Is she the biological mother of your child?
Jian Dan has some experience dealing with these kinds of family conflicts, but she still lacks patience, especially when it comes to those who target the children. Just thinking about it makes her very irritable, and she speaks rudely to them.
"Is that child your own? Are you even related as parents?"
Li Erqiang may be simple-minded, but he's not stupid. The first thing people ask about is the child, so it must be related to the child.
He spun around twice but didn't see a single child. He started to feel a little uneasy.
"Sister-in-law, what happened to my family? Where's my child? Has something happened to him?"
Without saying a word, he went to ask the neighbors who were watching.
"Auntie, sister-in-law, where are my children? Have you seen my son and daughter?"
When a person is afraid, the more they don't get an answer, the more afraid they become.
That's how he is right now. No one is answering him, and this unease in his heart keeps spreading until it fills his chest.
Without saying a word from the onlookers, he turned around, went back to his own yard, and rushed towards the woman.
"Tell me, tell me, where is the child?"
Did you hit or yell at them again? Did you? Did you?
The two family members who were holding the person down paused for a moment, then quickly reached out and pulled downwards.
"Hey? Erqiang, you can't do this. Let's talk this out."
"Let go! Let go! Quick, get some people here, or they'll really strangle him to death!"
Another chaotic scene ensued, and the old man was so angry that he would have hit someone if he hadn't been holding the child.
Jian Dan rubbed her head, feeling a headache coming on. Seeing the condition of the two children, especially the girl who was being carried out barely breathing, her first impression of the parents was already bad. Now this had happened, and her patience was about to run out.
"Don't you have a mouth? Can't you speak or ask questions? You've been so capable, what's the point of strangling someone to death now?"
That child wasn't just born, so why were they doing this all along?
Did you only find out you have two children today?
Yes, in Jian Dan's eyes, the child's mother is certainly hateful, but the father is not innocent either. That is to say, living under the same roof every day, the child was starving, did he not have eyes?
Wei Kangzhan grabbed the man and dragged him over, angrily slapping him on the back.
"Just answer whatever I ask you. What are you doing? What are you doing?"
Your wife is your own, and no one will criticize you for spoiling her. What, are you blind?
Can't you even tell right from wrong anymore?
I told you before, but you wouldn't listen or educate me, you just kept dragging it out. What good would it do to beat you to death now?
Wei Kangzhan's angry curses, along with the stares and whispers of those around him, were like a bucket of cold water poured over Li Erqiang's head, instantly sobering him up. His gaze, as if poisoned, was fixed intently on the woman behind him.
“Over the years, I’ve been mindful of how hard you’ve worked taking care of our parents at home, so I’ve generally been accommodating to your requests. Even when you took the baby’s clothes and food back to support your family, I didn’t say anything. But Lu Zhaodi, you shouldn’t have done that. That’s my child, who came out of your womb. How could you be so heartless?”
With Li Erqiang under control, Lu Zhaodi seemed to have regained her courage.
“That’s my mother and my brother. I can’t just ignore them. Li Erqiang, you said you were good to me and that everyone in the family listened to me. Is that all there is to it? My mother raised us all by herself. It wasn’t easy. We only have one brother. Whether I’m doing well in my husband’s family or not, I still have to rely on my brother to support me. If I’m not good to him, who will I be good to?”
My mother is frail and often ill, and my younger brother is a scholar who can't do manual labor. What's wrong with me helping them?
Although there were still many cases of male preference at that time, there was still a difference between being married and not being married. Once married, one belongs to the husband's family. Who would be so self-righteous about supporting the wife's family? If they had the means, then there would be no question, but they didn't.
Li Erqiang staggered back a few steps, looking around the small courtyard. It was practically bare, if not completely destitute.
When it came to her parents, she had some reservations. The two children's lives weren't exactly easy, but she didn't dare to mistreat them too openly.
After his parents passed away, he thought that she had also had a hard time, so he indulged her in everything. He believed that she was influenced by her family, so when he had the chance, he brought her here, hoping to get her away from that bloodsucking family and to change her temperament.
Who would have thought?
"You're... committing murder, do you know that?"
"Don't try to scare me. They are all my children. Whether I beat or scold them is entirely up to me. Even if I beat them to death, nobody can stop me."
The room fell silent immediately after he said that.
There were quite a few illiterate people and many who didn't understand the law, but it's truly rare to see someone so quick to talk about human life, especially their own child.
Their military region isn't some truly isolated and ignorant mountain area; ideological and political education classes are held regularly, and everyone who needs to know already knows.
Even if a wicked mother-in-law with feudalistic ideas doesn't want her granddaughter, she'll secretly give her away or throw her up in the mountains. No matter when, it's a human life, and she can't justify it.
No one expected that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, there would still be people who would dare to say such things so shamelessly.
Wei Kangzhan was so angry that he threw a stick down, partly because he felt defeated and also because he felt ashamed.
Li Erqiang's emotions were frighteningly calm. He stared at Lu Zhaodi for a while, took a deep breath, and made up his mind.
"Let's get a divorce! Take everything you own with you, and I'll ask the logistics department to send you to the station."
This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
