Chapter 60 Reason
The day after Zhou Qing came, she accompanied her daughter to guard the newsstand.
When there were few people in the afternoon, Lin Qiu saw that his mother was in a good mood, so he asked tentatively: "Mom, who made you so angry that you ran away from home?"
After hearing his daughter's question, Zhou Qing was silent for a long time.
Just when Lin Qiu thought his mother didn't want to answer, Zhou Qing slowly spoke.
"Didn't your father receive the remittance slip you sent home the day before yesterday? Your father gave it to me tonight, and I plan to take the money out when I have time."
"Isn't this a good thing?" Lin Qiu couldn't understand why the remittance slip made his mother so angry.
"Yeah, it was originally a good thing." Zhou Qing paused and continued, "Isn't Liu Xiang about to give birth? I thought I would take the opportunity to go to town to get money and ask her if she needed anything so I could buy it for her. But as soon as I walked to the door, I heard her gossiping about me."
"What did she say?" Lin Qiu curled his lips in disgust.
Whether in her past life or now, she hated Liu Xiang. It might be because of their different values or because of her aura. In short, she didn't get along well with him.
"What good things can she say about me?" Zhou Qing thought of the scene that day and raised his voice angrily, "She told others about me and your father, saying that I gave a lot of subsidies to my daughter and didn't care about the life and death of my son and his wife. She said that your father and I sent you bags of cured meat and cured fish, but they couldn't even see pig hair or fish bones."
"This ungrateful bastard! Aren't you and Dad good enough to them? You paid for the house, and Lin Min usually takes care of it for you. She's pregnant and asks you for this and that, but she still has the nerve to say such things?"
Thinking of what Liu Xiang had done in his past and present lives, Lin Qiu became furious.
Zhou Qing patted his daughter's hand and said, "Don't be so angry, it's not worth it!"
"These are all trivial matters. Let her talk about it. Anyway, everyone has a scale in their hearts, and everyone knows who took advantage." Zhou Qing didn't care about his daughter-in-law's biased or not, "But she shouldn't have talked about my daughter!"
That day, when Zhou Qing heard Liu Xiang say in a contemptuous tone that Lin Qiu had abducted Wang Xiuren and disowned his parents, and that Lin Ping was so ambitious that she might become a spinster, she was so angry that she trembled all over.
She pushed the door open and went in. As soon as Liu Xiang saw her, she knew she had heard her, so she quickly held her stomach and pretended to have a stomachache. When his good son came out of the room and saw this scene, he blamed Zhou Qing for scaring Liu Xiang without knowing the truth.
"His sister was described like that, but he remained silent, Liu Xiang pretended, and he glared at me. I'm not angry about anything else, I'm just angry at myself for giving birth to such a heartless person!" Zhou Qing said gritting his teeth.
"Why has Lizi become like this? He wasn't like this before." Lin Qiu was very angry after hearing this. How could his younger brother treat his mother like this?
In Lin Qiu's opinion, Lin Li in his previous life was quite filial and treated his father and mother well. He would visit the old house every now and then and would scold Liu Xiang for anything excessive she did. But he couldn't do anything about her behavior, so he could only let her do whatever she wanted and then comfort her family afterwards.
"I've finally realized that my son is unreliable! Alas!" Zhou Qing sighed deeply.
Zhou Qing knew what kind of person Lin Li was better than Lin Qiu, after all, he was born from his own belly. Before, he knew about the affection between blood relatives, but now that he has a family and has met someone like Liu Xiang, as long as he can take advantage of her, he lets Liu Xiang act like a spoiled child in front of him. Anyway, there are people blocking her in front, so he hides in the back and acts as a good person. You have to save face, but you can't take advantage of the situation.
"I was so angry that I slammed the door and left." Zhou Qing continued, "As soon as I walked to the back door of the old house, I ran into Zhou Mei and Lin Ze's guests complaining about me."
"She said that I was partial to the Lin Li family. I lived in the same house with them, but I didn't help take care of Lin Huan and Lin Cong. Instead, I took care of Lin Min every day. I gave Liu Xiang all the good things I had and gave her whatever she wanted."
"Huanhuan and Congcong, which one of them wasn't raised by you? She might have amnesia!" Lin Qiu patted his thigh, "Pingping and I helped her take care of the children."
"The two sisters-in-law always think that your father and I are not fair, and are partial to one or the other. To be honest, I am a little partial. All four of you are my children. I will be partial to the one who is doing worse!" Zhou Qing calmed down and said slowly, "As parents, we only hope that our children can live well. If one of them is not doing well, we will think of helping more. Who knows that when children grow up, they will become narrow-minded. As long as they don't get more, they blame their parents for being partial. How can this be justified?"
