Chapter 1334 - 841: Vast Differences in Attitudes Toward Life (2)

Du Heng looked at Zhang Sumei, whose face had changed, and gently patted Wu Shengnan, saying softly, "Okay, stop talking."

"No, I just want to say it."

Wu Shengnan flatly refused Du Heng and continued to choke up, "I've been going to work these days, there's a lot going on, I'm pretty busy, it's definitely my fault to leave the child behind.

But before this, I already asked you, either hire a short-term matron to help take care of the child. You still said the same thing, that it's not worth it, that your brother doesn't make money easily, and we can't waste money like that.

Fine, I agreed with you, I know you care about your brother. Plus, I thought that since Big Brother is here, he can help you with the child and it won't be too exhausting for you."

Du Heng felt genuinely vexed at the moment, even a bit helpless.

What Wu Shengnan said he didn't know, the two women he respected and liked most in the family never told him about this matter.

Now after listening to Wu Shengnan, should he go talk to Sister-in-law?

Although rationally speaking, what Sister-in-law did is indeed petty, but at the root, it's still for their own good.

Then can you say Wu Shengnan is wrong?

That definitely doesn't work either.

It's not to say that once you get married, you must give up your career and interests, and people are doing serious business, there's no reason to criticize them from any angle.

But just before Du Heng could persuade Wu Shengnan again, he saw Wu Shengnan pause slightly before continuing, "Before, with Big Brother around, you said you could manage, so I went along with it, after all, with a harmonious family, everything prospers, there's no need to have unpleasantness over trivial matters.

Otherwise, the most difficult person would be my husband, your brother.

But Big Brother got injured, the doctor advised that he must convalesce and not move. I said I would send the child to my Sister-in-law's place, there are children there, and her mother and a nanny are there too, it would be convenient to take care of the child, and you wouldn't have to be too fatigued.

But you said it wasn't good, said that sending one's own kids to be raised by the maternal family would make people gossip, say that my husband is a live-in son-in-law, say that the Du Family is not harmonious domestically."

Wu Shengnan was also holding in her qi, and although this qi was not necessarily from Zhang Sumei, having an outlet to vent still made her feel a lot calmer.

She lightly wiped her tears and spoke again, "You take care of this, worry about that, you want to single-handedly take on everything yourself, just to save money, just so that people wouldn't gossip.

But Sister-in-law, the money your brother is earning now, let alone hiring a nanny, even ten nannies serving every day, he wouldn't feel the decrease in money.

And that face, is it useful?

Whoever wants to talk, let them talk, what else can it do? A couple of gossips, can it make the sky of our house collapse?

Now the child is lost, I haven't said anything from start to finish, right?

But you keep apologizing, saying it's your fault, what do you want? Do you want me to have a big fight with your brother and then divorce, is that it?"

Du Ping, with a grim face, was clutching his ribs without speaking, just sighing incessantly.

Zhang Sumei was directly stunned by what was said.

What Wu Shengnan was saying wasn't her true thoughts at all, she really was apologizing to Wu Shengnan.

And on the side, Du Xuejing was so frightened she didn't dare speak, after a long daze she muttered, "Little Aunt, that's not what my mom meant."

Wu Shengnan didn't say anything further, but instead, with Du Heng's embrace, buried her head in Du Heng's chest.

Du Heng also let out a soft sigh, he was close to exploding at this point.

He didn't know when it started, but there was a particularly popular term online called 'original family,' as if living poorly would all be explained once you brought out this term.

Du Heng previously scoffed at this, thinking it was just an excuse for one's own incompetence.

But today, he came to somewhat understand the meaning behind these four words.

'Original family,' it doesn't refer to how much love or material wealth there is. It's more about the mindset and attitude towards life formed over decades within a family.

Can Wu Shengnan understand Zhang Sumei?

Yes.

But she absolutely cannot empathize.

Because from childhood to adulthood, she never experienced a life with five or six people in the family but only a few dozen yuan in savings.

Although there was land in the family, making it possible not to go hungry.

