Chapter 511: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 511 Du Xiaojuan's Original Family

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Since she was bringing Wang Dashan's parents to Beijing for sightseeing during the National Day holiday, Du Xiaojuan had to arrange everything in advance, completing the travel itinerary and her company's work arrangements ahead of time.

She took this quite seriously because she knew the impression this trip left on Wang Dashan's parents would largely determine her image in their hearts going forward.

Besides that, she also had to tell her parents at home.

Her parents had some complaints upon learning she wouldn't be returning home for the National Day holiday:

"A married daughter is like water splashed out; after you marry your partner, don't forget the parents who gave birth to and raised you!"

Du Xiaojuan's father Du Guoqing said this.

"I know, I definitely won't forget you!"

Du Guoqing added another sentence at this point:

"Don't forget your younger brother either; when you get married, ask your partner for more bride price!"

Du Xiaojuan's mouth twitched slightly, feeling somewhat displeased.

Her father put it so bluntly, it felt like he was selling his daughter; if she didn't feel upset inside, that would be impossible.

"I know, I know."

Du Xiaojuan perfunctorily agreed with impatience.

Actually, her parents still didn't know she was the founder of Xiao Du Technology, nor did they know she had achieved some success; when her parents asked about her work, she generally answered that she was working for someone else, with a monthly salary of only five or six thousand.

Even so, her parents still required her to send five thousand home every month.

And most of that five thousand was used to subsidize her unpromising younger brother.

From childhood to adulthood, her parents' preference for sons over daughters had always been very blunt, very blatant, even very much taken for granted, very self-righteous.

She actually wasn't called Du Xiaojuan before; she was called Du Jianmei. Some people in the rural area were superstitious, believing that if the first child was a girl, giving her a lowly and unpleasant name would allow the second child to be a boy.

When Du Jianmei was one and a half years old, her younger brother Du Jiabao was born.

Her parents had a son, and they were so happy that they believed those superstitious sayings even more.

Du Xiaojuan never mentioned this name to outsiders, nor had she told Wang Dashan.

Her hatred for this name almost ran through her entire childhood and teenage years; the harm this name brought her far exceeded the harm the name Wang Xiaohua brought to Wang Xiaohua.

Ever since she was old enough to understand, she had been mocked because of this name; starting from age five, she constantly asked her parents to change her name, but they remained indifferent until she went out to work.

It wasn't until she later had the ability to be independent that she spent a great deal of effort to change her name.

One called Jianmei, one called Jiabao; from this family atmosphere of preferring sons over daughters, one could see a glimpse.

This was also an important reason why Du Xiaojuan didn't tell her family even after she succeeded in starting her own business.

Her parents had actually asked her several times to bring along her good-for-nothing younger brother, and every time she said she was also just a worker, barely making a living; if her brother wanted to come over, it was fine, but it wasn't much different from working in a factory—starting at a monthly salary of only three thousand, and he'd have to work three shifts, so she didn't know if he was willing.

Saying this, her younger brother, who hadn't suffered much from childhood to adulthood, naturally wasn't willing to come work, and looked down on his sister's job.

Previously she had driven home once for the Spring Festival, and as a result her parents asked her to lend the car to her brother for a blind date, even saying she should transfer the car to her brother; frightened, she quickly said the car was bought by her boyfriend and was under her boyfriend's name, not hers, and that's how she brushed it off; after that, she never drove home again.

"You have money to travel to Beijing; you might as well save it for your brother to marry a wife!"

On the other end of the phone, mother Lin Xiudi muttered this sentence.

When the two elders answered Du Xiaojuan's phone calls, they would always put it on speakerphone to listen together.

Hearing this, Du Xiaojuan's inner emotions were extremely complex.

She even felt her mother was also a victim of a family that preferred sons over daughters, and truly couldn't understand why she had become that way in the end.

"The money is all from my partner; I don't have that kind of money—I can't even scrape together the travel fare to Beijing."

Du Xiaojuan remained expressionless; she didn't know how many lies like this she had told, and had long since become numb.

"How is your partner so rich? What does he do?"

Du Guoqing asked this at this time.

Regarding Wang Dashan's occupation, Du Xiaojuan had never actively said; she only told them she had found a partner, and that was it.

"Don't be stingy like your previous two partners."

Du Guoqing spoke in a condescending tone; he felt that as Du Xiaojuan's father, everything was taken for granted.

"Mm, he isn't stingy."

Du Xiaojuan remained expressionless.

Among the partners she had dated before, there was one she was actually quite satisfied with, but after he met her parents and learned how much they preferred sons over daughters, he broke up with her not long after.

This matter had a great impact on Du Xiaojuan, making her very sensitive and very insecure; this was also why she had never brought Wang Dashan back to her hometown to meet her parents.

But she also knew that if she wanted to get married, she couldn't avoid the hurdle of meeting the parents.

"When will you bring your partner back? You've been dating for quite a while; it's time to get married."

Du Guoqing said this.

Du Xiaojuan said:

"Let's wait until the end of the year; we'll talk about it at the end of the year."

Du Guoqing pulled a long face, unhappy:

"I originally thought you would bring your partner back for the National Day holiday; didn't your partner buy a car? I was still thinking of borrowing his car for your brother to go on a blind date, but I didn't expect you to go to Beijing to play."

Du Xiaojuan said:

"Why didn't you say so earlier? If you had said so earlier, I would have told my partner; now the airplane tickets are booked, the hotel is booked too, and they can't be refunded."

Actually, she wasn't going to Beijing to travel with Wang Dashan at all, but was accompanying Wang Dashan's parents to travel to Beijing.

She didn't want to explain too much to her parents, so she simply said she was going to Beijing for a trip with Wang Dashan.

Additionally, accompanying Wang Dashan's parents on this trip to Beijing was an opportunity for her to leave a good impression on Wang Dashan's parents, and also an opportunity for her to observe Wang Dashan's parents.

If Wang Dashan's parents showed signs of favoring males over females like her own parents, then she would absolutely not marry Wang Dashan.

She had already suffered enough, and she did not want her future children to have a childhood as tragic as hers.

"Fine, fine, let's not talk about this anymore. Your brother is unemployed again. Do you have any connections to get him a job?"

"Didn't he just find a new job two months ago? How is he unemployed again?"

"He finds it too hard. That factory requires ten hours of work, and he can't handle it."

"I'm just a worker myself. What connections do I have?" Du Xiaojuan said.

"What about your partner? He should have some connections, right?" Mother Lin Xiudi interjected at this time.

"No, he's also a worker. He's just a small salesman, earning five or six thousand salary every month."

Lin Xiudi couldn't help muttering:

"With such a small monthly salary, how does he have money to go to Beijing for a trip?"

Du Xiaojuan said: "He saved for half a year to save enough travel expenses. He cares a lot about this trip."

"Spending money so recklessly, not caring about family at all. Can he be reliable?"

"It's because I wanted to go on a trip that he saved the money." Du Xiaojuan explained.

Lin Xiudi had nothing to say.

Du Guoqing said at this time:

"I don't care what he's like. Anyway, when you get married, he cannot give less than a single cent of the bride price."

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