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

In the lush orchard, Jilin leaned against a Gala fruit tree and sighed heavily.

Zhang Xiuhua was passing by with a bucket of water and saw that he was doing nothing but just standing there in a daze. "Why don't you go study? Are you being lazy again?"

Jilin shook his head, "Mom, let me rest my brain. I'll shake it now and the words will come out."

Zhang Xiuhua was almost amused by him, but she couldn't do anything about it. "Okay, okay, take a break! When you've rested enough, hurry up and write! Others are watching us."

Jilin nodded, and seeing his mother mixing mud, he sighed heavily, "Mom, I suddenly don't want to grow up."

Zhang Xiuhua didn't even raise her head. "Is this something you want to do? Birth, aging, illness and death are the laws of nature."

"I feel that after I start working, I can make money, but the people around me become more complicated." Jilin feels that one day when he enters the workplace, he will definitely be outclassed by others. He knows nothing about dealing with people, "I will definitely become someone else's pawn."

Zhang Xiuhua laughed, "Being a chess piece means you are useful. If you can't even be a chess piece, then you are finished. You can only be a stepping stone for others! Others will kick you away if they are unhappy."

Ji Lin: “…”

It's even more depressing! Is there no place in this world that is peaceful and quiet, without intrigue?

After Zhang Xiuhua mixed the mud, she took a bucket and left. Not long after, Yaoyao came over. He repeated his mother's words exactly.

Yaoyao didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Let me tell you, there is only one kind of person who doesn't need to be manipulated by others."

Jilin was puzzled, "Who?"

"Since you are not good at fighting with others, then work hard to improve your professional ability and make yourself irreplaceable. Then even the most powerful leaders will have to pinch their noses and use you!" Yaoyao spread her hands, "What do you think?"

This opened a new door for Jilin. He nodded, "Yes! You're right! Then I'll go do my homework!"

**

Time flies, it seems like Zhuzhu left just yesterday and came back today.

At the end of summer vacation, Zhuzhu came back. Because Youcai was the investor, he asked to shoot Zhuzhu's scenes first. Zhuzhu's scenes were compressed into two months.

But Zhang Xiuhua never expected that Zhuzhu would change so much in just two months.

Not to mention Zhuzhu, Li Jianguo almost didn’t recognize her!

Is this skinny, dark girl his beautiful little daughter?

"Are you going to Africa to be a refugee?" Yaoyao pulled her sister's bangs, "Who cut your hair so ugly?!"

"This is the very first scene. Her hair needs to be cut like this to highlight her desolation after her parents died!" Zhuzhu said, hugging Yaoyao and telling her about the migrant workers in the south.

Because Yaoyao has a lot of roles this time, but she can only perform at a shallow level, Ergou takes her to a private factory to work undercover for a few days to experience the life of a worker.

Zhuzhu had never come across this before. She saw 13 or 14-year-old girls, about her age, going south to work. These people are also called child laborers. Because the labor is cheap, the factory is willing to take the risk.

Working part-time is very hard, with three shifts and frequent overtime. At my workstation, I repeat the same thing day after day.

My hands are tired, my eyes are tired, my legs are tired, everything is tired.

After only three days of work, Zhuzhu was able to act out an expression that she had never been able to act out before, which was a mixture of exhaustion and sadness. She even had to control the volume of her crying so as not to wake others up. Her crying was also very contagious. Even the director praised her for her good acting!

"Why is your face so dark?" Jilin couldn't bear to look at it. Because Zhuzhu used to be very fair, but now she is darker than him. This can no longer be called wheat color, it should be called black and gray. If she is so dark, can she still be an actor in the future?

Zhuzhu shook her head. "The weather in the south is too hot, and we are exposed to the scorching sun. We got tanned. But I can get my skin white again if I cover myself for a while."

Zhang Xiuhua felt strange. "Don't you have any cosmetics? Your assistant should have bought you some sunscreen. You are so tanned, what if you can't get white again?"

Ergou opened his mouth to explain, but Zhuzhu quickly said, "Mom, it's not that my second brother doesn't allow me to, it's just that I don't want to use that. I heard that sunscreen contains lead, and I'm afraid of poisoning, so I refuse to use it!"

