"Yes, you heard it right. Do you think there's anything wrong?" Gong Mengshu asked Huang Qilun rhetorically, "Didn't you also agree that we women have the same right to do things outside as men?"

"It was then, and it's now!" Huang Qilun scratched his head.

"Did you just flatter me at the time and say those insincere words?" Although Gong Mengshu's voice was soft, his words were extremely sharp.

Huang Qilun is just hesitant, but he can't refute the reason.

Gong Mengshu was even more disappointed when she saw this, she said to Huang Qilun: "I also have hands, I can also rely on my own support, your mother is old, if the dim sum supply business is unbearable, you can ask someone to help, I want to go out and find something to do, first, I can make more money, and second, my father is still waiting for money, so I'm sorry Qilun, I can't help your mother anymore——"

In the Huang family, the financial power is in the hands of Huang's mother, and Gong Mengshu usually can't get any income for helping, and even the dowry was confiscated by Huang's mother, so Gong Mengshu is so sad when he encounters an emergency today. After this incident, she deeply realized that women must be independent, and if they rely on others, they will kill themselves sooner or later. As a result, she was even more determined to fend for herself.

As expected, Huang's mother was disgusted by Gong Mengshu's behavior of wanting to go out to make a career privately, she snapped, slapped Gong Mengshu's rice bowl in front of her on the table next to the bed, and the soup spilled on the table, she said angrily: "Your own family has an industry, you have to go out to find something to do! Don't you look down on our small pastry business? How can there be a reason why your own family doesn't help your family!" Although her leg joints are still painful, Huang's mother is still full of anger when she speaks.

Gong Mengshu listened to Huang's mother without saying a word, and while putting the food back on, he hesitated for a while, and then said lightly: "Mother, it's really my mother's family in difficulty, otherwise I wouldn't have made this decision, now that my father and mother are pointing to me to live, I can't leave them alone...... Besides, the Huang family is not rich now, and I can't bear to drag you down, so I can only go out and find something to do......"

Gong Mengshu's few understated words blocked Huang Mu's speechlessness, she stared at Gong Mengshu for a long time, but she couldn't refute it.

Gong Mengshu decided that she couldn't sit still, she bought a newspaper to see if there were any advertisements for migrant workers recruiting clerks in commercial houses, and often went out to the store in person to ask if there was a shortage of manpower, but Mingcheng was a small city, and there were not many vacancies waiting for it, so there was no progress for a few days. Seeing that Gong Mengshu couldn't find a job for a while, Huang Mu didn't say anything, but her eyes and the corners of her mouth always showed ridicule, and Gong Mengshu just didn't see it.

On this day, Gong Mengshu came out of the hospital with an empty basket for delivering food, and walked along the road near the hospital with her head down. She raised her eyes, and the two people in front of her smiled at her, and one of them shouted: "Mengshu, it's such a coincidence, we met again!"

Gong Mengshu was stunned there, but he was still happy to see the old man again, "Grandma Young, Mo Lin, why are you here?" Gong Mengshu greeted Lin Xuexian, the eldest grandmother of the Cheng family, and Cheng Molin, the third young lady. They were now in the busiest shopping street near the hospital, lined with high-rise buildings, neon lights, and bank shops.

Lin Xuexian is still that gentle and lovely appearance, Cheng Molin only saw it a while ago, so when she saw Gong Mengshu being very affectionate, she rushed up and dragged Gong Mengshu's arm, and said distressedly: "Mengshu, I haven't seen you for a few days, you seem to have lost weight again!"

Gong Mengshu didn't say a word, but he also quietly lowered his rolled up sleeves to cover his obviously thin arms that showed green muscles. Lin Xuexian stood aside and looked at Gong Mengshu carefully, although Gong Mengshu was still as beautiful as before, Lin Xuexian still saw from Gong Mengshu's haggard face and reduced figure, as well as slightly outdated clothes, that Gong Mengshu's situation was not as good as before.

Lin Xuexian then stepped forward and asked with the same concern as Cheng Molin: "Meng Shu, are you okay?" Mo Lin told me about your family, and we are going to see Master Gong's ...... today."

Gong Mengshu bowed gratefully to Lin Xuexian and said, "Thank you for your concern, my father's condition is already better, and he opened his eyes to see people yesterday, although he still can't recognize me and my mother, but he is finally sober." ”

Lin Xuexian breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Really? That's good." Saying that, he insisted on visiting Gong Hongwen with Cheng Molin, but Gong Mengshu had no choice but to take the two of them back to the church hospital. After Lin Xuexian visited Gong Hongwen on the hospital bed, she left some money for Mrs. Gong to buy some things for Gong Hongwen despite Wu Peisi's excuses, and then withdrew with Gong Mengshu and Cheng Molin.

Gong Mengshu was very reluctant for Lin Xuexian and Cheng Molin to come all the way to visit her father, and followed them and said, "Thank you for the young grandmother and the third lady-" Cheng Molin looked back and smiled: "Mengshu, you have become very verbose after you got married, you have said this sentence many times-" Gong Mengshu blushed when he heard the voice, and then smiled slightly.

