After the female supporting character in the quick transmigration series realized her mistakes

Chen's mother patiently and earnestly remonstrated, saying, "You're so young, why do you always want to take shortcuts? As long as you can endure hardship, how much money can't you earn? You're a college student, that's a golden ticket."

The thing that makes Chen's mother most proud is that her child is a college student.

"If you can endure hardship, there will be endless hardship. Can't you and your father endure hardship? How much money have you earned?"

Chen's mother continued her incessant lecturing, clearly having forgotten that Yao Ning had already brought her future husband home: "Can you be like us? We suffered greatly because we were uneducated, so we could only do manual labor. Look at your Uncle Luo, he only went to primary school, which is why he was able to become a village cadre and easily earn a salary while sitting at home."

You sit in the office all day and easily make eight hundred yuan, unlike us who work ourselves to the bone and can't even save a thousand yuan a year.

"Heh, you think sitting in an office is easy? If that's really your thinking, there's nothing I can do about it."

Yao Ning didn't want to listen to her mother's nagging, so she quickly changed the subject: "Is the food ready? Let me help you set the table."

Only then did Mrs. Chen realize that she had gone off on a tangent.

"Go next door and call your great-grandfather and great-aunt to come and keep the guests company. I've already told them I'd like to invite them over for a meal."

Yao Ning replied, "Oh."

He turned around and shouted, "Dad, Mom wants you to go and invite Grandpa and Great-Aunt to come over for dinner."

Upon hearing this, Mr. Chen greeted Yan Zhiming and left. When Yan Zhiming saw that as soon as he got home, Yao Ning was like a frightened deer, keeping her distance from him as if she was afraid that her family would notice something amiss, he couldn't help but laugh and scold her.

When the two couples, the great-grandfather and great-aunt, arrived, they bombarded Yan Zhiming with questions, as if trying to uncover every detail about him. The great-aunt, being educated, was able to exchange a few words with Yan Zhiming.

Yao Ning then moved the table to the main room, set out the bowls and chopsticks, and then loudly called out to the people who were chatting enthusiastically in the courtyard, signaling that it was time to eat.

Today, Mrs. Chen slaughtered all the chickens that she treasured at home and stewed them into a large pot, filling it with a wonderful aroma.

In rural areas, chicken is usually cooked by stewing. People think it's too wasteful to stir-fry it. Stewing not only allows you to enjoy the delicious chicken soup, but also prevents the chicken meat from becoming dry, which is really not worthwhile.

In addition, there is stewed radish with cured pork trotters. These cured pork trotters were made by Mrs. Chen using this year's pig. The family always has cured meat, all from their own pigs. It is an essential item for the family every year. With cured meat, there is no need to spend money to buy meat.

Anyway, ever since Yao Ning could remember, apart from the New Year or when the village slaughtered pigs, she could only taste fresh pork. All year round, whenever she wanted to eat meat, she almost always ate cured pork.

The oil is rendered from our own pigs, but every year around the end of the year, in the third or fourth month, the oil goes bad and makes your throat hurt when you eat it.

On the square table were potato slices, peanuts, cold eggplant salad, and cured sausages—everything the family had was on display.

To be honest, at this moment, Yao Ning felt like a guest. When she came home from school before, her family had never treated her with such hospitality, and her family had never said such thoughtful words as "You've come back once in a while, so make some delicious food."

It seems that once a woman gets married, all the grievances she suffered before vanish. Back home, her mother becomes polite and respectful, and gives her face in front of others.

Not only that, her mother would also remind her to be kind to her in-laws, to be filial to her parents-in-law, and not to let others gossip behind her back or laugh at her for not raising her daughter well, etc.

Once everyone had arrived, since the table was full of elders, Yan Zhiming, despite being about the same age as Chen's father, still considered himself a junior.

After toasting everyone, he explained his purpose, expressing his desire to marry Yao Ning. He said that any requirements could be discussed privately first, and then a suitable day would be chosen for a matchmaker to come and propose marriage.

