CHAPTER 121: CHAPTER 121: FAVORITISM

"This mother is really something, giving her daughter’s job to her son, forcing her daughter to go to the countryside, and now trying to sell her daughter for a bride price to marry off her son! Is she planning to exploit just one daughter?"

"Exactly! I thought only rural folks favored boys over girls severely, but didn’t expect this mother, who looks decent, to be even worse!"

Lin · Rural Person · Xiang: Feels offended!

No matter if they’re from the countryside or the city, there’s good and bad people, you can’t just condemn them all.

Lin Xiang grumbled a bit discontentedly, carefully savoring the words of the bystanders, extracting something from them.

This sounds so much like Huang Jiayun and her mom, doesn’t it?

Relying on her petite figure, Lin Xiang squeezed her way to the front, and sure enough, she saw Mrs. Huang and Huang Jiayun arguing at the entrance of the guest house.

The mother and daughter must have already had a scuffle in the room; Huang Jiayun looked messy, hair scattered, and her sleeves torn. She was sitting on the ground crying, body shaking, looking pitiable.

Mrs. Huang didn’t expect that after a few years of being a young educated worker, the once-weak Huang Jiayun’s temperament had changed so much. It was just a few words, and she was recklessly rushing outside, making the family’s little affairs known to so many people.

Mrs. Huang considered herself a decent person, but now losing face in front of so many, her anger was not slight.

But she still had her own plans, so even if she was very angry, now she could only coax Huang Jiayun.

"Yunyun, you’ve misunderstood mom’s intentions. I’m not eyeing your bride price money, I’m just worried that when you return to the city, it’ll be hard to find a spouse as you’ll be older, so I looked for one in advance for you. You must believe that mom truly loves you."

Through teary eyes, Huang Jiayun looked at her: "If you love me, you should respect my decisions. I want to stay in Ji Province, stay with the Li Hua Team, I don’t want to go back."

"Yunyun, you’re being foolish!" Mrs. Huang looked as if she hated iron for not becoming steel, "What kind of spell did that Zhu Zhu cast on you? You insist on staying in the countryside instead of living as a city person? Our Huang Family is quite respectable, what face would we have if people knew you married into the countryside?"

"So, what’s more important, your and dad’s face, or my happiness?"

"No matter how good the city’s tube-shaped apartment is, there’s still no space for me. In that family, the only private space I have is the fold-out camp bed I sleep on, which I can only use when sleeping at night for a few short hours."

"You keep saying you love me, but when I got accepted for the Hanjiang Machine Tool Factory, which would have meant no need to go to the countryside, you forced me to give up my job for the third brother to avoid him suffering!"

"The third brother is your sibling, what’s wrong with giving something up for him as an older sister?"

"Brother? Mom, we’re twins, he was born just a few minutes later than me, does that mean I have to unconditionally yield to him? Who can give way to me!" Huang Jiayun’s tone had changed from questioning to roaring.

Since she was sensible, she had been forced to accept the fact that her parents didn’t love her.

Even though she was the most sensible one among the children, her parents’ attention never stayed on her for long.

The so-called love her mother proclaimed was nothing but a fabricated joke.

As a child longing for motherly love, she might have had some hope, but now, having accepted that her parents didn’t love her, she had no expectations.

"Good for you!" Lin Xiang took the lead clapping, "We women should have such courage, bravely saying no to things we’re dissatisfied with!"

As Lin Xiang spoke, she hid herself in the crowd, her small stature not afraid of being discovered by Mrs. Huang.

It wasn’t that Lin Xiang was scared of Mrs. Huang; she just didn’t want to stir up trouble.

"Well said!" someone chimed in, "Nowadays, even the state doesn’t promote arranged marriages, if you really care for your daughter, the best thing you should do isn’t find a suitor against her will, but get her a return pass back to the city sooner."

"Exactly, aren’t you worried your daughter would be deceived by people here and stay? If you find a way to get her a return pass, let her go home, wouldn’t the problem be solved?"

"How can that work?" Huang Saner spoke up, "My second brother is about to get married, the prospective second sister-in-law already demanded an independent house, and since our family can’t satisfy that, if Huang Jiayun returns, the prospective sister-in-law will surely make a fuss, and the marriage will definitely fall through!"

"Mom, I say just let Huang Jiayun stay here and continue being a young educated worker. As for the bride price, my second brother hasn’t given any household money since he started working, he surely has his little private stash, after all, it’s his marriage, let him pay for it himself!"

Huang Saner’s reckless output made Mrs. Huang’s face even worse.

The little family secrets were all spilled by Huang Saner!

And what Saner said confirmed that the purpose of having Huang Jiayun marry was indeed for the bride price money.

"Shut up! I’m talking to your sister, it’s not your place to butt in!"

"She’s only older than me by a few minutes, why can’t you talk to me too? I know, it’s because you’re biased! Mom, you should treat us equally and not favor my sister!"

"Hahaha, this young man is quite amusing! Anyone can see your mom’s favoritism, but it’s not for that sister of yours born just a few minutes earlier, it’s clearly towards you three brothers!"

The Huang family had four children in total, and even though Huang Jiayun was supposed to be third, she didn’t even have a place in line.

Because she was the only girl, unlike those stinky boys, she didn’t need to line up with them!

"Really? Didn’t feel that!" Huang Saner shrugged his shoulders, "Mom, I’m hungry, can you take me for a meal first?"

"Eat, eat, eat, that’s all you know, didn’t you see me talking to your sister?"

"Oh come on, discussing it later will be the same, let Huang Jiayun think it over herself first!" Huang Saner approached his mother, "Mom, we can’t force Huang Jiayun to agree in front of so many people, after all, she’s a young educated worker, and if the educated worker office people got involved, it would be big trouble!"

How could Mrs. Huang not understand this? She was just too angry with Huang Jiayun, but now with Saner persuading her a bit, her anger subsided quite a bit.

"Yunyun, it’s mom’s fault for bringing up the marriage, let’s not talk about it. Let’s have a meal together, didn’t you mention wanting braised pork? Mom will take you to have some."