The next evening, when Chen Lingli and her sister came to sell crayfish again, Jiang Tian pulled them aside and told them everything Hu Qiongfang had said.

"I haven't been to a technical secondary school either, so I don't know if the medical college can accept students' files and household registration. Sister Xiaohui, please keep this in mind and ask the teacher after school starts. If you can transfer your household registration out of your home, try to do so to prevent future troubles."

It’s not that Jiang Tian looks at people through tinted glasses, but Chen Lingli’s mother really looks like the kind of person who could be swindled by a scammer just by giving her a few eggs.

Others say "a woman should obey her husband after she gets married", but she let her husband do whatever he wanted and made the home a mess. She didn't have the backbone of a mistress of the household at all.

Others say "raising sons is a way to provide for your old age", so she wished she had never given birth to these two daughters and wanted to save every penny in the family to support her son.

It's so easy to be brainwashed... It's really hard to guarantee that if someone takes a fancy to Chen Lingli and her sister one day, they can just find a matchmaker to come to their house. I guess with just a few words, she can coax Liu Mei into selling her daughter on the spot.

The two sisters know their own mother's character better than anyone else.

In fact, that day, the two sisters went home to see their father for the last time. At that time, Liu Mei did not say that she would drive them away or sever the mother-daughter relationship with them. She just said that their father was gone and she, a woman, could not afford to support three children to go to school.

And, after all, Dad’s death was closely related to Chen Lingli. If Chen Lingli’s class teacher hadn’t brought people to the house to collect vegetables, how could those things that happened later have happened?

Now that her husband is dead, she is unable to support the family on her own. She can only let her two daughters drop out of school and return home to help her grow vegetables and raise pigs. As long as she can provide for her younger brother, their family will have a pillar to rely on.

After hearing what their mother said, the two sisters were stunned.

How old is my younger brother? He is still in primary school, and his grades are not particularly outstanding in school. Let alone going to college, it is not certain whether he can be admitted to Caodi Middle School!

But the eldest sister Chen Conghui has already stepped half a foot into the medical college and is about to make it.

Anyone with a normal mind would know that they should give Chen Conghui up first when faced with this situation, right?

These days, graduates from the city's medical college are still very popular, and the township health centers are all vying to recruit them. As long as Chen Conghui can survive three years and graduate from the medical college, he can immediately start earning money for his family.

But what did her mother say?

"Three years? Who knows, after three years, your sister will get married as soon as she graduates? Wouldn't our family be left with nothing?"

"Humph! I supported your sister until she graduated from medical school, and emptied out our family's savings. Now that she got married, she went to earn money for her in-laws. Did I work so hard for several years just to help my in-laws?"

Liu Mei is a stubborn person who believes in "raising children to provide for old age". Judging from the looks in her two daughters' eyes, they are definitely money-losing assets and not worth her investing a penny in them.

The Chen Lingli sisters gritted their teeth and refused to agree, so Liu Mei made a scene in the mourning hall, crying and shouting that if they didn't drop out of school and come back to help her grow vegetables, they would never be able to go home again and not even think of taking a penny or a grain of rice from home.

It is obvious that they want to force their two daughters to drop out of school and return home to farm through "economic sanctions."

Originally, if Jiang Tian hadn't interfered, Liu Mei's plan might have actually worked.

The two junior high school students, who are only in their teens, have no source of income. They are in school and have no time to go out to work to earn money. Their family does not give them any expenses, so the accommodation and food expenses alone are a big problem every month.

What's more, there are annual tuition and miscellaneous fees, which is also a considerable expense.

Liu Mei calculated that these two stubborn girls would not be able to hold on sooner or later. When the little money they had was all gone, they would naturally come back in disgrace to kowtow to her and admit their mistakes. Then, they would obediently listen to her arrangements, go home to farm, go on blind dates, and get married.

But unfortunately, she fell into the hands of Hu Qiongfang and her daughter.

Hearing that the two sisters had nowhere to go during the summer vacation, Hu Qiongfang asked Jiang Tian and Chen Lingli to talk to them in advance and asked them to go to the Chamber of Commerce to find her during the summer vacation and she would arrange accommodation for them.

As soon as the sisters had their holiday, Hu Qiongfang took them to the Chamber of Commerce's office.

There is a small room here. I don’t know what to use it for, so I’m temporarily using it to store some expired newspapers and magazines.

