But Wang Shengnan felt that this was not a good idea.
How could his father, a stalwart man, do laundry?
Washing clothes and cooking are things women should do, not things that a big man like his father should do.
"Ouch! Ouch! Mom, be gentle!"
Wang Shengnan was beaten badly. His older brother, who usually protected him, had gone to join the army and was no longer at home to help him stop his mother.
As for his sister, she was probably on his mother's side, standing by and watching him get beaten, with no one helping him.
"How dare you say such things to your Grandma Chen! What kind of tone is that? How did I teach you? How can you talk to your elders like that?" Tan Xiaojuan scolded her son while hitting him.
"Who does she think she is as an elder? We're not related at all! Ugh—"
"She's older than your parents, and she's close to me, so she's your elder! What? You don't even want to acknowledge your own mother anymore?"
"Wang Shengnan, are you disgusted with your mother? Huh? Or do you want to change your mother?"
Tan Xiaojuan was very angry.
Before, when she had no dreams of her own and spent all her time revolving around her family, she didn't think her son's thoughts were that hurtful.
Serving them, father and son, is like serving ancestors, like serving an emperor.
So now that she wants to take a break and share the housework with them, this is how they repay her?
Why didn't these father and sons help her when she and her daughter were working together before?
Why don't you appreciate her hard work?
Now when they have to do the work themselves, they feel it's hard work?
You just think she was being lazy?
If her son has this attitude, what about her husband?
"No! I didn't! Mom, you'll always be my mom. How could I possibly want to change my mom?"
Wang Shengnan refuted his mother's words.
Although he was somewhat unhappy that his mother made him do chores and that his father made him do chores, and that he even argued with his father, he never intended to change his mother.
He's seen what other people's stepmothers are like; a biological mother is always the best, and he doesn't want to change stepmothers.
Even if other people's mothers are better, he doesn't want to switch.
"Mom, Mom, I know I was wrong! Please stop hitting me!"
Tan Xiaojuan wasn't old enough to lose her strength, and Wang Shengnan was only a twelve-year-old boy who quickly begged for mercy when his mother chased and beat him.
The bamboo stick stung his skin, but he wasn't thick-skinned and didn't feel the pain. He quickly apologized to his mother, saying he knew he was wrong.
"Do you still dare to speak to your elders like that?"
"I won't do it again! I won't do it again! Mom, I was wrong!"
"Apologize to your Grandma Chen!"
"Grandma Chen, I'm so sorry! I know I was wrong! I shouldn't have said that to you!"
Wang Shengnan was pragmatic. Under Tan Xiaojuan's warning, he apologized to Chen Suwen, hoping that his mother would show leniency because of his sincerity.
Chen Suwen didn't think Tan Xiaojuan was acting; her eyes were sharp.
Tan Xiaojuan was truly angry, and she struck very hard. If Wang Sheng were to lift up his clothes, he would definitely see the swollen welts on his body from being whipped with bamboo strips.
So she accepted his apology.
"Young man, think before you speak in the future, or it might not be your mother hitting you, but someone else disciplining you."
"Nobody knows what the consequences will be," Chen Suwen warned.
If she were to strike, she might hit him harder, or if he still doesn't repent and gets into trouble outside, he might be hit even harder.
Then he'll know what "loose lips sink ships" really means.
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