jdhmnovel Chapter 196 Fu Huaiyi's Telegram Arrives
Chapter 196 Fu Huaiyi's Telegram Arrives
Upon hearing her words, Lin Gang went to the kitchen to coax his new wife.
"Chen Xia, don't overthink it. I'm not angry with you. I'm angry that your parents treat you badly."
Relieved by the sound, Ye Lian went outside to pick some greens to make soup, and just then she saw Lin Yuyao and Lin Ping returning.
"Did you two manage to get tickets?"
They went into town today to buy their return tickets.
"I couldn't buy it."
"bought."
Ye Lian: "..."
"What happened to you two? One got a ticket, and the other didn't. Did Yuyao get a ticket, but Lin Ping didn't?"
"No, I couldn't get a train ticket, so my sister took me to buy a plane ticket."
"Huh? Airfare? That must be so expensive!"
"This... isn't cheap, it costs over a hundred."
"What? Over a hundred? How much are you two?"
Seeing their mother's wide-eyed stare, neither of them dared to utter a sound.
Ye Lian wiped her hands on her apron and held out her hand to them, "Let me see it."
Left with no other choice, Lin Yuyao handed her the ticket.
When Ye Lian finished reading, her eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
"Over three hundred? Over three hundred for two people?"
"Yes, yes."
"So expensive, Yuyao, it costs over three hundred yuan for one trip, that's three months' salary for you. A round trip takes half a year. You work hard for someone for a year, and the return fare alone takes up half a year's salary. On top of that, you buy so much stuff. You've worked for nothing all year. Good heavens, you might as well stay at home. Raising chickens at home is better than going out to work."
“We didn’t take a plane back, and Lin Ping was able to get the tickets reimbursed. It’s not that scary.”
"That's expensive too, good heavens! It costs money and takes a lot of effort. What's the point of going out to work?"
“If I don’t go, Lin Ping will have to go to school. After deducting his travel expenses, I don’t actually have much money left for myself. Besides, I don’t earn money through work.”
Yes, my youngest son still has to go to school, and the travel expenses each year are a huge burden.
Fortunately, they can reimburse the expenses.
"Lin Ping is going to school. Why don't you just not go so far and find something to do nearby?"
Lin Yuyao looked conflicted.
Lin Ping, standing nearby, said, "Mother, don't block my sister's marriage. She'll not only find wealth in the South City, but also a good match."
Ye Lian: "Yu Yao, you and that young man are really together? Aren't you planning to find someone nearby?"
Lin Yuyao knows all the young men in the neighborhood who are around her age.
If she were like that in her past life, she would have a few suitable matches.
But now... she's actually quite a realistic person.
Now, she can achieve one or two small goals worth tens of thousands a year. By finding people near her hometown, she is essentially helping to alleviate poverty.
She was unwilling to help the poor.
To put it more realistically, once you've seen the good ones, your standards have risen, so why would you be willing to marry down?
“I still have to go,” Lin Yuyao explained. “The publishing house where I published my book is in Nancheng. I signed a five-year contract with them, and I would have to pay compensation if I breached the contract.”
If I stay at home, I have to go to the south of the city every time I need to sign a contract or something. I don't know how many times I would have to go there in a year, which would be more expensive in the end.
"And the house... I signed a one-year contract, paid a deposit, and a lot of things I bought are still there. I haven't quit my current job either; my boss is very good to us, and it wouldn't be right for me to suddenly leave."
Ye Lian was just saying it casually; she didn't mean she had to stay in her hometown.
It's good to go out and see more of the world while you're young, but she still feels bad about the travel expenses.
It's really expensive.
"By the way, have my older brother and sister-in-law returned?"
Lin Yuyao suddenly remembered that her older brother and sister-in-law seemed to have had a conflict when they came back in her previous life.
By then, she had already married into the Lu family, and she only heard her mother, Ye Lian, complain a few times, saying that her family members were not good.
When asked what happened, she felt uncomfortable and refused to say anything.
They only said that they should have less contact with the Chen family in the future.
I don't know if this life will be the same.
"came back."
"I'll go see my sister-in-law."
"Don't go," Ye Lian stopped Lin Yuyao, saying, "They were upset at your sister-in-law's house. Your brother is trying to comfort her right now, so don't go and disturb them."
"Huh? What happened to them?"
"Not yet..." Ye Lian hesitated, feeling ashamed.
Forget it, let’s not talk about it.
The daughter-in-law already has it tough enough; telling her about it makes her even more ashamed.
"It's nothing, your sister-in-law and her brother had a fight. It's not a big deal, it's normal for siblings to fight, you and Lin Ping used to fight when you were little."
Lin Yuyao: "..." That can't be right.
Never mind, if she doesn't want to say anything, then forget it.
By dinner time, my sister-in-law had already calmed her down.
She was quite embarrassed when her older brother put food on her plate.
After dark, the two went back to their room early.
With the Lunar New Year approaching, the festive atmosphere in the countryside was particularly strong in those days. Lin Ping and a group of young men were shouting and playing around, collecting firecrackers and frying fish, and they even wanted to drag Lin Yuyao along.
Lin Yuyao was afraid of being scolded, so she rejected him.
She went to bed early; in the dead of winter, it was warmer to be covered by the blankets.
And she guessed right; Lin Ping did indeed get scolded.
They blew up their third uncle's fishpond, killing several half-grown grass carp, and were caught red-handed by their third uncle.
Then he came to our door carrying dead fish.
Lin Dawei bowed and apologized profusely, then paid for the fish.
In the end, they only kept one fish; the rest were given to Uncle San to take home and eat.
After thinking it over, the third uncle said that one fish wasn't enough for their large family, so he gave him another one.
When Lin Ping returned home in the middle of the night, Lin Dawei and Ye Lian grabbed his ears and gave him a good scolding.
"Who told you to go and fry fish? How old are you? You're still frying fish? I should have fryed you!"
"Oh, Dad, I just wanted to get some fish to eat. My sister-in-law just got married, so I had to get her something nice to eat."
"Then you can't go and fry your third uncle's fish."
"His fish is so good at frying, and it's so plump. I fry it, and he brings it back for me. You just pay for it, right?"
Lin Dawei: "..."
Is he still reasonable?
The next day, Lin Ping found the gun barrel in his house and said he was going to go up the mountain to hunt some wild game.
"It would be great if there was a wild game dish on the table for tonight's New Year's Eve dinner."
"Can you even hit it?"
"Of course."
"How come I remember your marksmanship was worse than mine?"
"That was before. What am I attending now? Military academy. I've trained there."
That sounds plausible, since he's trained before.
"Okay, then I'll go find a basket."
"Find another bucket to put in the basket. In a while, it will be covered in blood. If you put it in the basket, your back will be soaked with blood."
They prepared their tools and went into the mountains together.
Not long after they left, the brigade leader came to their house to call for people, saying that someone was looking for Lin Yuyao.
Ye Lian pondered that it was most likely her daughter's boyfriend in the southern city.
Yu Yao wasn't there, so she went to pick her up and also to see how the child spoke and to give her a heads-up.