Free Days in Siheyuan

Chapter 1288 Distortion
When she heard the woman saying that her husband had someone else in his heart and would beat people at any time, she had no choice but to take her son out to make a living.

The corner of Zhang Yu's mouth twitched. This woman is really good at making up stories.

He is so shameless that he even has the nerve to call his little lover his son.

"Oh, sister, it's not easy for you, your man is really a jerk! You've made the right decision to come out to make a living. I can tell from the way you're dressed that you're living a good life. Look at your son, he's filial too. You've made a good living in this life. Stop thinking about those rotten people."

After that, the old lady turned to look at the secretary beside her, with a look of enthusiasm: "Is the young man married?"

The secretary paused while handing the woman water, then said with a little embarrassment: "Not yet!"

For these aunties, they love to match people up with each other. When they heard that the secretary was not married yet, they asked again: "Do you have a partner?"

The secretary subconsciously glanced at the woman next to him, then shook his head: "Not yet, I want to build a career first and then start a family."

The old lady waved her hand and said, "Young man, you are thinking in the wrong direction. Starting a family and building a career are not in conflict at all."

After that, he slapped his thigh and said excitedly: "Don't listen to some people's nonsense, saying that you should get married first and then start a career, or start a career first and then get married. Getting married and starting a career are two things that go hand in hand.

There are many young girls in this world, but there are only a limited number of good girls. If you delay for too long, all the good girls will be picked up by others.

I, old lady, am absolutely not talking nonsense. Just look at my son and you will understand. In the early years, I urged him to get married, but he refused to accept the offer. He said that he was still young and wanted to build a career before starting a family.

But in the end, marrying a wife like that really made me sick to death."

The old lady glanced at the woman and advised kindly: "Young man, I tell you, you should get married early while your mother is still young and can help you take care of the children..."

The old lady kept talking a lot, which successfully made the woman's face dark again.

However, the old lady's attention was all on the secretary at this time.

When he got excited, he even pushed the woman away and took the secretary's hand and said, "Young man, my wife has a few good girls in my family, all of them are beautiful and virtuous. Do you want me to introduce them to you?"

The old lady also has her own little thoughts. She only has this one son in her life. Although he is not unfilial, he still sends her living expenses on time every month.

Add to that the money her son sent back when he was still unmarried, and she has no shortage of money.

Originally, according to the old lady's idea, part of the money would be given to her daughter-in-law after her son got married.

But when she saw her daughter-in-law's appearance, she felt that she was unreliable, so she didn't give it to her.

What happened later made the old lady feel fortunate that she did not give the money away.

If she really gave the money away, what would happen to her grandchildren?

In the past few years, his daughter-in-law has secretly inquired about his son's previous salary, but he never said a word.

This money belongs to her grandchildren. She wouldn't give it to her daughter-in-law, let alone her own son. Even if he asked her for it, she wouldn't give it to him.

This is the escape route she prepared for her two children.

Over the years, she has come to realize that her daughter-in-law is a cruel person and she really doesn't care about the two children when she says she will.

It would be fine if she was just cruel, but she was not too old, and with the money her son sent her every month, it would be fine for the two children to stay with her.

The key point is that the woman thinks highly of herself. It would be fine if she was really that high, but according to the old lady, she is simply overambitious.

This can be seen from her work. She always says that her two children have prevented her from being promoted and ruined her future.

She said that it was all because of the old lady, and she even refused to feed her two children.

From childhood to adulthood, the two children have never had even a single candy that she had back then.

Seeing her son and daughter-in-law making such a big fuss, the old lady actually felt a little regretful at first and felt that she had done something wrong.

But after staying in the family compound for a while, I realized that this was not the case at all.

Even if she didn't give birth to a child, her daughter-in-law wouldn't be promoted. It wasn't like what she said that she would be able to become the leading actress soon. It was all delayed because of her pregnancy. The leading actress was replaced by someone else...

In fact, those were all nonsense. She secretly went to the art troupe and stayed there for several days. She also asked people and found out that her daughter-in-law didn't have the ability to play the leading role. Even as a substitute, no one wanted her.

