"We also need to make her a new set of clothes. We're almost out of cloth coupons. I'll ask my colleagues tomorrow to save up enough to make a red set. And we also need to make new beds and other furniture."
Oh, right, I still have two industrial vouchers. I'll buy her a new pair of shoes and a new basin in a couple of days.
Liu Xia is such a good woman, she definitely wouldn't feel comfortable leaving her two children with her parents, she would definitely bring them here. Then the older one can sleep with Xiao Sheng, and the younger one can sleep with his mother. When they are a little older, we can make two separate beds.
Chen Wei looked around the room and started planning what to put here and there. He couldn't live without a woman in the house. Just thinking about being able to hold Liu Xia in bed soon made him smile broadly.
Yang Chunhua took a few deep breaths. She originally wanted to scold her son, but seeing how happy he was, she could only hold back.
She pressed her temples and said, "Son, don't rush into this. You haven't even told your mother who this woman is, and now you're saying you want to marry her. What's her family's situation? Besides, you've already been divorced once, why are you even proposing marriage?"
"The two of them can just go and get a marriage certificate. Wasting money on that is just plain wasteful."
Unexpectedly, Chen Wei insisted, so what if it's a second marriage? He couldn't let Liu Xia be worse off than others.
Yang Chunhua felt her head buzzing. She had always regarded her son as the apple of her eye. Except for the time when he insisted on marrying Guan Lian and they argued, her son rarely disobeyed her.
Even after he married Guan Lian, he felt sorry for her, which is why he handed over his salary to her for safekeeping.
Now she's ignoring her again; she really has forgotten her mother now that she has a wife.
"Alright, alright, I'm your mother, you have to listen to me on this."
The next day, she didn't even go to play cards. Instead, she took a handful of melon seeds to the street corner and inquired about who this Liu Xia was. After hearing the answer, she frowned, felt a lump in her throat, and almost fainted.
When did her son's taste become so bad? She thought that at the very least, he would marry someone like Guan Lian. But now, this Liu Xia, when she was young, didn't listen to her family's advice and married a country man. She had two children, and after the divorce, she took them back to her parents' home. She doesn't have a formal job.
"She's had a tough time too. These past few days staying at her parents' house, her brother and sister-in-law have been making veiled insults all day long. The insults they've used are so vulgar that all the neighbors can hear them clearly. It's their own sister, yet they've been insulting her so viciously."
Her parents, needless to say, wanted her to get out immediately. But where could she go—a woman with two children and no job? She had no choice but to stay in that house.
"Her mother hired a lot of matchmakers just to get her to find a man as soon as possible. Although I also feel sorry for this girl, I don't think any man would be blind to marry her and have to raise someone else's child."
"By the way, Auntie, why are you asking about this?"
Yang Chunhua's fake smile froze; it was her son who was blind!
“I was just asking because I hadn’t seen her before.”
He chuckled dryly a few times, immediately got up and walked back. Almost as soon as he turned around, his face turned completely black.
Without a job and no food supply, she can only buy food. She also has two children, which means there are three more mouths to feed in the family all of a sudden. Bah! She doesn't even want to raise her own grandson, yet she wants to support three strangers. Dream on!
She felt sorry for her son at his age who didn't have a woman in his bed, but that didn't mean she was willing to accept three men coming to live with them. She wondered how they would manage in the future, especially since she, an old woman, would have to take care of all three of them.
Her son's arrival yesterday was so sudden, and seeing how happy he was, Yang Chunhua didn't have a chance to say anything against it.
Now I understand. This woman must have seen how well-off her son was and used some seductive tricks to bewitch him. What a vixen! She actually wanted her son to support someone else's son?
However, her son was also foolish, completely under this woman's thumb. Despite his poor circumstances, he still wanted her to come and propose marriage, and even offered to make her new clothes and quilts.
Just thinking about Yang Chunhua makes me want to tear her apart.
Chen Junsheng has been unusually well-behaved and gone to school these past two days. The news about his family situation can no longer be kept secret and is gradually spreading. The neighbors who used to look at him with disappointment are now starting to feel a little sorry for him.
It's a pity this child probably doesn't understand anything. If there's a stepmother in the family, the father will become a stepfather. Chen Wei and Yang Chunhua were unreliable to begin with, so life will be even more difficult from now on.
"The Wang family just married a new daughter-in-law. Look at the ex-wife's two children. In the dead of winter, they have to wash their clothes with cold water. They even have to wash their crotches. They're as skinny as monkeys."
“They were never getting enough to eat. One day, the little one was so hungry that he grabbed a bun from the table and ate it. She slapped him so hard that his teeth bled. The child’s father and mother acted like they didn’t see it. It was so pitiful.”
"Alas, all stepmothers are the same. From now on, I will have to make a living under her. Life will be much more difficult."
He ignored what the neighbors were saying, silently carried his schoolbag home, and saw his grandmother sitting at the table.
"……Milk"
He hesitated for a long time before finally speaking. These past few months have been so happy. No one bothered him, and he could do whatever he wanted. His father would occasionally slip him money when he was in a good mood, and although his grandmother would complain, she never hit him.
But now someone is telling him that these good days are about to end, that his father will soon marry a new wife, and he will have a stepmother.
Nowadays, which child isn't afraid of their stepmother? Not being given food or clothes in winter is considered good; I've heard that some really bad stepmothers will beat you with a stick as thick as your wrist, leaving you covered in bruises, and no one in the family will care.
Chen Junsheng was afraid that if he married his stepmother and stepmother, things would definitely change, and he didn't want his good days to end so soon.
Isn't life good enough like this? He can go to school if he wants, and when he grows up he can take over his father's job and support them in their old age. Why do we need more people in the family?
"...I don't want Dad to get married."
Yang Chunhua thought her grandmother would scold him, but to her surprise, she sighed and suddenly slammed her hand on the table: "Your father's marriage is off!"
As long as she's alive, this woman must never step foot in their house.
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