Old Mrs. Qi made up her mind that when Yang Yi came back, she would teach her a lesson and make her realize her true identity. But she waited and waited at home, only for her grandson Qi Jianping to come back and tell her that Aunt Lin was treating them to a meal and the three of them would not be home for lunch.
Old Mrs. Qi choked on her breath. Even when she was talking to her eldest grandson whom she loved very much, her face was not very good: "Why did your Aunt Lin suddenly invite us?"
But Qi Jianping was more carefree and didn't notice the unhappiness in his grandmother's tone at all. He said, "How should I know? Mom, my sister and I will have lunch at their house anyway. Grandma, you don't have to worry about us." After saying that, he waved his hand, turned around and ran out.
Old Mrs. Qi wanted to ask more, but her legs were slow, and when she chased out, her grandson was nowhere to be seen.
However, the people walking normally outside were startled when they saw someone suddenly run out. They took a step back and recognized that it was Old Lady Qi. She looked unhappy, so they asked in confusion, "Auntie, what's wrong with you?"
In front of outsiders, Old Lady Qi was still very careful about her image. She quickly forced a smile and said, "It's nothing. I just prepared the meal, but my daughter-in-law suddenly asked her grandson to come back and tell her that the three of them had gone to someone else's house for dinner and would not be coming back. I was a little worried."
Upon hearing this, the other party asked, "Didn't Comrade Yang tell you in advance?"
"I'm worried because you didn't tell me in advance. It's such a big pot of rice." Old Mrs. Qi sighed, "It seems we can only wait until tonight to eat."
The other party also felt that Yang Yi was too careless. How could she go to someone else's house for dinner without informing them in advance? It is not easy for an old man to cook such a large table of food!
But after hearing what Old Lady Qi said, she swallowed the words that were on the tip of her tongue. After all, if she said it, it would inevitably be suspected of provoking the relationship between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law. She just smiled and said, "Aunt, you have a really good temper."
"We should be considerate of each other." Old Mrs. Qi said cheerfully, but when she got home her face changed and she muttered, "If you don't want to come back for dinner, then don't come back for the rest of your life!"
Of course it’s impossible for Yang Yi to never come back, this is her home.
After spending half an afternoon at Zhou's house, Yang Yi went to talk to Lin Wei for a while, and went home when she saw that it was almost time. Mrs. Qi's anger had reached its peak after waiting for most of the day. When she saw Yang Yi enter the house and close the door, she asked loudly, "You still remember to come back?"
Yang Yi pretended not to notice the anger on Old Lady Qi's face and said calmly, "Look at what you said. This is my home, of course I know to come back."
Old Lady Qi said sarcastically, "You still know this is your home? Seeing you never being home, I thought you forgot where you belong!"
"Mom, can you be reasonable? I stayed out longer than usual today. When have I been away from home every day?"
"I'm unreasonable? If I wasn't reasonable, would you still be able to live your good life now? Go out and take a look. How many women in the family quarters don't have to go to work like you, and only need to cook and take care of children every day? It's just a small thing. If you can do it well, I won't say anything to you, but look at this house, things are piled up in a mess, furniture," Old Lady Qi reached out to touch the chest of drawers, and when she picked it up, she didn't see any dust, so she changed her words and said, "If I hadn't urged you to clean, your hands would definitely be covered with dust!"
Yang Yi had heard these words of Mrs. Qi so many times that she could almost recite them by heart, but she still couldn't help but retort, "It's not all my fault that things are messy. Qi Tao and the two children always forget to put them back in their places. What can I do? And it's not that I didn't put them away, I just didn't do it that often."
As for the dust on the furniture, she wipes it once a week. How could there be so much dust on the furniture? Even on the day when Old Lady Qi first arrived on the island, she only smeared a little dust in the corner of the cupboard.
She made such a serious statement just to prove her laziness and lie with open eyes.
But Yang Yi just thought about these words in her heart and didn't say them out loud. Otherwise, given Old Lady Qi's temper, she would definitely pretend to have a headache again.
