If he gets targeted, he'll be in big trouble.
"So what if she looks like a vixen? What's so scary about that?!"
Zheng Laidi scoffed and said, "A vixen like that might cheat on her man one day. You'll see!"
"What nonsense are you spouting?!"
Cui Xingwang wanted nothing more than to slap his wife across the face. He said, "That kind of person isn't something an ordinary family can raise. Don't be so short-sighted and bring trouble upon me all the time!"
“When did I cause you trouble? If it weren’t for standing up for you and so that you could sit in that deputy factory director position, why would I act like a shrew, cursing and swearing in the yard and being stared at like a monkey?”
Have they lost their conscience? Why can't they see her efforts?!
Unexpectedly, Cui Xingwang seemed not to have heard Zheng Laidi's words. He was lost in his own thoughts, muttering to himself, "Why haven't I seen that Deputy Factory Director Qin? Is he not at home? That shouldn't be the case..."
Zheng Laidi muttered, "What do you mean by 'should' or 'shouldn't'? Maybe that Deputy Factory Director Qin just doesn't want to see us and is hiding in his room!"
"You think you're so smart!"
Cui Xingwang was pulled back to his senses. He glared at Zheng Laidi and warned, "You better watch your mouth. If I find out that you've offended the neighbors again, I don't need to say anything more. You'll be packing your bags and going back to the countryside."
"Da Ya is looking for a partner, but you're telling me to go back to my hometown. Don't tell me you have ulterior motives and want to find someone else?"
Zheng Laidi's eldest daughter is named Cui Daya. She is twenty-one years old and works as a temporary worker in the staff canteen of the machinery factory. In those days, twenty-one years old, if not married, at least meant having a boyfriend. However, Cui Daya is of average appearance, at most 1.6 meters tall, and is dark-skinned and thin. In addition, she has never been to school. Therefore, to be honest, it is not easy for her to find a decent boyfriend.
Zheng Laidi, on the other hand, had high standards and always wanted to find Cui Daya a low-ranking cadre with a government-subsidized job.
That's right, Zheng Laidi looked down on ordinary workers.
In Zheng Laidi's eyes, Cui Xingwang was a department director at the machinery factory, and no matter what, he was a cadre, so her daughter's husband couldn't be too bad.
Even if the future son-in-law is a minor official, as long as he has a city household registration, nothing else matters.
For example, whether someone is good-looking or disabled is completely irrelevant!
As a result, Cui Daya's marriage has been delayed until now due to Zheng Laidi's pickiness.
"Incomprehensible!"
Cui Xingwang's face darkened: "What if I wanted to find someone else who could have lived with you until now?"
"I admit I was wrong, please don't be angry."
Zheng Laidi softened her tone and asked, "Have you made any progress on Daya's marriage arrangements?"
What leads could I possibly have?
The thought of his daughters filled Cui Xingwang with rage, and he glared at Zheng Laidi, saying, "I told you I'd send a few girls to school, so that no matter what, they could at least learn to read a few words."
You refused to agree no matter what, insisting on leaving the money to your son. But now that your daughters have grown up, you've become arrogant, wanting to find them good marriages, and even demanding that the boys have official positions. Zheng Laidi, don't you feel ashamed of yourself?
The only thing Da Ya can do is cook. She's just average in everything else, especially since she's never been to school. If any boy had any ability, would he even be interested in Da Ya?
They had to be paid by the government and also hold a position.
Zheng Laidi is always thinking about good things!
"Why do you think I'm shameless? You didn't agree to let Daya and her sisters go to school in the end, did you?! If you had been firmly against it, wouldn't I have had to listen to you?! Besides, what's wrong with me wanting to find a good son-in-law for our family?"
Seeing Zheng Laidi's self-righteousness and complete lack of remorse, Cui Xingwang became even angrier. He gritted his teeth and said, "It's Daya who will be living with her son-in-law in the future, not our family. Don't say those shameful things again!"
None of his five daughters had ever been to school. Cui Xingwang didn't know what he was thinking back then. Did he lose his mind and listen to Zheng Laidi's twisted logic, letting Zheng Laidi torment his daughters at home instead of sending them to school?
Currently, the eldest son is 21, the second son is 29, the third son is 37, and the fourth son is 45. The eldest son was able to stay with his parents because he had a temporary job, while the 27th son was signed up by Zheng Laidi to go to the countryside. The third son was also signed up by Zheng Laidi last year to go to the same place where the second son was sent to work.
The fourth child was also sent away by Zheng Laidi; he had just turned fifteen when he left.
In Zheng Laidi's words, having three daughters sent to the countryside was not only a great honor for them, but also a great benefit to his future promotion.
And so, he tacitly approved of Zheng Laidi's actions, and even couldn't help but thank his cousin in his heart for helping him register his daughters' household registrations at the machinery factory in the early years, which meant that their rural household registrations were transformed into urban residents who received government pay.
However, he also knew that while the country was calling on educated youth to go to the countryside, his three children, to put it nicely, were not completely illiterate; at least they had learned a few words from him, but they had absolutely no connection with the "educated youth" movement.
Fortunately, the town's educated youth office didn't investigate too much, so his second, third, and fourth children were able to go to the countryside smoothly.
"You know I'm illiterate, yet you criticize me for not knowing how to speak properly. Is there anyone like you?"
Zheng Laidi wiped away her tears.
"Since you know that if you don't study, you won't have much knowledge, and you won't even be able to speak properly, why don't you let the eldest and the others go to school?"
Cui Xingwang said coldly, "I'll take Wuya to register for primary school tomorrow. She's only ten years old now. As long as she's willing to study hard, she should be able to start school in time."
"No, I won't allow it!"
Zheng Laidi firmly objected: "If Wuya goes to school, who will take care of Jiabao?"
"What do I need you for?"
Cui Xingwang snapped, "All you do all day is argue with those old women! You've ruined all my daughters' lives. If I didn't know they were your children, I'd suspect you were some kind of wicked stepmother from the old society!"
Zheng Laidi was about to go crazy, but Cui Xingwang glared at her, and she immediately calmed down.
"Jiabao will be sent to kindergarten, and Wuya will be sent to primary school. That's settled. I'll take half a day off tomorrow to handle these two matters."
Cui Xingwang's tone left no room for argument. He said, "As for you... the factory needs to hire two new temporary cleaning workers. I'll try to get you one of them."
Zheng Laidi remained silent.
Inside the house, Cui Wuya was so happy to hear that she could go to school the next day that she covered her mouth and burst into tears.
She didn't make a sound; she was afraid that if she made a noise, her plans to go to school would be ruined.
In their family, none of the sisters didn't envy other girls who could go to school, but that wasn't the case in their family.
It was only because her mother said that she and her sisters were a waste of money, and that studying was a waste of money, since they would all have to get married and become someone else's wife when they grew up.
It was only when her father noticed that she and her sister envied other families, whether boys or girls, who could go to school with their schoolbags that he found old elementary school textbooks and taught them a few words and simple math operations at home.
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