Extra (4): Liu and Manman
After listening to this, Song Jinyuan waved to Manman.
"Come here, Manman."
Manman looked at his serious expression and felt scared in her heart. She pouted and went straight into Liu's arms.
Seeing this, Song Jinyuan became a little impatient.
"I said, come here!"
He rarely lost his temper, and even when there was a conflict between Liu and her parents-in-law, he always acted as a peacemaker.
Seeing his blushing face, Liu felt a little scared.
Just as she was about to say something, when she suddenly saw Song Jinyuan looking at her, Liu panicked and loosened her hands that were tightly protecting Manman.
Manman was hindered by his father's aura and walked over slowly.
Song Jinyuan asked him to stand six feet away from him and looked at him seriously.
"Tell me honestly, were you the one who hurt Douding, Hesheng and the others?"
Manman shrank his neck in fear, but there was still some stubbornness on his face.
"……yes."
"Why do you want to hurt them?" Song Jinyuan asked coldly.
“They don’t play with me.”
Song Jinyuan frowned, "You'll hurt others if I don't play with you?"
Manman looked up at him and said confidently, "Mom said that I can't be bullied outside. If anyone bullies me, I will fight back. If they don't play with me, they are bullying me, so I will fight back."
Song Jinyuan's face turned even darker.
"What else did your mother teach you?"
"She said that my aunt is a princess and my uncle is a high-ranking official in the capital, and no one can bully me, nor dare to bully me."
The child does not think this idea is wrong at all. Instead, he is quite proud of it.
When Liu heard this, she thought, this is bad.
This kid has no control over his mouth. He tells you whatever his father asks him.
If this continues, I'm afraid I'll be punished.
He hurried forward and held the child in his arms again.
"What does a child of a few years old know? It's just nonsense. Don't scare the child."
Song Jinyuan picked up a bamboo stick from the wall.
"Go away! If I don't teach him a lesson today, he won't know his own limitations in the future."
Liu protected Manman even more tightly.
"No! You can't hit Manman. I carried him for ten months and gave birth to him. It's ok for you to not care about me and the child, but why do you hit my child?"
"Your child..."
For a moment, Song Jinyuan felt like he was talking to a cow, as if he could understand his parents' daily feeling of powerlessness.
He took out the only two taels of silver he had and gave it all to the children who were beaten by Manman. After apologizing to them, he let everyone go.
After there were fewer people in the yard, he looked at Liu coldly again.
"If you don't want me to teach my son a lesson, I'll give you a letter of divorce and take him back to your Liu family. You've taught this child the wrong way, and since you can't correct it, it's better not to have him!"
Liu looked in the man's direction in surprise.
The man who used to obey her and care for her said such cold words today.
It made her heart feel like it was sinking into an ice cellar.
She couldn't hold back her tears any longer.
"Song Jinyuan, I have been married to you for eight years and have given birth to two cute and well-behaved children. Now you treat me like this?"
"What else can I do to you? I am not afraid of exposing my family's shame. The head of the village and several elders are here today. You can ask them." He patted his chest and said, "Since I, Song Jinyuan, married you, have I ever treated you unfairly?"
Several people shook their heads.
"No, Jinyuan is a well-known honest man in our village, and he loves his wife very much."
Liu continued to cry, "But you want to divorce me."
"Shouldn't I take a break?" Song Jinyuan looked at her, "Look at what you have done all these years?"
"When you saw that Tang'er and Jinsheng were better than us, you started to compare them. Knowing that mom was soft-hearted, you started to push your luck. You always said that mom and dad were partial to each other and stayed in the capital instead of coming home. That was because they didn't want to face you. You treat your daughter like a daughter and your son like a son. You even don't want me to go home and listen to you nagging."
"You are unfilial to your parents, unfriendly to your brothers, unkind to your children, and inconsiderate to your husband. Shouldn't I divorce you?"
He became more and more excited as he spoke, and after finally expressing all the dissatisfaction that had been pent up in his heart for years, he felt a lot more relaxed.
After hearing what he said, Liu cried even more sadly.
Manman saw that his father made his mother cry and looked at him fiercely.
Seeing this, Song Jinyuan picked up the bamboo stick in his hand and hit the child on the arm, and the child immediately burst into tears.
Seeing this, Liu tried her best to protect Manman.
"Don't hit him, I beg you, please don't hit him."
Song Jinyuan sighed, shook his head, borrowed a charcoal pencil from Song Yuntang, wrote a divorce letter and threw it to Liu.
"You go now."
After all, she is my wife with whom I have lived for eight years.
He really couldn't bring himself to do that.
Liu held the child in her arms, looked at the divorce letter on the ground, and cried heart-wrenchingly.
She also didn't know how her marriage had come to this point.
He was so good to me when we got married.
She kowtowed to Song Yuntang.
"Tang'er, I beg you, please don't let your elder brother divorce me. I will teach Manman well in the future."
Song Yuntang raised his eyebrows.
"Sister-in-law, what you said was not my idea. As a married daughter, I don't want to influence my brother's decision. I also hope that sister-in-law will not let Manman do evil things in the name of me and my husband. If something serious happens, I will not protect him."
Liu turned and looked at Song Jinyuan.
"My husband..."
Song Jinyuan turned sideways.
"Don't call me husband. I've already given you the divorce letter. Go away!"
Seeing that she still wanted to come over, Song Jinyuan raised his voice again.
“Go!”
Liu could no longer bear this kind of humiliation, so she went out crying, holding the child.
Seeing this, everyone in the yard left in silence.
Seeing Song Jinyuan's eyes reddened, Song Yuntang couldn't help but ask, "Brother, are you divorcing your sister-in-law without informing our parents?"
Song Jinyuan squatted on the ground with a depressed look, holding his head, tears falling directly from his eyes to the ground.
"Your sister-in-law used to be pretty nice, but I don't know how she changed. I don't want this family to break up, but I can't think of a better way than this."
Seeing him sad, Song Yuntang still felt a little bit reluctant.
"I think they have forgotten the hard times because of the good times, so they don't know how to cherish them." Song Yuntang looked at him, "Brother, if you really can't bear to let them go, wait until my sister-in-law and Manman suffer a little outside and realize their mistakes, then you can take them back. But in the future, the child's character must be corrected, otherwise his future will be ruined."
It is said that it is better to demolish ten temples than to ruin a marriage.
If Liu could correct her mistakes, she is the mother of two children after all, and it would be fine for her to come back and live there.
But if he still has the same character as before, then I'll just divorce him.
Besides, even if Song Jinyuan really didn't care, when his parents got to know the news, they would not have the heart to see their own flesh and blood exposed in public with Liu.
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