Chen Xue got off work from the factory and came home exhausted, only to find Li Junrong smoking a cigarette in the living room, looking depressed. She was stunned for a moment, but did not ask out loud because she had no energy anymore and she had to hurry up and do something. meal.
"Chen Xue, our factory has closed down. Today is my last day at work." Li Junrong said to Chen Xue in a hoarse voice.
"What? Your factory also closed down? What will happen to your job?" Chen Xue was shocked. Although many factories have either closed down or undergone reforms in recent years, and many workers have been laid off, she did not expect that Li Junrong would also have this day. .
Li Junrong closed his eyes and said solemnly: "The factory gave me a buyout bonus for my seniority, and I won't have a job in the future."
"What should I do at home? My salary alone is not enough, and our factory has also reduced production a lot this year. The wages are in arrears for a month or two, and it looks like we won't be able to survive..." Chen Xue was very frightened, "What if I am also unemployed, what will I do next?”
Li Junrong looked confused: "What can I do? I won't starve to death. If that doesn't work, I will work as a driver to make money. Anyway, some private bosses will hire drivers now."
Chen Xue opened her mouth, wanting to say that a private driver sounds like someone who only serves people, for fear that he, a transportation captain who had some status in the factory, would not be able to bear the contempt of others, but she did not say it in the end, because if he was not a driver, he would not Regarding other skills, it is not easy to find a job as I get older.
"Why don't you write to ask Jia Shun and Jia An who are working in the south?" Chen Xue suggested. Since Li Jiaping was sentenced to more than ten years in prison for smuggling a few years ago, the brothers Li Jia'an and Li Jiashun have suffered a lot. Unable to ignore the glare of the people around me, I went to work in a southern coastal city. Because I had no education, I could only work in a private factory.
They thought about following the example of others and starting a business, but they had no capital. All the money Li Jiaping earned from smuggling was confiscated, and they were even fined a lot of money. Li Junrong and Chen Xue were forced to use their own savings to help. He also emptied his family's fortune with this repayment. Naturally, he could not support Li Jia'an and Li Jiashun's business, so they had no choice but to work outside.
Li Junrong heard Chen Xue's words and looked at her inexplicably: "Do you also want me to go to the south to work when I'm old?"
"I heard that the wages there are higher than here." Chen Xue said. In recent years, her family has been financially strapped. She has already experienced the hardship of having no money. She just wants to go wherever she can make more money. In fact, she has thought about what if Her own factory also closed down, so she took advantage of the fact that she was still young and went to work in the south for a few years to earn some pension money. Anyway, she couldn't count on her three stepsons.
"I'll think about it..." Li Junrong did not refuse. He only said that he would consider it. He spent most of his life here. Even though he suffered rumors and discrimination from people around him because of his eldest son's crime, he did not consider it. One day he will leave here, and he will be a humble person when he leaves his hometown. What's more, he is not young anymore and has no ambition and energy to work hard in other places.
Chen Xue didn't force him anymore and went to the kitchen to cook.
While washing the dishes, she suddenly thought of her ex-husband Wu Chengyue. Although Wu Chengyue's current career is getting worse and worse than others, he still has the foundation. He earns a lot every year and is sure to live a comfortable and prosperous life. I heard that he will not be there soon. He just married his third young and beautiful wife.
Sometimes Chen Xue is irritated by trivial things at home. When she has to buy cheap vegetables and cheap clothes because she has no money, she always can't help but imagine that if she hadn't divorced Wu Chengyue, she would still have to go through it. This kind of living beyond one's means?
Obviously she only needs to endure Wu Chengyue's half-heartedness, tolerate him flirting with women outside, and occupying the position of the main wife, so that she can live the life of a pampered lady - as long as she doesn't get divorced...
Every time she thought this way, she would feel unwilling and resentful. She was unwilling to live in such a bad life after the divorce. She resented her philandering ex-husband, resented her useless current husband, resented Li Jiaping who was in jail, resented Wu Shichu who had alienated her... She felt They were the fault of her bad life, but she forgot that divorce and remarriage were her own choices, and she couldn't blame anyone.
The reason why there was such a big difference between her life and her previous life was just because Wu Shichu made some changes and did not enter the Li family with her.
Because Wu Shichu did not remarry her, the three stepsons of the Li family vented their hostility directly on her, causing an irreparable rift between them.
Without Wu Chengyue's monthly alimony to Wu Shichu, Chen Xue would not have the money to find a good job for Li Jiaping, and would not be able to use the capital to start a transportation business when the couple were laid off.
It's just that without Wu Shichu, the cannon fodder who had been drained of value, their family would no longer be able to live smoothly. Li Jiaping went to jail, Li Jia'an and Li Jiashun became thousands of ordinary migrant workers who had left their hometowns, and Li Junrong's transportation It is impossible for the company to open, which is really ironic.
As an irresponsible father, Wu Chengyue was not much better. He divorced Lin Jingyan, married his mistress, and gave birth to a fat boy seven months after the marriage. He was so happy that he was shaking all over. He got up and regained his fighting spirit for his career. After all, he had to leave a family property to his son. Before, when he had only Wu Shichu as his daughter, he had no fighting spirit at all. He just felt that no matter how hard he worked, the family property would eventually fall into the hands of outsiders, so he had no motivation. spell.
It's different when you have a son. After all, the "throne" is inherited by the prince. Of course, the empire will be bigger.
Xiaosi became arrogant after giving birth to her son. Even when Wu Shichu came home for vacation, he dared to suppress her blatantly and wanted to drive her out of the house.
Wu Shichu was angry, so he pulled the plug and threw the evidence that her son was not Wu Chengyue's biological child in front of Wu Chengyue. Of course Wu Chengyue didn't believe it, thinking that Wu Shichu wanted to monopolize his family property and was slandering his little wife.
But he finally had doubts, and he took his son for a DNA test, which confirmed that the son was not his biological son. He was so angry that he suffered a stroke on the spot. Fortunately, he was in the hospital at the time and was rescued in time, so he only had inconvenience in his legs and feet after the stroke. He's not very good at speaking, but nothing else.
After being a cuckold and almost raising a son for another man, Wu Chengyue divorced Xiao Si as soon as she recovered, leaving her and her cheap son to leave the house.
After suffering such a severe blow and another stroke, Wu Chengyue, who was afraid of death, finally gave in and wanted to hand over the company to Wu Shichu. However, Wu Shichu had his own business and did not want to inherit it, so he had to hire a professional manager to take care of it. On the other hand, he cared about cultivating his mind and nature, and from time to time urged Wu Shichu to give birth to a child for him. And because he was afraid of being alone, he went to the capital to live with his daughter and son-in-law for a few months every year.
Wu Shichu and Qi Daiyuan were both busy at work, so they let him go. Anyway, he knew that he was not welcome and did not dare to bother his daughter and son-in-law.
