Xia Chunxi, who had been keeping a low profile, couldn't help but speak up: "Second Uncle, don't worry, we won't disturb my cousin's sleep if we move in. We're not afraid of her sleepwalking. Please let us share a room. It's good for us girls to look after each other if anything happens."
She finally had the chance to move out of that thatched hut, and she didn't want to give it up.
The situation reached a stalemate. The captain rubbed his temples and opened his mouth to try to persuade Xia Jianguo, but he didn't know how to speak in front of so many people.
He understood that Xia Jianguo doted on his daughter, but the thatched hut where Xia's daughter lived was really not a place for humans to live. Now that there was a chance to move out, it wouldn't be a problem for the three girls to live together. Nowadays, which family in the brigade didn't have several people living in one room?
Some houses are so small that couples and several children squeeze onto one large kang (heated brick bed). With so many rooms in the Xia family, it's considered good that they can live separately.
In fact, not only the captain didn't understand, but the people standing outside watching the commotion also didn't understand.
Just when the atmosphere was tense and neither side was willing to back down, Wu Zhaodi returned.
"What are you all doing standing at my door?" Wu Zhaodi returned empty-handed; she had first taken her nephew home before returning to her own.
Seeing a crowd of people standing in front of her house, she was puzzled, but pushed her way through the crowd and went inside.
"Wu Zhaodi is back!"
"Your dear daughter is back, did you know? Have you seen your dear daughter yet?"
"Wu Zhaodi, please persuade Jianguo! It's better for the three girls to share a room than for the whole family to be crammed together!"
"It's just that Xia Jianguo spoils his daughter. If you ask me, it doesn't matter where this little brat lives. I wouldn't dare say anything if my daughter lived in the woodshed."
"Who else is like your family? Raising a daughter just to sell her for money."
"Liu Cuihua, what nonsense are you spouting? My daughters all got married properly. I raised them all these years, what's wrong with asking for a little dowry?"
Xia Wan could hear what the people outside were saying, but she neither agreed with nor cared about it. With her own means, why shouldn't she stay?
This was all earned by his father, why should it benefit those outsiders?
She should enjoy the good fortune herself; she would never do something like forcing herself to suffer without doing anything worthwhile!
Xia Wan turned to her brother and quietly asked, "Brother, which room is yours?"
“I share a room with my dad,” Xia Tao said, pointing to the door behind him.
After his father injured his leg, his mother refused to share a room with him, so he moved into his father's room to live together, which was also for the convenience of taking care of him.
So one of those two thatched huts was where Xia Chunxi and his sister lived, and the other was his mother's room.
He didn't want to interfere too much in his mother's decision to live in a thatched hut, since it was her own choice.
Xia Wan opened her mouth as if to say something, but then she heard Wu Zhaodi speak after understanding what had happened.
"Where did you get so many bad habits, you little girl? Now that you're back in the countryside, you have to listen to your grandparents. The elders are the ones in charge of the household, what right do you have to speak?"
Wu Zhaodi smiled obsequiously at her parents-in-law, but there was a fleeting hint of guilt in her eyes. She hoped that if she spoke up for them, they would overlook the fact that she had taken her nephew to the hospital.
Xia Jianguo sneered and ignored her completely. Instead, he said to the brigade leader, "Brother Guohua, I want to divorce Wu Zhaodi. Can you get me a certificate to go to the county tomorrow?"
The moment he uttered the words "divorce," the surroundings fell into an eerie silence, and Wu Zhaodi's ingratiating smile froze instantly.
The Xia family even thought that Xia Jianguo had gone mad. Why couldn't he listen to anyone today? Wu Zhaodi had betrayed them more than once or twice. It had been so many years. Why did he only think of divorce now?
Having already heard it once, Xia Wan and her siblings weren't surprised, but they felt that their father mentioning divorce at this time was somewhat inappropriate.
"What divorce? Xia Jianguo, you good-for-nothing, you want to divorce me? Without me, who else would be willing to serve you?" Wu Zhaodi took a few steps in front of Xia Jianguo and was about to hit him, but Xia Wan reacted quickly and stopped her.
Xia Tao looked at Wu Zhaodi with disgust, his eyes filled with complex emotions: "Mother, don't keep calling my father a good-for-nothing. This is not something a wife should say!"
"Divorce? Then I, this good-for-nothing, won't be a burden to you anymore?" Xia Jianguo said calmly, without a trace of anger on his face. He said divorce as casually as if he were asking someone if they had eaten.
Seeing his expression, Wu Zhaodi panicked and retorted to Xia Jianguo, "You dare...you dare to divorce me, my father and brothers will not forgive you!"
Xia Jianguo didn't care about any of that at the moment. He was now determined to divorce Wu Zhaodi and couldn't let this woman continue to ruin their family.
Since his heart isn't here, and since he can't be kept here, let him go wherever he wants.
The captain snapped out of his daze and looked at Xia Jianguo with surprise: "How did things escalate to the point of divorce? What happened between you two?"
Xia Jianguo had not publicized what Wu Zhaodi had done, so outsiders only knew that Wu Zhaodi cared about her family, but they did not know how Wu Zhaodi treated him behind his back.
Therefore, most people think that Wu Zhaodi just likes to send things to her parents' home. However, these things are not enough to warrant a divorce. After all, her family raised her from childhood, so it is unlikely that she would be unfilial to her parents after getting married.
"Oh dear, Captain, you have to stand up for me! Xia Jianguo is so old, and he's still talking about divorce. The kids are all grown up, and now he's talking about divorce. How am I supposed to live like this!"
Wu Zhaodi's face turned pale, and she sat down on the ground with a thud and began to wail.
Xia Jianguo just watched coldly until she had cried herself out and her voice was getting softer and softer, then he spoke: "Since that's the case, then I'll tell everyone what you've done over the years..."
“No, this is our family matter. How can we just gossip about it?” Wu Zhaodi knew how outrageous her previous actions were, and she interrupted Xia Jianguo without thinking.
Old Man Xia and Xia Jianjun were standing nearby, whispering to each other. Then Xia Jianjun started talking to Wu Zhaodi.
"Second son, you've handled this wrongly. Ever since you became bedridden, your wife has been taking care of you. Now that your own daughter has come back from the city and life is better, you want a divorce? What couple doesn't argue these days? How did it come to the point of divorce?"
As he spoke, he tugged at his wife, signaling her to join in and persuade her as well.
Xia Jianguo has gone mad today. We need to stop him quickly and not let him continue like this, otherwise their good days may be coming to an end.
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