A close friend noticed that Liang Yingying looked a little off and asked, "What's wrong?"
In the eyes of her girlfriends, Liang Yingying lives her life as a winner in life, and this image cannot collapse. She turned off her phone and forced a smile: "It's okay. There's nothing to see in this store. Let's go to the next one."
Liang Yingying's subsequent shopping spree was a bit crazy, which made her girlfriends astonished.
At the dinner table, they were extremely envious of Liang Yingying.
"Yingying, your life is complete," they said, "unlike us, who still have nothing to settle down."
Liang Yingying said falsely: "I just walked a step faster. I'm sure everyone will find a place to stay. It will be your turn next."
My girlfriends sighed, "I didn't know how high the sky was and how deep the earth was before. I thought so too. As time went by and I got older, I realized it's not that easy. You are really amazing."
The pride washed away the previous depression, and Liang Yingying felt much more comfortable in her chest. People really have to find happiness from others.
A close friend said: "I don't plan to come back for the Chinese New Year this time. My family introduced me to a blind date, a small restaurant owner, and I plan to go back and be the boss's wife."
Calling them "boss" or "boss's wife" sounds nice, but in the eyes of Liang Yingying's group of close friends, opening a small restaurant, especially one in a small place like her hometown, is equivalent to accepting their fate and going home to live a poor life.
"What else can I do?" the friend said, "I'm older than you all. I'm 35 this year. My face is a little stiff from the hyaluronic acid injections. The other day a boss even said to me why my smile was so unnatural. I'm telling you, I almost caught him, but guess what? He was snatched away by a 23-year-old girl!"
"You have a bachelor's degree! You've been to college! As a college student, why don't you just work hard? You wasted your time studying and come here to steal our jobs?"
"I looked in the mirror that day and I was really disappointed. Look at the girls nowadays. They are younger, prettier and more educated than us. How can we compete with them? With wrinkles? Forget it. Before I completely turn into an old lady, I should go home and find an honest man to marry. It's not too late to have a baby. If I delay any longer, I may not be able to have a baby. Older mothers are not a joke."
After she said this, the atmosphere became depressed.
Because among these people, Liang Yingying is relatively young, just turning 30 this year. The rest are all over thirty years old.
At this age, some women are able to ride the wind and waves, while some women are old and ugly.
Liang Yingying had already landed, and she was talking without any pain in her waist: "Why are you so depressed? Don't you have any men you can hold on to now?"
My best friend said, "Do you think everyone is as lucky as you? You can have a child as soon as you say you want one, and you can have a son as soon as your original wife dies. Do you know my sister named Amei? I told her about your story, and she thought it was great. She secretly did something and got pregnant too, hoping to tie down a man. Guess what happened?"
Liang Yingying and her friends all looked at him sideways: "Will the man deny it?" "Not admitting it is the least of the problems." The friend said, "My sister almost died."
This Amei followed Liang Yingying's example and became pregnant with a man's child. As soon as you reveal your cards to a man, he disappears. Then the eldest wife came with bodyguards and forced her to go to the hospital for an abortion.
After Amei had an abortion, she wanted to contact the man again, but found that she had been blocked. Then two days later, she was still bleeding and it was getting worse. When she went to the hospital, she fainted before she even saw the doctor.
He suffered severe bleeding and was admitted to the ICU. He almost lost his life.
After the patient was rescued, I paid all the medical expenses myself. When I returned to the rental house, the landlord said that the rent had expired and no money had been transferred to the account to which I had previously transferred money.
That house is where the man hides his mistress. It is his happy place. He rents a high-end apartment and the rent is expensive. Without the man's financial support, Amei couldn't afford it on her own and had to move out and stay in the homes of her sisters.
"With great difficulty, someone recently introduced her to a boyfriend, so she finally has a place to stay." said her best friend.
"Isn't that good? That's how men are, coming and going, as long as someone gives them money to spend." Liang Yingying said.
