Chapter 53
◎ Lin Bilan worked the afternoon shift and didn’t get home until around four in the afternoon.
Miao Xiuxiu sleeps◎
Lin Bilan was in the afternoon shift and didn't get home until around four in the afternoon.
Miao Xiuxiu was half asleep after a nap, sweating profusely. She got up, grabbed her sweat towel, and faced Lin Bilan.
While wiping the sweat off her face, Miao Xiuxiu casually said, "You're back! I thought I overslept. Pour me a cup of tea! This weather is unbearable."
Lin Bilan rushed over to Miao Xiuxiu and said angrily, "Mom, what time is it?! You still have the mind to drink tea!"
Miao Xiuxiu looked at the old wall clock and frowned, "I thought it was past three o'clock, but it's already past four. Is there a meeting at the factory?"
Lin Bilan was dissatisfied and raised her voice, "Mom!"
Miao Xiuxiu shook off her sweat towel and said unhappily, "What are you yelling about? Why am I not blessed enough to drink the tea you poured? I'm getting hotter and hotter all the time. Go get the little brat, I'll wake up and go make dinner later."
Lin Bilan said anxiously: "Mom, what should I do?"
Miao Xiuxiu asked with a puzzled look: "What should I do?"
The two people were talking at cross purposes and saying different things.
Lin Bilan's face was gloomy as she complained, "It's all because of your youngest and most caring daughter, Mom! I ran back in a hurry, but Mom saw how dark my face was and didn't care. She just told me to do things!"
Miao Xiuxiu was stunned, turned to look at Lin Bilan, and asked doubtfully: "What could have happened to Bitang?"
Although the youngest daughter looks the weakest among the three daughters, Bei Bitang is the most reliable. She can handle anything on her own, hide things, and take charge of things.
Lin Bilan walked over and closed the window and the door.
Miao Xiuxiu found it amusing. Wasn't this telling people clearly that something was wrong? But she didn't say anything to stop him.
She knew her eldest daughter Lin Bilan too well. If she didn't let her move more and relieve some of the anger in her heart, she would become even more angry and end up torturing herself.
After Lin Bilan closed the doors and windows, she leaned over to Miao Xiuxiu's ear and whispered, "There are some unpleasant rumors circulating about my younger sister and her ex-boyfriend. Some say that my younger sister gave her body to him when she was in the northwest."
Miao Xiuxiu's mind went blank for a moment, then she smiled and said nonchalantly, "Where did you hear that? You believe it? You can't do this kind of thing, Bili can't do it, but Bitang can? You, as the eldest sister, are looking down on Bitang."
Seeing that Miao Xiuxiu didn't believe it, Lin Bilan slapped her thigh anxiously and said sincerely: "It's true, Mom, you believe me."
Miao Xiuxiu shook her head and said firmly, "You believe everything you hear. Haven't you caused enough trouble? I don't believe it. Bitang has a hard heart. Can a man easily coax her?"
Lin Bilan raised two fingers and gritted her teeth, saying, "Mom, I swear what I said is true. If I say anything wrong, God will strike me with lightning!"
Miao Xiuxiu faked a spit, glared at Lin Bilan, and said, "Bullshit! It can't be true. She's my adopted daughter, how could I not know? You're the easiest to be fooled by men. You were fine before, so what about Bitang? Stop talking nonsense and go get the little brat!"
Lin Bilan tugged at Miao Xiuxiu's arm and said, "Humph, Mommy has made a mistake this time! She's betting on the wrong person! I'm the one who made the mistake of being a man and a woman! Okay, Mommy, believe it or not, but when the rumors come to you, Mommy will know whether it's true or not!"
After saying that, she shook it off and turned around to go out.
Miao Xiuxiu reached out and held her, and said solemnly, "Tell me, what's going on?"
Lin Bilan raised her chin proudly, turned around, raised her eyebrows, and said, "Mom, you believe it, right? Are you panicking?"
Miao Xiuxiu said angrily, "Stop talking nonsense and tell me what happened! How can you avoid being implicated in this kind of thing?!"
Lin Bilan also turned serious. She whispered, "It started out in the small vegetable market. Dashan heard about it and rushed to investigate. It's absolutely true. Dashan heard it himself. That guy Xu Zeli told others that everything that was supposed to happen between him and my younger sister happened. Dashan even met him. He looked very decent and didn't seem like he would lie."
After listening to this, Miao Xiuxiu frowned and said nothing.
Lin Bilan watched, not daring to breathe. Her mother looked a little scary, as if she wanted to eat her.
Miao Xiuxiu's expression turned from gloomy to pale. This was the first time in all these years that she spoke ill of Huang Dashan in public, and it was in front of Lin Bilan.
She glanced at Lin Bilan and said indifferently, "From now on, let your son-in-law work hard and stop asking questions. It's more important to carry more big bags."
Lin Bilan felt bad for her man. She said angrily, "It was my younger sister who made the mistake. Why is Mom scolding Dashan? This is not fair!"
Miao Xiuxiu was too lazy to pay attention to her. Her mouth was very dry, so she picked up the large white porcelain teapot on the table and poured herself a cup of cold tea.
Seeing that Miao Xiuxiu was neither furious nor crying loudly, and was very calm, did this matter just let it go?
Lin Bilan kept talking, saying, "Mom, what should we do? Speak up! In two days, the news that my younger sister is no longer a virgin will spread all over the Shikumen! How can we go out and see people? It's so embarrassing! So shameful!"
