The Gao family mother and son went to the back mountain and found the father and son picking up limestone there. They immediately started complaining and berated Si Cheng, saying he was completely useless.
Seeing the two siblings talking to each other, Gao Liang simply poured the half-full basket of limestone from Gao Zian's basket into his own.
"Dad, I'll go down first and come back to pick you up later." Without saying goodbye to Gao Shuzhen and her son, he picked up his basket and started walking down the mountain.
"Brother, look at this attitude! I told you the women of the Hu family are ill-mannered. Look what they've raised our nephews and nieces to be like. They don't even know how to greet me. And Ah Cheng's wife doesn't even show her face. They're so ill-mannered." Gao Shuzhen had been working as a landlady with Lian Qingfeng for many years, and she was used to that kind of high-and-mighty life, bossing others around. In fact, she didn't realize that her personality was the most annoying thing.
"If you hadn't gone too far last time you came to our house, A-Liang and the others wouldn't have treated you like this." Gao Zian still defended his children, especially since he felt he had no standing in the family after his sister's outburst. Now, he'd helped his sister contact his sister-in-law again; he wondered what his wife would do to him when he got back.
“Isn’t it because our family is really struggling? I wanted to move in, but you all disagreed. So I have to bring some things home with me, otherwise we have nothing. Even now, we’re always eating around the pot without even a plate. Not only do you not understand us, but you didn’t even say a word when that woman chased us out with a broom.” Gao Shuzhen felt greatly wronged as she said this. Since they wouldn’t let her live in their house, she should at least have a complete set of household clothes. She never expected that the Hu family woman to be so stingy, and to have raised her son to disown his mother.
"Don't keep calling her 'Hu family woman,' she's your sister-in-law. Everyone's short of things these days, and I've seen the new residents of the village making several trips to the city to find everything they need. If all else fails, let Dongxing go look for her too." Hearing his sister address his sister-in-law like that made Gao Zian feel uncomfortable, after all, she was his wife who had been with him for most of his life.
“How can that be? You don’t know how difficult the journey is. What if something happens on the way? How am I supposed to live?” Ever since Gao Shuzhen realized that her husband and stepson were unreliable, she has been clinging tightly to Gao Dongxing, fearing that something might happen to him.
“Since that’s the case, you need to change your tone. You need to be patient with A-Cheng. After all, you really did wrong this child before.” Gao Zian knew perfectly well that his sister was in the wrong, but people are always biased. Between his sister and his grandson, he sided with his sister.
“I was already very polite at the beginning, and even offered to move into his house to help him take care of his children, thinking that this would make it easier to repair the relationship. Isn’t that enough?”
“If that really doesn’t work, then just do what the couple said before and ask them for some food rations every year. That way, your life will be a little easier.” Gao Zian really didn’t know that his younger sister had already made an outrageous demand.
"I told you, but that ingrate actually said I'm still capable of living and won't provide for my old age." Gao Shuzhen directly distorted the truth.
"How can he go back on his word like this? I'll go talk to him later." Gao Zian was now really blaming Si Cheng. Xiao Qi had agreed before, so why did he change his mind when it came to his own son?
“He kicked us all out, and now the door is locked. How are we supposed to find him?” Gao Dongxing also took the opportunity to complain.
"How could he go so far? I'm going to the village to find him right now." Gao Zian didn't even bother picking up limestone anymore, and carried his empty basket down the mountain.
"Mom, do you think Uncle can persuade him?" Gao Dongxing asked his mother after Gao Zian had walked away.
"That's not necessarily true. Although your uncle has taken care of him to some extent over the years, I think he's a very hard-hearted person. Your uncle might not be able to persuade him." Gao Shuzhen herself was also very uncertain. If it were her, she definitely wouldn't give him a single grain of food at this time.
"Dad, look what you're doing! Didn't you promise Mom you wouldn't get involved in Aunt's family affairs anymore?" Gao Jie, who rushed over, stopped Gao Zian. This time, Gao Liang went directly to his sister.
"I didn't get involved either, I just took your aunt and the others to familiarize themselves with the place." Gao Zian became a little timid when his daughter mentioned his wife, but this time he felt that he really hadn't done anything wrong.
"Come on, come home with me first. There's still some limestone at home; you can carry it back first." Gao Jie saw that her father's basket was still empty, so she simply told him to go to her house and take back what Liu Fengya had left there earlier. Originally, those limestones were also prepared for her maternal family, but the Gao family felt that they couldn't keep troubling their in-laws like this, so they insisted on carrying them up the mountain themselves.
"No need, your aunt and the others are still on the mountain. It's still early, I'll go up and get them myself." At this moment, Gao Zian realized that he had actually run down the mountain with an empty basket on his back, but when he thought of his nephew's words, he felt that he should find Sicheng first.
"Where is your cousin now? Take me to him. That kid's got some nerve now, he even kicked his own mother out of the house." Gao Zian saw his son behind him and asked him to lead him to him.
“You believe everything your aunt and cousin say? You know their character. If they hadn’t gone too far, why would your cousin have kicked them out of the house?” Gao Liang was also furious. His family and cousin’s little bit of affection had been worn away by his muddle-headed father.
"No matter what, she's his biological mother." Gao Zian calmed down a bit at this point, and thinking about his sister's previous actions, he became uncertain. Would she also try to empty Acheng's house like she did last time at his own home?
"Let's go. If we delay any longer, the team will have to go back to Gaojia Village soon, and it won't be good to keep everyone waiting for a long time." Gao Liang reminded his father that now each village travels together, so that they can look out for each other on the road. Generally, unless there are special circumstances, they will meet at the village entrance and set off together.
"Sigh! Let's go." Seeing his son and daughter standing guard on either side of him, Gauzyan couldn't bring himself to say anything, no matter how many reasons he had.
"Ah Liang, go to the back mountain and tell your aunt to go back early too. Otherwise, it won't be safe for the two of them to go back alone after the people from Baijia Village leave." After saying that, he followed his daughter home, constantly nagging her to talk to her cousin and ask for some help.
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