Chapter 020 Pretend I've Never Lived
Li Banxia walked over in a few steps, picked up the fire tongs, and mercilessly struck Su Lao Er.
"ah!"
Su Lao Er grunted, clutching his arm as he looked at Li Banxia, "Mom, what are you doing?"
"Where have I shown favoritism? If you can't give me a straight answer, I'll pretend I never had you!" Li Banxia said coldly.
Su Lao Er was going crazy; he couldn't understand why Li Banxia was suddenly so angry.
In the past, whenever he mentioned being biased, Li Banxia would find all sorts of ways to treat him well, proving with her actions that he wasn't biased and that there was always something better for her.
What's going on these past two days?
Hearing the word "favoritism" is like triggering some kind of mechanism; people either scold him or hit him!
They even said things like "I'd rather die than have ever given birth to him."
Su Lao Er was extremely distressed.
He just wanted to have a happy wedding. She's his own mother, how come she doesn't care about him at all?!
When it was her older brother's turn, she ran around taking care of everything, but now that it's his turn, nothing seems to work.
She even said she wasn't biased!
"Mom, you're the one who asked me to say it."
Su Lao Er got angry and said in a huff, "My older brother went to university but I didn't, isn't that because you're biased..."
Before he could even utter the word 'heart,' Li Banxia struck him on the back with a pair of fire tongs.
"Did I stop you from going? Don't you know why you didn't go to university?!"
Su Laosan hissed twice and chuckled to himself.
Su Lao Er glared at him coldly.
Su Laosan chuckled, "Second brother, you didn't want to go? You failed the exam yourself, and you're blaming Mom for being biased? You deserve to be beaten!"
"Shut the hell up!"
Su Lao Er yelled at Su Lao San, still not satisfied, and continued to bring up old grievances, "When we were little, you roasted sweet potatoes and gave them to Lao San but not to me, wasn't that favoritism? You stayed up all night making shirts for Da Ge, and I wanted you to let me wear your hand-me-downs, wasn't that favoritism? And on birthdays, there was always only one cake. I wanted my own cake, I didn't want to blow out the same cake and candles as Da Ge..."
Li Banxia swung the fire tongs and started hitting.
"Didn't I give you any roasted sweet potatoes? There were three in total, and you ate your own portion. You're bullying the youngest, trying to steal his food. I didn't let you get away with it, and you're still holding a grudge?!"
"Ah, ah, ah!"
Su Lao Er was hit three times in a row and jumped up in pain. He was about to get angry when he heard Li Banxia's words. He paused for a moment, turned to look at Su Lao Da and Su Lao San, and both of them nodded at him.
"...How is that possible?" Su Lao Er was shocked. He had remembered it for so many years, how could he be wrong?
Li Banxia continued hitting, "Slap! Slap! Slap!"
"Mom, it hurts..."
"How can you say something like 'I made a shirt for your older brother but not for you'? You have a new set of clothes for every season of the year, while your older brother only has two sets a year! When he went to register for university, he didn't even have a complete set of clothes. I took apart one of your dad's half-new work clothes and altered it for him, and you still remember that!"
Li Banxia grew angrier as she spoke, and without holding back any force, she struck Su Lao Er hard on the fleshy parts of his body!
"I told you to remember, but you won't. You're always scheming and plotting against this and that! You really are your father's good son!"
"Mom, Mom, Mom..."
Su Lao Er was on the verge of tears. These fire tongs hurt too much; his mother hadn't held back at all!
Calling for Mom won't help!
“You don’t want to share a cake with your older brother? Ah! Every time, you’re the one who rushes to blow out the candles first, you get the lion’s share while your older brother gets a tiny portion! For other people’s birthdays, they order a small six-inch cake, but for your birthday, I specially ordered a twelve-inch one, just in case you felt wronged, but…”
Li Banxia snorted twice, her eyes filled with coldness. "Su Min'an, the saying 'a snake trying to swallow an elephant' is truly embodied in you!"
What a scoundrel who gets the benefit but then acts innocent!
She spoiled him, and spoiled him into a scoundrel who schemed against his own family!
Why didn't she notice this before?
Li Banxia felt an indescribable bitterness in her mouth.
"mom……"
Li Banxia was truly enraged and showed no mercy, beating Su Lao Er until his thighs and back burned with pain.
He touched his back and felt a sticky sensation. He then looked at it in front of his eyes.
"……Blood!"
Su Lao Er was incredulous. He reached into his pants and touched his thigh. It was sticky again. When he took it out, he saw that it was bleeding.
His vision went black for a moment, and he looked up at Li Banxia in terror, "Mom, you really want to kill me..."
From childhood to adulthood, I've only ever gotten a bite or two on my butt or arm, which is no different from a mosquito bite.
Now, fire tongs!
They've all bled!
Su Lao Er was sad, angry, furious and aggrieved. He never expected his own mother to be so cruel!
How could his mother bear to do that?
Did he really hurt his mother's feelings?
But the Cui family didn't have 800 yuan as a bride price, and they wouldn't agree to let Cui Yuxia marry him. He only had a little money a month, and it would be gone after eating and drinking. He thought he would never be able to marry such a beautiful Cui Yuxia on his own!
If he dared to tell the Cui family that his mother wouldn't ask for a bride price, they would immediately dump him and find Cui Yuxia a new partner.
He pursued her for so long, and it wasn't easy for him to finally win her over.
He couldn't bear to part with it.
"mom……"
Don't call me!
When Li Banxia saw the blood, his grip on the fire tongs tightened suddenly. He took a long breath, put down the tongs, and said to Su Lao Er with a cold face.
"You better think it over carefully. Think it through clearly and figure out the truth behind all the favoritism incidents you remember from birth until now. Tell me everything today. If I ever hear you say the word 'favoritism' again, you either get out of this house or I'll beat you to death!"
After saying that, he shouted in a low voice, "Did you hear me?"
Su Lao Er's body trembled.
"I heard it."
His mother was really angry; she had never been this angry before.
Saying she wanted to kill him might have been said in anger, but to make her bleed from the force of her words, she must have been extremely angry.
When she hit her father yesterday, she didn't hit him that hard; it only caused a bruise without drawing blood.
Su Lao Er suddenly felt a little flustered and looked up at Su Lao Da, "Big Brother..."
Boss Su opened his mouth, as if to say something.
Li Banxia stopped him, saying, "No one is allowed to pay attention to him. Let him think for himself! Boss, help your wife back to the house."
The eldest son's wife tugged at Su the eldest, and the young couple went back into the house.
Li Banxia looked at Su Laosan.
Su Laosan said, "Mom, I'm going out for a walk."
When he came back, he saw his father entering Aunt He's yard from afar, so he went to take a look.
The courtyard suddenly fell silent.
Li Banxia placed the bicycle ticket on the table and weighed it down with a large tea mug. "You can also choose not to, just leave. Once you're out of this courtyard, you can be the son of whomever you want!"
"mom……"
Li Banxia rolled up the straw mat and went back to the house. She then rolled up the straw mat that Old Man Su had slept on, along with his pillow, into a ball and threw it into the room where the second and third sons lived.
Regardless of whether he had slept with He Taohua or not, she still considered him dirty.
Li Banxia turned on the fan, sat on the edge of the bed, looked at the calendar on the wall, and calculated the time. In three more days, the auto parts factory would pay wages, 130 or 140 yuan a month. She couldn't let He Taohua get away with it.
She went to collect it.
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