Monday 28 June 2021

BTTS 427

 Chapter 427. Want to enter night school


Xu Sheng Qiang didn't really want to come, but he couldn't beat his sister. In the end, he came over.

Seeing the siblings dropping by, Zhou Qing Bai didn't mention anything. Just asked them if they were hungry.

"No need to trouble yourself, Uncle. We came here after eating." Xu Sheng Mei smiled and asked, "I just went to the apartment building. Aunt wasn't at home?"

"At school." Zhou Qing Bai replied.

Xu Sheng Mei responded, "Uncle, we sit around with grandpa and grandma."

"Take these dumplings to your grandma." Zhou Qing Bai packed them in two greased paper bags.

"Okay." Xu Sheng Mei answered. She accepted it and went out of the dumpling shop.

On the way to Father Zhou and Mother Zhou, Xu Sheng Mei lectured: "Are you mute or what? Don't you know how to greet when you see Uncle?"

"Last time you got married, I wanted to stay. I went to find Uncle and he didn't agree!" Xu Sheng Qiang was mad about this.

The last time he came to the capital, he was attracted by the prosperity here. He wanted to stay here. He really wanted to. He swore that he will be obedient, but his uncle refused to let him stay!

"Come on. You're still pinned on that? Do you know how many shops Uncle has opened now? You don't want to be close to him? It can't be that you want him to get close to you, his nephew? What great ability do you have to make him flatter you?" Xu Sheng Mei gritted her teeth.

Xu Sheng Qiang was shocked and asked, "How many shops are there?"

"Last time I went to my grandma, I heard that one more was opened this year. So five already!" Xu Sheng Mei answered.

"So many shops?" Xu Sheng Qiang pursed his lips.

Xu Sheng Mei didn't fly off tangent with him and said: "When we're there and you don't know how to put down your high nose at your grandparent's side, don't think about me protecting you in the future. If anything happens, handle it yourself!"

Xu Sheng Qiang didn't say a word. He reached Father Zhou and Mother Zhou's side and actually knew how to be polite.

It was still their grandson. Although Father Zhou didn't say much, he had asked how he was doing at Zhao Family.

Mother Zhou received the dumplings and cooked them two bowls of dumplings to eat. After Xu Sheng Mei said that many people at the factory were saying that her brother got in through family connection, she spoke, “Really going into it blindly. Come a long way to see people's faces for nothing!"

"If possible, I don't want to go there. My uncle is here. What am I going there for." Finally, Xu Sheng Qiang became promising and said this.

But this was also from the heart.

Zhao Family looked down on him. It wasn't like he didn't know. But his uncle wouldn't let him come. What else could he do besides staying there?

"Who asked you to come here? How great your capability you have, is how great matter you do. If you work hard in the village, can you do badly?" Mother Zhou responded.

Her heart did ache for her grandson. But the adults didn't let him come. He insisted on coming by himself. Who can he blame?

"Grandma, you don't know how good this place is. I'm still young. Of course, I have to look for opportunities outside. Look at Hu Zi and Gang Zi. Didn't they both come here?" Xu Sheng Qiang said.

"Alright. Hurry up and eat dumplings." Mother Zhou ushered.

"I heard from my mother that my uncle went to talk with her and asked her if she would be happy to come here." Xu Sheng Mei's smile appeared forced.

"Your uncle is fooling around. Your parents are so honest. Letting them farm is fine. What business can they do when they come here to do business." Mother Zhou responded.

"I know. My uncle did this after hearing what I said that time. I didn't think about it properly." Xu Sheng Mei said.

Her two parents were genuine country folks. They will only make a fool out of themselves when they come here. She was had enough of it from the wedding banquet last time. They kept stammering.

Now that she brought her brother over to cultivate him. That was alright. She will someone to rely on in the future. As for her parents, they will be like that for a lifetime.

"You see your aunt (Xiao Mei) and uncle and think business is easy to do. What you haven't thought was their educational background." Mother Zhou pointed out.

Again! Educational background!

But when it comes to education, she can’t do anything now she was a daughter-in-law. So Xu Sheng Mei suggested, “Grandma, can you talk with my aunt. How about putting him in night school too? Now he's here, he has to learn something, right?"

"If you want to learn anything, you can talk to your aunt yourself, I won't get involve in this." Mother Zhou straightforwardly answered.

Fourth's wife hadn't let granddaughter and Zhao Jun's matter drop. She was part of the education sector. and the niece she brought over did this kind of thing. Mother Zhou felt that Fourth's wife let her off easily as she hadn't beaten right there and then.

Even her eldest daughter was disliked when she came over. Obviously, Fourth's wife didn't want to interact with them anymore.

Although Mother Zhou felt that Fourth's wife's temperament was too rigid, but who was to blame? It was because granddaughter did it herself!

"Grandma, your words have more effect." Xu Sheng Mei persisted: "What's more, Aunt let Sister Er Ni, Hu Zi, and even Gang Zi go. Can't Qiang Zi go?"

