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

In just half an hour, Jilin arrived with Tong Shuyu. This child was delicate and tender, and must have never suffered much before. She didn't look like a rural child. Alas, she was also pitiful. With her mother gone, the family was turned upside down, and the heroine in the family changed. Her status went straight from a little princess to Cinderella.

Zhang Xiuhua motioned for the two to sit down. "It's late at night. You're going back to town alone. There are no buses. It's too unsafe to walk home. You should go back tomorrow."

Tong Shuyu was a little reserved, her eyes were still a little red from crying, "Sorry for disturbing you."

"It's okay. We have a lot of houses." Zhang Xiuhua asked her, "You want to go to the south to work? You need a temporary residence permit there. Do you have the money?"

Tong Shuyu was slightly stunned. This was a question she had never thought about.

Zhang Xiuhua looked a little pitiful.

Tong Shuyu told the truth, "My aunt said I should be a migrant worker there for a while. There are many factories in the south that recruit female workers. I will be able to find a job if I go there."

"It's no problem to find a job. But most factories don't hire migrant workers. Those that do don't pay much." Zhang Xiuhua looked at her. She was really thin. She would definitely suffer if she went to the south to work as a migrant worker. "I heard from Jilin that you're a good student?"

Tong Shuyu lowered her head and hummed softly.

Seeing her depressed, Ji Lin knew she was very sad, and hurriedly said, "Mom, don't ask. Her father won't let her go to school. He also wants her to earn money to work and supplement the family income."

Zhang Xiuhua rolled her eyes. "I don't have that much free time. I just want to poke her in the heart. Just stay still and don't interrupt me when I ask you a question."

Jilin felt very aggrieved that his mother was so mean to him. He stood aside and tried to comfort Tong Shuyu with his eyes, fearing that she would be frightened by her mother's look. His mother was not mean at ordinary times, but she was particularly angry today.

Zhang Xiuhua asked again, "How many children does your father have?"

"I am the only one, but my stepmother brought two younger brothers into the family, and my father and them are one family. I have become an outsider." Tong Shuyu still can't believe that her father, who loved her since she was a child, has become like this. Why did her father not want her after her mother died? He only had eyes for her stepmother and her two younger brothers, when she and her father were the closest relatives! Her aunt said that her father would rely on her younger brothers to support him in his old age, but she was his daughter and she could support him in his old age.

Zhang Xiuhua sighed, "Just like my dad. A completely selfish man!"

Ji Lin was stunned, and then he remembered that his grandparents (actually his grandparents, but because they took his mother's surname, they were his grandparents) also had two step-sons, and they treated them better than his mother.

Zhang Xiuhua didn't ask any more questions and took her to Zhuzhu's room.

Zhuzhu is sleeping alone now. The kang is very big. Zhang Xiuhua got a new quilt for Tong Shuyu. "You can sleep here. Just make do with it for one night. You can leave after breakfast tomorrow."

Tong Shuyu nodded and thanked him.

Zhang Xiuhua sighed, went out of the house, asked Jilin to drink the fish soup, and then she left the house and went to the orchard.

Li Jianguo was a little puzzled to see her coming back so late, "I thought you were sleeping at home tonight."

Zhang Xiuhua entered the room and said, "I want to tell you something."

She told him about Jilin's visit. "I think Jilin seems to like her, but he is always slow to react, maybe he doesn't even realize it. The girl also seems to like Jilin, and they even agreed to take the college entrance examination together. The girl looks quite pitiful."

Li Jianguo knew that she was moved by sympathy and nodded, "She is quite pitiful. She is already in her third year of high school. She can go to college if she is supported for one more year, but her father doesn't want to do that. He must be crazy."

If there were ten or eight children in the family and they couldn't afford to support them, he wouldn't say anything. But he only had one daughter and he still didn't want to support her. What else could this mean?

"I don't think he was bitten by a dog, but was possessed by a ghost!" Zhang Xiuhua felt really depressed when she thought about her childhood.

She had very good grades in the first grade of primary school and even scored 100 points. At that time, few people in the village scored full marks.

She took the report card home, originally wanting her father to praise her, but she didn't expect that her stepmother's youngest son didn't do well in the exam, and cried and made a scene at home. Her father got angry and said that she was a troublemaker who made the family unhappy. Since then, she never did well in the exam again. Because she knew that it was useless to do well in the exam. No one would be happy.

Li Jianguo probably guessed her intention, "You want to support her education, right?"

