Chapter 11 011 Disabled
Jin Yue stopped his happy steps and touched the warm two hundred yuan in his arms.
"I've told you we have no money. Over the years, from work to marriage to moving out, every single thing was paid for by us. You've almost eaten us to the bone, what else do you want, huh?" Shu Linong suppressed his grief and anger.
Shu Wenyan was shameless and could still laugh, "Hey, Dad, you are still young now, and the pension money is not available for the time being. Don't we still have the second child and Wenyun to pay for daily living expenses?"
"Wenming is still a temporary worker. What will he do when he gets married in the future? Have you ever thought about it?"
"Wen Yun and Liu Dong have separated. I don't know what the future situation will be like for her husband's family. The amount of dowry will be different, right?"
Shu Linong slapped the table heavily on the kang, "The key is Jin Yue. She is in a more difficult situation than any of you, but she has never opened her mouth. As the eldest brother, you don't even offer to help us, but keep coming back to beat us up. Are you ashamed? Tell me!"
Shu Wenyan was silent for a moment, and then said in a lower voice: "But I have already told Principal Liu that good positions don't wait for anyone... The position of director should be my turn even if it is based on seniority... I will be 35 soon, and if I can't get promoted, can you bear to watch me be inferior to others for the rest of my life and just be a teacher at the bottom of the hierarchy?"
"What's wrong with being a teacher? I, a teacher, didn't raise you and support you until you graduated from high school?!"
Shu Linong was so angry that his chest was rumbling, and he really wanted to strangle his eldest son to death.
"That's not what I meant. I...Ah! Dad, you don't know what kind of life I'm living at work. Because I haven't had any children, people laugh at me for being a coward. If I don't work hard, they'll send me to be the gatekeeper in the future." Her voice choked with sobs.
Not having children is a concern for the eldest couple, as well as the elderly couple.
Shu Wenyan and Liu Huifang have been married for nearly ten years. In the beginning, they were apart for most of the time and had no children. Later, Liu Huifang coordinated with her unit to return to the bookstore to do logistics and stopped driving. However, there was still no news for more than a year. Later, she consulted both Chinese and Western doctors and they both said that there was nothing wrong with both of them, and that it was just not fate yet, so she should relax.
Shu Wenyan felt bad about losing the driving subsidy, so he simply let her go out for long-distance driving again, planning to come back to "do some work" when the time comes. However, after so many years, she still didn't produce a single bitter gourd.
Those who got married around the same time as them have sons who are about to graduate from elementary school. Who wouldn’t be anxious?
"Dad, I don't ask for much. I don't even dare to dream of becoming a principal. If I can become a director, my life will be worth it. It will also be worth it if I don't have children, Dad!"
Shu Wenyan is worthy of being a Chinese teacher, as he understands the charm of language, and he can persuade students with emotion and reason.
Finally, no one knew what Shu Linong said, but Shu Wenyan came out dejectedly, and bumped into Shu Jinyue who was pretending to have just returned. He hadn't adjusted his expression yet.
But the matter was not over yet. In the evening, Shu Linong called everyone back for a family meeting. "Today we have only one topic. Help Jin Yue."
"Since you can't help me find a job, we can always pool our money together. Jin Yue needs money to buy a job, so let's all find a way to get it together. No one should say that they have difficulties. You all have received good things from your family, except Jin Yue. She is going to suffer for you."
Shu Jinyue felt a pang in his heart. The old man must have put in so much effort.
She had thought about this idea at first, but as the youngest in the family, her older brothers and sisters had all suffered from hunger and cold, and she had lived a "richer" life than them since she was a child. Now her brothers and sisters all had their own difficulties, and no one was well off. She couldn't bring herself to ask everyone to chip in money.
But since her father had spoken, she had to seize the opportunity: "Brother and sister, don't worry, I will take responsibility for this debt, and I will definitely pay you back with interest in the future."
Shu Wenyan pursed his lips and snorted through his nose.
Shu Wenming made a "tsk" sound.
No one knew what Shu Wenyun was thinking, and she didn't look at her.
Zhao Wanqiu's eyes were red.
Seeing that no one was talking, the old man paused and took out the account he had calculated in his notebook. "You three brothers and sisters each contribute 100 yuan, and your Aunt Zhao and I will take the rest. The eldest has been working for more than ten years, the second has been working for eight years, and Wenyun has been working for five years. Apart from paying me five yuan a month for living expenses, I have never asked about your salary, right? One hundred yuan is okay, right?"
No one spoke, and there was an awkward silence in the air.
Finally, Shu Wenyan couldn't help it. "Dad, you can't be so partial. A job outside requires at least 600 yuan. You are the one who fills the remaining 300 yuan hole? Is this reasonable? You two old people only make a little over a month now. If you take out 300 yuan in one go, who will be responsible for your retirement money in the future?"
Liu Huifang nagged him but failed to stop him from talking.
Shu Linong didn't say anything, nor was he angry. Instead, he looked at the second and third brothers.
Shu Wenming stroked his hair and said, "Don't look at me. It's your business who you want to subsidize."
This means that he has no objection to raising money.
Shu Wenyun silently pinched the corner of her clothes. After a moment, she seemed to have made up her mind: "I agree. No matter how much the eldest and second brothers pay, I will pay 200 yuan. Jin Yue doesn't have to pay it back in the future. This is what I owe her."
Two hundred yuan is undoubtedly a huge sum of money!
Although she had worked in the city for several years, she still had to spend money on food, clothing, housing and transportation. She was a young girl and was dating someone, so she had more extra expenses. Two hundred was almost the bulk of her savings.
