Fall in Love with A Soldier

Chapter 10 They Couldn’t Be Comparable

Home should be the warmest place.

But for Elizabeth, her home was really cold.

Seeing Elizabeth dragging her suitcase back from LH City, Elizabeth's mother, Maisie, not only didn't care about her, but sneered, "Just your shit diploma! Want to survive in the big city? You wish!"

"Mom, I haven't graduated yet. I don't have the diploma, so it's hard to find a job!" Elizabeth retorted.

Maisie still looked contemptuous, "I think you should stop studying in your sophomore year. Anyway, it would be a waste of money. What if you get a diploma? It's just a college diploma. Which companies in the big city will recruit you?"

Maisie's words were thorny, which really hurt Elizabeth. She didn't want to talk to her mother anymore, so she just went upstairs with her suitcase. Còntens bel0ngs to Nô(v)elDr/a/ma.Org

She knew that she shouldn't have come back!

"What’s your attitude? You are not as good as Winnie Rees! Also, don't expect me and your dad to pay you tuition again!"

Maisie yelled at Elizabeth.

Who was Winnie Rees? She was Elizabeth's cousin, and she was from a rich family. Maisie loved her very much. Even Elizabeth had an illusion that Maisie was Winnie’s biological mother, but she, Elizabeth, was just adopted by Maisie.

Elizabeth closed the door heavily, shedding tears in grievance. She was not even in the mood to go out for dinner.

Outside the door, she could still hear Maisie nagging with her father, Martin, "Elizabeth, this stinky girl is really useless! You see how wonderful Winnie is. She went to a first-class undergraduate university abroad, and gets the scholarship every semester! She is beautiful and decent! Elizabeth, this stinky girl is much worse than Winnie!"

"Elizabeth can get a first-class scholarship every semester! So, honey, just stop yelling at our daughter. Winnie is your sister’s daughter. Your sister married better than you, and the conditions in her family are better than our family, so how can the two children be compared?" Elizabeth’s father was a little impatient.

However, Maisie still continued, "Why can't they be compared? Can Elizabeth's scholarship from a third-rate university compare with the scholarship of Winnie's first-rate university? Tell me, the two were born in the same year, in the same month, on the same day and even at the same time. But why is there such a big difference between them?"

But it was normal. Anyway, Elizabeth was not...

"Honey, actually Elizabeth is not..."

Martin stopped talking and interrupted Maisie's inner thoughts.

Maisie was startled sensitively. Did Martin also know that matter about Elizabeth?

Martin immediately changed the topic and said with emotion, "Elizabeth did not have a bad grade, but in order to take care of me in the college entrance examination year and to make the medical expenses for me, she had to work part-time. Also, she spent her study time on going to the hospital to take care of me. Then she failed in that exam!"

Maisie suddenly felt that she was a false alarm, and then replied disapprovingly, "Taking care of you is what she should do! Otherwise, I have really raised her for 18 years in vain!"

Look, how indifferent her mother was to her!

During the days when Elizabeth stayed at home, she suffered from her mother's cynicism every day.

No matter how diligent she was at home, washing clothes, cooking and helping take care of the pharmacy at home, her mother would always have endless dissatisfaction and complaints with her.

While having dinner that day, Maisie suddenly mentioned Snow.

"Elizabeth! Snow and you are classmates in the college?" Maisie held the chopsticks in her hand and stuffed vegetables into her mouth, saying, "I heard that Snow has a very, very rich boyfriend in LH City. The pocket money that her boyfriend gave her is hundreds of thousands of a month! Now, Snow not only bought a three-story house with a yard for her grandparents in our small town, but she still built a four-story villa in our village. I heard that there is a garden orchard in the front and a pond and vegetable garden in the back!"

Maisie said so enviously.

Elizabeth froze for a moment when she was eating. She suddenly remembered something, and soon pretended to continue eating as if nothing had happened.

She knew that Snow had a fiancé and was about to get married, but she didn't expect Snow's fiancé to be so rich that he actually could give Snow hundreds of thousands of pocket money every month.

"Elizabeth! You are not inferior to Snow. Why is your taste worse than Snow? What do you see in Conor? Although he is the only one in our village who passed the undergraduate entrance examination of LH University, his family is so poor! It was our villagers who collected the money for him to go to the university. He is much worse than Snow’s boyfriend. I really don’t know what you see in him. You actually want to marry him after graduation and to help him take care of his old parents and his sickly elderly grandparents!" Maisie started talking again.

Upon mentioning Conor, Elizabeth suddenly annoyed and put the bowls and chopsticks heavily on the table, which shocked Maisie and Martin.

"I have broken up with him. Are you satisfied now?" Elizabeth yelled aggrievedly with tears in her eyes.

Maisie was so angry. She yelled at Elizabeth fiercely, "You bastard! Who are you yelling at? Where is your manner? You broke with him? It’s none of my business. What rights do you have to yell in front of me?"

"Honey, just stop arguing!" Martin sighed.

In fact, compared to Conor's family, Elizabeth's family was not much better.

Her mother ran a small pharmacy on the first floor of their house in this small town. Her father’s legs were not good, so he could only stay at the pharmacy to collect money.

Moreover, because of her father's leg disease, her family owed some debts to relatives and friends.

As for her brother...

Although he worked outside, he still had to take money from his parents every month.

Speaking of here, Maisie eased her tone a little. After a glance at Elizabeth, she said, “Aren’t you best friend with Snow? Go to talk to her. Ask her to help you and give some money to you so that you can finish college."

"Mom, what are you talking about?" Elizabeth was immediately annoyed.