Zhang Hua suddenly sat up straight, her expression particularly firm, and upon closer inspection, one could not help but see a hint of disdain in her eyes.
Undoubtedly, this contempt was directed at Chen Dongze's wife, Zheng Qiuwen, who was Zhang Hua's daughter-in-law whom she had not yet met!
"I still maintain that you shouldn't do things that will make your child complain, thereby damaging the mother-child relationship."
Wen Mei didn't want to see conflict arise between her in-laws, so she couldn't help but try to persuade Zhang Hua again.
"..."
After listening to what Wen Mei said, Zhang Hua gradually calmed down, but remained silent for a long time.
Wen Mei, realizing she had been out for quite some time, stood up to say goodbye: "I'm relieved to see you're alright. You should rest; I have to go back."
"I'll see you off."
Zhang Hua stood up and escorted Wen Mei to the courtyard gate, saying, "I'll have to trouble you to take good care of Xiao Shu and her daughter!"
"What are you saying? I'm happy taking care of my daughter-in-law and granddaughter. You don't need to be so polite with me."
Her granddaughter was born not long ago, and her daughter-in-law was still recovering. As the mother-in-law, even though there was a housekeeper to take care of her daughter-in-law and daughter, she didn't hesitate to lend a hand when needed.
After Wen Mei finished speaking, she waved to Zhang Hua and walked away shortly afterward.
...
Shanghai.
The Zheng family.
"Mom, you and Dad don't look too good. Did something happen at work today?"
When Zheng Xu got home from get off work, he stepped into the living room and noticed that his parents were clearly upset. Puzzled, he looked at his younger brother, Zheng Can, and asked:
"What's wrong with Mom and Dad? Oh, and you, why are you frowning and looking so pale?"
"Pick up that letter on the coffee table and take a look."
Zheng Can pursed his lips and casually pointed to the coffee table.
Zheng Xu was taken aback at first, then he looked at the letter spread out on the coffee table, smiled, and asked his parents, "Is this a reply from Wenwen?"
"The letter was written by my sister, but it's not a reply to you. It's addressed to the family, and the recipient is Dad."
With a cold face, Zheng Can rambled on, "Big brother, you're not getting married until National Day, but my sister has already gotten married in the rural area where she was sent down to work."
My parents were shocked after reading the letter, and my sister didn't explain why, only mentioning that she had started a family with a male educated youth.
Then she inquired about my parents' and my health, and later mentioned her situation in the area. At the end of the letter, she asked us to convey her congratulations to you and send our best wishes for your marriage.
After listening to what his younger brother Zheng Can said, Zheng Xu's hand, which was bent down to pick up the letter, paused in mid-air, and his expression became stunned, but this abnormality disappeared in an instant.
"Girls grow up and leave home, I never expected Wenwen to get married before me, her older brother."
With a slight smile, Zheng Xu took the letter filled with writing and said, "Shouldn't we send more things home? Marriage is a once-in-a-lifetime event, and we can't let Wenwen's wedding be too shabby."
"Big brother, didn't you hear what I said earlier? My sister is already married!"
Zheng Can hated his body. If he hadn't suffered from asthma since childhood, he would have gone to the countryside and left his sister at home.
In terms of age, he was less than a year younger than his sister. Because he was born with poor health, his sister helped their parents take care of him after she came to live with them and became a member of their family.
They lived under the same roof for eleven or twelve years and went to and from school together, from elementary school to high school. To be honest, he had a very deep affection for his sister.
Upon learning that someone in the family needed to go to the countryside, he immediately wanted to sign up so that his sister could avoid suffering there.
Unexpectedly, before he could take any action, his sister took the family's household registration book and quietly registered herself.
When I arrived in the countryside, whenever my family received a letter from my sister, they would always report good news and never bad.
He didn't believe that a delicate and frail girl wouldn't encounter any trouble in an unfamiliar place.
Zheng Xu's expression became somewhat uncomfortable because of what his younger brother Zheng Can said. He said, "Big brother didn't hear clearly just now, but we still need to send more money and things over."
"I'm going to the department store tomorrow to buy some dowry for Wenwen, and I'll pack it up and send it to her by the day after tomorrow at the latest."
Zheng's mother's voice rang out.
Mr. Zheng nodded in agreement: "We must send the dowry over. Wenwen is our only daughter, no matter what her reasons are..."
They only told us the news after the wedding, but as parents, we can't argue with our own child.
"I went back to my room and put my bag down."
Zheng Xu's expression was hard to read at this moment. He took two steps and waved the two pages of letter in his hand: "I took the letter Wenwen wrote back to my room and read it."
Neither Zheng's father, mother, nor Zheng Can said anything.
Back in his room, Zheng Xu put his briefcase down, then walked to his desk and sat down in a chair.
He glanced at the letter in his hand, his lips tightened, and after a moment, he began to read it word by word, line by line.
"Wenwen, are you resenting your older brother?"
After a long while, Zheng Xu folded the letter in half and placed it beside him, silently uttering a sentence.
Calculating the time he received his letter, and considering the wedding date his sister mentioned in the letter, he figured his sister Wenwen must have rushed into marriage after reading his letter.
Come to think of it... he should be happy.
Once they get married, the younger sister will no longer focus her attention on her older brother, even though they are not blood siblings. Not many people in the family compound know this.
In other words, everyone in the residential compound thought that his sister Wenwen and brother Xiaocan were twins, born together when their mother gave birth to the younger brother at their maternal grandmother's house.
Because her younger brother, Xiao Can, is in poor health and is not very old, her younger sister is temporarily being cared for at her maternal grandmother's house.
It wasn't until her younger sister was almost six years old that her parents decided to bring her back to the city from her maternal grandparents' house in the countryside, thinking that the education in the city was better.
Undoubtedly, although the reason was not something his parents deliberately told others, the more ambiguous the words were, the more people could fill in the blanks themselves.
Zheng Xu understood why his parents spoke ambiguously about his younger sister Wenwen; it was simply because they didn't want the children in the compound to be bullied because his sister wasn't their biological child.
Recalling the day his parents brought the little girl home, to be honest, the moment he saw his cute, pretty, well-behaved, and sensible little sister...
She genuinely loves her younger sister (or older sister) and she and her brother act like two silly little fools, excitedly celebrating at home that they now have a little sister (or older sister).
Zheng Xu didn't know when his younger sister, Zheng Qiuwen, learned about his background, nor did he know when Zheng Qiuwen developed feelings for him, her older brother. He only knew that he couldn't let her fall into that trap.
After all, he truly treated her like his own sister!
Based on this, Zheng Xu didn't say much about Zheng Qiuwen signing up to go to the countryside.
A while ago, I sent a letter to Zheng Qiuwen to inform her that I was getting married on National Day. My intention was to completely cut off my sister's unrealistic thoughts so that she would not get more and more involved and cause a storm at home sooner or later.
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