Just these words she said were enough to make Old Lady Qi furious. She pointed at her nose and said, "How dare you talk back to me! Go out and see which daughter-in-law is like you, and talks back to her mother-in-law? If I had known you were such a person, I should not have agreed to let Taozi marry you!"
Yang Yi thought to herself, other mothers-in-law are not like you, always finding fault with their daughters-in-law! But she hesitated again and again and finally didn't say it out loud.
Seeing her silence, Old Lady Qi spoke more vigorously: "Only Taozi is soft-hearted, that's why he always thinks you have made great contributions to our Qi family! But don't you think about who your sisters married and what kind of life they lived? If you hadn't married Taozi, could you have become the battalion commander's wife? Could you wear clothes without patches? Could you have lived such a good life now?"
Without waiting for Yang Yi to answer, Mrs. Qi said, "I'm telling you, you can't! The good life you have now is all because of me! I gave birth to my son and raised him so that he could marry you! Since you married into our family, you should be filial to me and please your brother-in-law. That's what you should do! My son said that you have worked hard over the years, that's because he has a loyal character, but you are so good, you really think you are a great contributor to our family when others say a few words. I apologize to you, and you have the nerve to accept it!"
As Old Lady Qi was talking, she recalled how she was forced to apologize to Yang Yi a few days ago. She was furious and patted Yang Yi on the face and asked, "I'm just confused. Why are you so shameless——"
Before Mrs. Qi could finish her words, she saw the door being pushed open from the outside. Her son, who had said he would be on duty last night, appeared at the door. The "Ah" on the tip of her tongue instantly turned into "Ah!".
Seeing that Old Lady Qi’s expression changed, Yang Yi also turned her head suddenly.
It was not the first time that she was scolded by her mother-in-law. Although her mother-in-law scolded her particularly harshly today and even slapped her in the face, she did not want to cry because she had prepared herself mentally.
But when she turned around and saw the person at the door, she found that she was still aggrieved, and tears instantly welled up in her eyes, so that she could only hurriedly lower her head and wipe away her tears with her hands.
But before she could wipe it twice, someone held her shoulders. Qi Tao's slightly rough fingers brushed the corners of her eyes and whispered, "I'm sorry."
With just one sentence, Yang Yi cried even harder. She rested her head on her husband's shoulder, covering her mouth and sobbing.
Qi Tao held her in his arms, patted her back gently and said, "It's okay, it's okay."
Until this moment, Mrs. Qi finally recovered from the shock of seeing her son and asked in a stammering voice, "You, you weren't going to come back tonight? Why did you come back suddenly?"
Qi Tao didn't answer, but said: "I'll take Xiao Yang to sit next door for a while, and we'll talk when he comes back." After that, he took Yang Yi out.
As soon as I walked out the door, Liu Dan came up to me and asked, "What happened? Why is Xiao Yang crying so hard?"
In fact, Liu Dan guessed why Yang Yi was crying so hard. She had just entered the yard after get off work and saw Qi Tao standing at the door eavesdropping. She guessed what was going to happen, so she didn't say anything or go into the house, but just stood by and watched.
This question was asked deliberately to make Qi Tao think carefully about what his mother had done.
Qi Tao's expression darkened when he heard this, but he didn't say anything.
Liu Dan did not ask any more questions. He led the two into the living room, went to the kitchen on the pretext of making tea, closed the door, and left the living room for the couple to talk.
As soon as Liu Dan left, Qi Tao said, "I'm sorry, I didn't expect... that mom would treat you like this behind your back."
Yang Yi cried for a long time, and now her tears have almost stopped, but her voice is still a little choked: "You are busy with work... and I haven't told you."
"Why not say it?" Qi Tao asked.
Yang Yi pursed her lips and finally chose to tell the truth: "When I was at home, I told others about it, but my mother was always nice to me in front of others. She was only like this when no one was around. Others... didn't believe it. My mother didn't believe it either. I don't know if you would believe it. Later, I followed you to join the army. My mother was at home, so I thought forget it. After all, she is your mother."
