"Yuzhu, when you live in the house from now on, you and grandma should share food like this. Grandma treats you well, so you should also treat her well."
After saying this, Shi Zhentang felt that he was being a little nagging as he looked at the silly girl who just lowered her head to eat.
He couldn't help but smile bitterly and changed the subject: "Yuzhu, it's great that you can catch rabbits, but you must never go up the mountain alone in the future. There are big tigers in the mountains that will bite you, understand?"
Seeing that she was still busy eating...
He held her thin shoulders with both hands, a little anxiously, and asked her to look at him. He said again seriously: "Do you understand?"
Tian Yuzhu: "Haha."
Inner monologue: If she doesn’t go up the mountain, will she eat air?
Shi Zhentang: "..."
…
At home, Shi Xiaoli and Yang Dahua, mother and daughter, were not idle after returning to the house. They first plotted in the kitchen for a while, and then went to make trouble with the old lady Lu Huanying.
In the end, there is only one problem.
This is the only jacket without any patches in the house.
As an elder, she has been reluctant to take out the sealed box for so many years, so why is she suddenly giving it to that fool now?
Could it be that the old lady treated the fool as her granddaughter-in-law and did not treat Shi Xiaoli as her own granddaughter?
After Shi Xiaoli finished wailing, Yang Dahua, who was still full of bad intentions, also started to complain: "Since the day I entered the Shi family, Zhentang has never called me mother."
"He didn't consider me a member of the Shi family, and you didn't consider me a member of the Shi family either. That's not it... Xiaoli's father is just your son-in-law. In terms of blood, Xiaoli can't even be considered your granddaughter."
"But I've worked so hard for so many years to take care of this family, raising both the old and the young. When I came here, Zhentang was only five years old. I raised him, right? And you, old man, you've been raised by me too, right? Oh my god, why couldn't I warm your heart all these years?"
"Although Xiaoli is not related to you by blood, her last name is Shi after all. Why can't you treat her as your own granddaughter?"
"Wow, now there's another idiot like this in the family, and you're still favoring this idiot. Wow, I can't live like this anymore. I can't live like this anymore!"
Sitting on the kang, Lu Huanying tucked the white hair beside her ears expressionlessly. She was given a headache by the howling of the mother and daughter.
If I had to say what I regret most today, it would probably be that I forgot to lock the door after Zhentang and Yuzhu left.
But a headache is a headache.
After experiencing all the troubles Yang Dahua had caused over the years, the old lady had long been immune to all poisons.
"Xiao Li, I don't like what you said. Your second brother didn't say he wanted to marry Tian Yuzhu, so how could he talk about her as a grandson's wife? But she has done a great favor to our Shi family, so she is the most suitable person to wear that coat."
Shi Xiaoli was speechless: "Grandma, you..."
Then Lv Huanying looked at Yang Dahua calmly and said, "Yes, Shi De is my Shi family's son-in-law, but since the day he entered our Shi family, I have treated him as my own son."
"Stop trying to sow discord here. Xiaoli and Weiqiang were born to Shi Desheng, so they are my grandchildren. As for your care for the elderly and the children, you should reflect on your own conscience. How did you mistreat Zhentang when he was a child?"
"Day by day, he eats and drinks less. If it weren't for me, would the child still be alive? Speaking of taking care of his old age, did I, an old lady, start eating for free the day you came into our house? Dahua, have some shame. If it weren't for my increasingly unsteady legs and feet in the past two years, when would I have ever shouldered the burden of household chores?"
Yang Dahua's face was filled with joy after hearing what the old lady said.
But she refused to accept it at all. She felt that she had contributed a lot to this family and it was an ironclad fact.
"Mom, who would believe you if you said that? You're saying that Zhentang is alive because of you. Aren't you afraid of being laughed at if you say that? Isn't it obvious who the labor force in the family is? Why do you have to flatter yourself?"
"I don't need to brag. God is watching what we do." Lu Huanying was so angry at that rogue face that her chest heaved.
"Yes, yes, God is watching what we do. Don't get cocky just because Zhentang is back. He'll have to go back to the army eventually, and you'll still have to rely on me then. Oh, and that idiot, if he's capable, don't let me support him."
Yang Dahua must clarify the matter regarding Tian Yuzhu.
The Shi family wanted to show their kindness and wanted to keep her.
Well, even if she marries Shi Zhentang, what if he doesn’t bring her to the army? Who will support her?
Anyway, it definitely can't be Yang Dahua or their own children. Not to mention raising that idiot, they would rather get rid of him completely.
Speaking of this, Lu Huanying was speechless for a moment.
Because she was in poor health and unable to work, she was cursed and bullied by Yang Dahua every day, but she endured it and didn't want Zhentang to know.
The old lady was worried that this would put a psychological burden on him and that it would be dangerous for him to be too worried while performing his mission in the army.
But now there is another silly girl, and I can't let him bring her to the army.
That means he has to marry her, and if he brings a silly girl to the army, he won't be able to do his job in Zhentang anymore.
Just when the old lady was in a dilemma and didn't know how to answer, Shi De rushed in from the outer room and dragged Yang Dahua out forcibly.
The mother and daughter refused to give up and kept cursing outside the cabin door.
Shi De locked the door and looked at the old lady guiltily: "Mom, don't listen to her nonsense, she's going crazy day by day..."
"Okay, tell me what you think about Yuzhu?"
Lu Huanying interrupted the other party impatiently.
This son-in-law has changed a long time ago and is no longer the man who married his daughter more than ten years ago.
Shi De stammered awkwardly, "Things... things have come to this point. It all depends on what Zhentang chooses. I support him."
Lu Huanying was immediately filled with dismay: "You, you! Back then, as one of the few educated youth in the village who went to the countryside, you were irrational and caused Yulan to get pregnant out of wedlock. You ruined your reputation and caused you to become mentally ill. You also caused yourself to make mistakes and be unable to return to the city."
"Now, you acquiesce to Zhentang's choice. You know very well that although Zhentang appears cold on the outside, he is kind-hearted at heart. He definitely won't have the heart to send Yuzhu back, and might even marry her."
"Then let me ask you, how is Zhentang going to live his life from now on? He had to have a mentally ill mother at such a young age, and now that he's an adult, he has a wife who's not in her right mind. How do you expect him to live? You're harming others, yourself, your wife, and your son. Cough cough cough!!!"
When she got excited, Lu Huanying started coughing violently.
Thinking of her only daughter, Yulan, she felt as if her heart was stabbed by a knife.
If Shi De, the educated youth who went to the countryside, had not interfered, the beautiful Yulan would have found a suitable husband and lived a peaceful and stable life.
He would not have gone crazy later, and he would not have died early because of his madness, and Xiao Zhentang would not have been so pitiful.
What a sin! What a sin!
Lu Huanying pushed away Shi De's hand that was about to massage her back, breathing unsteadily. "In short, I don't agree with this marriage. But Zhentang is right. The Tian family saved your life after all, and we have to repay this favor. How about you adopt Yuzhu as your goddaughter? Then Zhentang can treat her as his sister from now on. That way, we'll have repaid the favor, and Zhentang won't have to worry about it anymore."
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