Wen Ying celebrated with her aunt and her family at Shrimp King. After returning home, she locked the publishing contract in a drawer and was in a happy mood while doing the papers.
Once people were in a good mood, the sky was blue and the water was clear, and everything they saw was pleasing to the eye, only half of the paper was completed, and Chen Ru and his wife went home.
Chen Ru was a little surprised when Wen Ying called "Mom" so loudly.
The cram school is on holiday today, and it is rare for Chen Ru and Wen Dongrong to rest at home for half a day on the weekend.
The couple exchanged glances, and Wen Dongrong was curious: What happened?
Chen Ru twisted her head: I don’t care, I don’t care!
The college entrance examination has been reformed this year. The college entrance examination time has been changed from July to June. Among Wen Ying's relatives and friends, Qin Jiao and Wen Kai have to take the college entrance examination.
The difference is that Qin Jiao is a fresh graduate and Wen Kai is a repeat student.
Qin Jiao was under pressure, and Wen Kai was under even more pressure.
Last year, Wen Kai scored 569 points, which was 31 points higher than the first line but chose to repeat the exam. This year, he doesn’t know how many points he can get.
Most students will get higher scores if they repeat the test, while a small number of students will get worse as they repeat the test.
Wen Dongrong first asked Wen Ying if she had lunch. After receiving a positive answer, Wen Dongrong talked about Wen Kai:
"I heard from my aunt that Wen Kai has been working too hard recently. He has lost a lot of weight and his glasses prescription has increased. He must be under a lot of pressure."
Wen Dongrong was talking to Wen Ying, but actually he was talking to the whole family.
Chen Ru is more open-minded now, mainly because of the three members of the Shu family. The other relatives of her husband's family are quite cute. Wen Kai has already settled in the city and has been self-reliant for a long time. Wen Dongrong does not need to subsidize money, so it doesn't hurt to show concern——
Wen Dongrong really didn't have the money to subsidize the situation anymore. His family was financially tight now because of the renovation of the house, and he felt uneasy with his conscience even if he hid his private money.
——Alas, I originally had a monthly subsidy of 500 yuan, but I couldn’t get it due to some reasons. Wen Dongrong was very resentful.
"How about asking Brother Kai to come to Rongcheng to relax?"
There is a holiday two days before the college entrance examination.
Wen Ying came up with an idea, but Wen Dongrong didn't object. He just looked around the rented house and said, "There are only two rooms. Where will you sleep when Brother Kai comes?"
There is no reason to let guests sleep on the sofa all over the country.
Wen Ying blurted out, "You and Brother Kai will share a room, and my mother and I will sleep together!"
After the words were spoken, Wen Ying felt that something was not right.
Has she been tricked by Lao Wen?
Wen Dongrong's expression was not strange at all, while Chen Ru's expression was expressionless. The head of the family turned to his wife and asked: "Is that okay?"
Chen Ru also felt that Wen Dongrong was playing tricks.
But Chen Ru was not afraid.
Let's just sleep together. What does it have to do with mother and daughter sleeping in the same bed?
The "cold war" between Chen Ru and Wen Ying was more of a spiritual level. It was not that the mother and daughter didn't talk at home. It was Chen Ru's unilateral decision not to ask anything about Wen Ying's affairs.
Mother and daughter sleeping in the same bed can't change the crux of the matter. Chen Ru nodded fearlessly: "Okay, as long as Wen Kai is willing to come and play."
Wen Dongrong coughed twice and said, "I'm definitely willing. I'll call my sister-in-law and ask her to talk to Wen Kai."
"Brother Kai will be here next week. Why don't we bring grandma and uncle to Chengdu for a day? Grandma doesn't know where my new house is yet."
In the previous life, Wen Ying's family's house in Rongcheng was in the same community as now. However, Grandma Wen and Chen Ru's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law did not have a good relationship. Grandma Wen had never been to Wen Ying's family's house in Rongcheng.
In her previous life, Wen Ying always felt that her grandma favored boys over girls. In this life, from a more fair standpoint, she said that her grandma did favor boys over girls, but it would be wrong to say that she didn't care about Wen Ying at all.
