Chapter 371 She looked in the mirror a lot, but why couldn't she see the good and the bad?
Chen Jiajia was very confident about her appearance. After the courtyard door was closed, she touched her face, took out the small mirror she carried with her, and looked at herself.
Wang's wife had been paying attention to what was going on next door. Seeing her being so frustrated, Wang's wife almost laughed out loud, "Jia Jia, you came to visit Deputy Head Gu's house, why didn't you even go in?"
"Deputy Captain Gu may be busy."
"Yes, he is very busy. He is busy accompanying Shu Yu to rest. Shu Yu has to take a nap at noon every day."
Chen Jiajia was so jealous when she heard this. Teacher Shen was too ignorant. She needed a man to accompany her to sleep. Deputy Captain Gu was a man who could do big things. How could he waste his time to rest with her?
This kind of daughter-in-law is not qualified at all.
She asked without thinking, "Sister Wang, am I prettier than Teacher Shen?"
Goddess, Wang Saozi didn't know how this person could ask such a question. She looked in the mirror many times, but why couldn't she see what was good and what was bad? "Jia Jia, you should be able to distinguish right from wrong. You should learn how to use your eyes."
"What's the meaning."
"Sister-in-law, now that you've said this, you can figure out what it means."
Mrs. Wang didn't want to talk to her any more and went into her yard to do other things.
Without hearing Wang's sister-in-law praise her, Chen Jiajia asked everyone she met on the way home, "Do you think I'm pretty?"
It’s not that others criticize her looks. Chen Jiajia has dark skin. Even if her facial features are good, she is not good-looking at all, not to mention that her facial features are not very coordinated.
Even if she was lying, she couldn't say she was "pretty"; no one praised her, and Chen Jiajia was so angry that her eyes turned red.
She was in a bad mood, and her brother and sister-in-law were in even worse moods. When she came back, the meat in the house was gone. It was obvious who took the meat out, and the couple had another fight because of the meat she took out.
When she just came back, Huang Lanhua asked, "Where's the meat? Where did it go?" Her husband's allowance had to support the whole family, and the tickets issued by the army had to be sent back home.
Her son kept shouting that he wanted to eat meat, and she exchanged the meat tickets with other sisters-in-law. However, before he could even eat the meat, it was gone when she came back. How could Huang Lanhua not be angry?
Chen Jiajia threw the meat on the table and said, "It's just a piece of meat. Why are you talking to me so harshly? You are so stingy, sister-in-law.
Brother, look at how my sister-in-law treats me. You promised Mom that you would take good care of me when I come here, but you two are giving me a cold shoulder. I'm going to tell Mom."
Chen Wei was also very annoyed. "Go, go, tell mom quickly, I will buy you a ticket to take you back home."
Since this girl came, the couple have been quarreling non-stop.
Chen Wei was also tired. As a brother, he wanted to pick a good man for the girl.
But she has her eyes on the top of her head, and she looks down on those who are not of high rank. She also thinks that he, as her brother, does not wish her well, and she has no peace of mind when she returns home.
When she heard that her brother was going to buy her a ticket home, Chen Jiajia instantly became obedient and lost her previous arrogance.
"Brother, I was wrong. I shouldn't have lost my temper with my sister-in-law. Please don't be angry, okay? I think the meat is too small.
I wanted to take it out and exchange it for a bigger piece so that you can have a good rest, but the meat was sold out and I couldn’t buy any, so I had to take the meat back.”
In the afternoon, Shen Shuyu was woken up by Gu Jiandong, who sent her to school before returning.
Shen Shuyu has to teach two grades, with two classes in each grade. She teaches two classes in the morning and two classes in the afternoon. The courses are easy and Shen Shuyu does not feel tired.
While giving a lecture to students, Shen Shuyu looked out the window and saw a child listening by the window. Shen Shuyu went out to see what was going on, but the child ran away as soon as he saw her come out.
The children in the classroom all said, "Teacher Shen, I know who he is."
"I know too."
"Teacher Shen, we all know him. His name is Lin Shitou. He wants to go to school, but his stepmother won't let him. So he comes to school every day to eavesdrop on classes. After school, he would ask us to borrow books to read.
His stepmother was very cruel to him. She beat him every day and didn't let him speak out. I saw his stepmother stabbing him and his sister with a needle several times.
"I saw his stepmother scolding him. She scolded him very badly, saying that he was a son of a bitch and could never be tamed."
"His stepmother never buys clothes for Lin Yaozu..."
The children talked one after another, and Shen Shuyu got the general idea. If there is a stepmother, there will be a stepfather. This situation is very common in the village.
After that, Shen Shuyu often saw Lin Shitou secretly listening to the class outside the window. She knew that the child would run away if she left.
Shen Shuyu didn't go out, but her lecture was louder than usual and a little slower.
When Shen Shuyu had nothing to do at home, she would visit Wang Saozi's house next door and talk about Lin Shitou.
Mrs. Wang slapped her thigh and said, "That child is such a pitiful thing. His mother died of heavy bleeding when giving birth to his sister, and before the seventh day had passed, his father Lin Hai married another wife.
He didn't care about the brother and sister, and married a new wife, bringing her to the army. In less than two months, he had a wife. Lin Hai completely forgot about his two children in the countryside.
Shitou was a boy of only a few years old and had to take care of his newborn sister. How could he do that? So his aunt came to help take care of her.
The situation at his aunt's family wasn't good either. There were a bunch of children at home, all of whom were crying with hunger, and they really couldn't afford to feed them.
Only then did he inquire about ways to send his two nephews to the army, wanting them to live with their father.
Fearing that they would be wronged in the army, his uncle and aunt spread the word in the army about how ruthless Lin Hai was, and even asked the leader to make the decision.
Lin Hai had no shortage of sons. His wife gave birth to a son. However, his wife did not agree to let the two children marry into the family. She wanted to send the children and their uncle and aunt back to the countryside.
It was only because the army leaders stepped in that they had to leave the two children behind for their future.
He also made his uncle and aunt very happy that their child could stay in the army and would not have to suffer from hunger and cold with them. They didn't know that the couple were both black-hearted.
It would be better to live in the countryside than to follow them. At least there are people who love you in the countryside. Look at what kind of life the people here in the army live. Their father dislikes their stepmother, and their status in the family is even lower than that of the chickens and geese they raise.
Zhang Honghua thought that everyone didn't know about the good things she did to her step-son and step-daughter, and she pretended to be nice to them in front of everyone.
As if they had no eyes, the brother and sister were skinny and their clothes were ragged.
They don’t even have a decent cotton-padded jacket for the winter, and they don’t let them go to school when they are old enough, so Shitou’s child has to study secretly. It’s obvious that the couple doesn’t treat the two children well.”