Director Wang smiled dismissively and said, "Sorry to bother you, but Grandma Qi wants to talk to you about something. We, the neighborhood committee, will coordinate and clarify things!"
Wei Shuqing nodded and said, "Okay, I wonder what Grandma Qi wants to see me about!"
Qi's mother still spoke in a pretentious tone, "Xiao Wei, you've remarried now, so why don't you return the house and Aiguo to our family? It's not right for you to live with your current husband while living in your ex-husband's house! That's unreasonable, isn't it?"
Wei Shuqing nodded and said, "I never asked for a house from the Qi family. I live in my own house."
Mother Qi sneered, "Your word doesn't count; it belongs to Yanda and Fangzi."
Wei Shuqing sneered, "Your grandmother is talking about the principles of your Qi family. Today, let's see if your Qi family's principles can be put into practice on a larger scale."
He handed his medical record to Director Wang and said, “Director Wang, please take a look and let me tell you from the beginning. From the time I married Qi Zhijun, through pregnancy and childbirth to our divorce, I never spent a single penny of Qi’s family’s money. On the contrary, I had to hand over 36 yuan every month. I never saw a penny of Qi Zhijun’s salary. Every meal consisted of cornbread with vegetable soup, and sometimes there wasn’t even that. What we got to eat depended on what her precious daughter and three grandsons left over. If they didn’t leave anything, it would just be a small bowl of plain noodles. If I ate even one more bite, they would tell me not to eat too much, as it would cause indigestion. You should know that at that time I was working in the workshop, doing heavy lifting.”
Thinking about it made her heart ache and tears welled up in her eyes. Qi's mother glanced at Wei Shuqing with disdain, and said in a serious tone, "We're talking about the house. You're a grown woman, and you're arguing with the child about food and drink. Besides, it's all in the past, what's the point of bringing it up again!"
Wei Shuqing ignored her and continued, "I was so pregnant I couldn't even get enough to eat, and I still had to go to work. When I gave birth, I damaged my body. My mother sent over an old hen, eggs, and brown sugar, which Old Mrs. Qi stewed for her daughters, grandchildren, and the Qi family to nourish them. They ate it all. I was giving birth to their child! During my postpartum period, I only drank brown sugar millet porridge for one day, which was also brought by my mother. I weaned my child in less than three months. Before I got married, I weighed 110 pounds, but after my postpartum period, I weighed less than 90 pounds. My son was hungry and thin, and he was never full. She would give whatever she had to her daughters and grandchildren. They would come to our house for meals every day, and not only would they eat, but they would also have to pay for it. I lived like this for more than two years. That day, I couldn't take it anymore. I took my son to eat a bowl of wontons, and the Qi family made sarcastic remarks, saying that the three children had caused me to miscarry. The medical records you see are from that day. My two-month-old fetus was lost in my pants."
Qi's mother, her face burning with urgency, said, "How could you be so vicious? What does a child know? I accidentally bumped into you, and you're making a scene..."
Wei Shuqing sneered, "Is looking at medical records something a child can do? She's a born bad seed. I was beaten so badly that I miscarried and fell into a coma, and they didn't even show their faces. The day before, they could fry an egg for their daughter, but the day after my miscarriage, she only drank a bowl of millet porridge. My family came and we had a fight. I wanted to move out and live separately, and I wanted the house we live in now to be transferred to my husband and me. In the end, I don't know how they discussed it, but Qi Zhifang said she would compensate for the trouble her child caused, so they transferred her house to my husband and me, and she moved back to live with Old Madam Qi."
The people on the street who heard this all looked at Qi's mother with eyes that seemed to say, "Are you seriously ill?" In today's society, who doesn't rely on their son and daughter-in-law for a living, and dote on their grandson like the apple of their eye? This Qi family is doing the opposite; it's truly an eye-opener.
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