Chapter 1 The Hardworking and Happy Little Housewife
My name is Wei Haichao. Doesn’t my name sound romantic? The blue tide comes in waves... so beautiful, so poetic!
Just looking at this name, I would have thought that I was born into a scholarly family and that my parents were intellectuals, so I gave my child such a romantic and beautiful name. But in fact, the three generations of our ancestors were all poor and lower-middle peasants.
, it was not until my father’s generation that he entered the county town and became a worker. He met my mother, who was from the same background, and we started a family, and then raised several of our brothers and sisters.
Maybe it’s because I suffered from being uneducated in my early years. Although my father is a big boss, he attaches great importance to the education of his children. In his words, as long as you are willing to study hard and have good grades, I will continue to support you.
, even if I am studying for a master's degree or a doctorate, I will pay for it all the way to the end even if I sell it.
With such an enlightened old man, we brothers and sisters are very proud of each other. We all passed the college entrance examination from the remote county where we grew up to the first and second tier prosperous cities. I myself passed the college entrance examination in the mid-1990s with excellent results.
A national key university located in S city.
Probably because of the environment in which I grew up, I am not a squeamish person. I am not a traditional gentle woman like Xiaoniaoyiren. I have a more straightforward personality and am very informal in my work.
In terms of appearance, I look pretty good. Although my skin is not the delicate white jade type of traditional oriental beauties, my honey-colored skin looks very healthy. At the same time, my facial features are also quite three-dimensional, because I like sports and have a personality.
I'm so active that I can't sit still all day long, so I haven't gained weight in so many years, and I've always maintained a good figure.
As for my hairstyle, I have never had long hair. Before college, I had a tomboy-like sporty hairstyle. After I went to college, the length of my hair increased a little, but the longest part was the top of my ears. I still have the same hairstyle now.
The hair is slightly below the ears and has bangs. Because my hair is thicker, this hairstyle suits me quite well.
How would you describe me when I was in college? Let’s put it this way: At that time, if I pursed my lips and didn’t smile, I could still pretend to be a lady. Many boys even looked at me like this.
Use some cheesy words to describe me, such as quiet, dignified, and pure.
However, this depends on the situation when I smile without opening my mouth. If I open my mouth, it’s over, and my image of a lady will be reduced by half, because I have a small tiger tooth, so when I open my mouth and smile, my facial expression will look a bit funny.
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So when I open my mouth and smile, most people can only describe me as cute and playful.
Both of the above situations are okay. The scariest thing is when I laugh, because my laughter is very hearty and rhythmic, so once I laugh, all the adjectives used to describe a lady or an innocent little girl are gone.
I'm far away, and now I can only be described with words like bold and cheerful to describe a womanly man.
But the funny thing is that although my image is completely different from that of a lady, there were still a lot of boys who pursued me when I was in college. The funniest thing is that these boys who chased me generally looked fairer, more delicate, and had different personalities.
She is the polite and shy type. I can't figure it out. Why do these boys like a casual and cheerful girl like me? Is it to complement each other's personalities?
As for who I finally chose, Dang Dang Dang, my husband Xu Minghui came on stage!
Xu Minghui is an alumnus of my university, one year above me. We met through introductions from classmates, because our hometowns are in the same province and the two cities are not far apart, so it is easy to bring us closer.
But the main reason why I finally accepted Xu Minghui's pursuit was because of his character.
I am a cheerful person who likes to laugh, but Xu Minghui is a chatterbox. He is knowledgeable and is especially good at telling all kinds of witty jokes. He often makes me laugh out loud. I will never have any worries when I am with him.
Just like that, he completely conquered my girly heart with a bunch of different jokes. Not only did I become his girlfriend, but I also officially married him after graduating from college.
The reason why we got married so early was due to family reasons from both sides.
After Xu Minghui and I fell in love, we both took each other to meet our respective parents. Because of my cheerful and generous personality, Xu Minghui’s parents were very satisfied with me. Xu Minghui also coaxed my parents into thinking because of his sharp tongue.
Very happy.
In addition, my parents were from a farming family and had relatively conservative views. After graduating from university, Xu Minghui and I stayed in the city where we went to university to develop. My parents were afraid that being alone for a long time without getting married would lead to long nights and dreams, so they supported us.
Get the certificate as soon as possible.
At the same time, Xu Minghui's grandmother and parents also hoped that he would get married soon. Not long after I started working, Xu Minghui and I got our marriage certificate, and we rented a house and started our life as a couple.
After marriage, because I was young and inexperienced, I soon found out that I was pregnant. I didn’t want it at the time, because Xu Minghui and I were too young. It could be said that we had just left school for two years, and I was still childish.
With an older child and no financial foundation, it is really difficult to support a child.