Even if people are related by blood, they still have to live together to have a deeper relationship. Elderly people will love which grandchild they have more. Wen Ying has long passed the age where she will be jealous of her own grandmother and love her cousin more.
Wen Ying said this beautifully, and Wen Dongrong was very satisfied.
——He can still make the decision in the Wen family.
However, remembering that his wife had hit him with a ledger when she got mad, Wen Dongrong did not dare to make the decision himself, but asked his wife for her opinion.
Chen Ru didn't object, "Just come, you'll be responsible for picking up and dropping off after all."
Wen Dongrong called. Wen Kai was not at home and she didn't know whether to answer or not. Grandma Wen was very willing to come to Chengdu.
For Grandma Wen, her second son has a lot of potential. Not only is he a cadre who earns a living from the government, but he has also bought a house in the provincial capital and now even a car. The old lady has long wanted to come and have a look, but her daughter-in-law Chen Ru doesn't want to
The old lady was embarrassed to mention that the promising Wen Dongrong was the old lady's biological child, and the embarrassing Wen Hongyan was the old lady's biological child. The things Wen Hongyan did, the old lady was ashamed to see Chen Ru.
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After Chen Ru and Wen Ying started their cold war, the family hadn't sat down to discuss one thing together for a long time. When they were discussing Wen Kai and the others coming to play next week, Wen Ying asked for the first time about the progress of the decoration of the family house.
Chen Ru wanted to say "You don't have to worry about it," but Wen Dongrong had already rushed to speak: "The water and electricity renovation has been completed. The next step is to paint the walls and lay bricks. Your mother said to paint the walls of your room pink, do you think it's okay?
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"...?!"
Pink wall?
Wen Ying's head is a bit square.
For as long as she can remember, she has never slept in a pink room, and Wen Ying has never owned anything like a princess dress or a lace dress.
When Wen Ying was a child, she had fantasized about a princess-style room. Now that she was too old to even care about Grandma Wen's preference for boys, she was naturally past the age to like princess-style rooms.
"Let's just use white walls. They are attractive and easy to decorate."
Wen Ying wasn't sure whether Manager Chen really thought that way or whether Lao Wen made his own decision, but Wen Ying really didn't like the pink wall. The whole family couldn't openly express their preference. Life in this home was still as depressing as before.
"Then let's go white."
Before Wen Dongrong could speak again, Chen Ru made the final decision, stood up and returned to the room.
Wen Dongrong gave Wen Ying a look: I thought you finally figured it out, but it turns out you are still stupid and can't climb up the pole.
Wen Ying was so disgusted by Lao Wen that she doubted her life.
Are you really stupid?
She consulted Xie Qian about this matter, hoping that Xueba would have a more detailed answer.
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Xie Qian, who was far away in Shanghai, had already learned from his own mother that Wen Ying had signed a publishing contract, but he didn't wait until Wen Ying came to announce the good news.
Oh, what Wen Ying wanted to say now, he didn't want to hear anymore.
He was so cruel that when his phone vibrated, he subconsciously opened his inbox.
Sure enough, I heard about the hamster.
What we are talking about is not the publishing contract, but what color should be painted on the walls for home decoration... Hamsters usually deal with other things very cleverly, so why do they fail again and again at home?
"Does it matter what color the walls are? Once your home is renovated and ventilated and you move in, the first semester of your second year of high school is almost over. After all, you will only be able to live there for a year and a half before the college entrance examination. After that, you will go to college elsewhere and live there for the whole year.
In less than two months, you will have your own house and the time you will live with your parents will be even shorter, so this issue is a secondary conflict in my opinion."
Secondary contradictions can be compromised.
It wasn't important in the first place.
When you have your own house in the future, it doesn't matter if you want to paint the walls in rainbow colors.
Xie Qian agreed not to compromise on the main contradiction, but Wen Ying still refused to give in on these trivial matters. In Chen Ru's view, Wen Ying just wanted to resist.
This is also very detrimental to family harmony.
——Even if you get into the top 300 in your grade in the final exam, you still can't ease the relationship between mother and daughter.
