Chapter 268 If you are a man, just obey

When Panpan walked into the Feng family's small building, she felt a little uneasy, and her hands holding the snakeskin bag trembled constantly.

"Yunwei, I'd better stay at a guesthouse. There are... and money."

She was picking at the bag and became even more frightened when she saw Old Lady Feng walking towards her with a cane.

Zhu Yunying patted her arm and said, "The letter of introduction is for you to go to the Northeast to join the army, and you came to Beijing with Deputy Regiment Min. Now, where else can you go except back to your hometown?"

"I..." Panpan lowered her head, her eyes red again, "It's good for me to go back to my hometown."

"What's good about that? Deputy Captain Min is just trying to show off. He's worried his broken leg will drag you down, so he's sending you back on purpose! Believe it or not, as soon as we leave, he'll be crawling on the ground picking up mirrors and photos!"

Zhu Yunwei snorted, and Panpan bit her lip again without saying anything.

"He gave you that mirror, didn't he?"

"……Um."

"Just wait, he will definitely pick it up!"

No matter whether he picked it up or not, Zhu Yunying’s top priority was to comfort Panpan and prevent her from being too sad.

This little face is so skinny.

"Yun Ying is back!" Old Madam Feng came out from the inner room, supported by a guard and leaning on a cane. Seeing Pan Pan, she smiled and asked, "I just heard you talking about Xiao Min. Are you Xiao Min's lover?"

"Old lady, I..." Panpan hesitated to speak.

Plop, tears started falling.

She reached out to wipe it in a panic, but she couldn't hold the snakeskin bag firmly, and it slipped off her back again. Xiao Zhang held her back.

Panpan's whole face turned red.

Old Mrs. Feng rolled her eyes and looked at Zhu Yunying.

Zhu Yunying pursed her lips and nodded slightly.

"Grandma, this is Panpan, my friend. I want her to stay at my house for two days, is that okay? Her letter of introduction is for traveling to the Northeast, and it's a bit inconvenient for her to stay in a guesthouse in Beijing."

"Of course! You two sisters rarely meet each other, so you should catch up more."

Old Madam Feng said, "Move the bed we just used to move to Yunwei's room."

"OK."

The young guards moved the bed from Old Lady Feng's room to Zhu Yunying's room.

"Xiao Zhang, do me a favor. I have some honey in the kitchen. Can you make some tea for me?"

"Got it! I'll be there right away!"

Xiao Zhang put the snakeskin bag aside and went to the kitchen to busy himself.

Now there were only Zhu Yunyao, Panpan and Old Lady Feng in the room.

Mrs. Feng took Panpan's hand and pulled her to sit down: "Child, what's your name?"

"Panpan." Panpan pursed her lips and tried to smile, but it looked uglier than crying.

"Oh. You have dimples when you smile. You'd better smile more often." Old Madam Feng patted the back of her hand and coaxed her, "I heard that Xiao Min woke up from his injury. What's wrong with him? Or is his brain damaged and he can't remember you?"

“…”

Panpan and Zhu Yunying were both stunned and looked up at Old Lady Feng.

"Grandma, you know everything?" Zhu Yunying blinked.

Old Lady Feng pursed her lips. "They're all men, after all! I see they're all pretty much the same. They all think they're made of steel. When they're useful, they're powerful, charging into battle everywhere. But once they get hurt, disabled, or crippled, they become listless and like to push their wives away, feeling sorry for them and wasting their time... Some are so cruel they'd rather commit suicide than linger on, leaving their pensions to their wives and children..."

"grandmother……"

Zhu Yunying couldn't help but hold her forehead and thought, how could you say these words so directly!

Panpan's lips trembled, and her eyes became even redder when she heard about committing suicide.

Old Mrs. Feng didn't take it seriously. She just sighed and raised her eyebrows.

"I, an old woman, have experience with this matter. Do you want to listen to it?"

A spark of hope immediately flashed in Panpan's eyes.

For some reason, Zhu Yunying felt that things were progressing too fast, and something seemed unreliable.

As expected, before Panpan asked, Old Lady Feng told the answer herself.

"First of all, do you want this man? If you don't want this coward at all, just divorce him and be free to do whatever you want. We women can hold up half the sky, right?"

"...what I want." Panpan muttered.

She didn't dare look at Zhu Yunyao, for fear of being scolded for being spineless.

Zhu Yunying patted the back of her hand and asked helpfully, "Grandma, what next?"

"Then, where is he injured? A leg injury is the easiest to deal with!"

"My legs! They can't stand up. The doctor said I might need a wheelchair. They can't even support themselves. They feel like cotton."

Panpan twisted her fingers, helpless: "I massage him every day! It doesn't work. I heard that soaking in hot springs is helpful, but..."

"What's with all the hot springs!" Old Madam Feng pinched her nose, feeling disappointed. "You can't even handle a man who can't use his legs and is paralyzed in bed! Grandma will teach you. When he falls asleep, just tie his hands, throw off the quilt, and pounce on him! It's a done deal. If you have a child, you'll have to hold him responsible! If you divorce him, he's no longer a military dependent! If he's a man, he should just obey you and live with you honestly..."

As soon as he finished speaking, the main room fell silent.

Zhu Yunwei and Panpan stared at Old Madam Feng in amazement, their eyes full of...admiration!

The two swallowed silently and looked at each other.

Seeing this, Old Lady Feng clicked her tongue. "Why, you still don't believe me? Oh, that's how Feng Shuo's father came to be! My old man was shot in the stomach. I don't know what nerve was pulled, but he couldn't move his legs and was paralyzed in bed. I took good care of him for two months, but he secretly went to the instructor and said he wanted a divorce! Back then, we didn't even talk about divorce, we just wanted to break up!"

"In the middle of the night, I locked the ward door, guzzled two bowls of soup, and he calmed down!"

Panpan's eyes widened when she heard this.

Old Madam Feng spread her hands, "We're husband and wife after all. I've been busy running around, so even if I haven't made any contributions, I've certainly worked hard! In the end, I didn't get anything and ended up being a widow! He's so lucky! He doesn't have to do anything!"

"So...what happened next?"

Zhu Yunying didn’t know about Old Madam Feng and Old Man Feng. Could it be that the old man had been paralyzed in bed his entire life, and that was how the children in the family had to live?

"What happened next? I wanted him, so he refused to break up. Even if he was paralyzed in bed, he still had to earn a salary for me. Later, when I was about to give birth to Feng Shuo's father, a famous doctor with miraculous skills came to the army and cured the old man's legs. At that time, I said, let's break up, since we already have a child, I can take him away and he doesn't need to worry about it. But he kept chasing after me and I couldn't drive him away..."

Mrs. Feng finished speaking in one breath, patted Panpan's hand, and said earnestly, "Panpan, when Grandma tells you this, I'm not asking you to do it to Xiao Min. I'm telling you that we women don't have to accept things passively. If you want something, you should actively fight for it. Going straight to the point is one way, being unreasonable is one way, playing hard to get is another way. As long as you don't do anything that harms others, there's nothing you can't do."

"Let's take a step back and say we don't want this man anymore! What else can we do?"

Old Lady Feng smiled faintly: "We threw away a sesame 'burden', and they lost a watermelon 'lover'! They are the ones who suffered the loss. We should just live our own lives well."

"Okay, I'll remember it." Panpan's tone became inexplicably more determined.

Zhu Yunwei became even more worried.

This old lady's thinking is too advanced. Can Panpan, who is honest and simple, apply what she has learned?