Chapter 57: Got into College

Li Xiaocao always treats Pu Xiang in such a pitiful way. Pu Xiang would get angry at first, but she hadn't done anything to the other person, and she didn't owe him anything, so why did she act like a little wife when she came to her?

But after seeing so much, she became numb and just let love be whatever it is.

Pu Xiang said "Oh" coldly, without any intimacy.

Seeing her like that, Li Xiaocao's words that he was about to say were stuck in his mouth.

"Third sister..."

She began to speak, stammering, and then stopped.

Pu Xiang ignored her. If she didn't say anything, she would pretend she didn't know. If she did, she would only listen selectively.

Seeing this, Li Xiaocao couldn't help but ask, "Third sister, are you going to hold a banquet for your new house? Do you want your family to invite all your relatives?"

Pu Xiang was the opposite and straightforward: "No, I cut off all contact with my relatives when I remarried."

Married women here can choose to interact with their natal relatives or not.

For example, when Pu Xiang got married for the first time, she socialized with all her relatives. Most rural women would make the same choice unless they were marrying very far away.

However, when Pu Xiang got the marriage certificate for the second time, she and Mo Yang didn't even drink together, so naturally they couldn't be considered to have any contact with each other, and the engagement was severed just like that.

Li Xiaocao said, "Didn't you have a wedding banquet at that time? Why don't I take this opportunity to have a wedding banquet for you? Have two banquets at the same time? You've been married for two years, why haven't you gotten pregnant yet? When you were pregnant with your 'little brother', you got pregnant right away, didn't you? Are you too old? Why don't you go to the hospital and have a look?"

I knew this would happen.

Pu Xiang knew these rural old ladies too well. They urged young women to get married and to have children. It seemed that apart from these two things, there was nothing else they cared about.

Take her and her second sister for example. Her life is going smoothly now, while her second sister's family is unemployed, suffers domestic violence, and lives in a mess. However, in the eyes of her mother and others, she is the one who needs to be lectured.

Because she is remarried and has no children, she can't tie a man down.

And her second sister's family is living well.

Pu Xiang would never get angry about this kind of thing now, because women's breasts are very fragile.

"Well, I'm sick and can't have children. Now I'm preparing to divorce Mo Yang."

"……ah?"

Li Xiaocao was dumbfounded. She had known her daughter had bought a house and was very happy. She was also thinking about urging her daughter to have a baby, so that her life would finally be back on track.

However, she never expected to hear such news.

After Li Xiaocao calmed down, she became anxious: "We can't get a divorce! Third sister, is this true? You really went to the hospital, which hospital did you go to? Or should we go to another hospital?"

Pu Xiang took a strong approach and said, "I went to the best gynecological hospital in Hai City."

This is a death sentence.

Li Xiaocao was devastated: "How could this happen? How could this happen? My poor third sister, what are you going to do in the future?"

Pu Xiang is in the store right now. It's not a holiday, it's not meal time, and there are not many customers.

She reached out and grabbed a handful of melon seeds from the counter and started eating them together with Shi Wenya who was huddled aside to watch the show.

"It's OK, but it's over. I'm going to find a river to jump into now. This store is closed, and I can't live in the new house. These melon seeds don't taste good at all. My life is really miserable."

puff.

Shi Wenya really couldn't help it. After she burst into laughter, she quickly covered her mouth with her hand and signaled Pu Xiang to continue with her eyes.

Pu Xiang ignored her and continued eating her melon seeds.

Li Xiaocao was howling there alone and ignored everyone. After a while, she felt bored. Then she looked at her daughter, who seemed nonchalant and not worried at all.

Listen to what she said.

"You don't know how to be anxious now, but you will understand when you are old. You can't live without children!"

Pu Xiang really didn't want to bother with her mother. She said, "If you have time to take care of me, you might as well take care of my sister. She was almost beaten to death by my brother-in-law. Instead of worrying about how I will live when I'm old, you might as well worry about whether she will live to old age."

Li Xiaocao blurted out: "There is no such thing as a couple without quarrels!"

Pu Xiang, who had never been angry, suddenly lost her expression. She threw the melon seeds into the trash can and reached out to push her mother out.

"Go, go, go. I've never seen a father like you! You don't feel pain when you're beaten, right? Go home and try being beaten every three days. If you think that's easy, go and try it!"

Li Xiaocao was pushed out of the door by her daughter, her face full of surprise, but she didn't dare to go back in.

He could only stamp his feet on the spot and then turn around and go back to the village.

She doesn't have a bicycle, doesn't know how to ride one, and is reluctant to take the bus, so she relies entirely on her own feet to get back and forth.

After this trip, when she returned to the village, it was already past lunchtime. She walked in hungry and ate a bowl of cold rice with two pickled vegetables.

Pu Youfu took a rest at home at noon and was smoking the cheapest "Da Qianmen" cigarette.

"What are you doing? Did you have an argument with Third Sister?"

As husband and wife for many years, Pu Youfu and Li Xiaocao understand each other quite well.

When Li Xiaocao was asked by her husband, she told him everything that happened with Pu Xiang.

"Why did she become like this now?"

Neither the couple could figure it out.

