okay, it's okay."
After cleaning up the main room and kitchen and washing up, the family had already finished washing up. It was nine o'clock.
There were no mobile phones in those days, and parents could turn off the TV without their children daring to object. Children did not have much homework, and even Wen Jing, who was in the sixth grade, had only a little homework, which she finished in a short time.
Unless it is a festival or some special day, people usually go to bed around ten o'clock.
"Yanlin, let's not use that foundation." Deng Xiuzhen said softly, looking at the top of the mosquito net.
"We don't need a foundation, and we rent a house to do business. First, there is no good shop front, and second, it is also a problem for our family to live. We have no jobs and no land, so how can we support three children?" Deng Xiuzhen's performance today surprised Tan Yanlin. He felt that his wife seemed like a different person. If he hadn't firmly believed that there were no ghosts in this world, he would have thought that Deng Xiuzhen was possessed by a ghost.
Deng Xiuzhen wanted to say that they were going to the city to do business, but she couldn't say it because she was not familiar with the city at all.
Tan Yanlin was an employee of the supply and marketing cooperative. Her family lived in the village next to the cooperative. She met Tan Yanlin through an introduction. After they got married, they were able to have two children because of her rural household registration, but both were girls. Tan Yanlin's parents said a lot of gossip about this, and some neighbors secretly talked about their fate of having no children. Unable to hold back their anger, they gave birth to a son, Tan Wenyu.
Then Tan Yanlin was fired and lost his job. He had no land as a commercial grain household. Although the Deng family's land was nominally related to Deng Xiuzhen, it was not their turn to farm it because my parents and Deng Chunlin were there.
Fortunately, the supply and marketing cooperative was restructured, and Tan Yanlin was smart. They contracted the storefront of the supply and marketing cooperative and started a business. They made some money in the past few years. As long as there is a way to make money, there will be people who are jealous, so those original employees of the supply and marketing cooperative came out and asked to return the storefront.
If he didn't do business, Tan Yanlin really couldn't think of a better way out.
"What do you think we should do?" Tan Yanlin thought he should ask Deng Xiuzhen. It might not necessarily get any result, but it might be better for the couple to discuss it.
Deng Xiuzhen didn't answer and pretended to be asleep. With her eyes closed, she thought about what to do tomorrow and how to prevent Tan Yanlin from getting hurt in the dispute.
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