Chapter 19

The two elders moved to the city, and after discussion, grandpa and grandma lived in the room on the second floor.

Grandpa takes Si to sleep.

Grandma took Si Lin to sleep in the room where Si Cheng lived.

Si Cheng opened a shop in his grandmother’s room, and if she didn’t want to, he could move to the third floor and live with his parents.

Si Cheng thought about it again and again, and finally decided to sleep in the same room with his grandmother.

She slept on the same floor as her parents, and whenever Si’s mother passed by her room, she would go in and search it. All the books she bought, her passbooks, and the manuscripts she wrote would be turned upside down.

My grandma can’t read, and I can’t recognize anything even if I look through her things.

Moreover, grandpa and grandma would respect her privacy and would not touch her things easily.

In November, Si Cheng received several payments for his writings, which added up to nearly three thousand yuan.

Si Cheng continued to go to school on his own, writing a short story a week and then a long story of four to five thousand words.

At the end of November, the weather turned cold.

Si Cheng also has his midterm exam.

This time, she performed very steadily. In order to make the improvement seem less obvious, Si Cheng’s score was almost in the top 15 in the class, but her score was not counted in the class and she finally ranked ninth.

There are 32 people in the whole school.

Bringing the report card home made Mr. Si very happy.

With a wave of his hand, on the day when Si Cheng went home for vacation, he celebrated his birthday in advance and invited his second sister, third sister’s family, and third brother’s family from Si’s mother’s side to dinner at home.

Because every year hundreds of students from their town’s junior high school are admitted to the city’s No. 1 Middle School.

As long as Si Cheng can maintain this grade, he can not only be admitted to the No. 1 Middle School in the city, but also enter the experimental class.

Entering the experimental class of the No. 1 Middle School in the city means that one has already stepped half a foot into the door of undergraduate studies.

Mr. Si doesn’t care whether Si Cheng gets into a first- or second-tier university, as long as she can get into an undergraduate program, everything will be fine.

Mr. Si’s actions were intended to show off his child to his family members.

But people from each family received the message and later came home for lunch. Si’s father asked Si Cheng to show off her cooking skills to everyone and asked her to help Si’s mother cook the seven new dishes she had just researched.

Mr. Si is like that, he likes to show off.

Si Cheng felt very embarrassed and wanted to persuade him not to do that.

But on second thought, no matter whether Si’s father shows off or not, those relatives and friends who want to laugh at their family for what they don’t have and hate their family for what they have will continue to maintain this mentality.

It would be better to let Father Si show off and make him happy.

The only person you have to be wary of is your third aunt.

Even if my aunts and the others are envious, they won’t do anything.

However, the third aunt would deceive Si’s mother and take advantage of her narrow-mindedness and petty character to alienate the relationship between her and Si’s father.

For example, the old things were brought up again, saying that Si’s father supported his younger brother and sister, and did not take Si’s mother seriously, because it was Si’s mother who rushed to marry into the Si family.

Whether it was building a building in the countryside or buying this self-built house, Si’s mother’s feelings were never considered.

really.

After the guests left, Si’s mother started quarreling with the drunk Si’s father.

I asked him if he didn’t take me seriously, otherwise why his family had no plans to buy a commercial building.

When Mr. Si heard this, he was overwhelmed.

Didn’t I promise her that when I made money, I would buy the commercial building she wanted?

Why bring it up again?

The drunk father endured it for once and said he would buy it for her when he earned money.

Si’s mother started to nitpick again, saying that if he cared about her, why didn’t he listen to her at the beginning and go directly to buy the commercial building.

Father Si shut up, turned away helplessly, and said that he was drunk and sleepy and wanted to sleep, and asked her not to disturb him.

But Si’s mother became more excited. She patted him and hit him, insisting that he give her an explanation, admit his mistake, and ask Grandpa Si and Fourth Grandma to admit their mistakes together. I shouldn’t have forced her to pay the money and take it home to repair the house.

Now, they have bought this self-built house in the city and will not live back home in the future.

Si Wulue and his sister-in-law Hu Yunyun were working away from home and would seldom go home, so the 40,000 yuan they spent on renovating the house was all wasted.

It took them many years of setting up stalls to save up that 20,000 yuan.

She cares about her money.

She felt sorry for the hard work she had put in.

She had suffered all the hardships with Si Wentao and had never complained about being tired, but when it came to such big matters as renovating and buying a house, her opinion was never respected.

Even if she buys it later, it won’t make up for the hurt she’s suffered.

Now, Father Si is still impatient with her. What is there for him to be impatient with her!

Si Cheng was listening outside the door, wondering what kind of pretentious mother she had.

A man with a good temper will be annoyed by you.

What’s more, Mr. Si has never been a good-tempered person!

“Mom!” Si Cheng couldn’t help but push the door open. She said angrily, “I knew that every time Third Aunt comes, you’ll quarrel with my dad. She’s jealous of your good life, and she won’t be content unless she does something bad and makes our family restless.”

Mrs. Si probably didn’t expect that her daughter would hear her quarrel with her husband. She turned her face away in dissatisfaction, thinking that she had done nothing wrong.

“Mom, think about it carefully. I won’t talk about the past. You and my dad went to the city to do business. Third uncle and aunt sold chickens and made a lot of money. Dad asked you to find third uncle and ask him to take care of dad. Third uncle pretended to be confused and said he was afraid that if he took dad to do business, he would be blamed for the loss. That year, third uncle took aunt’s two brothers and made tens of thousands of yuan. You and dad didn’t know anything, and you went to do the fruit business and lost all your capital.”

“Whenever you two quarrel, you go to your third aunt. She never tries to reconcile you. Instead, she persuades you to divorce your father. You can’t bear to leave me and my brother and don’t want to divorce. She told you that grandpa has a salary and will help you raise your children. If you leave my father, you can marry someone better.”

“But don’t you think about it? How many divorced people can survive these days? You are already infertile and divorced, so how can you find someone better than my dad? I can find you an old bachelor who can’t get married or a widower whose wife has died!”

Mother Si was stunned.

Unexpectedly, my daughter remembered everything her third sister-in-law said to her.

I thought she was young at that time and didn’t remember anything.

Si Cheng continued, “Mom, I admit that Dad didn’t respect your opinion on buying a house, and that was wrong of him. But when a couple has a difference of opinion, one person has to give in.”

Si’s mother stiffened her neck: “Why should I give in? It’s me! Not your father.”

Si Cheng said, “Why does it have to be my dad? You won’t give in, and he won’t give in. You two want to break up this family. Fine, let’s break up today. Let’s see if you go back to your third aunt and see if she really introduces you to a good person, or just wipes away a few tears and helps you accuse my dad of wrongdoing to cover up her own gloating.”

Mrs. Si stopped talking.

Si Cheng said, “Go ahead. Go to your third uncle’s house and cry. Tell your third aunt that you don’t want to live with my dad anymore. See what her expression is. Will she urge you to divorce my dad next? If she says something else, I’ll take your last name, Li, from now on!”