Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

Zhang Xiuhua was really tempted. The salary of a flight attendant was a little higher than that of a salesperson. But not much higher. But the extra income was very attractive.

Let's put it this way. Last year, his salary plus subsidies were less than 3,000 yuan, but the extra income he brought back every two weeks added up to 40,000 to 50,000 yuan. If it were her, she would make even more money. After all, she has her own space. Just for this reason, Zhang Xiuhua couldn't give up.

She nodded, "Okay! I'll do as you say!"

After Li Jianguo made the decision, he told his elder brother and sister-in-law about it.

When Xu Chunying and Li Jiandang found out that their second brother had resigned to take care of their mother, their faces turned red.

Li Jiandang firmly disagreed, "I know you blame me for not taking good care of mom. I was busy delivering vegetables and farming before, and I forgot about it. But I will definitely change in the future. How can you quit? You have such a good job, a lifelong iron rice bowl, how can you give it up?!"

Li Jianguo stared at his elder brother. "How do you take care of him? You get up at six in the morning to pack and deliver vegetables. You make two trips back and forth. You don't come back until eleven in the afternoon. After lunch, you have to collect pigs and transport them to the slaughterhouse. How can you have any free time?!"

Li Jiandang was choked by him. In fact, his second brother said the reasons he explained before. He held it in for a long time and said, "Your sister-in-law has time."

Hearing this, Li Jianguo became more determined. "Where does my sister-in-law have the time? She has to raise 20 pigs, cook, wash clothes, and weed the fields. She can't handle it."

Li Jiandang and Xu Chunying were right. They looked at Zhang Xiuhua unconsciously, hoping that she could persuade the second brother.

But Zhang Xiuhua was indifferent. Xu Chunying could not help but get anxious. "I have done my best to take care of my mother-in-law during this period. It's just that I didn't have time to turn her over. I will definitely change in the future. Don't let my second brother resign. He has a stable job! Besides... when I am too busy, you can take over and take care of it for a few days. Your orchard is not busy now."

Zhang Xiuhua did not say that she and Li Jianguo had an agreement, because in the eyes of these people, a daughter-in-law should be filial to her parents-in-law.

She didn't want to ruin her reputation, so she said, "He resigned, so I can go to work. You know I can't handle growing vegetables and taking care of the orchard by myself. He is stronger than me. The two families can take care of mother-in-law better together. I can also massage her legs."

Xu Chunying just said to turn over, but didn't say massage. How can I walk in the future if my calves are atrophied? This is the most important thing.

Li Jianguo nodded, "Yes! I also need to massage my legs."

In the end, the two failed to persuade Li Jianguo.

On the way back, they were silent for a while. After holding it in for a long time, Li Jiandang still couldn't control his temper. "If my second brother really quits his job to take care of mom, where will I put my face? People will say that I am unfilial. You said you would take good care of my mom, why don't you even turn over?"

Xu Chunying was not really without temper. "Look, I've been idle all day. You don't help your own mother, but you rely on me? I'm so tired!"

I won't mention it before. She raises 20 pigs. It takes an hour to feed them three meals a day. She also has to clean the pigsty, wash clothes, clean the house, and cook. She is so busy that she does the work of three people. He actually dares to blame her! How heartless.

"I'm not idle either. I get up at six in the morning to deliver vegetables and collect pigs. Am I idle?" Li Jiandang clapped his hands, "Am I not more tired than you? That tractor was shaking like that."

Xu Chunying had driven a tractor before, and she wouldn't say that this job was easy.

The two were silent for a long time.

In the end, the two placed their hopes on Zhang Xiuhua.

"No! Let my sister-in-law persuade her. She can only work as a salesperson in the Railway Bureau, and the salary is much lower. She definitely doesn't want my sister-in-law to resign." Li Jiandang felt that he had found a breakthrough.

Xu Chunying frowned, "That's fine, but will she agree?"

"Why is she unwilling? My second brother has a stable job. She is not a fool. How can she just watch him lose his stable job?" Li Jiandang felt that the only person who could persuade his second brother was his wife.

Xu Chunying also thinks this is right. "As long as my second brother and his wife are willing to lend a hand, my second brother won't have to resign. She stays at home all day, why is she learning Russian? What's the point of learning that? We are just peasant women, there are no foreigners to communicate with her, so it's useless to learn it."

Li Jiandang nodded, "That's right!"

The next day, Xu Chunying found Zhang Xiuhua and persuaded her to help take care of her mother-in-law.

Zhang Xiuhua still did not agree. She did not say that she did not want to take care of her mother-in-law, but only said that she would be too busy during the autumn harvest.

