Seeing An Yan's firm attitude, Lin Xuanjiao didn't force her any further.
He took out his own candy and gave three to An Yan, "Would you like to try it? It tastes pretty good."
An Yan looked at the three candies in Lin Xuanjiao's palm and blurted out the words of refusal: "No, I'm much better now, I don't need these, you can keep these for yourself!"
Lin Xuanjiao sighed. She knew that this person would not accept the food so easily. She would peel the candy and stuff it directly into her mouth. For this kind of person, she had to be a little rough, otherwise she would not eat it at all.
An Yan was shocked by Lin Xuanjiao's tough action. She didn't even realize how this female educated youth could act so disorganized.
Feeling the sweetness in her mouth, An Yan was still a little dazed. She looked at the expression on Lin Xuanjiao's face and asked, "Why are you so nice to me?"
Even her relatives don't care about her so much, so how could this little girl who she just met treat her like this?
Lin Xuanjiao blinked when she heard An Yan's words. "Is that all? I didn't do anything wrong."
Looking at the messy marks on An Yan's body, Lin Xuanjiao continued, "I think you've received too little kindness, so you're flattered when I treat you well. Although I don't know what you've been through, you have to take care of your body yourself. If you don't take care of your body, who else can you expect to do the same?"
An Yan lowered her head silently when she heard Lin Xuanjiao's words. Did she want to take care of her body? She also wanted to take care of her body, but did her family's situation allow it?
Seeing An Yan lowering her head and not saying anything, Lin Xuanjiao knew that An Yan would not be able to respond to this, so she sighed and grabbed An Yan's hand.
An Yan was startled by Lin Xuanjiao's sudden action and tried to withdraw her hand, but Lin Xuanjiao didn't give her the chance and forcibly raised her hand. "Look at what your hands have become now. Not only are your palms covered with calluses, but even your knuckles have become thick. Who can tell these hands belong to a woman?"
Lin Xuanjiao had also seen the hands of rural women. The hands of those women in their thirties and forties were not as bad as An Yan's. An Yan's hands had really suffered too much.
An Yan looked at the more obvious contrast between her hand and Lin Xuanjiao's, and her heart suddenly collapsed. "Stop talking, stop talking. What can I do? Do I really want to end up like this?"
As she spoke, An Yan burst into tears that she had been suppressing for so long. Her life was really too tiring, with no time to rest at all. In the end, she had tortured herself into this state. No one in her family understood her and they often said harsh words to her. Even the son she had given birth to with great difficulty disliked her. She didn't know what she had done wrong.
Seeing An Yan breaking down and crying, Lin Xuanjiao was at a loss. What should she do? Why did she suddenly burst into tears? She really didn't mean to make this person cry! She just wanted this person to realize how bad her physical condition was and to take her health seriously.
Lin Xuanjiao had hardly ever comforted anyone, so she had very little experience in coaxing others, and most of the time, it was others who comforted her.
Thinking of how her mother usually coaxed her, Lin Xuanjiao stiffly pulled An Yan to her body and patted her back gently with one hand: "Alright, alright, don't cry, don't cry."
When An Yan heard Lin Xuanjiao's words, she buried herself in Lin Xuanjiao's arms and cried even harder. She didn't care that she was crying loudly in front of someone who was much younger than her. She just had a rare opportunity to release her emotions, which made An Yan have no time to pay attention to anything else.
Lin Xuanjiao noticed that after she comforted An Yan, An Yan cried even harder. Frightened, Lin Xuanjiao didn't dare to speak, but she didn't dare to let go of An Yan either. She held her until she was tired of crying.
After crying over the grievances she had endured over the past few years, An Yan finally began to feel embarrassed. She stepped out of Lin Xuanjiao's warm embrace and frantically wiped the tears from her face with her hands. A blushing expression spread across her face. "I'm so sorry! I embarrassed myself in front of you and even stained your clothes. How about this! Take them off and I'll wash them for you."
Lin Xuanjiao shook her head nonchalantly: "It's okay, it's just a piece of clothing. Are you feeling better now?"
Hearing this, An Yan gave Lin Xuanjiao a sincere smile, "Thank you so much, I feel much better now, my body feels relaxed for once."
After releasing all the emotions accumulated over the years, An Yan felt that her body was still a little tired, but her mood felt more relaxed than ever before.
Seeing that An Yan's emotions had stabilized, Lin Xuanjiao breathed a sigh of relief. Thinking about how she had just made An Yan cry, she felt a little guilty. Regardless of whether she had good intentions or not, she had hurt others anyway.
Lin Xuanjiao looked at An Yan and bowed deeply, her voice full of apology: "I'm sorry, I was too reckless and didn't think too much before, which caused you pain. I'm sorry!"
An Yan quickly grabbed Lin Xuanjiao and said, "What are you doing? If you hadn't helped me, how could I be so relaxed now? I should be the one thanking you, why are you apologizing to me?"
Lin Xuanjiao raised her head and looked at An Yan sitting on the bed, her face full of determination: "But I don't regret what I said. If I could do it again, I would still say the same thing. People only live for a few decades. If you don't live well while you are still alive, who can you expect to take good care of you when you are old?"
An Yan felt a little sad when she thought about her disappointing son. Yes! Now she is working so hard to run the family, who will take care of her when she is old? Knowing her two sons, they probably won't even look at her when the time comes. So why is she working so hard now when she can't get any benefits?
Seeing An Yan's expression slightly relaxed, Lin Xuanjiao sat beside her and said, "As a human being, you should treat yourself well. Nothing is more important than yourself."
An Yan looked at Lin Xuanjiao with some confusion on her face, "Am I the most important?" This was different from the concept she had been taught since childhood. She was taught to rely on her parents at home, rely on her husband after marriage, and rely on her children when she was old.
So she listened to her parents and worked hard at home since she was a child. After she got married, her husband went to the army, so she listened to him and served her parents-in-law well. When her children were born, in order to make their lives better, she worked hard to do more work and get more work points so that the two children could live a better life.
But what did she get in return for all her hard work?
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