Reborn in the Seventies: Pampered Wife, Owning some Farmland

Chapter 273: Chapter 273 This Face Slap _1
 

Who could be certain of that?

By saying so, the third daughter-in-law intended to remind the other daughters in the family.

After all, in their eyes, getting into college was such an honorable feat – it meant bidding goodbye to this forsaken place where one only sees the back of the yellow land.

“Third sister, will they assign jobs after graduating from college?” Zhao Fang asked, considering that her daughter was already ten and her son around five or six years old.

Meng Yunhan replied seriously, “Upon graduation, you will be assigned a job. If your grades are excellent, you may stay in your college city. If your grades are average, you will be assigned back to your hometown.”

The others took note of her words.

The discussion continued about the hundred pounds of rice, five pounds of meat, and five pounds of oil.

“That’s a lot.” Zhang Cuihua couldn’t believe it.

But Meng Yunhan began to do the math for Zhang Cuihua, “Between our three families, that’s three hundred pounds of grain. Two people can consume two pounds of rice a day. In a month, that’s sixty pounds, and in a year, that’s seven hundred and twenty pounds. It’s not much.”

“You’re really good at calculating, sister-in-law. Speaking of which, what’s your major?”

Meng Yunhan proudly answered, “I’m studying law.”

They knew the word but had never had any direct contact with it. Now they realized how dialed in one must be to study law.

“Big brother, second brother, these are the current standards, as you know. Everything is getting more expensive, and retirement pay increases every three years. What do you think about this?”

Zhang Jiang admired Meng Yunhan immensely.

Yun Lei scanned the room, understanding that Meng Yunhan was now in control.

And he suspected that she had known about this issue in advance.

“No way.” Zhang Cuihua interjected again.

Meng Yunhan didn’t get angry. She just told Zhang Cuihua clearly, “Sister-in-law, let me do some calculations for you. You, too, are a mother. You should be able to do the math. From the day my big brother was born, our parents have been feeding and clothing him, raising him for about twenty years. When he grew up, they built him a house, found him a wife. You say that you don’t need to give back, but our parents took care of my big brother for twenty years. So why when they’re old can’t he take care of them for twenty years in return? The reason for having sons is that they can provide for parents in their old age. Now that we’re discussing this, let’s be clear about it. You might argue that back in those days, people were not well fed or clothed, so we shouldn’t count those years. But you also know how difficult that time was, and we all wanted to give our children the best, leaving exceptions aside. But now that we are grown up and have our own families, why don’t we reciprocate? Even crows know to feed their parents. Are we worse than crows?”

Her words were a painful slap in the face.

Yun Hai and Yun Lei wished they could find a hole, crawl into it, and never resurface.@@novelbin@@

They had never before heard the truth spelled out so clearly and bluntly.

She even insinuated that they don’t know to reciprocate.

Both of Yun’s parents had tears in their eyes.

Li Yong was also deep in thought.

Zhang Jiang turned aside and cried silently.

“In the end, having children is a debt. Why do so many people want sons when they know sons may one day be unfilial? Back in our hometown, there’s a true story of a couple who had seven daughters before finally having a son. To have this son, they sent away all their daughters. The parents suffered greatly to build their son a house and find him a wife. But as soon as they got old and the grandson was born, the daughter-in-law was fed up with them and convinced the son to send them away. The son indeed sent off his own parents, not caring for their well-being. The grandson saw this scene and powerlessly watched as the son left his parents to their fate. When the grandson picked up the abandoned baskets, his mother asked him why, and do you know what the son said in response? He replied: ‘I’m saving these for when you guys get old. I’ll send you off just like Dad sent off Grandma and Grandpa.’