Chapter 9 Chapter 9 There are many women working diligently outside...
Xia Li stayed at Zhang Yun's house for a while. When it was almost time for dinner, Zhang Yun insisted that Xia Li stay for dinner, but Xia Li refused. She was only familiar with Zhang Yun here, but she was not familiar with her husband at all, and he did not give Xia Li a good impression, so in Xia Li's opinion, there was no need for them to have dinner together.
Before parting, the two agreed to keep in touch.
Xia Li returned to the Jiang family the next day. As soon as she entered the door, she saw other people in the yard.
She didn't change her pace, and still had a smile on her face as she spoke to Jiang Dong's mother, "Mom, do we have guests at home today?"
Jiang Dong's mother was a little uneasy. "They weren't guests. They were just former neighbors who came to visit and chat. You probably still remember them."
Xia Li smiled and nodded at these women who were about the same age as Jiang Dong's mother, as a greeting.
Of course, she still remembered these aunties and aunties, two of whom were quite annoying. Usually, when Xia Li saw them passing by, she wouldn't even blink. But today, she nodded to them because of Jiang Dong's mother's face.
An old lady who was still sitting there and didn't move her butt when she saw Xia Li come back asked Xia Li with ill intentions: "Xia Li, didn't you run away? It seems that you have made some money. What kind of job do you do outside?"
As soon as Xia Li heard her speak, she knew what this woman meant. Wasn't she doubting that the money she earned was not clean? Wasn't she just not convinced that a young and beautiful woman like her couldn't make money through her own efforts if she ran away?
"As for me, I just work outside. What else can I do? My work outside is just average, but now I can manage 10 to 20 workers. My salary is only a few hundred yuan, but it's not as much as your son who makes a hundred yuan a month. As for me, I'm in the factory every day, protected from the wind and rain, and it's all hard-earned money."
After she finished speaking, as if something suddenly occurred to her, she turned to Jiang Dong's mother and said, "Mom, I just remembered that our factory will be recruiting workers next year. Can you see which families in our village have good girls or boys? If you have time, talk to them. If they want to go, I'll give them the address and let them sign up. But there is one requirement. You have to be careful and conscientious when doing your work in the factory. You can't hire people whose parents are talkative. What if the children are like that, gossiping about other people's affairs every day and don't obey the rules?"
After giving the instructions, Xia Li raised the bag in her hand and showed it to Jiang Dong's mother, "Mom, I'll go take the things to the house first."
The women who came to visit looked at each other, and looked at Jiang Dong's mother, wanting to say something but stopping themselves.
What a joke! Charlie had always done things openly and aboveboard, both good and bad. How could she be manipulated by a few gossips? What others could see were things she didn't care about being seen. These were never her weaknesses, nor were they things she couldn't express.
Xia Li knew that the world outside was indeed quite chaotic these days, especially in the southern region. Many people who were laid off ran there. In society, people would do anything, both overt and covert, as long as they could make money.
However, there are many women who work diligently outside, such as waitresses and factory workers. They all rely on their own hard work and diligence to earn a living. And the money they earn not only supports themselves, but also their unmotivated brothers and biased parents at home.
However, even so, they are still at the bottom of society and family, and are exploited and discriminated against. Through hard work, they have gained respect, social recognition, and even received the same salary as male workers.
Some women are able to improve their life value through the opportunity to work outside, but for most of them, it is just a flash in the pan, and they gradually fall into the whirlpool of family.
Xia Li once knew a coworker who had started working a few years before her. Though her salary was good, she still lived a miserable life. This woman, unwilling to spend a penny, saved it all, never buying food or clothes, never making friends or dating. She would send her savings home whenever she had enough. She was so exhausted that she would have starved to death if the factory hadn't provided her with food. Eventually, she became ill from the torment and returned home.
At the time, the other workers were still wondering if her condition could be cured, and they didn't know how much it would cost. But Xia Li thought, this is difficult! How could a family dare to suck their daughter's blood like that, and then be willing to spit it out to treat her illness?
This naked and cruel reality happened right next to her.
From that moment on, Charlie knew how difficult it was for women to live in this world. No matter how good you were to others, no matter how much you expected of them, it was never as good as being good to yourself. Everyone else might abandon you, and only the money you held tightly in your own hands was real.
Jiang Dong's mother watched Xia Li leave after saying that. She felt that Xia Li was becoming more and more powerful, and her temper was much worse than before.
But what Xia Li just said was also true. You didn't have to beg me to come to my house, and now you're here, you're trying to beg me to do something. Xia Li is her daughter-in-law after all. They haven't divorced yet, and she's still the mother of her grandson. It's not her place as an outsider to say anything bad about her family.
