Old Zhou hesitated. Although he often tricked his eldest son, he knew in his heart that he was in the wrong. So he called out to Zhou Laosan in a rough voice, "Laosan, why don't we just forget about it? I suddenly remembered that your eldest brother's injury hasn't healed yet. Is it not right for us to do this?"
"Dad, haven't we already come to your door? You and Mom raised our eldest brother, so how is it unreasonable to ask him for a few things? Isn't this a matter of course? We're in the right, and we won't back down." Zhou Laosan always managed to find a bunch of fallacies.
After being brainwashed by him, Old Man Zhou and Old Woman Zhou felt that it made sense. It was their eldest son who was wrong, so how could they, as parents, be wrong?
“Alright, call the village chief and everyone else over. Today I’m going to show the eldest son who his father is.” Old Zhou puffed out his chest, looking completely self-righteous.
Grandma Zhou also supported Grandpa Zhou's actions, saying, "The eldest son is really outrageous. At least he should have opened the door and let us two old folks in. What does it mean to keep us out? He's such a rebellious son. We've raised him for nothing all these years."
The Zhou family elders didn't bother to lower their voices, so Zhao Guihua heard everything. She sneered and muttered, "Pah! They only gave the child his life, and they say they raised him for so many years? How dare they say that? The child's father started working to help the family when he was six years old."
I do the hardest work, eat the worst food to fill my stomach, and not only do I have to take care of my three younger brothers, but I also have to be your punching bag. I haven't had a single good day.
"Mom, was Dad's childhood really that miserable?" Xingxing was woken up by the cursing outside and happened to hear Zhao Guihua's rambling.
Zhao Guihua immediately told her, "Of course it's true! I used to be from the same village as your father. I know everything about his family. If we weren't from the same village, I would have suspected that your father wasn't their biological son."
I've seen biased people before, but I've never seen such extreme bias. Do they even deserve to be parents? Anyone can be a parent!
Actually, there's one more thing Zhao Guihua didn't mention: Zhou Laoda has been good to her since she was little. Her parents didn't have a son, so the villagers always laughed at them, and the village children often bullied her and her sister.
When she was a child, the village children would not take her when she went up the mountain to pick wild vegetables. She was too scared to go up the mountain alone, so she would secretly follow behind the children. If she was discovered, she would be beaten. Every time, it was Zhou Laoda who would help her drive the children away and take her to pick wild vegetables and gather firewood.
Otherwise, given how poor the Zhou family was, and how stingy the two elders were, only willing to offer fifty coins as a bride price, how could she have willingly married Zhou Laoda?
Just as I was lost in thought, I heard someone outside shouting that the village chief had arrived, and it sounded like there were quite a few people outside the gate.
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