Chapter 995: Yan Family

Lingjing Alley

Yu Li's residence

Yu Haitang put down her bowl and rubbed her stomach: "Sister, the dishes you make are getting more and more delicious, I'm so full."

Yu Li said with a smile: "If it's delicious, come over often."

The two sisters tidied up the bowls and chopsticks, and Yu Haitang asked questions full of suspicion.

Although her sister had become a regular employee, her salary was only a little over twenty.

How could she afford a bicycle?

How could she afford a radio?

How could there be so much meat in the kitchen?

And these things didn't just require money; they also required coupons.

Meat coupons were easy to talk about, but bicycle coupons and radio coupons were extremely rare.

Yu Haitang asked: "Sister, where did you get the coupons for the bicycle and the radio?"

Yu Li lowered her head while washing the dishes and said: "A friend gave them to me."

Yu Haitang asked: "A friend? Do I know them?"

She had been close to her sister since she was a child, and she had met almost all of her friends.

But in her impression, her sister didn't have any friends who were this generous?

Yu Li said: "You don't know them."

Yu Haitang pressed: "Man or woman? How old? What do they do?"

Giving a bicycle and a radio was a big deal!

What kind of friend could be this generous?

Did her sister have a new partner!

And this person was quite capable!

Otherwise, it would be impossible to give both a bicycle and a radio.

She had to meet them and properly vet them for her sister.

Yu Li said impatiently: "Oh! Where did you get such heavy curiosity? If you ask again, go home."

She couldn't tell her sister that everything was given by Cao Weiguo!

If this got out, how would she and Cao Weiguo be able to face people in the future?

Seeing this, Yu Haitang quickly acted spoiled: "Sister, why are you getting angry? I won't ask anymore, okay? I'll help you wash the dishes."

At her sister's place, not only was the food and drink good, but she didn't have to endure her parents' nagging; she didn't want to be kicked out.

If I don't ask, I don't ask. I'll definitely find out later.

Yu Li put the clean bowls aside: "Don't just ask me, you should care more about your own affairs. How are things with Yang Weimin?"

Yu Haitang said nonchalantly: "We've already broken up."

Yu Li turned to look at her sister: "Why? I think Yang Weimin's conditions are quite good. He's educated, has a good job, and his uncle is a factory director."

Yu Haitang curled her lip: "Forget it! He's just like a donkey dung ball, shiny on the outside but useless on the inside. He can't do anything, has no real ability, and spends all day putting on airs, as if no one is as good as him. We're just not the same kind of people."

Yu Li said: "You, you just have too high standards, picking and choosing until you're dazzled."

This sister of hers, she didn't know who she inherited her arrogant nature from?

Neither of their parents were like this?

Could it be from going to school?

Yu Haitang sighed: "Sigh! I've doubted myself too. Why did I have such poor judgment back then and miss out on Cao Weiguo? Now he's a Deputy Division Chief."

Thinking of Cao Weiguo, whose official career was flourishing, she felt indescribable regret.

She was only one step away from being an official's wife, and it was a good marriage that had been delivered to her door.

But at the time, she had lost her mind and pushed a good marriage out the door.

Every night, she would grit her teeth in regret and wish she could give herself two slaps.

Hearing Cao Weiguo's name, Yu Li's heartbeat inexplicably accelerated: "Fate is hard to say. You and Cao Weiguo have no fate, so stop looking at the other mountain while standing on this one. Find a partner in a down-to-earth way, get married quickly, and build a happy family."

Yu Haitang lifted her chin: "Hmph! I won't just marry anyone casually. The person I marry must be a hero among men who has achieved great things."

Yu Li said helplessly: "You, just keep picking!"

After washing the bowls and chopsticks, Yu Li continued knitting a sweater. The color, style, and size clearly belonged to a man.

Yu Haitang said with a smile: "Sister! Is that sweater for your friend?"

Yu Li said: "Mind your own business. If you're bored, learn to knit a sweater with me."

Yu Haitang grabbed a handful of melon seeds: "I'm not learning. Buying one isn't expensive, and it's easy and looks good."

Yu Li said: "The money for one sweater can buy enough materials to knit three or four. You, you're just not married yet and are used to being extravagant."

