Chapter 224 The Unjust Sister 39
Zhong Guoqiang, a lazy man, worked in the shoe factory for only three days before he thought the job of a porter was too tiring and refused to do it.

Afterwards, Ma Xiaolan helped him find several jobs.

Zhong Guoqiang has a low level of education and is lazy. He doesn't want to do tiring work and can't do easy work. He changes jobs several times a year. In the end, he is in his twenties and has achieved nothing.

When he was in his twenties, other boys of the same age had married, and those who got married early had become fathers and achieved great success in their careers, but Zhong Guoqiang was still single.

Ma Xiaolan was so anxious about his marriage that blisters formed on her lips every day, but there was nothing she could do.

The girl she liked disliked Zhong Guoqiang because he was lazy and greedy, and his family was poor. The five of them lived in a one-bedroom apartment of more than 30 square meters.

After getting married, I didn’t even have a place to live.

No one wants to marry into the Zhong family.

Zhong Guoqiang's marriage has not been settled yet, and Zhong Guohao has encountered trouble again.

Zhong Guohao is not doing as well as Zhong Guoqiang.

In this life, Zhong Guoqiang only repeated the third year of junior high school before dropping out of school and entering society.

Like Zhong Guoqiang in his previous life, Zhong Guohao repeated his third year of junior high school for three years but still failed to get into high school. He then dropped out of school and did nothing at home.

Zhong Guoqiang could still work in a factory and get paid, but he never worked for a single day, saying that the pay was low, the work was tiring and boring. He dreamed every day at home of working as a boss in a factory and getting a high salary.

Seeing that Zhong Guohao was lazy and idle at home every day without any ambition, Zhong Daming was so angry that he beat him several times. He didn't know if this beat up Zhong Guohao and made him rebellious. After that, he went out every day and occasionally brought back some money.

However, he did not go to work, but met a group of hooligans, followed them to steal chickens and dogs, or extort pocket money from students. Once, Zhong Guohao was caught stealing money from a woman's bag on a bus and was caught by a group of people on the bus.

Ma Xiaolan cried so much that she fainted several times.

This incident also affected Zhong Daming's work.

Because he failed to educate his son properly and brought discredit to the steel plant, the factory leaders called Zhong Daming over, criticized him severely, and also disqualified him from this promotion.

The workers in the steel plant were promoted in rank according to their length of service, with one rank increasing every three years. It happened that Zhong Daming's rank increase was due this year, but it was cancelled because Zhong Guohao was sentenced to prison. He was also criticized by his superiors, and Zhong Daming was so angry that he went home and beat Ma Xiaolan severely.

Since the family ran out of money and life became tight, Zhong Daming developed the habit of beating his wife.

When he was upset outside, he would go home and beat his wife, and then the anger in his heart would calm down. Ever since the Zhong couple's harsh treatment of Yuanchun was exposed, Zhong Daming had been ostracized and ridiculed by his colleagues. Therefore, Ma Xiaolan had been beaten many times over the years.

Because Zhong Guohao was sentenced, no one dared to marry Zhong Guoqiang, who already had difficulty getting married.

Zhong Yuanfen, who was already sixteen years old, had better grades than her two brothers. She was admitted to a technical secondary normal school with the last-place grades. She studied the same major as Yuanchun and also attended the same school as Yuanchun.

However, she was also unlucky as she encountered national policy reforms that year.

The biggest one is the cancellation of the distribution of commercial grain to urban residents. From now on, city dwellers will no longer need ration books to buy grain, but can buy it directly at the market. Of course, the price will be higher than that of commercial grain.

The second is that the state cancels the subsidy policy for college and technical school students. Starting from this year, college and technical school students need to pay tuition fees and must also take care of their own living expenses.

(End of this chapter)