Chapter 1695: Biological Mom
“Thank you, Sister Qiao!” After all, this was not her first ti receiving it, so the auntie received it happily without refusing. Where would she ever find such a generous employer with a good temper, was not petty, and did not make trouble for her?
She had expressed long ago that the money earned from working for the Zhai family was good, but most importantly, it was worry-free!
With this fat red packet, the auntie purchased so gifts for her son, elders, and her lover on the way ho. The auntie even picked out a nice coat for herself. Since it was already the New Year, there were many clothes on sale. The auntie was exceptionally pleased, feeling that she had saved quite a lot of money this ti!
So as to protect the environnt, the governnt had banned the use of firecrackers and fireworks within the city for the fear of air pollution. Even still, the air was still thick with the sll of New Year’s celebrations.
As she watched the Spring Festival Gala being broadcast on television, Qiao Nan heard the sounds of firecrackers being set off across several provinces. Qiao Nan felt that this was no different from setting off firecrackers in her own ho.
Zhai Yu felt that it was a pity. “Mom, have we ever done this to celebrate New Year at ho?” It had been twenty-one years, but she had no impression of ever doing so.
“We’ve never set off firecrackers at ho.” Qiao Nan answered with a smile.
When she first arrived in the capital, the ban on firecrackers had not yet been implented. The problem was that Qiao Nan was all too clear about the air quality in the capital. She knew that the issue of haze in the capital would beco a hot topic, and there would be no sense of security going out of the house without wearing a mask.
Even if it was just a small contribution, the Zhai family had never set off firecrackers under Qiao Nan’s subtle influence. Then, the state explicitly implented a ban on this. It was even more impossible for the Zhai family to knowingly go against the law and the state.
“We can’t do that in the capital. Grandpa can bring you to our old ho in the future. We can probably still do that back in my hotown.” Ping Cheng was not as developed as the capital. Such a ban was also implented based on regions. Qiao Dongliang could not bear to see his granddaughter’s disappointed face and thus brought up such a suggestion to Zhai Yu.
Qiao Nan rolled her eyes at her daughter. “Do you think you’re a three-year-old child? Our family didn’t even set off firecrackers when you were younger. Why are you suddenly interested in it even though the governnt has explicitly banned it? You’re really regressing with age! You’re not as obedient as you were when you were younger.”
Return to Ping Cheng?
She had not yet returned to Ping Cheng, but all the troubles in Ping Cheng had co to find her instead! If she were really to return to Ping Cheng, there would only be more opportunities for ‘troubles’ to find her and her family in the future.
In recent years, even Ding Jiayi had stopped torturing her. But now that Qiao Zijin had left, it was Zhou Xing’s turn. Since her mother was gone, her daughter was now taking her place. It turned out that Qiao Zijin was her greatest creditor. Even after paying her back for two lifetis, it was still insufficient! It seed as though she owed her this debt for two whole generations!
Qiao Nan vaguely rembered that in her previous lifeti, Qiao Zijin had not given birth to a daughter after marrying Chen Jun. Instead, she had given birth to a son. But similarly, Qiao Zijin had handed over the custody of her son to Chen Jun after their divorce.
Perhaps it was because she was already too down and out at that ti. Her life was nowhere as glamorous as this life had been. Apart from Qiao Zijin clinging to her like a leech and viciously picking at her blood vessels to suck her dry, she had never seen Qiao Zijin’s and Chen Jun’s son.
At that ti, Chen Jun had successfully chased her and should have successfully completed the task set out by Wang Yang. With Wang Yang’s support, the Chen family did extrely well. As the only grandson of the Chen family, how would he ever rember that he had a younger auntie who was still unmarried at almost forty years old if he did not lead a hard life?
There was no way the Chen family could be bothered about small fry like her.
Zhai Yu made a face at Qiao Nan. “Mom, we’re celebrating New Year today, but you’re so fierce! I’m just joking. Why are you being so serious about it? Dad, I think you’ve spent too little ti at ho with Mom. That’s why Mom’s hormones are imbalanced and she’s getting angry so easily.”
He was not like Uncle Gao, who always stuck by Auntie Fang Fang’s side. Auntie Fang Fang always acted as though she disliked Uncle Gao. But at least, when Uncle Gao was not around, Auntie Fang Fang was extrely kind and gentle toward the few of them. Even if Gao Feng was naughty and got into trouble, Auntie Fang Fang would never fly into a rage.
No matter what, won who had n by their sides were always the gentlest.
In their family, her mom did not just hold up half a sky. She supported the whole Zhai family’s sky. Did her mom really think of herself as a man? She was too tough of a lady! “Dad, it’s the New Year. Let’s not go through all those outdated customs of visiting and all that. My mom has been married to you for twenty-three years, and we’re already twenty-two years old, going into our third year of university. But you probably haven’t even spent three years with my mom! It’s only because my mom is good-natured. Other military spouses follow their husbands, but my mom decided to stay at ho to take care of your whole family. After coaxing one, she has to take care of another. Dad, when will you coax my mom too and properly spend so ti with her?”
As she grew older and was about to face relationship problems herself, Zhai Yu suddenly realized that it had truly been hard on her mom all these years.
She was not denying that her birth father was good. But the problem was that her grandma had always said that the n in the Zhai family had never let their country, military, party, or the people down. The only people whom they let down were their own wives. This custom seed to have been passed down from her great-grandma’s generation to her mother, who was the third generation.
At this ti, Zhai Yu could not help but pity Zhai Yi’s and Zhai Xin’s future wives because these two young ladies would be the fourth generation of their Zhai family.
Zhai Yu felt a little regretful that she had not been able to join the military and don the military uniform. But unlike other children, she had grown up in the military. In that sense, she had grown up wearing the military uniform and had fulfilled her dreams of being a soldier.
As such, the first requirent she had for her future boyfriend was that he must not be a soldier. She had seen too many of those people. She felt that her mom and uncle were incredibly strong people. But she did not want to be so noble. She herself was not a soldier, so why would she find a soldier as her partner?
Unless the situation was like in the case of her godparents, where both of them were soldiers. That would, at least, be fair.
Since she could not join the military, neither should her partner be in the military. She was not her mother. She was truly afraid that she had not inherited her mother’s good nature and tolerance for being alone. She was even worried that she would not be able to take up the responsibility of caring for the whole family like her mother had.
After thinking about so much, Zhai Yu had finally ford her own opinions toward her father, Zhai Sheng. There was no choice since the one dearest to her was her own biological mom.
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