Yu Haitang laughed: "Sister, I think you've been influenced by the Yan family. You can't always be calculating when living your life; you also have to know how to enjoy it, otherwise, how boring would this life be."

Nanluoguxiang

Yan Family

Yan Fugui lay on the bed listlessly, his body still carrying a faint, lingering stench.

Eldest Aunt asked with concern: "Old Yan, stop sulking, get up and eat something."

Yan Fugui said gloomily: "Eat what! I've lost all my face and dignity today, how can I still eat!"

Yan Jiecheng said while eating a cornmeal bun: "If you ask me, you were just looking for trouble. Who in the neighborhood doesn't know that Jia Zhangshi is used to being unreasonable, stirring up trouble even when she's wrong? She's smellier than stinking dog shit, people avoid her if they can, but you, you went and threw yourself at her. Now it's good, right? Learned your lesson? You didn't gain any advantage, lost face for nothing, and lost two carts of coal briquettes."

Yan Fugui said angrily: "You still have the nerve to talk? Why didn't you stop her when Jia Zhangshi was chasing and scratching me? Otherwise, would I have been chased into the public toilet? Would I have fallen into that manure pit? Tell me, how did I raise such a useless piece of trash like you!"

The eldest daughter-in-law was unhappy when she heard this: "Dad! How can you say that about Jiecheng! We tried to stop her at the time, but you saw how difficult Jia Zhangshi was, shouting that whoever touched her would have to pay for her coffin money. How could we dare to make a move? If we were extorted by that old hag, would we still be able to live our lives? In the future, should we be filial to you two or to Jia Zhangshi? Tell me, what could we do in that situation?"

Eldest Aunt sighed: "Enough! Stop talking, eat, eat. Old Yan, if you have no appetite, then rest well, don't take things too much to heart. Jia Zhangshi is just that kind of unreasonable person, and it's not like you've only known her for a day. Don't get angry with her, it's not worth it to make yourself sick."

Third Uncle complained: "Speaking of which, this is also Cao Weiguo's fault. He didn't give me, this Third Uncle, any face at all. Tell me, with all that money, why couldn't he spare a little? If he had paid the medical expenses, Jia Zhangshi wouldn't have run to our house to make a scene, and I wouldn't have ended up so disheveled. This Cao Weiguo is cold-hearted, he's a black sheep."

Yan Jiecheng laughed: "You're really right about that, Cao Weiguo is not a good thing. I asked him for help with a job transfer today, and this guy gave me a mouthful of official jargon, saying he wouldn't help no matter what. He has no human touch at all, only cares about profit, what a piece of work. Being his neighbor is really the unluckiest thing in eight lifetimes, I can't benefit from him at all, and I'm constantly implicated by him."

Third Uncle said with a gloomy face: "In the future, our family will have less contact with him. This person is arrogant and only cares about money, he has no conscience. He doesn't think about how, if it weren't for the care of me, this Third Uncle, he wouldn't be able to live so peacefully in the courtyard. Now he looks down on me, this Third Uncle, so in the future, he can forget about me doing any favors for him."

Yan Jiecheng said: "Exactly! Once I transfer to the grain station and become a cadre, he can forget about benefiting from me."

It should be said that Cao Weiguo hasn't been bad to the Yan family and has helped them quite a bit.

If Cao Weiguo hadn't been the middleman, could Yan Jiecheng have joined the steel rolling mill so smoothly?

In his daily life, Cao Weiguo hadn't been stingy with small favors to Third Uncle either.

But Third Uncle and Yan Jiecheng were just never satisfied.

It would be one thing to be arrogant, but they didn't even know how to be grateful.

It truly lived up to the saying: "A handful of rice breeds gratitude, a bushel breeds hatred."

Just because Cao Weiguo didn't give Third Uncle face and didn't take care of Yan Jiecheng at the steel rolling mill, this father and son were full of resentment, completely forgetting the help they had received in the past.

Eldest Aunt suddenly said: "Speaking of work, Eldest, do you know where Yu Li is working now?"

Yan Jiecheng said disappointedly: "She didn't even graduate from junior high, what unit would want her?"

Eldest Aunt said: "You wouldn't even believe it. She's doing great now, she's working at the supply and marketing cooperative, and she's a regular employee." ===== CHAPTER 997 =====