Lin Xuexian thought for a while, and said to Gong Mengshu: "Mengshu, we are all our own people, and if I have something to say, I will say it directly." Don't hide it from me, your family's situation shouldn't be too good now, have you considered finding something to do to subsidize your family?"

Gong Mengshu stood still and looked at Lin Xuexian, only to see that Lin Xuexian's face was full of earnestness, not like the wives and concubines of the Cheng family she was familiar with, who often showed expressions of hidden needles, so she nodded frankly and said, "Don't hide it from you, young grandmother, I have indeed been looking for something to do recently......

Lin Xuexian and Cheng Molin glanced at each other, and Cheng Molin smiled and said: "Mengshu, it's a coincidence today, when my sister-in-law and I came over, someone happened to entrust us to find a lady who graduated from middle school to be a typist in a commercial house for their foreign bank! Are you interested in going?"

Gong Mengshu's eyes lit up, but then he hesitated, "But, I'm ...... Can't type. ”

"It's okay to learn, and the salary of this job is not low, and you don't have to work in the wind and rain, in addition to typing every day, you just need to sort out the information, it won't be difficult. Cheng Molin tried her best to encourage Gong Mengshu to accept this errand.

After all, Lin Xuexian was more sophisticated than Cheng Molin, and she knew Gong Mengshu's hesitation, so she added a sentence next to her: "Mengshu, you don't have to worry, this foreign bank is definitely not our Cheng family's industry, I know you don't want to see your old acquaintances again......" Cheng Molin saw her sister-in-law say this, and quickly echoed: "Yes, what my sister-in-law said is definitely not the property in the name of my father and eldest brother......"

Gong Mengshu did have such concerns, and now that he heard Lin Xuexian and Cheng Molin say this, most of the doubts in his heart disappeared. Since it is not the Cheng family's industry, and Cheng Ruikai is a soldier from Rong, the foreign bank should have nothing to do with the Cheng family. As long as she didn't see the other people in the Cheng family, she could bear it no matter how hard the work was, so she nodded and said, "Thank you for the recommendation of the eldest young grandmother and the third lady." ”

"What's polite, you will call me Xue Xian in the future, don't call me Miss Mo Linsan, anyway, you have left the Cheng family, let's call the three of us sisters," Lin Xuexian proposed, attracting Cheng Molin's echo. Gong Mengshu smiled indifferently, feeling slightly excited that she had found a way to her new job, she nodded and responded: "Okay." ”

Soon, Gong Mengshu really went to work in the foreign store near the hospital under the recommendation of Lin Xuexian. This is called Ruifeng Foreign Company, which has import, export, and Western medicine departments. The export department is further divided into smaller departments such as fur and raw silk. Ruifeng has been very successful, and the coffee and western medicine introduced by Ruifeng are very popular with the Chinese people. The English that Gong Mengshu learned in school came in handy, and he could also read the English manifest, so he was very valued by the managers of foreign banks.

Just got her first real job, Gong Mengshu put all her mind on it, in addition to taking care of her seriously ill father, the rest of the time she also signed up for the Chamber of Commerce English Tutorial School, leaving early and returning late every day.

Huang Qilun hardly saw people all day, so he began to complain. Although Gong Mengshu also wants to repair the relationship between husband and wife, he has too little time and too many things to take care of, so he is only silent about Huang Qilun's dissatisfaction, but he can't do anything.

The busy days passed day by day, and Gong Mengshu also reaped the rewards of work. At the end of the month, Gong Mengshu really got a good salary, Gong Mengshu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, for the first time he felt satisfied and happy that he was able to share the burden of life for his mother independently, and the self-confidence that had been lost in his heart quietly returned.

Lin Xuexian came to visit Gong Mengshu several times, and was very relieved to see that Gong Mengshu could get started so quickly. The two have become good friends who often meet, plus Cheng Molin, the three women have a deeper relationship than when they were in Cheng's house before, Gong Mengshu's pale and haggard face gradually has a good complexion, and she went to do a new hairstyle in a few days, and the whole person is like being reborn, walking on the streets of Mingcheng, she is also a fair lady and a pretty woman.

For example, when he first started to put over a western pharmacy that was on the verge of closure, there were still a lot of unissued medicines in the western pharmacy, so he asked someone to take down the sample and replace the three boxes of non-sale goods with 12 bottles, so he made a fortune.

Gong Mengshu won the appreciation of the manager of the foreign bank, but she has never seen the shareholders behind the scenes, but she is cold by nature, and she is not curious enough to go to the bottom of the matter, she has to see the true face of the shareholder, so she has been working in the foreign bank with peace of mind, she has her own plans, and if the time is ripe in the future, she will also open a small shop by herself, selling some rouge gouache for women, and the purchase channel will enter from Ruifeng foreign company.

Because of the dream in her heart, Gong Mengshu, who originally felt that she was dying, seemed to be resurrected again, her complexion was getting better and better day by day, although the pace of winter was getting closer, but she was already pretty, like a rose that was finally about to bloom in summer, little by little, with the unfolding of the petals, and exuding a rich and charming fragrance.