"Spring planting is so busy. Autumn harvest is much busier than spring planting. Last year, the women in our village almost broke their backs from exhaustion. I am also very busy." Zhang Xiuhua reminded her, "During the autumn harvest, I never left the orchard. How could I take care of my mother-in-law? How could I massage her legs? You are taking it for granted."

"It won't take that long. She has hemiplegia. As long as she exercises well, she will be able to walk on her own and even clean the house." Xu Chunying repeated what the doctor had said before.

Zhang Xiuhua shook her head, "That was in the past. Now it's much worse. Her calves have shrunk so much, how can she walk? I don't know when she can recover!"

Xu Chunying didn't quite understand. "We can think of other ways when the time comes. Can you bear to let your second brother give up such a good job just for the autumn harvest?"

Zhang Xiuhua clapped her hands, "I don't want to either. But didn't you take good care of your mother-in-law? Did I tell you not to take good care of her?!"

Xu Chunying choked up, "I have tried my best to take care of her. You are idle at home reading books, but what about me? I am exhausted, raising pigs, washing her clothes and cleaning her body. Have I ever complained to you?"

"I didn't ask you to raise pigs, and your pigs are not for me. Why are you complaining to me?" Zhang Xiuhua felt that she was crazy. The elder sister-in-law was suffering, but was it her fault? It was her, her husband, her children, but not her, Zhang Xiuhua.

Seeing that this trick didn't work, Xu Chunying asked her again, "If your second brother really resigns, aren't you afraid that he and Teacher Su will rekindle their old relationship?"

Zhang Xiuhua was slightly stunned.

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Xu Chunying thought there was something going on. "Think about it, Teacher Su is so pretty, and you're alone with her, and you're not at home. If something really happens, and you two don't have a child together, what are you going to do then?"

Zhang Xiuhua laughed, "If he really has evil intentions, I can't stop him at home. Men rely on self-awareness."

Even if Li Jianguo really did that, she was unwilling to take care of her mother-in-law. If Li Jianguo really cheated, she would dump him directly. Anyway, her three children were grown up. She could still live without a man. But she couldn't say this directly, lest Li Jianguo would be heartbroken if he knew.

After returning to her parents' lives, she felt that her greatest progress was learning to love herself. Her parents, sons, daughters, and husbands will all leave her one day, but she will not. While raising her children again, she also raised herself. This feeling is also very fulfilling. She watched herself learn day after day, from not being able to recognize all Chinese characters to being able to recognize most of them, and she can also speak Russian.

She lived a fulfilling life and did not want to put herself in the same predicament as in her previous life.

Xu Chunying just thought she was too careless, "Men need to be managed."

Zhang Xiuhua didn't want to hear her advice on how to manage her husband. She wasn't Li Jianguo's mother, so why should she manage him? If they could get along, they would get along. If they couldn't, they would get divorced. She wouldn't focus on disciplining a man. Isn't that tiring?! She wasn't a young girl with her mind full of love affairs.

She interrupted Xu Chunying, "Sister-in-law, I know what you mean, but your advice won't work. That's his biological mother. Jianguo doesn't trust two outsiders like us to take care of her, so he insists on taking care of her himself. What can I do?"

Xu Chunying tried to persuade Zhang Xiuhua for a long time, but she remained unmoved, so she had to return empty-handed.

When she got home, Xu Chunying repeated Zhang Xiuhua's words verbatim.

Li Jiandang sighed, "Second brother, you don't believe me!"

Xu Chunying thought for a moment, "My second brother's wife can't persuade him at all. You know my second brother's temper, he is very stubborn, no matter who persuades him, it's useless."

Li Jiandang also wants to save face.

Half a month later, Li Jianguo really resigned from the Railway Bureau, and the villagers soon learned the news.

Li Jiandang left home early and came back late, and he hardly interacted with the villagers, because he was afraid that the villagers would say he was unfilial.

In fact, the villagers really had this discussion.

Li Jianguo had a good job, but he had to quit. The villagers couldn't help but talk about it.

The reason is that Li Jianguo resigned to take care of his mother. His mother had been living with his eldest brother, but he wanted to take her back to his own home. Isn't this because he was dissatisfied with his eldest brother and his wife for not taking good care of her?

Li Jiandang did not hear these discussions directly, but Xu Chunying repeated her exact words to him.

His face flushed red, and after thinking for a long time, he said, "We will take turns with my second brother. Each of us will take care of the pig for a month. You can sell the pig later. We can't let the villagers gossip about us."

Xu Chunying was reluctant to part with the baby. They had only been fed for two months, so they couldn't get a good price if they sold it. But the villagers were saying such harsh things. If they continued to talk like this, they would be regarded as unfilial descendants. How would the three children get married in the future? !

She agreed despite the pain.