……

After dinner, as darkness fell, neighbors came over to visit, wanting to see the Chen family's new son-in-law.

As soon as Wang's daughter-in-law entered the door, she bombarded Chen's mother with questions: "Li Lan, is your Yao Ning getting married? What do you think of the man she brought home?"

"It's really strange, isn't it? Your Yao Ning used to look like a docile lamb, so how come she brought a man back without saying a word this time?"

Seeing her sarcastic attitude, Chen's mother wasn't going to let her get away with it and immediately retorted, "Your Qianqian is the same age as my Yaoning. Yaoning has been working for two years after graduating from university and still sends half of her salary back every month. Your Qianqian wants to go and work, so why don't you let her? At least she can earn some income."

The people around chimed in, "Yes, girls are like flowers. They need to go out and see the sunshine. If you keep them cooped up at home, they'll never grow up."

"That's right, I had Jianying work in a garment factory, and she can send back 300 yuan a month to help with household expenses."

"Does your Jianying send money back every month? I've never heard you mention it. You're really good at keeping secrets. I tell you everything, and you still try to play tricks on me?"

"...Hehe." He'd let it slip.

Wang's daughter-in-law continued to fan the flames: "That's right, Luo Ermei, you and Chen Jing seem so close all the time, it doesn't seem like you're really that good."

Luo Ermei and Chen Jing immediately shut their mouths. Although they felt a little uncomfortable about this, they would never let Wang's daughter-in-law laugh at them.

Someone else asked Chen's mother, "Li Lan, where is Yao Ning's friend from? Is it far from here?"

"His family is from Xinshi."

What does he do?

"According to Yao Ning, she did some small business."

"He looks much older than Yao Ning."

"It's good to be older; older men know how to take care of people better."

When someone asks a question, Chen's mother answers with the same words that Yao Ning had used to refute her mother. Now, Chen's mother is using them again.

……

After resting at home for two days, Yao Ning returned to the county town with Yan Zhiming to attend Yan Wenya's wedding. However, Yao Ning did not attend the ceremony after returning.

After Yan Wenya's wedding, Yao Ning had to go home because the Yan family needed to send a matchmaker to propose marriage, discuss betrothal gifts, and the parents of both sides needed to meet to set a wedding date and make wedding preparations.

After this series of procedures, Yao Ning had lost a lot of weight, looking as if several strands of her soul had been taken away, leaving her extremely haggard.

After holding a banquet at the woman's home, they held a smaller banquet at the man's home.

On her wedding day, Chen Yaodong took leave to come back home. Watching his sister get married, he felt a little bitter, thinking that his sister would definitely not be the best match for him in the future, and he secretly cried for a long time.

After the wedding, Chen's mother gave all the betrothal money to Yao Ning. Apart from the expenses for the banquet, there was still 12,000 yuan left. Yao Ning did not take any other appliances or other items with her.

Yao Ning didn't refuse the bride price; she silently accepted the money. Before leaving, Yan Zhiming gave each of the four elders in the family a red envelope containing 5,000 yuan.

Yan Zhiming still felt that the amount given was too little, after all, they had raised such an outstanding daughter. Regardless of the past, the fact that Yao Ning was able to study and that her family did not suppress her was already something to be grateful for.

But Yao Ning politely refused. She knew she couldn't indulge her parents' greed. She could say that she had used her own dowry money to make up for the money, and she absolutely couldn't say that it was her son-in-law's money.

The Chen family adheres to the concept that "a married daughter is like water spilled from a bowl." They believe that married women can visit each other as relatives and show filial piety to their elders, but they cannot make demands.

Therefore, in their eyes, all the money Yao Ning earned after marrying into the Yan family should belong to the Yan family.

Yao Ning noticed these things from her grandfather's sisters. Her grandfather and his sisters were afraid of troubling their in-laws, so they wouldn't bother their aunts unless there was something that required their visits.