Liu Zhishuang looked at his wife again. Even at this moment, she still had her head down, as if she didn't hear what her mother and eldest brother and sister-in-law said.
Maybe she thinks it would be better to split up the family?
Liu Zhishuang suddenly recalled what his mother said last night: If your wife feels that the family is not divided, she will feel uncomfortable... Is it that Sun Hongmei really intends to divide the family, and there was a commotion last night but the family was not divided, so today Sun Guizhi went to the commune to scold her mother?
Sun Hongmei could feel Liu Zhishuang looking at her, and she knew that she should express her opinion like Wang Caifeng, but she just couldn't open her mouth: no matter how eloquent she was, it was a fact that her aunt blocked the commune and scolded her mother-in-law, and she couldn't argue.
Sun Hongmei didn't realize that her silence made Liu Zhishuang, who had been looking at her, look gloomy.
Liu Zhishuang looked at Sun Hongmei as if she were a stranger. He really felt that Sun Hongmei was strange. He had had this thought since last night, but it was not as strong as today.
Liu Zhishuang was thinking, did Sun Hongmei really not know the relationship between her family and the old house before she got married, or did she know? If she didn't know, how could she tell Sun Guizhi without reservation today that her mother had gone to the commune?
If she knew, how could she dare to marry into the Liu family?
Unable to figure it out, Liu Zhishuang wanted to ask his mother. When he looked up, he found that tears were no longer dripping from his mother's chin and her head was raised a little. However, his eldest brother was staring at him angrily.
"Mom, big brother, I..." Liu Zhishuang didn't know what to say next: "I, I will not separate from mom."
It seemed that only by saying these words that expressed his attitude, he would not betray the mother who had raised him, and the brother who had grown up with him in the same way.
Obviously, Liu Zhiquan was relieved when he heard his brother's words. He said, as if he was afraid that Xia Juhua would not let him go, "Just make up your mind."
Wang Caifeng opened her mouth but didn't say anything. Seeing that her mother-in-law didn't lower her head again, she thought to herself that her mother-in-law would not want the child she raised to be separated. Besides, Liu Zhishuang and Sun Hongmei had just got married. Not to mention the family background, where would they live if they separated?
The mother-in-law would certainly not want her youngest son to live in a shed like the three of them did in the past.
Sun Hongmei was no longer under the pressure of Liu Zhi's gaze, and her mind finally started to work. She knew that if she didn't speak up, she would not be able to get over what happened today, so she said hurriedly, "Mom, I didn't expect my aunt..."
Before she finished speaking, Liu Zhishuang's cold gaze returned to Sun Hongmei. She had to stop talking, licked her dry lips, and said with a hard heart: "I didn't expect Sun Guizhi to be such a person. I thought we were all relatives and didn't pay attention so I let her trap me. In the future, I must be more careful and never tell anyone anything again."
Xia Juhua suddenly raised her head and glanced at Sun Hongmei. Seeing that she was still pushing the responsibility onto others, she was convinced and immediately lowered her head again without saying anything. Sun Hongmei had no choice but to continue to admit her mistakes:
"Also, when my mother asked me to go out with her, I was young, timid and thin-skinned. I was afraid of embarrassing my relatives, so I didn't follow her immediately. I was wrong. When I thought that my mother would be bullied if she went out alone, I followed her, but I forgot that Baoguo was still young. If I left him alone in the house, if he got hurt, I would really let my sister-in-law down."
Sun Hongmei said that Wang Caifeng could keep quiet about other things, but she couldn't help herself when it came to Liu Baoguo: "Hongmei, since you've mentioned this, I want to ask you, since you came into the family, have I, as your sister-in-law, ever made things difficult for you?"
Sun Hongmei couldn't help but think of the bowl of porridge on the table at noon that day, and wanted to ask Wang Caifeng if that was a problem. But she knew that she couldn't ask now. Not only that, but no matter how long it took, this matter couldn't be put on the table - who made her lose her temper and go back to her parents' home for this matter but then stay back.
Seeing that Sun Hongmei didn't say anything, Wang Caifeng became even angrier: "Mother asked me to stay in the room to look after Baoguo at first, and wanted you to go with her to meet the people from the nursing home. But you didn't move no matter how I called you. Okay, since you don't want to be embarrassed between your mother-in-law and your aunt, I'll go. Didn't I entrust Baoguo to you at that time?"
"You are so good, you are afraid that others will say that you and mother are not on the same page, and you want to show your courtesy to mother-in-law, so you leave Baoguo alone in the house. Even if you carry him with you when you go out, I won't blame you. He is just over a year old and is not even as tall as the edge of the kang. You can rest assured to leave him alone in the house?"
Liu Zhishuang's eyes were blazing with fire, and his voice was filled with ice: "Sun Hongmei, is what sister-in-law said true?" Mother didn't say that Sun Hongmei couldn't be moved!
Liu Zhishuang didn't blame Wang Caifeng at all for not giving face to his brother-in-law and telling everyone what his wife had done - his mother gave Sun Hongmei face because of her son, but why should his sister-in-law do the same?
Just like what my sister-in-law said, Baoguo is only a year old. If you leave him alone in the house, if something happens to him, not only will my sister-in-law feel bad, how can he have the face to see his elder brother again?
