Behind Old Lady Xia followed Old Chen, whose face was scratched, and his two sons carrying sweet potatoes.
Aunt Wang has been in high spirits recently. She was strolling around the compound at night and happened to run into their family.
She looked gossipy and a story immediately came to her mind.
Old Chen with scratches on his face was caught doing something bad outside by Old Lady Xia. After the couple had a fight, Old Lady Xia asked others for compensation...sweet potato?
This is a bit outrageous, it shouldn't be like this.
"Sister Xia, it's so late...you guys?"
Old Lady Xia felt a little headache and glanced at Chen Xiangnan. He immediately understood and walked up to chat with Aunt Wang, "Aunt, my third child was bullied, and we went to seek justice."
"Oh, I see. Okay, it's best if the family works together."
"Aunt, your family is really united." Chen Xiangnan looked at the father and son whispering in front of Old Lady Wang's house and smiled.
"If we had a daughter-in-law, we would be able to work together more effectively."
Uncle Wang behind him was talking quietly to his son.
"When are you going to confess to your mother?"
Wang Dahai was horrified: "What confession?"
Uncle Wang: "Tsk, you can hide it from your mother but not from me. You were born by your mother and raised by your father. As soon as you lift your butt I know what you are going to fart."
"You've been with that girl for several years, right? I've also been asking around."
Wang Dahai was terrified and said, "I don't know anything."
"You don't know anything yet. When the girl comes with a matchmaker to propose marriage, you can go down and accompany your grandfather in advance."
Wang Dahai felt so pitiful, "Dad!"
"If I hadn't cleaned up the mess for you over the past few years, do you think you could have kept it a secret from your mother? Tell me the truth quickly so I can help you find a solution."
Uncle Wang felt that as the hub to ease the atmosphere in the family, he had to get all the information in advance. As the man behind Wang Meihua, he had to work hard to maintain family harmony.
Wang Dahai had no choice but to tell his father about his and Mu Chudan's plans one by one. After he finished speaking, he saw his father suddenly become serious. It seemed that this matter was not going to be easy.
"You know, your mother will never agree to you becoming a live-in son-in-law like me."
Wang Dahai: "I know, so what should I do, Dad?"
Uncle Wang: "But what's wrong with being a live-in son-in-law? Your mother works outside and I take care of the housework. Aren't we a happy family? I don't know what your mother is upset about. Is she looking down on me?"
Wang Dahai: "Dad, stop talking nonsense. Help me think about it first."
Uncle Wang: "You are so impatient, kid. Don't I have to analyze why your mother is so against the son-in-law before I can persuade her?"
Wang Dahai: "Maybe it's because of you. You're really unreliable after becoming a live-in son-in-law."
Uncle Wang was in deep thought.
On the other side, Old Lady Xia and her family returned home. The atmosphere was extremely quiet at this time. Chen Xiangbei didn't even dare to put the sweet potatoes on his shoulders on the ground. He just kept his head down.
Old Lady Xia sat on the stool, "Old Third, when did you start stealing things?"
Chen Xiangbei suddenly raised his head and said, "Brother, you said you wouldn't tell Mom. Did you lie to me?"
Chen Xiangnan: "In that situation, if I hadn't told the truth..."
Chen Xiangbei: "You said you would find a way, but the way you thought of was to deceive me?"
Chen Xiangnan: "Mom will only be willing to reconcile if I tell the truth. Otherwise, if you tell them, they might drag you into it."
Chen Xiangbei: "You...you are such a dishonest person. I will never trust you again. I want to break up with you!"
Old Lady Xia: "Why, am I an unreasonable person? You all make it seem like I'm difficult to deal with. What do you mean I'll only reconcile if you tell me the truth?"
Chen Xiangnan immediately ignored the third child and smiled awkwardly, "Mom, that's not what I meant. I said the wrong thing."
Chen Xiangbei threw the sweet potato to the ground and said, "You are the family, I am an outsider, okay? Yes, I stole something, so what? You don't give me pocket money and you don't allow me to find a way out on my own."
"Before my eldest brother's family was separated, you gave them so much money privately, Mom and Dad. My second brother and his wife also asked you for a lot of money privately, right? Why is it so difficult for me to even get a few cents now that it's my turn?"
"Am I your biological child? We're not so poor we can't afford to eat. Why don't you give me money? I'm a human being too, and I need money too. If I wasn't forced into a desperate situation, how could I possibly steal?"
Old Lady Xia sneered: "Stop first, tell me, when did you start stealing things?"
Chen Xiangbei yelled, "What happened before the Chinese New Year last year?"
Old Lady Xia: "Before the Chinese New Year last year? Every year before the Chinese New Year, I would give you enough pocket money, more than enough for you to buy comic books or food. You said you had no money so you stole. Did you have no money at that time? Where did the money go?"
Chen Xiangbei thought hard, yes, where is his money?
He thought about it again and again, and suddenly remembered that at that time, Luo Yuan said that his sister had a fever and had no money for medicine, so he asked him to borrow money, and then he had no money.
After that, he asked his mother for more pocket money. With so many of them spending it together, there was not a penny left in half a day.
He also took half of the fried soybeans at home and shared them with them, forcing his mother to fry them again in the middle of the night because there were going to be guests the next day. Fried soybeans are fragrant, delicious and cheap, and are an indispensable item for the Chinese New Year.
His mother cooked a lot more, fearing that he wouldn't have enough, and in the end he got tired of it.
He felt a little guilty. If Luo Yuan hadn't asked him to borrow money, he wouldn't be broke. If he had money, he wouldn't have been tempted by them to steal things.
That's...that's not right. He remembered very clearly the first time he stole something. He only followed them because they said it was fun and exciting.
It was all Luo Yuan and the others' fault that led him astray. It was all his second brother's fault that led him astray. His mother had discovered this.
I can’t hit Luo Yuan now, but my second brother is right in front of me.
Chen Xiangbei was embarrassed and annoyed, and rushed towards Chen Xiangnan, "Second brother, it's all your fault."
Chen Xiangnan was pushed unexpectedly:?
"What are you doing?"
Chen Xiangbei: "It's all your fault."
Chen Xiangnan: It was as if I saw the dead Dong Chunmiao, who didn’t understand what people were saying.
"What's the fuss? You stole something yourself, and you're blaming others for it?"
Chen Xiangbei: "If he hadn't told you this, if you hadn't changed recently, I wouldn't be like this!"
"You even said you wanted to separate me from the family. You are so cruel. You are not worthy of being my mother."
He stared angrily at the three people in the living room and said, "I'm telling you, even if you want to separate me, I won't leave. I have to take a quarter of the things in the house. That's called dividing the family property."
"I'm not as stupid as my big brother!"
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
