Chapter 312 Struggle for Hao Hao
Lu Family
Lu Huailin pushed open the door and saw his mother already sitting on the sofa waiting for him. He smiled and said, "Mom, did you need something?"
Lu's mother glanced at Lu Huailin but didn't respond. She stood up and limped to the dining room to pour him water.
Lu Huailin paused for a moment when his gaze fell on his mother's legs, then immediately walked to her side and took the thermos from her hands.
He said in a hoarse voice, "Mom, I'll do it."
Lu's mother had no expression on her face, glanced at her indifferently, and limped to the sofa to sit down.
As Lu Huailin watched his mother's retreating figure, his heart surged like a turbulent sea, and he tried his best to suppress his emotions.
Making conversation, he asked, "Mom, where's Dad?"
"Your father has gone out," Lu's mother said calmly.
Lu Huailin walked up to her, handed her the water glass he had been holding, and then sat down on the sofa.
Lu's mother took a sip of water, wondering how to tell Lu Huailin to send Hao Hao home.
She wants to distance Hao Hao from her younger son and his wife.
Let them experience what it's like to have an unfilial son and a disliked daughter-in-law.
She wanted Hao Hao to hate Gu Yihan for the rest of his life, to make him loathe his mother whenever he saw her.
Thinking of this, she turned her head to look at Lu Huailin and cleared her throat.
He said, "Huailin, your father is retired now, and we old folks have plenty of time. You and Xiaohan are both busy with work."
"Bring Hao Hao over tomorrow, and your dad and I will look after him for you!"
"No need." Upon hearing this, Lu Huailin refused without even thinking.
He didn't want Hao Hao to become a victim of their mother-in-law/daughter-in-law conflict.
Besides, his wife wouldn't agree to keep Hao Hao out of her sight.
Upon hearing this, a hint of impatience flashed in Lu's mother's eyes.
Then, speaking softly, she said, "Your mom and dad are doing this for your own good. You two are both busy, and you need to socialize a lot since you've just arrived in Beijing!"
"Sending Hao Hao here will lighten your burden, won't it?"
"Mom, my wife has quit her job to take care of Hao Hao."
"You quit your job?"
Lu Huailin nodded and said "Mm".
The implication was that he couldn't possibly send Hao Hao over.
At this moment, Lu's mother seemed not to have understood the meaning behind Lu Huailin's words at all.
She immediately ordered, "That's wonderful! Now Xiaohan will have time to give Haohao another little sister."
"You should bring Hao Hao over tomorrow, so you'll have time to have a second child. After all, it's too lonely for Hao Hao to be the only child in the family."
Although Lu said things that were beneficial to her and her husband.
In reality, she secretly wished she could devour Gu Yihan.
If it weren't for her, how could I have been sent to the Northwest by Father Lu?
He was then broken in the leg by his eldest son's wife, Fang Yi, and without proper medical help, he became disabled.
She doesn't dare to go out now.
As soon as I go out, I can feel the strange looks from others and the whispered laughter of my neighbors.
Lu Huailin didn't understand why his mother insisted on letting Hao Hao stay here.
All I could do was patiently explain, "Mom, Hao Hao has never left us since he was born."
"I can't bear to part with him either..."
Lu's mother was angered by Lu Huailin's repeated rejections.
He interrupted him directly, demanding sharply, "Lu Huailin, am I some kind of monster?"
"Is that why you're so wary of me?"
Seeing that his mother was angry, Lu Huailin stood up irritably and looked down at his mother's cold face.
"Mom, you and Dad are getting old. You don't have the energy to take care of such a young child like Hao Hao anymore!"
"I'm doing this for your own good."
Despite her best efforts to persuade Lu Huailin, his mother refused to agree to send Hao Hao over.
Enraged, she roared, "Lu Huailin, I'm your mother!"
"You'd abandon your parents for a woman?"
"If Gu Yihan were a dutiful daughter, then Mom could tolerate it!"
"But she's a jinx, an ingrate!"
Upon hearing his mother's words, Lu Huailin's face suddenly turned cold.
He said coldly, "Mom, my wife just wants to be filial, but you haven't given her the chance!"
Upon hearing this, Lu's mother suddenly burst into laughter, but then she started crying again.
With a trembling finger, he pointed at Lu Huailin and said, "You're an ingrate too!"
You've ruined our family!
Lu's mother limped past Lu Huailin to the door, staring blankly into the yard.
His tone was full of nostalgia: "Before you got married, our home was filled with laughter every day. Your eldest son's wife was filial, and your older brother was always there for us."
"He was a young deputy factory director, full of vigor and ambition, and people would fawn over him every time he went out."
Suddenly, Lu's mother turned around, glared fiercely at Lu Huailin, and shouted in a high-pitched voice.
“But our family changed after you married Gu Yihan.”
Lu Huailin didn't want his mother to blame his wife for the family's troubles, so he spoke up to remind her, "Mom, this has nothing to do with my wife!"
Lu's mother looked at Lu Huailin and laughed, saying to herself, "In the first year, when your wife came to live with us, didn't I want to get along well with her?"
"Your older brother's wife has one, and so does your wife."
"I couldn't go to take care of her during her postpartum period, so I went to Friendship Store to buy a washing machine."
"But what did you two do?"
"They made a huge fuss at home during the Chinese New Year."
"I'll put up with it, after all, you won't be able to stay at home for more than a few days during the Chinese New Year."
"But what happened next?"
"When Hao Hao was born, your father treated him differently, giving him so much money."
"It would have been fine if you hadn't returned it on your own, but you even had your dad send the eldest son's family and me directly to the far northwest."
The more Lu's mother talked, the more heartbroken she became. Her eldest son, who had such a bright future, was now a degenerate who only knew how to smoke and drink.
She was once a prominent director of the neighborhood committee, but now she is an old woman with a broken leg.
The clever and adorable granddaughter, Miaomiao, also became insecure and sensitive due to living amidst her parents' constant arguments.
All of this is thanks to the couple.
She hates
He wished he could devour Gu Yihan's flesh and drink her blood.
However, she cannot afford to break ties with Lu Huailin at the moment.
Otherwise, how could she use her status as an elder to suppress Gu Yihan in the future? Thinking of this, her mood gradually calmed down.
Lu Huailin listened quietly to his mother's complaints.
He retorted slowly and deliberately, "During the New Year, it wasn't my wife who was looking for trouble, it was my sister-in-law who was jealous and targeted my wife at every turn."
"As for Hao Hao's birth, even if the money Dad gave us is to be returned, it shouldn't go to the eldest brother, but to Dad!"
"As for sending her to the Northwest, that was Dad's decision and has nothing to do with my wife."
Upon hearing this, Lu's mother trembled with anger. Although Lu Huailin did not say it explicitly, she understood.
He meant that he and his eldest son's family had only themselves to blame and had no one else to blame.
The more Lu's mother thought about it, the angrier she became. Suddenly, she rushed up to Lu Huailin and pounded his chest with her fist.
She shouted, "Lu Huailin, I am your mother, not your class enemy!"
"Even if they are class enemies, killing them is just a matter of beheading them!"
"It's one thing for you to be a son who doesn't understand me, but you've also destroyed my heart."
Lu Huailin stood expressionless in the center of the living room, letting his mother vent her anger.
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