Chapter 138 It's all Li Hongjuan's fault
Song Yanzhe, who had been silent the whole time, suddenly laughed.
“I say, ma’am… ma’am!” Song Yanzhe’s tone was laced with sarcasm. “You’re really funny! What era are we living in? Still thinking about carrying on the family line?”
He originally wanted to call her "Auntie," but then he thought, wouldn't that lower his own seniority for no reason?
Although this woman, who looked so thin and frail, did indeed resemble an older woman... she looked even older than his second aunt.
Just as Li Hongjuan was about to retort, Song Yanzhe spoke up again: "Besides, that's your son. What does he have to do with my second uncle?"
"Is he related to my second uncle by blood? No!"
"Does he have my second uncle's surname? No!"
Song Yanzhe looked at Li Hongjuan and the dirty Zhong Hongqing she was leading with disdain: "Not to mention that my second uncle has a son..."
He raised the hand he was holding onto Song Yanshen's: "This one properly takes my second uncle's surname, and will call my second uncle 'Dad' from now on! Just look at the blood relation..."
"How could I, my second uncle's own nephew, not be closer to my second uncle than a dirty kid like you who came from who-knows-where?"
These words left Li Hongjuan speechless.
Song Yanzhe clicked his tongue again: "I've been wondering before, doesn't Second Aunt have three sons? Why doesn't she mention them at all..."
"Now that I know you're all like this, I instantly understand my second aunt!"
As he spoke, he looked at Zhong Xiaoxiao with a face full of sympathy: "You have three older brothers like that, so you must have a hard time, right?"
Zhong Xiaoxiao's eyes reddened as she recalled the times she had been bullied by the three Zhong brothers and Li Hongjuan, but she quickly smiled again.
"It's okay! My mom is good to me! My sister is good to me too! They're so good to me!"
"Let's go then!" Song Yanzhe grabbed Zhong Xiaoxiao with one hand and Song Yanshen with the other, completely ignoring Li Hongjuan, whose face was flushed with anger, and left.
Li Hongjuan was absolutely furious.
Although she hadn't met the rest of the Song family yet, Li Hongjuan already knew from the laughing mouth of this boy who was about the same age as Zhong Xiaoxiao that Zhang Chunxue had never mentioned her three sons to the Song family, so how could they possibly have prepared a gift for them?
Thinking that Zhang Chunxue was also at the brigade headquarters, she wondered how Zhang Chunxue would ridicule her when she went there.
Moreover, the Song family clearly doesn't take her family seriously; going there would only make her look foolish.
Although Li Hongjuan was greedy, she still had some sense of shame.
Most importantly, she still remembered what Zhong Chengfa said—if she dared to embarrass him, he would divorce her!
Li Hongjuan dared not gamble on whether Zhong Chengfa was just trying to scare him, after all, Zhong Chengfa had never gone to see her again after being angered by her sister-in-law last time.
She was afraid.
On the way back, Li Hongjuan grew angrier and angrier. Looking down at Zhong Hongqing, who was sniffling, she couldn't help but yell, "You're so useless! Why didn't you appease your grandma? Now we can't even get a penny!"
As she spoke, she couldn't help but slap Zhong Hongqing twice.
Zhong Hongqing burst into tears.
"Mom is a bad person!" He rubbed his eyes with his dirty hands. "Grandma clearly hates Mom, that's why she doesn't like me..."
"It's all Mom's fault! It's all Mom's fault!"
Li Hongjuan, her body flaring up, was even more furious: "What! You actually say it's my fault? You little brat!"
As she spoke, she picked up Zhong Hongqing again and gave him another beating on the buttocks.
Zhong Hongqing burst into tears.
The crying continued until they got home.
Li Hongjuan was annoyed by his crying, and she continued to hit and scold him along the way, which only made Zhong Hongqing cry even louder.
A vicious cycle.
As soon as the two arrived home, Li Hongjuan threw Zhong Hongqing at Zhong Chengfa and said in a harsh voice, "Who told Hongqing that his grandmother doesn't like him because of me?"
Zhong Chengfa felt a little guilty, because he had indeed said those words to Zhong Hongqing.
After all... it can't be that you hate his son because you hate him, right?
It's obvious that his mother dislikes Li Hongjuan!
So he quickly changed the subject: "You just went to the brigade headquarters? You didn't embarrass me, did you?"
“I…I didn’t go!” Li Hongjuan gritted her teeth, “I ran into Zhong Xiaoxiao and a child from the Song family before I even got to the brigade headquarters…”
She didn't say what she had said, but instead spoke viciously: "That little bitch Zhong Xiaoxiao..."
Seeing Zhong Cheng frown, she had no choice but to change her tone: "That little brat, she's really closer to the Song family than to us! And that little mute your mother adopted!"
She spat and said, "Now I finally understand why your mother adopted a little mute!"
"She doesn't want you anymore, so she's raising another son! So that after she dies, she'll have a son to break the pot for her!"
"What are you talking about all day about death!" Zhong Chengfa was even more irritated. "That little mute... wasn't that little mute adopted because my mother and Song Xingzhi couldn't have children?"
"Give me a break!" Li Hongjuan sneered. "I think that's exactly what your mother was planning! Now that the yard is separated, look at her, does she look like she wants you two?"
Zhong Chengfa's face immediately turned ashen.
Although what Li Hongjuan said was true, but...
Zhong Chengfa started yelling at Li Hongjuan: "It's all because of you! It's all because of you! My mother is disappointed in me because I didn't want to divorce you!"
"You know how good my mom used to be to me!"
Zhong Chengfa grew angrier as he spoke: "How dare you say that! How dare you hit Hongqing! What did he say wrong?"
"It's all because of you! It's all because of you!"
"You...I..." Li Hongjuan wanted to defend herself, but when she opened her mouth, she couldn't find anything to refute.
After all, Zhang Chunxue had treated Zhong Chengfa very well in the past, being his eldest son and having given birth to his eldest grandson.
Zhang Chunxue was lukewarm towards her, and because Li Hongjuan often secretly took things from her husband's family to subsidize her own family, Zhang Chunxue had a lot of complaints about her.
Therefore, Zhong Chengfa berated her, and Li Hongjuan could only cower and dare not speak.
After venting his anger, Zhong Chengfa lay on the bed, still feeling simmering with rage.
He was now wondering what his second and third brothers were doing, and whether they knew that their mother was getting married.
Zhong Chengyi is currently out of town!
He had previously forged a letter of introduction and taken several people, including Zhong Xiaoyang, to another city to handle a batch of goods.
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