Chapter 225 Subsidies
After dinner, Tong Yaohui invited Si Chen to chat in the study room, while Wen Yun and Tong Yao returned to their room.
Wen Yun scrutinized Tong Yao from head to toe, her heart aching the more she looked. Especially seeing Tong Yao wearing such ordinary attire, it made her feel even worse. "You used to choose expensive clothes, and made sure they were unlike any others. Now, your clothing seems to be so casual."
If it wasn’t for the fact that Si Chen seemed to have a good relationship with Tong Yao, she wanted to keep her daughter living with her. She couldn’t bear seeing her daughter, whom she had pampered since childhood, endure hardships.
As someone who had experienced it all, Wen Yun knew how difficult marriage was. If one found the right person, life would be ideally perfect, but with the wrong person, one could be driven to misery, even to the point of suicide. She wouldn’t stand by and watch her daughter suffer.
She didn’t care about face, if Tong Yao wasn’t well-off, no one could stop her from bringing her daughter back to live with her. She would be able to support Tong Yao her entire life with her and Tong Yaohui’s retirement pensions. It wouldn’t be a problem at all.
Knowing that Wen Yun was distressed for her, Tong Yao lightly laughed, "Mom, don’t worry. I opened a shop in Li City and have been busy all day, without time to shop for clothes. Besides, I feel like it’s a waste to spend money on clothes now that I have some saved up. I’d rather use it for business."
What was meant to comfort Wen Yun added another layer of sadness. Her daughter had begun to think about making money, evidencing how bitter life in Li City was. Just thinking about the poor conditions of the old house in the Si Family’s rural village made Wen Yun’s heart ache. How could her precious daughter have ever lived in such a rundown place? She had indeed suffered so much lately.
She held Tong Yao’s hand tenderly and earnestly said, "Yaoyao, tell your mom honestly, Has Xiaochen been good to you? How about his family? His mother and younger brother seem quite honest, but his sister seems to have a bad temper and is sometimes rude. Has she bullied you during this time? My views differ from your father’s. No matter how good Xiaochen may be, if he treats you badly, I won’t let you suffer. Don’t believe what your father says, thinking that we owe the Si Family and have to repay them. We have long stopped owing the Si Family."