The days passed as Pei Yuanzheng was busy, Ruan Niannian submitted a manuscript after teaching, and Li Dani made a mess of Pei Qingbai's family.
Pei Yuanzheng and Pei Qingyang also chose a time to move to their new home.
Just as Pei Yuanzheng said, Li Dani would go to Pei Qingyang's house to cause trouble from time to time, but she would stop going after being scolded by Pei Sansao a few times. She would never come to Ruan Niannian's place at all.
Pei Jianhui still often went hungry, and Ruan Niannian sometimes couldn't bear it and would ask Pei Sansao to save some food for him.
Ever since Li Dani moved into Pei Qingbai's house, Pei's wife has become cheerful and love to laugh. She comes to visit from time to time bringing melon seeds, but she never goes to Pei Qingbai's house.
I think on the one hand it was because Li Dani was there, and on the other hand he was hurt by what Pei Sansao said before.
No one wants to put his warm face on someone else's cold butt.
That day, Sister Pei came to visit after dinner. Seeing Ruan Niannian working on this again, she asked enviously, "Fourth brother's wife, when will our Guohui, Xiaowen, and Xiaoli be able to write articles and make money like you?"
I heard Pei Guohui say before that Ruan Niannian earned quite a bit of money from her royalties, and she wasn't jealous. Without the education, she wouldn't be able to make a living there.
She was so envious and also hoped that one day her children would be able to eat this easy meal.
Ruan Niannian: ...
Not everyone can make a living as a writer, not to mention that the three children in Pei Dasao's family don't have much talent for studying. But it is not ruled out that they may have literary talent when they grow up.
She didn't say anything final, but only said, "Sister-in-law, they are all at the same starting line now, and it's still uncertain who can run the farthest. I also studied in school for nine years (5 years in elementary school, 2 years in junior high school, and 2 years in high school) before I started writing manuscripts under the guidance of a teacher."
"Oh my god, nine years?" Mrs. Pei's eyes widened, full of the clarity and confusion of having never received any school education.
In the past, she only knew that high school students were rare, but she didn't understand exactly how they were rare.
After hearing Ruan Niannian say this today, I feel that high school graduates are comparable to the juren in ancient times.
Isn't it said that the candidates for the imperial examinations studied hard for ten years? This high school student studied for nine years, so isn't graduation equivalent to passing the imperial examinations?
She no longer mentioned when the people in her family would be able to earn royalties. At this rate, it would take many years.
Didn’t you see that among the entire educated youth center, only her fourth brother’s wife graduated from high school? The others did not graduate even though they went to high school. What does this mean?
This shows that not everyone can afford this meal.
Mrs. Pei had been sitting there for a while when Mrs. Pei came over. She said with great joy, "This is a great sin. The second child's family eats porridge every day. This afternoon, the second child fainted from hunger while working. The team leader had someone carry her back and gave her a lecture."
This "she" did not specify who it was, but Ruan Niannian and Pei Dasao both knew it instantly.
Logically speaking, Pei Qingshan is still a junior and shouldn't lecture Li Dani, but even a junior couldn't help it. She really went too far.
"When?" Mrs. Pei didn't know about this yet. "My eldest son and second son work very close to each other, why didn't they tell me about this when they came back?"
Ruan Niannian knew about this. She had just finished class when Pei Qingbai was carried back. She went up to him and explained, "He was carried back when he got off work. The old house is not in the same direction as us. Big brother might have gone home right after work, so he didn't see him."
"No wonder. I was so nervous when I heard you say that. Do you think she will pack up and go back to the old house?"
Mrs. Pei sighed and said, "Alas, these good days have only lasted a few days. I was thinking that their family likes to be filial to their mother, so if we take her over, wouldn't it be a wonderful couple?"
In the final analysis, Pei Qingbai's current hard life was all caused by himself, which made Pei Jianhui and Pei Xiaodan feel sorry for them. What do children know? Pei Xiaodan only knew that she was suddenly hungry.
Speaking of this, Third Sister Pei was still a little confused. "It stands to reason that she wasn't like this before the family split up. Oh, she's so crazy! How come she didn't even let me eat porridge when I got to the second brother's house? I have to drink porridge every day. Who can stand this?"
This is very easy to explain.
Ruan Niannian asked her, "Third sister-in-law, why do you think she lives with the second brother and the second sister-in-law?"
"What else could it be? It's because of Jianhui's schooling. Everyone knows that going to school is her top priority." Mrs. Pei answered without hesitation.
"That's it."
This explanation...
Mrs. Pei Da and Mrs. Pei San looked at each other and didn't understand.
After a few seconds, Mrs. Pei San reacted, "Oh, I see."
After realizing what was happening, he gave Sister Pei a meaningful look and asked her, "Sister-in-law, does your family still eat porridge after the separation?"
"No, she asked me to cook sweet potato rice after we split up the family business, and that was enough to keep us full. Oh! I know!"
She was still a little embarrassed when she realized it.
After all, they all used to think that among four brothers, Li Dani only treated Pei Qingsong as her own son. Now this incident made them feel more intuitively that Li Dani's heart was in her arms.
It’s okay if you don’t pay attention to the child. After all, he is your own child, so at least don’t abuse him.
It's not an exaggeration to say that her act of deliberately starving people of food is abuse, right?
Mrs. Pei sighed again, "Well, now it seems that it is best for her to live with our family, but if I take the initiative to ask her to go home, I feel uncomfortable."
Who can be more successful if replaced by someone else?
When Li Dani was in the old house, she wanted to curse Mrs. Pei eight hundred times every day.
And what Pei Ersao said before, asking her to take the initiative to help their family, made Pei Dasao feel even more uncomfortable. Maybe the second brother's family would be willing to do so.
It's a matter of mutual consent. Don't let her hold a grudge against you later.
"Please don't do that." Ruan Niannian quickly stopped her from thinking that, "Sister-in-law, you finally have a few days of peace, take a good rest. If their family can't hold on, they will tell you."
In both lives, Ruan Niannian had a good impression of Pei Qingbai and Zhang Xiangyun. Although the couple did not help her in any way, they were at least trying to live a good life, and they felt a little pitiful for being suppressed by Li Dani.
Perhaps it only takes one thing or one sentence to change your opinion of a person. Ruan Niannian now has no good feelings towards the second brother and his wife.
Let go of the desire to help others.
Other people’s suffering is their own. You cannot take on the suffering that others have to endure just because they feel sorry for you. Doing so will not only be unfair to yourself but also to your family.
Sister-in-law Pei curled her lips to show her agreement with Ruan Niannian, "Sister-in-law is right, sister-in-law, we can't afford to offend her, so just hide away. Our Yangzi hates that he doesn't have 3,000 yuan. He doesn't know how much he wants to spend 3,000 yuan to break up with her."
Although more than 3,000 yuan is not a small amount of money, once the old lady is burdened with it, it will be a lifelong problem, so they would rather be poor.
As they were talking, there was a commotion next door.
Pei Yuanzheng was the first to choose a residential plot, and Pei Qingbai and Pei Qingyang built their houses next to it, one on each side. At this time, all the noises in Pei Qingbai's house fell into the ears of the three sisters-in-law.
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