But living isn't just about filling the belly, there's also school fees, social exchanges for Marriage and Funeral, and the trivial expenses in life, and medicine costs when falling ill.

These, in Wu Shengnan's growing environment, she had never experienced.

Seeing, hearing, and personally experiencing are completely different concepts.

And for Zhang Sumei, over these forty years, the pressure of life... no, survival scared her into poverty; she had to learn to make every penny count just to keep the family afloat.

A lifestyle cultivated over forty years, how strong and unyielding would it be?

Yet now Du Heng had money, and he helped Big Brother's family achieve a well-off life, but it's something that only happened in the past couple of years. He and his family basically didn't have a wealth accumulation process, so calling it 'poor suddenly rich' wouldn't be an exaggeration at all.

But what are the consequences of 'poor suddenly rich'?

In most cases, it leads to two states: becoming what people commonly refer to as nouveau riches, turning extravagant and wasteful, or becoming thriftier and more calculating than before.

There are roughly two kinds of thrift: thrifty towards one's own people, and thrifty towards outsiders.

And Zhang Sumei is the kind that's thrifty towards her own people, extremely thrifty.

For example, Du Ping wanted to change a car, a new car worth over 100,000 yuan, now doesn't put any pressure on either Du Heng or their own family, but Zhang Sumei just disagrees with changing the car.

There's also her attitude towards Du Xuejing.

A twenty-year-old girl studying at the Capital, with less than two thousand yuan a month for living expenses, sure can survive, but it's going to be very tight.

But can you say Zhang Sumei is wrong?

No.

There were no cars for the first thirty years, life was still lived; when Du Heng was studying, his monthly living expenses were just over a hundred yuan, and he still completed university.

So Zhang Sumei also doesn't feel her actions and thoughts are wrong.

Now between Zhang Sumei and Wu Shengnan, who's the villain? Who's in the right?

Neither, and in family life, except for those with extremely extreme personalities, there isn't such a clear right or wrong.

If one absolutely needs a reason, it's that the 'original family' backgrounds of Du Heng and Wu Shengnan are too far apart, the class disparity too significant, forming two completely incompatible and unaccepting life attitudes.

And now, if both sides want to live well, there's only one way: live separately, don't interfere in each other's lives.

If it's something that absolutely can't avoid being involved in, then just contribute without speaking.

Du Heng let out a gentle sigh, looking at Wu Shengnan in his arms who had fallen asleep but whose shoulders occasionally twitched, he knew that, if he didn't want to divorce and wanted to continue living well, then separating from Big Brother's family was inevitable.

Sigh!

Wu Shengnan was too tired.

Two days and one night without rest, coupled with the psychological blow of losing her daughter, pushed her to the limit both physically and mentally.

Before Du Heng came, she could hold on.

But when Du Heng arrived and embraced her, she couldn't hold on anymore after releasing her stress.

Du Heng gently tapped Wu Shengnan's shoulder, but she didn't react at all, so he sighed and directly picked up Wu Shengnan, carrying her downstairs to their house.

He also wanted Wu Shengnan to sleep here, but after what happened just now, leaving aside Wu Shengnan's emotions, even Sister-in-law's emotions might not be able to handle it.

As he was about to go out, Du Heng gently instructed Du Xuejing to take good care of her parents, reminding her to call him if anything happened.

Wu Shengnan slept soundly, directly until the sun set, and she still hadn't awakened.

Du Heng waited anxiously for the phone the whole day but didn't get good news.

Until evening, when his elder brother-in-law brought his mother-in-law, who had hurried back from out of town.

As soon as the mother-in-law entered the door, she rushed straight to her daughter's bedroom, leaving the brother-in-law and Du Heng to talk in the living room.

"Brother, what exactly is the situation now?" As soon as the mother-in-law entered the bedroom, Du Heng couldn't wait to ask.

The brother-in-law said with a gloomy face, "There is still no news.

But now one thing is certain, neither that Wu Zhou nor Xuanxuan has left Jinzhou."