Because his daughter-in-law was still sitting to the side, Grandpa Chen was too embarrassed to say outright that he wanted her to find someone prettier. But Grandma Chen, who was sitting next to him, didn't give him any face and said directly, "I think you're up to no good again and want to find someone young and pretty. You're an old man who doesn't know how to behave. Aren't you afraid of dying in bed?"
Grandpa Chen's generation hated his wife's foul mouth the most. She would spew nonsense without regard for the occasion or the place. Because of this stinky woman who couldn't distinguish right from wrong and talked nonsense everywhere, he didn't know how many jokes he had made about her.
Hearing the old woman start acting like a jerk again, Grandpa Chen got so angry that he threw the plate in front of him at her old face: "You foul-mouthed jerk, have I been giving you face? If you keep acting like a jerk, believe me, I'll beat you up. You're so old, I'm giving you some face, and you're taking advantage of it, eager to get a beating!"
Chen Niansheng had a bad feeling when he heard his mother's words. When his father threw the plate at him, he quickly reached out to stop him. The plate landed in his mother's soup bowl and splashed onto Grandma Chen and Chen Niansheng.
Fortunately, the soup had cooled down, so no one was burned. Chen Niansheng quickly called Xiao Zheng over: "Xiao Zheng, help my dad out for a walk. If he hasn't eaten well, drive him out to get something good to eat."
Xiao Zheng came over and helped Grandpa Chen up. Grandpa Chen was still cursing, but he cooperated and followed Xiao Zheng out the door.
Grandma Chen's eyes reddened as she cried in her son's arms, "I've suffered my whole life, marrying such a scoundrel! Son, look at this old bastard, what is he if not a shameless old man? He's not satisfied with having that vixen Xiao Zheng, he wants to find another one. Sooner or later he'll die on a woman's belly. I'll wait until he kicks the bucket and see how many women cry for him."
As Li Zhenzhen listened to her increasingly absurd remarks, she got up and went upstairs at Chen Niansheng's prompting. Chen Niansheng was also getting impatient. He comforted his elderly mother for a few more minutes, then asked Aunt Chen to stay with her, and he got up and went to work.
Li Zhenzhen went upstairs and knocked on Li Ke's door: "Li Ke, get up, I have something to tell you."
Li Ke was a light sleeper to begin with. Upon hearing Li Zhenzhen's voice, he lingered in bed for a second before getting up to open the door.
Li Zhenzhen looked at Li Ke's face; the redness and swelling seemed to have subsided somewhat, but upon closer inspection, it didn't seem so. She went into Li Ke's room and asked, "Which doctor did you see? What medicine did they prescribe? Did they say what the problem was on your face?"
Li Ke yawned slightly, looked at Li Zhenzhen with a knowing look and a hint of sarcasm, and said, "You really don't know why my face turned like this? Chen Zhizhi said it was Chen Jiaojiao who did it, Aunt Li, do you know?"
Li Zhenzhen glared at Li Ke and scolded in a low voice, "Stop being sarcastic. I can make your life a little easier to some extent, but if you keep acting up and causing trouble, it'll be very easy to deal with a little girl like you."
If it were the old Li Ke, hearing Li Zhenzhen's words would have made her both sad and afraid. But the current Li Ke, with a pretentious gesture of crossing her arms, quickly looked at Li Zhenzhen with a serious and mocking expression and said, "I'm so scared!"
Li Zhenzhen felt a tightness in her chest from anger, and continued, "That Chen Zhizhi who loves to stir up trouble, only someone as brainless as you would believe her. Jiaojiao is your sister, and she has always loved you the most. You're all grown up now, you should be able to distinguish right from wrong."
Li Ke sat back on her bed, nodding perfunctorily at Li Zhenzhen's hypocritical words.
Li Zhenzhen was also a little annoyed. She found it hard to feel any care for Li Ke in front of her, and then pressed on, "Have you seen a doctor yet?"
Li Ke looked up: "No, I don't have any money. Anyway, it doesn't hurt or itch right now, so I'm not in a hurry. I'll just wait for it to go away on its own."
"What do you mean you have no money? Didn't I just give you 50,000?" Li Zhenzhen was really angry this time.
Li Ke chuckled shamelessly, "Fifty thousand yuan, gone in a day with all that eating, drinking, and having fun, is that a lot?"
“Li Ke, don’t be so vain. You don’t have the means. Don’t always compare yourself to the Chen family’s children. You know perfectly well that you are different from them,” Li Zhenzhen said sternly.
Li Ke got annoyed: "What do you want? Hurry up and say it, then leave."
Li Zhenzhen's chest heaved again. After a while, she suppressed her disgust and said, "Get ready and come out with me. I'll take you to see a doctor. Your face is always like this, it's not good. The sooner it's fixed, the prettier you'll look, and you'll be in a better mood, won't you?"
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