On the night of her wedding, the husband left for a mission as a soldier. For three years, Su Yueya dutifully took care of her mother-in-law. Just as she finally waited for her husband to be promot...
Liu Dekai was completely driven mad by these two women. He couldn't convince anyone and didn't want to comment on the matter anymore. He figured he might as well just hide away.
"What are you doing? What are you doing?!" Zhang Cuihua resorted to her usual tactics of crying, making a scene, and threatening suicide. She slapped Liu Dekai's uninjured arm while shouting and throwing a tantrum, "Liu Dekai, do you want to drive your own mother to her death? You only feel satisfied when you've broken up this family, right?"
Mo Youyou stared at Liu Dekai with red eyes, her heart filled with anger, sadness, helplessness and confusion.
Actually, she didn't know what to do, but the only thing she was clear about was that life had to go on, and she absolutely could not admit that Liu Shengrui was Chaoxiong, absolutely not.
Liu Dekai looked at the house that had been smashed to pieces, then at the two women, and then at the bewildered Liu Shengrui.
He finally understood what despair felt like.
"I don't want to do anything..." Liu Dekai gave up, gave up trying to persuade anyone, and just wanted to hide away for a while to recharge his energy. He needed to recover from his injuries.
"Alright, let's leave it at that. I'll stay in the military barracks for a while. Everyone, calm down. I still need to heal the injury on my arm."
After saying that, Liu Dekai didn't care about the two women's reactions at all. His usual daily necessities were in the army dormitory, so there was no need to tidy up. He could just move in and move in without any trouble. It would also be nice to have some peace and quiet.
"You dare to leave?" Mo Youyou's face was full of disbelief. She never expected that after arguing for so long, Liu Dekai would choose such a way to resolve the issue.
The two had a lot of arguments, and at one point the atmosphere at home seemed unbearable. But even then, they never talked about "separating to cool off," so Mo Youyou couldn't accept it for a while.
"Liu Dekai, if you dare walk out this door, don't you dare come back! Just you try!" Mo Youyou shouted wildly.
However, Liu Dekai only left them with a resolute back view, without even a second of pause or hesitation.
The door closed, and Mo Youyou angrily grabbed whatever was at hand and smashed it against the doorway.
"Waaaaah..."
After holding on all night, Mo Youyou finally couldn't hold back her tears. She sat on the sofa, no longer caring about her son and mother-in-law, and just wanted to cry and vent her emotions.
Zhang Cuihua was caught in a dilemma. She wanted to comfort her daughter-in-law and hug her eldest grandson. But when she looked at the mess in the house and thought of her son who had left so resolutely, she sat down on the ground and broke down.
"Oh dear, what terrible things has our Liu family done? Heavens..."
The Du family next door, three people, six ears, have been listening intently for quite some time.
"This is too noisy! I think I heard a door slam. Daughter-in-law, go and check at the door!" Hu Huifang shouted, and the old woman got really excited.
Ever since she helped take care of Liu Shengrui last time, which resulted in Yuan Yue getting a cut on her arm, she has hated this family.
People are arguing right now, so she's just listening to the fun.
"Open the door and take a look... I'm afraid that's not a good idea?" Yuan Yue looked eager to try, but was also worried that if she opened the door and their eyes met, it would be too awkward.
"Are you stupid? Peek through the window!" Hu Huifang suggested.
Du Qingsong shook his head, feeling somewhat helpless at his mother and wife's eagerness to watch the spectacle.
Speaking of which, the Du family and the Liu family are neighbors. Even if they are not very close, they at least see each other often and can become acquainted.
But Mo Youyou was quite arrogant in the compound, relying on her father, a brigade commander. Liu Dekai was, in fact, a freeloader, so the Du family usually kept a certain distance from them.
When Du Qingsong learned that Yuan Yue had cut her arm with a fruit knife, he became even more dissatisfied with the Liu family.
"You two can enjoy watching the fun, but don't be too high-profile, lest it have a bad influence..." Du Qingsong reminded him, thinking that with this kind of behavior, the surrounding neighbors would probably find out.
"Don't worry, Xiaoyue and I aren't stupid. We'll watch the show secretly!" Hu Huifang said excitedly. The louder the noise from next door, the more fun she found it.
"I didn't hear very clearly just now. What exactly was the reason for their argument? Is Liu Dekai injured and in a bad mood, and is he picking a fight at home?" Yuan Yue analyzed. After all, she had gone to see Liu Dekai for treatment last time, and Du Qingsong had also mentioned that there was a big mission in the army recently.
"A grown man takes his anger out on his family after getting injured. Is that even manly?" Du Qingsong frowned and immediately expressed his disapproval of Liu Dekai's behavior.
“That doesn’t necessarily mean Liu Dekai lost his temper. His eldest grandson is no pushover…” Hu Huifang said, still feeling lingering fear as she recalled what had happened.
While they were eavesdropping, they did catch some key words, but they still didn't understand what they meant and could only guess as they listened.
"Let's see tomorrow. With all that commotion, it's impossible that only our family heard it," Hu Huifang said meaningfully.
Sure enough, when Yuan Yue and Hu Huifang went out the next day, they saw many military wives chatting together, talking about this very incident.
As they were Liu Dekai's neighbors, they were immediately surrounded by several military wives as soon as they appeared.
"Sister Hu! Xiao Yuan! Did you hear that last night?" a military wife asked with a suggestive look, her eyes gesturing towards the Liu family's direction.
Many military wives were particularly interested, especially those who lived far away. Hearing everyone discussing it, they became extremely curious.
"Of course they heard it! They're our neighbors. Hey, tell us what they were up to last night! I heard it was quite a commotion!"
"It seems like they were arguing at home because of Liu Dekai's injury," Yuan Yue said. She didn't dare to make things up. She just said what she heard and respected the facts. "Liu Shengrui's name was mentioned a few times, but I didn't quite catch what it was."
“We’re guessing, maybe the son caused his father’s injury!” Hu Huifang said, then quickly added, “But this is just a guess, we didn’t actually hear it.”
"Such a small child, injuring an adult man... that's really unlikely, isn't it?" one military wife expressed her doubts.
Everyone thought this was unlikely, since in conventional thinking, the difference in strength between children and adults is extremely large, and such a possibility would only occur under very special circumstances.
As for Liu Shengrui's dog abuse, unfortunately, none of the neighbors heard those two keywords, so they didn't talk about it at all.