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

Although Zhang Xiuhua decided to tell Yaoyao the truth, she couldn't help but back off when the truth really came.

She imagined it countless times. What if Yaoyao couldn't accept their deception and ran away from home?

What if Yaoyao locked herself in the room and went on a hunger strike? What if Yaoyao started to make a scene, saying that they were just like other parents and that what they were doing was no different from fascism? What would they do then?

She sighed and looked like she had lost her soul and was in low spirits.

Jilin was doing his homework at first, but when he saw his mother was about to peel off the leaves of the Gala fruit, he hurriedly called out, "Mom!"

The sound was too small and had no weight. He shouted several times in succession, but still to no avail. He ran over and patted her on the back.

Zhang Xiuhua jumped three feet high, scaring Ji Lin so much that he stepped back repeatedly and almost rolled down the slope.

"Hey? Are you okay?!" Zhang Xiuhua tried to stop her son as she ran down the slope, but he was rolling faster than she could run.

Finally, Jilin was blocked by a fruit tree. He got up from the ground, brushed off the dirt on his body, and looked up at Zhang Xiuhua, "Mom, what's wrong with you? What happened?"

Zhang Xiuhua shook her head, "It's okay! I'm just worried that Yaoyao won't do well in the college entrance examination."

Ji Lin didn't quite understand. "She's not nervous, so why should you be nervous? With her grades, it's hard for her to be the top scorer in the college entrance examination! But she should be able to get into a good university."

What she envied most about Sister Yaoyao was that her grades were very balanced and she didn't have any bias towards any subject. So her grades were also very stable.

Zhang Xiuhua wasn't really worried about Yaoyao's college entrance exam results. She nodded and asked him, "What about you? Can you get into No. 1 High School?"

Jilin wasn't sure, "Maybe."

Zhang Xiuhua asked him to continue picking fruit while she went to the mountain to work.

This time they built the house on the top of the mountain, so that if anyone stole the fruits, they could see everything clearly from inside the house.

The house was not built on the foundation, so the progress was quite fast. The kang was set up and the outer walls were built. It took a few days to complete the work. The next step was the details, such as painting the walls.

Zhang Xiuhua wanted to use cement to plaster the wall, and the contractor had connections here, so he could help her get some cement, but the price was a bit higher.

Zhang Xiuhua readily agreed, "Okay, it's okay if it's a little more expensive!"

She also wanted putty, but it was really impossible to get it at this time.

In addition to building houses, we also need to bring the wells at the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain. This way, we can have good water supply. This is also simple. We can just use a water pump and add a water pipe to bring the water up.

The strong laborers were chatting. This year, several families in the village had built new houses. In the threshing ground, many families were digging foundations.

Even though it is summer now, the Northeast gets cold quickly. Once it freezes, it is not easy to dig the soil. Therefore, July and August are the months with the most houses being built.

September is the autumn harvest season. Every family has some land to work on and they are too busy to handle it all.

It was almost afternoon, the sun was setting, and Li Jianguo still hadn't returned. Xu Chunying couldn't help but worry, "Could something have happened to my mother-in-law?"

Not only Li Jianguo and Yaoyao went to the hospital, but also Li Jiandang, after all, that was his biological mother.

Zhang Xiuhua didn't think so. "She can walk now. How could anything happen to her? Don't worry!"

Xu Chunying felt that this comfort was too pale and was just wondering, "There is a lot of work to do at home. They sent him to the hospital early in the morning. Why haven't they come back yet?"

Zhang Xiuhua couldn't say it was for Yaoyao, lest the villagers start to talk about it again, so she just made up an excuse, "Yaoyao's college entrance examination results will be announced tomorrow. Yaoyao is going to the county, so I asked her to go and study and ask questions. Maybe she will get the results today."

Xu Chunying laughed, "You are quite impatient! This kind of thing cannot be rushed!"

