Chapter 293 Seeking Reason with In-Laws
Li Chunhua's smile froze. "Okay, then you should go to sleep early."
He carried the clothes back into the house, still feeling resentful.
Pooh!
So what if he has a father who's a carpenter?!
What's so great about it!
I'm the one who gave birth to two great grandsons for the Chen family!
I wonder if she'll be able to give birth to a son!
After returning to her room, Li Chunhua threw the new clothes she had just borrowed onto the bed, then plopped down on the bed and complained to Chen Jianye, "That Liu Lanzhi is so stingy and miserly! I saw lipstick and eyebrow pencil in her closet, but she's pregnant and can't use them, so I borrowed them. We're all family, but she wouldn't allow it!"
Without a second thought, Chen Jianye replied, "That's something people bought with their own money. Why should you use it? Haven't I already lent you my clothes?"
Although he felt that spending money on those things was simply wasteful, Lao Wu was happy to let his wife spend money, and as the older brother, he couldn't stop her.
Li Chunhua curled her lip and said sarcastically, "Isn't it all because of Lao Wu's money? Lao Wu's money is the Chen family's money, and it all has to be handed over to the public. He shouldn't be keeping any money for himself!"
Chen Jianye turned over, closed his eyes, and prepared to sleep: "We brothers all pay the same amount of money. Whoever earns more money will have more left over, and will be able to save more money on their own. The fifth brother earns more money than any of us brothers, so he must have saved more money on his own."
Hearing this, Li Chunhua became even more indignant. Why was it that only the fifth son could be a carpenter and earn so much money?!
So he shoved Chen Jianye on the shoulder and said with dissatisfaction, "If you ask me, it's because your parents favor their youngest son. They don't care about you, their third son, at all. Otherwise, why would they send him to learn a trade and make big money, while you three brothers can only toil in the fields to make a living?!"
Chen Jianye frowned: "That's because the fifth brother is too weak to work. When he gets married, he won't even be able to support himself."
Li Chunhua rolled her eyes and scoffed, "Ha! He's having a hard time, but you're not?! You're not alone anymore, what about your two sons?"
Thinking of Liu Lanzhi's cosmetics and new clothes in the closet, she felt even more aggrieved and upset: "Fifth brother is making money easily as a carpenter, but what about you?! You work yourself to the bone every day to earn so few work points. If we split up the family, our whole family will starve to death!"
Upon hearing this, Chen Jianye felt a bit uncomfortable. He turned around, his face darkening, and said, "Have you said enough?!"
Li Chunhua was startled. She casually placed the borrowed clothes on the stool while muttering to herself, "It's not like I'm being biased. Why are you taking it out on me? If you're so capable, go and reason with your in-laws!"
"Li Chunhua!"
Chen Jianye glared at her fiercely, his dark face somewhat intimidating, as if he were about to burst out and beat her up at any moment.
Li Chunhua shrank her neck and then awkwardly shut her mouth.
The room quieted down, and Chen Jianye lay on his side on the bed, but he couldn't fall asleep anytime soon, his heart filled with mixed feelings.
On one hand, he felt his parents had done the right thing; his fifth son was too weak to work and could support himself as a carpenter. On the other hand, he thought that if he were the carpenter, he could definitely raise his two sons better…
I lay there with my eyes open for most of the night, until I was so tired that I finally drifted off to sleep.
The next morning, the Chen family got up very early.
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