Zhang Xiuhua had nothing to be ashamed to admit. "When I saw her, I thought of myself. Besides, she was only one year away from the first grade and her grades were good, so I thought of it as cultivating a talent for the country and making a contribution."

She was really lucky in this life. Not only did she recognize Jidong, but he didn't become sick at a young age like in her previous life. She also had thirteen courtyards. In the future, she would be a billionaire.

Maslow divided human needs into five levels. The first level is physiological needs, including: food, water, air, sleep, sexual needs, etc.

The second level is the need for security. The society is stable and her family is also stable.

The third level is the need for belonging and love. She has six children, a partner named Li Jianguo, and Aunt Wang and colleagues to gossip with.

The fourth level is the need for respect. Simply put, it is self-respect and the desire to be respected by others. She gets respect from her children and husband at home and from her colleagues at work.

The fifth level is the need for self-actualization. People seek to realize their own abilities or potential and perfect them. After people get the first four needs, they will want more.

For example, an athlete wants to surpass himself and break a world record. For example, she wants to make up for her childhood regrets with her own money.

She wants to help these girls who have been abandoned by their parents with her own strength.

It was not her fault, but because of her gender, family background, etc., she was abandoned by her parents. This was her potential need. Even if they would not give her anything in return, she felt fulfilled while helping others.

Li Jianguo knew that she had a kind heart, and what she did was within his expectations.

"As the saying goes, help in emergencies but not in poverty." Zhang Xiuhua felt that if the child went to college, her future would definitely not be worse than it is now.

"If she and Jilin don't succeed in the future, won't you regret it?" Li Jianguo asked her.

"Although I admit that I have some selfish motives, I feel more pity for her. Her fate is very similar to mine." Zhang Xiuhua feels that the two things should not be mixed together. "If they separate in the future, I will have no regrets. I can only say that they are not destined to be together. If they cannot be husband and wife in the future, being siblings is also good."

Li Jianguo saw that she had made up her mind, "Then let's pay from the public funds. Our family's debts have all been paid off. We can still afford to support her to study for a year."

Zhang Xiuhua smiled, "No need! I'll pay from my own pocket money. This is my own selfish desire. You still have to support Yaoyao to study abroad. You should save more money and spend less."

Seeing that she insisted, Li Jianguo didn't say anything.

The next morning, Zhuzhu woke up and found a strange girl sleeping on her kang. She was shocked.

Tong Shuyu introduced herself, "I am Jilin's classmate. My name is Tong Shuyu."

Zhuzhu was still in a daze when Jilin's voice came from outside, "Zhuzhu, Tong Shuyu, get up quickly, the food is ready."

Zhuzhu and Tong Shuyu came out of the house and the food was already on the table.

Zhuzhu looked at Jilin in surprise, then glanced outside, "Wow, the sun is rising from the west. You actually took the initiative to get up early to cook?!"

Being embarrassed by his sister in front of his classmates, Jilin's face turned red, and he coughed lightly, "I have to get up early to read in the morning, and I'll make breakfast by the way. You said that as if I have never made breakfast. When we were the head of the family, I made breakfast many times. Have you forgotten?"

Since they entered middle school and high school, the game of being the head of the family has stopped. When they return home on holidays, they sleep until they wake up naturally. Then they go to the orchard for breakfast together.

Li Jianguo got up early every day to make breakfast. Although the taste was not very good, they had no right to be picky when eating ready-made food.

Afraid that Zhuzhu would talk nonsense again and expose his shortcomings, Lin Chong winked at Zhuzhu.

Zhuzhu understood and said nothing. She went outside to wash up. Jilin found a toothbrush and a cup for Tong Shuyu. Since there was no new towel, she used his.

After the two of them finished brushing their teeth, Zhang Xiuhua also came, and the four of them had breakfast together.

Ji Lin was afraid that Tong Shuyu would feel reserved, so he repeatedly invited her to serve some food.

Zhuzhu looked at this one and then the other, and she felt that the relationship between the two was not just a simple classmate relationship. Which female classmate went to the boy's house to spend the night. But she was young and didn't understand love, so she was very curious.

Zhang Xiuhua straightened her head and said, "Just eat, what are you looking at? Do they have rice or vegetables on their faces?"

Zhuzhu then began to pick up the food, but she was thinking in her heart, could it be that Jilin also fell in love prematurely? But wouldn't premature love cause his grades to drop? How could he improve?! She was puzzled.