When Kong Bamei saw her in-law like this, she had a lot to say but she couldn’t say it out loud.
In her heart, she blamed her daughter for saying such a harsh thing.
Family members always loved each other. From Kong Bamei’s standpoint, she naturally hoped that her daughter could get more benefits so that she could live well even if she remarried in the future.
But now her daughter promised not to remarry before the children were old enough to understand and had also promised not to take a penny of the pension.
When her daughter was over 30 years old and had nothing, what kind of good family could she marry?
Kong Bamei was a little anxious. She thought that she had to have a good talk with her daughter in the evening, asking her not to be so kind and to think more about herself.
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“Old woman, how much money do you have?”
When going to bed at night, Kuang San asked Third Grandma Xu who was beside him.
“Probably more than 400 yuan left.” Third Grandma Xu said that most of this money came from the five yuan pension given by the second son every month.
The elders always had the idea of equalizing wealth. They wanted the child who had a better life to help the one who had a harder life, and the Kuang couple was no exception.
Before the family separated, Kuang San built several magnificent brick houses for each of his sons. He relied on the money he earned from private work and the monthly allowances sent back by his second son during his years in the army.
It could be said that the second son suffered a loss in this regard. The eldest and youngest sons more or less benefited from the second son.
After the family separated, Third Grandma Xu asked the second son to give them five yuan a month as a pension.
In fact, she also wanted to help the eldest and youngest sons because these two sons had no ability and would inevitably need the support of the elders in the future.
The allowance of the second son minus the five yuan was still enough for Ye Wu and his children to live well.
The situation outside has become even more tense these days. Kuang San hadn’t received any private carpentry work for three months. He was afraid that he wouldn’t receive any for a long time.
“I think we can’t take the second son’s pension. We are not too old to not work yet. We can save the money for our retirement. Zhuangwa and Baowa are pitiful. They lost their father at a young age. Although Ye Wu is a good woman, how much can she earn as a woman? How much money can she save for the children?”
Kuang San sighed.
When the second son was alive, he didn’t think that there was anything wrong with letting the second son subsidize the eldest and youngest sons.
Now that the second son died, he realized how difficult life would be for Ye Wu and her children after the family lost the pillar.
Kuang San regretted it a little.
“I didn’t think about it at first.”
Third Grandma Xu said quietly.
“It was the best decision I ever made to marry the daughter of the Ye family to the second son.”
Third Grandma Xu thought, if she had arranged the daughter of the Jin family for her second son, what would happen now?
Jin Qiaoqiao had never been quiet since she married into the Zhang family.
She either quarreled with her mother-in-law and sister-in-law or scolded her brother-in-law and sister-in-law.
She also complained to others that the Zhang family spent their money and did not give her any chance to make a living.
Zhang Youdong’s mother was indeed not a good person. She was stingy, miserly, and shrewd.
However, the youngest twins of the Zhang family had not yet married, and the Zhang family had not separated. There was nothing wrong with Zhang Youdong using the money he earned to help his family from a moral point of view.
On the contrary, Jin Qiaoqiao kept saying that her in-laws were harsh on her, but Third Grandma Xu saw Jin Qiaoqiao several times at the market, tearing cloth to make clothes and going to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy clam oil and red hairbands. She was generous and unrestrained. She did not look like someone who was being bullied at all.
The same was true when working in the fields.
Although she was doing the easiest work, people could often hear her muttering and complaining. Her actions and attitudes were more spoiled than those of city girls.
If Jin Qiaoqiao had been the one who married the second son, Third Grandma Xu couldn’t imagine what would happen now.
Sure enough, she had to treat the second son’s wife better.
Third Grandma Xu silently thought in her heart.
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Lucien On ABRWF Chapter 34.1
I do wonder if Jiang Baobao will suffer in the end like previous ogFLs cuz she seems to be our ally right now
Jin Qiaoqiao wasn’t especially pitiful in her previous life either and there’s nothing wrong with the dead husband’s family to support an adopted kid under their son’s name with the money he earned for his sacrifice, if she chooses to remarry. And she also had the full use of the husband’s money when he was alive and the parents didn’t take that money away. Isn’t it her own fault if she chose to spend it instead of saving… She just seems to be an entitled brat… Ye Wu saved around 500 yuan during the time her husband was alive.