Chapter 2890
In the past, the woman's life had been simple. Her happiest day was payday.
As long as her husband had been paid, the whole family would go shopping at the nearby supermarket.
Although they never bought much each time—even if they occasionally managed to fill an entire cart—the bill usually came to only forty or fifty dollars, or perhaps seventy or eighty.
All four members of the family knew very well that their household income could not support lavish spending, so they were always sensible when choosing products—
Especially the two children. They never selected anything from the expensive goods section. They might linger there.
After all, being unable to afford something did not mean they had lost the right to look at it. They could admire it for a while before returning to the cheap products.
Perhaps, in the silent night, they would lie alone in bed and imagine what it would feel like to use those expensive products.
But they would never actually wish to buy or own products that did not belong to their class.
Although those days had been somewhat difficult and poor, the family had been very happy together.
But now, she could earn in a single day what her husband made in a week, or even half a month, yet she was not happy at all.
That night, she brought home a pound of ground beef from the supermarket, along with some whole-wheat bread.
A pound of bread now cost three dollars. It was simply too expensive, something ordinary people could not afford—but she could.
Because she earned more.
She made a simple stew of mashed potatoes and ground beef, along with whole-wheat bread and some vegetables that were not very fresh. That was the family's dinner.
After her husband left, her