Chapter 426 I am a civilized person, I only speak
After dinner in the afternoon.
The entrance of Zhuangjia Alley.
Huang Ling and Zhu Xiu Yu came from the east and the west respectively.
Both of them had a sense of déjà vu and couldn't help but smile at each other.
Zhu Xiuyu still said the same old line: "Sister, I'll come tomorrow"
"Okay." Huang Ling replied with a smile.
The two of them walked to the tree in tacit understanding, and asked each other in tacit understanding:
"You intend to..."
"I am a civilized person, and I promised Tunan not to seek revenge." Huang Ling said seriously.
"I didn't promise Tunan not to take revenge, and I'm different from you. I'm not a civilized person." Zhu Xiu Yu also said seriously.
"Hey, you are in a different position now, Manager Zhu. You are also a civilized person, so we must solve the problem in a very civilized way."
"Oh! So, tell me how to be civilized."
"Of course a gentleman uses his mouth instead of his fists. However, you are not needed when it comes to talking. You go back and I will do it." Huang Ling raised her chin towards Zhu Xiu Yu.
Zhu Xiuyu nodded.
But she didn't go too far, but stood behind a tree not far away.
Huang Ling bought a stool at the convenience store and sat down in the square where people from several alleys here often came to relax and have fun.
It's been warm these two days, so there are people chatting under the trees in the square after taking a walk after dinner.
Huang Ling sat there and began to greet the aunts and grandmothers around her.
"Hey, Aling!" Aunt Zhang's voice was so loud that it was scary. She came to add to the fun.
"Hey, Aunt Zhang, let's take a walk after dinner! This is my little grandson. I haven't been here for a few years, and he has grown so big!" Huang Ling pulled the child over and stuffed five yuan into the child's pocket.
"Oh, Aling, this is not okay! How can I take your money? Xiaobao, give it back to your auntie!" Aunt Zhang took a step closer and lowered her voice.
"Buy some candy for the child," Huang Ling held her hand and whispered, "Auntie, call some people over."
Aunt Zhang nodded, picked up the child and turned to go into the house.
Soon, more and more aunts and sisters appeared on the square.
The Zhuang family members in the house didn't know that Huang Ling had arrived.
Zhuang Chaoying was in a bad mood, so he cooked a simple meal: stir-fried vegetables, stir-fried shredded radish, and mushroom soup with rice.
The old man groaned in anger.
"Your Uncle Zhao said that your father's health has finally improved. Let's buy some marrow bones to make soup tomorrow to nourish him." said Zhuang's mother.
"Sure! Just go buy it." Zhuang Chaoying soaked the soup into the rice.
Zhuang's mother was choked again. She asked tentatively:
"Chaoying, is it because Zhu Xiuyu quarreled with you again that you are so unhappy?"
"Hmph, because of you, she now calls me Teacher Zhuang. If she were to make trouble with me, I would be happy. At least she takes me seriously." Zhuang Chaoying snorted coldly.
"Then what happened to you?"
"Nothing." Zhuang Chaoying answered coldly.
"Did you hear some gossip? We are the ones who are dragging you down..." Zhuang's mother began to play the victim.
Zhuang Chaoying didn't answer, but finished his meal and cleaned up the dishes in silence. Today, Zhuang's mother took the initiative and took on the task of taking out the trash.
She carried the iron trash can and walked slowly out of the alley.
When she happened to meet two female neighbors walking towards her, she took the initiative to greet them:
"Have you had dinner yet?"
The two female neighbors usually talked to her, but now they saw that she was half-smiling, with an awkward expression and a hint of sarcasm between her eyebrows.
Aunt Wang replied: "I ate it, I ate it. Chaoying's mother must have eaten it already! Hehehe..."
"Ah, I ate it." Zhuang's mother looked at the other person in confusion.
"Chaoying's mom, go take out the trash!" asked Aunt Chen.
"Ah, yes!"
"Wait a moment! Go back and have a cup of tea before going..." Aunt Chen looked at her meaningfully.
"Why is the garbage station so full?" Zhuang's mother was even more confused.
"No, no..." Aunt Chen waved her hand.
"Oh, you'd better go back quickly! Otherwise your wife will scold you again for deliberately going out and not coming back as soon as she gets off work!" Aunt Wang bumped into Aunt Chen.
