Three Women in the Cage

After a few days of feeling lost at home, one day, a deliveryman came to my door with an envelope. "Yang Yu? Here's a letter for you. Come out and sign for it!"

Yang Yu looked at the envelope again and again in confusion! Could it be from Zhang Er? Didn't he even refuse to answer his own calls?

With doubts, Yang Yu tore open the envelope and saw a thick bag inside. The bag was very beautiful and exquisite.

Yang Yu curiously took the bag and opened it. A neat stack of hundred-yuan bills appeared before his eyes! Yang Yu was startled at first, but then he calmed down and took the envelope. Seeing the words "Yang Yu" written on it, he confirmed that it was his envelope!

Afraid that he was dazzled, he took the purse again and took a closer look. It was indeed a genuine hundred-dollar bill!

With trembling hands, she carefully took out the stack of bills and counted them carefully. She counted them several times in a row. It was a full three thousand yuan! This was a huge sum of money, almost as much as she had borrowed from the bank!

Yang Yu wondered who had sent her so much money! She couldn't figure it out, looking at the purse beside her. She threw it aside, but she didn't expect a small, elegant piece of paper to fall out of it.

It was written elegantly on it, "Sister! I'm sorry! I promised you last time on the phone, and because of my sister-in-law's ignorance, I embarrassed you! But don't worry, this is my separate money, I got an advance on my salary from the school. Last time you called, you didn't say how much you wanted to borrow, so I sent it all to you! I don't know if it's enough? Take these for now, and if you still need more, call me again and I'll send you more! Thanks to you for taking care of my parents at home, and now I have made some progress, and I should help my family! Sister, don't be polite with me, you don't have to pay this money back, you can keep it for yourself! By the way, we will come back for the Chinese New Year this year, and your sister-in-law is pregnant, and I want to see my family before the baby is born! Sister, come over earlier then! That's all I'm writing for now, take care of yourself!"

After reading it, Yang Yu realized that it was the money that his third brother had secretly sent him! As expected, his third brother still hadn't forgotten the brother-sister relationship they had shared for so many years! Yang Yu smiled with relief! This brother's love for him was not in vain!

I just don't know if my sister-in-law will quarrel with him if she finds out! No matter how deep the relationship between siblings was, even if they each have their own families and get married, they cannot escape the ties of family.

You can never give equal attention to your own home and your former home! Slowly, your feelings for your former home fade with the passage of time. And after having children, your home becomes increasingly divided, slowly taking up your entire thoughts! Then, you can no longer spare a single thought to think about, linger on, or even make up for your former home!

People always try to retain, cherish, and compensate for those regrets and things they couldn't grasp! In the end, nothing is retained, everything is lost, and everything becomes regret!

I didn’t take good care of my previous home, and I don’t live well in my current home either! I feel lost and dazed, and I haven’t done anything well!

Yang Yu held the stack of money and carefully put it into the box in the cabinet, together with the money he borrowed from the bank!

After some calculations, I now have 6,000 yuan, and I only need 2,000 yuan to prepare the materials and start construction!

The next day, Yang Yu came to his sister Yang Su's house again, but he did not see Yang Su this time. She said that Yang Su had gone to visit relatives and had not returned yet.

After hearing Chi Mu's answer, Yang Yu was unwilling to make a wasted trip, so she ignored the man's indifference and asked tentatively, "Chi Mu, some time ago, I talked to Yang Su about borrowing money. She said she wanted to discuss it with you and asked me to come and get it in a few days! So, I thought it would be a few days later, so I came to take a look?"

Chi Mu naturally knew about this, but he didn't have much spare money, and most of the family's money was managed by his parents.

He also didn't want to lend the money, but he couldn't say it directly, so he pretended to be ignorant and said perfunctorily, "Is that true? Susu didn't mention it to me! Maybe she forgot. I'll ask her when she comes back!"

Yang Yu knew he was joking, so she didn't know what to say, so she replied awkwardly, "Okay, I'll go back first. When she comes back, you can ask her. I'll come back in a few days!"

Yang Yu thought, when she borrowed money from her eldest brother's parents, her sister-in-law controlled the money. When she borrowed money from her youngest sister, her husband and parents-in-law controlled the money. When she borrowed money from her third brother, her sister-in-law controlled the money. It seemed that everyone she could borrow money from had lost the power to make decisions, and she was caught in the middle! If she wanted to borrow money from them, it would be difficult for them, and for herself!

In the end, Yang Yu had to be thick-skinned and looked for Yang Su several times. Finally, Yang Su couldn't keep avoiding his elder sister, so he quarreled with Chi Mu several times. Finally, he got a thousand yuan and lent it to his elder sister!

After counting, he found he had 7,000 yuan! Yang Yu finally sold his livestock and poultry, as well as some grain, and scraped together the money.

Thinking that the bricks and slabs used to build the house would be shoddy if bought from outside, he was worried and decided to call a bricklayer to come to his house and personally supervise the bricklaying.

However, this would make the process more complicated. However, Yang Yu is a very patient and responsible person. Since she spent money to renovate the house, she must ensure the quality of the house. She cannot spend money and end up with a house that is just a showpiece!

So on hot days one after another, Yang Yu carried rows of stone bricks one after another to dry in the sun!

The stone bricks made of pure raw materials were heavy and bulky, weighing about ten pounds. Yang Yu was busy every day drying them in the sun, sweating profusely.

She would often be in the yard in the middle of the night, carrying bricks by the moonlight. After school, the three children would accompany their mother. Xinxin would use all her breastfeeding strength to carry the bricks, wanting to help her mother finish the work quickly, otherwise she would have to work until who knows how late!

After two months, the bricks and slate were finally completed! My eldest brother Yang Yi also brought a team of workers, and under his arrangement and supervision, the renovation of the house began!

The family behind them felt unhappy when they saw that Yang Yu, a woman, could also build a house. They themselves hadn't even moved into the new house, but she, a woman who had given birth to several daughters, was the first to move into the new house!

She invited a bunch of women to her yard, gossiping about Yang Yu's family every day! When the renovation workers asked her to cut down the orange trees that were getting in the way, she yelled, "Who dares to touch my orange trees? It's none of my business if her family is renovating their house? Why are you cutting down my orange trees? No way! Absolutely not!"