8th Story 6
“If I knew you were so useless! I wouldn’t have married you in the first place!” Zhang Wei stood up and slapped Zhu Hui across the face, then opened the door, ignored the neighbor who was cursing at the door, and walked away.
Zhu Hui covered her face and looked at Zhang Wei in disbelief, “Where are you going?”
Zhang Wei walked away without even looking back at her. Zhu Hui sat paralyzed on the ground and cried. Seeing her like this, the neighbors couldn’t say anything, so they had to go back angrily. Zhu Hui picked up the phone angrily, and sent several voice messages to Li Yuhua, “I hate you, now I’m like this, are you happy? I and Zhang Wei are going to divorce, are you happy? Mom, you are too much, why are you so selfish? You don’t think about me at all, I hate you! I beg you, please help me one last time! I want to buy a house, I want to take root in Shanghai, please promise me and sell the house! You have more than 3,000 monthly pensions, and renting a house doesn’t cost much a month. Is it important for your daughter’s marriage or your own enjoyment? Mom, you can’t so selfish!”
Li Yueran wakes up in the morning and sees these WeChat messages, her heart is very calm, if it is her own child, maybe she will really sell the house then go out to rent a house to fulfill them. But now, thinking of Li Yuhua’s final ending in the book, Li Yueran just wanted to be selfish for a while, she didn’t want to take advantage of Zhu Hui and Zhang Wei, the wonderful couple! Nima, a husband’s family doesn’t treat you as a person but you still try your best to steal things from your mother’s family to your husband’s house, thinking that you can gain a firm foothold by doing so. The other one is justified as a little child, relying on her mother-in-law’s family for everything, but taking her mother-in-law’s family seriously, her style of painting is so strange!
Li Yueran didn’t care what happened to Zhu Hui, she was going to pack her things, and just in case, she took the real estate certificate and so on with her, then said hello to the neighbor, asking their help look at the house. Afterwards, she took her bag and went to meet up with her sisters.
Meanwhile over there, after two days of disappearance, Zhang Wei finally came back together with Zhang’s father and mother with him. Zhu Hui didn’t bother to ask about Zhang Wei’s whereabouts in the past few days, and was busy laughing with him, serving tea and water, fruits and drinks, being so attentive.
Zhang’s mother gave her a disgusted look, “Sit down, don’t be too busy. I have heard about your affairs from Zhang Wei, so I don’t blame Zhang Wei for being angry. What’s the matter with your mother? The reason why we agreed to you at the beginning of this marriage is to see that you are the only child in your family, and Zhang Wei is the only one in our family. If there are any difficulties in the future, both of us will do our best to help solve them. Our old couple is not capable now. Otherwise, I will buy the house for you without spending a penny your money. But your family is different, your family still has a house in your hometown. If you sell it, the down payment for a small apartment is more than enough. This can save how many things don’t you? I don’t want you to borrow from outside but why isn’t your mother even aware of this? As a parents, we work hard all our lives isn’t it not for the sake of our children. Alas, if you want me to tell you, your mother is too selfish. According to Zhang Wei, your mother even want to traveled to Yunnan? If I were your mother, my daughter is pregnant, I don’t even have a house to settle down. Still thinking about going on a trip? No! I will help you even if I have to pick up the trash!”
Zhu Hui bowed her head and said nothing with a shame on her face when her mother-in-law told her that. Seeing her like this, Zhang’s mother shook her head, “Well, we will stay here first, and when your mother comes back, I will go over and discuss it with her personally. Your mother can’t be so selfish!”
“Ah! You want to live here?” Zhu Hui said in surprise.
“What? We can’t is it? ” Zhang’s mother squinted at her.
“No, no, what I mean is that the place here is too small, and it’s not easy to sleep in such a room. Otherwise, I help parents open a room in the express hotel downstairs. There are air conditioners and water heaters. Dad and Mom can live more comfortably.” Zhu Hui smiled apologetically.
“What kind of room do you want? It costs one or two hundred yuan a night, and that’s not how you spend money. You don’t know how to save money at all! Ah Wei and your father sleep on the bed, and we just need to sleep on the floor,” Zhang’s mother said.