What did they mean by looking at her so eagerly now? Jiang Dong's mother didn't know whether Xia Li's job search was real or not. The few people who came to visit her stopped talking about what had just happened and started to ask her to save a spot for their children. After all, being able to work and earn money now was a very capable thing, and it was much more promising than farming in the countryside. However, the children in the village had never seen the world, and many were afraid to go out. Especially when they encountered those scammers, they were even more scared and dared not go out again. It was always good to have someone they knew outside.
Jiang Dong's mother also laughed it off. She didn't dare to agree to these things casually. She half-coaxed these people and went outside. There was no other way. They were neighbors and had lived here for half their lives. They had to keep some dignity in everything.
Xia Li took the things and put them in Jiang Dong's mother's room. Today she brought a roast chicken and some snacks and candies specially for Jiang Zai.
Speaking of the roast chicken, it was what Zhang Yun insisted Xia Li take before she left. She said that she didn't have anything good to give as a gift, and that the food at home was delicious and hygienic, so she gave it to Xia Li and asked her to take it back for Jiang Zai to try. It was also a little token of her appreciation as an aunt. Xia Li accepted it after hearing that.
After she put her things down, she remembered that she hadn't seen her child for a while, so she looked everywhere in the house and even ran to the backyard to look.
Jiang Dong's mother sent someone back and walked into the house, she saw Xia Li coming out of the backyard and asked Xia Li what she was doing in the backyard.
Xia Li asked, "Mom, have you seen Jiang Zai? He's not even at home. Did he go out to play?"
Jiang Dong's mother couldn't help but roll her eyes and said to Xia Li, "Xia Li, do you remember how old your son is? Doesn't he have to go to school today? How can he still wait for you at home every day?"
Seeing Xia Li feeling a little embarrassed, Jiang Dong's mother ignored her and went straight to her room to get something. She entered the room and soon pulled aside the curtain to ask Xia Li, "Did you bring back this roast chicken?"
"Um."
"Just bring it back. Why are you putting it in my room? Are you jealous of me because I haven't eaten it before?"
"Um, Mom, no, it's because we're afraid that someone will steal some food if we put it in the kitchen." Ma Lijuan and her husband were not at home, and Xia Li said it without any reservation.
Jiang Dong's mother fell silent upon hearing this. She lowered the curtain, went inside, and sat down at the table, looking at the chicken on the table. Of course, she knew who Xia Li was talking about, the one who would cheat on her—the second daughter-in-law. As a mother-in-law, she did her best to treat them equally, but there were still many conflicts between the two daughters-in-law, and neither could stand up to the other. The eldest daughter-in-law was cunning and unwilling to suffer any loss. The second daughter-in-law, on the other hand, had a strong personality, but she looked smart but was actually a bunch of idiots. Sometimes she made a big fuss but gained nothing.
I originally thought that this family would be like this, it was okay to have some noise, as long as we could live together, but I didn't expect that we would fall apart as time went by.
It's just her Dongzi, thinking about it makes her heart ache. Before the accident, this child had always been her backbone. Now that the accident happened, her backbone has collapsed. How will she live in the future?
At the time, she refused to believe that Dongzi had committed a crime. Her child knew the truth, and she wanted to go look for him herself. However, as an old woman, she had only been to the county a few times, so how could she possibly go out and look for her son? She had no choice but to ask her family for money to find someone to go and see what was happening to Dongzi. However, she waited and waited, and the news she received was that Dongzi was still in detention, and he would probably be there for several years.
During those days, she cried so much that she almost ran out of tears. Her life was so miserable that she wanted to just drink the medicine and die. However, when she held the medicine bottle, she thought about it and gave up. It was better to live than to die. She couldn't die yet. She had to wait for her son to come out and take care of her grandson.
Life will pass if you endure it, and everything will be fine.
After Xia Li left, she thought about it carefully, and had to say that she had been shaken. She could see that Xia Li was making money now, and Jiang Zai was her biological son. Although she had made mistakes in the past, she had never heard of a mother who didn't love her children. Jiang Zai would definitely live a better life with her than with herself. She was an old woman who knew nothing. How long could she take care of a child? Not to mention, the words that Erdong's wife had said in front of her intentionally or unintentionally in the past two days, all of which were asking the child to follow his biological mother. She didn't know where she overheard it from. But it was also true that she could still watch over him now. If the child was older and could eat, I don't know how many lumps these two uncles and aunts would secretly give the child to eat.
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