Sun Hongmei wanted to cover Wang Caifeng's mouth, but she didn't have the courage. She could only listen to Wang Caifeng peeling off her mask layer by layer in front of Liu Zhishuang. When Liu Zhishuang asked her if it was true, Sun Hongmei didn't answer and almost buried her head in her chest.
"Come on, if you don't want to say it, then don't say it." Liu Zhishuang didn't wait for an answer and didn't ask any more questions. He said to Xia Juhua, "Mom, I'll send her back to her parents' home." After that, he walked up to Sun Hongmei, grabbed her hand, and pulled her to walk out.
"Mom, mom, I know I was wrong. I will change. I will definitely change." Sun Hongmei didn't dare let Liu Zhishuang send her back to her parents' home like this. Her voice unconsciously became louder and she desperately asked Xia Juhua for help.
Xia Juhua was so annoyed by what she heard that she looked up at Liu Zhishuang and asked, "Have you made up your mind?"
Liu Zhishuang has been watching Sun Hongmei's performance these past two days, and he has long regretted why he believed her lies and agreed to marry her. While dragging Sun Hongmei out, he said, "I've made up my mind. She's just like that Sun Guizhi, a troublemaker. If I continue to live with her, she will make our family restless."
Sun Hongmei was so frightened that her face turned pale. She sat back and refused to leave with Liu Zhishuang - if she really went back to her room, Liu Zhishuang would definitely send her back to her parents' home.
Xia Juhua raised her head again, looked at the arrogant Sun Hongmei, and asked her youngest son: "The people in the old Sun family are not very reasonable. Can you ..."
Liu Zhishuang didn't wait for his mother to finish, and said firmly: "If you don't want to be reasonable, then don't be reasonable. It's better to be unreasonable once than to be a relative for a lifetime."
Sun Hongmei was frightened and scared, and her feet were weak. She was dragged to the ground by Liu Zhishuang, crying, "Mom, Zhishuang, I know I was wrong. I won't dare to do it again. From now on, I won't associate with my aunt, no, I won't associate with Sun Guizhi, and I won't go back to my parents' home."
"No one can believe what you say." Liu Zhishuang looked at Sun Hongmei who was lying on the ground with hatred. He felt that he was a fool before. He actually believed that this woman was sensible and filial, and was a different person from Sun Guizhi, and could live a good life with him.
He bent down and tried to pull Sun Hongmei up from the ground, but Sun Hongmei refused to leave the main room. She kept begging for mercy and refused to leave the cold ground no matter what.
Liu Zhishuang was so angry that he raised his hands and wanted to hit Sun Hongmei. Xia Juhua shouted, "Second brother, when did I ever teach you to hit a woman?!" Sun Hongmei was still trying to be smart and it made people hate her. Xia Juhua had wanted to slap her twice a long time ago, but she couldn't stand seeing a man hitting a woman.
If you can live together, then live together. If you can't, then divorce. Xia Juhua has seen divorces in her previous life, but she can't stand men beating women.
For example, later Liu Sizhuang, after Sun's death, Liu Erzhuang and Liu Sanzhuang immediately separated from him. The life of the four-bedroom family was getting worse day by day, and Liu Sizhuang often beat Sun Guizhi to vent his anger. Xia Juhua listened to An Baoling and talked to her like a joke. She didn't feel any relief from her hatred. She was scolding Liu Sizhuang in her heart for not being a man.
Even if her son Liu Zhishuang had left her in his previous life because of Sun Hongmei's instigation, Xia Juhua still wanted her son to be a real man no matter where he went.
What kind of man is it if you beat a woman? A real man is one who can make a woman respect and cherish him from the bottom of her heart.
"Mom." The first to call were Liu Zhishuang and Sun Hongmei. Liu Zhishuang thought that Sun Hongmei would not learn her lesson unless she was beaten, while Sun Hongmei thought that Xia Juhua still wanted to keep her in the Liu family by not letting Liu Zhishuang beat her.
Xia Juhua waved her hands wearily and said, "If you want to send her back to her parents' home, then do it. Beating women is not allowed in our family."
Liu Zhiquan, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke: "Second brother, Mom is tired all day, let me rest early." After that, he also advised Xia Juhua not to think about unhappy things, and took Wang Caifeng back to the east room.
As soon as they left, Liu Zhishuang let go of Sun Hongmei's hand and said to Xia Juhua, "Mom, I really don't want to live with her anymore."
"You can't hit anyone even if you don't want to. If you hit someone, something that was originally reasonable becomes unreasonable." Xia Juhua looked at Sun Hongmei who was looking at her expectantly. She didn't feel happy at all when she saw the light in her eyes disappearing little by little.
Starting her life over again, Xia Juhua simply changed her way of doing things, and things happened one after another, leading to this point in a hurry - Liu Zhishuang did not want to live with Sun Hongmei anymore after getting married, and offered to send her back to her parents' home.
It's nonsense to say that Xia Juhua is nostalgic for Sun Hongmei. She also hopes that Sun Hongmei will get out of her life as soon as possible, so that the rumors about her being an evil mother-in-law will no longer appear.
But will leaving Sun Hongmei solve all the problems? Xia Juhua is not so optimistic. Now the two sons remember the difficulties their mother and her three children had in the past, but how long can they remember? Besides, even if Sun Hongmei can leave the Liu family happily, she will not be able to control Liu Zhishuang.