Chen Zhiyuan also felt so thirsty that his stomach ached: "Where is my son? Call him out, how could he treat me like this?"
"Who is your son? I don't know him!" Yao Yanxin said calmly, having already finished eating and drinking.
"You, he's Xiao Yan's son, how could you not recognize him? Tell him to get out here right now! His father's here, how dare he be so unfilial!"
"Everyone says that if elders are kind, children will be filial. But you elders don't have a kind look at all. How can people be filial to you?"
"You, you, you, let's go!" The old lady stood up, turned and left. Chen Zhiyuan didn't say a word and followed her.
As soon as they left, Xiao Gengwu, Yao Tongjia, and Yao Tongxu peeked out of the study. Only after seeing that they were really gone did they come out of the room.
They were actually in the study the whole time, but they didn't want to pay attention to the old lady or see her throw a tantrum. It would be good for her to suffer a little!
These kinds of elderly people shouldn't be hit or scolded; it's better to leave them alone!
"They'll probably come back again. They won't be content with just one person to see them off now!" Yao Tongjia looked at Xiao Gengwu with some worry.
"They only need someone to take care of them in their final days. They can either adopt one themselves, or I'll take care of them in their final days. As for anything else, don't even think about it!"
This was Xiao Gengwu's bottom line. He had always known that the old lady was very controlling, so much so that she didn't care about her son's future.
He would not let her control him, and he was unwilling to let his life become a mess!
Sure enough, the old lady rested for two days and came back. This time she was prepared and brought her own water and food. Judging from her attitude, she wouldn't give up until she saw Xiao Gengwu!
Xiao Gengwu didn't want this old lady to interfere with his life, so he came out to meet them and said, "Speak, what do you want?"
The old woman's eyes filled with tears: "My child, I've finally seen you! You have no idea how much I've missed you. It was your mother who secretly took you away. How could I bear to let you leave my side!"
After she finished speaking, she started to sob. Unfortunately, Xiao Gengwu just watched her performance quietly, showing no intention of resonating with her at all.
The old lady cried for a while, then realized that her tears were having no effect. She wiped her tears with her sleeve and said, "You child, don't you know how to comfort this old woman?"
Xiao Gengwu was unconvinced: "Speak, what exactly do you want?"
“Child, look how old Grandma is, and your father is also this age, with no children of his own. Why don’t you change your surname and go back home? Anyway, your mother has remarried!”
"She keeps leaving you at other people's houses all the time. Let's go back to our own home. No matter how nice other people are, it's better to have your own home, okay?"
Xiao Gengwu shook his head directly: "I have memories from when I was just a few months old. I remember everything you said to me, Grandma!"
Chen's mother looked at her eldest grandson with some surprise. Was this tall and strong grandson the same one who had been mentally challenged before?
She feigned nonchalance: "What did I say, Grandma?"
"You idiot, you don't deserve to be the eldest grandson of the Chen family. Your vixen mother dared to seduce my son into marriage without my consent, and she still comes to curry favor with me!"
"Then let her become a divorced woman despised by everyone! You succeeded. My mother divorced and left with me, and I was no longer the eldest grandson of your Chen family."
"My mother and I have done as you wished, so what are you doing here?"
Chen's mother looked at the monster in front of her with trembling hands and feet. She used to curse her and her child like this when the child was a few months old, and later she would often curse him secretly at home.
More than a decade has passed, but these words remain vividly in her memory. How did this child know them? Is he so precocious? Could he understand what others were saying when he was only a few months old?
"You child, when did I ever say such a thing? Whose advice are you taking? Stop trying to pin the blame on your grandma! Let's go home!"
Xiao Gengwu remained unmoved: "Not only do I know these things, I also know your secret, Grandma, a secret that even your son doesn't know. Do you want me to tell you?"
These words made Chen's mother panic: "What secret do you know?"
"On a rainy day, a man about your age came and asked you for money. You didn't want to give it to him, and you started arguing. He said..."
"Stop talking!" The old woman suddenly became anxious. "Stop talking, let's go back, we won't come looking for you again!"
Chen Zhiyuan asked incredulously, "Mom, what's going on? I have my own son. Do you expect me to go to the village to be adopted?"
"Go!" The old lady gave the order forcefully without any explanation. Chen Zhiyuan stood up, a habit he had developed over the years. He looked at Xiao Gengwu with some reluctance.
"Child, will you come back with me? I'll give you everything I have from now on!"
"No need! If you ever dare to bother me again, I'll make sure you lose everything!"
The old lady didn't dare to linger. She grabbed her son's hand and slipped away very quickly, showing no signs of being over seventy years old.
Yao Tongjia stared at the scene in astonishment: "What secret do you know about the old lady that makes her so afraid?"
"Let's keep this secret. It's not a pleasant thing to say. Revealing it would be a lose-lose situation, hurting both sides as much as the enemy. It's okay to scare her, but that way we can avoid trouble!"
Seeing that Xiao Gengwu didn't want to talk about it, Yao Tongjia let it go. She figured she would find out eventually, and all she needed was a secret weapon to subdue the old lady!
Otherwise, it would be really exhausting to deal with such an old lady. She wants to focus more on her studies and see if she has the opportunity to attend the highest institution of learning!
After the old lady left the military region, she urged Chen Zhiyuan to leave, but Chen Zhiyuan, under his mother's tutelage, valued the inheritance of tradition and was very unwilling to go back to be adopted by someone else's child.
"Mom, you have to tell me what secrets that brat knows about you, otherwise I won't leave. What would I do if I didn't take him back with me?"
He is a person who values the inheritance, but now the inheritance has been broken, and a child has lost face because of him. He feels heartbroken when he thinks about it.
I thought that if I sent my mother, she could coax the child back home. But now, the mother I had placed so much hope in has given up on going back. How can this be?
Chen's mother, however, kept packing her things: "Stop talking nonsense, pack your things now, and let's go!"
"Mom, how can you do this? I have my own grown child, why would you want to adopt someone else's child? I don't want to, I don't want to!"
“This child doesn’t listen to us at all. What use is he to you if you take him back? He’s not on our side. What’s the point of raising him?”
"If you're raising someone else's child, can you guarantee you'll be completely devoted to them? Why did I end up like this?" After saying this, Chen Zhiyuan broke down in tears, completely pathetic!
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