Miao Xiuxiu took a sip of tea and said calmly, "Just do what you should do on weekdays. Go to work when you should go to work."
Lin Bilan snorted coldly, her tone sarcastic, and she said, "Mom, you are so calm."
Miao Xiuxiu heard that the tone was wrong, looked deeply into Lin Bilan's eyes, lowered her voice, and said, "Why? Do you think this is a big deal?"
Lin Bilan murmured, "Isn't this a big deal?"
Miao Xiuxiu explained, "It was a consensual thing. No complaints, no prosecutions. What was that guy's name? I remember he was getting married, so he definitely didn't want to cause trouble. As for our family, we've suffered a loss, but we don't intend to pursue it. This matter will pass over with time."
After a pause, she took another sip of tea and continued, "You and Bili are already married, and the little one is a boy. What's the problem with this? It's nothing. Once this situation has died down, find a young man who lives far away for Bitang."
Lin Bilan said coldly, "Mom, you have such a big heart."
Miao Xiuxiu stared at her face and said, "You think it's shameful that Bitang lost her virginity before marriage, and you look down on her? Then you also look down on me as your mother, right?"
Miao Xiuxiu was able to marry three times instead of living with the tablet of her first husband. She is not a person who sticks to the old ways. It’s impossible to have her establish a chastity archway!
After all, she was a modern woman who had attended a foreign school. Meanwhile, Lin Bilan seemed to be regressing as she grew older, despite never skipping a day of schooling.
Lin Bilan turned her head away and said nothing.
Miao Xiuxiu was furious. She sneered, looked at Lin Bilan, and said sarcastically, "If your son-in-law does something to let you down in the future, I want to see if you will remain loyal to him, refuse to divorce or remarry, and stick to him forever! I want to see how you can live your life!"
Her first husband was her beloved and very important. But Lin Bilan was her most beloved daughter, raised with every mouthful of milk and every bite of food. She worried so much about Lin Bilan that she turned so many hairs gray.
She had painstakingly raised Lin Bilan, raised her to adulthood, helped her find work, marry, and have children. Now, she'd raised an ungrateful child, resentful of her biological father, whom she'd never met, and feeling that even if he died, she shouldn't remarry. She'd be left all alone and helpless, needing to stay with him forever! This was a good woman, a good wife, a good mother!
Lin Bilan explained weakly, "Mom, I just feel that my younger sister has been bullied for nothing. It's really embarrassing."
Miao Xiuxiu suppressed the anger in her chest and said coldly, "Does our family have any experience with face? Okay, I don't care what you think, just don't talk about this anymore. You and Dashan, shut up, and don't mention it in front of Bitang."
Lin Bilan glared and said, "Mom, we can't just let this go! Our little sister was only sixteen or seventeen at the time, a pure and innocent girl, and someone took advantage of her!"
Miao Xiuxiu glanced at her and asked, "Then what do you want to do?"
Lin Bilan raised her hand and said angrily, "We have to go to their house and ask for justice for my sister. We have to ask that man Xu Zeli to pay some compensation."
Miao Xiuxiu ignored him and drank all the tea in the cup.
At the same time, she silently chanted in her heart, "Don't be angry, don't be angry, anger shortens your life. It's not worth it for such a fool like Lin Bilan. She had to hold on. If she was gone, within a year, Bilan would definitely be at loggerheads with Bili and Bitang, becoming enemies until they died, and their family would fall apart."
Lin Bilan leaned over and said slyly, "Mom, you don't know. My sister refused to tell us anything. It was so hard keeping it a secret from us. Her ex-boyfriend's parents are both teachers, and he's an only child. Most importantly, he got into East China Normal University! My sister didn't hold on to a man like that, and he slipped away."
"Don't we have Mom and I here? Let's go and ask them ourselves. What should we do if our family's good reputation is damaged? If we make a fuss, maybe the marriage will be canceled and my sister can marry into the family. That way, Mom won't have to wait for a young boy, and she'll have a ready-made son-in-law who is a college student. We can also benefit from it."
Miao Xiuxiu's heart wavered for a moment, and she asked, "What's the family situation of the woman he married now?"
Lin Bilan said enviously, "She's from a wealthy family. The wife Xu Zeli wants to marry will drive a car when she goes out."
Miao Xiuxiu's heart hardened. She put on a stern face, threw the teacup, and warned Lin Bilan, "Don't even think about it! Don't mention Xu Zeli's name again! This matter ends here! Otherwise, I won't even give Dashan face!"
A fierce light appeared in Miao Xiuxiu's eyes, like a mother wolf protecting her cubs. Lin Bilan was so scared that she shrugged her shoulders and hung her head.
At this point, after hearing what Lin Bilan said, Miao Xiuxiu completely believed her.
The younger daughter was cold-hearted. She had only been in the Northwest for four years, and her relationship with that man had definitely lasted less than four years before she was coaxed into having sex. This shows how much she cared about that man. She must have been obsessed with him.
She could guess how the two of them separated without having to explain the whole story.
Now the unfaithful man has passed the imperial examination, has a bright future, and is marrying a daughter of a wealthy family, but he himself has to endure the gossip, which all originated from the unfaithful man.
No matter how strong the younger daughter was, she would be devastated and heartbroken.
Even if they cannot go to the door to seek justice as relatives, they can at least try not to add fuel to the fire.
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