Chapter 1: Separate if you don't like it
"The head of the family."
A young female voice called out to me.
Zhao Yi felt confused. His wife had passed away long ago, his son and daughter-in-law went to work in other places, and usually no one would come to the office to see an old man like him.
Zhao Yi opened his eyes despite his doubts.
"Xiao Jing."
After Zhao Yi saw the person in front of him clearly, his eyes suddenly turned red and tears began to well up in his eyes, as if they were about to burst out at any time.
"What's wrong, head of the family? Did mother-in-law say something unpleasant again?"
Zhang Jing looked at Zhao Yi and asked in a low voice, her words full of concern.
"I miss you so much."
Zhao Yi couldn't hold back any longer and hugged the person in front of him, tears could no longer be held back and fell from his eyes.
"Thank God for seeing me again before I died. The person I feel most sorry for in my life is you. It's my inability to let you live a good life for a single day."
Zhao Yi talked to himself, thinking it was just his last fantasy before death.
"Boss, you are talking nonsense. You are late for work and mother-in-law will scold you again later."
Although Zhang Jing didn't know what happened to Zhao Yi, the most important thing now was to participate in the double harvest. If the team leader found out about slacking off, not only would she lose work points, she might even be pulled to the stage to make a self-criticism.
"To work?"
Zhao Yi was also a little confused when he heard this.
"Hurry up and get up. I've prepared breakfast. You have to go to work after breakfast."
Zhang Jing patted Zhao Yi on the back and gave him a sweet smile, which made Zhao Yi a little dazed. Was he dreaming?
Zhao Yi pinched his thigh hard.
But this made Zhao Yi grimace in pain.
It’s not a dream!
Zhao Yi hurriedly looked towards the wall, trying to see the current date, but there were only adobe walls and two raincoats around him.
The tattered cabinet placed next to the bed looked shaky and seemed like it would fall over at any moment.
"It's already so late, and you're still lazing around in your house. You just got married and you don't plan on working anymore, right?"
A familiar yet unfamiliar voice came from the door. Zhao Yi recognized it as the voice of his mother who had passed away nearly ten years ago. However, he did not feel much joy in his heart. Instead, he frowned.
"Am I dreaming, or is this the rebirth that those young people always talk about?"
Zhao Yi muttered something in a low voice, then quickly put on his clothes and shoes and prepared to have breakfast.
At this moment, I still have some doubts in my heart. Everything I have experienced is not at all like the scenes that appear in dreams.
"You put so much oil in making breakfast. How can this family survive in the future? You are such a spendthrift. I don't know how the boss fell in love with you."
Zhao Yi had just walked to the dining table in the main room and sat down to eat.
Then I heard my mother looking at her daughter-in-law Zhang Jing and complaining.
"Mom, I'll be more careful next time."
Zhang Jing looked at Zhao's mother at a loss and said.
"Mom, Xiaojing has only been married for two days, and you have this or that problem. If you really can't stand it, why don't you just divide the family and move out to live on your own?"
Zhao Yi raised his head and looked at his parents.
Zhao Yi, who had just been doubting whether he was dreaming, was now completely certain that he was reborn, because his mother had been finding fault with his wife for only two days after she got married.
It is clearly the double harvest season now, so every household will add a little more oil and water. The labor intensity is high during this period, so we need to eat more oil and water.
On the first day, she complained that Zhang Jing didn't wash clothes cleanly. On the second day, she said that Zhang Jing's porridge was too thick and that the food at home could not be wasted like that. Now on the third day, she felt that Zhang Jing put too much oil in it. It was obvious that she was looking for trouble and trying to suppress her daughter-in-law.
Hearing what Zhao Yi said, Zhao's father frowned slightly, wondering why the usually honest boss was going crazy today.
"You are indeed an ungrateful person who forgets his mother after marrying a wife. You are not happy when your wife is criticized. Which family has not experienced this?"
Mother Zhao looked at Zhao Yi and said angrily.
"Other families are other families, our family is our family. Why do you always compare us with other families? In the city, people have to do the three turns and one ring when they get married, but I don't see that in our family. The captain's family also sent 50 kilograms of food to the in-laws when they married their daughter-in-law, but I don't see you sending any to my father-in-law's family."
Zhao Yi finished the porridge in the bowl in a few mouthfuls and then said.
Hearing this, Zhao's father did not say anything and just drank the porridge in his bowl. It seemed that the eldest son had grown strong enough and was ready to separate from the family and live on his own. He had never realized that his son was so eloquent and could speak so coherently.
"How can we compare with them? People in the city are workers and have a source of income. The captain's family receives work point subsidies, so of course they have extra food."
Mother Zhao looked at Zhao Yi and said.
"You know you can't compete, but you still bully Xiaojing every day. She married me to live a good life, not to be bullied by you. Anyway, you can't stand us. After work today, let the team leader come over to divide the family property. We don't want anything, just give us our work points.
I will move to the old house left by my grandfather, and give you five kilograms of food every month for your retirement. ”
Zhao Yi didn't care what his parents thought, the family had to be divided today anyway.
He and Zhang Jing worked like slaves for more than ten years to earn money for the family and support their younger siblings to go to school. In the end, Zhang Jing fell ill and needed money, so Zhao Yi approached them and asked to borrow money. However, they all looked down on Zhao Yi, the eldest brother, for being poor and incompetent, and they could not pay the money back after borrowing the money. In the end, Zhang Jing's treatment was delayed, and Zhang Jing passed away before she was even fifty.
If Zhang Jing hadn't worked like a slave to earn tuition for those ungrateful people, how could her health be so deteriorating?
Zhao's mother often brainwashed Zhang Jing and Zhao Yi, thinking that they would be able to enjoy the good life with their younger brothers and sisters after they graduated from college and got jobs. However, they did not enjoy the good life and were looked down upon a lot.
This time, Zhao Yi will not work like a slave for his family to support a few ungrateful people.
Mother Zhao didn't expect Zhao Yi to be serious.
"Oh my God, why am I so miserable? I finally raised my son and started a family, but I didn't expect that he would marry a troublemaker. How am I going to live in the future?"
Zhao's mother immediately used her unique skills of crying and making a fuss.
Zhao Yi didn't even look at his mother, and pulled Zhang Jing towards the team headquarters.
"Wouldn't this be a bad idea, sir?"
Zhang Jing was a little scared.
"It will be fine in a moment. Let's ignore her. We have to divide this family no matter what we say today. Otherwise, we will have a hard time in the future."
Zhao Yi said in a low voice.
Zhang Jing didn't quite understand what Zhao Yi meant. Anyway, her mother was often scolded by her grandmother, and nothing she did was pleasing to her. She didn't care about it.
But she didn't expect that her own head of the family would actually separate from the family for her sake. This made Zhang Jing feel warm inside. She couldn't tell why, but she was particularly happy at this moment.
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