flstandardbreds Chapter 109 The Tragic Three Sisters
Chapter 109 The Tragic Three Sisters
At noon, the three of them had a simple lunch.
Jiang Duoduo and Jiang Niandi basked in the sun in the living room for a while, and then began to paste the word "Fu" on the doors and windows of their home.
Chen Shuyue was talking on the phone with her elder sister Chen Shufang in her room.
Chen Shufang already knew that Chen Shuyue and Jiang Duoduo came to live in J City, but when she heard that they would not return to Daxi Village for the New Year, Chen Shufang was still worried and called to ask about them.
Chen Shufang works in a garment factory near Niujia Village. The factory is usually very busy, and she works from eight in the morning to ten in the evening every day.
You can take a break during lunch and dinner when you go home.
Because the wages in garment factories are piece-rate, the more you work, the more you earn.
Chen Shufang usually doesn't want to take a day off, and can only rest for a few days during the Chinese New Year.
Although she had a husband and a son, Chen Shufang's life was no better than her younger sister Chen Shuyue's.
My husband is lazy and gluttonous, my son is lazy and idle, and my two daughters, one is married and the other is in college.
The burden of the family fell entirely on Chen Shufang.
She heard from her sister Chen Shuyue on the phone that Duoduo had found a good job after graduating from university, and now their family's life was starting to get better.
Hearing this, Chen Shufang was happy for her sister, but she also had some expectations.
Her youngest daughter Susu is also a junior this year. Although she is not as good at studying as Duoduo, she is still a college student after all.
She thought that when her younger daughter graduated from college and found a good job like Duoduo, it would be worth it for her to work hard to support her.
But Chen Shufang didn't know that Susu was actually attending a third-rate university.
The tuition fees are high, the teaching qualifications are poor, and the employment rate is extremely low.
Most of the students in her school come from well-off families and do not like to study. Their parents send them to school just to get a college diploma.
Susu attended such a school for three years. Not only did she not make any progress in her studies, but she also followed those rich classmates and learned the bad habits of high consumption and comparison.
In addition to tuition and living expenses, Susu would find various reasons to ask her mother Chen Shufang for money.
For example, the class wants to organize a study tour, ask the teacher for tutoring, the mobile phone is stolen, there is a cold or fever, or a stomach upset, etc. In short, there are many reasons to ask for money.
People who don’t know the inside story would think that this child has been unlucky since he started college.
Chen Shufang actually never doubted it at all. Why is it that Jiang Duoduo can earn money while studying at university, but her own daughter always asks her for money?
As the two sisters were chatting, they suddenly talked about their younger sister Chen Shumin who married far away.
My younger sister Chen Shumin has never come back since she got married and moved away. She only calls her two older sisters occasionally.
He only said that he was living a good life and rarely mentioned other things. He even only gave his address as a province.
As sisters, Chen Shufang and Chen Shuyue have no other choice. Their own families are still in deep trouble. How can they afford to spend a large sum of money to go to your province to see how Chen Shumin is doing?
"Big sister, wait until next year when I save some money, and we'll go to your province to visit my younger sister! I know your little tiger hasn't started a family yet and is under a lot of financial pressure, so I'll pay for all the expenses when we go out."
Chen Shuyue sat on the small sofa in the room, looking at the sunlight pouring in through the window and spoke slowly.
"Then let's find a time to go in the second half of next year, and we'll each pay half of the expenses. It's not easy for you either, you still have to save up dowries for Nian Di and Duo Duo. My Xiao Hu is such a slacker, he doesn't even have a girlfriend, and he's getting married! I'd be so lucky if he didn't cause me any trouble!"
"Oh, by the way, I heard from your Lai Di that the fourth child, Nian Di, is back? How's she doing? Has she been doing well all these years out there on her own? How could she be so bold? She's only sixteen or seventeen and she dared to run away from home!"
When Chen Shuyue heard her elder sister Chen Shufang talking about the fourth child, her heart was filled with bitterness.
Up to now, she has only told the eldest, second and third sons on the phone that the fourth son has been found, and she did not mention a word about the fourth son's current specific situation.
When suddenly asked by her elder sister, Chen Shuyue didn't know where to start.
"Old Four... I'll go to your place to pay New Year's greetings during the first month of the lunar year and talk to you later..."
"Sister, how come you have time to talk to me on the phone for so long today?"
Chen Shuyue knew that the fourth child was always concerned about her reputation, and she didn't know how to tell her eldest sister about her pregnancy before marriage. So she quickly changed the subject.
"Oh! If you hadn't told me, I would have forgotten that I still have chicken stewing in the pot! Susu, that girl, just lies in her room and plays with her phone when she comes home during the holidays. I asked her to watch the pot, and she probably didn't even hear me! Shuyue, let's not talk about it for now. I have to go prepare the New Year's Eve dinner for the whole family tonight."
"Okay, big sister, you go ahead and get busy!"
After Chen Shuyue hung up the phone with her elder sister Chen Shufang, she felt depressed, as if there was a feeling of depression that would not go away for a long time.
She recalled the tortuous lives of her three sisters and could not let it go for a long time.
Their parents passed away when they were young, and they have been living in hard times year after year until now.
In order to support the family, the eldest sister Chen Shufang found a man whose conditions were worse than hers to marry into her family.
My eldest brother-in-law's true colors showed up two years after marriage. Now he just drinks and fishes all day. And my eldest sister can't say anything to him, because if she does, he gets drunk and hits people.
She married Jiang Shubao, a cheating and irresponsible scumbag. In fact, just hearing the name Jiang Shubao tells you that he is a mama's boy. Chen Shuyue now regrets her blindness.
She raised five children with great difficulty, but the scumbag came back and wanted a divorce, asking her to make room for another woman.
In fact, Chen Shuyue has wanted to divorce for a long time, but now the woman outside the scumbag is pregnant, and she can't let the scumbag get his way!
Younger sister Chen Shumin met Wu Bo while working outside. Since her elder sister did not approve of their relationship, younger sister Chen Shumin secretly followed Wu Bo to his hometown in Guizhou Province. It has been more than 20 years now.
Chen Shuyue thought that Wu Bo's family must not be well off, otherwise her younger sister wouldn't have not come back to visit for so many years.
Every time she mentioned to her elder sister that she wanted to come back and stay for a while, the younger sister would say that she had something to do at home and couldn't leave, and they would talk about it later when they had time.
Chen Shuyue knew that waiting to talk about it later was just an excuse, but every family has its own problems. She hadn’t figured out her own family’s problems yet, and she didn’t have the conditions or energy to take care of her younger sister who was far away in your province.
Because Duoduo won the prize this year, their family's life suddenly got better.
This rekindled Chen Shuyue's hope of going to your province to see her younger sister.
However, Chen Shuyue didn't want to spend her younger daughter Duoduo's money.
Duoduo has now invested in a B&B. Although she doesn't know the specific situation, she knows that there are many expenses involved in running a B&B.
So Chen Shuyue planned to wait until her breakfast shop could make money next year, and then go to your province with her elder sister to visit her younger sister.