“Ah~ um~ ah——”
Lin Yongnian listened to the sound from the other side of the wall. He turned over irritably, reached out to pull out two pieces of cotton from the pillow, rolled them up, and stuffed them into his ears.
"This old man, he has come so many times. He is really young and has no self-control. He doesn't know what to do when he is older..." Lin Yongnian muttered, covering his head with the quilt.
Liu Qinxiang was sweating profusely as she pressed against Lin Jianshe's chest, drawing circles on his chest with her fingers.
Lin Jianshe panted and grabbed her hand, "Don't provoke me, or I'll punish you again."
Liu Qin: “Come on.”
Lin Jianshe: “…”
"It's getting late. I have to go to work tomorrow."
If it happens again, he might even tremble when he walks.
"Yes, you have to get up and cook tomorrow morning."
Liu Qin felt annoyed when he mentioned this.
"I've never seen a new daughter-in-law get up early to cook."
Lin Jianshe squeezed her hand and said, "You are wronging my wife. They say that the eldest sister-in-law is like a mother. My mother is not at home, so it is my eldest sister-in-law's turn to cook. But she is too lazy, so my eldest brother protects her. I don't understand. What's so good about protecting such an ugly thing?"
He thought his eldest sister-in-law was ugly, with a big face, small eyes, and only a little white skin. He didn't know what his eldest brother liked about her.
Liu Qin chuckled, then pouted and said, "She still looks down on me. She looks down on me because my family is not well off and I am a temporary worker."
"Just wait until my dad gives my mom and sister-in-law all the money they gave to her. I'll ask my dad to use the money to buy you a formal job working behind the counter in a state-owned store. It'll be more respectable than hers." Lin Jianshe, who was reluctant to let his wife suffer any injustice, boasted.
"Oh." Liu Qin kissed Lin Jianshe on the face, "Jianshe, you are so nice. I will reward you again."
"No, no, it's too late."
"What's so late? It's still early."
"Qinqin, um..." Lin Jianshe's voice was drowned in the quilt.
The next morning, when Zhang Jiao woke up, she found that the kitchen was still empty, so she walked to Lin Jianshe's door and knocked.
“Boom boom boom…”
"Who is it? Knock knock knock so early in the morning." Liu Qin turned over in bed.
"Liu Qin, it's your turn to cook this morning. Why haven't you gotten up yet? If you don't get up and cook, it's already time for you to go to work." Zhang Jiao knocked on the door and shouted loudly.
Liu Qin sat up from the bed angrily, "I know, don't knock, you're killing me."
When the person outside the door heard this, his face suddenly turned dark and he turned back to his room.
Liu Qin glanced at Lin Jianshe who was sleeping like a dead pig beside her, threw back the quilt, got out of bed, and went to the kitchen to make breakfast.
In Courtyard No. 23, Lin Xiao was already eating the scallion pancakes her mother had made that morning, served with sticky millet porridge.
When I got up, my mother had prepared breakfast and went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some fresh vegetables.
Li Shuping ate a piece of pickled radish and said, "Eat slowly. It's still early before school starts."
Lin Xiao nodded, drank a bowl of millet porridge, and asked, "Mom, you won't remarry my dad, right?"
Even though my parents are divorced, my dad and my brother still think that my mom is just sulking and making a fuss. When the anger subsides and the quarrel is over, I will still return to that home.
Li Shuping rolled her eyes. "I haven't had enough of my miserable life, so why would I remarry him? Since I, your mother, have already left that home, I will never go back."
"It's the same for you. If you get married in the future, it's not good for you if your man beats you, and you won't be happy. You should divorce, but don't wait until you're as old as your mother."
In her previous life, Xiaowan and Zhang Tiejun lived like that, but they didn't get divorced. In fact, it was her and Lin Yongnian's responsibility.
They think divorce is shameful. Zhang Tiejun was her own choice and she cannot blame others. Even if her life is not good, she should bear it herself.
Li Shuping thought, if she had persuaded Xiaodong and supported her in getting a divorce, she would not have let herself get so exhausted.
Lin Xiao nodded, "So, Mom, have you been unhappy all these years since you got married to my dad?"
"What are you happy about?" Li Shuping sighed, "I am an orphan. I have never been to school, I have no education, and I grew up eating at other people's homes. When I was young, I helped people in a tailor shop and learned how to use a sewing machine. When the garment factory was recruiting workers, I joined it."
"I met your father at a social gathering at the garment factory and the steel factory. At that time, the women in the factory were willing to introduce me to your father. I was too young to refuse people and wanted to have my own family, so I married your father without thinking."
"Your dad was nice to me at first, but he started to beat me when I was pregnant with your eldest brother. I had no family to lean on, no one to do anything for me, so I just had to endure it. It wasn't until you grew up and started to understand things that your dad restrained himself. What's so happy about such a life?"
When she was beaten by Lin Yongnian before, she thought about committing suicide, but when she saw her child crying beside her and thought that the child could not live without a mother, she did not commit suicide.
The older sisters in the factory said that they all went through this. There were only a few men who didn't beat their wives, and they just endured it and got through it.
She used to think that life would be better when her children grew up.
When the child grows up, I think it will be better when he gets married.
When the children get married, I think that when they have their own children, they will understand the feelings of being a parent and life will be better.
But until she died, she still didn't live a happy life.
Lin Xiao looked at her mother with red eyes.
"Your father is a kind and righteous man in front of others, and a good father in front of you, but he is not a good husband in front of me."
Lin Xiao pursed her lips. In fact, her father was only a good father in front of her brothers, not in front of her.
Dad never beat her, but he didn't value her or pay attention to her, as if her presence or absence wouldn't make a difference in the family.
In the past, her mother always ignored her and only asked her to do housework. She only had her two brothers in her eyes.
She felt very unhappy and suffocated in such a home, and even thought about leaving home early.
"Okay, let's not talk about this and eat."
…
"Mom, I'm going to school." Lin Xiaohu slung his schoolbag over his shoulder and said to Li Shuping who was washing dishes in the kitchen.
"Go, go home early after school and don't run around."
"Okay." Lin Xiao walked out with a smile. She was in high school, not elementary school. Her mother also told her to go home early after school and not to run around.
Lin Xiao walked to the gate of the compound in a happy mood and bumped into Qin Ye who was walking towards her.
Her pupils shrank, and she took two steps back, shrinking to the wall.
Qin Ye glanced at her, stepped over the threshold and walked past her.
"sorry."
Lin Xiaowan suddenly raised her head and looked at Qin Ye's back. Was he apologizing to her for bumping into her yesterday?
Then he is not a bad person. After all, how bad can a person who apologizes after hitting someone be?
Lin Xiao tilted his head and went to school in a good mood.
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