It happened that the school was on vacation and the dormitory had to be emptied. The two sisters did not even have to spend extra money to buy bedding. They simply spread the bedding in the dormitory on the floor. Hu Qiongfang also brought them an electric fan, making the room more spacious and comfortable than the dormitory.

And the most important thing is, living here, not only do you not have to pay rent, you don't even have to pay for water and electricity - the water and electricity bills for this floor are paid by the Chamber of Commerce every year. As the president, Hu Qiongfang should quit her job as president as soon as possible if she can't handle such a small matter.

The accommodation problem was solved, and it was also easy to fool the two sisters about meals.

In the morning, they would buy a few pickled vegetable buns, or if they were more extravagant, they would add two fried cakes and eat two for breakfast. The rest would be saved for lunch. For dinner, the two sisters would go to Fang Jie's fast food restaurant to deliver takeout, and the restaurant would provide them with a dinner with both meat and vegetables, which was just enough to replenish their nutrition for the day.

The two sisters are busy during the day. They go out to fish for lobsters early in the morning. When it is too hot at noon, they come back to rest for a few hours, which is just the right time to finish their summer homework.

The eldest sister Chen Conghui graduated from the third year of junior high school and had no summer homework, so she took this time to clean the room, wash the clothes that the two sisters took off, and take a nap when she had time.

Looking at it this way, although they were homeless, this summer vacation was actually the most relaxing and enjoyable one for the two sisters!

After all, when they went home during the summer vacation, they had to help their parents grow vegetables, raise pigs, feed chickens, do housework, and tutor their younger brother with homework. They were so busy that when school started, they wanted to buy a new pen, and they had to hesitate for a long time before they dared to ask their parents for money.

But now, they earn money with their own hands, so they can afford to buy not only a pen, but even a box of pens.

The two sisters lived a prosperous life in the town, but they didn't know that their mother Liu Mei was living in dire straits.

In the past, when the two sisters went home for holidays, Liu Mei often scolded them for being "freeloaders". But when summer vacation really came, without the two sisters to help, life at home seemed to be in chaos.

She had to grow vegetables in the fields, feed the pigs, chickens and ducks, and do the laundry and cooking all by herself.

In the past, Chen Lingli and her sister helped with these things, so she could breathe a sigh of relief. But now, those two "freeloaders" are not at home, and she simply cannot do without someone anywhere!

My son keeps shouting "Mom" all day long.

Mom, where are my pants? Come and help me find them!

Mom, is lunch ready? I'm starving!

Mom, my watermelon juice spilled on the table, please use a rag to wipe it off...

At the beginning, Liu Mei was very happy to serve.

After all, her husband is dead, and her son is her only hope for the rest of her life. How can she not take good care of him?

But after a few days, Liu Mei couldn't bear it anymore.

She had just returned from the vegetable garden in the morning, and she took a large basket of dirty clothes to the river to wash them. Then she went to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables and cut grass for the pigs. She finally cooked the pig food, and just as she served it out and hadn't yet washed the pot, she heard her son in the house clamoring for food.

"Eat, eat, eat! All you do all day is eat! Don't you know how to help mom with some work?"

Chen Yaozu became unhappy when he heard this. He picked up the tin pencil case on the table, rushed to the kitchen door, and smashed it on Liu Mei's head.

Liu Mei was squatting on the ground picking vegetables. She never expected that her son would hit her with a pencil case. Although this old-fashioned tin pencil case was not heavy, it would still be a big deal if it hit her on the head!

There was a loud bang, and Liu Mei let out a howl of pain. She wiped the back of her head with her hand, which was still stained with vegetable juice, and it was covered in blood.

"You little bastard..." Liu Mei staggered to her feet and wanted to hit Chen Yaozu.

Chen Yaozu didn't expect that he would hit his mother's head and make it bleed. He was so scared that he jumped up and ran out.

Before leaving, he also took away the bag that his mother usually used to carry money when selling vegetables, which was hung on the clothes rack.

Liu Mei was angry and resentful. Seeing that her son had taken away the bag containing her money, she could only endure the excruciating pain, opened the box, took out a few dollars, and rode her bike to the town's health center to get the bandaged treatment.

Liu Mei, who was disinfecting her wounds in the hospital and screaming in pain, had no idea that the Chen Lingli sisters, who were kicked out of their home by her, were enjoying an unexpected meal in their house, enjoying the electric fan...