Chapter 756: Why Can She Make Special Exceptions?

As soon as she left, people began to gossip: "The Shanliang couple are truly blessed; not only is their second daughter impressive, but after so many years, she has conceived again, which is truly rare."

"She didn't conceive before, probably because her body was too depleted. Now that they have separated and live on their own, her mood is better, and with better food, her body naturally recovered; getting pregnant is nothing strange."

"Say what you will, it all comes down to the old couple of the Liu family being inhuman."

"That's true; before, the Second Branch did the most dirty and tiring work of the old Liu household."

"Old Lady Liu is really something; the Shanliang family's son isn't bad-looking, so why couldn't she see it?"

"It's just that they had no natal family to back them up, plus at the time Old Lady Liu thought the Shanliang son wasn't cut out for hard work, so naturally she didn't agree to the marriage, but Shanliang had a stubborn temper; on this matter, he would disobey even if beaten."

"There was such a thing?"

"Don't forget our two families' old courtyard was right next to each other; it was only later, when the Liu family's old courtyard house became truly uninhabitable, that they exchanged the homestead with the village and built the house they live in now."

"You say, is the one in the Shanliang family's belly this time a son or a daughter?"

"That's hard to say."

"They've already given birth to three daughters; by now, it's the son's turn, otherwise the whole village would laugh them to death."

"What kind of talk is that? What's wrong with having a daughter? Your daughter-in-law gave birth to four sons, but which one is as impressive as the Shanliang family's Chuxue? She is a cadre now; as soon as she entered the factory, she drew a regular worker's wage; in less than two months, she earned merit and was promoted a level; now she draws the fourteen-level wage, earning over forty a month."

"Really?"

"How could that be false? The day I went up the back mountain to gather firewood and came back, I accidentally overheard the Shanliang couple talking in their private plot; I caught just that one bit."

"Oh my heavens, over forty a month; in a year, that's nearly five hundred yuan."

"What do you mean 'nearly five hundred yuan'? That's a full five hundred yuan."

"Oh my, in the village, probably only the Laoqi family and the Secretary's family can compare."

At this, someone murmured quietly: "Laoqi's son is an officer in the army, so his wage is naturally not low, but the Secretary's eldest son and his wife are just ordinary workers; I'm afraid the two of them combined don't earn as much as Chuxue alone."

"Truly, thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river; who could have imagined that the Shanliang couple, whom the villagers called the childless ones, would one day live better than most families in the village."

"This is fate; we cannot envy it."

When Chuxue arrived home, Liu's mother was busy in the kitchen.

Hearing the commotion in the yard, she stuck her head out to look at Chuxue: "Why did you come back so early today?"

"The truck going to the North Suburb Farm left early today; I told the Section Chief and, after finishing the work in hand, I left a bit early."

"Ah, won't that cause trouble?"

"No trouble; I didn't leave any work undone."

"I'm just afraid the others in the office will have objections."

"I've finished the work in hand; even if they have objections, it's Bai Da."

Liu's mother was indeed right; after Chuxue left, Wan Xiaohui was the first to protest: "It's not even time yet; how could she just leave?"

Seeing that no one in the office replied, she angrily raised her voice: "Why can she make special exceptions?"

The Section Chief naturally heard her words and walked straight out: "I agreed to it; as long as she finishes the work in hand, she can leave a bit early; what, do you have objections?"

Seeing that even the Section Chief was speaking up for Chuxue, Wan Xiaohui naturally dared not say anything else, though she still muttered quietly: "She makes special exceptions; can't we have a few objections?"