Chapter 55 Gossip Behind the Back
After Xu Yuxiang finished calling Su Xiumei, she felt more and more that something was wrong.
I went home, packed a few changes of clothes, and took a small bus to Su Xiumei's house. Su Xiumei was at home during her midday shift. When she saw her mother coming, she said with a sullen face, "Mom, I told you I won't be involved in family matters anymore. What are you doing here?"
"What are you talking about?" Xu Yuxiang looked at her in confusion. "I'm your mother, and you're my daughter. When can't I come to your house?"
"Tell me, what's going on?" Su Xiumei had been very upset these past few days. She felt that Xu Yuxiang didn't care about her at all, but only cared about her brother and her younger brother. The more she thought about it, the more upset she became. Xu Yuxiang didn't know about the conflict between Su Xiumei and Liang Wencai, and she told Su Xiumei about Su Houli's divorce plan. "Xiumei, you can ignore other things, but divorce is a big deal. Chen Guilan is easy to deal with, but Jiaojiao is a tough girl. I'm worried that she'll cause trouble."
"No matter how much trouble she makes, she's still just a child. Why should she meddle in matters between adults?" Su Xiumei said disdainfully when she saw Xu Yuxiang was actually worried about Su Jiaojiao causing trouble. "The most important thing right now isn't Su Jiaojiao, but what to do with the house and land after the second son and his wife divorce. I don't look down on Su Houli, but he can't do anything with the three acres of land at home, and Gao Meifeng has never done anything with it. If it's abandoned, the villagers will really laugh at it."
The villagers must feel that this family cannot survive without Chen Guilan.
Once divorced, the land becomes waste.
"Look at what you said. Your brother is still at home!" Xu Yuxiang had already made up her mind on the way here. "Let your brother farm the three acres of land at home. The house at home is even easier to deal with. I can just move in there and save myself the trouble of going back and forth between their two homes. When you come back to your parents' home later, you can stay longer."
Since Su Xiumei got married, she has never stayed overnight at her parents' home.
No matter whose house she goes to, there are always several couples there, and she finds it too noisy.
"That's fine," Su Xiumei agreed. "As long as my brother agrees, I'll have no objection. I just don't know if Chen Guilan is willing. After all, we've been married for so many years, so we should give her some money."
"What's the point of her not wanting to?" Xu Yuxiang didn't consider Chen Guilan's feelings at all. She said confidently, "We only have one house and a few acres of land. How can we divide it? She's not even forty yet. She will definitely remarry. Why should our Su family's things fall into the hands of outsiders? Besides, she doesn't even have a son. She only has this money-losing guy right here. She can forget about it."
"What does a generous gift mean?" Su Xiumei asked again, "Did he tell Chen Guilan?"
"She was supposed to go back home last night to take care of this, but Chen Guilan wasn't home. Her second sister-in-law had a seizure, so she went to the hospital with her." Xu Yuxiang didn't know whether she was upset that Chen Guilan wasn't home, or that she hadn't explained it to Su Houli. "I don't know if Houli told her. If he didn't, it's not easy for us to bring it up, is it?"
"Chen Guilan doesn't know about this yet, and you're so anxious..." Su Xiumei was speechless. "Mom, can you please calm down a little? We can take action when the time comes. For now, we just have to wait and see what happens."
"What do you mean by 'wait and see'?" Xu Yuxiang didn't understand.
"Let's see how they discuss it first." Su Xiumei didn't want to continue this boring topic. She picked up the pillow on the sofa and hugged it in her arms, saying lazily, "Since Cuicui moved into the dormitory, she hasn't come home once. All the housework has fallen on me. I really brought back an ungrateful person. I don't believe she has been free these days."
There is no one to mop the floor at home.
No one washed her clothes, and it was so cold, she didn't want to help.
"Cuicui is not a pushover either. Do you think she'll ever come back after she moves out?" Xu Yuxiang felt Su Xiumei still didn't understand her, so she told her about the day Su Cuicui went back to complain to Feng Yuefen. "Cuicui said you treated her like a free babysitter, asking her to do all the work, and she moved out because she couldn't stand it anymore. Even though your sister-in-law scolded her, she must be upset with you."
"What do you mean by 'free nanny'? Doesn't she do housework at home?" Su Xiumei was furious. "She's lived in my house for two or three months, with free food and accommodation. What's wrong with her doing some housework? I do it myself, so why doesn't she do it? Is she acting like a big shot in my house?"
Kindness is taken as an insult.
Every one of them is an ungrateful person.
We shouldn't have felt sorry for them in the first place. They don't deserve to live in the city.
"That's the truth, but have you ever thought about it? Cuicui feels this way because she and Liang Kun didn't work out." Xu Yuxiang, after all, had more experience and saw things clearly. "When you first brought Cuicui here, you treated her as your daughter-in-law, but in the end, your Liang Kun refused to even look at her. If it were you, you wouldn't want to either."
"It's all because of that Su Jiaojiao..." Su Xiumei felt upset when she thought of this, so she told Xu Yuxiang about the bicycle. "I even suspect that Su Jiaojiao isn't from our Su family. She's full of evil intentions. On the surface, she's refusing to marry Liang Kun, but secretly, she's having a passionate affair with him. With such a vixen messing around behind the scenes, how could Liang Kun possibly fall for Cuicui? Cuicui doesn't have as many tricks as Jiaojiao."
"So the generous gift bought two bicycles?" Xu Yuxiang gasped in pain, clutching her chest. "Two bicycles cost 600 yuan. That girl is truly lawless. How could she do such a thing? She even went so far as to report it to the police station..."
"I had a fight with Liang Kun because of Hou Li, and Liang Wencai got mad at me, saying I was biased towards my mother's family." Su Xiumei felt increasingly aggrieved as she spoke, her eyes red. "These days, he's been leaving early and coming back late, and he doesn't even talk to me. You only know how to find me when you have something to do, but who can I talk to about my problems?"
"What on earth is this gift for?" Xu Yuxiang was even more furious. "When I see that damn girl, I'm going to ask her what she's up to. Is she deliberately trying to cause chaos in this family?"
At this point, Xu Yuxiang returned to the original topic, "That's why I said that Jiaojiao wouldn't sit idly by while Houli and Chen Guilan divorce. She would definitely step in and fight for Chen Guilan."
"The problem is, Houli hasn't asked Chen Guilan for a divorce yet, so why should we worry about it?" Su Xiumei glanced at the clock hanging on the wall. "Wencai is working the late shift today and won't be home tonight. I'll call Houli and ask him to come over tonight and see what he says."
"Yes, you still have to discuss it with Houli." Xu Yuxiang thought so too, and said with relief, "Xiumei, our family's important matters still require your intervention."
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