After the dinner, everyone dispersed in groups of three or four.
After returning home, Jiang Li told Lu Shen to go to bed early, and she went back to her room.
As for Si Ming, he had something to do in the evening and would not stay at the Jiang family tonight.
In a daze, Jiang Li received a phone call.
The person who called was the housemaid, Tao Xue.
"Jiang Li." Tao Xue's tone was a little dull, "I won't go back to work here."
Jiang Li hummed, "Did something happen over there?"
Otherwise why don’t you come back?
The salary she pays is not low and the treatment is very good.
The four or five people in the yard have been working here for quite some time, some for three to five years at least.
As for Tao Xue, this year has been almost ten years.
When Tao Xue failed the college entrance examination, she wanted to repeat the year, but when her parents heard that it would cost about 12,000 yuan a year, they directly refused.
Afterwards, Tao Xue came to Dicheng to work and later entered the housekeeping industry.
Jiang Li is Tao Xue's second employer.
Tao Xue said: "I went on a blind date after returning home, and my family is urging me to get married."
Jiang Li couldn't say anything about this matter.
Tao Xue is a few years older than her and she said she wants to get married. Can she stop her?
We are all adults and should be responsible for our own actions.
After a few brief words, the two hung up the phone.
Tao Xue hung up the phone and lay on the bed with red eyes.
She looked at the night outside, and there was a wild beast in her heart roaring and howling madly.
But she suppressed it with her reason.
She doesn't want to get married. After all, the money she earns every month is enough for her to live.
Jiang Li offered her a salary of 15,000 yuan, which increased from the initial 8,000 yuan.
Over the years, she has been provided with food and accommodation at the Jiang family, and she can save at least 12,000 yuan every year from this money. She will give 5,000 yuan to her parents every month and save the rest for herself.
Tao Xue has only two daughters and a younger sister who is a few years younger than her. She got married half a year ago and lives a happy life.
This time she drove back with a lot of bags for her father's birthday, but was left at home by her parents.
She could have refused, but when she saw her parents' old faces and the white hair in their hair, her heart ached and she couldn't bring herself to say no.
Her mother choked with tears and begged her to get married.
My father’s silence was also so deafening.
She really wanted to leave, but she knew she couldn't.
She doesn't hate her parents.
I only hate myself.
I hate myself for not being able to be cruel.
Are parents bad?
Tao Xue knew in her heart that it was not a bad thing.
They were just hurt both inside and out by the strange looks from others.
Then there are the words from neighbors who think they are "caring," which make them exhausted to deal with.
Tao Xue didn't understand what those people were doing. She was not their relative, let alone their child. Whether she got married or not was none of their business.
You idiot who has nothing to do with other people's business, just shut up if you have nothing to say. If you keep your mouth shut, it means your eldest daughter is getting married and there is no need for such nonsense.
I am angry inside, but my parents are old. When they see other children of the same age have grandchildren, while their eldest daughter is still not married, they can't help but feel that they are inferior to others.
Many people may not understand this mentality.
But there is no way. After all, they are old and their thoughts are still stuck in the past. They have not progressed with the times.
Two years ago, I talked to my mother about children.
She asked if I could help take care of the baby after it’s born?
She remembered what her mother said, if she didn't help take care of the child, her parents-in-law would.
Although it was a joke, Tao Xue also gave an answer at that time.
If you don't help take care of the child, why urge him to do so?
There was a click of the door, followed by my mother's questioning voice.
"Xiaoxue, why do you lock the door at home?"
Tao Xue felt a sense of fatigue and an unspeakable irritation in her heart.
She doesn't like going home because there is no privacy at all when she is there.
The door cannot be locked, otherwise every time my mother comes over, I have to get up to open the door and be nagged.
If the door is not locked, she never knows to knock when she comes in.
She remembered that one day when she was in high school, she was changing clothes in the house. When she looked up inadvertently, she saw her sister's magnified face lying on the glass window. Tao Xue was so scared that she almost lost her soul.
I angrily asked my sister why she was standing outside the window, and she said with a grin that she was shameless for changing clothes at home in broad daylight.
She half-closed the curtains, but there was a distance that was not drawn tightly.
But this is not a reason for them to enter and exit their rooms at will, or even stand outside the window and peek.
After opening the door, Tao's mother walked in and sat down on the chair.
"The guy I went on a blind date with today seemed pretty good to me. What do you think?"
Tao Xue: “…”
What could she think? Sadness took over her whole body. She realized that her thoughts were not that important.
"Whatever, it doesn't matter who I marry." She tried to keep herself calm.
Mother Tao raised her eyebrows and said angrily, "It has to be someone you like. How can you just get married casually?"
His words were full of love for his daughter.
Tao Xue knows her mother too well.
Then he added, "I don't like this person. He's too short. I'm wearing high heels and he's even shorter than me."
She had already thought of what her mother was going to say next.
"Don't look at his height, you have to look at what kind of person he is, his job and his family situation. His parents have pensions. If you're with him, your future will be much easier. Don't be too picky..."
What follows is a long stream of nagging from my mother.
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