"What are you discussing and plotting? You didn't want Yushan and me to know, but I heard everything. You said you were going to that courtyard house for a banquet, and you seem to have a good relationship with those country people." Wu Min said as soon as he entered the house.
"Don't always call yourself a country bumpkin, as if your ancestors weren't farmers." Jiang Dongcheng retorted to her.
"I know that even if I tell you this news, you won't go. Yiming and I will go."
"Why are you going there? You have to give them money. You are just a bunch of poor country guys, and you are giving them face."
"Poor bastard? They live in a courtyard house. Can you afford one?"
This choked Wu Min.
"What's wrong with the courtyard house? It was bought by the old couple of the Guan family. The mother and son are just living in it thanks to Xu Nuannuan's help."
Jiang Dongcheng turned his head away and didn't want to pay attention to her.
"You look down on them, but no one asked you to go. Just the two of us can go."
"You can't go either? Our family's money is not money, it's for three children. We have to give three gifts at once. No, you can't go."
Jiang Dongcheng was furious. "You are totally unreasonable. Our family has always had a good relationship with the Guan family. Comrade Xiao Xu cured my father. How can I not go to their wedding?"
"That was the past when we were friends. Mr. Guan has already retired, so why is he still trying to build a relationship with them?
Besides, we paid Comrade Xu for your father's medical treatment, so we don't owe her anything."
Jiang Dongcheng was once again surprised that Wu Min could say such words.
"According to what you said, our family was related to the Guan family before, or are you eyeing the old man's official position?"
"Isn't that right? If it weren't for his power and influence, why would you want to befriend his family?"
"You." Jiang Dongcheng didn't know what to say. He actually had such a wife, whose eyes were full of calculations of interests and there was no friendship at all.
"Anyway, you and Yushan don't have to go, Yiming and I can go."
"Then don't use our family's money to give them gifts. As long as it doesn't cost any money, you can go however you want."
"Wu Min, you really are obsessed with money." Jiang Dongcheng stood up from the sofa in anger.
Wu Min glared at him. "Who doesn't love money? I just don't think it's necessary to spend money on their family. Anyway, you can't go."
"We are going anyway. It's none of your business." Jiang Dongcheng insisted on his own opinion. "You are too soft-hearted. I won't argue with you. You can't stop me from doing what I want to do."
"You, you have to spend money on others?"
"It's a gift to reciprocate. This is the money that should be spent."
"You can't go there either. I've already had a fight with that Xu Nuannuan mother-in-law. Why are you still going to their house?"
"What? Did you have a fight with someone?"
"That day, I went to their house to buy sachets. I found out that Xu Nuannuan's mother-in-law was the mother of Yiming's coworker. She's a farmer, and her son digs manure. How could the things she made smell good? They would definitely stink. I said a few words, and they chased me out. I will never go to their house to give money as a gift in my life. I don't want to give money to such a family."
"You must have said something disparaging."
"They are farmers, stinking excrement collectors, and they don't allow people to say anything."
"You, you are so unreasonable." Jiang Dongcheng pointed at her, his fingers shaking with anger.
Jiang Yiming was also very annoyed with Wu Min. Jiang Yang stopped working with him during that period. He didn't know if it was because his mother belittled him. His mother actually went to someone else's house to belittle him.
Wu Min was his mother, and he couldn't do anything about Wu Min. He sat down on the sofa with a headache.
My chest is filled with anger and helplessness.
Seeing that the father and son were both angry, Wu Min remembered that she still had something to say to them, so she spoke to them in a gentle manner again.
"Dongcheng, Yiming, think about it, why don't we use the money we worked so hard to earn on ourselves? Why do we have to give it to others?
"Well, it's getting cold. Dongcheng, give me two hundred yuan. I want to buy a woolen coat and a pair of warm cashmere trousers. You and your son also need cotton clothes. I don't have that much money. Give me the money and I'll buy them for you."
"No, I have enough cotton-padded clothes. I don't need a new one," said Jiang Dongcheng.
"Mine are enough for me to wear. I don't need to wear good clothes when I work every day. When they are worn out, I will buy new ones myself," said Jiang Yiming.
"Well, then Yushan and I still don't have enough. Dongcheng, give me two hundred yuan, Yiming, give me one hundred yuan, so I can buy out both mine and Yushan's."
Jiang Dongcheng frowned at her: "Didn't I just give you a hundred yuan? What did you spend it on? Besides, where's your own salary? Do you have to buy such nice clothes?"
When he said this, Wu Min became angry.
"Why, I can't even afford to buy clothes? You're just too incompetent. I can't even afford a piece of clothing if I marry you."
"How many clothes do you want to buy? I just bought one last week. Do you want to open a shopping mall at home? I don't have the ability. With someone like you, I can't even afford to support a director of a state-owned factory."
"Even if I don't buy it, don't I still have Yushan's? I have to let the child wear clothes."
"Yushan wants to buy it. Let her tell me when she comes."
"She's usually busy with her studies and doesn't have time. I'm her mother, so can't I buy it for her?"
"No, she must tell me in person."
He found that he was becoming increasingly disgusted with the mother and daughter. They were either causing him trouble or asking him for money.
Wu Min stamped her feet and said, "Jiang Dongcheng, do you really regard me as your wife? Is it so difficult for me to ask you for some money?"
"Then you know how hard it is for me to earn money? I'm not a bank safe. I can give you whatever you want. Why can't you be understanding? I used my own money to attend someone else's child's full moon banquet, and you wouldn't even let me give them a share of the money. Why should I listen to you and give you my money?"
"You gave your gift money to other people, so why don't you give it to me and let me spend it?"
"From now on, I have the final say over the money I earn. I can spend it however I want and give it to whomever I want. You have no say in that."
"You, are you still a man?"
"You think I'm not a man, divorce me"
Wu Min was almost angry to death, so she went to find Jiang Yiming again.
"Yiming, the weather is getting colder. Can you just watch me and your sister without clothes to wear? Can you bear to watch us suffer from the cold?"
Jiang Yiming really couldn't bear it, as he had always wanted to honor his elders.
But he remembered that Wu Min once disliked the job he did.
"Mom, I earn money by building houses, cleaning sewers, and collecting manure. Don't you think this money is smelly and dirty? Doesn't my sister despise it?"
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