“I can understand you telling your son Dongze to stay away from the local village girls, but why do you want him to avoid contact with those other female educated youth who were also sent to the countryside?”
Wen Mei didn't quite understand Zhang Hua's thoughts.
"How many of the girls who are sent to the countryside by their families are actually pampered by their parents?"
Zhang Hua said with a mocking look, "Not to mention anything else, just look at those families in our compound. You know how badly two of them have done things."
But if those two girls who were sent to the countryside had been pampered at home, do you think their families would have been capable of such behavior?
Upon hearing this, Wen Mei paused for a moment, then said, "The two companies you mentioned are special cases and cannot be generalized."
"What are some special circumstances?"
Zhang Hua scoffed: "Huang Yulan had two sons and two daughters. The eldest son joined the army after graduating from high school, and the second child is a daughter."
Because Huang Yulan had a difficult childbirth, everyone in the compound knew how much she disliked her second child after giving birth.
Two years ago, her second child graduated from high school and found a job through his own abilities. However, after working for a year, last autumn, Huang Yulan asked him to transfer the job to her third child, who refused.
Huang Yulan directly contacted people, not only having the third son replace the second son's job, but also personally signing the second son up to go to the countryside.
Because of this, the second son severed ties with their family. The matter caused such a huge uproar that people in the compound still talk about it whenever they have a spare moment!
Wen Mei sighed: "Huang Yulan really did something wrong. She gave birth to both her son and daughter. This difficult childbirth wasn't her daughter's choice. Why does she treat her own daughter badly because of something like that?"
“It’s not that she doesn’t like her daughter, it’s just that she doesn’t like her eldest daughter who caused her difficult childbirth. Think about it carefully, what is Huang Yulan’s attitude towards her youngest daughter?”
Whenever she goes shopping, she always takes her daughter with her, praising her to everyone she meets as her thoughtful and sensible little girl. Everyone who hears this gets a headache from hearing it.
Huang Yulan is the mistress of the Bai family in the compound. She and Zhang Hua don't get along very well. The reason for their discord is that Huang Yulan looks down on Zhang Hua's status as a stepmother.
Well, you could say that Huang Yulan wasn't targeting Zhang Hua specifically; she looked down on all women who became stepmothers.
The root of the problem lies in the fact that Huang Yulan suffered a lot under her stepmother's care.
After hearing what Zhang Hua said, Wen Mei hesitated for a moment, but ultimately said nothing.
"Compared to Huang Yulan's approach, I actually dislike Han Meihui's methods more."
Completely disregarding whether Wen Mei wanted to listen, Zhang Hua continued recounting the sordid affairs of another family in the compound:
"First, she schemed to steal her stepdaughter's boyfriend in order to help her daughter from her ex-husband steal him away. Then, she arranged for her stepdaughter and stepson to be rejected by her husband, Old Qiao. Finally, she enrolled her stepdaughter and stepson in a rural work assignment."
At the same time, she's trying to set up her stepdaughter's boyfriend with her own daughter. She's utterly despicable and ruins the reputation of us stepmothers!
At that moment, Zhang Hua seemed to have forgotten what she, as a stepmother, had done to the children left by her current husband's previous wife, while Wen Mei looked embarrassed and didn't know how to respond.
She considered herself a fairly good stepmother. From the moment she entered the Wang family, she had never mistreated her stepson, even though he had never paid much attention to her and showed little brotherly or sibling affection towards the two children she had brought into the Wang family.
She was even indifferent to her stepson, the youngest son she had after marrying into the Wang family, and his half-brother. To avoid causing family conflicts, she has never said a bad word about her stepson in front of her husband.
Therefore, her life after remarrying went relatively smoothly.
Especially after her stepson came of age, although he still didn't talk to her much, he clearly showed much more respect for his stepmother.
With her thoughts drifting to this point, Wen Mei smiled and said, "Everyone has their own ideas. It's none of our business, so let's talk less about that person!"
"How are Xiaoshu and Nannan doing lately?"
Zhang Hua glanced at Wen Mei and asked about the situation of Chen Shu and her daughter.
Yes, Chen Shu gave birth, but not long after, and rarely took the baby out of the house.
"I'm fine!"
Wen Mei responded, then a smile appeared on her face: "Nannan is so chubby and fair now, she looks like a jade doll. When you go and see her later, you will definitely hold her and love her dearly."
"Xiao Shu's child is naturally good-looking."
A smile appeared on Zhang Hua's lips: "I'll go see them in a couple of days."
Wen Mei appeared to be smiling, but in her heart she was criticizing Zhang Hua.
What do you mean by saying that Xiao Shu's child is naturally good-looking? Doesn't her son Jun Chi deserve credit for that?
Zhang Hua had no idea what Wen Mei was thinking. He only saw her face suddenly turn gloomy: "I will absolutely not agree to my Xiao Ze spending his life with that damned female educated youth!"
Hearing Zhang Hua, who showed no symptoms, bring up Chen Dongze again, Wen Mei couldn't help but advise, "Since what's done is done, the only thing we mothers can do is hope that the young couple can live a good life together."
Besides, Dongze is a shrewd person; his marriage to that female educated youth was definitely not a decision made on a whim.
If you insist on breaking up the young couple in the future, Dongze will likely harbor resentment towards you, which will inevitably affect your mother-son relationship.
After a brief pause, Wen Mei's eyes revealed envy, and even her tone was tinged with envy: "Speaking of which, I'm quite envious of you. Dongze is several years younger than my Pengpeng and Hengheng, yet he's already found a wife for him outside."
Unlike my husband and his wife, who are both incredibly busy with work. Whenever I bring up their marriage to my husband, they always reply with "No rush."
We elders really don't know what to do with them!
Take this year's Spring Festival for example. My father, taking advantage of the fact that they finally came home for the New Year, mentioned to them in front of the whole family that they should settle down and get rid of their personal problems as soon as possible.
The two rascals responded to their grandfather with the same two words, "No rush." When pressed further, they simply said they hadn't met the right person.
This really infuriated my old man!
"I'm not preventing my son Xiaoze from getting married. I just want him to marry a girl from a similar social class. That way, the young couple can have more to talk about in their daily lives, and Xiaoze will have more support in whatever he does in the future."
But I was trying my best for him, and he ignored me completely, insisting on starting a family with a female educated youth in the countryside... It's clear he's going against me!
Zhang Hua became increasingly angry as he spoke: "I asked him if he knew about the female educated youth's family situation, but he hesitated to answer me. This shows that either he didn't know, or the female educated youth's family wasn't well-off."
To be honest, I'm not afraid you'll laugh at me for being materialistic, but for the sake of my children, and so they won't regret it later, I don't think it's wrong for a mother to be a little materialistic.
Wen Mei chuckled awkwardly, offering no comment on Zhang Hua's words.
"No way, I'm going to the place where my son Xiaoze was sent to the countryside tomorrow. I want him and that female educated youth to get a divorce!"
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