"What's the matter? Does your aunt owe you?" Zhou Xiao Mei, who just got back home, immediately chipped in.

Xu Sheng Mei said: "Aunt, you have misunderstood. I just want Qiang Zi to learn more, so that he won't be like me..."

"You're like this due to your own laziness. Don't say it like you have been wronged. At that time, your aunt was going to send you to night school. It was you who came here to watch TV. Your grandpa, grandma, and us had urged you to study. At that time, you thought we didn’t want you to watch TV.” Zhou Xiao Mei put down her bag and stated.

"Those are all in the past. I know that I used to be ignorant. Now we're talking about the Qiang Zi." Xu Sheng Mei didn't accept her aunt's words very much.

"Don't come to your grandma for everything. Go and talk to your aunt by yourself." Zhou Xiao Mei didn't really want to bother with this niece and dismissed.

Xu Sheng Mei spoke, "Fine. I'll go and talk to Aunt by myself."

Xu Sheng Qiang frowned. He held himself back from speaking. But once he came out of his grandparent's, he couldn't help but say: "Sister, when did I say I'm going to whatever night school? Why didn't you ask grandma and see if Uncle can arrange a position for me? I don't really want to stay at Zhao's side!"

"You want to come over to Uncle? You have to have something to show, otherwise, do you think you can casually enter your uncle's shops?" Xu Sheng Mei refutted.

"Don't say it so greatly. Gang Zi ain't got a fart ability and he was still able to join?" Xu Sheng Qiang harrumphed.

"Isn't Gang Zi obediently going to night school to study now?" Xu Sheng Mei said, "Enough. We still don't know if she'll promise to let you go. First, go to Uncle and see!"

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10 comments:

  1. Ugh these arrogant pair of siblings

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  2. I hope they get to learn their lesson soon.. Thanks for the chapter!

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  3. Hah? How are you so sure Gang Zi has no ability, don't put yourself on such a high horse

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  4. Author really high lifting what fools look like. Not that they can't learn, but refuse to learn won't accept being told they did wrong or what to do to fix. Simply persist in self-righteousness. 😩

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  5. I get that everyone hates Xu Sheng Mei, but I actually really respect her. She has high self confidence to not let any of the way her maternal family treats her get to her. She has a plan and a goal and she's focused. At the beginning she was dumb for not replying on her own efforts to be able to bring her family, but she realized that already and is now is trying her best to walk the path she's chosen. I'm not saying she's a good person, but I respect her. She's strong. Definitely

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    1. What is there to respect about her? She schemed her way to marry into a rich household instead of working hard when opportunity was given to her. The person who was trying to help her, she badmouthed her passively all the time to sow discord in her benefactor's family. She might be jealous of her aunt, otherwise why would she try to find fault in her behaviour? She tried to pit her cousin to marry a woman with bad reputation... just to spite her aunt. She is just a lowly ungrateful sc*m who doesn't think that women can be head and backbone of the family. Otherwise why would she try to act so lowly in front of her in laws, even her own family...in order to bring her brother to city, she didn't even hesitated to kill her own child. She is a horrible woman! I don't understand how people can think highly about her...I question their moral grounds

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    2. Sameee it's like I can actually see someone who got caught up by a white lotus in real life lol

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    3. Sure, respect her for killing her child to get what she wants. AmAzInG sTrOnG woMan.
      More like psychopath

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    4. She has high self-esteem and she won't like anyone talking down on her and pointed out her flaws. But, she doesn't have sufficient weight to such "high self-esteem". That's not "confidence", but "being conceited".

      She has plans and goals and she never let anyone's word and attitude to affect it. The goal (having Capital citizenship) is good, but she chose the "easier", "faster" and more selfish method/plan to do it. A shortcut that would ruin her benefactor's (and their family's) reputation if the benefactor was not as strong as LQH. That didn't show her (XSM) strength. Instead, it show how shortsighted, ungrateful, and weak she was. She never heed LQH's and the other Zhou's word of advices. Instead, she felt wronged when they gave her advices. Once again, it didn't show her resolve/determination on her original plan. It shows her stupidity, stubbornness, and arrogance.

      Now she regret how she didn't learn to read and write from ZHY. It doesn't mean she has changed her way of relying on other people (men) to elevate her state. It used to be her (future) husband's state. Now, she pushes that burden on XSQ. If she really changed, she would asked the Zhao to let her learn to read and write, then attend some night school herself. Sure, she'd lose some face at the beginning (because it's the same as acknowledging that she's an illiterate and uneducated). She wouldn't lose much, tho. The Zhao most probably have already known about it, it's just a confirmation for them. And it would be much better than living a servitude life because of marrying a useless prodigal without any ground to support herself and ability to protect herself.

      As for being protective of her family. I prefer to believe she had been sincerely protective and having good intention for her family in the past. But, after her narration about her parents and XSQ in this chapter? I'll hold in my opinion about that.

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