But after Xu Minghui told his family about my pregnancy, his parents firmly disagreed with my abortion, especially his grandma, who insisted on seeing his great-grandson in her lifetime. Because Xu Minghui was raised by his grandma, he and
We have very deep feelings for each other, so after careful consideration, we decided to keep this little life, and she is our daughter Tiao Tiao.
Tiao Tiao is our daughter’s nickname. Why did we give our daughter such a funny nickname? Firstly, it is because it is said that the more rustic the nickname, the better the child’s livelihood. Secondly, because Tiao Tiao, this child has been more active and cries since he was born.
She has a loud voice and a wide range of movements. She learns to sit, crawl, stand, and walk earlier than children of the same age, which means her motor nerves are relatively developed. Especially when I look at her big black grape-like eyes that move around, I just
I thought her child was very jumpy, so I gave her such a funny nickname.
Three months after Tiao Tiao, I took maternity leave and started working. I picked up my mother from my hometown and helped me take care of the baby until Tiao Tiao was one year old.
After the child turned one year old, after discussing with the elderly on both sides, we sent the child back to her grandmother's house. Xu Minghui and I usually go back to visit our daughter during holidays, and bring some things to the elderly to thank them for helping us take care of the child. In this way, I
You and Xu Minghui will have enough time to work on your own career.
In terms of work situation, after graduation, I first worked in a state-owned enterprise in City S as copywriter and publicity worker, while my husband Xu Minghui joined a public institution and was just a clerk at first. He often had to travel with the leader on business trips, which was very hard.
In terms of social communication skills, Xu Minghui is much more sophisticated and smooth than me, which is why he was able to work in a public institution for more than ten years, and was eventually promoted from a small clerk to a small leader. Although he was not a big official, he had some power in his hands.
Because I have a relatively straightforward personality, I couldn't stand the cunning and sycophantic atmosphere within state-owned enterprises, so I simply resigned and moved to a large-scale advertising company to start copywriting and planning work, which I have been doing until now.
In the early years, although our lives were busy, overall they were quite happy.
After we rented a house for a few years, Xu Minghui was allocated a house from his employer. Although the area was not large, it was enough to accommodate our family of three. By this time, our daughter should also be in kindergarten, so we moved her from her grandparents’ home.
He was brought back and raised by his side.
A few years later, Xu Minghui and I's careers were steadily improving, so we took out a loan and bought a commercial house. Unexpectedly, just before housing prices soared, the value of this house increased.
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Like many young housewives who work hard in big cities, I have been frugal since I got married. When I buy my own clothes, I never buy clothes at the original price in the mall because I think the added value of the clothes there is too high.
It's not true, so I'd rather go to some small stores to find high-quality and low-priced clothing that suits me.
But I am more willing to buy things for Xu Minghui or my daughter, especially Xu Minghui’s clothes, because he is a man after all. Men only wear so many formal clothes all year round, and they must wear something higher-end, so I bought Xu Minghui’s clothes.
They are all relatively high-end brand-name products.
I also strive for excellence when it comes to buying daily necessities. Whether it is rice, flour, oil, salt, or other daily necessities, I always choose to buy products when they are on sale. Over time, I have basically mastered the discount rules and regulations of every nearby supermarket.
Price comparison, so over the course of a year, you can save a lot of money.
I am such an ordinary housewife who is frugal, busy and happy.
Originally, I thought I could continue to be happy like this, work and live well with my husband Xu Minghui, and raise our lively and lovely daughter Tiao Tiao. However, I never expected that in the process, my husband would cheat on me.
Let me tell you about the situation after my husband Xu Minghui and I got married.
Because of family reasons, I have been doing housework since I was a child, and cooking for the whole family when I was a teenager. Because my parents work very hard on weekdays, it is not meaningful to me to help them share some housework after studying.
What difficulty.
In Xu Minghui's family, because he has an older sister and a younger sister, he basically doesn't do any housework at home. He just immersed himself in studying when he was in school. He stayed like this until he was admitted to college. So after we graduated and got married, although he also wanted to help me with what he could.
However, seeing how clumsy he was, it was better for me to do it myself, so I was basically responsible for the housework after marriage. This developed Xu Minghui's habit of letting go of the housekeeper when it came to housework.
In terms of family finances, I am relatively strict. There is no way around it. Both of us come from remote mountainous areas, and the family burden is heavy. Therefore, in addition to keeping part of our salary after work, we also have to send it home.
Partly, under this situation, we can still squeeze out money to buy another apartment, all by squeezing it out between our teeth, so I can't help but be very tight in managing family finances.
Furthermore, as the years of our marriage have increased, Xu Minghui has gradually gained a certain status in the work unit and has more opportunities to go out to socialize. I am also afraid that he will become a bad learner, so the spare money I usually give him is limited, because I firmly believe that men
If you spend the money you have, you will easily learn bad things.
Basically, our family situation was like this before he cheated. At that time, there were no discordant notes on the surface. So when I later learned that Xu Minghui had cheated, it was like a thunderbolt from the blue.