I used rebirth to bury his captivating gaze.

Chapter 93 Yu Mei works as a hotel waitress behind Chen Lixin's back (The story of Chen Lixin

The furniture stores on both sides of the street used to use horse-drawn carriages to deliver furniture, but now most of them have switched to diesel tricycles.

He and Yu Mei had already discussed it, and then they sold the yellow horse-drawn carriage. Originally, the two of them had agreed to replace the carriage with a diesel-powered agricultural tricycle. After they got the tricycle, they removed the iron plate from the back of the carriage, making it a flat surface where they could place various furniture for delivery and then deliver goods to customers' homes at different times.

That was the agreement, but things changed after the carriage was sold.

While Yu Mei was away, Chen Lixin took advantage of the money from selling the horse-drawn carriage to buy a "diesel tricycle" instead of a "gold ring" for Yu Mei at a gold shop.

Then use the remaining money to buy a "pedicab".

He thought that Yu Mei had married him, and that he had used a method that was neither too small nor too big to get her.

He made Yu Mei lose face in front of her family because he didn't give her a perfect wedding. The wedding was held more than two months after Yu Mei became pregnant. It was her aunt who suggested it, and her uncle agreed. He said that for the sake of the girl, he and his aunt would pay for a grand "church" wedding with other young people in the church where his aunt believed in her.

The eldest uncle and aunt thought he should inform Yu Mei's family, but Yu Mei said she didn't want her brother and sister-in-law to see her looking ugly during her pregnancy, otherwise her sister-in-law's gossipy mouth would spread the news throughout the whole village as soon as they got back.

When they got married, he and his mother bought Yu Mei two new outfits. They didn't buy any other jewelry.

He had no choice but to use the money from selling the carriage to compensate Yu Mei. As for delivering furniture to customers at the furniture store, only a few old men were still driving the carriages; the young and middle-aged people had all replaced their carriages with motor vehicles.

He figured the money from selling the carriage would be enough to buy a second-hand or even third- or fourth-hand motor vehicle.

But he would rather use his two big hands and the steel plate with the backrest to hold a big shovel and squat at the station to load goods, because he couldn't exert much force with his backrest.

Although the wire in my left ankle has been removed, it still aches and hurts sometimes on rainy or cloudy days. When I was hospitalized after the injury, I dated a few average-looking young women, but they all avoided me because of my injury and hospitalization.

Only the beautiful Yu Mei stayed by his side, enduring hardship with him. She even gave birth to his lovely daughter, and he didn't get much nourishment during his postpartum confinement.

Thinking of this, Chen Lixin became even more determined to buy the gold ring. If Yumi didn't want it when she got home, she might be angry, but he would coax her into buying it. She would definitely understand how his role in the film was making amends for her.

His assessment of Yu Mei was indeed correct. Yu Mei looked at the gold ring, feeling a little angry and a little excited. She was angry because she was not focused on her work. Making a living was the most important thing. Only when life got better and things started to look up could she enjoy life! Otherwise, if she squandered everything while life was still ordinary, she would be a spendthrift who had no ambition. She was not Chen Lixin's mother, and she didn't have his personality. Even her mother-in-law said that she was a girl who loved to save money.

Why shouldn't Yu Mei save money? What reason does she have not to like saving money? Is she going to live a life of poverty and lack of food, and then embarrass herself by borrowing money from her parents' home?

Besides, you always need to save some money for daily life. What's the point of earning money when you need it first?

She had a falling out with Lixin and said angrily, "I don't want a ring. Why didn't you buy it for me in the first place? We're living together, and you're the one who thinks about buying me one, and you even used our combined money to buy it for me. Do you think I'll appreciate it? You've ruined our savings. How are we supposed to live? I like these things too, but I'm not like your mother. She spends every penny on clothes, smoking, drinking, and gambling. She's so carefree. When the money's gone, she goes back to that old man."

Yang Yumei shouted a lot of words in anger. She was too excited and too thrilled. She thought that she would live like a human being from now on.

I will no longer live a wretched life under someone else's roof. How embarrassing and looked down upon I was when I went back to my parents' home those days. How miserable I was at that time.

Yu Mei burst into tears, and at that moment, Xiao Sisi also started to cry.

“Xiaosi will be going to kindergarten soon, and we’ll need money again. I can’t afford such an expensive gold ring. Go to the jewelry store tomorrow and return it.”

Yu Mei picked up Xiao Sisi as she spoke.

Little Sisi stopped crying and then stretched out a small hand to wipe away Yumei's tears. Then she said sweetly, "Mommy, don't cry. Little Sisi loves Mommy and Daddy. You two shouldn't fight."

"Pfft!" The two of them laughed. Lixin stretched out his arms and picked up the mother and daughter in one go. Then he started spinning around in the mud house. After a few spins, the two of them almost fell over.

Then Li Xin stood still and helped Yu Mei, who was holding her daughter in her arms.

Then Lixin looked at Yumei's pretty face and said, "Okay, I'll go to the jewelry store tomorrow and return the gold ring. Yumei, you have to promise me one thing too?"

"Lixin, you never seem to suffer a loss, so why are you trying to negotiate with me now?"

"No, yes, please don't go back to work as a waiter at the big hotel. I feel uneasy if you work as a waiter at the hotel."

Yu Mei remained silent.

At this moment, Xiao Sisi broke the awkward silence between the two, and said sweetly, "Mom said you should just agree to Dad's request."

"Pfft!" The two of them burst out laughing.

"Alright, I'll go with you to the jewelry store to return it tomorrow. Otherwise, you'll definitely suffer if you go alone. They'll rip you off, and you'll be counting the money for them even if they sell you. You're so easily swayed; you believe whatever they say."

The next day, Chen Lixin rode his pedicab to pick up fruit from the fruit wholesale market for the small vendors who had set up fruit stalls on the street.

Transporting fruit is hard work; you have to get up before dawn to go to the fruit wholesale market.

Each time I ride my bike loaded with tall cardboard boxes of fruit, tied with thin hemp rope, I'm covered in sweat. In winter, white steam rises from my thick cotton coat, like the steaming hot air rising from the sides of a large iron pot on a stove.

After a long day's work, he could earn a few dozen yuan. He noticed that the men who lived in the same rented courtyard and worked in the coal mine earned more than him every month, several times more than he had ever earned when he used to haul furniture by horse-drawn cart.

He wanted to work in the mine, but Yu Mei stopped him many times, saying that going down into the mine to dig coal was not only hard work, but also a particularly dangerous job.

There are many accidents underground, and many miners are seriously injured while working in the mine, and some even die in accidents underground.

Chen Lixin knew all this, of course. As a young man with a town household registration who grew up in this coal city, how could he not know the dangers of working in the mines? But if he wanted to give Yu Mei and her child a happy life, he had to make some sacrifices. After all, he was the head of the family, and a man had to protect his wife and children from the wind and rain!