Chapter 52: When young, he steals needles; when old, he steals gold
When she was still at her mother's home, her mother gave birth to five daughters in one breath but no son. Her grandmother scolded her mother every day as an old hen that could not lay eggs, and called her and her sisters money-losing goods.
Later, her mother died in labor while trying to give birth to a son, and in the end, the son was never born, leaving two lives...
Yu witnessed this tragedy with her own eyes.
She watched her own mother getting pregnant again and again in order to give birth to a son, but all she gave birth to were daughters. She could only wipe away her tears and make up her mind to have another child. In the end, she lay on the bed covered in blood, and was still calling for a son before she died, but she did not give birth to one, and died with her eyes open.
From then on, she vowed that she would never repeat her mother's mistakes!
If you can't give birth to a son, then raise a daughter well. Even though there are five sisters in her family, all of them are girls, the relationship between them is still very good. This is much better than some families who have brothers but are always bullied by them.
So, after she married into the old Cen family, she loved her first child, Cen Shuang, like a pearl in her heart. Even though she failed to get pregnant again and accidentally miscarried once, she didn't care.
She also didn't want to have a son from the bottom of her heart.
But it was Old Lady Cen who kept talking about her inability to give birth to a son, and praised Gao for her ability to give birth to two sons...
It's okay to be biased, but now that I've brought up the issue of catching the chicken thief, it's obvious that this old woman wants to protect the Gao family, but she's actually talking about the fact that she can't give birth to a son?
Do you think she will believe this old woman's nonsense?
Considering Gao's personality of not being able to stand others living better than her, if the first wife becomes successful in the future, will the third wife really be able to benefit from their success?
If this is true, then why did the second wife, Li, also give birth to a son, but the old woman just didn't like the second wife?
And you still say this isn't partiality?
With Gao standing here, even if their third branch gave birth to ten sons, the old woman wouldn't even look at them!
"Mom, I understand everything you said."
Yu used a lot of effort to suppress the anger in her heart. "But the problem is, we should deal with each matter separately. Someone stole half a chicken this time, and I didn't say it was done by the first wife. Mother directly linked it to the dispute between the first wife and the third wife. Could it be that you already know that it was done by someone from the first wife? Mother, I can understand that you want to protect the first wife, but the problem is, the two children of the first wife just follow their parents to learn to steal chickens and dogs. What if they do such things when they grow up? What should we do?
"As the saying goes, if you steal needles when you are young, you will steal gold when you grow up. If you don't learn well from childhood, then if Han Ge really passes the imperial examination and becomes an official, but has such brothers and sisters, our old Cen family will be really implicated!"
It was a rare occasion that Yu's brain worked well.
Maybe it was because I was thinking about my biological mother and I felt too sad. But sadness can sometimes calm people down unexpectedly...
So this time she didn't just yell and make a fuss like she usually did, but spoke in a very coherent and precise manner.
The reason why those two old fellows, Mrs. Cen and Mr. Cen, value the main branch and the Gao family so much, isn’t it because the Gao family gave birth to a boy named Cen Han who is good at reading?
Isn’t it because Cen Han can bring benefits to the Cen family?
Then she would conclude that Gao's actions would corrupt the child and would end up implicating Cen Han!
I’m afraid that Old Lady Cen is not afraid of this, so she can protect Gao at will!
After hearing what Yu said, Old Lady Cen's intention to protect Gao faded all of a sudden.
How could Gao's family be more important than her children?
But if Gao was punished like this, what if Han Geer knew about it and hated her for making things difficult for his own mother...
Old Mrs. Cen was very hesitant.
"What's going on? Third wife, why are you here talking to your mother?" At this time, Old Man Cen walked into the room and saw Yu standing here obediently, and the old woman looked solemn, so he couldn't help but ask.
He has just returned from working in the fields.
Ever since Cen Dahai has been bedridden and unconscious, working in the fields has become extremely difficult.
The eldest brother is a lazy guy who is always thinking about how to slack off when he is working.
The third brother is a selfish person. He only does his share and is unwilling to do more for fear of being at a disadvantage.
But he had to work in the fields, so he had to use his old bones to do the work.
Without Cen Dahai, the work in the fields would be impossible.
At this moment, Old Man Cen had already washed his face, but he was still sweating all over and feeling very hot.
He walked into the room while asking, sat down on a worn armchair nearby, and fanned himself with a palm-leaf fan on the table.
"Dad, you're back just in time. This is what happened." When Yu saw Old Man Cen coming back, her eyes lit up. She quickly organized her words and told him in detail about how half a chicken was missing from her home. She also repeated what she had just said to Old Lady Cen.
Compared to Old Mrs. Cen who only knows how to protect the eldest wife, if there is any "fair" person in this family, we can only count on Old Man Cen!
Even if he is biased, he won't be too biased obviously!
When Old Man Cen heard this, he knew that the old woman was deliberately favoring the eldest wife, and he subconsciously thought that the old woman knew that half of the chicken was indeed stolen by Gao.
Therefore, he determined that half of the chicken was stolen by Gao.
When he thought about how the eldest brother had eaten the half chicken that Gao had stolen, and how he had dared to be lazy while working in the fields, making his old bones work so hard, and how he was simply an unfilial person, Old Man Cen felt a surge of anger in his heart.
He wanted to give the first wife a warning, so he lowered his face and said to Yu: "Third wife, go and call everyone from the first wife over here!"
"Yes, Dad, I'll go call my sister-in-law and the others over right away!" When Yu saw Old Man Cen's face as dark as the bottom of a pot, she couldn't help but feel happy. She quickly responded loudly, turned around and walked briskly to the main room.
This is the big room.
Cen Dajiang came back from the fields, washed his face, changed into dry clothes, and was now lying on the bed enjoying himself comfortably.
Gao was holding a round fan and fanning him.
He was still panting heavily.
"No, this life is really unbearable! Since the second brother is not here, I have to do the work in the fields. The third brother, that bad boy, refuses to do even a little more! I'm so tired! Why hasn't the second brother woke up yet? If he keeps lying like this, I'll be exhausted to death!" Cen Dajiang complained repeatedly.
Perhaps this was a rare time for him, when he was looking forward to Cen Dahai getting better soon.
"Hey, look at you. Mother asked you to go and find him, but what if you couldn't? Mother asked you to knock him out, but you did it..." Gao felt sorry for him, but couldn't help criticizing her husband for listening too much to the old woman.
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