"Aren't you going to save up a dowry for yourself?" Shu Wenyan didn't expect that she would have to spend a lot of money on the burden brought by her stepmother. Her two younger brothers and sisters were really stupid.
"Oh, I'm not as stupid as you..."
"Shut up!" Shu Linong was angry.
When Shu Wenyan thought about how he hadn't been able to borrow money during the day, and his father could only watch his future go down the drain, and how he had to give his heart and soul to a cheap girl who had no blood relationship with him, he immediately felt aggrieved: "Okay, okay, okay, okay, only Shu Jinyue is your biological child, and the three of us were picked up from the garbage dump, right? I just want to say one thing, Huifang and I's salary is not enough to pay for medical treatment and medicine, we have no money."
Shu Linong was so angry that his old face turned red and he was breathing heavily. Zhao Wanqiu quickly handed him a cup of warm water and found the antihypertensive medicine he usually took and asked him to swallow it first.
The room fell silent again.
Zhao Wanqiu sighed, "Let me tell you something. I know all your difficulties. Although I am not your biological mother, in my heart, you and Jin Yue are the same. Although I have not done enough in some cases, let's put it one thing at a time. If you have any opinions about me, you can slowly tell me. Jin Yue is at a turning point in her life now. I can't watch her suffer anymore. This child... woo woo..."
She covered her mouth and tears fell through her fingers.
"Why are you crying? Tell the truth."
"Jin Yue, she...she is now...a disabled person! Wuwu..."
There was a bolt of thunder out of nowhere, and everyone, including Shu Jinyue, felt their scalps go numb.
She subconsciously moved her itchy toes, and she didn't know when her mother noticed. To be honest, after being reborn, she felt a little resentful towards her mother. Although she broke her leg and was bedridden not long after falling in her previous life, and later suffered a stroke, and was powerless to help her mother who was far away, as a child, how could she not miss her mother?
When she was troubled by the captain's family, when she was followed by second-rate people, when she was targeted by other educated youth, when her dream of going to college was shattered...even before her death, she was thinking about her mother.
So, after she came back angrily, she did not tell everyone about her experience in the countryside, let alone her disability. Every time I washed my feet, I would hide in the house when no one was paying attention, put on my socks immediately after washing, and be careful to maintain my balance when walking... but I didn't expect that I still couldn't hide it from my mother's eyes.
"What...what happened?" Shu Wenyun's face turned pale. She was so frightened that she grabbed Jin Yue's hand and said, "Jin Yue, what happened to you? Were you bullied?"
Shu Jinyue nodded, then shook his head.
The accident happened in the second year after I went to the countryside. She had always been targeted and was assigned by the team leader to guard the livestock late at night. It was the last snowy night in the twelfth lunar month. That day she discovered that one of the cows in the pen was missing. The cows were the most important means of production and economic source for the team. If anything happened, she would have to bear the consequences. She was so scared that she went to ask the member who managed the cowshed during the day.
It just so happened that the member was the team leader's second uncle, and was in cahoots with the team leader's family. He insisted that the cow was not missing when it was handed over to her. She must have lost the cow while sleeping at night. She couldn't explain herself, and was afraid of being punished, so she had to go out and look for it herself.
On a snowy night, the temperature was more than ten degrees below zero, the cotton-padded jacket was filled with straw, and the girl was alone...
On that snowy night, she was so frightened and snow-blind that she couldn't tell the directions. She walked so much that she didn't even realize her toes were frostbitten. When she returned to the production team, the little toe on her left foot was already frozen.
Along with the little toe, I also lost the painful memories of that night. It’s good not to remember, she often comforted herself this way.
Shu Wenyun hurriedly got off the kang and took off her left shoe and socks. Her originally round, cute and playful little toes were gone.
She burst into tears with a loud "wow".
Jin Yue actually doesn’t remember much about what happened on that snowy night. He only remembers that he walked in the white snow for a very long time.
I just remember that every time it snowed, my toes would become extremely itchy.
Originally, she was considered disabled in the line of duty, and according to regulations, she could enjoy disability treatment with a level 10 disability, including monthly allowances and food subsidies. However, all of these were embezzled by the captain's family, and she didn't get a single grain of rice.
If she hadn't taken the opportunity to make a scene, she wouldn't even have had the chance to come back this time.
Shu Wenming was so angry that he punched the table on the kang, "These damn bastards, do they still have any law?" No wonder he heard from someone last month that the sister of another temporary worker in their vegetable store went to the countryside and came back pregnant, and those people didn't treat the female educated youth as human beings.
Liu Huifang's eyes welled up with tears. "Silly child, why didn't you tell us..."
Jin Yue shook her head. It was not that she had not tried in her two lifetimes. She had tried to write letters, but she didn't know whether those letters had been sent or not.
Zhao Wanqiu cried until her tears dried up. "Now that Jin Yue is in trouble, you are willing to help me. We, mother and daughter, will remember this kindness and will definitely repay you when we get the money."
"Auntie, don't say that. We are the ones who are sorry to Jin Yue." Shu Wenming got off the kang, like an incompetent and angry little rooster. After walking around twice, he ran back to his room like a gust of wind and took something. "Here, my passbook. It contains all my savings from the past few years of work. Take it all out and give it to Jin Yue."
Shu Wenyun also took out her own money, "I should pay for this. I am sorry to Jin Yue."
"Forget about it. You're still going to get married. If you don't have a dowry, you'll just have to wait to be bullied by your in-laws."
"Brother, don't argue with me, otherwise I will feel bad and blame it all on me..."
"Alright, alright, you're the only ones who can be good people, right? I'll give you 120 yuan, and you can pay me back when you have money in the future." Shu Wenyan said this hesitantly, then pulled Liu Huifang away.
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