Chapter 209: Exposed
Yang Xiufen stared at Old Lady Zhou and sneered, "Mom, I think you are confused. I have to go to work. How can I do that if I stay at home to take care of the kids?"
Zhou Yu also frowned and said, "Mom, since you can't help us take care of the children, then don't worry about what we do. Just take care of your injuries."
How could Old Lady Zhou be willing to let this topic pass? She turned her head slightly to look at Fang Xiaoyue beside her, and then said, "Xiu Fen, Mom tells you, no matter who takes care of this child, you can't take good care of it yourself. Xiaoyuan is just one month old and you want to send him to a nursery. Can you bear it? Besides, nurseries may not accept such a young child. Plus, people outside who don't know the truth will say that you are a cruel mother. Don't you think this is true?"
Yang Xiufen raised her eyebrows, sat directly on the bed, and asked with a smile: "Then what do you think we should do?"
"Oh, what ideas can I have? It's all for your good. But I see Xiaoyue is idle at home, so why don't you let her take your place at work first, and then you can go back to work after my waist is healed. Do you think this is okay?"
Old Mrs. Zhou had a plan in mind. She would first let her daughter-in-law take over Yang Xiufen's job and tie her and the child together. As for herself, after her waist was healed, there were other parts of her body. When people get old, it's normal to feel uncomfortable here and there, isn't it?
Yang Xiufen glanced at Old Lady Zhou coldly, and without saying whether it was okay or not, she stood up directly, "Mom, I think you should worry less. I can take charge of my own work, so you and Fang Xiaoyue don't have to worry about it."
When Old Mrs. Zhou heard this, she became unhappy and almost jumped out of the bed, but was held down by Fang Xiaoyue who was quick-eyed and quick-handed.
"Mom, mom, don't be angry. My sister-in-law didn't mean to contradict you. She has her own considerations. It doesn't matter to me."
After hearing what Fang Xiaoyue said, Old Lady Zhou became even angrier. She pointed at Yang Xiufen and said to Zhou Yu, "Boss, you just watched your wife bully your mother without saying a word? I raised you for nothing."
"Are you still raising him for nothing? I give you ten dollars a month for retirement. You must have saved a lot in the past few years, right? I think you probably spent it on Zhou Feng's family. I just can't figure it out. Is Zhou Yu your biological son? Why do you dislike him so much?"
Sometimes Yang Xiufen really wanted to get into Old Lady Zhou’s heart to see if she was really such a black person and why she treated Zhou Yu like that.
"Xiufen, Xiufen, stop talking. Mom is still injured! Let's go home," Zhou Yu said as he pushed his wife out. He turned back and smiled at his mother, "Mom, take good care of yourself. Xiufen is just quick-witted, but she has a good heart. We'll go home today."
"Hey, Boss, I haven't finished talking yet, you..."
Zhou Yu ignored what his mother said behind him and kept pushing his wife out.
Fang Xiaoyue listened to the footsteps outside the door gradually fading away, then she curled her lips and sat down, complaining: "Mom, didn't you say that my sister-in-law would give me the job obediently? Why is she still not letting go?"
Old Mrs. Zhou sat up from the bed and rolled her eyes at her. "You are a brainless person. She is very angry right now. How can she give it to you directly? Just wait. She will have to go to work in two days. I guess she will ask you to take over in the end."
"What if my sister-in-law would rather find someone else?" Fang Xiaoyue remembered that when Yang Xiufen gave birth, she also found someone else to take her place.
"Hmph, come on. This time she can only look for you, otherwise I will go to the Women's Federation. Besides, do you think she can take care of the child at home for just one or two months? Wait, I will be unwell in the next few years, so she should just take care of the child herself!"
"Mom, is what you said feasible? What if people don't buy it?" Fang Xiaoyue pouted. What her mother-in-law said was good, but she had rarely been able to get the upper hand over her eldest sister-in-law.
Old Mrs. Zhou didn't want to be looked down upon by her daughter-in-law, so she raised her head and said proudly, "Just wait and see. Even though your eldest brother usually sides with Yang Xiufen, as long as I play the victim and cry a few more times, and Yang Xiufen says a few bad things about me, then your eldest brother will change his mind. After all, I am his mother."
At this moment, the door was suddenly pushed open from the outside. Yang Xiufen stood in front and sneered at the two people in the room, "Haha, Mom, is your waist healed? How come you can sit up as soon as we left? Are you lying to us?"
Old Mrs. Zhou looked at her eldest son standing behind Yang Xiufen, her face panicked, and she hurriedly explained, "No, big brother, I'm not lying to you. My waist is really hurt. Ouch, Xiaoyue, help me lie down quickly. I said I can't sit yet, I can't sit, but you insisted on letting me sit up and try. See, I was misunderstood, right?"
Fang Xiaoyue didn't expect Yang Xiufen and the others to come back and attack, and she didn't know how much they had heard. But now she could only follow her mother-in-law and continue to act.
"Mom, it's all my fault. I just wanted you to get better soon so that I could help my sister-in-law. Look at me..."
"Okay, stop acting. We all heard it." Fang Xiaoyue was interrupted by Zhou Yu before she could finish her words. Did he really think he was stupid?
Then he looked at his mother with disappointment, "Mom, I didn't expect you to come up with the idea of pretending to be sick in order not to help me take care of the child. It's really hard for you to put on such a show for us."
When Mrs. Zhou heard Zhou Yu's tone, she knew he was really angry, but at this moment she could only bite the bullet and continue to defend herself: "Boss, that's not what I meant. Listen to me first..."
"No need to say, Zhou Yu, you've seen it, your mother is biased, I really doubt if you were adopted. Your mother helped your brother raise two children, but you, she's not even willing to help you with one child!"
Yang Xiufen looked at her husband with ridicule, "Hmph, he said his mother wouldn't pretend to be sick, now it's proven true."
"Mom, am I really your biological child? Why do you treat me like this?"
Zhou Yu just couldn't understand. He gave his mother ten yuan every month, sent her meat from time to time, gave her a new set of clothes and a pair of shoes every year, and gave her a red envelope at the end of the year. He thought he did much better than his brother, so why couldn't his mother see it?
Mrs. Zhou was anxious. She got off the bed immediately, grabbed Zhou Yu's hand and cried, "Boss, you are the eldest brother, you should take care of your younger brother. Your younger brother is supporting five people in the family alone, and the pressure is very high. I thought about letting Xiaoyue go to work too, so that your younger brother can relax a little."
Yang Xiufen, who was standing by, couldn't help herself after hearing this twisted logic. "Mom, I can still call you mom because I'm well-educated. Does it mean that we are not under too much pressure now that I gave the job to Fang Xiaoyue? Zhou Yu also works alone, why don't you feel sorry for him? And what about a family of five? Do you need Zhou Feng to support you with the ten yuan we give you every month?"
Fang Xiaoyue's face changed when she heard this, and she quickly explained: "Sister-in-law, let me make this clear, Mom only gives us three dollars a month, and she keeps the rest for herself!"
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