Chapter 119 She was really forced into it, why didn't I see her try to kill herself?
She remembered prying open her little fingers, then giving the package and all the money to Wang Jinghui. She also hung the bag containing the milk powder on Wang Jinghui's arm and told her, "Tell that woman to take good care of you. I will send her child support every year from now on."
Wang Jinghui looked at her and said, "If you're reluctant, then maybe you should just forget about it. Although Qianqian has been going hungry since she came with me, she's still three years old. This child..."
She immediately turned her back. "Take her away. Even though it's the countryside, with this money, coupons, and milk powder, how much hardship can she possibly endure?"
As she listened to the crying fade into the distance, when she turned around again, Wang Jinghui was no longer there.
She collapsed to the ground, sitting there for a long time, before finally returning to the Wen family home, distraught, to tell them that the child was missing…
It felt like only yesterday that things had happened, but today Wen Jinzhou told her that the girl was pregnant.
Xu Shanshan immediately curled her lip and said, "Only girls who don't respect themselves would get pregnant so early."
The smile froze on Wen Jinzhou's lips; he wondered if there was something wrong with his ears.
He stared in disbelief at Xu Shanshan's familiar face.
Xu Shanshan probably realized that she had gone too far, so she turned her head away and said, "I've never seen anyone around me get pregnant at the age of twenty."
"Let's not talk about others, but look at Qianqian. She's already twenty-three and hasn't even found a boyfriend yet!"
"And what's wrong with her? Not only did she get married so early, but she also got pregnant at such a young age, she..."
She practically said it herself: Zhizhi's behavior was despicable.
"Was it her idea?" Wen Jinzhou interrupted her disdainful remarks loudly.
This was the first time Xu Shanshan had been yelled at by Wen Jinzhou, so she was stunned.
Wen Jinzhou was unusually agitated. "It wasn't what she wanted. She didn't have a good life with that foster family, not a good life, Mom..." Wen Jinzhou said, his expression somewhat broken. "She didn't finish elementary school. That foster family wouldn't let her go to school. They raised her until she was eighteen, and then that family sold her to Zhou Lin's family with the highest dowry in the area."
“She didn’t even get to keep the new cloth and clothes that Zhou Lin’s family bought for her when she got married; they were all given to their daughter-in-law and daughter.”
“That family even wants Zhou Lin’s allowance.”
"The apartment that Zhou Lin was allocated is also where that family's son lives with his child."
“You know, the first time I saw her, her eyes were bright, but she was so thin, like a withered tree branch that had been drained of nutrients. She had such a hard life. If she hadn’t been lucky enough to meet Zhou Lin, I don’t know who that family would have sold her to. So… this is not what she wanted!”
"Mom, how could you... how could you say that about her!"
Xu Shanshan frowned as she listened to Wen Jinzhou's words. "Didn't go to school? Was she sold for a dowry?"
Didn't we send that family quite a bit of money every year?
Besides food and other necessities, what about school fees?
But now was not the time to think about these things. Wen Jinzhou had yelled at her, and she felt her authority had been challenged, so she coldly questioned, "What did I say?"
"She found a man so early and got pregnant; she just doesn't respect herself."
"What excuse is she making? If she was really forced into it, why didn't she try to kill herself?"
"She can hang herself, she can jump into the river."
"She's not dead, is she?"
"I can see how clingy she is with that man, she's really happy!" Xu Shanshan didn't realize how sarcastic and mean she sounded, she only knew that she felt incredibly good after saying those words.
Her sharp tongue did indeed leave Wen Jinzhou speechless, but his eyes also revealed an unprecedented disappointment in her.
Without saying another word, Wen Jinzhou grabbed his coat and left home.
Xu Shanshan knew she had won the argument again, but...
I was originally planning to try and win over this second son, but now...
Oh well, this second son never learns his lesson anyway. In a couple of days, he'll be rushing to talk to me again.
"Chunlan, cook me a bowl of wontons," Xu Shanshan instructed the aunt who was tidying up in the kitchen.
"Madam, if you want to eat wontons, you may have to wait a while," Wang Chunlan said cautiously, putting down what she was doing and standing at the kitchen doorway.
Xu Shanshan immediately looked at her with displeasure, "Didn't you prepare some beforehand?"
Xu Shanshan often gets angry, upset, and refuses to eat, so she has a weak appetite and usually eats soft and easy-to-swallow foods.
Steamed buns and porridge can get cloying if you eat too much of them, so she often likes to have a bowl of wontons drizzled with sesame oil in the morning. A few wontons are enough to fill her up, and they taste delicious.
Wang Chunlan knew her habits, so her family always kept some wonton filling on hand.
But this time, since Xu Shanshan went to the hospital and hadn't returned home for several days after running away, Wang Chunlan didn't prepare that portion of wonton filling again.
Xu Shanshan had just had a fight with Wen Jinzhou, and upon hearing this, she immediately questioned him in a harsh tone, "Am I not good enough for you?"
Wang Chunlan quickly waved her hand, "No, no, madam, it's..." But Wang Chunlan couldn't say what it was. "You didn't come back for the past few days, and I didn't know you were suddenly back."
Before Wang Chunlan could come up with a good reason, Xu Shanshan sat down on the sofa with her arms crossed. "Go and get it. I want to eat wontons this morning. I'll wait here and see if I can get you to do anything."
Wang Chunlan quickly nodded, "I'll chop the filling right away."
After entering the kitchen, Wang Chunlan chopped the filling while shaking her head and sighing. If it weren't for the high salary paid by the Commander's family, she would often not want to do this job. The Commander's wife and the young lady brought into the family were really difficult to please.
They'll give you the cold shoulder if anything's not right.
After a flurry of activity, Wang Chunlan managed to serve the wontons to Xu Shanshan before she became upset again.
Xu Shanshan took a sip of the refreshing wonton soup and her expression improved considerably. "Don't forget to keep some wonton filling on hand next time," she instructed coldly.
"Okay, I understand."
"Go upstairs and see if Qianqian is awake," Xu Shanshan instructed her again.
"Yes!" Wang Chunlan responded and went upstairs.
Xu Shanshan sat downstairs, leisurely eating wontons, savoring each small bite. Sunlight streamed through the restaurant's glass windows, casting a warm glow on her. A look of enjoyment unconsciously spread across Xu Shanshan's face, and even her brows and eyes relaxed.
Wang Chunlan quickly came downstairs and told her, "Madam, Miss Qianqian hasn't gotten up yet."
"Okay, serve a bowl of wontons upstairs."
"yes!"
Even if Wang Chunlan sent her up, it wouldn't make a difference, because Wen Qianqian simply wouldn't get up right now.
They won't be attracted by the aroma of any food.
Because she gets up early and late, freshly prepared food is always delivered to her, so the food that Wang Chunlan serves up will eventually turn cold and be taken away.
Finally, unable to stand the food waste, she heated it up and ate it herself.
This wasn't the first or second time this had happened, but Xu Shanshan always had Wang Chunlan bring breakfast up, and Wang Chunlan simply obeyed.
She's just a paid employee, what can she say?
Even she was curious: now that her biological daughter had been found, why did the lady still dote on this adopted Miss Qianqian so much?
The problem that Wen Changyu and the others couldn't understand, Wang Chunlan naturally couldn't understand either, so she just kept working silently.
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