When Wei Xuan heard that Li Juan had actually brought up divorce, she was completely stunned; her first reaction was that it was impossible.
"How could that be." Wei Xuan knew exactly what her younger brother’s and sister‑in‑law’s relationship was like. " and Gao Zhen might end up divorced, but the two of them would never get divorced."
Seeing that she didn’t believe what she’d said, the coworker got anxious. "I really didn’t lie to you. If you don’t believe , you can go to the hospital and ask around."
"At your sister‑in‑law’s work unit, everyone’s saying your sister‑in‑law is going to divorce your brother." Her source was absolutely reliable; it was definitely true.
Huh? After hearing her coworker even spell out where the news ca from, Wei Xuan knew she probably wasn’t lying. After all, with sothing like this, you just had to go to the hospital and casually ask around a bit to hear about it.
"How could this happen." Wei Xuan still really couldn’t make sense of it. "Obviously Wei He is pretty good to his wife."
You had to know that sotis Wei Xuan was really jealous of Li Juan. They were both won, but their status at ho was worlds apart.
Wei He was really good to Li Juan; anything she so much as thought of, he would make happen. Li Juan never needed to show her face for anything with his family; Wei He arranged everything down to the last detail. How had such a good man not ended up with her?
She used to think Gao Zhen was pretty good too, but now, compared to Wei He, Gao Zhen was really miles behind.
She clearly already had such a good man, yet she didn’t know how to cherish him and kept stirring up trouble. Wei Xuan really couldn’t understand it.
As for her coworker’s questions, all Wei Xuan could do was give a bitter smile. "I had a bit of a falling‑out with the family. As for what exactly happened, I really don’t know."
She figured sothing this big couldn’t be sothing the family knew nothing about. Otherwise there was no way that woman Li Juan would be saying all this outside.
Forget it, whatever the case, she’d better go to the hospital first and find out what was going on.
If she really had brought up divorce, that wasn’t so small matter; she had to go back and show so concern for her parents.
If her parents got moved and agreed to let them move back ho, that would be ideal. When they first moved out, she’d thought she was plenty prepared, yet she still hadn’t expected life after moving out to be so far beyond what she imagined.
Like how the monthly rent turned out to be 15 yuan. But compared to living with the Gao Family, the good part was that they now had two rooms. That was much more comfortable than that half‑room at the Gao Family. More importantly, there was light in the room, which was the part she was most satisfied with.
As for the expenses, she’d really been shocked. Take away the 5 yuan they sent to the Gao Family every month, and their total expenses for a family of four didn’t even reach thirty yuan.
Add in the rent and the support money to the Gao Family, the total was just covered by Gao Zhen’s salary; Wei Xuan could still save all of her own wages.
Yes, that’s right—this ti, after splitting off from the family, Wei Xuan really had learned a lot, like not blowing through all her money anymore.
When they were driven out by the Gao Family back then, they’d had practically no money on hand—she’d been through that kind of misery once and had no intention of ever going through it again.
In the few months since they’d moved out, Wei Xuan was surprised to find that she’d actually saved two hundred yuan.
This made her overjoyed. You had to know that in all the years she’d been married to Gao Zhen, counting her wages together with what she’d "sheared off" her parents’ house, there had to have been at least five thousand.
And how much savings did they have? It was downright pitiful—altogether, it didn’t even add up to a hundred.
That was even after she’d stopped spending her own money. Looking at the cash in front of her, Wei Xuan was absolutely delighted and excitedly reported the good news to Gao Zhen.
"This ti we hit two hundred. I believe one day we’ll definitely be able to save more and more money."
"We’ll never be as wretched as we were before." On this point, Wei Xuan was absolutely confident.
In her excitent, Wei Xuan didn’t notice at all that while she was so worked up, soone else wasn’t the least bit excited. In fact, his expression looked a little guilty toward her.
Although they had money on hand now, Wei Xuan still felt it wasn’t enough. Why was it that her parents’ family just looked down on her in every possible way? Wasn’t it just because they knew she didn’t have money? If she had a bit of money in hand, would they still treat her like that?
Right, what she wanted now was to save as much as possible. But she was already being as frugal as she could; there was simply no way to cut back any further.
The only thing they could possibly economize on was the support money for the Gao Family, but there was no way around that. If they hadn’t agreed to pay that money back then, the Gao Family never would have agreed to anything.
The only expense that could be reduced, after much thought, was the rent.
The best solution, of course, would be if her work unit could allocate them a place. But she’d already asked, and the chances of that were really slim. There were loads of people with housing difficulties in the subdistrict; she really didn’t count among the worst off.
As for the furniture factory, there were also plenty of workers with housing problems; there were heaps of people with nowhere to live. Gao Zhen had already submitted an application for a housing assignnt, but who knew how many years it would be before anything ca of it.
Every ti she thought of having to hand over that much in rent every month, it made Wei Xuan’s heart ache. So she set her sights on moving back to her parents’ ho.
If they moved back, the benefits wouldn’t just be saving on rent. More importantly, Zhang Yu would, from ti to ti, improve the kids’ food at ho.
If they moved back in, of course those "benefits" wouldn’t pass her children by.
She hadn’t exactly done nothing to try to move back. Unfortunately, when she’d told Wei Dazhi how hard her life was,
she had already seen all kinds of pity on the old man’s face and thought it was in the bag. Who would’ve guessed that sothing which felt like a done deal would just fizzle out with no follow‑up.
That had really made her furious, but she didn’t dare go question Wei Dazhi, for fear that her own old mother would jump out at her.
Sigh, it was really a headache. With no hope on Wei Dazhi’s end, she started thinking: why not talk to Li Juan and tell her not to file for divorce.
After all, when you live together, there are always little conflicts. If you just endure a bit, it passes. She didn’t believe that if she managed to talk Li Juan out of the divorce, her parents wouldn’t give her so kind of response.
By then she’d ntion how expensive the rent was and so on—she didn’t believe her parents wouldn’t loosen up.
Yes, that was it. Thinking of this, Wei Xuan got really excited and rushed straight to the hospital at noon during her lunch break.
So things had to be done quickly. If they really got divorced, or if Zhang Yu and the others found out and stepped in to talk them out of it and the couple decided not to divorce, then it would have nothing to do with her.
With that in mind, Wei Xuan pedaled faster and faster, picturing the wonderful days of moving back to her parents’ place.
She believed that as long as she moved back, she’d definitely be able to win over Zhang Yu again. Back when she’d lived there, she’d been able to sweet‑talk Old Mrs. Zhang until the old lady didn’t know which way was up; there was no reason she couldn’t do it now.
Just then, she suddenly noticed soone coming out of the bank. That made her very curious—what was going on, how was he coming out of the bank?
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