Chapter 141 Apology
After a while, Widow Du brought the hot pot stove into the room, put it on the coffee table, and said:
"Come on, Yuanyuan, Yuanchao, let's prepare to eat."
"Mom, what are we having for dinner?"
"We have a lot of wild boar bones at home. We'll have bones and radish stew at night."
"Oh, okay, let's eat."
My mother-in-law has now tasted the benefits of eating hot pot, which is that you can eat hot dishes at any time.
In the Northeast, even if there is a fireplace in the room, the food will get cold quickly. Having a hot pot stove makes it convenient to eat anything.
Although there are only three people in Wang Yuanchao's family, one boy and two girls, everyone in the family is a big eater. They devoured the meal in no time and there was nothing left. Everyone was full.
After finishing the meal and washing the dishes, Widow Du sat on the sofa and drank tea with the young couple.
Widow Du looked at Wang Yuanchao, hesitating to speak, and seemed a little embarrassed about what to say.
Widow Du was a beauty, and she seemed to have a charming aura in her bones. Her eyes seemed to be born with a captivating charm. She just sat there calmly, and glanced casually, as if she was trying to seduce people. This reluctant but welcoming expression made Wang Yuan's heart beat wildly. "Mom, we are a family. What's the matter?"
Widow Du was a little fidgety. She smiled awkwardly at Wang Yuanchao and said, "Uh, Yuanchao, um, um, we still have a lot of cloth at home. Can you use it to make two sets of clothes for Pan Di and the others?"
Wang Yuanchao suddenly realized that his mother-in-law had softened her heart again and wanted to show her warmth.
However, Wang Yuanchao was indeed not short of cloth. Not to mention that there were several boxes of high-end silk, Su brocade, mink fur and other high-end materials in his space, even the cloth he bought in Xingcheng and placed in his space had not been moved.
The cloths I have at home now were bought with the tickets I exchanged for the wild boar and Aunt Qu.
But whether I am in need or not is not the point. The problem would be if my mother-in-law's sympathy was always so strong. Although Aunt Xinghua's family is my mother-in-law's younger sister, my mother-in-law has been sending many things from home to Aunt Xinghua's family since they moved back to the Hongqi Brigade.
Not to mention the meat and flour, just the cakes and candies that Wang Yuanchao brought back, as well as the fried peanuts, walnuts and melon seeds at home, were often taken by my mother-in-law to Aunt Xinghua's house.
Wang Yuanchao never paid attention to food and never said anything, but he was not very willing to accept industrial products.
Because you need a ticket to buy this thing, it is very difficult to buy it these days, and it is not something that can be solved simply by having money.
After thinking for a while and organizing his words, Wang Yuanchao said meaningfully: "Mom, as the saying goes, a pinch of rice is a token of gratitude, a pinch of rice is a token of resentment. Aunt Xinghua, please don't help her so much that she becomes an enemy. Since ancient times, people have helped in emergencies but not in poverty. When Aunt Xinghua first came, the family was in urgent need of something. I would never say anything if you helped them more. But they have to live their own lives after all. It's not a big deal if we keep helping them.
Although I am still young, I know that the greatest ugliness of human nature is that people will try their best to please you when they need you, but will turn against you ruthlessly when they don't need you.
Aunt Xinghua's family is not going to fall apart now, so there's no need for us to give away our own things like that, right?"
Since Widow Du started living with Wang Yuanchao, the two wives have been really spoiled by Wang Yuanchao. As long as the mother and mother asked for some material things, Wang Yuanchao had never refused. This time, Widow Du really didn't expect Wang Yuanchao to refuse her. Her face froze in place, and she couldn't recover for a long time. Wang Yuanchao looked at his mother-in-law's pitiful appearance, and he felt bad in his heart, but he still had to say the words of advice: "Mom, I also know that our family's living conditions are good now. We are rich now. It seems that helping poor relatives is nothing. I don't know what you usually talk about with people in the village, but you are poor, hate your wealth, fear that you have, and laugh at you for not having. This is human nature. Now our family's living conditions are good. I don't know how many people in the Red Flag Brigade are staring at us, waiting for us to make mistakes. The greatest sobriety of adults is to never live in the mouths of others. Don't take nice words seriously, and don't take unpleasant words to heart. Mom, when you are outside, you must be careful of people who flatter you. They are the most dangerous people.
The reason they flatter you is not because you are so great, but because you have what they want. Once you can't give it to them or can't satisfy them, don't worry, they will turn against you faster than turning the pages of a book.
You and Yuanyuan are my relatives, and the most important people to me in this world.
Anything in the house is just external things. As long as you want to use them, I will never be stingy. Just use them. Some external things are nothing. We can earn more after using them. But I hope that when you do anything in the future, you will think more about yourself and our family.
Don't let your kindness and softness drag our family into disaster."
At this point, Wang Yuanchao looked at Widow Du and Zhang Yuanyuan, both of whom showed shame on their faces, and sighed and said, "Mom, do you know why I built our wall so high?"
Widow Du and Zhang Yuanyuan looked at Wang Yuanchao in bewilderment. "Because only if the wall is built high can we block the eyes of those who have ulterior motives and reduce the trouble.
This person is not afraid of thieves stealing, but is afraid of thieves thinking about it.
The vast majority of people in this world are just ordinary people who cannot withstand temptation.
A high wall can not only block the eyes of those with ulterior motives, but also reduce the temptation of our home to others.
Only then can our family live safely like other villagers and reduce a lot of trouble.
If mother and Yuanyuan want to use the cloth at home, you can just use it. I will never say anything.
Three years new, three years old, and three years of mending. The clothes we wore every day were all patched up, and everyone took turns wearing the same piece of clothing. Now, our family wears clothes without patches every day. Not only do we wear new clothes, but we also have enough money to take care of other poor relatives and let them wear new clothes,
Mother, if other people in the village knew about this, what would they think? "
When Widow Du heard this, her face turned pale and she sat on the sofa, looking shaky. Wang Yuanchao felt distressed.
But Wang Yuanchao is so selfish that he doesn't want to put his family in the spotlight just to help his relatives.
"Alas, Yuan Chao, I have lived so long in vain, but I still don't see many things as clearly as you do.
It was my fault. I just felt sorry for Pan Di and her friends because they were wearing old clothes with patches all over them during the New Year.
I also thought that we still had some extra cloth at home, and that any help we could give was a plus. Mom was wrong. Our family was already living well in the Red Flag Brigade, and now that we were rich, we had to take care of other relatives.
If the hungry wolves in the village find out, they will definitely keep an eye on our family. If we show any weakness, these hungry wolves will definitely pounce on us and bite us.
Yuan Chao, I apologize to you for not thinking clearly. "
(End of this chapter)
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