Zhang Xiuhua was stunned. Did cosmetics at that time also contain lead?

However, she felt that the program crew would definitely not use big brands in order to save money, so she revealed the matter.

Li Jianguo tried to smooth things over, "It's okay, as long as you can come back for free. It's just right that you're back, so let's get together as a family. The house we built in the orchard is finished. We're waiting for you to come back."

Zhuzhu's eyes lit up, "Is there a room for me?"

Li Jianguo smiled and nodded, "There are only two kangs, but the area is much larger. One kang can sleep three or four people. If you want to live in the orchard, that's no problem. You can sleep on the same kang with your grandma."

Zhuzhu immediately urged them to go to the orchard quickly because she wanted to see the new house.

Yaoyao smiled and said, "I designed this house. It's so beautiful."

Li Jianguo was about to go out with Zhuzhu, and Zhang Xiuhua took a straw hat and put it on Zhuzhu, saying that she had to pay attention to sun protection now. She couldn't be so careless.

Yaoyao and Jilin followed behind, but Ergou stopped Zhang Xiuhua and said he had something to tell her.

Zhang Xiuhua thought it was a problem Zhuzhu encountered during the filming, but unexpectedly Ergou said something else, "I broke up with He Tingting."

Zhang Xiuhua was stunned for more than ten seconds. "Why is it so sudden? Wasn't everything fine before?"

Ergou sighed, "It was really good before. She promised me that she would not help her family anymore. But when I took Zhuzhu to film, she was not at home, and her parents and her brother came to her, kneeling on the ground to beg her, so she softened her heart and gave them a lot of money."

Zhang Xiuhua was puzzled, "How did you know?"

"Her father had a car accident and needed money. She didn't have enough money, so she asked me to borrow it. I had to tell the truth." Ergou couldn't stand it. "I gave her 2,000 yuan as a breakup fee. She accepted it."

He really wasn't a patient person, and after he tried once and she refused to correct herself, he was unwilling to waste time teaching her again.

Zhang Xiuhua patted his shoulder and said, "She's very good, but you two are really not suitable. Just look forward. You will meet another good girl in the future. Don't be discouraged!"

Ergou nodded and smiled bitterly. "When we broke up, she said I was too cold-blooded and didn't care about my parents' life or death. Sometimes I even doubt if I am really cold-blooded."

Alas, the child was so shocked that he began to doubt himself, but Zhang Xiuhua told him firmly, "No! You are right. What she is doing now is equivalent to betraying her younger self. When her parents only loved her brother and not her, she must have wondered as a child: Why do I have to suffer such unfair treatment when I am also a child of my parents? Her behavior now tells her younger self: All this suffering is my own fault. Because I have no bottom line, my parents bully me again and again! Her end is to become her parents' blood bag, and after being used up by them, she will be ruthlessly abandoned!"

Zhang Xiuhua is also very selfish. She doesn't want Ergou's future family to be full of tragedy, so she interferes with Ergou's relationship with his girlfriend. Maybe people are like this, they can only consider problems from their own perspective and cannot really consider the other person.

Ergou heaved a long sigh of relief, "Godmother, I'm lucky to have you. You can understand me instead of blaming me."

"I've read a sentence in a book before: Don't advise others to be kind unless you've experienced their suffering. Many people can't empathize with you. I also experienced injustice when I was a child, so I can understand you." Zhang Xiuhua changed the subject, "Is she still your assistant now?"

Ergou nodded, "Yes. She is capable at work and has always been very responsible. We can't reconcile on personal matters, but there is no conflict on professional matters."

Zhang Xiuhua wanted to persuade him that people who were confused about small matters would be hard to trust in big matters. But seeing Ergou's confident look, Zhang Xiuhua couldn't say such a spoiling thing!

She has been a wicked mother-in-law, so is she going to ruin someone's career as well? This is a bit too much!

"Then you should be careful. Forget about love affairs, but don't let others backstab you in your career."

Ergou understood what she meant, "All the documents in our company have to be signed by me, that's why I'm so tired."

He was very busy, and now he was training capable people who could complete the tasks without him having to deal with them personally, and they could not have too many selfish motives. He planned to use dividends to keep these people hanging.