After a moment of silence, Li Xiaocao thought about his second daughter again: "Old man, should we go and see the second sister? The third sister said that she was always beaten by her son-in-law. Besides, the son-in-law doesn't have a job now. Look, our son and the third sister have bought houses, but the second sister's family still has a bungalow. Life is hard. Why don't we go and talk to them? No matter whether it's the son-in-law or the second sister, one of them should go out to work, right?"

Pu Youfu puffed on his cigarette and said after a while, "Okay, let's go and take a look."

In the past, the couple felt that doing business was unreliable. Farmers should farm in the fields, and working and opening shops were things for city people. How could they, country people, understand these things?

But with the affairs of their daughter-in-law and daughter in mind, it’s not like they really don’t see the money coming into the family every day.

Not only has his life improved, but he has also bought a house in the county town. Who wouldn't be envious?

Pu Youfu grew up in a poor family. Even when society improved and there were households with an annual income of 10,000 yuan in the village, he was still poor. But who could have thought that his family would become one of the first few people in the village to buy a house in the county?

That’s the county seat!

As for the couple Pu Youfu and Li Xiaocao, it can be said that they have no plans at all, and they are really confused when doing things, but their heart is really in the good of their children.

After Li Xiaocao finished her meal, the two of them went to their second daughter's house together.

It is a free time for farmers now, so Pu Fen and his wife stay at home.

As usual, Shen Chengcai drank some old wine. He got drunk and fell asleep on the bed.

Pu Fen didn't dare to wake him up, so she picked beans outside and prepared to fry some to eat, or to give to Shen Chengcai as a snack.

"Second sister."

Li Xiaocao came in and called out. Pu Fen looked up and saw his parents coming.

"Mom and Dad, why are you here?"

Pu Fen quickly put the bamboo dustpan aside and stood up.

Pu Youfu looked around and asked, "Where is my son-in-law?"

Pu Fen quickly said, "Dad, go find Chengcai. He's sleeping. I'll go wake him up."

Although I don't know what it is, but when my father-in-law and mother-in-law come, as a son-in-law I have to get up and entertain them.

Pu Fen asked her parents to sit down and went into the bedroom to call for help.

Shen Chengcai was sleeping soundly at the moment, but was woken up by his wife's pushes. He became angry and slapped her in the face.

"Calling for the soul? I call for the soul even when I sleep. What can you call for?"

Pu Fen felt wronged and covered her face: "My parents are here, you can get up now."

Shen Chengcai was still angry, but when he heard his father-in-law was coming, he restrained himself a little and stopped hitting anyone, but his expression was still very ugly.

"It's not a festival, what are you doing here?"

He muttered something and got up from the bed lazily.

When the couple walked out of the room, Pu Youfu and Li Xiaocao heard the sound just now. When they looked, they saw that there was indeed a slap mark on their second daughter's face.

Li Xiaocao thought of what Pu Xiang said, and this time he really looked bitter.

Pu Youfu, as the parent, said: "Chengcai, how can you hit someone like that? There are visitors at home, and there is nothing wrong with your wife calling you to get up."

Facing his father-in-law, Shen Chengcai still suppressed his temper: "Dad, what are you doing here?"

Not a single word was said about the beating.

Pu Youfu frowned and looked at him for a long time before saying, "How are you going to spend your days at home now? Your mother and I wanted to come over to discuss this with you. You and your second sister should go out and find a job, right?"

Upon hearing this, Shen Chengcai immediately became excited: "Dad, I also want to find a job. Isn't there any here? Otherwise, can you lend me some money so that I can open a store like my elder brother and his wife?"

Pu Youfu had just started to speak when his son-in-law came and asked to borrow money.

How could he have any money? All the money in the family was earned by his daughter-in-law, and she was in charge of it all. Even his own son couldn't get any of it, let alone him as his father-in-law.

"What are you going to buy and sell?"

He could only ask about the situation first.

Unexpectedly, Shen Chengcai said without hesitation: "I haven't decided what to do yet. I can learn from my elder brother and his wife and open a small restaurant."

Pu Youfu opened his mouth in shock.

Others are unreliable, and Shen Chengcai's recovery is completely unreliable.

This son-in-law is really impossible to persuade.

Pu Youfu also thought in his heart that among his two daughters and two sons-in-law, none of them was as good as Shi Dafu.

At least Shi Dafu's family has enough food and drink at home.

He also acknowledged that it was his second daughter who wanted to divorce.

Pu Youfu looked at his second daughter, but Pu Fen didn't think there was a problem at all. When she saw her father looking at her, she said, "I always listen to Chengcai."

…

Pu Xiang didn't know that after the quarrel between her and her mother, her mother actually went back to her second sister's house.

What she never expected was that her parents, such a foolish couple, would one day think that others were foolish and that they couldn't live like this.

After buying the house, Pu Xiang finally had another happy event.

After failing the college entrance examination the first year, Zhao Qing was finally admitted this year to a university in Lin City. Although it is not the best one, it is still a key undergraduate university.

If it were published in later generations, it would be a book.

More importantly, their village has produced another college student. All together, their village has produced no more than five college students.

Zhao Qing's parents were stunned when they heard the news.

With the help of this daughter, their family finally managed to find wives for their three sons. This daughter is now a cash cow, and the family was thinking of finding a good family for her. They never expected that she would be admitted to university.

After Zhao Qing's parents became stupid, they were filled with great joy, and it felt like smoke was coming out of their ancestral tomb.

There is a college student in his family!