"What?" said the bestie. "The new guy is already 68 years old. I don't know when he will die. Ah Mei still has to serve him all day long. Oh, the old man is so disgusting. She said that when he takes off his clothes, he looks like a Shar Pei dog. Oh, it's disgusting just thinking about it. In comparison, I, a fat guy now, am considered a handsome guy."
There is no happiness without comparison.
Zhang Huan is not yet fifty, still in his prime, handsome and in good shape. He is neat and tidy and is also a Confucian businessman with fashionable taste in clothes.
Liang Yingying's life achievements can be said to have crushed all of her best friends.
In fact, she had anticipated a few years ago that she would gradually lose the favor of men as she got older. However, Mrs. Zhang's life has been going smoothly in the past few years, and she has gradually forgotten the awareness of being prepared for danger in times of peace.
She looked at her girlfriends who were sighing about where their future would lie, and kept telling herself: You are already living a good life, so be content!
But she is only 30 years old. Will it be like this in the future?
Deep down in my heart, I can't help but feel empty and anxious...
When Zhang Huan's "family of four" happily returned to K City, Liang Yingying had already returned before them.
Zhang Heling saw his mother and told her excitedly: "Mom, we went to an island in the Indian Ocean. It was so much fun..." His little mouth chattered like a machine gun, and finally said: "It would be great if you could go with us!"
Liang Yingying resisted the urge to tear her silly daughter's mouth to pieces and said with a smile, "Really? You're not naughty, are you? It's been hard for Dad to take care of you all by yourself."
As she spoke, she saw that Zhang Huan had already handed the box to the aunt and started to take off his coat, so she hurried over to take his coat. She didn't even dare to ask "Why didn't you tell me you were going out to play?" She just asked him with a smile whether he had eaten on the way, whether he wanted to take a shower, etc.
Zhang Yansheng just glanced at her and walked past her.
The status and situation in this family have already taken on a new pattern. The days when Liang Yingying bullied Zhang Yansheng because of his young age and stepped on Zhang Yansheng to happily become Mrs. Zhang are over.
Zhang Huan stretched lazily: "Finally I'm home."
Seeing Zhang Yansheng had already gone up the stairs, he called out, "Yanyan, it's time to start preparing for the New Year!"
Zhang Yansheng replied, "I'm so tired," and went upstairs.
Zhang Heling asked: "Dad, are we going to buy firecrackers and fireworks?"
In ancient times, the main purpose of preparing New Year's goods was to eat something that one could not eat at other times and to cut out new clothes. Nowadays, people mainly buy new year goods such as couplets, the word "Fu", firecrackers and fireworks.
Zhang Shuocheng immediately became excited and rushed over to hug Zhang Huan's arm: "Dad, I want to go buy fireworks too!"
Zhang Heling also came over: "Me too..."
Zhang Huan laughed out loud.
The aunts received big red envelopes at the end of the year and went home to celebrate the New Year. When Aunt Luo left, Zhang Yansheng gave her a red envelope separately.
Aunt Luo kept pushing back: "Why would you give a red envelope to a kid like you?"
Zhang Yansheng forced it into her hands: “I gave it to you on behalf of my mother!”
Aunt Luo held the thick red envelope and sighed: "You have grown up in the blink of an eye."
On New Year's Eve, Zhang Yu and Zhang Huan both took their families to visit the old lady.
The chef and aunt at the old lady's place were also on holiday, and the old lady was the only one left in the huge house. Fortunately, the two sons came with their nine people, big and small, and together with the old lady, there were ten people in total, and it was very lively.
The main meals were all ordered in advance from the restaurant, but how can we celebrate the New Year without dumplings? So the whole family gathered around the kitchen island to make dumplings together.
Among so many people, Liang Yingying was the best at making dumplings. Even the old lady wrapped it in the same way.
Others are simply playing with dough.
Liang Yingying is very sensible in such situations. Knowing that others don't like her, she talks less and does more. She arranged the dumplings neatly, and the dumplings were well wrapped, each one looked like a gold ingot.
The old lady rarely praised her, saying, "You wrap it well."
Liang Yingying was really flattered.
Then she kissed her husband Zhang Huan and said, "She can do this too."