Qi Tao asked again: "What about now?"
"I wanted to say it at first, but when I saw you were so busy, I couldn't say it. I kept thinking that Mom was only staying for a while and would be back soon, so I just thought I'd just bear with it and it would pass."
At first she really wanted to endure it, but when Lin Wei pointed out Qi Ze's strangeness that day, and she thought that Qi Tao might know these things, she couldn't endure it anymore.
Seeing Yang Yi covering her eyes and crying again, Qi Tao held her in his arms and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't expect it, I always thought..."
It's not that he didn't notice that something was wrong with his wife, he just thought it was just ordinary friction, and as long as it didn't become a quarrel, it wasn't serious, and he would be fine after his mother returned home.
But he didn't expect that she had already retreated again and again for him.
"Don't worry, I will give you an explanation for this matter." Qi Tao made up his mind, let go of Yang Yi, stood up and walked out.
As soon as Qi Tao went out, Liu Dan, who was eavesdropping on the kitchen door, opened the door and came out, anxiously asking how Yang Yi was and what Qi Tao's attitude was.
There was no way. The two people spoke too quietly, and the door of her kitchen was too sturdy and the soundproofing was too good. She pricked up her ears and listened for so long, but only heard a few scattered words and couldn't even make out a complete sentence.
We can only ask the parties involved.
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Lin Wei was also wondering what was going on with Yang Yi. Because she was so absorbed in the situation, she only came to her senses after Zong Shao called her for the third time and asked, "What's wrong?"
Zong Shao reminded him, "You haven't touched your meal yet."
"Mom, if you don't hurry up, the lobster will be finished." Mingming reminded, and as he spoke, he skillfully used his teeth to open the shells of the overcooked prawns that had turned golden yellow and peeled out the tender white shrimp meat inside.
But before he could put the shrimp meat into his mouth, he saw his father picked up two lobsters and put them into his mother's bowl.
Her eyes were wide open, how could she be like this? He quickly picked up the bowl and said, "Dad, I want one too."
Zong Shao picked up a lobster for each of him and Ruirui.
Mingming asked: "Why do I only have one?"
Zong Shao said, "Because there are only two left, if you feel that they are not enough, you can ask your brother for some."
Upon hearing this, Ruirui, who was struggling with the crab legs, immediately scooped up the lobster that his father had just given him with a spoon and took a bite to mark it.
Mingming: "...but mom has two."
"That's because mom didn't eat it before, but you guys ate a lot."
Mingming thought so too and lowered his head to continue eating the lobster meat he had just peeled.
After solving his son's doubts about the lobster distribution, Zong Shao looked at Lin Wei, who was in a daze again, and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Lin Wei came back to her senses again, picked up the lobster and peeled it while saying, "I was wondering how Sister Yang was doing."
Zong Shao knew what they were plotting recently, but he didn't listen to what it was specifically, and Lin Wei didn't tell him in detail, so he asked, "What happened to her?"
"It's hard to say anything else now. Just today, for some reason, she had lunch at our house at noon and stayed at Sister Deng's house in the afternoon. She only went back just now. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law might have had an argument." Lin Wei picked out what she could say now, roughly explained it, and then muttered, "I just don't know if Captain Qi is really on duty tonight."
Zong Shao said: "Qi Tao, it's not time to camp today."
Lin Wei was stunned and asked, "How do you know?" Zong Shao and Qi Tao were not from the same division and they did not interact much.
Zong Shao replied, "I saw him on the way back, riding a bicycle, pedaling very fast."
Lin Wei said, "Are you sure? They don't seem to have any bicycles at home."
Zong Shao was very sure: "It's definitely him."
Lin Wei wanted to say something else, but suddenly she thought that if Qi Tao didn't help on duty at all, then it would be normal to borrow a bicycle and ride back.
Thinking of this, Lin Wei was completely relieved.
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