As soon as she shook her head, Zhao Xiaoxing and Gu Yi suddenly became nervous.
"sister in law……"
Chen Xingling raised his hand to stop them from speaking.
"Listen to me first. If you don't have any money to borrow, you can come and discuss it after you get your salary."
Zhao Xiaoxing's eyes lit up and she asked, "Sister-in-law, can I... get an advance on my salary? Right? Is that what you mean?"
Chen Xingling shook his head: "Didn't you save some of your salary with me before?"
Gu Yi and Zhao Xiaoxing were both confused.
Chen Xingling explained: "Before, Xiao Xing came to help in the garden, she refused to take her salary, so I put it aside for her. She worked for about 20 days, and I paid her 35 yuan."
"What the hell!" Zhao Xiaoxing quickly shook her head: "I've already said that I can't take it! Sister-in-law, we are family, we are just lending a hand, how can I ask for a salary!"
Gu Yi smiled sheepishly and whispered, "During that period, she often brought delicious food to the rental house. It was meat and vegetables every day, and those also needed tickets and money to buy, right?"
Chen Xingling chuckled, "It's okay for my family to lend a hand occasionally, but I feel embarrassed to help for so many days. Dali and I will probably continue to do this from now on. As long as it's a job for hired people, we have to account for it clearly. It was our own garden before, and you didn't lack money, so I was a little confused. But you do lack money! Be obedient and take it back."
After saying this, she hurried upstairs.
After a moment, she took out thirty-five dollars, three big unity notes and a red five-dollar note.
Chen Xingling stuffed them all into her hands, but Zhao Xiaoxing was too embarrassed to accept them and kept saying no.
Gu Yi whispered, "Take it. Your mother needs this money to save her life. When you save up enough money, return it to your sister-in-law."
Zhao Xiaoxing accepted it with red eyes.
The next morning, Gu Yi took her to remit money.
"I calculated, we only have a little over five dollars left." Gu Yi lowered his voice and said, "It's still about twenty days before I get paid, so we have to save as much as possible."
"Yeah." Zhao Xiaoxing quickly replied.
Gu Yi reminded again: "Remember to tear up the remittance slip, and don't let anyone else know, especially my mother and little sister."
Zhao Xiaoxing quickly put the remittance slip into her pocket and murmured, "I...I'd better keep it. The man just said that if the money can't be remitted to my house, I can keep it as a receipt."
Gu Yi told her to be careful on the road and hurried off to work.
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East of the city, single-family house
"Ajing! Ajing!" Mrs. Guo shouted.
At this time, Qin Tiantian slowly walked out of the room, holding her stomach, yawning and saying, "Mom, A Jing went to buy me beef meatballs and hasn't come back yet."
When Mrs. Guo heard this, her face turned dark and she turned back to her room.
Director Guo was sitting on the sofa reading a newspaper. Seeing his wife looking angry, he slowly flipped through the newspaper and asked, "What's wrong?"
Ever since the daughter-in-law came into the family, my husband has been in a bad mood for several days.
Mrs. Guo whispered, "That woman from Beijing asked Ah Jing to buy her something delicious again. This time it's beef balls! There's only one old shop in the whole city of Yu that sells beef balls, and four of them cost one yuan, and we have to travel a long way to buy them!"
Director Guo continued to read the newspaper and whispered, "When you are pregnant, your taste is more picky than that of ordinary people. She didn't ask you to buy it, so why are you complaining?"
"She treats Ajing like a servant all day long!" Mrs. Guo said distressedly, "In the past, Ajing didn't need to run errands. I arranged everything for the family. Sometimes I asked him to fetch water, sometimes I asked him to collect clothes, sometimes I asked him to buy things... As long as he was at home, he had to serve her like a servant!"
Director Guo listened calmly, his voice as calm as the water.
"It's good this way, so he knows that marriage is not a child's game. When he gets married, he has responsibilities on his shoulders. Now that the baby hasn't been born yet, it's good for him to get used to it in advance."
"Humph!" Mrs. Guo snorted in frustration, "It's all his fault for being blind! What a waste! She's lazy and eats all day long. She eats when she wakes up and sleeps after eating. When she's asked to work, she complains about backache and stomachache! Does she think she's the only one who's been pregnant? As if she's the most pregnant!"
