Chapter 2 2. Facing reality
"How did you get here?" Du Yuan was still in a daze. If he hadn't pinched his arm, he would have thought he was dreaming.
Jiao Lanhua was silent for a moment, her eyes suddenly turned red, and tears fell down.
This made Du Yuan feel at a loss for a moment and subconsciously looked at his second brother Du Chuan.
Seeing this, Du Chuan could only smile bitterly and shake his head. What can he do about this kind of thing?
Fortunately, the little girl spoke at this time, "Dad, it was grandma who kicked my mother and I out. My mother and I had no place to go, so we came to see our father."
Voice After falling, the house fell into silence for an instant, and Du Yuan was trembling all over.
Their home is nearly a thousand kilometers away from the capital!
"Didn't I agree with them that you would stay a little longer and pick you up when I make arrangements here?" Du Yuan said tremblingly.
Although Jiao Lanhua didn't say it, he knew how much hardship Jiao Lanhua suffered on the way to the capital with Tingting, an orphan and widower.
A journey of a thousand kilometers, not to mention orphans and widows, even adult men will shed their skin after just one trip.
Jiao Lanhua wiped her tears and said with some choking: "I haven't contacted my family for half a year, not even a letter. They said you don't want us anymore."
Speaking of this, Jiao Lanhua couldn't help but burst into tears. During this period, she had suffered too many injustices.
Actually, the grievances in the family are nothing. The most grievance is that Du Yuan has been away for half a year and there is no news at all. In addition, similar news often comes from some places around, both men and women. , all educated youths returned to the city, and then abandoned their original families.
All of these combined make Jiao Lanhua unable to help but shake her belief no matter how much she believes in it.
After that, her stepmother kicked them out.
She came to the capital all the way from her hometown. She suffered too much on the way. She climbed the train, begged for food, begged...
If she hadn't met a kind person on the way, he was from a work unit in the capital. The truck driver, seeing how pitiful they were, hearing their plight, and just returning to the capital, brought them back along the way. He didn't know how much more suffering they would suffer.
Otherwise, let alone a month, even if she is given a few more months, she may not be able to reach the capital. Even accidents on the road are normal. The road now is not smooth.
What's more, going to many places now requires a letter of introduction, especially the capital. If they are found without a letter of introduction, they will be sent back to their hometown as blind immigrants.
Jiao Lanhua sobbed and recounted the situation along the way, which made Du Chuan very worried.
Du's mother had already burst into tears. When she was sure that these two women were Du Yuan's wife and children, she recognized them more in her heart.
This is even more true now. He directly held the little girl Tingting in his arms and wiped her tears.
"Grandma, don't cry, Tingting didn't even cry." The little girl wiped her grandma's tears very sensibly.
How could Mrs. Du stand this? Of the four children in her family, none of them had been considerate since childhood. Now that a little cotton-padded jacket suddenly appeared and she was her own granddaughter, her heart melted.
"Grandma didn't cry, she didn't cry. You two have suffered because our family is so sorry for you." Mother Du quickly wiped her tears, but she couldn't wipe them away.
As for Du Yuan, he murmured and explained: "I...I am too embarrassed to write to you. I wanted to take you back after I settled down in the city. Who knows when I come back? , I can't find a job at all..."
He didn't think about abandoning his wife and daughter, but thought that after he found a job and could support his family, he would let his wife and daughter come over.
But for more than half a year, he couldn't be assigned any work at all. Now there are too many people waiting to be assigned.
It was not his turn at all, and even some odd jobs were hard to find.
After hearing Du Yuan's explanation, Jiao Lanhua felt a little less aggrieved. At least her husband didn't abandon the idea of their mother-in-law. This was enough.
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An hour later, everyone in the family came back, and when he learned about the situation of Jiao Lanhua and her son, Du Zhongmao, Du’s father, angrily took out his belt and gave it to him Du Yuan came twice. This was because he was angry that he didn't mention this before and hid the news of getting married and having children.
Du Chuan quickly stepped forward to dissuade him, and finally managed to pull his father away.
"You...what do you want me to say to you? Why did you hide such a big thing from your family? Do you regard us as your parents? Ah!
Hiding it makes four people Years ago, and now your wife and children have suffered so much, I... I'll forget it if you make me mad." Du Zhongmao gasped.
He is a person with a strong personality. It is difficult for him to accept that his son did such a thing. If someone knew about it, he would not know what to say.
Anyway, from the surface, this is Du Yuan returning to the city, abandoning his original wife and daughter, and now his wife and daughter come to visit him.
This is what makes Du Zhongmao the most angry. It's so embarrassing.
The Du family has never had the idea of preferring boys over girls. This has been passed down from Grandpa Du Chuan's generation. Anyway, Du Chuan knew that his sister-in-law was the most favored one in his father's generation.
In fact, Du Yuan was also aggrieved. He squatted down with his head in his hands, and his voice was muffled, with a hint of crying, "I don't want to, but dad, you don't know what's going on at home. It's just you and Xiaochuan. It’s not easy to have a job and get a salary, and it’s not easy to support a family. What will Lanhua and the others eat and where will they live?” The third and fourth children, who were looking after my sister-in-law and niece, all became honest.
The Du family has four children in total, the eldest Du Yuan, the second eldest Du Chuan, the third eldest Du Mei, and the fourth eldest Du Bei. Of the four children, only the third eldest Du Mei is a girl.
The third and fourth children are twins. They are only ten years old this year and are in elementary school.
What Du Yuan said is true. The Du family has only three rooms in total, which is considered good in a compound. Some families only have one room, and four or five people are crowded together.
Of course, even the Du family is quite nervous. The dining area is still divided into the rooms of Du's father and Du's mother.
Of the remaining two houses, Du Chuan and his eldest brother Du Yuan live in one, and Du Mei and Du Bei live in one.
The room Du Chuan and the others lived in also served as a utility room.
Because the house where Du Mei and Du Bei lived was originally a utility room and the space was very small, it was enough to barely accommodate them.
Now that there are suddenly two more people in the house, how should the rooms be allocated?
The second problem is food. Now only Du's father and Du Chuan have formal jobs in the Du family. The wages and receipts of the two people can barely support the family. But if there are two more people, then food will be difficult. becomes difficult.
My eldest brother Du Yuan has been back for half a year. He has not been assigned any work. He can only find some odd jobs. But these odd jobs are not common. There are jobs three to five days in a month. It's good if you do it.
So the expenses at home are still very tight. Food and drink must be accounted for every penny, let alone clothing. We don’t even think about this, as long as we have what we have to wear.
"Eat, eat, take your time with these things, eat first." Mother Du said quickly when she saw this.
However, when the family sat at the dining table and started eating, the atmosphere was still quite dull.
And Jiao Lanhua was extremely uneasy and worried, not knowing what to do.
Logically speaking, the Du family did not reject the arrival of the two of them. On the contrary, they seemed to welcome them. She should be very happy.
But the situation is different now. Their arrival seems to have added a huge burden to the Du family.
As for Du Yuan, he kept silent and refused to eat. Father Du kept smoking cigarettes, making the already small room even more smoky.
Du Chuan sighed in his heart. He was a billionaire, but now he couldn't afford to eat for two more people. He really didn't know what to say these days.
Du Chuan did not dream or suffer from hysteria. He was a real billionaire. Although he only knew this, he always thought that he was only a multi-millionaire.
(End of this chapter)