Zhu Hui lowered her head and looked at her stomach. She is pregnant, how can she sleep on the floor? It’s not good for children to nest like that. But she didn’t dare to say it, and she didn’t have the courage to say it. At night, Zhu Hui couldn’t sleep but she didn’t dare to turn over, for fear of disturbing her mother-in-law. Although she put on a thick quilt, she still felt hard as hell, and her bones all ached. I don’t know if it was a psychological reason or something, her stomach also felt a little dull. Zhu Hui never feel grievances before, although she has lost her father since she was a child, she has not suffered any grievances because of her mother and uncles and aunts. What other people have, she has to be better than her. From childhood, she went smoothly and made great progress all the way. Finally, she was admitted to the University of Q City as the number one student in the college entrance examination. But after she arrived in Shanghai, she realized that everything she was proud of before was nothing here. There are too many people who are better than her, too many to count. They not only have excellent grades, but also various talents, such as piano, calligraphy, dance and painting, golf, tennis, swimming fencing, and etc. She can no longer be the envy of others and the focus of attention like before. In order to regain her former glory, she made a lot of jokes. It was only later that Zhu Hui realized that the environment in which a person was born has already determined a person’s future. No matter how hard she tried, the experience of being born in a small city gave her too many limitations. At that time, she vowed that she must establish a foothold in Q City, and let her children live in a big city like Q City with dignity, receive the best education, and become enviable people.
Just at that time she met Zhang Wei. On the one hand, Zhang Wei’s handsome appearance attracted her and on the other hand, it was also because Zhang Wei was a local city Q citizen. Although Zhang Wei’s family conditions are not good, but because of his face and q city hukou, there are too many women who want to throw Zhang Wei down. In the end, she was able to marry Zhang Wei smoothly, which really surprised many people. But also because of this, in this relationship, she was at a disadvantage from the very beginning, she has never gained the upper hand since then.
Originally, everything was going in a good direction. She and Zhang Wei had a good job and a good income. With the subsidy from their mother, the young couple should had a good life. The only downside was that they didn’t have a house. Zhu Hui’s idea was very good, she will sold the house in his hometown and paid the down payment to buy the house. But now, everything has changed which is why Zhang Wei agreed to get married in the first place. Zhu Hui never thought that it was her fault, she only attributed everything to her mother. If this time, the mother-in-law didn’t talk to the mother in the past and what should she do if Zhang Wei will definitely divorce her, so what about her household registration? What about her children? Zhu Hui kept thinking about it and stayed up all night.
Finally, Li Yueran came back from her trip, after hearing the news, Zhu Hui asked for leave immediately and took Zhang’s mother back to her hometown. When Zhu Hui and Zhang’s mother came, Li Yueran was applying a facial mask, and it was strange to see them when she opened the door. But soon I understood what they meant, “Come in!”
Zhang’s mother has been feeling disgusted since she got off the train. After entering the community, her complexion improved a little. This community is not bad, the environment is good, the location is good, and the surrounding facilities are complete. There are kindergartens, primary schools and middle schools around. If it is to be sold, it will definitely sell for a lot of money. When she saw Li Yueran putting on the mask, her complexion turned bad again, when she came up, she looked disgusted, “In-law, I’m not talking about you, we are all old already, we still pay attention to our behavior! Oh, you still put on a mask , no matter how much you apply it, it’s not as good as the skin of other little girls and your clothes, ouch, really!.”
Li Yueran couldn’t help but roll her eyes at Zhang’s mother’s behavior. Nima didn’t know how the Zhang family was so brainy. This time, needless to say, it must be for the sake of the house. Who does she think she is? Oh, just because she is from a big city, she should kneel and lick their house like Zhu Hui. It’s too beautiful to think about! Li Yuhua couldn’t help but rolled her eyes, and brought a plate of fruit, “In-law, eat some fruit!”
Then she sat down opposite Zhang’s mother, and said with a smile: “In-law, you are wrong to say that. I have worked hard raising Huihui so much, it’s finally easy after she get work and get married now, I can relax with my own family. In fact, as parents, as long as we are in good health and don’t let the younger generation worry about us, it is already the greatest support for them, Don’t on’t you think so?”
Zhang’s mother laughed and said, “I don’t agree with what my in-law said. How can such a parent be so selfish, how can he only care about his own enjoyment and ignore the life and death of his children! Don’t you think so? Awei and Huihui have been working for more than a year, they don’t even have a house. When I think of this, I can’t sleep or eat. Let alone traveling, I blame myself to death for spending a few extra dollars in the supermarket.”
Li Yueran laughed, “My in-law’s words are also reasonable. Could it be that my in-law saved the money for Ah Wei to buy a house? That’s really great! I’ve been thinking about it all the time. Especially when Huihui cried and said It’s so inconvenient to rent a house. Actually, I think I’m a very open-minded mother-in-law. You see, nowadays who gets married doesn’t want a house or a car. When Ah Wei and Hui Hui got married, I didn’t asked a penny in the bride price, I’m afraid it will increase the burden on their small family. Our family accounts for a large part of the wedding expenses. The in-laws took the gift money, dowry and so on. In-laws are from a big city, so naturally you don’t like the mere 250,000 yuan, but in our family’s situation, the 250,000 yuan is all my savings. Now that Ah Wei plans to buy a house, the 250,000 yuan is all I have saved just use it for their family! They are all one family, so why should they be divided among each other!”
