As soon as Sun Xiulan entered the door carrying the groceries, Zhou Yun greeted her, "Sister Sun, where have you been? Why are you so late? You didn't even cook dinner?"
Sun Xiulan put down the half-eaten dish and apologized profusely.
"Comrade Zhou, I bumped into someone when I went out to buy groceries. The person broke a bone and was hospitalized. They need surgery. The police also went to the hospital to investigate. I just got back from the hospital. There's only this much food left."
The vegetables were covered in mud, Sun Xiulan's pants had a hole in them, and her bicycle was deformed from the fall—she wasn't lying.
Zhou Yun asked with concern, "Who did you hit? How come you're in the hospital after just one collision?"
"It was just my bad luck that I hit an old man. He refused to leave the hospital and insisted that I pay him compensation."
Zhou Yun frowned. "You hit someone, so you definitely have to pay compensation. Put yourself in their shoes. That old man was walking perfectly fine, and you hit him. He could have lived for 20 years, but now he can only live for 10 years, and his quality of life is not guaranteed."
Zhou Yun is a sensible person who always sides with reason, not relatives, and besides, Sun Xiulan's words were problematic.
What does it mean to stay in the hospital and refuse to leave? Is a hospital a place for humans? Who would want to go to the hospital if they're not sick or injured? Zhou Yun finds this behavior extremely distasteful. He hit someone and didn't even repent.
She told Dai Xueyi about it when she went to bed that night.
Do you think Sister Sun has some kind of character problem?
Dai Xueyi was reading a newspaper. Under the dim light, he pushed up his reading glasses without even looking up. "It's possible that Sister Sun came from a rural background and didn't have much schooling, so her ideological awareness might not be high."
“Whether her ideological awareness is high or low has nothing to do with her character. She hit an old man with her bicycle, and the old man was injured and needed surgery. Instead, she said that the old man was staying in the hospital and refused to come out, and demanded that she pay compensation. Our family is special. If something happens and we are implicated, that would be bad.”
Dai Xueyi doesn't care much about family matters, and he speaks in a disjointed manner.
"It's up to you. If you don't want to use it, just find another one, someone honest and reliable."
"Sister Sun is usually quite honest and upright in her work."
Dai Xueyi glanced at her. "She's honest and upright? Several times when I was taking a shower in the bathroom, she rushed to open my door. You tell me, as a grown man, I'm always on edge when I take a shower."
Zhou Yun had never thought of it that way. Seeing his troubled expression, she found it quite amusing. "You're a grown man, and you're afraid of being seen? I think she just doesn't know how to knock before entering. She's so careless and doesn't know any boundaries."
"How come I always run into her? And our bedroom is so tiny, it takes so long to clean every time. Every time I come back, I happen to see her coming out of our bedroom. I always feel uneasy."
Dai Xueyi likes honest people. Sister Sun looks honest, but her eyes reveal cunning. After working for so many years, how could Dai Xueyi not have any ability to judge people? He didn't like this aunt at first sight.
Zhou Yun makes all the decisions at home. He's a grown man and he's too busy with work to take care of the housekeeper.
It was only when Zhou Yun mentioned wanting to change the nanny that he added a comment.
Zhou Yun frowned. She didn't want to think the worst of people. Sun Xiulan was fifty years old, and her clothes and appearance were quite simple. It wasn't that she looked down on people from the countryside, but Sun Xiulan was indeed from the countryside, and both her taste in clothing and her temperament were in line with her age. Sun Xiulan occasionally permed her hair and wore makeup, and Zhou Yun thought the hairstyle was a bit outdated and the makeup was too heavy.
Should she be expected to think badly of this woman? To think she's overestimating herself and trying to seduce men?
Zhou Yun felt incredibly embarrassed just thinking about it.
That's completely irrelevant.
However, Zhou Yun was quite unhappy about Sun Xiulan hitting someone. Good nannies are hard to find, so Zhou Yun asked Xu Tong from the compound to find one. Xu Tong hadn't seen her for a long time, so she quickly pulled Zhou Yun along.
"Last time I introduced your Donglin to a blind date, the girl took a liking to him at first sight, but I heard Donglin already has a girlfriend?"
Zhou Yun felt quite embarrassed that this kind of thing happened after she asked someone to arrange a blind date for her.
"I haven't had a chance to contact you yet. I arranged a job for this kid, but he was unhappy about it. When he came back, he told me he had a girlfriend, but I don't know if it's true or not."
"Then you'd better ask carefully. Finding a partner is a big deal for families like ours. Even if we can't find someone from a similar social class, we have to find someone from a respectable local family who won't hold us back. Have you heard about what happened to the Wei family? Their son is dating a girl from the countryside, but his family doesn't approve. He's been threatening to kill himself and even tried to jump into the river to threaten his family."
Zhou Yun began to worry for no apparent reason.
Dai Donglin is unruly and if he finds a wife who is also troublesome, there will be a lot of problems at home.
Zhou Yun was afraid that he would make a mistake and regret it in the future, so she also wanted him to break up with that girlfriend and find someone new.
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