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Chapter 1491: Diverting trouble to the east
This world is always the fairest. You need to fight for the life you want. There is no point in accepting your parents' arrangements like Wu Shanshan.

So after Huang Ling's advice, Wu Shanshan became more serious about studying and worked hard for her goals every day.

Wu Jianguo, who had seen all of this, looked at Zhang A-mei with some reluctance, "A-mei, I see Shanshan is working so hard, how about letting her go to high school?"

"Hmph! Can you afford to take care of three children in our family?" However, Zhang A'mei looked at Wu Jianguo with disdain and asked in return, "If you don't have the ability, don't cause so many problems."

"I..." As expected, Wu Jianguo was left speechless by Zhang A-mei.

"Also! Today's society is so realistic. If there are three children, one or two will always be sacrificed. You won't let Xiao Min suffer any loss or injustice, right?"

"This……"

"Old Wu, the reason I agreed to marry you was entirely because of the promise you made to Xiao Min and me. No one should try to harm Xiao Min's interests."

In the end, Wu Jianguo, who didn't want to be without a wife, knelt down and sang "Conquer," "Alright! Do whatever you want. Can't I just stop saying anything?"

"Old Wu, is it unfair to Shanshan to let her go to a secondary normal school? Isn't it good for her to start working and earn money earlier?" Then Zhang A'mei continued to ask relentlessly.

"Yes! Yes! It's all my fault. I apologize to you here."

"Humph! This is the first time you've contradicted me, and I hope it will be the last time."

"I understand! You still make the decisions about our family affairs."

"Virtue."

……

Nowadays, cotton mills are becoming more and more bustling. Many people who have gone to the countryside are trying to find ways to return to the city, and most of them are bringing their families with them.

At this time, the cotton mill, which was already under great housing pressure, was struggling. Quarrels between families could be heard everywhere, almost all of which were due to acute housing issues.

Especially after Wang Fang, the sister of Wang Yong from the next yard, came back, the two siblings quarreled every day. How could a narrow-minded person like Wang Yong tolerate Wang Fang?

Wang Yong's sister Wang Fang married a Shanghai educated youth when she was working in the countryside, but this does not meet the current policy of returning to the city.

So Wang Fang had to go back to her respective homes with her husband. Wang Fang's husband continued to stay in Shanghai as an illegal resident, while Wang Fang took her daughter back to her hometown in Suzhou. Her brother Wang Yong did not let them into the house at all, and Wang Fang's parents did not care either, just listening to their son scolding their daughter.

Song Ying, who was sitting on the other side of the wall, couldn't accept it and cursed. She felt that Wang Yong next door was too inhuman. "Sister Ling, this Wang Yong is really a piece of shit. He can be so heartless to his own sister."

"Song Ying, it's not the first day you've known Wang Yong. You should be used to it. Have you forgotten that you had a big fight with him on the first day you moved in?" However, Huang Ling shook her head and said disapprovingly.

"How could I forget! I will never forget his treacherous face."

Huang Ling, who was too lazy to ask about other people's family affairs, then called Song Ying to watch the fun, "Let's not talk about Wang Yong's family. Let's go to Yiming's store."

"it is good."

Yiming's business is now growing bigger and bigger. Not only does he own his own stall, he also took advantage of the cotton mill reform to buy a store and open a convenience store.

Today, Yiming officially opened a small shop in the cotton mill. The neighbors nearby came to watch the fun. They also installed a telephone here, and it cost one cent to make a call.

Soon Huang Ling encountered another problem because Pengfei, who was far away in Guizhou, came back and his grandparents wanted all the children to live in the cotton mill.

Huang Ling would definitely not let her children suffer, and now Huang Ling has divorced Suning, so Zhuang's father and mother can't open their mouths at all.

Mother Zhuang looked at her daughter helplessly and explained, not wanting to bother with her daughter's affairs at all. "Hua Lin, you can see now that the situation in the Gan Mei family is like this. There is no way we can take over Peng Fei's affairs."

"What about my eldest brother?" However, Hualin had never relied on his parents. Instead, he had been eyeing that good eldest brother from the very beginning.

Zhuang's father and mother looked at each other and then explained with a wry smile, "Your eldest brother? Didn't Pengfei tell you when he got home? Your eldest brother divorced that Huang Ling a long time ago."