"Your children all have good grades, so of course you don't need to worry. My daughter Yaoyao's grades fluctuate a lot, and I'm always worried." Zhang Xiuhua asked her, "Hongxia is also graduating this year. What kind of job is she looking for?"

When talking about this, Xu Chunying was furious. "Her school assigned her a job, but she was not happy with it and insisted on going to a private company. This really pissed me off."

Zhang Xiuhua was stunned for a moment before she realized that the university would assign jobs to students. But not all jobs assigned to college students would suit their tastes. Maybe Hongxia didn't like the job assigned by the school.

She asked curiously, "Where will the school assign her?"

"Working as a network administrator at a high school in Jiangxi Province." Xu Chunying didn't quite understand. In her opinion, the job of a teacher was particularly good. Sitting in an office indoors, it was not windy or rainy, and it was also free. You could also get a salary of one or two hundred yuan a month. How stable.

But Hongxia rejected such a good job. Xu Chunying scolded Hongxia severely, "She won't listen to me no matter what I say. She has grown too independent and I can't control her!"

Xu Chunying was furious, and it took her a long time to calm down. She asked her, "By the way, where was Youcai assigned?"

"He was assigned to work as a chef in a state-owned restaurant in the south. But he wanted to work in his master's restaurant. He learned the recipes from his ancestors. So he had to reject the school's kindness." Zhang Xiuhua thought Youcai's choice was also good. He didn't want to work in other cities. Staying in the capital would be more helpful for his future development.

After hearing this, Xu Chunying comforted her, "It's good for a boy to try his luck. He's a chef, so he'll never starve. It's hard to find a job for Hongxia. I wanted her to return to our county, but there are only a few schools in the county that recruit computer majors. The admissions teacher said that computer science is popular. What the hell! There are no jobs!"

Zhang Xiuhua twitched her lips, "It's not the teacher's fault. Computers are so expensive, and ordinary factories don't have the money to buy them. But this major is really popular. It has a bright future."

After hearing what she said, Xu Chunying was skeptical, "Really? Will she be starving in the future?"

"No. In the future, there will definitely be more and more factories buying computers." Zhang Xiuhua can still guarantee this. You know, when she traveled through time, computers had already entered thousands of households. Although the price was a bit expensive, there were still many city dwellers willing to buy them. Internet chat was also very popular.

Xu Chunying breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good." After saying that, she seemed a little aggrieved and sad, muttering, "The child has grown up and has his own ideas."

Zhang Xiuhua heard that she was upset, so she could only let her relax. "It's good that she has her own opinion. In the future, whether in the workplace or getting married, she will not be bullied. If she listens to others in everything, she will only be bullied."

Xu Chunying looked at her in surprise, "Why do you think so bad of people?!"

Zhang Xiuhua was still stunned by her words and blurted out, "There are not so many good people in this world. Colleagues are all competitors, and marriage is even more so."

I can understand the first half of Xu Chunying's sentence, but the second half, "How can marriage be a competitive relationship?"

"Have you ever heard of this saying? Whoever makes more money has more say." Zhang Xiuhua feels that most people's marriages are not based on love, but on making do. Either the east wind prevails over the west, or the west prevails over the east wind!

Xu Chunying frowned, "Marrying a man is to provide clothing and food, and it is the man's responsibility to support the family."

"Then why do you work so hard to make money?" Zhang Xiuhua felt that her words were a bit off base. Since you are supported by your husband, why do you still need to make money? You do the housework and you also make money, but you don't have a say, so why did you get married? ! Isn't this mentally ill?

Xu Chunying said as a matter of course, "Husband and wife are one, and only by working together can we live a good life."

Zhang Xiuhua was tired of talking to her sister-in-law. She talked to her about family status, she talked to her about "husband and wife are one", but nothing made sense. She was also bored, why did she talk about this? Her sister-in-law was clearly happy to suffer a loss, and she wasted her time and energy to wake her up!

At this moment, she saw Li Jianguo walking slowly towards her on the path below, and immediately changed the subject, "Here comes someone!"