As soon as he finished speaking, he stepped forward.
This was the last time he would help.
Gu Xiangdong glanced at Gu Changqing, who was still wailing, shook his head helplessly, and followed him.
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Lu Huaijiao returned home.
When He Meizhu saw that she was alone and that there was still some snow on her hat, she quickly took a clean towel and came out to wipe the snow off her.
"Why did you come back by yourself? Where's the fourth brother? He must be freezing! Go warm yourself by the fire."
He Meizhu spoke with concern.
Lu Huaijiao sniffed and hummed in agreement.
"Fourth Brother has something to attend to."
"Hmm? What's wrong? Did you go out and tease cats and dogs with someone again?" He Meizhu was quite disgusted with her youngest son.
Lu Huaijiao smiled sweetly, her lips curving upwards.
They looked incredibly soft and cuddly.
He Meizhu only glanced at it, and her heart softened completely.
"Oh dear, I know you feel sorry for that brat. I won't say anything to him anymore. Go warm yourself by the fire, we'll ignore him."
They pulled her to the fire pit in the kitchen and made Lu Huaijiao sit there to warm herself by the fire.
He then asked her if she was hungry and if she wanted some chicken soup to warm her up.
"Mom, let's all eat something first. Fourth Brother might not be back for a while."
"Huh? What's wrong? What happened?"
He Meizhu was unaware of what had happened at that time.
Lu Huaijiao watched He Meizhu's busy figure in front of the earthen stove, and she sighed almost imperceptibly. She decided to tell the truth after all.
"It was Miao Yuan from next door, who froze to death at the foot of the back mountain."
"Huh? What froze to death?"
He Meizhu hadn't reacted yet.
She turned to look at Lu Huaijiao, and the smile on her face slowly disappeared.
"You mean, the second son's wife?"
Lu Huaijiao nodded.
He took a sip of water from his enamel mug before cautiously looking up and asking, "Mom, do you want to go over and take a look?"
Gu Changqing was, after all, He Meizhu's own flesh and blood; decades of mother-son affection couldn't be so easily severed. Lu Huaijiao didn't want He Meizhu to force herself to suppress her feelings.
If she wants to go see it, then she can go see it.
I can understand it myself.
He Meizhu was stunned for a moment before she came to her senses, shook her head and said, "Why would I go see him? That madman will go crazy one day."
Hearing the news that a young person has suddenly died is quite shocking, no matter what.
What's more, this person was her former daughter-in-law.
Even if He Meizhu didn't like her, she couldn't remain indifferent.
Such a reaction is actually normal. After all, humans are not animals; humans are higher animals. There are clear differences between higher animals and ordinary animals.
Cats and dogs don't grieve or feel anything when one of their kind dies. But humans are different; humans have compassion.
However, they are also able to use reason to control their compassion.
On second thought, Miao Yuan's death was actually beneficial to Gu Changqing, at least he wouldn't have to take care of the mentally unstable Miao Yuan anymore...
He Meizhu was startled by her own thoughts. She didn't know when she had become so vicious, thinking such things about a dead person.
She despised her own inner thoughts.
Lu Huaijiao sat to the side, observing He Meizhu's reaction.
Seeing that she remained silent, Lu Huaijiao thought for a moment and continued, "Mom, it may be a bit much to say this now, but that second sister-in-law, she has been having an affair with some other man behind my second brother's back for a long time."
"What did you say?"
He Meizhu, who had just been scorning herself, quickly changed her expression upon hearing Lu Huaijiao's words: "Who is she having an affair with?"
"It's Zhang Qiang, Gu Yanping's husband who was a sent-down youth. We don't know if Miao Yuan's child was Zhang Qiang's or her second brother's."
He Meizhu:......
I simply don't want to talk anymore.
But then I thought about it again, and it seems like the second child deserved it too!
He used to cheat on Xu Honglian with Miao Yuan. Didn't he ever consider that someone like Miao Yuan, who could be so open with him, could also be so open with other men?
Looking back now, it just seems incredibly ridiculous.
Moreover, because of Lu Huaijiao's words, He Meizhu, who had initially felt some pity for Miao Yuan's death, became completely heartless at this moment.
"A woman like that deserves to die."
As a woman, she must hate women who don't uphold traditional virtues the most.
It's disgusting when she seduces her son, but it's even more disgusting when she seduces other men behind his back.
It's a disgrace to women to talk about a woman like that.
He Meizhu was furious.
Gu Jianhua brought his grandson to the kitchen to see if there was anything to eat, and He Meizhu glared at him.
"Eat, eat, eat! What are you eating? The village has such a bad atmosphere, and you, the brigade leader, don't even know that? All you know is how to eat." He kept complaining, but his body still told him the truth, putting some fried peanuts in a bowl for Gu Jianhua.
"Be careful when the three treasures are eating, so they don't choke."
Gu Jianhua chuckled.
That's just how Old He is—sharp-tongued but kind-hearted.
He took the bowl of peanuts from He Meizhu and asked her with a smile, "What's wrong? Who made you angry?"
As he spoke, he glanced at Lu Huaijiao, asking her with his eyes who had angered their tigress.
Lu Huaijiao found it somewhat amusing.
She lowered her eyes, pretending not to see Gu Jianhua's gaze.
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