057 Bringing Honor to the Family
"What's so great about showing off a pair of worn-out shoes? As if everyone has them! Her smug look is truly disgusting!"
Zhong slammed the table, the bitterness in her heart rising to the top of her head.
Zhou Dasao Guihua brought some water for her mother-in-law to wash her feet and asked tentatively:
"Mom, who made you sick?"
Before Mrs. Zhong could respond, Chunfang raised her chin towards the next room, half-smiling.
"Who else could it be? The Gao family. I didn't expect setting up a street stall could make so much money. It's only been a short while, and I've already ridden my bike home. Everyone in the family even has a pair of Warrior shoes!"
This tone sounded even more sour than Zhong's.
Chunfang sighed, "Sister-in-law, if you hadn't been to the store just now, you wouldn't have known how proud Mrs. Tian was. She kept picking up a pair of shoes, thinking they were rimmed with gold."
Guihua understood that her mother-in-law was disgusted by the Gao family.
Curiously asked, "Second sister-in-law, how much money do you think the Gao siblings made?"
Chunfang held up five fingers and lowered her voice, "I calculated, this is the lowest number."
"What? Five hundred yuan!" Guihua stood up quickly, her heart pounding with excitement.
Chunfang was most annoyed by her sister-in-law's sudden start. She touched her belly and gave her a sidelong glance.
"Sister-in-law, don't make a fuss. You're giving me a stomachache."
Mrs. Zhong immediately expressed her concern, "Is my eldest grandson okay?"
"It's okay, it's okay. I'm fine." Chunfang smiled awkwardly. She was most afraid of her mother-in-law's sudden concern.
Mrs. Zhong didn't finish her words and instructed, "If it were me, you and the second son should take some time to go to the city to the hospital. Once they confirm that it's a grandson, I can prepare for you."
Chunfang's heart skipped a beat, but she had recently started to like eating sour food, and her belly was round, so everyone who had seen it said it must be a son.
I felt relieved and agreed, "We'll go in a few days when the second child is free. Don't worry, Mom, I will definitely give birth to a big fat boy for you!"
The child is the heaviest wound in Guihua's heart. She has been married to the eldest brother for five or six years, but there is no movement in her belly.
Her mother-in-law scolded her every day for not being able to have children. Even when people in the village mentioned that someone else had given birth, they would feel sorry for her.
Now her second brother's wife was born before her, and she couldn't even imagine how her mother-in-law would dislike her in the future.
Thinking of these things, Guihua no longer had the heart to worry about how much money the Gao siblings next door could make.
If God is kind enough to give her a son, she would not accept it even if it meant becoming a millionaire.
Mrs. Zhong looked at the belly of her second son's wife, and her mood, which had been caused by the anger she had felt at Old Mrs. Tian, finally calmed down a little.
She glanced at her youngest son's lighted room, lifted her feet from the basin and motioned for Guihua to wipe them clean.
To be honest, Guihua thought her mother-in-law's feet were disgusting.
But it was her fault that she couldn't have children. Her mother-in-law was angry when she saw this and started to torture her.
Foot binding is irreversible. All of Zhong's toes shrank and gathered like rotten flesh in the soles of her feet.
My feet are completely deformed and turn inwards, so I can never buy shoes that fit me and have to make my own cloth shoes.
When she saw Mrs. Tian wearing Feili sneakers comfortably on her normal-sized feet, she wanted to curse God.
After drying her feet, Zhong put on her socks and small-sized cloth shoes with the toes padded with rags, and staggered to the door of Zhou Zhenghua's room.
She knocked on the door.
"Come in."
Mrs. Zhong came in and asked with concern, "Are you still writing materials?"
In fact, she didn't understand these things at all and just asked casually.
Zhou Zhenghua put down his pen, stood up, helped his mother sit down on the stool, and asked her what was the matter.
Mrs. Zhong asked directly, "Do you know about the Gao family's eldest daughter's boyfriend?"
Zhou Zhenghua has been deliberately avoiding this issue these days.
I didn't expect my mother to ask directly.
He could only nod and sit down at the table with a gloomy expression.
Seeing that her son still cared, Mrs. Zhong muttered something and cursed, then said contemptuously:
"She's a high school graduate with no job. She's showing off her face and selling things on the street to make a few bucks. A woman like that is not worthy of you at all."
"When you two were still young, Mom didn't say anything. Now she's already found a partner, and you can't fall behind. Otherwise, the Gao family will think they've hooked up with a nouveau riche and their tails will be all over the place!"
Zhou Zhenghua corrected his mother unhappily: "Mom, I'm just setting up a street stall, what are you talking about?"
"Besides, Qing He is not the kind of person you say he is."
Mrs. Zhong's face darkened. "You're still protecting her? She doesn't even remember the kindness you showed her when we were kids. Why are you still caring about her?"
"I think that Teacher Ouyang is pretty good. Aren't you two dating too? How is it going?"
"Do you want me to find a matchmaker for you? She's such a great girl, and her father is the director of the county office. She's a thousand times better than Gao Qinghe!"
At this point, Mrs. Zhong curled her lips and said, "If you want to live a normal life, you have to find someone like Ouyang Yan. Gao Qinghe's seductive look doesn't look like someone who can live a normal life. Just give up on that idea."
Zhou Zhenghua was a little surprised, "Mom, you didn't say that before."
In the past, he said that only a beautiful girl like Gao Qinghe was worthy of him, and it didn't matter if she didn't know how to live. At most, she could let her two sisters-in-law give her some advice after she got married.
Mrs. Zhong didn't care what she said before, she glared and said:
"The past is the past, and the present is the present. Before, you were just a college student, and now you are a cadre that the leadership has focused on training. How can it be the same?"
Zhou Zhenghua: "Uncle Chongyi, Aunt Ying, and Grandma Tian helped our family a lot in the past."
"Mom, you can't be ungrateful."
Mrs. Zhong looked away guiltily, but still insisted that Zhou Zhenghua go to Ouyang Yan's house and settle the relationship as soon as possible so that she could have a grandson.
It would be best if I could get ahead of the Gao family and get married before Gao Qinghe!
However, Mrs. Zhong knew best what kind of character her son had.
"Son, think about your Zhou family's ancestors, and why your mother and your two brothers worked so hard to support you in your studies and college."
"The Zhou family is counting on you to bring honor to their family!"
As long as you have power, there are plenty of beautiful girls.
"It's not easy to meet a good girl like Ouyang Yan. You should hurry up and don't make the neighbor girl you used to play house with when you were little hurt."
Mrs. Zhong patted her son's shoulder, hunched over, and walked away with a staggering step.
Under the dim light, my mother's hair seemed to have turned much whiter.
Zhou Zhenghua clenched his fists and closed his eyes, all he could see was Gao Qinghe.
He also wanted to forget this woman, but he simply couldn't.
As for Ouyang Yan...she is indeed a good girl.
Zhou Zhenghua couldn't understand why things had turned out like this.
He had clearly only gone to the cadre school for a month of training, but the person who had promised to wait for him to come back changed his mind.
Which link went wrong?
Everything started from the day Qing He was discharged from the hospital.
Is she going to completely break up with him just because he didn't make their relationship public?
Or maybe she had been waiting for him to make it public, but was disappointed time and time again.
So his concealment from Ouyang Yan that day became the last straw that broke the camel's back.
If that's the case, then she must have accumulated enough disappointment before she decided to leave.
Zhou Zhenghua covered his face and shed a tear in pain.
If that was the case, then he respected her choice.
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