Chapter 60: Halfway through hanging, the roof can fall off
"Cough cough," Xu Ancheng was enjoying his cake when he suddenly started coughing.
Gu Jinfengsheng's porridge just happened to arrive, so he quickly told him to "Hurry up, drink a sip."
Xu Ancheng picked it up and took a big sip, but still felt choked.
He was choked and couldn't open his mouth.
He just stared at his own mother in disbelief. After a long while, he uttered in shock, "What...what's going on?"
Gu Jin hesitated, not knowing how to tell his son about helping Xu Huaishan pour water for washing feet. Wen Tang, who was sitting next to him, couldn't stand it and said directly, "What's wrong? Don't you want to serve me?"
Wen Tang and Chi Yue were sitting on a bench next to the wall. They didn't attract anyone's attention, but when she spoke, Xu Ancheng couldn't ignore her.
Xu Ancheng looked at her and was even more confused.
Don't want to serve the master?
Which master don't you want to serve?
Xu Ancheng had a lot of doubts in his mind, but he was embarrassed to keep staring at his brother's wife, so he quickly shifted his gaze and set his eyes on Gu Yanli, hoping that his cousin could answer his questions.
Before Gu Yanli could answer his question, Wen Tang started talking again, "A family that can even lose its roof if it hangs itself, can still give itself the status of a king? When you wash your feet, you need someone else to pour the footbath water for you. Tsk, it's a good thing you didn't meet me."
Chi Yue immediately responded, "It's a good thing you didn't meet me, otherwise I would have let the whole family taste whether the foot washing water is salty or bland."
Wen Tang silently gave her best friend a thumbs up.
Gu Jinfeng silently moved the bench and shrank into the corner.
She didn't want to taste the saltiness of the foot washing water.
Foot washing water?
Xu Ancheng's face was full of question marks again.
In the end, it was Zhong Meixian who spoke up to help him clear up his confusion. "Ancheng, you have to talk to your father about this. Your mother is so old, and she is not an official. How can it be reasonable for your mother to pour the water for washing feet?"
After hearing this, Xu Ancheng, who had originally been in a state of eating melons and moved the pancake in his hand back to his mouth, silently moved the scallion pancake away again after hearing this.
He opened his mouth and wanted to say that he didn't know about this!
But when the words were on the tip of his tongue, he swallowed them back.
You really don’t know?
Over the years, it was only his mother who brought water out of the house. His father always went into the house and never left. It's not like he didn't wash or wipe, so where was the water for washing?
So it's obvious.
But, just because of such a thing, you suddenly want to stop living like this?
Pinching the cake, Xu Ancheng couldn't help but said, "Mom, if this is the reason for you, I'll talk to Dad about it later. It's not a big deal."
Wen Tang couldn't help but say, "Yes, it's not a big deal. The last straw that broke the camel's back didn't weigh much!"
Xu Ancheng: "..."
He looked at his cousin again and signaled him to take care of it.
But Gu Yanli just looked at his wife with a smile. Even though the light was dim, one could clearly see the doting in his eyes.
Xu Ancheng: "..."
"Yes, my father was wrong in this matter, but the old couple have been together for decades. If we can't talk about it now, won't it make people laugh?"
Wen Tang laughed, "You said these words, aren't you afraid of being laughed at?"
Xu Ancheng: "..."
"Sister-in-law, you are just being argumentative."
Wen Tang didn't look at him and replied with a smile, "I think my cousin is also arguing."
Xu Ancheng: "..."
"Forget it, I won't tell you." He looked at Gu Jin, "Mom, what do you think?"
"Are you really thinking about not living with my father?"
"Isn't this a joke?"
"What does it look like to let people know?"
He looked at Gu Juyuan beside him and said, "Uncle, please help persuade my mother. We can't do this. The three of us brothers have started families, but she doesn't want to live with my father anymore. Tell me, won't people laugh if we tell others about this?"
Wen Tang shook his head and said, "Tsk tsk, it would be better to give birth to a piece of barbecued pork than to give birth to a son like this."
"…What's that?" Xu Ancheng scratched his head. He didn't understand, but he knew it was nothing good.
Wen Tang didn't care whether he understood or not, but said to Gu Jin, "Aunt, don't listen to him. He is like this. Before you get married, he asked you to think about his marriage. After you get married, he asked you to think about his children. When you die one day, he will dig your grave and ask you to think about his descendants."
Gu Jin: "..."
Xu Ancheng: "..."
Zhong Meixian and others: "..."
Zhong Meixian: She always thought that if she died one day, she must choose a good place to bury herself, and then maybe she would be able to control her daughter-in-law.
But Wen Tang's words just now made her despair. She thought that if she died, she could get rid of the humiliation she suffered from her daughter-in-law when she was alive, but according to Wen Tang, she could dig her own grave!
If she gets angry, she might throw her old bones into the stinking ditch, and then she will lie in the stinking ditch every day...
Zhong Meixian felt like she was going to faint from the stench just thinking about it.
She thought that she should be obedient in the future and do as Wen Tang said, it takes ten years to observe the mother-in-law, and ten years to observe the daughter-in-law. If she behaves well, she will treat her well in the future.
Thinking of this, Zhong Meixian was finally not so panicked.
Zhong Meixian was no longer panicked, but Xu Ancheng was choked and couldn't utter a word.
Gu Jin was a little hesitant at first, but Wen Tang's words made her understand, "Xiao Tang is right. You men think about your reputation and face every day. You act like masters when you go out and you act like masters when you come back. I've spoiled you."
Wen Tang and Chi Yue immediately responded, "It's just what we do."
Xu Ancheng opened his mouth and said "..."
In the end, he could only take the remaining scallion pancake on the table, then stood up and said, "I'll go back and ask my dad to come. I can't let him take the blame for the trouble he caused."
As he spoke, he rushed into the darkness without Gu Juyuan or the others having to get up to see him off.
After her son ran away quickly, Gu Jin felt that the depression in her heart had dissipated a little. She also found that it was not that difficult to say some things.
No one laughed at her when she said it, but the person being questioned ran away instead.
Maybe it's just like Wen Tang said, it's all because of her indulgence.
Thinking of this, Gu Jin smiled and stood up and started to clean the table again, "I'll clean up the dishes, you all should take a rest, it's getting late."
"It's cold, go to bed early."
Xu Ancheng ran back home, and the Xu family’s dinner was almost over.
The steamed buns left for him were cold.
Xu Ancheng drank another bowl of porridge with cold steamed buns and pickles.
After eating, Xu Ancheng pronounced a "death sentence" on his father, "Dad, my mother said she doesn't want to live with you anymore."
As soon as he said this, everyone in the Xu family was stunned.
His wife Zhang Fen even put her hand on his forehead, and then tried her own forehead, "It's not a fever!"
Xu Ancheng: "..."
He thought again of Wen Tang calling him barbecued pork, and he thought, this cousin's wife is quite a tough one, no wonder she dared to beat the educated youth from the city, although it is possible that the educated youth really deserved a beating.
Xu Ancheng waved his wife's hand away and told everyone, "I don't have a fever."
"My mother said that my father always asked her to pour out the water for washing feet, so she didn't want to live with him."
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