"Oh, yes, I forgot why I came back. You should go back too!" Aunt Chen nodded.
"I have to go back soon. Otherwise my son will come back and see me listening to gossip and blame me again. He may be promoted to deputy director of the workshop soon!" Aunt Wang said again.
"Yes, yes, let's go!"
The two of them bumped into each other, laughed and walked away, leaving behind the puzzled Mother Zhuang.
She shook her head and continued walking out of the alley, where she met other neighbors who looked at her strangely.
Walking further, I saw a lot of people gathered on the small square outside the alley.
Out of curiosity, she also moved closer.
No one knew what they were talking about.
"Really? How could a teacher like him do such a thing?"
"I think the problem lies in the root of the problem. The first couplet is not straight, so the second couplet is crooked!"
“That’s right!”
"I don't think he's bad, he's just stupid! How can there be such a person? He doesn't care about his wife and son, but only cares about his parents. If his wife is not capable and his son is not sensible, what will he do? Don't you think so?"
"That's right, he pretends to be filial because he's afraid of what people say about him! After all, his family lives in the cotton mill, so people will only say that he's filial, and no one will know that he doesn't take care of the family!"
"Yeah, that's right, it's so cruel! If my daughter married someone like that, I would definitely make a scene!"
"Who would want to do that? Not only does he not spend money to raise a child, but he also doesn't care about the child. How can he be a father? He's read so much that it's like a dog's stomach."
"If he's so filial, why don't you just not get married? Wouldn't it be better if you could just be filial to his parents?"
"Yes, yes, I think it's right!"
......
The more Zhuang's mother listened, the more she felt something was wrong, so she tried to squeeze into the crowd. She didn't know what was going on until she saw it, and she was shocked.
The person everyone was surrounding was Huang Ling.
"Huang Ling! What are you doing here?"
The onlookers then realized that it was Zhuang's mother who had arrived.
Everyone looked disdainful. One aunt was the most indignant. Huang Ling had just distributed melon seeds, and she spat the shells from her mouth onto Zhuang's mother's feet.
"Bah! Vampire!"
Everyone started pointing and talking.
"Huang Ling! You are talking nonsense here!" Zhuang's mother shouted.
"Hey, if you didn't say anything, I would have thought someone had peed in their crotch! What's it to you to control me?" Huang Ling snorted coldly.
She ignored Zhuang's mother and continued, "Son is not important anyway, mother is the most important! Then why should he get married? Just live with his mother!"
Poor Tuanan of our family hasn't even graduated from university yet. Not only does he not care about and support him, but now his father is forcing him to help support his grandparents! What's going on? Zhuang Chaoying only has 100 yuan a month! It's not enough for the three of them to spend, and they still want to harm Tuanan.
Tunan was trying to reason with him, but he, a teacher, just hit me! I've held Tunan in my hands all my life, and I haven't even lifted a finger, yet he hit me! I really don't even have a place to cry!"
"Huang Ling, shut up!" Zhuang's mother was about to step forward.
"You can't close it! You are the culprit, you will be punished!"
Zhuang's mother wanted to rush forward, but was stopped by two aunts she didn't know.
Today, Huang Ling finally spoke frankly, tearing off the Zhuang family's last fig leaf and telling them everything that happened in the family.
Huang Ling took Tuanan away to take care of him, but Zhuang Chaoying didn't give him a penny and didn't care about him at all. This was his responsibility.
He never gave Tuanan a penny when he was in college. Tuanan relied on his mother and himself to earn money from working. He was unhappy when his son came home without giving him money.
Last year during the Spring Festival, when Zhuang's parents were cheated by a scammer, they asked their children to sign loan contracts and other things, including some trivial matters in the past. Huang Ling confessed everything.
Everyone listened with great interest.
Before, no matter how people talked about the Zhuang family behind their backs, no one mentioned Zhuang Chaoying, and his image has always been positive.
This positive image only lasts until today.
"Not only will I say this, I'm also going to talk to the principal of No. 10 Middle School. The principal is well-educated, and we'll see what he has to say." Huang Ling smiled at her provocatively.
Mother Zhuang was so anxious that she stumbled back to find Zhuang Chaoying.
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