Regardless of Shen Wenxiu's thoughts, He Caiping continued talking.
"Your sister is stupid too, she actually married a country bumpkin."
"What future can a city girl like her have if she marries a countryman?"
“Look at the Yun family’s daughter downstairs. She’s hooked up with a rich man. She not only has a house, but also several shops.”
“That’s a well-raised daughter, unlike you and your sister…”
He Caiping scoffed at the Yun family's practice of forcing their daughter to marry a wealthy man, while simultaneously feeling envious and jealous.
She would be willing to do so if her daughter could earn her several shops and a big house.
Unfortunately, her eldest daughter was foolish. She married a countryman who not only couldn't help her but also followed her to the city to sponge off her family.
Hmph, if she hadn't had the foresight to stop them from coming in, she might still be raising her daughter, son-in-law, and grandson.
And then there's Shen Wenxiu's youngest daughter—
"Mom, are you blaming me for not being able to buy Wenxiu a big house or open several shops for her?" Zhou Cunzong interrupted He Caiping with a smile.
"It seems you're very dissatisfied with me, Mom. Do you want a son-in-law who has several wives at home and keeps other women on the side?"
Zhou Cunzong smiled and looked at He Caiping, "Mom, if you like it so much, you can actually let Dad do it."
"Although Dad doesn't have as much money as those big bosses, Dad is a man just like them."
"So Mom, if you want a man like that, you can have Dad keep a few more women, and then you can experience that feeling."
"There's no need to envy others."
Zhou Cunzong's words were somewhat shocking, but Shen Wenxiu did not react in any particular way. On the contrary, her sister-in-law was stunned.
She stopped washing clothes and stared wide-eyed at Zhou Cunzong.
This brother-in-law is something else; he actually dared to talk to his mother-in-law like that.
Sometimes she actually envied her aunt Shen Wenxiu, who married a good man and whose in-laws treated her well.
The main reason is that she is capable; she was able to get into university and become a college student.
Shen Wenxiu was the only college student in the Shen family; none of her older siblings or younger brother passed the exam.
Li Erya, who had never been to school and couldn't even write her own name properly, was particularly envious of her highly educated aunt.
"What nonsense are you talking about? Is that how you talk to your mother-in-law?" He Caiping didn't expect Zhou Cunzong to be so disrespectful to her right away.
Although she had long known that this son-in-law was difficult to deal with, she never expected him to hit her so hard.
"Is it because you, Mom, envy other people's daughters who can marry rich men?"
"Mom, your daughter is like this, she will never be as successful as you."
"So, Mom, you'd better do it yourself. Either make Dad a rich man, or you go out and find a rich man to be your sugar daddy?"
Zhou Cunzong maintained a smile throughout, as if he wasn't angry at all, but his words broke He Caiping's defenses.
"Shut up!"
After yelling at Zhou Cunzong, He Caiping turned to Shen Wenxiu and cursed her, "You heartless ingrate! You ungrateful wretch!"
"Why did you come back? Did you come back on purpose to upset me?"
"Are you satisfied now? Do you feel better seeing me unhappy?"
For a fleeting moment, Shen Wenxiu felt that her mother was right when she was scolded like that.
Seeing her mother's breakdown, she did feel a secret sense of satisfaction.
She couldn't completely ignore her parents, but she was even more unhappy watching them live well off her and help the brothers she looked down on.
So, comparing the two, it's better to make her mother unhappy than to make herself unhappy.
"Mom, you look so energetic, and you speak with such vigor when you scold people. You must be in very good health."
"That puts my mind at ease."
Originally, when she and Zhou Cunzong came back, they didn't necessarily want her parents to have a medical check-up.
The main reason is that she knows very well that if she really pays, it won't just be her parents who will go; her older brother and younger brother's whole family will go too.
She's willing to give money to her parents, but she's unwilling to give money to her older brother's family or her younger brother.
So forget it. As long as she's sure her parents aren't seriously ill, injured, immobile, or in any life-threatening condition, that's enough.
"What? You're disappointed that I'm healthy? You'd be happy if you just wanted to drive me crazy?" He Caiping sneered, becoming increasingly impatient with her daughter.
She is doing better and better off herself, but she is unwilling to help her family at all.
Sometimes He Caiping even suspected that her daughter was a jinx to her precious son. Otherwise, how could Shen Wenxiu be getting better and better while her precious son was getting worse and worse?
"Mom, how could I possibly want to anger you to death? You are my own mother." Shen Wenxiu cried out that she was wronged, she had no intention of being accused of being an unfilial daughter who angered her own mother to death.
"Yes, Mom, don't you know how filial Wenxiu is?" Zhou Cunzong smiled as he recounted the gifts Shen Wenxiu had given to the Shen family.
Food, drinks, household items, and various tonics for his parents-in-law.
Shen Wenxiu rarely gave money to her family, but if she had any good food and any left over, she would give it to her parents.
Who can say she is unfilial?
“What’s the use? It’s just some food and drink. If she’s so capable, she should give me a shop or a house.” He Caiping didn’t think her daughter’s small favors were filial piety at all.
Yes, she felt that the food and drinks her daughter brought back were just small favors and not worth mentioning at all.
If you're so capable, give her lots and lots of money, a big house, a good job, and let her live the life of a rich person.
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