Cook?
Sun Lifang glanced at the wall clock—
It's 7 o'clock and you still haven't cooked?
Qiu Ju noticed her confusion and smiled slightly, "We still have work to do tonight, so we usually eat around nine o'clock."
If I got hungry in between, I would have some steamed buns to eat.
Going back at seven is just right to cook.
When Qiu Ju was leaving, Grandma Sun came out to see her off.
Jiang Meimei had already brought out a fragrant bowl of pickled fish. Grandma Sun pulled her aside and whispered, "How did it go?"
Qiu Ju didn't say anything, and walked forward with her head down.
It's already embarrassing to visit someone during their mealtime, let alone say so much and expose your painful past to them.
Instinctively, Qiu Ju felt as if something was driving her away, and she didn't relay Sun Lifang's words to Grandma Sun until she entered the elevator.
She thought the other party would say something to her, but to her surprise, Grandma Sun nodded and said, "Not bad, not bad, you've improved." She knew she had discussed it with her grandson-in-law.
Hmm? What's improved?
Qiu Ju was completely bewildered, and then Grandma Sun threw out another question: "Why don't you have a second child?"
If I remarry, I'll have more security in the future, right?
Qiu Ju is being pursued by men at school. She is thirty-eight years old and has a voluptuous figure.
Although her skin was dry and wrinkled, it was fair and smooth, a captivating whiteness.
There are quite a few men who want to marry her.
In the two weeks since Grandma Sun arrived, quite a few men have approached her to inquire about Qiu Ju, their eagerness revealing their true intentions.
Qiu Ju could have easily remarried, but she refused.
This is the kind of voice I hear all around me: men say, "If we don't have a second child, who will take care of you in your old age?"
There's no hope for Tang Bao's daughter; she needs to consider her own future.
But Qiu Ju had a different idea. She told the men who were threatening her with a "bleak old age," "You wish!"
Not only did she talk, she also hit people with sticks.
Having spent so many years navigating society and seen all sorts of people, what is there that Qiu Ju doesn't understand?
"Men want to marry me just to have a free nanny."
Women who have given birth are like donkeys with a millstone attached to them; as long as they live, they will keep pulling the millstone.
It's not that there aren't good men in the world, but Qiu Ju calmly sees through the intentions of those who want to pursue her.
Why are the men threatening Qiu Ju to get married and have children?
The idea that you'll be abandoned by society if you don't have children is utter nonsense!
Years of hard work and struggle have made Qiu Ju's thinking more like that of a man.
Only when she considered things from a man's perspective did she realize—
In fact, men need family and children more than women.
What are the conventional standards for judging a man's success?
He has a wife and children.
Outside, no matter how incompetent or useless a man may be, at home he can act like a king and be the head of the household.
If a woman has another child, then the man possesses a permanent asset.
His children will take care of him in his old age, which is equivalent to buying a retirement insurance policy.
Think of it this way: Creating wealth from nothing—
Now I know why the man threatened Qiu Ju to get married and have a second child.
Because men are more afraid than Qiu Ju not having children.
"We're not even married yet, and he's already treating me like his possession." Qiu Ju sharply exposed the suitor's lies and sneered, "I have no interest in those cowardly and incompetent men."
Because of his own incompetence, he threatened Qiu Ju and exaggerated her tragic future.
In reality, it was his own need; he wanted to sleep with Qiu Ju, and at the same time, have her act as a free nanny so he could have a mobile womb to carry on his family line.
As for raising children—
The suitors never thought of that.
They just wanted to plunder Qiu Ju's resources and, incidentally, persuade her to abandon her eldest daughter.
If anyone had even a slight consideration for Qiu Ju's situation, would they have allowed her to have a child at the age of thirty-eight?
To understand what a man wants, you just need to think from his perspective.
Qiu Ju had thought it through very clearly. She told Grandma Sun, "Don't even think about relying on marriage as a safe haven or raising children to support you in your old age!"
Those are all scams.
If she believed, she would die.
To shut Grandma Sun up and stop introducing her to others, Qiu Ju started telling her own story...
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