But now, even though his parents only verbally deny her as their daughter-in-law, Fu Shen retorted without hesitation.
The family ties he yearns for, he can easily give up...
Upon hearing this, Liu Xiuying flew into a rage.
"You've gone too far! You won't listen to anything we say! What do you mean, 'your wife'? We don't need to worry about her. Your father and I raised you with such care and hardship, sent you to the army, and this is how you repay us? If we had known, we would have..."
Su Yue couldn't stand it anymore and interrupted Liu Xiuying without backing down.
"You said you raised Fu Shen with great care and then sent him to join the army. How can you say such a thing without a clear conscience?"
Liu Xiuying retorted in a loud voice, "Why would I feel guilty? Did I not raise him? Did he grow up eating air?"
Su Yue recalled the past that Fu Shen had told her. He had to cook and wash clothes for his family when he was four years old, and he had never eaten a full meal since then.
After his younger siblings were born, he often went hungry until the introduction of communal meals, at which point he learned what it felt like to have a full stomach.
On the way back, Wu Guoliang also mentioned that when he was a child, he would always hear Fu Shen's stomach rumbling. He would then take some sweet potatoes and potatoes from home, cook them in the stove, and secretly give them to Fu Shen to eat.
Fu Shen's ability to live to sixteen and then join the army was truly the best thing he ever did.
Now Liu Xiuying actually has the audacity to claim that she raised him.
If we don't expose her in front of everyone, she'll get too cocky.
“You raised him, but you only raised him until he was four years old. After you had your next child, did you ever truly raise him for a single day? Did you ever feed him a full meal?”
Liu Xiuying was stunned for a moment, her face turning pale and then red. She never expected that Fu Shen would tell a stranger about his childhood.
He opened his mouth, but for a moment he didn't know how to refute it.
Because she had only seriously raised Fu Shen for four years; the rest of the time, she and Fu Liugen were thinking about how to cause an accident to happen to this rebellious son.
Fu Liugen looked at Fu Shen, his brows furrowed. "Aren't you going to do something about her? Everyone in the village has gone through hunger like this, why is it different for you?"
When everyone heard Su Yue talk about Fu Shen's childhood, the older ones couldn't help but picture little Fu Shen struggling to drag a large basin of clothes to the river to wash them. After washing them, he couldn't lift the basin because it was too heavy, so he stumbled and fell to the ground, and the whole basin of clothes fell into the river and was washed away.
Fu Shen went back and nervously told Liu Xiuying, who, without saying a word, grabbed a bamboo stick and began to beat him severely.
Shouldn't someone be punished for doing something wrong?
Fu Liugen's words also make sense; when they were young, who among them hadn't gone hungry?
I've heard that in some places, many people have starved to death.
They didn't starve to death after missing a few meals, and now they've all grown up.
Fu Shen said firmly, "Don't worry about my wife, she's fine."
Liu Xiuying came to her senses and jumped up and down, cursing, "What a load of rubbish! She's just arrived and she's already trying to sow discord."
She said that when he was a child, no matter how much they beat or scolded him, or even if they didn't feed him for ten days or half a month, he was a very obedient and rebellious son.
How could he have taken it upon himself to marry a wife without telling them, and even brought her home? He only sends a tiny bit of his salary home every month. It must be that slut who's been gossiping behind his back.
Su Yue snorted coldly, "I'm sowing discord. Fu Shen was only four years old when his younger siblings were born. You made him stand in front of the big pot to cook for you, weren't you afraid he'd lose his balance and fall into the pot and cook himself? You made him stay home to look after his younger siblings. When you came back and saw the children crying, you said it was because Fu Shen hit them, and punished him by not giving him food for a day. You also made him wash clothes in the river. Such a tiny person could easily slip and fall into the river. If no one found out about all these things, or if Fu Shen wasn't clever enough, what do you think would happen to him in the end?"
Upon hearing this, Liu Xiuying and Fu Liugen exchanged glances.
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