Lin Qiu shook his mother's hand and said, "I have received a lot of subsidies from you in the past. Now it is my turn to take care of you."
"Your father and I are still able to move, so we don't need you for now. Just focus on making money outside!" Zhou Qing held his daughter, "I am relieved now. When Pingping marries a good family, I will no longer be in charge of anything."
"You and Dad can come over and play whenever you have time. I have a place to stay here too."
"How can I come here to trouble you?"
Lin Qiu looked at his mother in disapproval, "What do you mean it's troublesome or not? Just come here and we'll be much more relaxed!"
At Zhou Qing's age, he fears most of becoming a burden to his children, so when he heard that his daughter needed him, a faint smile appeared on his calm face.
"I'm glad I didn't do you any harm!"
"How could that be? As long as you are here, we will enjoy the happiness together!"
…
While the mother and daughter were explaining the whole story, the situation back home was shrouded in dark clouds.
Lin Ting sat at the eight-immortals table in the middle of the main room with a stern face, while Lin Hui and Zhou Mei, Lin Li and Liu Xiang stood aside with their heads lowered.
“Bang!”
Lin Ting looked at Liu Xiang who was still winking at Lin Li, and slammed the table hard, causing the cups on the table to bounce.
"You guys are awesome! You made your mother so angry that she ran away from home!" Lin Ting glared at his two disappointing sons.
Liu Xiang raised her head and was about to say something when Lin Li pulled her hard.
"Your mother has been with me for more than 40 years, and I have never made her so angry that she left home. You sons and daughters-in-law are really capable!"
Hearing Lin Ting's scolding, Liu Xiang tilted her head and said, "Why should I blame us if my mother-in-law ran away by herself? I am a pregnant woman and she followed me everywhere to look for me."
"Then why did she run away?"
When Lin Ting heard his daughter-in-law talking back, his eyes widened with anger.
"How should I know!" Liu Xiang felt her father-in-law's anger and could only mutter in a low voice.
"Don't think I don't know what you are doing behind my back. Whatever you say behind my back, I will definitely get it from the gods." Lin Ting stretched out his hand and nodded to his son and daughter-in-law. "I'm not dead yet. It's not your turn to be the boss in my house!"
"I'm telling you the truth. Since we've separated, you should eat in your own rooms and don't leave the children here!" Lin Ting glanced around and was very disappointed when he saw his son, who was lowering his head and not saying a word.
I made up my mind and said out loud what had been buried in my heart for a long time.
"From today on, don't expect me to subsidize you anymore, and I don't expect you to either! Your mother and I will use the money I earn ourselves, so as to avoid feeding those ruthless people!"
Hearing this, Lin Li looked up suddenly, "Dad, what are you saying!"
"What's wrong with what I said?" Lin Ting asked back.
Lin Li moved his mouth but no sound came out.
Lin Ting knocked on the table and said, "I have already said this. If you don't believe me, just watch!"
"Dad, do you not want a son and a daughter-in-law? Do you not want grandchildren either?"
Seeing that her father-in-law was determined to deal with both families, Liu Xiang dragged out her grandchildren and tried to threaten him with the younger generation.
How could Lin Ting be threatened so easily? He said firmly: "I really don't care about these grandchildren! I, Lin Ting, don't rely on you now, and I will never rely on them in the future!"
After saying that, he waved his hand and went back to his room, leaving the four people looking at each other in bewilderment.
Lin Hui raised her head and looked at Lin Li at this time, "Look at what you two have done! I am also implicated."
"Brother, don't make me take the blame for everything!" Lin Li retorted.
"Zhou Mei told me that mom ran away after visiting you. If it wasn't you two, then who could it be? I was working outside at the time." Lin Hui was certain that she was innocently implicated.
Lin Li thought back to the scene of yesterday afternoon and felt a little short of breath. What a foolish mother was. She was so arrogant at her age. Why did she run out? He also had to be scolded by his father and brothers.
But Liu Xiang was not a pushover. She was stubborn and said, "Brother, you were not at home, but my sister-in-law was not out. Who knows if my sister-in-law did something to piss off my mother?"
"Don't throw dirty water on me!" Zhou Mei was not to be outdone, "Mom ran away from your house, and many people saw it!"
"But she also entered the door of the old house!"
…
The four brothers and sisters-in-law quarreled with each other for a long time before Lin Li dragged Liu Xiang, who was cursing, back to his home.
Lin Ting sat quietly in the room listening to the two brothers blaming each other. Alas, it is a misfortune for the family to raise such a son!
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