Director Guo took off his glasses and frowned, "Didn't the family hire a big sister to help? She's pregnant now. If she doesn't take the initiative to nurse, don't let her."
"She's so lazy! And she still has the nerve to say she wants to work in a factory?!" Mrs. Guo sneered disdainfully: "She can get paid just by sitting there without doing any work as a factory worker?"
Director Guo pretended not to hear and opened the lid of the cup to drink water.
At this moment, the sound of the son opening the door came from outside the gate!
Mrs. Guo stood up, leaned over to the window and looked out, then whispered distressedly, "It's such a hot day, I've been in the sun all the way back, my arms and hands are all sunburned."
Director Guo couldn't listen any longer and said in a deep voice: "I've told you tens of thousands of times! A man should act like a man, not a delicate woman! Why do you feel sorry for me!"
"I don't feel sorry for him?" Mrs. Guo said angrily, "Do you think you would feel sorry for him? There is no other father in the world who is as cruel as you! It's fine if you don't feel sorry for him, but you stop me from loving him all day long. We only have this one son now. If I don't love him, who else can I love?!"
"Listen, listen!" Director Guo said with a sullen face, "You are confused again, aren't you? I tell you - spoiling a child is like killing him, why don't you take it to heart? The more you spoil a child, the more you will harm him. Jiayue is like this, and Shijing is also like this! You spoil each of them beyond reason!"
Mrs. Guo felt extremely aggrieved and whispered in regret, "If I had known this would happen, I should have agreed directly when he said he wanted to marry Nishang a few months ago..."
"Shut up." Director Guo frowned and lowered his voice: "The past is the past, and no one can change it. Nichang is arrogant. If your son really caught someone's eye, she would have agreed long ago. Why would she drag it on for two or three years?"
Mrs. Guo snorted in dissatisfaction: "Why? Could it be that she still looks down on the world? Fortunately, I didn't marry her. If she hadn't made a fuss like what happened a while ago, our Guo family would have lost all face!"
After a pause, Mrs. Guo asked in a low voice, "By the way, how is the relationship between Nichang and Pan Zichong going? Has it been resolved?"
"It's been solved." Director Guo replied.
My wife was very interested and asked, "How was it resolved? Didn't the Pan family swear to marry Nichang? What happened to him after he was discharged from the hospital? The Pan family boasted outside all day that the two families had been engaged a long time ago. If I hadn't been an insider, I would have almost believed it."
Director Guo laughed quietly, "Nichang rejected him on the street and said that unless he was the man she liked, he would have to buy an imported car, eight kilograms of gold and a pair of Swiss watches to marry her. Pan Zichong was defeated and left, cursing. His wife continued to attend classes every day, and his wife spread the word that they were not engaged to the Pan family because they could not afford the betrothal gift. The Pan family was very angry, but they also lost face and dared not make trouble again."
"Wow!" Mrs. Guo was stunned. "Imported car? Swiss watch? Eight kilograms of gold? That-that must be two or three hundred thousand?"
Director Guo explained: "I did it to scare that Pan kid. The Pan family has always been arrogant and always thinks they are of high status. They are not a famous family with deep heritage, so how could they possibly offer such a betrothal gift? We all live on wages, and a few hundred yuan is the best we can get together."
"Is this true?" Mrs. Guo asked doubtfully, "Just like that? It's gone after that?"
Director Guo replied: "This is called retreating by advancing. Rather than letting him push us step by step, it is better to take the initiative to control the situation. If the conditions for the betrothal gift are announced, the Pan family will lose face because they cannot afford it. So we dare not say anything more. But Pan Zi Chong has always had a bad temper, so Nichang has to be careful."
Mrs. Guo shook her head and sighed, "So, it's not good for a girl to be too pretty. It's easy to attract trouble. Look, a blind date can cause a lot of trouble."
"How can you blame Nichang for this?" Director Guo said, "What's her fault? It's obviously the young man who was attracted by her beauty. How can you blame her for her natural beauty? A gentleman will not be moved by beauty, and will not judge people by appearance. It's obviously that Pan is too cunning!"
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