Mr. Yu wouldn't help her; after all, he only had one son, and once his daughter-in-law was divorced, she was an outsider. He could have another grandson later. However, given their seven years of caring for each other, Mr. Yu wouldn't make things difficult for Chen Hong, since she still had to raise his grandson.
While cooking, Chen Hong planned out the conditions for divorcing Yu Hai, striving to protect her and her child's interests as much as possible.
Because of Yu Hai's infidelity, Chen Hong wants to keep the house they're currently living in. This small courtyard has four main rooms, one kitchen in the east, one storage room in the west, and a small backyard with a pigsty, chicken coop, toilet, and a small vegetable garden.
The house has a foundation measuring 16 x 20 meters and covers an area of 320 square meters. It was Chen Hong's wedding house when she got married. It cost more than 70,000 yuan to build, and she was in debt for more than 30,000 yuan. It took Chen Hong four years to pay off the debt after her marriage.
In the last three years, the family has finally managed to save some money. This house is marital property, and Chen Hong is determined not to give it to Yu Hai this time. After the divorce, she doesn't want to go back to her parents' home. She has lived here for seven years and gets along very well with the villagers and neighbors.
It's fair to say that Chen Hong is much more popular than Yu Hai in Yujia Village. Here, her son will no longer face discrimination and can grow up healthily. Chen Hong has decided not to leave until her son goes to university. Wherever her son works after university, she will go with him and will no longer rely on her family.
Chen Hong cooked a stir-fry of green beans with pork, a cucumber salad, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and fried some dried fish. She also heated up the steamed buns from yesterday. Seeing that it was already 12 o'clock and Yu Hai and his son hadn't returned yet, Chen Hong picked up her son and started eating.
Just after finishing dinner with his son, Yu Hai and his father returned. Yu Hai's father picked him up from Rongcheng Bus Station on the family motorcycle.
"Dad, Yu Hai, you're back. The baby is hungry, so we've eaten first. The food is in the kitchen, left for you two. I'm taking the baby to rest now. You two can take your food and eat. Just leave it there when you're done, and I'll clean up later."
After saying that, Chen Hong carried the child back to the bedroom to sleep. "You should put the child to sleep first. Don't worry about it. We can wash the dishes ourselves after we finish eating. You've been busy all morning, so take a nap too. We still have to pick pears this afternoon; there's quite a bit of work to do!"
"Okay, then I'll take the child to sleep. You all eat and rest for a while." Chen Hong drifted off to sleep and slept until two o'clock. Yu Hai didn't go back to his bedroom either; he went to his father's room for his afternoon nap.
She got up, woke the child, helped him get dressed and wash his face, arranged for him to play at home with his grandfather, and then pushed the stroller with a basket to the pear orchard at the foot of the mountain. In one afternoon, Chen Hong picked pears from more than ten trees, and Yu Hai also went to help. In total, they picked nearly 2,000 jin of pears.
"Yu Hai, you keep picking them. I'll go to my uncle's house and ask him to come pick up the pears. Have him drive the car right to the foot of the mountain so we don't have to carry them home." "Okay, go ahead. Have you talked to your uncle yet?"
“It was all arranged long ago. My uncle even offered to help me pick them, but he's too old for me to climb the tree and pick pears. I'll have him come over later to help pack them into baskets and weigh them. Once they're packed and weighed, we'll carry them down to the car. My uncle will take them directly to the market this afternoon. The price is already set, and we agreed he'd buy them as soon as he gets there.”
"Okay, you go ahead, I'll pick them myself first."
Chen Hong went down the mountain to her cousin's house in the city center. Her cousin was the village chief, and had been the village chief for more than 30 years. He was quite respected in the village.
Yu Hai's cousin had a friend who owned a printing factory in Jinan. Yu Hai went to Jinan with his cousin and worked at the printing factory. After a while, Yu Hai left the printing factory and went to work in a hotel as a sales and purchasing agent. That's when he started dating the woman who was the supervisor.
In the village, Yu Hai's family was small, and his uncle always helped with everything, being a very upright and kind old man. After Chen Hong got married, she also became very close to the village chief's family. Whenever there was a wedding or funeral in the village, Chen Hong would diligently help out whenever the village chief's uncle asked her to.
When Yu Hai wasn't home, Chen Hong would talk to her uncle, the village chief, about farm work she couldn't do. Each time, her uncle would call a lot of people to help. Chen Hong wasn't stingy, and she was always very generous in entertaining those who helped her.
In the countryside, these middle-aged people in their forties and fifties are still quite efficient at farm work. Because their income is low, every family lives very frugally. Chen Hong's generosity makes everyone who comes to help very happy, and they all enjoy associating with her. There's always plenty of food and drink at the meal, and if anyone needs help, they'll be there to lend a hand.
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