"What? How could this happen?" Hualin, who heard about this for the first time, widened his eyes in surprise.

"The house in the cotton mill was originally allocated to Huang Ling. Now Tunan and Xiaoting are both raised by Huang Ling. Your heartless elder brother doesn't care about your father and me. Now your father and I can only live on the little income we earn from working for the beauty shop. Our lives are really very difficult."

However, Hualin still pleaded with his parents and brother, "Dad, Mom, hurry up, I know it's hard for you, but no matter how hard it is, it's better than ours. Life in Guizhou is really too hard. We absolutely cannot let Pengfei follow our old path."

In the end, Zhuang's parents still wanted to shift the blame elsewhere. "What can we do? We can't talk to Huang Ling anymore. If you don't give up, then go and beg her yourself."

"I……"

Then, Hualin had no choice but to take Pengfei to the cotton mill. However, Huang Ling deliberately asked Zhuang Tunan to take Pengfei out to play, and then asked the embarrassed Hualin to sit down and talk about the matter openly.

Huang Ling looked at her sister-in-law expressionlessly and said, "Hua Lin, I believe you also know that your eldest brother and I are divorced, so there is no way I will agree to let Pengfei live in."

Although she knew it was too much to ask, Hualin still stubbornly forced others to do so, because in her eyes, Pengfei's stay in Suzhou was the most important thing. "Sister-in-law, I know this is really too much, but I really have no choice. I can't just watch Pengfei follow our old path."

"I understand your difficulties! But there's really no way I can help you. The last time Pengfei came to Suzhou for the summer, it was his grandparents who took him to No. 1 Middle School to find Tunan. They were so despicable that they even schemed against a child. So there's no way I'm going to compromise this time."

At this moment, Hualin suddenly knelt down in front of Huang Ling, as if she was the only one in the world with the most difficulties. "Sister-in-law, can I kneel down for you? You've been working hard to take care of Zhuang Tunan and Zhuang Xiaoting, and it wouldn't be a big deal to take care of Pengfei. Please help us. I just want Pengfei to have a bed in Suzhou."

Huang Ling once again flatly rejected Hualin's request. She suddenly felt that the Zhuang family was too selfish. "Impossible! Zhuang Tunan would definitely not agree to let Pengfei live here before he took the college entrance exam. Besides, I have no relationship with your Zhuang family anymore. You can't ask me for help with such a thing."

Seeing that it was impossible to do so, Hualin suddenly played the emotional card, trying to awaken Huang Ling's kind heart. "Sister-in-law, I know this house is a welfare house given to you by the cotton mill. If you don't agree, no one wants to live here. But after Pengfei returned to Guizhou, he kept talking about how good my aunt was to him. I really want the child to live with you!" "I'm sorry! I can't do anything."

Unwilling to give up, Hualin thought of her good brother again. She didn't believe that he would refuse her request for help. "Sister-in-law, can you please ask my brother for me? Let's see what he says first."

However, Huang Ling informed Hualin of Suning's recent situation, which made Hualin completely give up on the idea. "Hualin, maybe you don't know yet? Your eldest brother Zhuang Chaoying has gone abroad to study, and I can't contact him at all now."

"what?"

"Hua Lin, I have nothing to do with your banker anymore. You can't continue to make things difficult for me like this."

"..."

No matter how Hualin begged her, Huang Ling refused to give in and insisted on not letting Pengfei move in.

In addition, Huang Ling has now divorced Suning, so the banker can't ask her for help with the banker's affairs. Now they just think that she is a woman who is easy to talk to.

However, Huang Ling was determined this time. She had to protect her child. She could not let Zhuang Tunan sacrifice and contribute to the Zhuang family all his life like Zhuang Chaoying.

Besides, there are so many poor people in the world. If she were asked to be pitiful, no one would be willing to sacrifice their own interests for others.

However, the young and ignorant Zhuang Tunan was unable to understand Huang Ling, or he perfectly inherited Zhuang Chaoying's inferior genes and learned to be a moral role model without any guidance.

In the evening, Song Ying brought noodles to Huang Ling, then took Zhuang Xiaoting to her home for dinner, leaving the mother and son to talk.

