Zhou Shiwei's daughter, however, is not satisfied. She has not been in the countryside for a year and is not content with the thirty yuan and seven or eight ration coupons sent by her family every month. Now she is asking for double.
The letter also included threats...
After reading the contents of the two letters, Zhou Yanchen's face turned ashen with anger almost instantly. At the same time, he thought about why his wife, Li Yao, had been in poor mental condition and had no appetite recently.
Feeling frustrated and resentful that his wife, Li Yao, didn't know how to take care of herself, Zhou Yanchen placed two letters that Li Yao had deliberately hidden in the drawer on the dining table after the food was served.
Seeing this, Li Yao immediately understood. She opened her mouth several times to explain, but she couldn't utter a sound.
Zhou Shiyan casually picked up the two letters. After reading their contents, he felt very dissatisfied with Zhou Shiwei. It wasn't that he was unhappy that his sister was asking the family for double the money, but that she was unhappy that she was threatening their parents in the letter.
"I didn't mean to hide it from you. I was just thinking about how to deal with it. We can afford to send double the money. The problem is that Weiwei is too entitled. If we send the money as she wants this time, she'll probably ask for even more later."
If we don't go along with her, what if she really marries someone there?!
Li Yao frowned and blamed herself: "It's all my fault. I spoiled Weiwei rotten. I thought that sending her to the countryside would at least change her personality, but judging from the current situation, she hasn't changed at all."
“I will reply tomorrow, saying that the family doesn’t have that much money or coupons, and that she can marry someone locally as she pleases, but the family will not send her a single penny or coupon in the future.”
Zhou Yanchen made a decision.
"this……"
Li Yao felt a pang of pity.
"Mom, don't worry. With my sister's looks, there's no way she could ever get married here."
Selfish and incapable of enduring hardship, if his sister were to marry a local young man, he would kick his own head around like a ball.
Zhou Shiyan snorted inwardly and continued, "My sister, relying on her understanding of you and Dad, thinks that you both care about her as your daughter no matter what, so she deliberately threatened you in the letter just to achieve her goal."
After listening to what Zhou Shiyan said, Li Yao looked at Zhou Yanchen. Seeing that Zhou Yanchen nodded in agreement with his son, she twitched her lips and asked, "Are you really going to write a reply like that?"
"Um."
Zhou Yanchen nodded and then said, "Whether she's threatening or genuinely intends to marry someone locally, if she does it, she should bear the consequences."
"I...I won't agree. Weiwei is our precious daughter. If she really marries someone here...I can't accept it!"
Li Yao's eyes welled up with tears, and she shook her head repeatedly.
"So what do you want? To send double the money every month as she wrote in her letter, or to find a way to bring her back to Beijing?"
Zhou Yanchen asked.
Li Yao remained silent.
"It's impossible to get it back to Beijing. You can send double the amount of money if you want, but don't regret it later."
As soon as Zhou Yanchen finished speaking, Zhou Shiyan said, "Mom, you sent double the amount of money this time as my sister asked. What if she asks you to add double the amount again in the future? Are you going to starve ourselves?"
“If your sister hadn’t been sent to the countryside last year, none of this would have happened.”
Suddenly, Li Yao said this, and upon hearing it, Zhou Shiyan frowned: "Mom, are you blaming Dad for this, or are you blaming Brother Qin and his wife next door?"
Li Yao opened her mouth, but remained silent for a long time.
A hint of disappointment flickered in Zhou Shiyan's eyes as he said, "It's my sister who has impure thoughts and actively provoked Dr. Song. If my father hadn't signed her up for the rural service program, she might have caused some trouble next door. And given Brother Qin's temperament, my sister definitely wouldn't have gotten away with it."
"I have no complaints about Dr. Song and Comrade Qin."
Li Yao paused briefly to defend herself, then shifted her gaze to Zhou Yanchen: "Today I went to the staff hospital for a checkup. The doctor who saw me was Dr. Song. After taking my pulse, she said... that I'm about a month pregnant..."
Zhou Yanchen and Zhou Shiyan were both stunned.
next door.
After dinner, Song Lan waited for Qin Yaqing and Qin Yaxin to finish cleaning up the kitchen. She then asked Qin Yaqing to go to her room to talk, while the rest of the family sat in the yard chatting.
"Little sister, do you know why I asked you to come inside to talk?"
The two women, one sitting on the edge of the bed and the other on a nearby chair, met each other's eyes. When Qin Yaqing heard Song Lan's question, she shook her head slightly.
"I noticed you seemed a bit off during dinner. Did something happen at work, or is there something else bothering you?"
Song Lan didn't want to cause trouble, but she was also mindful of her status. In addition, Qin's mother was no longer alive, and she couldn't just ignore her sister-in-law's condition. It would be too late to regret it later when things got serious!
Moreover, ever since Qin Yaqing was brought back to work, Song Lan has had a very good impression of her sister-in-law. She is not talkative, gentle, hardworking, and receptive to advice. She has already published many articles in the newspaper and earns an average of forty or fifty yuan a month, which shows that she has great potential in writing.
She hoped the other person could continue writing and not let irrelevant things affect their mood, thus impacting their creative work.
“Sister-in-law, Wen Qi has been writing me a letter almost every week for the past two months. Even though I refuse to sign for the letters, he keeps doing it. This month... at the beginning of this month, I was so annoyed that I wrote to him to stop writing to me, but it didn’t work.”
"Wen Qiming?"
Song Lan was taken aback for a moment, then realized what she meant and asked, "Did you leave our home address with them?"
Qin Yaqing shook her head: "Only Li Qiu has the address of our place near the machinery factory."
"I remember you mentioned that a male educated youth named Zhou Shiyang wrote you a letter. Are you still in contact with him?"
Song Lan asked.
Qin Yaqing blushed slightly and nodded: "Yes. He sends me a letter every month without fail."
"Are you two dating?"
Song Lan asked again.
"It was just correspondence between ordinary friends."
Qin Yaqing responded.
"That is to say, the relationship has not yet been established."
Song Lan smiled and said, "I suppose he got our family's address near the machinery factory from Li Zhiqing, and that's how he started corresponding with you. As for Wen Qiming, where do you think he got the information about our family's address near the machinery factory?"
"I have no idea."
Qin Yaqing shook her head.
"If you don't know, then you don't know. Let him send it if he wants. If you don't sign for it, the letter will be returned to you by the post office here. Once he knows that you are determined not to deal with him anymore, he will give up any idea of contacting you again."
Song Lan spoke slowly, and upon hearing this, Qin Yaqing remained silent for a moment before nodding, "I'll listen to my sister-in-law."
Considering the potential for a relationship between Qin Yaqing and Zhou Shiyang, Song Lan couldn't help but ask, "By the way, is Zhou Zhiqing still in the village where you were sent to work before?"
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