Liang Yingying: “…”
Her eldest sister-in-law, a noblewoman, echoed, "It's better to know than not to know. People should have something, not nothing."
"..." Liang Yingying had a lot of things to say, but she could only smile flatteringly, "Sister-in-law is right."
Zhang Yu's wife smiled slightly and didn't talk to her directly.
Zhang Yansheng had already noticed that the corner of the old lady's mouth twitched slightly. When he turned around again, he saw his cousin Zhang Qi's half-smile in his eyes.
Zhang Yansheng was speechless.
To be honest, although she knew that her aunt and cousin had some competitive attitude towards her that was not quite hostile, she still preferred the way her aunt spoke.
Zhang Yu’s wife always openly bullies Liang Yingying.
When she spoke to Zhang Yansheng, she was a little more skillful in her words, but as for Liang Yingying... she had a good family background, she was rich, and she was also the sister-in-law, so she didn't need to go through any circles and could just suppress Liang Yingying directly.
Anyway, the old lady doesn't like Liang Yingying and won't care at all.
Compared to this kind of blatant bullying, Zhang Yansheng felt that his cousin Zhang Qi's words were too strong in the flavor of tea and always had a sense of pettiness.
It's strange, considering he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. How could one develop such a character?
Zhang Yansheng felt that his grandmother would never like the smell of this tea. In the previous life, Zhang Qi was chosen by her as her heir and kept by her side. I wonder if she helped her cousin to change the taste of her speech?
Looking back again, Zhang Shuocheng was still playing with the dough carefreely, but Zhang Heling looked up with a confused look - he had vaguely sensed that something was wrong in this conversation, but he didn't know what was wrong or what the root cause was.
It is really a very sad thing that people cannot make a choice when they are reincarnated.
Zhang Heling felt his sister's gaze and looked towards Zhang Yansheng. There was confusion in those dark eyes.
Zhang Yansheng smiled faintly at her.
The elder sister's smile diluted the little girl's confusion and uneasiness. She raised her hand to show Zhang Yansheng the dough in her palm: "Sister, look at what I made. Does it look like it?"
It doesn't look like anything at all. What kind of animal is it anyway.
Zhang Yansheng said with absolute certainty: "Yes!"
Zhang Heling became happy and put aside all those little confusions.
The old lady on the other side of the island asked Zhang Qi what plans she had after the New Year.
It was still winter vacation, and Zhang Qi did have some plans to go out. The old lady nodded and didn't intend to continue speaking.
Zhang Huan heard it, and he was very alert. He smiled and asked, "Mom, do you have any plans?"
After he said this, Zhang Qi finally realized that her grandmother didn't want to know what arrangements she had, but wanted to make arrangements for her. And she hadn't realized that just now.
She hurriedly said, "Grandma, what's the matter? My business is not important, let's focus on your business first."
The old lady felt that her granddaughter was not completely stupid, so she said, "I want to take Qiqi to the financial forum after the New Year."
Zhang Qi is only a freshman, so it doesn’t matter whether she understands what she says or is interested in it. What matters is the attitude expressed by the old lady.
Zhang Yu and his wife's eyes lit up. Mrs. Zhang Yu said hurriedly, "Let her go with you. She has nothing to do. Let her make an appointment with her classmates another day."
Zhang Qi also expressed her positive attitude: "Grandma, my business is not important. I will go with you. I have heard about this forum before and I want to see it for myself."
After Zhang Qi finished speaking, Zhang Huan also said: "That's good, that's good. Children need to go out and see the world more."
Zhang Yansheng was just wondering why her father was so enthusiastic about her cousin's affairs, when she saw her father turn his head and look at her, smiling and saying, "Yanyan, come along too. It won't hurt to listen more and see more."
The scumbag dad's eyes are sharp and gleaming with brilliance.
Afraid that Zhang Yansheng didn't understand what he meant, he raised his eyebrows and gave her a wink.
Zhang Yansheng: “…”
Zhang Yansheng really didn't know that her father's expression could be so lively.
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