Yang Qingliang and Yang Yixuan exchanged a glance, gave each other a knowing look, and went about their own business.
They knew that Maodouhua was not only insulting them, but also Yang Youneng.
They are not as good as Yang Wanwan when it comes to criticizing them, and Yang Youneng is not as good as Yang Jinqiang when it comes to criticizing them.
Yang Youneng lost his ability to work and could only do some small handicrafts and grow some vegetables to barely support himself.
As for doing heavy labor or going out to work, that was impossible. He could no longer earn money to send his brother and sister to school; Yang Qingliang was going to university and Yang Yixuan to high school, and that was a considerable sum of money.
I borrowed money from all my relatives two years ago, but I still have a debt to pay back. What should I do?
Yang Yimei is unreliable; she said she could only lend her 1,000 yuan, and couldn't come up with any more. As for her son-in-law, Hu Jimin, although he wasn't seriously investigated, he did have some minor issues and was disciplined. Now he gets angry whenever he sees Yang Yimei, and she doesn't even dare to go back to her parents' home.
Terrified, Maodouhua never dared to cause trouble for Yang Wanwan and her sisters again. Otherwise, with that flashy van parked in the village today, Maodouhua would have definitely gone over to make a few sarcastic remarks.
Especially Yang Xiaojia, whom Maodouhua has never liked. When she heard that Yang Xiaojia got divorced, Maodouhua was gloating and had long wanted to mock her.
Maodouhua's cursing continued from home all the way to the field; her voice was loud enough for everyone around to hear clearly.
When Maodouhua returned home after finishing her work, she saw Yang Qingqiu sitting under the eaves talking to Yang Qingliang, still with a rather unfriendly expression.
Yang Qingqiu greeted her, "Auntie, off to water the fields?"
Maodouhua hummed in agreement. "Qingqiu, you've graduated?"
Yes, that's right.
"Have you found a job yet? Your mom said you'll be working in the city."
It was 1996, a time when undergraduate degrees were highly sought after, so Cao Xinchun's constant boasting that Yang Qingqiu was going to work in the city wasn't just bragging.
"Yes, Yucai Middle School contacted me and asked me to teach there. The salary they offered was very good, 500 yuan a month, plus bonuses, housing provident fund, pension insurance, and so on."
Mao Douhua curled her lips dismissively. Yang Wanwan was said to earn over a thousand a month, and as for Yang Xiaojia, she seemed to earn one or two thousand. Otherwise, how could she afford a minivan?
A thought suddenly flashed through Maodouhua's mind, but before she could grasp it, she heard Yang Qingliang say, "Brother Qingqiu, you're really amazing! Yucai Middle School is begging to take you."
Yang Qingqiu smiled modestly: "Those with good grades will sign contracts early, and the school will process their employment contracts quickly."
Yang Qingliang: "Yucai Middle School is a provincial key middle school, the only provincial key middle school in the county. Brother Qingqiu, you are really amazing!"
Before Yang Qingqiu could be modest, Yang Yixuan blurted out, "Yang Wanwan and Hu Youjin both attend Yucai Middle School. Brother Qingqiu, if you were one of their teachers, that would be quite a sight!"
Yang Qingqiu's expression remained unchanged. "My dad had a grudge against them, but I have no personal grudges against them. Besides, I'm a teacher. If any of them were to become my students, I wouldn't let personal grudges affect my relationship with them."
Maodouhua chuckled and said, "Then why did you have your aunt block their front door last Chinese New Year?"
Yang Qingqiu: ...
Yang Qingliang: My mom is good at stabbing people in the back.
Yang Qingqiu: "Auntie, Yang Wanwan misunderstood."
“Your aunt said that you were the one who told her to go.”
Yang Qingqiu: ...
The conversation had died down, so Yang Qingqiu left after sitting for a while.
Maodouhua snorted: "What are you showing off at my house for? If you're so capable, go show off at Yang Wanwan's house... Yang Yixuan, you haven't cooked yet? Are you dead? I'm working myself to death in the fields, and you haven't even cooked a meal?"
Yang Yixuan ran off, "I was chopping pig feed, Mom, I'll go cook right now..."
Yang Qingliang also quietly entered his room.
Yang Youneng, who had been sitting under the eaves in a daze, leisurely swatted a mosquito.
Ever since he was discharged from the hospital, Maodouhua has been like this, scolding whoever she can get her hands on; he's long been used to it.
The son and daughter dodged aside, while Maodouhua pointed her spear directly at Yang Youneng, yelling, "You're all dead men! You can't do anything right, you all rely on your old mother! Study, study, what's the point of studying! Stop studying, go to work! I've never enjoyed a single day of happiness since I married into the Yang family. Other women stay home to cook and do laundry, but I have to do all the housework and still have to do the work outside..."
"His heart is crooked, his thoughts are impure, he's shameless, utterly shameless..."
Yang Qingliang sneaked into the kitchen and whispered to Yang Yixuan, "Mom, has it been like this every day for the past year?"
Although Maodouhua had been involved in a lot of scandalous things over the past year, including getting involved with someone and being beaten by that person's wife, she had been very protective of her son, Yang Qingliang. She didn't allow Yang Yixuan and others to talk too much about family matters with Yang Qingliang, for fear of affecting his studies.
Moreover, before Yang Qingliang took the college entrance examination, Maodouhua controlled her emotions well and did not grumble or complain in front of Yang Qingliang.
After Yang Qingliang finished his exams, Maodouhua revealed her usual behavior without hiding it from him.
Yang Qingliang had only been back for a few days when he was quite surprised by his mother's behavior.
Yang Yixuan had long been tired of hearing her mother say shameless things all day long, so she replied, "What do you think? You'd better get into a good school. The family is counting on you. Dad can't count on you anymore."
After Yang Youneng's incident, the family's financial situation plummeted. Yang Youneng's recovery was a long process. In the process of taking care of his food and drink, Yang Yixuan's feelings for her father had long since disappeared.
If his father hadn't had those kinds of thoughts, how could he have ended up like that, accumulating so much debt?
She knew that Maodouhua's words about not letting them go to school and go out to work were not just empty talk; they were something that was about to become a reality immediately.
Her family owed more than 10,000 yuan, which was no longer enough to support her and her brother's education.
My uncles helped pay my tuition that year.
My aunts have a lot of complaints!
Therefore, Yang Yimei wanted to get Yang Yixuan a job at Moon Bay because they were really poor and had no money.
Yang Qingliang frowned: "I've inquired, and the lowest tuition fee is over a thousand yuan."
Yang Yixuan disagreed: "My older sister said that you can do part-time jobs at school, right?"
"I'll try my best. Sigh, I don't know how Yang Wanwan and the others are so amazing, how they can earn so much money!"
Yang Yixuan had been in contact with Xu Yao, so she knew a lot about Yang Wanwan. She said, "She has her parents' protection, so she can turn any danger into safety. We shouldn't even dream about it."
Yang Qingliang: "Parental protection?"
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