"Mr. Wen's mother? This is quite a commotion! I always thought Mr. Wen's parents were dead!" Aunt Zhang Wu exclaimed in surprise after hearing this. "I saw Mr. Wen spending the New Year in our village, with everyone helping him prepare his clothes and shoes. He didn't seem like he had any family taking care of him at all..."
The Wen family mother-in-law and daughter-in-law looked embarrassed and were about to explain when Grandma Feng pulled Zhang Wu's hand and laughed, "Don't worry about it. Life is hard for everyone. Maybe Mr. Wen's family is so poor that they can't even afford to eat, so naturally they can't take care of him!"
The Wen family mother-in-law and daughter-in-law's faces turned completely black...
Jiayin hid behind her grandmother, already laughing so hard she was secretly rubbing her stomach.
When it comes to cursing, whether it's direct or sarcastic, old ladies are absolutely formidable!
Old Mrs. Li coughed twice and said, "My dear sisters, I've come to ask for your help. Please help me persuade Old Mrs. Wen. She was crying so hard just now."
"Oh, right, right, we've gone off-topic!" Grandma Feng quickly patted her chest and assured her, "Don't worry, there's no one in this world we can't persuade."
Aunt Wu and Aunt Zhang nodded repeatedly, looking as if they had been entrusted with an important task.
Then they all looked at Madam Wen, their three old eyes wide open, eagerly waiting for her to begin her performance.
Madam Wen instinctively picked up the handkerchief, but then froze, unsure of what to do...
The atmosphere in the room became awkward for a moment, until finally Grandma Feng clapped her hands and exclaimed, "Oh dear, I know! Grandma Wen must be embarrassed because we're unfamiliar faces. Well then, I'll set an example by complaining a bit and becoming the prelude..."
After saying that, she slapped her thigh and drew out her words, "Oh dear, my poor son, I raised you for eighteen years, and you just left like that. I have no one to rely on. I really want to go and complain to the King of Hell!"
"Poor thing, the rain stopped again, and our two acres of land have withered and died! My old bones can't go on living, and to make matters worse, that northern barbarian came with a big knife..."
Aunt Wu and Aunt Zhang exchanged a glance. They couldn't let Grandma Feng take on such a big responsibility alone, so they quickly joined in slapping their thighs in agreement.
Aunt Wu cried and said, "Waaah, yes, those damned barbarians! We were living such good lives, and they had to come and ruin everything. Our perfectly good home, they just abandoned us like that!"
Aunt Zhang Wu immediately took the document, saying, "To survive, we had to cross mountains and valleys. Forty mountains, and it seemed like we could never reach the end! Tigers, black bears, and wolves in the mountains all treated us as food. Everyone who saw us wanted to take a bite out of us... Waaah, those days were truly unbearable!"
Grandma Feng was very happy to end her solo struggle and quickly joined her old friends' "singing" team. "Fortunately, we were all of one mind. We practically crawled all the way to get over the mountain, but as soon as we came down, we encountered barbarians again!"
"Those gleaming broadswords were slashing at us, all bloody and terrifying! Waaah, I still have nightmares about it!"
Three women make a drama, and three old ladies are even more skilled.
With their singing, recitation, acting, and martial arts skills, they turned a play into a classic!
From the natural disaster that struck Qingshui Village, to the invasion of barbarians, they were forced to move south, crossing mountains and valleys, killing wild animals and fighting bandits, until they almost failed and died at the dock.
They were crying and cursing, and the rhymes they made up were so wonderful, and their coordination was so perfect, it was simply amazing!
The Wen family mother-in-law and daughter-in-law across the way were dumbfounded. One of them held up her handkerchief and forgot to put it down, while the other's mouth was agape, as if she wouldn't even notice if a fly flew in...
Grandma Li refilled her pipe with tobacco and continued to puff away, occasionally sighing as she played along with her old friends' performance.
But she was secretly overjoyed, feeling a great sense of relief.
The Wen family is a scholarly family, and this old lady of the Wen family seems to be quite pretentious. She probably prefers romance and poetry to the mundane realities of life, and she is not very insightful about human relationships.
In her view, chasing after someone to wipe away their tears was already a very despicable tactic.
It must be said that this method was indeed very effective for Madam Cui, who also came from a scholarly family.
But now that she's at the Li family's house, this plan is destined to fail.
Because the Li family is not a scholarly family, they don't buy into this kind of thing!
You want to cry? Then let me show you what a truly overwhelming crying scene looks like, and teach you a lesson!
Madam Wen took a deep breath, wanting to say something, but before she could utter a sound, she choked and coughed.
She said decisively, "Ahem, Madam, ahem, we've been out for quite a while now, it's time to go back. We'll come again another day... ahem, to pay our respects!"
After saying that, she tried to get down, but she had been sitting cross-legged for too long and her legs went numb. She fell off the kang (a heated brick bed) with a thud and ended up kneeling on both knees.
Old Mrs. Li put down her pipe and quickly offered a helping hand, saying, "Oh dear, niece-in-law, what are you doing? Why are you kowtowing? There's no need for such a grand gesture. Being so polite is just being pretentious."
Madam Wen gritted her teeth, slowly stood up while holding onto the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed), said nothing, helped her mother-in-law down to the ground, and quickly took her leave.
Madam Wen seemed to want to say something to Madam Cui, but Madam Cui sat with her head down behind several old ladies, only revealing a bit of her hair bun, and didn't even glance at her!
Tao Hongying said she was leading the way, but it was actually more like escorting them. She quickly led the Wen family master and servants out of the side gate of the backyard.
Old Mrs. Li immediately extinguished her pipe and shouted, "Quickly open the window, it's choking me!"
"Hahaha," Grandma Feng couldn't help but burst into laughter, "If even you, a smoker, find it choking, we certainly wouldn't be able to survive. To be honest, they left early; if we sat any longer, we wouldn't have been able to hold on either!"
Aunt Wu laughed and said, "That's right! Quickly pour me a bowl of water, I'm so thirsty! I've probably talked more today than I have in a whole year!"
Aunt Zhang was the most energetic, clapping her hands and laughing, "Did you see the faces of that mother-in-law and daughter-in-law? Hahaha, with that kind of skill, they dare to come here and show off?!"
Grandma Li turned to look at her granddaughter and Madam Cui. Seeing that they seemed unwell, she said, "My dear sisters, we really owe you all today! I could tell from their demeanor that they were no good. I figured Jinrou was easily swayed by their tears and would soften up and get angry, and then she would take the initiative to break things off with Mr. Wen!"
"And they won't complain in front of Mr. Wen. They'll only say that Jinrou's feelings for him aren't solid enough. They're so insidious!"
"Yes, yes! Wealthy families are always willing to play these petty tricks, they're not as honest as our farmhouses!" Grandma Feng said with a sneer. "Although we may not be very knowledgeable, when it comes to our son getting married, it still depends on him."
"After all, she's the woman who bore him children, slept in the same bed with him, and will be buried with him when she dies. He has to be happy, right? What are we doing stopping her? When she kicks the bucket and goes to see the King of Hell, won't her daughter-in-law still be there for her son?"
“That’s exactly right,” Aunt Wu said. “That old lady from the Wen family just can’t see things clearly!”
It's still a 4 AM day~~
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