This time, Huang Ling simply let Zhuang Tunan know many secrets of the cotton mill. "Tunan, the neighbor, Mr. Wu, wanted to secretly change Wu Shanshan's application from No. 1 Middle School to a secondary normal school. This would have avoided family conflicts and saved money. If Wu Shanshan hadn't been careful and checked her application form beforehand, her father and stepmother might have succeeded."

"How could this happen?" Zhuang Tunan was shocked when he learned about this for the first time. He didn't expect Wu Shanshan's parents to be so selfish.

"Tunan, this world is so realistic. Otherwise, we wouldn't have come to this point today. I can't risk your future. To me, your college entrance examination and your future are more important than anything else. And to your aunt, Pengfei staying in Suzhou is more important than your future. At this point, I can no longer lower my bottom line to cater to them."

"Mom, I don't understand. Since all parents in the world love their children, why don't grandpa and grandma feel any love for dad and aunt?"

"Tunan, I've already understood it. Because your father is filial enough and willing to obey your grandparents, and your aunt is far away in Guizhou and can't be relied upon for retirement, the old couple dare not offend your uncle and aunt. Whenever there is something good, they always think of your uncle and aunt."

"This……"

"Tunan, look at how capable your father is now. First he went to college, then he took the postgraduate entrance exam, and now he's going to study in the United States. Don't you want to go out and see the world like your father?"

"Mom, haven't you always been unable to accept Dad abandoning us?"

"Silly child, how can a husband and a son be the same? Mom naturally hopes that you can learn from your father and study abroad like your father, so that you don't have to suffer the hardships we have suffered."

"Mom, don't worry! I will never let you down. I've decided to be your pride from now on."

"Okay! Mom believes you."

Zhuang Tunan and Zhuang Xiaoting went to their grandparents' house to give Pengfei study materials. Although there were some things that they, as children, could not change at all, they still maintained this rare innocence.

Aunt Hualin deliberately sent Pengfei away to buy wontons, but Zhuang Tunan was worried that he couldn't carry them all by himself, so he went with him, but ended up being left behind by his sister Zhuang Xiaoting.

Grandpa and grandma kept saying bad things about Huang Ling, and said that the reason why Suning and Huang Ling divorced was because of Huang Ling. Zhuang Xiaoting, who was standing by, naturally couldn't stand it anymore, so she talked back to her grandfather. As a result, her grandfather slapped her. Zhuang Xiaoting was so angry that she ran out of the house crying.

Grandma quickly asked Hualin to go out and chase after them. She knew that once Huang Ling knew about this, she would definitely not let the two old guys off.

After Hualin caught up with Zhuang Xiaoting, she couldn't help crying and complaining, "Wow... Grandpa and grandma are really too mean. They were the ones who forced my parents to divorce, and now they're blaming my mom."

"Xiaoting, how did you know?" Hualin, who was confused about the situation, asked in confusion.

"Aunt, that year my grandmother twisted her ankle. My father was attending university in Shanghai, and my mother had to work three shifts at the cotton mill. It was difficult for her to take care of my brother and me, but she and my grandfather insisted on living at the cotton mill. At night, my grandmother would make a fuss, either drinking water, spitting, or going to the bathroom. This made it impossible for my brother and I to concentrate on classes during the day. In the end, my grandmother's ankle injury had already healed, but my grandmother and grandfather insisted on staying permanently. I had no choice but to rush back and divorce my mother."

"What? How could this happen?"

"Aunt, actually, our whole family likes Pengfei very much. My dad even mailed a lot of things to Pengfei back then. But now we really can't keep Pengfei. My brother is under a lot of pressure to get into college right now."

"Xiaoting, I'm sorry! It's my aunt who made things difficult for you."

"Aunt, it doesn't matter whether Pengfei stays in Suzhou or not. You should let Pengfei go back to Guizhou and study hard, then get admitted to a prestigious university. Then he will naturally have the opportunity to stay in a big city."

"Xiaoting, you're right! It's your aunt and I'm being too picky."

"Aunt, the study materials my brother and I brought are very important. When you return to Guizhou, you must urge Pengfei to study hard. Then we will all go to college."

"..."

In the end, Hualin left Suzhou with Pengfei in disappointment, and suddenly realized that the place where she grew up was no longer the hometown in her heart.

Not only is everything changed, but she is also more sad about the indifference of her relatives. From now on, she can only rely on her son Pengfei.

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(End of this chapter)