Loving you, no regrets 9:39:00 [Let's not get off topic, who messed with those guys?]

Urban Lonely Person 9:40:53 [I don't know who did this, but everyone's in trouble anyway]

Holding the reins of power 9:41:32 [I was one of the victims back then]

Men Never Give Up 9:42:58 [Most of the people in this group have been bullied by them, or if not by them, by those small gangs.]

Handsome Young Master 9:43:57 [Who in the county town dares to beat them up? I'll pay you 500 yuan per beating.]

Chrysanthemums are blooming at 9:45:00 [Really?]

Chrysanthemums are blooming. 9:45:46 [We're in the county town; just let us know, and we'll go.]

……

Yao Ning's eyes flickered when she saw this.

After adding the netizen "Chrysanthemum in Bloom" and chatting for half an hour, I heard footsteps at the door, so I quickly logged out of QQ and went to lie down on the bed.

It was Sister Wu. As soon as she came in, she saw Yao Ning lying on the bed in a daze and said to Yao Ning, "Yao Ning, do you want me to go and bring the two children over for you to see?"

“Okay, I haven’t seen the child since I woke up this morning, I miss him.”

"Then wait a moment," Sister Wu said as she went to the next room.

Yao Ning looked at the child lying beside her, so well-behaved and with a clean face. The older brother had his big eyes open, as if he wanted to chat with her. He would laugh whenever she teased him, like the warm winter sun.

My little sister looked sleepy, her eyes half-closed, but she quickly opened them again when she heard her mother's voice. She was so cute.

Both children are very beautiful, like porcelain dolls. Relatives who come to see the children say they look like Yan Zhiming, but she can't see the resemblance. The children haven't fully grown yet.

They were two soft, white little dumplings. Yao Ning kept staring at them, unable to get enough of them. She lay down on the bed with them, wrapped up tightly because it was cold, as Yao Ning was afraid they wouldn't be able to breathe.

Every now and then they would loosen the blankets for them, and then they would check to see if the blankets were properly covering them; they were always worried about them.

Seeing that she was busy running around, Sister Wu was worried that she wouldn't get enough rest, so she suggested that they take the baby back to feed him formula.

Yao Ning was worried that Huihui and Xixi would go hungry, so she had to let her take them to be breastfed.

After the child was taken away, she went back to sleep.

When she woke up at noon, Chen's mother and the others had already returned. Their room was far from the living room, and she didn't hear any noise. It was Yan Zhiming who brought her food and told her.

After lunch, Chen's mother came over to chat with Yao Ning. Chen's mother said, "Xiao Ning, I went to the wholesale market with your mother-in-law today. Many things here are cheaper than what we sell at our local market. Do you think I could make money if I bought things here and brought them back to our local market to sell?"

Yao Ning looked at her mother with some surprise: "How did you come up with these thoughts?"

Chen's mother wasn't the type to do business; without someone giving her pointers, she felt she wouldn't have thought of it.

Mrs. Chen felt a little uncomfortable, but she told the truth: "Well, it was your mother-in-law who told me. She said that if we buy goods from here and sell them in our countryside, we can definitely make money. Even if we don't make a lot of money, we can still make a little money."

Yao Ning thought about it and realized why her mother had given her advice. It must have been out of concern for her and out of guilt.

Do you have the capital?

"Yes, but not much. Your mother-in-law said she wanted to lend it to me. I didn't want to lend it to her at first, but she analyzed it for me and said that this money could be earned."

Yao Ning thought about it for a moment. She also hoped that her family could get back on their feet. Now the family needed to build a house and her younger brother needed to go to school. In her previous life, she could help them, but now that she was married, no one was helping them. She had to find a way out for them, so that her parents wouldn't have to go far away to work.

She got out of bed, went to the wardrobe to get money, and took out all the cash. These were the red envelopes that relatives had given her when they visited her in the hospital. Yao Ning counted them; there were more than 60,000 yuan.

She counted out 30,000 yuan for her mother. 30,000 yuan is a lot of money now; it can be used to build a one-story house in the countryside.

When Chen's mother saw the money her daughter offered, she refused it outright and scolded her, "Don't take our son-in-law's money so easily. Although our family is poor, we're not the kind of family that sells its daughters. If you weren't married, I could rightfully ask you for money, but now you're a member of the Yan family. Don't let your in-laws look down on you for taking care of your own family."

"Mom, this is my secret stash of money." Yao Ning handed the money to her mother. "Don't worry, Zhiming won't mind, and even if he finds out, he won't say anything."

Mrs. Chen still hesitated, "This..."

Yao Ning stuffed the money into her hand, "Just take it. Didn't you say you wanted to start a small business? This is the start-up capital. In our current situation, we can't just rely on working. Use this money to buy some goods and try selling them. If it goes well, we can buy a house in the county town later. Only when you are doing well will I have no burden."

That last sentence is the absolute truth.

Upon hearing this, a hint of emotion and determination flashed in Chen's mother's eyes. "Okay, Xiaoning, Mom will listen to you. I'll owe you this for now and pay you back later. I'm going to buy some goods with your dad this afternoon, and I'll be home later. Take good care of yourself."

Yao Ning nodded and said politely, "Why don't you stay here for a few more days?"

Mother Chen: "Now that you know you can make money, you can't sit still. You should rest well and take advantage of your postpartum period to get rid of all your old ailments."

He patted her hand again, then turned and left in a hurry.

Watching her mother's departing figure, and the clothes she was wearing, even her best clothes, looked very old.

Her mother used to always speak harshly to her, perhaps because they wanted to establish their authority and control her, or perhaps because they couldn't control their own emotions.

So all their bad moods were borne by her, the least important daughter in the family.

She can't afford to make any mistakes, otherwise, no matter if you're right or wrong, she'll slap Yao Ning on the back anytime, anywhere.

If her mother is tired from work or in a bad mood, she will find fault with everything. For example, if the floor wasn't swept today, the chickens weren't fed, or there wasn't enough firewood at home, these are all reasons for her to scold her.

For example, they would say things like, "They work themselves to the bone so she won't starve, so she can go to school, so they can support her, and how hard they have to work," etc. She had no idea that she alone could be a burden on the whole family.

It was the frequent criticism and denial that made her feel misunderstood and unsupported, and over time, she developed a fear of and a desire to avoid her parents.

How can someone who grows up being emotionally blackmailed by family and subjected to constant negativity be confident?

As a result, she became increasingly insecure and her mental health deteriorated.

I'm physically exhausted, and mentally exhausted too.

But does that mean you can ignore your parents just because you're doing well? No, you can't. If you don't help your parents when you can, then you're not doing so.

If they don't have a good life in the future, and they need money for something, won't they still have to rely on her? Won't she have to bear the burden?

Blood ties cannot be severed, especially since her parents supported her through university.

Yao Ning only received her mother's care and well-intentioned advice after getting married. Sometimes she hated her mother to death, and other times she felt sorry for her.

And so the cycle continued, and in her previous life she was caught in all sorts of incurable entanglements.

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