"Who knows." Zhao Xueyan couldn't understand why she didn't enjoy her good fortune and instead ran back to her parents' home to suffer.
Li Yutong heard this and thought for a moment: "According to what my uncle said, Chen Xiaoqiao is asking her mother for the remaining 4,000 yuan of betrothal gifts. 4,000 yuan was a lot in that year. She probably wants this money."
"Or maybe, she just wants an attitude from her mother?"
Her third aunt Zhao Xueyan didn't understand: "What do you mean?"
Li Yutong tried to analyze it: "Third Aunt, don't you also know that Chen Xiaoqiao's elder brother and elder sister were born to her aunt, and they don't have the same mother as her. Her mother treats these two people better than her. Do you think she can get over it?"
Zhao Xueyan understood and slapped her thigh: "Oh, so Chen Xiaoqiao's mother is confused?"
Everyone likes to listen to gossip. Li Yutong and her third aunt Zhao Xueyan analyzed it for a long time.
The two came to a conclusion that Chen Xiaoqiao seemed quite pitiful, but she was pitiful, and her sister-in-law Yang Xiaohui, who was bullied by her, was also quite pitiful, but Yang Xiaohui was pitiful because it was the sin of her mother and her eldest brother.
The cause and effect has come full circle, and they are pitiful. Who is responsible for this?
The two of them couldn't figure it out, but Chen Xiaoying, the elder, suddenly understood: "It's because of favoritism. Chen Xiaoqiao is pitiful because her mother sides with outsiders instead of her. It must have been like this since she was a child. This has caused her to be unable to get over it for the rest of her life, especially since the 5,000 yuan betrothal gift was reduced to 4,000 yuan. It's possible that her mother spent it on the brother and sister. She can't accept it even more."
"Yang Xiaohui is pitiful. Her mother is partial to her and has been oppressing her for her eldest brother. All the benefits go to her eldest brother, but she is the one who pays for the money and labor."
Li Yutong and Zhao Xueyan thought about it and realized that it was indeed the case.
"Now that Chen Xiaoqiao has been kicked out by her natal family with her child, she should go back to the Yang family. When Chen Xiaoqiao goes back, my fourth aunt's mother won't have to come to my fourth aunt to help her every day." Li Yutong said.
Chen Xiaoying shook her head: "Who knows? Let's not care."
No matter how much they said, it was not as clear as what Yang Xiaohui had in her mind.
On this side, Chen Xiaoqiao said that she was driven away. Unfortunately, Chen Xiaoqiao was not her sister-in-law Yang Xiaohui. She refused to leave at all. She picked up stones and smashed the door of Chen's house. "If you want me to leave, give me back my betrothal gift."
"What do you mean by dowry? I raised you." Her nominal uncle finally stopped pretending to be dumb in the house, walked out, frowned and stared at Chen Xiaoqiao coldly.
Chen Xiaoqiao has been a little afraid of this uncle since she was a child. Thinking that she is now grown up and has two children, she put her hands on her hips and said loudly: "When I was a child, you could still lie to me like this. Now that I have grown up, you still use this grace of raising me to deceive me. You raise me, that is your duty. My mother married you, and she is also raising the two children you gave birth to. She raised two of you, and you raised me one. We are still the ones who suffer."
"What nonsense are you talking about? The family is supported by men. Your mother is a woman, how much work can she do? I grow the food to feed the children." Her uncle scolded.
Chen Xiaoqiao was not afraid: "Then I didn't let you raise me for nothing. My father has land. You cultivate my father's land and support me. That's what I should do."
"Besides, why did you raise me? Both of them can go to high school, but you only let me go to elementary school and then come back to cook. I have to wash their clothes and work in the fields with my mother. Why?" Chen Xiaoqiao vented all the grievances she had suffered since she was a child.
Her mother burst into tears but said nothing.
Chen Xiaoying's uncle was so angry that he was shaking: "It's your fault for not studying hard."
"How could I not study hard? I even got first place in the exam, while your son got last place. Yet you borrowed money to let him go to school." Chen Xiaoqiao was very impressive.
"Nonsense, when did I ever get the last place in the exam? Can the last place get into Kaiyuan No. 1 Middle School?" Chen Lao Da is still an elementary school teacher and he refuses to admit that he ever got the last place in the exam.
"You are still three points short of getting into Kaiyuan No. 1 Middle School. That's all because your dad borrowed money to pay you for it." Chen Xiaoqiao shouted loudly, laughing non-stop: "You are still a teacher, don't turn all your students into idiots."
"Also, when I was registering my household registration, people asked me which character of Chen Xiaoqiao's name was Xiao. I was clearly Xiao as in dawn. You should have just told them that I was Xiao as in big or small. Others were Xiaojuan, Xiaoxia, Xiaoqing, but I was a generation older than them, and I was of the same generation as the older people in the village, so I was Xiaoqiao. You are illiterate."
The crowd burst into laughter.
Old Chen was so angry that he shouted at Chen Xiaoqiao's mother: "If you just stand there and watch, how can we live our own lives?"
Chen Xiaoqiao's mother was still crying, and said to Chen Xiaoqiao: "You have beaten me and scolded me, but you still don't go back. Do you want to watch me die in front of you before you leave?"
As she said that, she threw herself into Chen Xiaoqiao's arms: "Just beat me to death, just let me die."
Chen Xiaoqiao originally thought that she had won. She had reasoned and well-founded to tell everyone in the village about all the grievances she had suffered over the years, and she hadn't finished yet.
Finally her mother came to this place.
"Mom, what are you doing? What are you doing?" This time, she was really angry and cried: "I am your biological child, you don't care whether I live or die, I am trying to save my reputation, but you still force me."
"I didn't force you to death, you forced me to death."
Chen Xiaoqiao's mother cried, "This is our fate. What can we do?"
Fate, this is the fate.
Chen Xiaoqiao has been hearing such words since she was a child, and it felt like the magic spell that Tang Monk cast on Sun Wukong's head. Even though Sun Wukong had seventy-two transformations and various magical powers, everything was in vain when facing this tight hoop.
"Mom, let's go home." Chen Xiaoqiao's son Pidan burst into tears first.
This scene was the same as the cry of her daughter Li Yumeng when Chen Xiaoqiao beat her sister-in-law Yang Xiaohui.
No matter how good their foreign family is, when they are told to get lost, they will think of their own home.
There is no place like home, no place gold or silver.
Chen Xiaoqiao felt numb all over. She stared viciously at her cold uncle, her arrogant cousin and his wife, and her sarcastic and snitch-like cousin. She really wanted to get a handful of arsenic and poison all these people to death.
Chen Xiaoqiao's mother was still crying.
Chen Xiaoqiao finally came to her senses, grabbed the two children and prepared to leave, but she said to her mother: "Since you said that you took care of them when they grew up and you also took care of their children, then they will definitely take care of you when you are old. Then don't come to me in the future. The 4,000 yuan betrothal gift is my repayment for your kindness in giving birth to me and raising me."
After hearing this, Chen Xiaoqiao's mother stopped crying and said, "That's the truth. I'm old, and I don't rely on you."