When they were selecting people to rehearse the new show, they actually didn't even fancy her.

The reason she was chosen was purely to serve as a background board.

Hey, old lady, I am also an educated person. I can still remember the lyrics I heard from those girls in the art troupe.

In other words, she had a very high opinion of herself and never heard how the leaders of the art troupe evaluated her.

Thinking of this, the old lady's eyes narrowed.

No, maybe she knew.

In just a moment, the old lady's face suddenly fell.

The more she thought about it, the more she felt that she and her silly son seemed to have been fooled.

Because of this reason, she doesn't care about her children and has to go back to her parents' home every now and then.

It would be fine if she went back to her parents' home. The old lady is not the kind of person who would not stand seeing her daughter-in-law being filial to her parents.

She even thought that a girl who was filial to her parents must be good.

After all, if you are not filial to your parents who gave birth to you and raised you, let alone your mother-in-law, who is a bastard.

In general, the old lady is also a rare clear-minded person.

Filial piety is filial piety, and she can accept visiting once every few days.

The old woman has never thought about her daughter-in-law's salary. The salary is earned by her daughter-in-law, and she can spend it however she wants.

Even if the money is spent on her family, the old lady will not feel warm.

But it is wrong to use the money that her unfortunate son earned with his life to subsidize her mother's family.

The old lady is not stingy. As a son-in-law, her unfortunate son should be filial to her, but there should be a limit.

How could my daughter-in-law be like that? She can't stand seeing anything at home and wants to move the whole family back to her parents' home.

The old lady paused, and suddenly thought of something.
When I was urging my sons to have children, I saw that they had not had any, so I urged them to go to the hospital.

The brat was forced into a corner by himself and said that it was not that the couple could not have children, but that they did not want children, so he took special measures.

Although the old lady is old, she has received literacy education in the army, has heard the propaganda, and knows some contraceptive methods.

But the two of them were clearly trying to avoid pregnancy, so why did the daughter-in-law get pregnant?

Moreover, she didn't get pregnant earlier or later, but she got pregnant because the couple had a conflict because she asked her family to pay for a job for her younger brother from her natal family.

No matter how I think about it, I feel there is something fishy about this matter.

Why had she ignored it before?

The old lady suspected that the pregnancy was a trap set by her good daughter-in-law.

Otherwise, after knowing that his wife was pregnant, his son felt guilty and asked someone to find a connection, spent money and effort to find a job for his brother-in-law. A fierce look flashed in the old lady's eyes. It was better that she was overthinking, otherwise she would let the other party know her method.

She is not cunning, so does the other party really think that she is not cunning?

Don't you think that as a widow, she was able to keep the things left by her man among his annoying relatives. How could she be a person without means?

I just couldn't bear to see my son caught in the middle.

Oh, these days, mothers-in-law have plenty of ways to torture their daughters-in-law!
But no matter whether this is true or not, my son is unreliable.

She was watching. Seeing her son's miserable state, it was impossible to expect him to decisively break up with his daughter-in-law.

Besides, with two children around, they can’t get rid of it completely.

When things get out of hand, maybe my son will have more problems than me.

The old lady smiled bitterly and shook her head. She had realized in the first few years that it was impossible to rely on her son and daughter-in-law to support her in her old age.

But she didn't believe it at the time. Although what her son did was a bit bad, he was still truly filial.

Before getting married, except for a small amount left for himself for expenses, he basically sent all his monthly salary to his wife.

After she got married, she stopped her son from sending money home.

But her son didn't want to, and insisted on sending her money. After much persuasion, she finally agreed to send her only 5 yuan a month.

After raising two children, the son may have seen through his wife's character and would send half of his salary back home every month.

The remaining half is for the couple's expenses.

The old lady knew that with the amount of money her daughter-in-law spent on subsidizing her parents' home, she would definitely not be able to save any money, so she had to think more about her son.

Her son earned that money with his life, and now he is so young, but he has many health problems.

If I get older, will my body still look good?
Not only did she have to leave a way out for her grandchildren, she also had to prepare some money for her son.

