The old lady, her face dark, grabbed Tao Sanya and prepared to spank her.
"Mom, what are you doing? Why are you hitting Sanya?"
Mo Yan came out of the small kitchen and looked at the old lady.
“I asked them to come and take care of Xiaobao, but Xiaobao is picking beans here. How can I not be angry? Don’t mind them, they just need to be taught a lesson.”
She would still give her daughter-in-law, who had given her a precious son, some face.
"I told him to pick them, so he wouldn't be unable to recognize beans later. Do you want a grandson or a complete idiot who can't do anything?"
Mo Yan's voice was indifferent, as if it were just a very ordinary thing, which made the old lady suddenly not know why she had been angry.
"But Xiaobao is our only boy, he's so precious! How can he do chores? He should enjoy life to the fullest."
"So what? Don't you hope he can go further in the future and get into a good university for you?"
"Of course I hope so." The old lady naturally wanted the best for her grandson.
“Once he goes out, there will be no one to take care of him. He will have to take care of his own food, drink and toilet needs. If you don’t teach him now, are you waiting for him to be laughed at as a fool who doesn’t know anything?”
Or do you want people to think he's just a country bumpkin?
The old lady: "???" This...
"We can go..."
“Grandma, be realistic. You’re fifty this year. Even if he’s truly gifted, it will be more than ten years before he can get into university. By then, it’ll be a question of whether you’ll even be able to walk. Do you really expect me to take care of him?”
Stop joking, that's impossible.
"Aren't there still three young girls? They can go." For some reason, the old lady had a feeling that her daughter-in-law was a bit scary today.
It wasn't the kind of scary that made you feel intimidated, but you just didn't know how to respond to anything she said. What she said seemed to make a lot of sense; I'd never experienced anything like this before.
"Didn't you say you hoped to get your three daughters' families to earn dowry for your precious grandson as soon as possible? By then, they'll all be married. Married daughters are like water spilled from a cup. Their husbands' families will only let them take care of a little brother-in-law, and not even a blood brother-in-law, just a cousin."
Every word Mo Yan said made the old lady feel sad. It was the kind of feeling where, although she knew it was reality, she had never thought that far ahead. It was something that would happen many years later, but this daughter-in-law wanted her to face it now.
At once……
You're asking me to choose something I'll have to face and break down decades from now? Isn't that... absurd?
But these are all facts.
"Mom, don't say it's impossible. Would you be happy if Tao Zhengyi's wife only thought about her own family every day? Would you be willing to accept that?"
Mo Yan then spoke up, not afraid of upsetting her at all, and said it directly.
"Then what do you suggest? Should I give a few more beatings to make them have to side with Xiaobao from now on?" She hesitated, looking at Mo Yan, hoping to get a positive answer from her.
Mo Yan almost laughed when she heard this. How could this old lady think that as long as she beats the girl into submission, the girl will definitely take care of her precious child for the rest of her life?
"Would you be happy if I beat you up a few times? Would you forgive me and treat me well? If you say yes, then fine, I'll beat you up a few times today. What do you think?"
The old lady was furious when she heard this. What did he mean by "beat her up"?
“I want to fight back.” The old lady was an honest person, and she spoke up directly.
"So why do you have such high expectations of these three girls? You might as well expect your precious little ones to be able to cook, wash dishes, and do their own laundry so they won't suffer in the future. What do you think?"
Mo Yan finally revealed the key point.
The old lady was a little confused. It seemed to be true, but something felt off.
"Then he's having a tough time now."
"It's tough now, but it won't be so tough later. Besides, don't you want to eat the tofu your grandson makes for you? Don't you want others to envy you for having such a filial grandson?"
The old lady: "..." I feel something is wrong, but I don't know how to say it.
“I still feel something is wrong. How can my grandson do chores? How can he suffer? Only girls have to do chores.”
Their grandson is their precious treasure; he can't do any work.
"Since reasoning won't work, I'll have to resort to violence. If you don't make him work, I'll hit him. You can see for yourself." Mo Yan said nonchalantly. Hitting Tao Zhengyi would definitely make the old lady heartbroken.
old lady:"!!!"
"Are you really my biological mother?" The old woman couldn't believe what she was hearing. Was this really her biological mother? No, this must be her stepmother!
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