Chapter 82 She Never Had a Chance
Xu Chunying snorted, "That's all. Last month Ling Ye gave me 150 yuan, Ling Feng gave me 150 yuan, and your father's salary has not been paid by the company. It's 300 yuan. With such a big family and two children in school, how much do you expect to be left?"
The factory starts paying wages on the 10th of every month, and today is only January 31st.
Ten days left.
One hundred and twenty-three left.
If it is a normal day, it is enough.
But this is before the New Year.
February 15th is New Year’s Eve.
It’s the New Year, so I have to buy new clothes.
We have to buy New Year’s goods.
Spring couplets, firecrackers, and New Year gifts for relatives and friends, none of them requires money.
After the Little New Year, most shops are closed and will remain closed for half a month.
You also need to stock up on rice, flour and oil.
Moreover, less than half a month after the Chinese New Year, school started again.
The tuition and book fees for the two children are another expense.
Three hundred a month, it’s not enough no matter how you calculate it.
"Mom, where is the thousand yuan that Ling Ye tore? Give it to me and I'll glue it back together."
When this was mentioned, Xu Chunying became even angrier.
"No! I finally gathered all that money into a pile, and that little bastard stole it in the blink of an eye!"
"Ling Nan? Did she take it?"
If Ling Ye got it, He Jinyan would have no choice but to accept it and not say anything.
But how can a little kid who has to look at other people's faces when eating at home take that money?
"This little bastard! She took away New Year's money!"
Without that money, does this family rely on Ling Feng's salary?
Why?
He Jinyan was so angry that she walked around the room in circles.
Ling Feng frowned and said, "Alright, it's just a thousand dollars. Why are you acting like you've lost your heart?"
He Jinyan heard this and said without thinking: "It's just one thousand yuan, then give me one thousand yuan to spend! Can you earn that one thousand yuan?"
After she finished speaking, she realized that what she said was a bit too much.
Ling Feng hated to hear her compare him with Ling Ye.
Not to mention the situation now, it's obvious to him that he just can't make as much money as Ling Ye.
She stopped to look at Ling Feng's face, which was indeed as ugly as the ash at the bottom of a pot.
A pair of eyes stared at her like a mad bull.
He Jinyan was scared and sat back on the kang obediently.
"Okay."
Ling Jianguo concluded, "A little over a hundred is just a little over a hundred. We won't buy new clothes for the New Year. We'll buy less rice, flour, grain and oil. We'll only buy two or three pounds of pork. We don't have much money for Spring Festival couplets, so we won't buy firecrackers. We'll buy two less New Year gifts. We'll wait for others to bring gifts to us, and then we'll give them gifts."
He Jinyan was a little unhappy.
This year has been so miserable.
It's laughable to hear.
Living on this street, no one can see anyone else.
Isn't this equivalent to telling others that they can't make ends meet?
Also two or three pounds of pork.
That wasn't even enough for her son to eat for two days.
After thinking for a while, He Jinyan said, "Dad, do you think we should ask Ling Xiu to borrow some money from her for emergency use? When Ling Ye calms down and gives her the money, we can pay her back."
"no!"
Ling Jianguo refused outright.
Ling Xiu is the second child in the Ling family and the only daughter in the family.
She was beautiful since she was a child and married a good man when she grew up.
Marrying a teacher at Fengcheng No. 3 Middle School means she is eating public food.
All of his in-laws were educated people, and Ling Jianguo felt that he could not compare with them.
For the sake of the Ling family's reputation, every time Ling Xiu came home with something, he would double the amount for Ling Xiu to take back.
After Ling Xiu brought back two pig's trotters, he had to let Ling Xiu carry back a large rack of ribs.
Since Ling Xiu brought back two cans of food, he had to ask Ling Xiu to bring back two bottles of malted milk.
Anyway, I can't lose face.
Now you want to borrow money from her? That's absolutely not possible.
If my in-laws knew about this, they would definitely laugh at my family.
"Absolutely not. No one can say that to Ling Xiu. Do you hear me?"
He spoke righteously and displayed the authority of the head of the family.
He Jinyan was dissatisfied, but did not dare to say anything.
Ling Feng left first and went back to the house.
When He Jinyan caught up, she heard a noise coming from the next yard.
Push open the door and the sound becomes clearer.
When He Jinyan heard this, her scalp went numb.
It turned out to be Tian Baozhu who came to make trouble.
She hurried back to the house and said to Xu Chunying, "Mom, why don't you hide away? Tian Baozhu is here to make trouble."
Xu Chunying was also startled, but she pretended to be calm, "I, I'm not hiding, it's him who can't keep his wife, what does it have to do with me, he dared to hit me."
He Jinyan was feeling suffocated because she had a bad New Year.
Hearing this, he said sarcastically: "I can't say anything if I beat you. If Wu Yulan is Pan Jinlian, you are Wang Po. Wu Song didn't let any of them go."
"You foul-mouthed bastard, you..."
Xu Chunying was still cursing, but He Jinyan had already opened the door and went out to watch the fun.
As soon as the person left, Xu Chunying looked at Ling Jianguo in panic.
Ling Jianguo only replied her with one word.
"Should!"
At the next door, a big drama was going on.
Tian Baozhu was laid off and his wife stayed at her parents' home and refused to come back.
He was also feeling upset, so he ran to a snack bar outside Sanzi Street and started drinking.
He sat in the corner by himself without looking up, and the other people eating had no idea he was there, broadcasting today's events as if they were a joke.
Tian Baozhu happened to hear it clearly.
He had drunk quite a bit of alcohol.
This time, it was like a spark was thrown into the alcohol bottle and it exploded instantly.
When he rushed out of the snack bar holding a beer bottle, everyone realized that the food was spoiled and hurriedly followed him.
Some come to watch the fun.
After all, this kind of thing doesn't happen often.
Some people are kind-hearted and are afraid that something really bad will happen, so they will try their best to stop it.
Tian Baozhu took the lead, holding a beer bottle.
He also didn't know what he was going to do.
But if he does nothing, he will feel depressed to death.
The Wu family turned off the lights especially early today.
The room was so quiet that it seemed to be isolated from the whole world.
The sound of a beer bottle breaking the window glass was loud and crisp.
The Wu family members seemed to be awakened. Some turned on the lights, some got dressed, and some cried.
Amid the noisy quarrel, Song Rui and her family of three happened to pass by.
Unwilling to watch such a commotion, the three of them walked through the crowded crowd in front of Wu's house and went straight home.
Wu Yulan's gaze fell on them through everyone else.
When they went out together, Ling Ye always held the child.
There were many people at the door. Although he still had a cold and silent face, he put his arms around Song Rui's waist, keeping her away from the others.
He protected her like this and walked home step by step.
He didn't even raise his head or look at her.
His tenderness and attention were only given to the mother and daughter.
The dream that almost brought her happiness was finally shattered in Wu Yulan's heart.
It's not that she was almost there, it's that she never had a chance.
He loved Song Rui, but he never liked her.
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