If I really get sick or something, I will have money to see a doctor.

Because of this incident, her daughter-in-law made a fuss several times.

But later they were persuaded by their leader.

Speaking of this, the old lady couldn't help but sneer.

The days the old lady lived in the family compound were not in vain, as she heard a lot of news.

Even though her son sends half of his salary back home every month, she is raising the child. The couple does not have to be like other soldiers from rural areas, who have to pay pensions every month, subsidize a group of brothers, and even take care of a group of nephews and nieces.

The son’s salary was already high, so even if he sent half of it back, the remaining half would be enough for the couple to live a comfortable life.

This does not include the daughter-in-law's salary.

She no longer expects her unfortunate son to support her in her old age.

But she will get old one day, and with no one to rely on from her unfortunate son, she can only rely on her nephews from her mother's side.

If she could introduce good partners to the girls in her natal family, her nephews would surely be grateful to her.

She didn't expect her nephew to take care of her excrement and urine, but just a little care on a daily basis would be enough.

The old lady is very experienced and has a lot of little ideas on her mind.

The secretary lowered his head pretending to be embarrassed. The moment he lowered his head, a trace of distortion flashed in his eyes.

He worked hard to climb up from the countryside, and to this end he did not hesitate to hang out with several old women.

He paid so much, not just to marry a country girl.

After a moment of silence, the secretary adjusted her mood and said with a little shyness, "Auntie, I still want to establish a career first and then start a family. I can't let other girls marry in and suffer with me."

Hearing him say this, the old lady's eyes became brighter and brighter, and the way she looked at her became more enthusiastic.

"Young man, you are wrong. You should get married first. If you have a wife to take care of the family, you will have no worries. Then you can focus on your work..."

The old lady said, turning her head to look at the woman beside her and advised: "Sister, you have to persuade your son..."

Even though she wanted to please the old lady, the woman's face couldn't help but twist when she heard the old lady keep mentioning "son".

She failed to hide a single thing, and the old lady seemed to have seen through it, so she awkwardly changed the subject.

However, the words she said next were like a knife, stabbing the woman's heart again and again.

Listening to the old lady's constant envy of her having a good son, the woman resisted the urge to pull out her gun and shoot the other party. She gritted her teeth and nodded: "Yes, the luckiest thing in my life is to have such a good son."

The last word, "good son", was almost squeezed out from between teeth.

Hearing this, the secretary felt something was wrong.

In the following time, in order to please the woman and not make her angry, the secretary became more attentive.

In the eyes of the old lady, this scene became a proof of the secretary's filial piety, and she was filled with praise.

Zhang Yu looked at the ever-changing expressions of the woman and the secretary and almost laughed out loud.

Finally, before the woman became impatient, the old lady and her grandchildren began to complain of thirst.

Hearing her grandchildren crying out for thirst, the old lady couldn't help but mutter, "You're thirsty so soon. I told you to drink more water when I was at home, but you refused to drink. You're thirsty before you even get on the bus..."

The little boy winked at his sister, and then the two children pulled the old lady's arm and acted coquettishly.

The old lady stood up with a helpless look on her face: "Okay, okay, stop shaking, you guys have bitten my bones apart, I'll go get you some water."

Then he turned his head to look at the secretary beside him and asked, "Young man, where did you get that water from?"

The secretary originally wanted to share some with the other party, but the next second, seeing the woman's expression that was about to hold back, he swallowed back his words.

He smiled and replied, “It’s right over there!”

After that, he shook the cup in his hand pretentiously and said, "There is still some water in my cup. Why don't you let the two children drink it first?"

The old lady glanced at the little water in the cup and waved her hand: "No, I'll just take the child to drink it. Young man, can you help me watch my bag?"

"Auntie, don't worry, I'll help you look after your bag."

The secretary replied in a panic.

Watching the old lady leaving, the secretary finally breathed a sigh of relief.

To be honest, he felt a little regretful as to why he had tried to trick the old lady.

He had no idea that the old lady was so talkative. Now, not only did he not get any useful information from her, but he also offended the woman he had finally gotten along with.