Fan He hurriedly explained, "Grandma, Mother was tired yesterday and accidentally woke up late today. It's not like that usually."
"No need to explain, I'm just deliberately sleeping in. Not only did I get up late yesterday and today, but I'll get up whenever I want from now on!"
"What's wrong? It's my own home. Do I need to ask other people's opinions just to sleep?" Shui Qing interrupted her eldest son's explanation, speaking bluntly.
Mother Fan was speechless with anger at her second son's daughter-in-law's blunt rebuttal, which she hadn't expected to be so shameless.
After a while, he pointed at Shui Qing and scolded, "Don't think that just because your family came to build you a thatched hut yesterday, you're something special!"
"What's there to brag about with a worthless thatched hut?"
“Since thatched huts aren’t worth much, then Mother-in-law, you can build me another one,” Shuiqing said, yawning.
Mother Fan: ...She meant to tell Madam Hu not to be so smug and arrogant!
“Sister-in-law, now that you’ve separated the family, how can you ask your mother-in-law to build you another house?” came a disapproving voice from the side.
Shuiqing looked up and saw that her sister-in-law had also arrived.
This sister-in-law, when I wasn't around, wasn't necessarily very harmonious or filial with Fan's mother. But whenever I was there, Sun Jinhua would do her best to show how obedient and respectful she was to her mother-in-law.
She deliberately drawled, "Oh, they separated?"
Sun Jinhua's face darkened.
Mother Fan's face darkened further. "I can control my son, but as for you, once you're married, you should obey your husband. This is the Fan family, not your Hu family!"
"Trying to bully and oppress my son in the Fan family? Just wait and see how I deal with you!"
Yan Qiufan looked nervous and quietly moved to stand in front of Shui Qing.
Seeing the two children's actions, Shuiqing pulled one behind her with each hand, tilted her head back, and asked, "Why does Mother-in-law only say half of what she means?"
Fan's mother looked completely bewildered.
Shuiqing continued, "When a woman marries, she follows her husband. I remember the next line is 'When the husband dies, she follows her son.' If the father-in-law is gone, the mother-in-law should listen to her son, right?"
Also, this house was built by my family, the Hu family. If you, Mother-in-law, really distinguish between the Fan and Hu families so clearly, why don't you just tell your son not to come into this house when he comes back?
"Oh, if your mother-in-law doesn't want to build a house for your son, she can bring him back to live with her. I'm sure his older brother and sister-in-law wouldn't object, right?"
Mother Fan trembled with rage, "You...you..."
It seems there's really no other way but to make do with thatched huts; Butcher Hu is not an easy person to get along with.
A butcher who makes a living by slaughtering pigs is inherently vicious. If his daughter were to move out of the house he built, he would probably never let her off the hook!
But if we take the second son back to live with us... after the second son's family separates, their room will immediately be given to the grandson. If the grandson has to give it up, wouldn't he hate her, the grandmother, to death?
Fearing that the people she had finally managed to drive away would come back, Sun Jinhua hurriedly said, "Sister-in-law, don't talk nonsense. How can we let you and your husband separate? What kind of people would we be then?"
"Alright, we don't have much food at home, so I won't keep my mother-in-law and sister-in-law for dinner." Shui Qing waved her hand, her intention to see them out was clear.
Intending to give her daughter-in-law a hard time, Fan's mother found that instead of cowering and begging her, her daughter-in-law left her speechless.
I felt so stifled.
The two men came with their heads held high, but went back with their heads down like defeated roosters.
On the way, Sun Jinhua complained, "I told you that things are different in the second son's family now than before, but you wouldn't believe me, mother-in-law!"
Now look what happened, all that trip for nothing.
Mother Fan thought that her daughter-in-law had misbehaved on the day of the family division. She had prepared her words last night to completely suppress her second son's wife, but she never expected that she would forget to say them.
She took a deep breath and said fiercely, "Let's go find your eldest cousin!"
We absolutely cannot let that spendthrift woman Hu Shuiqing trade rice for water chestnuts again!
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